Exiting Through The 2010s

Julie Rhodes (Crooked Marquee, Essential Films) returns as we painstakingly trudge through 2017's Emoji Movie with its attempts to capitalize off other successful 2010s animation like Wreck-It Ralph and The Lego Movie, the irony of Sony making this then Spider-Verse a year later which goes on to win the best animation oscar and much more!

Along with the abundance of revitalizing thirty to twenty-year-old properties, we got the tone-deaf Independence Day: Resurgence. Dan Mecca (Film Stage, B-Side podcast) joins us to break down our history with the first one, what a third movie would look like and Jeff Goldblum career talk 

It's possibly the most infamous disastrous production of the decade, which has aged the worst of any comic book movie of the 2010s, and it won a Razzie. Chance Ellison (notorious by chance, movie trivia schmoedown) is here to talk 2015's fantastic four with its inherent lead miscasting, overall mismarketing, and tonal inconsistencies 

We're delighted to be joined by Logan Kenny (Little White Lies, The Film Stage) to breakdown the fourth installment of the Transformers franchise. Looking at the idea of vulgar auteurism, how Michael Bay still manages to be predictable and unpredictable, and Mark Wahlberg career talk 

Brianna Zigler (Film School Rejects) returns as we unpack the movie star-driven sketch comedy, Movie 43. We champion the "Homeschooled" sketch, try to figure out why this failed compared to other Peter Farrelly comedies, and just what is Richard Gere doing here?

Sally Darr Griffin and Andrew Van Heusden (Club C-47 podcast) are back to chat about Twilight Breaking Dawn Part 2 and the franchise as a cultural phenomenon. Like how Twilight's success inspired a myriad of YA novel adaptations, Kristen Stewart's need to break out of the role of Bella Swan and toxic fandoms

Luke Larson (L Squared podcast) returns for Dennis Dugans' Adam Sandler razzing winning comedy. Together breaking down Sandlers' decades-long appeal, Al Pacino's fascinating performance and several of the deranged cameos throughout the film

With beginning 2020 with the best picture winners of the 2010s, we're now concluding the year with the worst picture winners in the 2010's Razzies! Starting us off with M Night Shyamalan's colossal failure and Zachary Margason (The First Watch podcast) is here for it. Together talking about how general feelings about the Razzies as a concept, how it fails to capture the magic of the original cartoon, and the despicable trend of whitewashing in blockbusters this decade 

We loved having Bilge Ebiri (Vulture, New York Magazine) on for Terrence Malik's magnum opus. With it being regarded as one of the decades greatest achievements, we ended up talking about Malik's ultimately unique career over four decades, if the film was ahead of its time even with winning the Palme d'Or in 2011 and movies about "everything"   

We have Jaysen Sneed with us to crack into one of the most culturally relevant event films of the 2010s and possibly the 21st century in Jordan Peele's taught and timely thriller. Touching on how the film has an underrated ensemble, confidently saying its the decades best original screenplay and if this is the greatest decade of all time for Black cinema