Cinema Joes

Every year, the Joes place a bet on how many Oscar predictions they get right, and the winner gets to force the losers to watch a movie of their choice. This year, Noah's Best Editing pick put him over the top, and he finally got a chance to make Justin & Alex watch his all time favorite film, Milos Forman's 1984 Best Picture winning film Amadeus, starring F. Murray Abraham

Hosts' Other Pods

Pod on the Rooftops - TV Break - Good Bye to All That

Hosts' Writing

Justin’s Blog - Justin’s Letterboxd

Noah‘s Blog -  Noah’s Twitter

Alex’s Letterboxd - Alex’s Twitter - Alex’s PopBreak

This week, Justin & Alex welcome special guest Alan Sarapa to discuss the latest entry into Phase 4 of the MCU, Black Widow. They discuss the surprisingly intimate character moments and the exciting introduction of Florence Pugh to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. They also break down which actions scenes worked and why, in addition to their feelings regarding the future of Marvel as Phase 4 continues to take shape.

In their Full Disclosure segment, Justin, Alex & Alan also shine their light on a few other films and TV they’ve been watching, including Peacock's Doctor Death; Spotlight (2015); Clockwatchers (1997); and Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021).

Please follow our guest Alan on his podcast The Chat, his monthly daytime soap column for The Pop Break, and his written reviews of CW's Superman & Lois at TV Source Magazine.

Hosts' Other Pods

Pod on the Rooftops - TV Break - Good Bye to All That

Hosts' Writing

Justin’s Blog - Justin’s Letterboxd

Noah‘s Blog -  Noah’s Twitter

Alex’s Letterboxd - Alex’s Twitter - Alex’s PopBreak

We (almost) all saw a movie in an actual theater this week! After a year and a half, we went back to the movies for Lin-Manuel Miranda & Jon M. Chu's musical In The Heights with friend of the show Manish Mathur. We discuss how well Chu and company adapt the stage musical for the silver screen; whether the romances at the heart of the film land; who our favorite members of the ensemble were; and what to make of the colorism controversy surrounding the film following its release last month.

Please follow our guest Manish on his podcasts It Pod to Be You and Queer & Now and his written work at Talk Film Society.

Hosts' Other Pods

Pod on the Rooftops - TV Break - Good Bye to All That

Hosts' Writing

Justin’s Blog - Justin’s Letterboxd

Noah‘s Blog -  Noah’s Twitter

Alex’s Letterboxd - Alex’s Twitter - Alex’s PopBreak

We were promised two MCU movies this summer! Obviously, real life got in the way, but that doesn't mean the Joes have to settle for only one MCU-related episode for Summer 2021. Instead, they welcomed The Pop Break's Managing Editor and Socially Distanced co-host Al Mannarino onto the pod to run through their favorite underrated Marvel movies, if such a thing could even exist.

Hosts' Other Pods

Pod on the Rooftops - TV Break - Good Bye to All That

Hosts' Writing

Justin’s Blog - Justin’s Letterboxd

Noah‘s Blog -  Noah’s Twitter

Alex’s Letterboxd - Alex’s Twitter - Alex’s PopBreak

This week, the Joes kick off the summer movie season by running down the movies they are most excited to watch each month (including May...because, life got crazy). Check it out!

Hosts' Other Pods

Pod on the Rooftops - TV Break - Good Bye to All That

Hosts' Writing

Justin’s Blog - Justin’s Letterboxd

Noah‘s Blog -  Noah’s Twitter

Alex’s Letterboxd - Alex’s Twitter - Alex’s PopBreak

Tonight is Oscar’s big night, and to celebrate The Joes are discussing the surprising Oscars’ juggernaut Nomadland, directed by Chloe Zhou and starring Frances McDormand as Fern, a woman who takes to the American countryside in her van as she deals with the loss of her community and the death of her husband. The film is nominated for SIX Oscars, including Best Picture. The Joes break down everything they loved about the film, while also touching on the Amazon controversy that has come up a time or two during this endlessly extended Oscars Season.

Hosts' Other Pods

Pod on the Rooftops - TV Break - Good Bye to All That

Hosts' Writing

Justin’s Blog - Justin’s Letterboxd

Noah‘s Blog -  Noah’s Twitter

Alex’s Letterboxd - Alex’s Twitter - Alex’s PopBreak

Franchise installments and Oscar hopefuls were nowhere to be found for most of 2020, and that left a ton of time to catch up on all those films we'd been putting off. In the second half of our 2020 retrospective, we skim the cream of the crop from our non-2020 film diaries to breakdown everything we caught up with. From our favorite classics, modern classics, and rewatches, to which actors and filmmakers from yesteryear we fell in love with while we were living in our quarantine bubbles, we share the many silver linings we encountered along the way that helped make 2020 just a tad more bearable. 

Hosts' Other Pods

Pod on the Rooftops - TV Break - Good Bye to All That

Hosts' Writing

Justin’s Blog - Justin’s Letterboxd

Noah‘s Blog -  Noah’s Twitter

Alex’s Letterboxd - Alex’s Twitter - Alex’s PopBreak

Justin: Stop Making Sense (Amazon)

Noah: Se7en (HBOMAX); Zodiac (Amazon)

Alex: Citizen Kane (HBOMAX); Pather Panchali, (HBOMAX; The Criterion Channel)

Justin: Mommy (Tubi)

Noah: Cloud Atlas (VOD)

Alex: Mad Max: Fury Road (HBOMAX); Lady Bird (Netflix)

Actor/Director Love Story

Justin: Barbara Koppole - Harlan County USA (HBOMAX); Desert One (Kanopy/Hoopla)

Noah: Bin Yu - The Untamed (Netflix)

Alex:

Susan Sarandon - The Hunger (VOD); The Witches of Eastwick (HBOMAX); Thelma & Louise (VOD); Lorenzo’s Oil (VOD); The Player (HBOMAX); The Client (HBOMAX)

Mike Nichols - Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 1966 (HBOMAX); The Graduate (HBOMAX); Heartburn (Amazon); Working Girl (Showtime/FuboTV); Postcards from the Edge (VOD); Closer (VOD)

Best Rewatch

Justin: Being John Malkovich (Showtime/FuboTV)

Noah: Kiki’s Delivery Service (HBOMAX)

Alex: The Witches of Eastwick (HBOMAX)

This week we are joined to by ThePopBreak.com’s Film Editor and all around Oscar expert Marisa Carpico to break down the highs and lows of the 2021 Oscar nominations. We discuss our pleasant surprises, our biggest disappointments, our bold predictions, and our Best Picture winners!

Don’t forget to follow the show @CinemaJoes on Twitter and follow our hosts around the web at the following places!

Hosts' Other Pods

Pod on the Rooftops - TV Break - Good Bye to All That

Hosts' Writing

Justin’s Blog - Justin’s Letterboxd

Noah‘s Blog -  Noah’s Twitter

Alex’s Letterboxd - Alex’s Twitter - Alex’s PopBreak

Happy New Year....er, well, happy March anyway! We've spent the last few months catching up on all that cinema had to offer, and we are now ready to present our slightly belated Best of 2020 show. We throw a lot of movies at you in this one, so below we have compiled a list of all our highlights from the year and where you can catch up with them. In the meantime, enjoy and check back next week for Part II, where we talk about all the films released prior to 2020 that helped us get through the last year.

Justin - Boys State (AppleTV+)

Noah - Ainu Mosir (Netflix)

Alex - Small Axe: Mangrove (Amazon)

Best Smaller Film

Noah - Totally Under Control (Hulu)

Alex - Never Rarely Sometimes Always (HBOMAX); The Assistant (Hulu)

Best Foreign-Language Film

Justin - The Wolf House (Shudder)

Noah - Corpus Christi (The Criterion Channel)

Alex - A Sun (Netflix)

Favorite Performances

Justin - Angela Betis, 12 Hour Shift (Hulu)

Noah - Chadwick Boseman, Da 5 Bloods (Netflix) & Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Netflix)

Alex's Top 10 Performances

Chadwick Bowman, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Netflix)

Paul Raci, Sound of Metal (Amazon)

Yu-jung Youn, Minari (VOD)

Hugh Jackman, Bad Education (HBOMAX)

Elizabeth Moss, The Invisible Man (HBOMAX)

Isabel Sandoval & Eamon Farren, Lingua Franca (Netflix)

Carrie Coons & Jude Law, The Nest (VOD)

Delroy Lindo & Jonathan Majors, Da 5 Bloods (Netflix)

Andy Samberg & Cristin Milioti, Palm Springs (Hulu)

Evan Rachel Wood & Gina Rodriguez, Kajillionaire (VOD)

Hosts' Other Pods

Pod on the Rooftops - TV Break - Good Bye to All That

Hosts' Writing

Justin’s Blog - Justin’s Letterboxd

Noah‘s Blog -  Noah’s Twitter

Alex’s Letterboxd - Alex’s Twitter - Alex’s PopBreak

Happy Valentine's Day! As a special Valentine's Day gift, we are closing out our Fall of Favorites series with one of cinema's greatest couples, Jesse and Celine, in the timeless classic about existential dread creeping in at the moment your life no longer feels like your own Before Sunset. This 2004 Richard Linklater masterpiece, starring Ethan Hawke and Julie Deply, is a the middle film in Linklater's Before Trilogy, and it checks in on Jesse and Celine, now in their early 30s, to see how the last seven years have treated them since the events of Before Sunrise. Returning guest Marisa Carpico helps Justin & Alex breakdown this classic walk and talk romance filled with identity crises, carefully observed interpersonal and gender dynamics, decades spanning romance, fantasy and incredible imagery of Paris during the magic hour.

Check out the Rundown below and don’t forget to follow the show @CinemaJoes on Twitter and follow our hosts around the web at the following places!

Hosts' Other Pods

Pod on the Rooftops - TV Break - Good Bye to All That

Hosts' Writing

Justin’s Blog - Justin’s Letterboxd

Noah‘s Blog -  Noah’s Twitter

Alex’s Letterboxd - Alex’s Twitter - Alex’s PopBreak