Exiting Through The 2010s

We're joined by Leah Carlson-Downie (Fang Club, Oscar's Podcaast) for Joe Cornish's directorial debut in Attack The Block and the love for the film that's grown since. We'll get into John Boyega's career, if this qualifies as a cult classic and selling this with the Edgar Wright brand

Brett der Wiese (Brettriculture) returns for Shin Godzilla and what the reboot looks like after 2014's Godzilla. We get into the history of the franchise as well as how Godzilla evolved in the 2010s 

Marya Gates (The Playlist, Roger Ebert) joins us for Nic Winding Refn's iconic Drive. We dig into Albert Brooks' near oscar nomination, the sound design category at the Oscars, and movie theater audience reactions 

We welcome Oscar Goff (Boston Hassle) to the pod and talk about 2016's Hail, Caesar! and the Coen Brothers' interrogation of why they love making movies. Discussing the careers of Josh Brolin and Alden Ehrenreich, how we look at this post-Coen breakup and why this didn't work for audiences at the time

We welcome Vice Victus (Polygon) to the pod for the last episode of our month-long series on action films of the 2010s! We'll unpack 2010s wars films, how this became a box office success in South Korea and turning a historical naval commander into an action star 

Jordan Crucchiola (Disaster Girls, Vulture) is back to be the ambassador for the maligned legacy sequel, Terminator: Dark Fate. We'll discuss the career of Mackenzie Davis, the trouble production between creative differences with Tim Miller and Jim Cameron and how Dark Fate failed at the box office in the fall of 2019

Action month continues as we're joined by Alex Rallo (One Perfect Headshot) joins us for Peter Chan's 2011 thriller Dragon. We talk about the career of Donnie Yen, what makes the great modern action star and hard to track down/forgotten films 

WIlliam Goodman (Complex) joins us to chat about the most recent output from the Mission Impossibles and when we saw Chris McQuarrie become the overseer of the franchise. As well as getting into the career of Rebecca Ferguson, how the action sequences hold up so well since 2015 and 2018 and comparing Rogue Nation to other 2015 sequels we've covered like Mad Max: Fury Road or Magic Mike XXL

Jen Johans (Film Intuition, Watch with Jen podcast) returns to kick off our collection of episodes apart of action month! Very excited to bring a genre-themed month within these next five weeks; first up is Phillip Noyce's Salt! We talk about Angelina Jolie in the 2010s, cloak and dagger thrillers that exist exclusively on cable, and the film's needless alternate ending

Peyton Robinson (JumpCut, Roger Ebert) is back for the defense of the NYSM duology we've been waiting for and why they should be remembered as better action comedies than their reputation suggests. We'll also get into the career of Woody Harrelson in the 2010s, best versus favorite films, the perspective and tone in making a heist film