Jason and the Movienauts

Paul and Shawn are back! And we're continuing our discussion of the Predator series with two of the best movies of the series, Prey and Killer of Killers. Will the guys all agree on a movie for a change? Will they look forward to, or dread, Predator: Badlands? Tune in to this fun show and find out!

Michelle is back to continue our look at the films directed by the great Billy Wilder. This time, we look at the film which won the Academy Award for Best Picture and the film which should have won the award: the slightly less classic "problem drama" The Lost Weekend and the truly classic prototypical film noir Double Indemnity.

Michelle and Jason both did their research on both films, which resulted in a fun and fascinating approach to the conversation, a conversation we hope you really enjoy.

It's finally happened: after watching all 31 films in the long career of the movie master Masahiro Shinoda, Jason and Eric have finally had a chance to get together and compare notes on the man, his filmography and where he stands in the pantheon of great directors. And the answer, after all this work is: yes. Yes, indeed, Masahiro Shinoda is a director unlike any other and a man who deserves to be considered one of the true greats.

Paul and Shawn are back to continue our exploration of the Predator franchise. This time, the not very well loved Predators and The Predator. You might say Richard Rodriguez and Shane Black didn't deliver great Predator movies, but we make the counterarguments here - Shawn especially thinks The Predator is really not too bad... join us and see if Shawn makes his case well...

Jason's been fascinated all over again by a rewatch of the HBO Max series Irma Vep, So Keith proposed to Jason they watch several other great Olivier Assayas films, including Personal Shopper, Summer Hours and Clouds of Sils Maria, each a more stunning work of comic art than the one that came before it. Give a listen to the guys rhapodize about some of the finest films of the millennium.

Shawn and Paul are back to continue our discussion of the best of 1990s action films. This time the guys discuss Predator and Predator 2. One is a true classic, the other is a strange oddball 90s action flick, full of contradictory ideas but which is ultimately kind of fascinating.

Join the guys as they try to untangle all the threads on these wild and often awesome films.

Paul Moyer joins Jason to discuss two paranoid thrillers of the 1970s. The Parallax View and All the President's Men are dark looks at America's secret, terrible underbelly. Both directed by the great Alan J. Pakula in the early '70s, these films are just as spooky and compelling today as the day they were first made. Join Jason and Paul for an intriguing 50-minute, SPOILER FILLED look at these classic movies.

Michele is back again as she and Jason continue their journey into the films of the great Billy Wilder. This time they look at one of his greatest, most popular and most profound films, Sunset Boulevard (1950), and plumb so much of its hidden depth. Along with that, Michele and Jason take a look at a much deeper cut in Wilder's catalog: Fedora (1978), the shaggy-dog, slightly misbegotten approach to similar territory as Sunset.

Fedora is a fascinating film for very different reasons than Sunset Boulevard, and in many ways helps appreciate the unique alchemy that helped make the earlier movie a classic and this one a flawed work.

Sometimes the least watched movies reveal the most information about a director. Such is the case with two of the final films by the great Masahiro Shinoda, Spy Sorge and Moonlight Serenade.

Eric and Jason watch both these films and find them to be tremendously watchable and kind of brilliantly made. Listen in and get the argument for you to add these to your exploration of Japanese cinema.

Paul and Shawn are back to talk about cinema's best loved aliens, well, the Alien franchise. Join the guys for two hours of chat about whether Prometheus is deep or pretentious, about whether Covenant is a good film, and especially abouy how amazing Michael Fassbender is onscreen.