Popcorn Therapy

In this week’s episode, the boys pay their respects to the late great Black Mamba by diving into a conversation on the power of intensity and obsession. Tune into to hear them confront father-son nepotism, the unremitting angst of Uncut Gems, Werner Herzog’s tallest tales and why David Lynch has the Midas touch.

Shownotes:
Curb Your Enthusiasm - Larry David
Seinfeld - Jerry Seinfeld/Larry David
Joni Mitchell - Big Yellow Taxi
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - Thrift Shop (ft. Wanz)
Dear Basketball (2017) - Kobe Bryant
Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2020) - Jason Reitman
Stranger Things (2016) - The Duffer Brothers
It (2017) - Andrés Muschietti
Ghostbusters (1984) - Ivan Reitman
Meatballs (1979) - Ivan Reitman
Stripes (1981) - Ivan Reitman
Smodcast Podcast
Total Recall (2012) - Arnold Schwarzenegger
Predator (1987) - John McTiernan
Conan The Barbarian (1982) - John Milius
Conan The Destroyer (1984) - Richard Fleischer
Thank You For Smoking (2005) - Jason Reitman
Up In The Air (2009) - Jason Reitman
Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) - Rian Johnson
Groundhog Day (1993) - Harold Ramis
Angelica Huston - Watch Me
Fight Club (1999) - David Fincher
Wedding Crashers (2005) - David Dobkin
Uncut Gems (2019) - Safdie Bros
Elara Pictures
Good Time (2017) - Safdie Bros
Pete Davidson on Jimmy Fallon Show
Twilight: New Moon (2009) - Chris Weitz
Catching The Big Fish (2006) - David Lynch
Burden of Dreams (1982) - Les Blank
Fitzcarraldo (1982) - Werner Herzog
Klaus Kinski
Aguirre Wrath of God (1973) - Werner Herzog
Apocalypse Now (1979) - Francis Ford Coppola
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
My Best Fiend (1999) - Werner Herzog
Mulholland Drive (2001) - David Lynch
Blue Velvet (1986) - David Lynch
The Elephant Man (1980) - David Lynch
Twin Peaks - David Lynch

In this week’s episode the gang get tangled up in the 2020 Oscar noms and snubs, James comes clean on the realities of making his feature film in Romania and Kane gets on his soapbox for the late great Dalton Trumbo. Tune in to hear James fall head over heels for Céline Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire while Kane goes head to head with the 'cinema is dead' movement.

Shownotes:
Smodcast Podcast
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
California Dreamin’ (2007) - Cristian Nemescu
FilmInk Magazine
Trumbo (2015) - Jay Roach
Johnny Got His Gun (book) - Dalton Trumbo
Ad Astra (2019) - James Gray
Shane (1953) - George Stevens
Logan (2017) - James Mangold
Parasite (2019) - Bong Joon-Ho
The Big Picture Podcast
Ritz Cinemas (The Home of Independent Exhibition in SYD)
Once Upon A Time In Hollywood (2019) - Quentin Tarantino
1917 (2019) - Sam Mendes
American Beauty (1999) - Sam Mendes
Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) - Wes Anderson
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) - Wes Anderson
Jojo Rabbit (2019) — Taika Waititi
Ad Astra (2019) - James Gray
Joker (2019) - Todd Phillips
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) - Céline Sciamma
Last Year at Marienbad (1961) - Alain Resnais
Kevin Hart: Don’t F**k This Up (2019) - Kevin Hart
Night School (2018) - Malcolm D. Lee
The Breakfast Club (radio podcast)
Bad Boys For Life (2020) - Adil and Bilall
Crash (2004) - Paul Haggis
The Nice Guys (2016) - Shane Black
Lethal Weapon (1987) - Richard Donner

In this week’s episode, James and Kane shake off their NYE hangovers by diving headfirst into Greta Gerwig’s latest masterpiece. Tune in to hear them ramble on about Jerry Schatzberg, Cameron Crowe, Jann Wenner, Anna Karina, Terry Gilliam and the MCU.

Shownotes:
Little Women (2019) - Greta Gerwig
Little Women (1994) - Gillian Armstrong
The Last Picture Show (1971) - Peter Bogdanovich
Paper Moon (1973) - Peter Bogdanovich
Scarecrow (1973) - Jerry Schatzberg
Midnight Cowboy (1969) - John Schlesinger
Chinatown (1973) - Roman Polanski
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls (book) - Peter Biskind
American Graffiti (1973) - George Lucas
THX 1138 (1971) - George Lucas
Last Action Hero (1993) - John McTiernan
Ghostbusters (1984) - Ivan Reitman
Back To The Future (1985) - Robert Zemeckis
Almost Famous (2000) - Cameron Crowe
Gone Girl (2014) - David Fincher
Sympathy For The Devil/One Plus One (1968) - Jean-Luc Godard
Sticky Fingers (book) - Joe Hagan
Terry Gilliam - Writer/Director
Kevin Feige - Lead Producer of the Marvel Cinematic Universe

James Pillion and Kane Senes grow nostalgic as they bid adieu to the twenty-teens. Listen to them wax lyrical on their favourite films of the decade and chew over the idea of cinema as therapy.

Shownotes:
Paul Schrader - Writer/Director
Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) - The Coen Bros
Warrior (2011) - Gavin O’Conner
Ad Astra (2019) - James Gray
The Social Network (2010) - David Fincher
Broken Record Podcast
For Emma, Forever Ago (2007) - Bon Iver
Judy (2019) - Rupert Goold
Jerry Maguire (1996) - Cameron Crowe
Once Upon A Time In Hollywood (2019) - Quentin Tarantino
John Wick 3: Parabellum (2019) - Chad Stahelski
Always Be My Maybe (2019) - Nahnatchka Khan
Dolomite Is My Name (2019) - Craig Brewer
The Irishman (2019) - Martin Scorsese
Jay and Silent Bob Reboot (2020) - Kevin Smith
Uncut Gems (2019) - The Safdie Bros
A24 Podcast
Punch-Drunk Love (2002) - Paul Thomas Anderson

Welcome to Popcorn Therapy! James Pillion and Kane Senes look back on their unique paths to making their debut features and reflect on the power of cinema on their lives.