We each pick or favorites of the year just past with one of our favorite episodes to do each year. We each count down our ten favorites of 2023 and offer a few others that didn't quite make the cut but are still worth checking out.

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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, Movies for Life listeners! We hope you all are having a wonderful and happy holiday season however you celebrate or don't! Here on the show, we're having a very Sly Christmas by celebrating actor Sylvester Stallone with two movies of his that don't have anything to do with Christmas but take place around the holiday! First we discuss FIRST BLOOD from 1982 directed by Ted Kotcheff. Though the other films in this series just get bigger and bloodier, this first installment is a very serious, dramatic, and yeah still fun movie with an amazing cast all just absolutely killing it. Then we drop all the drama nothing but bonkers fun with the next movie - 1986's COBRA. It's all the cliches you could ever want from an 80s cop action movie, and that's exactly why we love this one. We hope you have fun with this episode, and as always, thank you all so much for listening!

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Keeping up with our noir-ish theme for this month, on this week's episode of Movies for Life, we're tackling a couple of Michele's absolute favorite kinds of films - mysteries! And these are some truly banger titles so we know you'll dig them! First up is Brian's choice of an early Hitchcock masterpiece, 1938's THE LADY VANISHES. It's a mystery, it's an espionage thriller, it's a comedy, it's a romance-on-the-road - this movie really has it all and we have a really fun time talking about it! Then we get into Michele's pick which is one of the twistiest and turniest of all the mysteries out there, from 1973 it's THE LAST OF SHEILA! This film has such a genius plot and that's really no surprise considering the minds that it came from; plus the cast is absolutely star-studded as well! We hope you all enjoy this one!

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This month on Movies for Life we're doing our own version of Noirvember with a couple of episodes about crime and mystery! For our episode this week, we're robbing banks and talking about two very different approaches to the bank heist film. First up for discussion is Brian's choice, the 1961 Hammer film CASH ON DEMAND. This movie has a lot of things that both of us like - Peter Cushing, great character development and exploration, a short runtime, and a single location! It's a wonderful little film that we hope more people will check out. Then we get into Michele's pick, the 2001 dark comedy teen film SUGAR & SPICE! It's a PG-13 movie that still feels like an R movie with the witty and raunchy dialogue. And while it is a hell of a lot of fun to watch and laugh at and with, it's also one that is very clever at what it both plays into and riffs on. We hope you enjoy this pairing!

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We take a page from our friends at the Pure Cinema Podcast and share ten "Ghost Movies Because" each. These aren't necessarily the best or even our favorites, but movies about ghosts and hauntings that we like, want to shine a light on, and talk about. We had a lot of fun this Halloween season and hope you enjoy this special bonus episode about one of our favorite sub-genres.

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We're back with another spooky season episode for you and another pair of great ghost movies to talk about! Going in reverse chronological order this time, we're starting off with a movie that came out in a banger year for movies - 1999 - and this one is no exception. We're talking STIR OF ECHOES, and all the things that make it a fantastic little gem of a ghost movie. Based on a novel by Richard Matheson, and written and directed for the screen by David Koepp, it's got all the talent behind and in front of the camera and we have a great time dissecting why it all works so well. Then we get into a stone cold classic of the ghost genre with 1980's THE CHANGELING starring George C. Scott. This one gives us not only everything we could want from a ghost/haunted house tale, but also a very deep and emotional look at grief in the main character's story. We've got one more spooky episode left for you before the month ends so keep an eye out for that, and we hope you've enjoyed everything we've put out so far! Happy Halloween!

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In this episode we revel in the feeling of the Halloween Season by discussing our favorite movies to get us in the fall and spooky season mood. Brian nerds out with a pick and an alternate from every decade from the 1920s to the 2020s while Michele picks some all-time favorites. We talk comedies, dramas, classics, more recent films, and of course some scary movies as well. So whether you're a horror fan or a scaredy cat, you're sure to hear about something to get you into the Halloween mood.

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It's officially spooky season at Movies for Life and we are both READY FOR IT! Both of our favorite subgenre of horror is ghosts so that is what we are doing the whole month here on the pod - with a couple bonus episodes in there for you too! But first we take a look at a couple of haunted house movies, starting with Jack Clayton's THE INNOCENTS from 1961. Iconic haunted house imagery that still works like gangbusters aside, this story is made so much more compelling with its unreliable main characters and the fact that by the end, you're still just not really sure what all has transpired here. Then we talk about a movie that is equally as compelling, the Guillermo del Toro produced and J.A. Bayona directed THE ORPHANAGE from 2007. Is this fairy tale-laden story sad, tragic, bittersweet, or all of these rolled into one at the same time? We had an amazing time talking all horror for the first time in a while on this show and we hope you enjoy this episode and all the other spooky content we have in store for you this month!

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In the second part of our little series all about high school movies, we're taking things a bit into the future with a look at some films about high school reunions. With all the memories and expectations about how our lives should be, this is arguably a more stressful and confusing experience than high school itself, and both of these films capture all of that so well. First we get into Michele's choice and her movie namesake, ROMY & MICHELE'S HIGH SCHOOL REUNION from 1997. It's quirky, it's fun, it's colorful and oh-so 90s, but it still has some pretty profound things to say about life. Then we get into Brian's movie pick from 2013, THE WORLD'S END. The most mature and sometimes most dark film from Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg's Cornetto Trilogy, THE WORLD'S END may be about aliens with blue ink inside them on the surface, but underneath it is so much more. We hope you enjoy this episode!

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School's back in session so we're celebrating with a look at a couple of high school movies! First we talk about Brian's pick, which is a movie that not only loves movies, but also explores the beautiful intimacy of a close friendship, and the unimaginable struggle of going through cancer - ME AND EARL AND THE DYING GIRL from 2015. Then it's on to Michele's choices, a hilarious comedy with a surprisingly dark side all about rumors, reputations, and double standards - it's EASY A from 2010! 

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