It's Dorkfest! Dorkfest 2024 is here!

This is our annual countdown of our favorite 10 movies of 2024. It was a great, GREAT movie year. We can't wait to talk to you about it.

Have a great holiday, everyone. We'll see you in 2025.

Thanks to Dylan Mayer and My Friend Mary, both of which are wonderful, for the music. We hope you enjoy. And to John Dog at johndog.org for the intro music.

Let us know what you think @griersonleitch on Twitter, or [email protected]. As always, give us a review on iTunes with the name of a movie you'd like us to review, and we'll discuss it on a later podcast.

It's Dorkfest Eve, which means it's time for our annual lightning round show, when we go through as many movies as we can before our end of the year "Top Movies of 2024" Dorkfest show. That episode closes the year and will be up Wednesday, December 18. For now, though: It's Lightning Round. Six movies! 

Timestamps:

9:24 "A Complete Unknown"

24:43 "Nosferatu"

43:02 "Nickel Boys"

1:03:23 "Babygirl"

1:24:04 "The Seed of the Sacred Fig"

1:41:23 "The Order"

Thanks to Dylan Mayer and My Friend Mary, both of which are wonderful, for the music.

We hope you enjoy. Let us know what you think @griersonleitch on Twitter, or [email protected]. As always, give us a review on iTunes with the name of a movie you'd like us to review, and we'll discuss it on a later podcast.

It's Dorkfest Eve Eve, with three big movies before our lightning round show next week. We start with Luca Guadagnino's "Queer," with Daniel Craig. Then it's Amy Adams as "Nightbitch." (Not a Marvel movie.) And we close with the OTHER Oppenheimer's movie, the apocalyptic musical "The End."

Timestamps:

15:29 "Queer"

48:23 "Nightbitch"

1:19:02 "The End"

Thanks to Dylan Mayer and My Friend Mary, both of which are wonderful, for the music.

We hope you enjoy. Let us know what you think @griersonleitch on Twitter, or [email protected]. As always, give us a review on iTunes with the name of a movie you'd like us to review, and we'll discuss it on a later podcast.

Just three episodes left, counting this one, until Dorkfest. We've got three high-profile releases this week, starting with the massive swing that is Brady Corbet's "The Brutalist." Then we discuss Angelina Jolie doing the Pablo Lorrain thing in "Maria." And we close with the journalism thriller "September 5."

Timestamps:

12:23 "The Brutalist"

49:03 "Maria"

1:15:56 "September 5"

Thanks to Dylan Mayer and My Friend Mary, both of which are wonderful, for the music.

We hope you enjoy. Let us know what you think @griersonleitch on Twitter, or [email protected]. As always, give us a review on iTunes with the name of a movie you'd like us to review, and we'll discuss it on a later podcast.

Can you believe we only have four episodes, counting this one, until Dorkfest? It's true! We've got a holiday Barbenheimer sort of thing going this week, with the dual release of the musical "Wicked" and the Oscar sequel "Gladiator II." We also discuss the Netflix August Wilson adaptation "The Piano Lesson." And happy Thanksgiving, everyone.

Timestamps:

13:12 "Wicked"

44:11 "Gladiator II"

1:06:56 "The Piano Lesson"

Thanks to Dylan Mayer and My Friend Mary, both of which are wonderful, for the music.

We hope you enjoy. Let us know what you think @griersonleitch on Twitter, or [email protected]. As always, give us a review on iTunes with the name of a movie you'd like us to review, and we'll discuss it on a later podcast.

We are in a rather final countdown for end-of-the-year stuff. And we've got three very, VERY different movies this week. We start with the Netflix Oscar contender "Emilia Perez." Then it's The Rock, Chris Evans and Santa Claus in "Red One." And we close with the Mumbai drama "All We Imagine As Light." Lots of things!

Timestamps:

12:42 "Emilia Perez"

43:02 "Red One"

1:11:56 "All We Imagine As Light"

Thanks to Dylan Mayer and My Friend Mary, both of which are wonderful, for the music.

We hope you enjoy. Let us know what you think @griersonleitch on Twitter, or [email protected]. As always, give us a review on iTunes with the name of a movie you'd like us to review, and we'll discuss it on a later podcast.

Well ... here we are, folks! We, obviously, talk about the election last week, but we try not to go too far down the road: We understand you might enjoy some distraction just as much as we will. Fortunately, we have three meaty movies to talk about this week. Sean Baker's "Anora," Steve McQueen's "Blitz" and the Hugh Grant horror film "Heretic."

We have you are staying safe and all right this week.

Timestamps:

12:22 "Anora"

44:11 "Blitz"

1:07:11 "Heretic"

Thanks to Dylan Mayer and My Friend Mary, both of which are wonderful, for the music.

We hope you enjoy. Let us know what you think @griersonleitch on Twitter, or [email protected]. As always, give us a review on iTunes with the name of a movie you'd like us to review, and we'll discuss it on a later podcast.

We have two movies to talk about, and we get into both of them, the Oscar hopeful Vatican drama "Conclave" and then the end (?) of the Venom trilogy, "Venom: The Last Dance."

But this episode is really about our conversation at the end, when we do a brain download of all our election thoughts and anxieties. It's OK if you skip that part. But we found it helpful.

We're off next week because Leitch is running the NYC Marathon. We'll see you all on the other side.

Timestamps:

12:22 "Conclave"

37:33 "Venom: The Last Dance"

Thanks to Dylan Mayer and My Friend Mary, both of which are wonderful, for the music.

We hope you enjoy. Let us know what you think @griersonleitch on Twitter, or [email protected]. As always, give us a review on iTunes with the name of a movie you'd like us to review, and we'll discuss it on a later podcast.

Right before the deluge of Oscar movies, we get three curios, one good, two bad. First we discuss the Cate Blanchett satire "Rumours." Then it's Netflix's Anna Kendrick-directed "Woman of the Hour." And we close with Josh Brolin, Peter Dinklage and Glenn Close in "Brothers," which is on Amazon Prime, like football.

Timestamps:

11:11 "Rumours"

39:22 "Woman of the Hour"

1:02:01 "Brothers"

Thanks to Dylan Mayer and My Friend Mary, both of which are wonderful, for the music.

We hope you enjoy. Let us know what you think @griersonleitch on Twitter, or [email protected]. As always, give us a review on iTunes with the name of a movie you'd like us to review, and we'll discuss it on a later podcast.

Two potential Oscar movies, looking back at the 1970s and 1980s and how they reflect on today. First, Tim and Will talk about Jason Reitman's "Saturday Night," which looks at the first episode of "Saturday Night Live." Then they dig into the Sebastian Stan, Jeremy Strong-starring "The Apprentice."

In our Reboot segment, we look back at 1995's "La Haine."

Timestamps:

19:11 "Saturday Night"

49:22 "The Apprentice"

1:21:01 "La Haine"

Thanks to Dylan Mayer and My Friend Mary, both of which are wonderful, for the music.

We hope you enjoy. Let us know what you think @griersonleitch on Twitter, or [email protected]. As always, give us a review on iTunes with the name of a movie you'd like us to review, and we'll discuss it on a later podcast.