[Film]Buffing Up

A bunch of wild cowboys, a can of beans over a fire spit, and one last job before they retire. Is it Red Dead Redemption 2? No, it's the Wild Bunch. 

Welcome to Film Buffing up, the world's latest AFI watchcast where two casual film-goers, Jen and Mike, sit down and go through all of the American Film Institutes' 100 Films for 100 years and see where they stack in a new century. Every week we watch a new film in ascending order, discuss them and ultimately rank them on our own personal lists. Where will your favorites be placed? Listen and find out!

Starting the second fifth of our series with a "bang," or, more aptly, an absolutely train wreck that psychically drained our wills the live? We watch the 1960 film The Apartment. Also I repeatedly forget the name of the Alfred Hitchcock film "Rope" for some reason.

Welcome to Film Buffing up, the world's latest AFI watchcast where two casual film-goers, Jen and Mike, sit down and go through all of the American Film Institutes' 100 Films for 100 years and see where they stack in a new century. Every week we watch a new film in ascending order, discuss them and ultimately rank them on our own personal lists. Where will your favorites be placed? Listen and find out!

20 episodes! We are finally one fifth of the way there. This week we watched the Stanley Kubrick epic, Spartacus. We talk about the movie, the concepts of twin films, and review the upcoming 20 films on the list.

Welcome to Film Buffing up, the world's latest AFI watchcast where two casual film-goers, Jen and Mike, sit down and go through all of the American Film Institutes' 100 Films for 100 years and see where they stack in a new century. Every week we watch a new film in ascending order, discuss them and ultimately rank them on our own personal lists. Where will your favorites be placed? Listen and find out!

This week we go to the silent era and watch the 1926 "Poetry in motion" drama, Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans. Also, Jen learns the origin of a horrible word.

Welcome to Film Buffing up, the world's latest AFI watchcast where two casual film-goers, Jen and Mike, sit down and go through all of the American Film Institutes' 100 Films for 100 years and see where they stack in a new century. Every week we watch a new film in ascending order, discuss them and ultimately rank them on our own personal lists. Where will your favorites be placed? Listen and find out!

James Cameron's attention to detail and bizarre laser-focused obsession with shipwrecks delivers the 1997 masterpiece, Titanic to the list. But does the seminal romance drama hold up 20 years later? Let's find out!

Welcome to Film Buffing up, the world's latest AFI watchcast where two casual film-goers, Jen and Mike, sit down and go through all of the American Film Institutes' 100 Films for 100 years and see where they stack in a new century. Every week we watch a new film in ascending order, discuss them and ultimately rank them on our own personal lists. Where will your favorites be placed? Listen and find out!

This week we watch a movie new to both of us, Peter Fonda's 1969 directorial debut and counterculture classic, Easy Rider. The story of two hippies who travel from the west coast to New Orleans for Mardi Gras. What do we think, and was it an easy watch? Let's find out.

Welcome to Film Buffing up, the world's latest AFI watchcast where two casual film-goers, Jen and Mike, sit down and go through all of the American Film Institutes' 100 Films for 100 years and see where they stack in a new century. Every week we watch a new film in ascending order, discuss them and ultimately rank them on our own personal lists. Where will your favorites be placed? Listen and find out!

This episode of [Film] Buffing up, we watch the Marx Brother's A Night At The Opera. We never saw a Marx Bros film before, so what did we think?

Where does it stack?

Welcome to Film Buffing up, the world's latest AFI watchcast where two casual film-goers sit down and watch all 100 films for 100 years and see where they stack.

This week we watch Platoon, the 1986 Oliver Stone film with literally everybody in it about F'ing New Guys harrowing first weeks during the Vietnam War. Did we like it? Where does it stack on our list? Listen to find out.

Film Buffing up is an movie watchcast where two filthy casual film-goers grind through the AFI Top 100 Movies for 100 years and see where they stack in 2020.

Welcome to Film Buffing up! This week we watch Twelve Angry Men, the legal drama where one guy stubbornly grinds the legal process to a halt and annoys a bunch of people! Nominated for three Academy Awards and nestled at 87 on AFIs 100 Films for 100 Years list, it's surely going to be good. Do we like it? Listen and find out.

Film Buffing Up is an AFI Watchcast where two casual filmgoers, Jen and Mike, go through the list of the American Film Institutes 100 Films for 100 Years and see how they stack up.

In this episode of Buffing Up, we watch the original Carol Baskins in the 1937 slapstick comedy with Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant, Bringing up Baby.

Where does it stack?

Welcome to Film Buffing up, the world's latest AFI watchcast where two casual film-goers sit down and watch all 100 films for 100 years and see where they stack.