Why This Movie?

In our SERIES FINALE, we'll look at 1988's Scrooged and how the Christmas season contains an inherent darkness.

Listen to my conversation with Tiffany Stafford about the role holiday movies play in grounding us and setting annual markers in our lives, and the hidden nuances within the story of Buddy the Elf.

Happy Christmas! Here is a re-gifted episode, a look at White Christmas, snow, Vermont, and the age-old adage that "the show must go on."

In this conversation, we take a look at Frank Darabont's The Green Mile and the burden of compassion.

Inspirational, based on a true story, and with a performance from Denzel Washington that keeps the sentimentality under control, Remember the Titans (2000) goes under post-game analysis in this episode of Why This Movie?

It's the spookiest time of year, and the perfect time to dive deep into the best scary movie ever made. Hear about the calculation and intelligence that went into the making of Psycho, and how its every move has been working like crazy for 65 years.

In honor of spooky season, we're releasing this conversation with filmmaker Stefan MacDonald-Labelle about Scanners (1981), his film Head Like a Hole, and the power of horror to illuminate social issues.

It's a movie first, and a musical second. Or is it the other way around? Join us this week for a look at Steven Spielberg's 2021 West Side Story, starring Rachel Zegler and Ariana DeBose. "Things are all right in America / When you're all white in America..."

We're back! In our Season 2 premiere, I'm taking a deep dive into the spiritual and meditative nature of Cast Away (2000) starring Tom Hanks.

How do we stay optimistic when it seems like civilization is collapsing around us? The environment presented to us in The American President - of a Washington, DC in which smart people argue with each other in order to solve the country's problems - may hold the key. My guest Jonathan Paula talks with me about his love for this movie and why he is "a hopeless optimist."