• HIGH HOPES (1988, Dir: Mike Leigh)
    Jun 15 2026

    Corbin has been intending on doing an episode about High Hopes since the show started. Why? You'll find out when you listen to the episode!!! Topics: Thatcher, the bitterness of leftists living in capital, some suprising facts about the actress who plays the mother, and the role of acting in Cinema.

    Next week's show is about "THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN!" You can watch it on Kanopy.

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    1 hr and 47 mins
  • "L'Eclisse" (1962, Dir: Michelangelo Antonioni)
    May 28 2026

    Corbin in has never quite understood what is going on in Antonioni's movies. Matt, on the other hand, is an an enthusiast. Can Dr. Movies use his teaching skills to enlighten his ignorant friend? Listen and learn!

    Check out the show on Letterboxd if you're into that thing. Matt is also on there. And we got a Bluesky going.

    Next episode is about "High Hopes." watch here.

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    1 hr and 58 mins
  • "Magellan" (2026, Dir: Lav Diaz) w/ Ryder
    May 7 2026

    Slow cinema movie about colonialism shot on a middle grade DSLR? That's like all the topics we're interested in, you know we had to crack this one open!!!! Ryder joins us. Watch it here, it's great.

    Check out the show on Letterboxd if you're into that thing. Matt is also on there. And we got a Bluesky going.

    Next episode: L'Eclisse! Watch it here.

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    1 hr and 55 mins
  • Johnny Guitar (1954, Dir: Nicholas Ray)
    Apr 23 2026

    In 1954, Hollywood legend and almost blacklisted Nicholas Ray and on-the-outs-movie-star Joan Crawford got together to make a bonkers paella western melodrama for a Poverty Row studio about the terror of desire and American reaction with TruColor. it's really quite something. we discuss!

    Read Jennifer Peterson's analysis of Johnny Guitar's particular brew of gender studies and politics here. Our next episode is about "Magellan," which you can watch on Criterion.

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    1 hr and 42 mins
  • "The White Ribbon" (2009, Dir: Michael Haneke) w/ Ryder C.
    Apr 9 2026

    Third chair Ryder Canepa joins us to talk about "The White Ribbon," Michael Haneke's exporation of the world's worst town, the horrible adults who live there, and the ways their misery warps their children. Nazi origin story, anti-patriarchal tract, or something entirely more upsetting? We discuss.

    Check out the show on Letterboxd if you're into that thing. Matt is also on there. And we got a Bluesky going.

    Next episode: Undetirmined!

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    1 hr and 25 mins
  • "Lessons of Darkness" (1992, Dir: Werner Herzog) w/ Dom Sinacola (Portland Mercury)
    Mar 27 2026

    This week, Matt and Corbin are joined by DOM SINACOLA (Film Critic at The Portland Mercury, The Werner Hertzblog) to talk about LESSONS OF DARKNESS, Werner Herzog's impressionistic non fiction essay movie about the burning oilfields of Kuwait in the wake of the first Gulf War. Topics include: is this movie responsible? Germany in the post war, Herzog and truth and lies, and other stuff. Honestly it's been a while since we recorded it, so it's possible I'm missing something.

    Check out the show on Letterboxd if you're into that thing. Matt is also on there. And we got a Bluesky going.

    Next episode is about "The White Ribbon," which is streaming somewhere, probably.

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    2 hrs and 17 mins
  • "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse" (2018, Dir: Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman)
    Mar 13 2026

    Do you remember that when Jean-Luc Godard took psychedelics and made a Spider-Man Movie? We talk about it!

    Check out the show on Letterboxd if you're into that thing. Matt is also on there. And we got a Bluesky going.

    Next episode is about "Lessons of Darkness," watch it here.

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    1 hr and 35 mins
  • "J'Accuse!" (1919, Dir: Abel Gance)
    Mar 6 2026

    Corbin and Matt talk about "J'accuse!," Abel Gance's nearly-three hour long French silent film epic about the horrors of the First World War and the generational crashout it evoked. Watch it here.

    Check out the show on Letterboxd if you're into that thing. Matt is also on there. And got a Bluesky going.

    Next episode is about "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse." It's on Disney+.

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    1 hr and 40 mins