So, yeah, 15 minutes for 6 films. Because they're just homages to matinee serials and Flash Gordon and Kurosawa, right?

THE PHANTOM MENACE (1999)

ATTACK OF THE CLONES (2002)

REVENGE OF THE SITH (2005)

A NEW HOPE (1977)

THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK (1980)

RETURN OF THE JEDI (1983)

(clips from Bill Murray and Bea Arthur, SNL and the Holiday Special)

Before we get to the TWO MINUTE MOVIE MILE, Jack and Andrew talk about the latest trailer for Batman v Superman and (hot off the presses) Independence Day Resurgence.

Here is the latest (Jack has a marathon starting with Room:

1) CREED (2015)

2) CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER (2014)

3) THE GOOD DINOSAUR (2015)

4) SKYFALL (2012)

5) TRUMBO (2015)

6) AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON (2015) (Andrew rewatch)

7) ROOM (2015)

8) BY THE SEA (2015)

9) CHI-RAQ (2015)

10) SGT. KABUKIMAN: NYPD (1990)

11) THE HELP (2011)

12) LISTEN TO ME, MARLON (2015)

13) MAPS TO THE STARS (2014)

14) KUMIKO, THE TREASURE HUNTER (2014)

15) ALIEN FROM LA (1988)

Clips from Duke Ellington and Chopin (remix)

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When you're a storyteller, it helps more than anything to know the tools you're going to use and always use them to their utmost capabilities.

Whether it's choreographing laser-sword fights (not lightsaber, that's copyrighted apparently), putting someone into deep space (with some painterly inspiration believe it or not), or letting an actor go off about a dream he/she had the night before, Carlos del Rosario is interested in making comedy and dramatic films, infused with popular culture from many sections (many you wouldn't expect on first glance), to where audiences won't know what to expect and will laugh and cry and sometimes for the same scene(!)

He's the director of the television pilot LOSERS which hits the web December 11th, and has edited features, shorts and does a helluva lot with that Adobe After-Effects. Today we converse with Carlos about how he got to where he is and what comes next.

Check out the full 1st episode at https://www.youtube.com/loserstelevision

Visit the Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/loserstvpilot

And twitter @LOSERS_TV

(In the interest of full disclosure, Jack of the Wages of Cinema has worked with Carlos before and is an Associate Producer on Losers, but of the spotlight is always on the guest).

(Clips featuring Zack Abramowitz and Matt Steiner from improv outtake from 'Losers', and music by Bear McCreary)

"In the not too distant future..." (you know how it goes)

How has this show, which lasted for over 10 years on Comedy Central and the Sci-Fi Channel in the United States change pop culture? How has making fun of the schlockiest of schlock changed how we look at movies in general? Can we ever deal with the fact that Manos: The Hands of Fate translates to 'Hands: The Hands of Fate'? Or how absolutely god-Awful Monster A-Go-Go is? Is it almost ironically cruel (or ironic or cruel on its own) that we even know the name of Colman Francis today? Or that "What out for snakes!" is a catch-phrase in my household?

Let's go up to the Satellite and talk about how these guys not only made history, but will do it AGAIN with their KICKSTARTER as Joel Hodgson brings MST3K into the 21st century! Check out the link below - the next goal is set for this Thanksgiving! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mst3k/bringbackmst3k?ref=hero

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(Song is by Syd Vatlentine)

What do the hottest day of the summer in Brooklyn and the final night for polite (but some homicidal) Canadians have in common? Is a guy who announces that the gas will stay on in a calm, direct voice have a connection with Mr. Senior Love-Daddy? How funny can things like race and the apocalypse be? What is the process of things ESCALATING in this world?

These questions and more are pondered by Jack and Andrew as they look at two films by auteurs, one celebrated as an iconic film, and the other is... that movie your roommate recommends to you and it may be good or it might be bad. Who knows when it comes to THE LIST?

1) Spike Lee's DO THE RIGHT THING (1989)

2) Don McKellar's LAST NIGHT (1998)

(Clips from Do the Right Thing and Last Night, fair use)

Before the 2MMM, we talk about some comments regarding our previous 'List' episode and what we (or Jack) got wrong with the Man for All Seasons Christian-mythology.

With the Two Minute Movie Mile, Jack sees a lot of new movies (plus two maybe not-so-great Nicolas Cage ones), and Andrew watches a Lucio Fulci movie and a Spike Jonze movie and... not too much else (it's one of those months with little time). Oh, and things like Nathan Fillion in a non-sci-fi and Tippi Hedren getting (almost) eaten by a lion round out the discussion:

1) SPOTLIGHT (2015)

2) ZOMBIE (1979)

3) THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY PART 2 (2015)

4) KIRK CAMERON'S SAVING CHRISTMAS (2014)

5) A SHORT FILM ABOUT KILLING (1988)

6) HER (2013)

7) THE NIGHT BEFORE (2015)

8) BROOKLYN (2015)

9) ROAR (1981)

10) STOLEN (2012)

11) TRESPASS (2011)

12) TRUCKER (2008)

13) THE LONG RIDERS (1980)

(Song is Duke Ellington's 'Jubilee Stomp)

What makes for a spy movie? Does it just have to have SPIES, or do they have to be, you know, DOING things? Like espionage or missions or in total intrigue? Is NORTH BY NORTHWEST a spy movie? What about Argo? Captain America: The Winter Soldier? And what was up with Hitchcock adapting Sabotage from the novel The Secret Agent but not adapting The Secret Agent from some book called Sabotage (we're sure there's one out there)?

On the recent release of Spectre, the 24th in the franchise, the Wages of Cinema hosts ask these questions - not to mention start off with a discussion on good ol' 007 James Bond himself and his film legacy (starting of course with the video-game of Goldeneye) - and get into a talk about spy movies in general, what constitutes the good ones and what are some favorites.

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(Music by Mel Young: "The Killer")

How does one live a moral life? What does God have to do with how you live? Do you say what the Almighty says? What if there is no God... but just in case there is, you may want to take care - whether that's believing (or not) in divorce and the sanctity of the Pope, or killing someone, or working with Alan Alda (remember, if it BENDS, it's funny - if it BREAKS, it's NOT funny!)

Today Jack and Andrew look at Oscar winning/nominated films from the United Kingdom and New York City (hey, it's its own country, right?)with two highly regarded films about truth and justice and man's responsibility to one another. Did they LIKE the movies, though?

Fred Zinnemann's A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS (1966)

Woody Allen's CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS (1989)

(Theme from 'Season's by Georges Delerue)

We get right into it with the movie this week, as there have been a LOT to talk about: new releases go really to Jack and Andrew talks some horror (as Jack does too, this was covering the last week of October, after all), but then some animation (of varying qualities), a documentary about a making-of movie, the weirdest time travel movie ever, two or three French films (viva la France!) including one more dip into Luis Bunuel, and Jack and Andrew share their thoughts on one of the biggest bombs in recent memory.

And Jack opens the show with a botched rendition of Mockingbird, which you've been (mostly) spared...

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1) STEVE JOBS (2015)

2) MEET DAVE (2008)

3) HALLOWEEN (1978)

4) THE SENTINEL (1977)

5) THE PEANUTS MOVIE (2015)

6) LITTLE NEMO IN SLUMBERLAND (1989)

7) A BOY NAMED CHARLIE BROWN (1969)

8) THE PHANTOM OF LIBERTY (1974)

9) SPECTRE (2015)

10) PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (1975)

11) OUR BRAND IS CRISIS (2015)

12) OSS 117: LOST IN RIO (2009)

13) THE LEOPARD MAN/THE SEVENTH VICTIM (1943) (also the Daily Double)

14)THE BEYOND (1981)

15) DEADLY BLESSING (1981)

16) THE RAID: REDEMPTION (2011)

17) STEVE MCQUEEN: THE MAN & LE MANS (2015)

18) THE BIG EASY (1988)

19) PREDESTINATION (2014)

20) THE INTOUCHABLES (2011)

21) DEAD OF NIGHT (1945)

22) THE FLY/RETURN OF THE FLY (58/59)

23) LAST DAYS OF CONEY ISLAND (2015)

24) JEM AND THE HOLOGRAMS (2015)

(Songs: Duke Ellington's "Jubilee Stomp" and The Misfits' "Return of the Fly")

Sometimes you can't just limit yourself to one thing - and we don't just mean by just being an actress or a singer or musical performer or a cosplayer or costume designer or (hopefully soon) writer... no, we mean that if you have a Facebook page for yourself, you go all out and put ACTOR-SINGER-NERD right in the title, as Miss Maya Murphy does on her page (link below).

Maya is a woman of many hats, and sometimes swords and eye-shadows and outfits, and if she can sign a song and be on a stage, it's the best feeling in the world. We're happy to talk with her today about acting, theater, Boston, Comic conventions, and what it means to be Black Canary in a long-running web-series. And last but not least you can see her this November in Brooklyn, NY, in a production of Sweeney Todd(!) (also see link below).

Visit her on FB: https://www.facebook.com/Maya-MurphyActor-Singer-Nerd-130325050367247/?fref=ts

and Twitter: @MayaActs

and http://tinyurl.com/shavethedate

and last but not least, in LOSERS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdkHvXPEWpI

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(Clips featured are from 'Kiss of the Were-Girlfriend' directed by Louie Tremblay and 'Sexually Frank' directed by Frankie Frain)