Cinephile's Digest

We have arrived! The time has come for our very favorite episode each year, and that’s our annual best of the year blowout episode. Join us for a roundtable discussion as we run through Paris, Travis and Matt’s personal rankings of the top 10 films of the year, followed by our awards ceremony where we hand out some superlatives. Thanks for being with us for another incredible year of movies. Enjoy!

0:00 – Introductions

10:15 – Top 10 Films of 2024 Roundtable

2:58:16 – Cinephile’s Digest 2024 Awards Ceremony

Original Music provided by Kurt Moren https://ofsilent.life/

You’ve heard of Barbenheimer, but get ready for A Complete Unknosferatu! We’re starting off 2025 strong with a double feature of the Bob Dylan biopic “A Complete Unknown”, and the new film from Digest fav Bob Egghead, “Nosferatu”. Cram jam is also in full swing, so stick around to get caught up on some other 2024 films we’ve been force feeding in preparation for our big 2024 blow out. Enjoy!

0:00 – Introductions

25:23 – “A Complete Unknown” Review

1:00:58 - “Nosferatu” Review

2:00:01 – What We’ve Been Watching

Original Music provided by Kurt Moren https://ofsilent.life/

Happy Holidays to everyone listening! We’re back with our last episode of 2024, and it’s a doozy. Join us for not one but TWO featured reviews to end the year. First up is the new film from Pablo Lorrain, “Maria” starring Angelina Jolie, as well as Luca Guadagnino’s second feature film of the year, “Queer” starring Daniel Craig. Lots to discuss, too little time. Thanks for sticking around, and we’ll see you in 2025!

0:00 – Introductions

25:23 – “Maria” Review

1:04:51 - “Queer” Review

1:45:17 – What We’ve Been Watching

Original Music provided by Kurt Moren https://ofsilent.life/

Our 150th episode! Can you believe we made it? To celebrate the occasion we’ve got a lengthy review of “The Order”, the new film from director Justin Kurzel. Also, get used to that intro/outro music, because friend of the show Kurt has composed an official theme song for us! Whether this is the first episode you’ve ever listened to or you haven’t missed a single one, we truly appreciate you taking the time to listen. It means the world to us. From the bottom of our hearts: thank you, and here’s to 150 more!

0:00 – Introductions

15:52 – “The Order” Review (SPOILERS!!!)

1:25:17 – What We’ve Been Watching

Original Music provided by Kurt Moren https://ofsilent.life/

Are you not entertained?! If you weren’t before, you will be after listening to this banger. The gang gets together to discuss the latest lega-sequel to hit the cineplex, “Gladiator II”. How does it stack up against the iconic original? Lots of stuff in what we’ve been watching as well, you don’t wanna miss it. Enjoy.

0:00 – Introductions

18:38 – “Gladiator II” Review (SPOILERS!!!)

1:12:36 – What We’ve Been Watching

Music

Intro: Fashion Disease - 2nd Grade

Outro: Firefighters - Being Dead

The gang is back, baby! We’re all together again to discuss the new film from Sean Baker, “Anora”. Winner of this year’s Palme d’Or, the highest prize given at the annual Cannes Film Festival, the three of us weigh in to decide if this one is worthy of that prestigious award. Full disclosure, we do lose Travis to a power outage at the start of the spoiler discussion. Hope you enjoy this one!

0:00 – Introductions

19:35 – “Anora” Spoiler-Free Review

1:07:45 - “Anora” Review Continued

1:32:38 – What We’ve Been Watching

Music

Intro: Flowers and You - Touche Amore

Outro: All Your Friends - Kerosene Heights

It’s just Matt and Travis on the show this week, holding down the fort and keeping that content train chuggin’ along. The featured review this time out is the new film from Megan Park, “My Old Ass”. We missed this one in theaters a couple months back but it just hit streaming on Prime, so we’re circling back to check it out! Hope you enjoy our conversation.

0:00 – Introductions

14:31 – “My Old Ass” Review

49:34 – What We’ve Been Watching

Music

Intro: Cleaning House - Celebration Guns

Outro: Triple Seven - Wishy

“Unholy Confessions - Unholy Cover” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybDCObQRRM4

Happy Halloween! Had to bring back the DIE!gest theme for this episode. Forever grateful to friend of the show Kurt for the tune. Yes, we know, longest intro ever. Hope you like arguments about emo and whether Detroit is the midwest or not. But the real meat of the episode is our Top 10 Slashers Draft! That’s right, you know and love our drafts, so we had to do a fun one to celebrate the holiday. Make sure you stick around to the end, especially for those of you waiting to hear Matt and Travis’s thoughts on Terrifier 3!

0:00 – Introductions

36:59 – Top 10 Slashers Draft

1:58:23 – What We’ve Been Watching (including Terrifier 3 mini review!)

Music

Original Music provided by Kurt Moren dreamsofsilentmemories.com/

This episode is going up pretty late due to a technical snafu with our podcast host, so apologize for the delay in getting it to you! Enjoy this review of the new Netflix documentary “Will & Harper” and stay to the end to get caught up on what else we’ve been watching since the last episode.

0:00 – Introductions

16:10 – “Will & Harper” Review

1:02:33 – What We’ve Been Watching

Music

Intro: Sinker - Downhaul

Outro: Four Legs - Macseal

The wait is finally over. We know the listeners have been waiting with bated breath to hear our thoughts about these two movies. First up is the controversial “Megalopolis” followed by “Joker: Folie à Deux”. You might be surprised to find out where we land. Or maybe you won’t be. BUT, we guarantee you’ll at least enjoy the journey. Dig in!

0:00 – Introductions

4:05 – “Megalopolis” Review

1:55:57 – “Joker: Folie à Deux” Review

Music

Intro: For What It Is - Kontravoid

Outro: She Reigns Down - Cold Cave