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At long last we return to continue our journey through the career of one, John McTiernan.

We’re referring to this second age as his struggle from the “Jungle to the Upper East Side”.

-MEDICINE MAN (1992)

-LAST ACTION HERO (1993)

-DIE HARD WITH A VENGEANCE (1995)

-THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR (1999)

(special thanks to Mr. Beau Marks — a longtime friend and collaborator of John McTiernan — for consulting on this series)

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We’re going back to ‘99 ONE MORE TIME to organize our thoughts about the inaugural “retrospectating” series, the cosmic significance of the year in question, and whether or not decade-cappers consistently produce the best cinematic output.

And now we play the waiting game… Let’s all agree to meet back here in 2029 to take another look at that red letter year on the occasion of its 30th birthday…

Talkin’ 1999 just never gets old.

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We’re back from the winter hiatus just in time to submit our official Oscar predictions and lock in the choices that will determine the winner of our yearly WLM wager.

Join us as we break down all 24 categories, get foolishly optimistic about PARASITE’s chance to make history on Oscar night, and even outline a few additions and subtractions we’d love to see implemented with respect to the future slate of categories.

We’re mere hours away from Hollywood’s biggest night! Whether the big prize goes to 1917 or PARASITE, it’s just important to remember that MALEFICENT: MISTRESS OF EVIL has more Oscar nominations than UNCUT GEMS. Stew on that, get comfortable with the fact that you’re going to die someday, and just give in to the annual, bizarre, intoxicating power of Oscar weekend… Just let it happen.

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It’s our annual ode to opinions.

We do it every year. We love it. What more do you need to know?

Listen in and leave comments.

We value YOUR opinion. We treasure your friendship!

2019, we hardly knew ye….

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So here we are…

We’ve finally come to the end of our year-long Retrospectating 1999 series and we’re bringing this thing in for a landing with the help of special guest Dan Kelly. He joins us for a bonus episode to celebrate Oliver Stone’s misunderstood masterpiece ANY GIVEN SUNDAY on the occasion of its 20th anniversary. It’s a fun one to end the series on, even if concluding this feature is quite bittersweet.

Thanks for hanging with us through this crazy game of inches, WLM family.

Happy holidays and we’ll see you in the next decade!

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As we near the end of our Retrospectating 1999 series we’ve come to a long-awaited double-header: Anthony Minghella’s THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY and Paul Thomas Anderson’s MAGNOLIA.

These films have very little in common besides the fact that they both feature the most important cinematic Phillips of 1999 (Seymour Hoffman and Baker Hall) and both premiered in late December of that year. But on this week’s episode–featuring special guest Ryan Julio in his 3rd WLM appearance–we dig deeper into other potential similarities and even fabricate scandalous conspiracy theories about filmmaker/composer relationships and histories.

It’s a post-Christmas miracle!

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What a long, strange trip it’s been.

It took us nearly a decade to get there but we’re extremely excited to announce that we’ve officially made it to 300 episodes on the We Like Movies Podcast feed!

In honor of the occasion we’ve invited back the ten beautiful individuals who have guested on the podcast over the years to share their thoughts on the greatest films of the last decade. Since we started this journey in October of 2010 (reviewing THE SOCIAL NETWORK, no less) and hit 300 episodes just shy of 2020, we decided it made sense to spend this week creating the definitive “WLM Best of the 2010s List”.

So, between our two lists and our ten guests’ lists there are 120 individual film picks in play. We’ve assigned a point system that works in contrary order to the ranking number. In other words, ranking ten on a list gets a film one point, ranking nine is worth two points, and so on. But a film has to have been mentioned on at least two lists in order to qualify for points. Using this highly sophisticated balloting system we will seek to create a MASTER LIST.

But first, join us as we scrutinize the individual lists, wax affectionate about our wonderfully-opinionated contributors, and take a walk down memory lane to reminisce about how this whole podcasting journey got started.

We are We Like Movies and we’re SO elated and grateful to still be liking movies (and each other) after 300 glorious episodes!

Thanks to YOU, WLM family. Here’s to 300 more.

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20 years ago this month, director Michael Mann released his sixth theatrical feature to widespread critical acclaim in spite of the film’s relative inability to find an audience. Mann received his first (and thus far, only) best director Oscar nomination for the THE INSIDER and despite the fact that the film rarely gets mentioned with the same tone of reverence as HEAT or even the divisive but often-defended MIAMI VICE, the last two decades have been surprisingly kind to this melancholy corporate thriller.

Join us as we welcome Michael Mann-super-fan Brian Boarini back to the podcast for a lively discussion about journalistic superheroes, reconciling recent history, and the unexpected cinematic benefits of frumpy, pleated pants.

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We’re a couple weeks past the official 20th anniversary of David Fincher’s seminal masterwork about displaced and misplaced Gen X machismo. But it’s only given us that much more time to further reflect on a film that has aged in wild, troubling, and unexpected ways that we could not have predicted back in October of 1999.

Join us as we revisit and reflect-upon “Jack’s wasted life” in our long-awaited retrospectation of David Fincher’s FIGHT CLUB.

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We keep our recent streak of passionate but level-headed disagreement rolling with a spirited discussion about Todd Phillips’s JOKER- a film that is either a dangerous and controversial call to violent action or merely a dark and disposable comic book novelty.

Or maybe it’s both.

Or maybe it’s neither!

Give it some thought, give us a listen, and don’t forget to sound off in the comments section.

Viva la discourse!

(And don’t forget, WLM is a podcast for people who have seen the films. We spoil early. We spoil often. Fair warns.)

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