Exiting Through The 2010s

Mitchell Beaupre (Paste, Letterboxd) is back and brought 2010’s and 2015’s HOT TUB TIME MACHINE and HOT TUB TIME MACHINE 2 to us to examine a surprisingly heartfelt studio comedy, an abhorrent one. Together we once again look at our favorite 2010s comedies, Marion Cotillard, how the film was labeled with comparisons to THE HANGOVER and what makes a comedy sequel so difficult to match with their first outing

Wes Muszynski (Filmdaze) returns for Pedro Almodovar’s personal melodrama in 2019’s Pain and Glory! Together we rank the best foreign language Oscar winners of the 2010s, Antonio Banderas in the 2010s and Oscar clips

Andrew Kendall returns for 2018’s phenomenon in Alfonso Cuaron’s Roma! Together we get into why it lost best picture, our favorite Netflix original films, and how it began a trend of auteur auto fiction in the years following

Valerie Keaton (The Odd Pod, We Need To Talk About Kevin) returns for Sebastián Lelio’s social realist drama in A Fantastic Woman! We get memories from film classes, discovering our love of film in the age of the internet, and misdirections Lelio has that prevent the film to be truly great

Roxana Hadadi (Vulture, Crooked Marquee) returns for Asgar Farhadi’s tense thriller and second winner in the 2010s for Best International Feature Oscar winner with THE SALESMAN! Together we get into Farhadi’s central obsession with living with ambiguity, GLASS ONION corner and the movies Clay saw over Christmas vacation

We continue on with the best international feature Oscar winners and welcome Conor O’Donnell (The B-Side podcast, The Film Stage) for Lazlo Nemes’ directorial debut in SON OF SAUL! Together we focus on the reputation surrounding the film’s perspective on the Holocaust, how it sneakily inspired films to use similar formal techniques, and the film ends up feeling like more MUNICH than SCHINDLERS LIST

Rafa Sales Ross (Little White Lies, Variety, Letterboxd) returns as we continue the best International feature Oscar winners, this episode for Paolo Sorrentino’s meditative THE GREAT BEAUTY! Together we compare the film to The Fabelmans and its views on creativity, Clay starts a project going through Denzel Washington’s filmography and Italian cinema’s greatest strength as carrying pathos through its location

Megan Brady (I’m Screaming podcast) returns for Pawel Pawlikowski’s understated meditation on grief and loneliness in 2014’s Ida. Together we get into the 2023 Oscar race, how Agata Trzebuchowska was cast in the film and how close Pawlikowski almost made it into the best director race

Jordan Raup (The Film Stage) joins us as we continue the Best International Features Oscar winners series with 2012’s Amour. Together we’ll discuss that THR writters roundtable with Michael Haneke discussing the moral dilemma of filming the holocaust with Judd Apatow and John Krasinski sitting next to him, the arresting performances from Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva and Best International feature nominees making it into the Best Picture lineup

Justin and Laura Khoo (Cows in the Field podcast) are back for Asghar Farhadi’s thriller from 2011 with A Separation. Together we touch on Farhadi’s recent controversy, divorce as a bureaucratic crisis, and God’s Not Dead