The Silver Screen Podcast

This week we review the new Disney/Pixar film Soul on Disney+! The film stars Jamie Foxx and Tina Fey and we talk about how maybe this is more of a movie for adults than for kids, and also about the great music and animation in the film. We also discuss in length the way the team at Pixar decided to end the movie. 

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Article About Soul's Other Possible Endings: 

https://www.etonline.com/pixar-soul-alternate-ending-spoiler-breakdown-158021

Another Netflix movie is on the docket this week, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom! The movie stars Viola Davis and also the late Chadwick Boseman and is based on an August Wilson play. We discuss the great acting performances of Davis and Boseman, and also at the end of the episode share our Top 5 Favorite Christmas Movies! Let us know if you agree with our lists or not! 

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Is Die Hard a Christmas movie? That question and many more come up this week as we review the action classic from 1988. We also discuss crazy Taylor Swift theories, Tom Cruise's freakout on the set of the new Mission Impossible movie and also how you can vote on what we review on a future episode! 

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Tom Cruise MI Freakout (Warning: Explicit Language) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_ETWSY_4BA

This episode has us reviewing another Netflix film, (shocker!) Mank directed by David Fincher! The film focuses on Herman Mankiewicz, the writer of Citizen Kane, who is played by Gary Oldman, and his process of writing the film and also working with Orson Welles. We discuss how historically accurate this film is, our likes and dislikes for the movie, and also share some recommendations! We also touch on Taylor Swift's new album Evermore (which was not out yet when we recorded the episode) and Timothée Chalamet hosting SNL. 

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This week we review the new Ron Howard movie Hillbilly Elegy starring Amy Adams and Glenn Close which is on Netflix! We talk about our likes and dislikes for the film and also how some books maybe shouldn't be adapted into movies....

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Just in time for Thanksgiving we review Planes, Trains, and Automobiles from 1987 starring Steve Martin and John Candy! We also share our weekly recommends and somehow Titanic comes into to the conversation too....

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On this episode we wrap up our political movie series with Mr. Smith Goes to Washington from 1939 starring Jimmy Stewart! We also share some weekly recommendations and touch on the death of Alex Trebek and also Al Roker's cancer diagnosis. 

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On this episode we continue our political films series with All The President's Men from 1976 starring Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman! We discuss the real life Watergate scandal, and also how accurate the movie is to the actual events (spoiler alert: It's pretty close!) 

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We continue our political series on this episode by reviewing Frost/Nixon from 2008 directed by Ron Howard and starring Michael Sheen and Frank Langella! 

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This week as we prepare for the 2020 election, we begin our political movies series with the new Aaron Sorkin film, The Trial of the Chicago 7 on Netflix! We discuss what makes Sorkin great as a screenwriter, go over the prominent cast for this movie including Katie's favorite, Eddie Redmayne, and also talk about our likes and dislikes for the film and throw out some weekly recommends. Also we talk about the big news that the Fast and Furious series is ending after the 11th film. 

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