Podcasts by Have You Ever Seen
Ryan and Bev Ellis are partners in film nerdery who share their often humorous musings on the AFI's 1998 & 2007 lists of the greatest 100 American films ever made. But we finished with that in December 2015, so now we just review anything we feel like!
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The Miracle Worker from 2023-12-11T07:25:39
We're taking a short break from covering Christmas movies by talking about Arthur Penn's The Miracle Worker. Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke are tremendous as the battling teacher and student. Both...
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Grumpy Old Men from 2023-12-04T07:06:50
Holy moly, the 553rd ice-fish of Have You Ever Seen kicks off the Christmas season as Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau bring their crabby charm to the title characters. But the 2 comedy legends ar...
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Ball Of Fire from 2023-12-01T07:10:43
The early '40s was a hugely successful time for director Howard Hawks and his Ball Of Fire stars, Barbara Stanwyck & Gary Cooper. This isn't their crowning achievement (partly because it just is...
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The Magnificent Seven from 2023-11-27T06:33:08
Even though John Sturges is one of the most underrated directors of all time, remaking Seven Samurai could have turned out to be a big mistake if it failed. Instead, The Magnificent Seven is fun...
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Philadelphia from 2023-11-17T07:04:56
Hollywood studios hadn't made very many major movies about AIDS before 1993, so Philadelphia represented a fairly safe way into this difficult subject. Many considered Jonathan Demme's picture s...
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The Remains Of The Day from 2023-11-13T06:45:14
There's no better way to debut Ismail Merchant and James Ivory on this channel than to chat about their finest film. The Remains Of The Day also represents the first time Emma Thompson or Hugh G...
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The Wicker Man from 2023-10-23T06:13:14
The Wicker Man is a cult movie about a cult, so that alone makes it a good choice for Scary Movie Month. Robin Hardy's film is really more of a mystery than a horror extravaganza though, as the ...
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The Exorcist from 2023-10-20T06:00:48
This year's Scary Movie Month has turned into a month of undisputed horror classics, especially in these one-Ryan shows. Halloween was discussed on October 9th. Now it's time for one of the best...
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Friday The 13th from 2023-10-13T06:19:22
Ryan talked alone about the classic slasher flick Halloween on Monday. The solo episode this time gets into the business of one of its offshoots...Friday The 13th. In fact, all 12 of the Fridays...
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The Conjuring from 2023-10-02T05:46:37
Our 8th Annual Scary Movie Month has arrived and we kick it off with a film that has several legit frights and some "I'm creeped out in my own basement" staying power. Our 539th episode talks ab...
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Mrs. Doubtfire from 2023-09-04T05:18:44
Since this 534th episode of Have You Ever Seen hits the airwaves on Labour Day, it felt right to talk about a character who has FOUR different jobs in one movie. Mrs. Doubtfire is a funny film t...
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The Night Of The Hunter from 2023-08-28T05:56:18
The Night Of The Hunter is Exhibit A when you talk about films that are revered more now than they were when they came out. To many, this KEEPS getting better every time they see it. We're fans ...
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Pickup On South Street from 2023-08-25T05:54:52
The 532nd edition of Have You Ever Seen talks about a noir that not everyone is aware of, but they should be. Pickup On South Street crackles. Richard Widmark plays a pickpocket, but he remains ...
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Jeanne Dielman from 2023-08-21T05:40:52
And thus the people who started this podcast to review the AFI's Top 100 Lists have now made a point of talking about the Sight & Sound list. S&S critics ranked Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du comme...
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The Wolf Of Wall Street from 2023-08-14T06:08:59
Martin Scorsese is the master director of movies that glamorize scumbag criminals without passing judgement on their terrible behaviour. He's (almost) in Goodfellas territory here, featuring a r...
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Coming Home from 2023-08-07T05:41:23
As we "celebrate" the Civic Holiday, Bev takes the week off and Ryan monologues in the 529th episode of Have You Ever Seen. The underrated Hal Ashby always got great performances out of his acto...
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The Fugitive from 2023-07-31T06:14:33
If Harrison Ford isn't the most-successful movie star in history, then he's at least on the shortest of shortlists. And he's almost a silent-film actor in The Fugitive, while Oscar-winner Tommy ...
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Body And Soul from 2023-07-28T05:25:15
John Garfield didn't even live to see 40, but he DID make several good films in the '40s. In Body And Soul, he's a decent guy who finds himself in a love triangle and makes many bad career decis...
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Everything Everywhere All At Once from 2023-07-17T06:15:30
Everything Everywhere All At Once turned into an unlikely hit last year, then went on to win 7 Oscars just a few months ago. That means it was time for us to cover it because we always review th...
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Adam's Rib from 2023-07-14T05:15:10
Spencer Tracy & Katharine Hepburn were a great duo and they made many movies together, but they specialized in romantic comedies. Adam's Rib is a rom-com that does a great job with the rom, but ...
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Armageddon from 2023-07-03T05:21:05
It's become a tradition for us in recent history to cover a disaster film on or near the 4th Of July, so this year's choice is the Auteur Of Explosions, Michael Bay. Armageddon is crass, it has ...
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Short Cuts from 2023-06-26T05:20:53
As far as ensemble "a few days in the life of a bunch of people" movies go, Short Cuts is not only one of Robert Altman's best...it's one of the best anyone has ever made. He maintains a consist...
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Sleepless In Seattle from 2023-06-19T05:56:11
Nora Ephron's When Harry Met Sally screenplay made for a classic romantic comedy. It's one of the best in the genre. Sleepless In Seattle, however, is a rom-com that isn't funny and we didn't ev...
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Safety Last from 2023-06-12T05:19:05
We haven't reviewed that many silent movies in our previous 516 episodes, but #517 gets into Harold Lloyd's business. There are reasons the sometimes-overlooked silent comedian doesn't have the ...
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Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse from 2023-05-29T05:26:23
With Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse hitting theatres on Friday, we're taking a fond look at INTO The Spider-Verse. This monumental achievement in animation wowed the world 5 years ago, but ...
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The Odd Couple from 2023-05-15T05:13:25
Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau didn't team up for the first time in The Odd Couple, but it's one of their most-famous collaborations...and certainly one of their funniest. Feminized Lemmon is th...
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Tokyo Story from 2023-05-08T06:04:21
It was about time we covered a Yasujiro Ozu film. The Japanese director is considered a legend and his Tokyo Story has consistently ranked in the Top 5 of the Sight & Sound polls for decades. He...
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Moana + Is The Rock The Biggest Star In The World? from 2023-05-02T05:09:30
The day after we talked about a classic animated film set in the ocean---Finding Nemo---Ryan posts a solo gab about another highly-enjoyable seafaring adventure comedy called Moana. The Disney b...
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Finding Nemo from 2023-05-01T05:48:46
Disney will monopolize Have You Ever Seen's first 2 days of May. We start the month with Finding Nemo, which even 20 years later remains one of Pixar's best stories and feats of animation. Even ...
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Promising Young Woman from 2023-04-24T06:19:13
Emerald Fennell has been acting for more than 15 years, but the first film she wrote and directed just 3 years ago was an unforgettable debut behind the camera. We had a few problems with Promis...
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Working Girl from 2023-04-21T05:18:10
Join Ryan for a solo trip back to the era of big shoulder pads and huge hair in this 506th edition of Have You Ever Seen. Working Girl represents the first time a Mike Nichols film has been hash...
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Death Proof from 2023-04-17T12:22:46
You can't have Revenge Month and not cover a Quentin Tarantino movie. His half of the Grindhouse double-bill, Death Proof, is a throwback to an era of B-level filmmaking that perhaps QT and Robe...
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Cat Ballou from 2023-04-10T06:04:44
A feisty and gorgeous Jane Fonda is a perfect accompaniment to this Easter Monday. Or even if young Jane has nothing to do with the rabbit holiday and even if this is far from her most-challengi...
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12 Years A Slave from 2023-03-27T06:06:50
We did a brief review of 12 Years A Slave when the film came out nearly 10 years ago. Here in Oscar Month 2023, we delve a lot deeper with the benefit of perspective. This tough-but-necessary fi...
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Braveheart from 2023-03-24T05:17:54
If we had covered Braveheart about 20 years ago, most people would have said, "that Mel Gibson is an incredible movie star and can he ever direct a battle scene!" But that nutty Aussie is a comp...
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The Best Best Pictures from 2023-03-20T05:13:21
And so we've reached 500 episodes! We started this podcast 10 years ago with the goal of analyzing the AFI's Top 100 Lists, so what better way for us to celebrate a landmark episode than to do.....
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Oscars Post-View 2023 from 2023-03-14T01:13:48
It's a bonus episode, of sorts, but this 499th Have You Ever Seen is definitely timely. We're recapping the Academy Awards. No one got hammered in the face by a miffed man this year, but it WAS ...
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Oscars Preview 2023 from 2023-03-06T07:46:59
The 95th Academy Awards are coming up on Sunday, so it's time for us to break down what was nominated, what we think should win and what we think WILL win gold on March 12th. There might be quit...
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Roman Holiday from 2023-02-24T06:35:23
Our Month Of Crazy Stupid Love wouldn't have been complete without an episode about one of the most-beloved love stories Hollywood has ever made. Of course, William Wyler's Roman Holiday is repr...
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Dangerous Liaisons from 2023-02-20T06:48:58
The whole point of Dangerous Liaisons is to give us terrible people doing horrible things just because they can, so it's not beyond our control to make such delicious savagery our 493rd episode....
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There's Something About Mary from 2023-02-13T07:09:49
Peter and Bobby Farrelly's most-successful comedy was 27th on the AFI's Top 100 Laughs 23 years ago. It's a movie that stands out on that list because very few of those other grinners go for bro...
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The Way We Were from 2023-02-10T06:59:08
When you cast two movie stars to play people who are 180 degrees apart philosophically, but who fall in love anyway, sometimes you make a mint. Okay, you OFTEN do. Hollywood loves the "opposites...
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In The Mood For Love from 2023-02-06T06:09:33
We begin the Month of Crazy Stupid Love with a film that the Sight And Sound absolutely worships. The BBC Culture people do too. But we don't. We do RESPECT In The Mood For Love immensely. The a...
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Inside Llewyn Davis from 2023-01-30T07:50:49
This one is for all you surly folk singers who wallow in failure and unhappiness. Fun! Actually, Inside Llewyn Davis is more enjoyable than the plot outline makes it sound and it's often hilario...
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She Done Him Wrong from 2023-01-27T07:03
Reviewing She Done Him Wrong was simply a ploy to finally talk about Mae West. She was a major star nearly 100 years ago and is considered an icon. This was her story idea and the film came out ...
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28 Days Later from 2023-01-23T06:14:27
Danny Boyle insists this isn't a zombie movie, but his intense 28 Days Later influenced that popular genre and was at the forefront of digital filmmaking. The director settled for a look that wa...
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Before Midnight from 2023-01-16T07:05:48
If you scroll back to January 2016 in our channel, you'll see that the 2nd episode of what we then called "The Next 100 Project" was Before Sunrise. Now for the 486t...
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The Defiant Ones from 2023-01-13T07:07:12
For the 2nd time this week, Have You Ever Seen talks about escaped convicts. And just 3 days before Martin Luther King Day, Ryan offers up an oral essay about 2 on the run while dealing with '50...
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Out Of Sight from 2023-01-09T06:32:28
What happens when a federal marshal---who just happens to love the bad boy---is kidnapped by an immensely likable thief when he's breaking out of prison? Well, in Out Of Sight, it's a blend of c...
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Sherlock Jr. from 2023-01-06T06:04:50
A Buster Keaton film hasn't been reviewed on this channel in going on 10 years, so Sherlock Jr. seemed like the perfect way to end that drought. It's an acclaimed pratfall comedy done by the sto...
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A Star Is Born from 2023-01-02T06:10:39
The Poseidon Adventure from 2022-12-26T08:13:15
The Shop Around The Corner: You've Got Snail Mail from 2022-12-23T09:00:10
Jackie Brown from 2022-12-19T07:17:46
Meet Me In St. Louis from 2022-12-12T06:06:32
An Officer And A Gentleman: And A Drill Instructor from 2022-12-09T06:38:29
The Bishop's Wife from 2022-12-05T07:05:31
The 469th Ellises' Analysis and our first episode in December has us asking you to appreciate the irony of an atheist and an agnostic discussing a Christmas movie about a religious man and an an...
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The Bourne Identity from 2022-11-28T06:25:37
Bambi: The Unbearable Hypocrisy Of Meat-Eating from 2022-11-25T06:28:11
Basic Instinct from 2022-11-21T06:15:22
There was a time when Michael Douglas and sex thrillers went together like ice and picks, but Paul Verhoeven's steamy whodunnit belongs to Sharon Stone. She's an ult...
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Throne Of Blood from 2022-11-14T05:51:14
Whether you call it the Scottish play or whether you just call it Macbeth (because you don't worry about silliness like believing saying words is bad luck), this not...
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A Few Good Men: Sympathy For The Jessup from 2022-11-11T11:54:29
Bonus episode! On this Veteran's Day (or Remembrance Day, if you're a fellow Canadian), Ryan offers up another unexpected vocal essay, this time about a marine who's killed during a hazing that ...
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The Candidate from 2022-11-07T07:44:17
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me from 2022-10-31T04:58:29
This is the rare time we've ever posted an episode on Halloween, so to put an appropriately freaky bow on Scary Movie Month, we've chosen to discuss a film that's always frightened at least one ...
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Halloween: Defending Rob Zombie's Remake from 2022-10-30T20:03:34
Evil Dead II from 2022-10-17T05:26:25
Deadites and Kandarian demons, we're back after a week off with a PG-rated talk about the extremely R-rated Evil Dead II. Director Sam Raimi, star Bruce Campb...
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Poltergeist from 2022-10-03T06:36:15
We begin our 7th Scary Movie Month with this 461st Ellises' Analysis. Poltergeist is a slow-burn horror show with an insane finale as Tobe Hooper and Steven S...
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Boogie Nights from 2022-09-19T05:32:29
We haven't covered a Paul Thomas Anderson movie in over 6 years, so it's high time we found out what's up in his funny opus about a makeshift family doing drugs and shooting porn. Burt Reynolds ...
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My Man Godfrey from 2022-09-05T04:45:04
Fittingly for Labour Day, we're talking about eating the rich and helping out the poor. Even with his butler job in My Man Godfrey though, the suave William Powell isn't exactly Johnny Lunchbox....
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The Favourite from 2022-08-29T06:03:47
Before you pop the 456th Ellises' Analysis into your ears, we offer a trigger warning if you still root for a certain Floridian man-child. His name was often besmirched and we didn't pull too ma...
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The Florida Project from 2022-08-22T05:18:29
While we probably wouldn't be thrilled if the characters played by Brooklynn Prince and Bria Vinaite in The Florida Project were our next-door neighbours, we absolutely loved watching them in th...
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Fatal Attraction from 2022-08-15T05:23:02
Adrian Lyne directed plenty of sex thrillers in his career, but none of them were quite the zeitgeisty blockbuster that Fatal Attraction was. Glenn Close's legendary performance as a disturbed w...
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Far From Heaven from 2022-08-08T12:28:25
In Far From Heaven, Todd Haynes pays loving homage to sumptuous 1950's Douglas Sirk melodramas. This movie is actually more ambitious than anything Sirk ever did though. Haynes tackles multiple ...
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Fast Times At Ridgemont High from 2022-08-01T06:13:23
Unlike many of the immature '80s teen comedies that were obsessed with sex, the star-making Fast Times At Ridgemont High stands out for not treating it like a...
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What Ever Happened To Baby Jane from 2022-07-25T05:39:43
Some movies stand out for being great, some stand out for being terrible and some stand out for how juicy the behind-the-scenes stories are. There's always been more gossip about the behaviour o...
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Silver Linings Playbook from 2022-07-18T06:44:08
Bradley Cooper started his journey to become one of the most-versatile and most-respected actors of his generation when he starred in Silver Linings Playbook. In so many movies since then (and s...
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Air Force One from 2022-07-04T06:09:48
There might not be a better accomplishment than to make a movie that has cynics like us want to stand up and chant "USA, USA!" Wolfgang Petersen's Air Force One does just that. Harrison Ford's d...
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Y Tu Mama Tambien from 2022-06-27T05:31:45
Alfonso Cuaron's remarkable career was still in its opening act when he made this beautifully raunchy movie, which inspired us to record a fairly raunchy podcast. Y Tu Mama Tambien is drenched i...
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Good Will Hunting from 2022-06-06T06:06:02
The one that made movie stars out of Damon & Affleck has been discussed by nearly everybody for the past 25 years, but we managed to find several new wrinkles in this well-written dramedy about ...
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Aguirre: The Wrath Of God from 2022-05-30T05:52:32
Invite all your monkey friends out for a day of river rafting as the 444th Ellises' Analysis dives into the goings on in "Apocalypse Before". Werner Herzog was still fairly new to making movies ...
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The Quiet Man from 2022-05-23T07:27:39
The Quiet Man is not the greatest collaboration between the Johns (Ford & Wayne, natch), but it IS probably their most light-hearted. It's also a film jammed with Irish stereotypes. Of course, t...
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The Verdict from 2022-05-16T05:34:27
Growing a conscience when you're an alcoholic, ambulance chaser is a longtime movie trope (right?), but very few of those guys have been played by Paul Newman. Unfortunately, not even one of the...
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The Magnificent Ambersons from 2022-05-09T06:05:56
Orson Welles followed up his monumental Citizen Kane with this similarly-themed film about money, privilege, self-destruction and---say it with us---comeuppance. One of the most-influential dire...
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The Player from 2022-05-02T05:28:36
The Player turns 30 later this week and this satire hasn't lost very much of its punch. Hollywood is the land of phony (now more than ever!) and that atmosphere can be poison to artistic integri...
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Before The Devil Knows You're Dead from 2022-04-25T06:03:43
Before The Devil Knows You're Dead wasn't peered at by very many eyeballs 15 years ago, but Sidney Lumet's final film deserved to be seen by many and deserved to be a hit. Kelly Masterson's subt...
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Belle De Jour from 2022-04-18T05:18:41
Luis Bunuel was a master director who was often ahead of his time. This isn't the only surreal movie he made, although it isn't always easy to figure out what's real and what's fantasy in this c...
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The Bad And The Beautiful from 2022-04-11T06:04:34
We cover a lot of movies about movies on this channel. For the 437th Ellises' Analysis, we're digging into what Lana Turner, Kirk Douglas and friends are up to in The Bad And The Beautiful. The ...
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Oscars Post-View 2022 from 2022-03-29T02:28:58
Bonus episode! So what happened at the Oscars? Did people win awards for these mediocre movies while the Twitter-verse crapped all over everything and then the movie stars just happily & quietly...
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The Lost Weekend from 2022-03-28T05:35:30
Oscars Preview 2022 from 2022-03-21T06:02:15
Grand Hotel from 2022-03-07T07:00:48
Let’s take a trip to Germany in the early 1930s and check into the Grand Hotel along with MGM’s all-star cast. It wasn’t as common then as it is now to cast so many big names like Garbo, Crawfor...
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Call Me By Your Name from 2022-02-28T07:03:38
We are thrilled to report that Call Me By Your Name remains a deeply moving film. It might have been even more effective this time than it was back in 2017. Armie Hammer’s real-life controversie...
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Lost Highway from 2022-02-21T07:10:49
The “Month Of Strange Love” goes to extremely trippy places in the 430th Ellises’ Analysis as we try our best to decipher what’s going on in Lost Highway. The American original David Lynch is a ...
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Away From Her from 2022-02-14T07:09:09
I suppose you’d be wise to spend some of your Valentine’s Day hearing us warble about Julie Christie, Gordon Pinsent and friends do mighty good work in Away From Her. The 2 leads are quiet dynam...
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City Of God from 2022-01-24T07:00:01
Many movies made outside Hollywood are among the best of any given year, but the Brazilian-made City Of God remains a revered classic of this entire century. That’s how several critics groups and B...
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Bowling For Columbine from 2022-01-17T07:03:43
We tackle a Michael Moore documentary for the 3rd time on this channel in this 425th Ellises’ Analysis and this movie is about as politically divisive as anything the funny activist has ever mad...
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Welcome To The Dollhouse from 2022-01-10T07:05:05
Todd Solondz has been a master of “cringe cinema” for more than 25 years and Welcome To The Dollhouse is the misanthropic director at his peak. He understands what real children and real teenage...
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Starship Troopers from 2022-01-03T07:04:08
We begin the 7th Annual Month O’ Bev with a spirited chat about one of her favourite satires. Starship Troopers was a split decision in this 423rd Ellises’ Analysis though because Ryan just does...
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Harold&Kumar Go To White Castle from 2021-12-13T17:20:23
There’s no greater way to celebrate episode #420 of The Ellises’ Analysis than to talk about one of the side-splittingest stoner movies ever made. Harold And Kumar Go To White Castle is crass, p...
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White Christmas from 2021-12-06T07:07:50
The holiday season is here and who wouldn’t enjoy a getaway to an apparently gigantic northeastern inn during the Christmas break? Well, one Ellis wouldn’t enjoy that vacation as much as the oth...
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The Man Who Wasn't There from 2021-11-29T06:49:29
Light up a cigarette (or many cigarettes) and kickstart your existential crisis as you gulp down the 418th Ellises’ Analysis. Joel & Ethan Coen followed up their run of hysterical ’90s comedies ...
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Whale Rider from 2021-11-15T07:01:16
Niki Caro was making only her 2nd movie when she wrote and directed Whale Rider, so she showed the world her skills really early on. This sweet story aimed directly at kids (despite its absurd P...
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The Fisher King from 2021-11-08T06:54:25
Terry Gilliam’s tragicomic The Fisher King packs in a lot of themes, but a big one is kindness. This is a movie all about empathy and acceptance. Also, how often do Hollywood movies show much of...
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Beverly Hills Cop from 2021-11-01T06:04:09
He was a big star before it, but Eddie Murphy became galactic after Beverly Hills Cop came out in 1984. His blockbuster hit remains funny all these years later even though it deals with some dea...
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Train To Busan from 2021-10-25T06:38:59
We put the finishing touches on this year’s “Scary Movie Month” with a gab about a dynamite zombie flick from South Korea. Train To Busan is just as much an action movie as it is a horror movie....
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The Others from 2021-10-18T05:39:26
The 412th Ellises’ Analysis has us gabbing about ghosts as we continue with Scary Movie Month. The Others isn’t truly frightening (especially once you’ve seen it a few times), but writer/directo...
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Doctor Sleep from 2021-09-20T05:56:50
Making a sequel to a beloved classic was always going to be tough sledding, but the talented writer/director Mike Flanagan simply couldn’t make a great movie out of Stephen King’s follow-up to T...
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Vanilla Sky from 2021-09-13T06:10:39
2001 was the year of Puzzle Films and covering Vanilla Sky today means we’ve now tackled the 4 big ones. Memento, Mulholland Drive and Donnie Darko are all definitely better than Cameron Crowe’s...
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Dirty Harry from 2021-09-06T05:55:10
This is the rare time we’ve ever posted an episode on Labour Day, but this movie DOES star the man who has to do “every dirty job”. Harry Callahan is the quintessential good guy with a gun who h...
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The Killing from 2021-08-23T06:07:22
You know we’re talking about a master filmmaker when this channel has already covered more than half of the man's titles and we’re only now getting to this gritty crime classic. The Killing was ...
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A Fish Called Wanda from 2021-08-16T06:57:32
It’s not every comedy that features 2 of the brilliant stars of the Monty Python troupe, but it’s actually the Americans who stand out. Kevin Kline was known as a serious actor before A Fish Cal...
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Harold And Maude from 2021-08-09T05:46:46
Even though it's all about dark fantasies, depression and death, Harold And Maude is a cult classic that remains solidly funny half a century later. Bud Cort and Ruth Gordon are a fun/odd romant...
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Marathon Man from 2021-08-02T05:47:26
It’s probably safe to listen to the 402nd Ellises’ Analysis…although feel free to ask if it is again. And again. And again. Marathon Man is absolutely filled from start to finish with paranoia, ...
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Mean Girls from 2021-07-26T05:45:47
The wannabe Ellises are here with our 401st analysis as we jaw-jack about the queen bees of Mean Girls. Lindsay Lohan was at her peak in this era and if you ever doubted her talent (admittedly, ...
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The 400 Blows from 2021-07-19T06:07:21
Our 400th episode talks about one of the influential films of the French New Wave, which was also Francois Truffaut’s directorial debut. The 400 Blows is famous for all kinds of reasons (especia...
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The Descendants from 2021-07-05T05:46:25
Who didn’t think George Clooney practicing real estate law in the unglamorous parts of Hawaii and being cuckolded by the lanky guy from Scream would make for a killer comedy? Well, it might not ...
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Independence Day from 2021-06-28T05:32:50
We conclude Sci-Fi Month by going into the Mother Ship and praising/bashing one of the biggest movies of all time. Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin have made plenty of action and disaster flicks ...
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Donnie Darko from 2021-06-21T05:54:43
Wait, hang on, another movie about a giant rabbit? Only this time the rabbit doesn’t drink booze and pal around with Jimmy Stewart, but leads a teenager with mental problems down the path of sci...
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A.I. Artificial Intelligence from 2021-06-14T05:11:44
We began our talk about A.I. at the ending of the movie because the last 15 or 20 minutes have always been controversial. Didn’t it already have the most poetic ending possible before wishes sta...
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Victoria Day Grab Bag from 2021-05-24T06:07:07
Bonus episode! Taking a page from our COVID-19 specials last year, we each made 2 movie recommendations in this episode, using the caveat that we had to sell the flicks to you using only 19 word...
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A Separation from 2021-05-10T06:05:28
Asghar Farhadi’s fair and balanced examination of a crumbling marriage (two crumbling marriages, really) is a tremendous accomplishment. Farhadi deals in ethics, morality, sexism, secrets and a ...
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Young Adult from 2021-05-03T06:01:39
Charlize Theron might very well have outdone her remarkable performance in Monster with her take on a narcissistic ghost writer of Young Adult books in this pitch-black comedy. Director Jason Re...
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Oscars Post-View 2021 from 2021-04-27T01:47:45
Bonus episode! We had many, many thoughts about the uber-weird 2020 (and somewhat 2021) Academy Awards. Then again, who didn't...if you even watched the show. Not many people did. Most of the mo...
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The Grand Budapest Hotel from 2021-04-26T06:06:04
We haven’t yapped about a Wes Anderson movie in over 4 years, so the 390th Ellises’ Analysis was crying out to end that twee drought. Actually, forget that “twee” stuff. Why be so reductive of s...
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Oscars Preview 2021 from 2021-04-19T06:07:39
For the 6th year in a row, we present our Oscars Preview. This strange year featured a slew of wonderful movies, almost none of which we were able to see on the big screen. Stupid airborne germs...
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The Departed from 2021-04-12T06:02:52
In the 388th Ellises’ Analysis, we’re back on the Martin Scorsese mob-movie train. The Depahted is a high-energy remake that finally won Marty an Oscar, even though it’s something of a greatest ...
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A Man For All Seasons from 2021-04-05T05:59:41
Should you listen to the pragmatic 387th Ellises’ Analysis? Well, if you’re the ego-driven Sir Thomas More, then the response to that question would be to fold your arms, stick out your bottom l...
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Legally Blonde from 2021-03-22T05:47:16
The 386th Ellises’ Analysis has us gabbing about a popular 2001 rom-com, although whether or not this is even a rom-com was up for debate. There’s no argument that Reese Witherspoon charms and g...
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McCabe&Mrs. Miller from 2021-03-15T06:16:34
It’s way past time we talked about a Robert Altman classic and his pokey-paced anti-western is a tremendous choice for our 385th episode. McCabe & Mrs. Miller has the beautiful duo of Warren Bea...
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The Public Enemy from 2021-03-08T06:52:28
Jimmy Cagney etched his place in cinema history in one of his first films as he plays vicious beer baron Tom Powers in this hugely influential gangster flick. Apart from Jean Harlow, most of his...
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Strangers On A Train from 2021-03-01T12:39:40
Are we really covering consecutive, black-and-white flicks about murder that also have an abundance of homosexual subtext? Sure, why not! The Lighthouse was last week. Now we’ve got Strangers On...
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The Lighthouse from 2021-02-22T06:55:32
The last few months of Ellises’ Analysis podcasts have been about straightforward movies, so we were overdue to get into surreal territory in our 382nd episode. To borrow a scream from Timon in ...
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Beauty And The Beast from 2021-02-08T07:05:13
Whether it’s because of Stockholm Syndrome or just because the movie earned it by being good, people love Beauty And The Beast. It’s not our favourite cartoon of all time, but we certai...
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Hidden Figures from 2021-02-01T07:08:45
A racism movie that’s masquerading as a math movie isn’t a well-worn genre, but Hidden Figures would be an excellent template if such a genre ever took off. Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer and...
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Ghost World from 2021-01-25T07:05:52
The 378th Ellises' Analysis asks if you're an Enid or a Rebecca. Not that we actually care which of them you are. We're too cool to be particularly interested in you. Okay, WE'RE not too cool, b...
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Little Miss Sunshine from 2021-01-18T07:04:45
If you dig beauty pageants, the 377th Ellises’ Analysis probably won’t be your jam. We weren’t kind to such ridiculous nonsense in this episode. We did love the performances of these ac...
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Hedwig And The Angry Inch from 2021-01-11T06:49:33
Hedwig And The An-guh-ry Inch is a unique movie. It’s a rip-rockin’ musical with some great songs, but the story is remarkably tragic and also, somehow, upbeat. And what an ending! The last act ...
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Bridesmaids from 2021-01-04T07:32:42
We kick off 2021 and we also begin the 6th Annual Month O’ Bev with an extensive discussion about the funny-lady flick Bridesmaids. Hold on. Women can be funny?! Well, we crapped all over that t...
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Fruitvale Station from 2020-12-28T07:15:52
To close out this epic year of #BlackLivesMatter protests, we’re tackling a heartbreaking movie about the real-life murder of a young black man by a white cop. Fruitvale Station was made indepen...
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The Hateful Eight from 2020-12-21T07:07:19
We’ll give you 8 reasons to listen to the 373rd Ellises’ Analysis. 1) We talked about whether or not this film needed to be shot in 70mm. 2) We got into how auteurs like the one who made this mo...
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Home Alone from 2020-11-30T06:43:51
The Christmas season is here! Well, Christmas lasts about 5 months in this part of the world, so it’s actually been here since we still needed air conditioning. Anyway, Home Alone! It’s the G-ra...
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O Brother, Where Art Thou from 2020-11-23T07:05:56
What’s funnier than chain gangs and the KKK in the Deep South during the Depression? Perhaps nothing could be. Okay, it sounds like an unfunny subject, but the remarkable Joel & Ethan Coen defy ...
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Monty Python And The Holy Grail from 2020-11-16T06:35:40
So it's Monty Python then. Holy Grails and all that. You know these guys. They're comedy legends. They're The Beatles of satire. Do we need to say more? Okay, we're not the biggest Python nerds ...
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The Great Dictator from 2020-11-02T06:18:26
Heads up, Proud Boys and such, the 366th Ellises’ Analysis is politically polarizing, but we make zero none NO apologies for how we feel. We’re starting Funny Movie Month the day before th...
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Twelve Monkeys from 2020-09-21T06:31:02
The 361st Ellises' Analysis is dedicated to our late dog Fox for reasons that will quickly (and often) become apparent. That little Pomeranian is all over this podcast! Anyway, we're split on ye...
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Almost Famous from 2020-09-14T07:22:41
Almost Famous is one of the most charming and enjoyable pictures of the past 20 years, so it provides us with much fat to chew on in the 360th Ellises’ Analysis. Well, okay, only one Ellis loves...
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The Godfather Part III from 2020-08-31T07:06:53
The Death Of Michael Corleone provides us with gallons of juice for the 359th episode of The Ellises’ Analysis. While probably no movie could have lived up to the first 2 mafia classics (both of...
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South Park: Bigger, Longer&Uncut from 2020-08-10T06:20
August is the perfect time to jam about an R-rated animated musical that remains funny, smart and controversial 21 years after it was released. Trey Parker & Matt Stone’s South Park movie is as ...
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Inside Out from 2020-06-15T06:06:29
As global chaos continues with protests against racism, not mention a pandemic and political malfeasance all over the place, what you probably need is to plant a smile on your face. Solution? Cu...
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Total Recall from 2020-06-01T07:17:54
Get your, uh, self to Mars…or into a lengthy listen of the Next 197 Project. Whichever you’ve been dreaming about more, I guess. We spent plenty of time debating the “is it real or is it a fanta...
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Yet Another 19 Movies To Help You Endure COVID-19 from 2020-05-19T15:46:16
Bonus episode! We were off yesterday, but couldn’t resist talking today. For the 3rd occasion during these gloomy housebound times, we try to plant a big fat smile (or maybe even 2 and 1/2 big f...
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Comedies We Love from 2020-05-11T07:27:05
We’ve got a special episode for the Next 195 Project as we rave about—yup, the title isn’t lying—our favourite funny films. It’s the will-never-be-topped, locked-in-stone BEST comedies ever (sub...
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Spaceballs from 2020-05-04T06:16:33
May the 4th be with you! Since it’s Star Wars Day and we’ve already covered the Original Trilogy (look for those eps way back years ago on this channel), this seemed like a good time to jam abou...
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19 More Movies To Get You Through COVID-19 from 2020-05-02T05:28:14
Bonus episode! For the 2nd time during the pandemic, we offer up a pithy gab where we give you some ideas about flicks you should let enter your eyeholes during this isolating time. We even tell...
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To Die For from 2020-04-27T07:08:03
For the Next 193 Project, we’ve got a smart satire about dumb people. The whole cast is awfully good (okay, Bev takes issue with one person’s performance), but this was Nicole Kidman’s breakout ...
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The Purple Rose Of Cairo from 2020-04-20T05:53:25
We haven't covered the controversial Woody Allen since we reviewed Annie Hall 5 years ago, but The Purple Rose Of Cairo has just gotta be seen and discussed. It’s one of the man’s best efforts. ...
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American Psycho from 2020-04-13T13:18:42
If you’re looking for a funny satire about identity and 1980s consumerism, then Mary Harron’s adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’ book might be exactly what you’re craving. Or maybe you just want t...
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19 Movies To Help You Get Through COVID-19 from 2020-03-26T04:51:29
Bonus episode! If you need some terrific movie recommendations to fill your free time in the next few weeks (or months, good God), we've each got 4 excellent suggestions for what to watch (and w...
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Pretty Woman from 2020-03-23T13:30:12
There have been many “hooker with a heart of gold” movies, but Pretty Woman has to be on the shortlist of the most lovable ones. That’s largely because Julia Roberts is at her very best (a star ...
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Bride Of Frankenstein from 2020-03-16T10:05:10
The first sequel in the long series of Universal’s Frankenflicks is the best film out of all of them. James Whale’s masterpiece feels incredibly modern for something that was made 85 years ago. ...
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Oscars Post-View 2020 from 2020-02-11T03:07:56
Bonus episode! A terrific year for movies has been wrapped up with a surprise winner (and the right winner) of a slew of go...
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Ordinary People from 2020-02-10T13:50:46
Are you ready for some grief? Well, the world is a terrible place run by terrible tyrants, so probably. Let’s try this again. Are you ready to hear us yammer on about people who are too stilted ...
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Oscars Preview 2020 from 2020-02-03T11:04:15
For the 5th year in a row, we present a February gab about the world’s biggest awards show. The Next 181 Project represents the longest episode the Ellises have ever done and that’s because ther...
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Wild At Heart from 2020-01-27T14:16:05
Mrs. Ellis’ final selection in the “Month o’ Bev” did indeed (as she intended) provide fodder for a furious back-and-forth. The movie in question in the Next 180 Project believes in individualit...
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Requiem For A Dream from 2020-01-13T14:35:47
Darren Aronofsky's cautionary tale is over the top, loud, a bit dated and sometimes hysterical, but it's also heartbreaking. And it was influential, especially on commercials and movie trailers....
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The Social Network from 2020-01-06T11:03:55
For some, this was the greatest movie of the twenty-tens, but, whether you dig the flick or not, it’s hard to argue that it predicted the future. Now that social media has become a gigantic, wor...
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Best Movies Of The Decade from 2019-12-30T11:06:43
We end 2019 with a show about our favourites of the year and our year in podcasting. The bulk of the episode though highlights our faves of the past decade. In this Next 177 Project, we count fr...
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Little Women from 2019-12-23T11:03:23
Before you see Greta Gerwig's take on Louisa May Alcott’s classic feminist novel, gobble up our chat about Gillian Armstrong's 25-year-old version. The Next 176 Project throws a big hug around <...
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Christmas Vacation from 2019-12-16T16:58:40
Chevy Chase and Randy Quaid might repel people with their off-screen antics, but they and the rest of this cast do some terrific comic work in National Lampoon's 30-year-old holiday hit. The Nex...
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Django Unchained from 2019-12-09T11:06:39
The Next 174 Project is a dandy of an episode as we rage on about slavery, racism, offensive words…and all of it in what ended up being Quentin Tarantino's Listen
Being John Malkovich from 2019-12-02T13:31:27
Puppet your way into our portals for a lot more than 15 minutes as the Next 173 Project does some Malkoviching. This pic is...
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The Muppet Movie from 2019-11-25T11:07:38
We’re back after a week off as we chat about the iconic Muppets in their first movie. The Next 172 Project raves about the ...
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Three Kings from 2019-11-11T11:05:57
To honour Veterans/Remembrance Day, the Next 171 Project harkens back to the Gulf War to dig into the rare war comedy that succeeds at both being funny AND shooting stuff up. Writer/director Listen
Interview With The Vampire from 2019-10-21T13:35:09
The Next 168 Project spends a lot of time ripping on Brad Pitt’s lackluster performance as a glum vampire, which is a shame b...
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A Nightmare On Elm Street from 2019-10-07T14:30:32
Whatever you do, don’t…fall…asleep. Well, at least stay awake until you've heard the Next 167 Project. Then sleep all you want. We continue our 4th Annual Scary Movie Month and jump to the excel...
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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre from 2019-09-30T10:15:21
Activate your power tools, horror fans, because Scary Movie Month is here! For the Next 166 Project, we drive our van down to the deep south to discuss one creepy and weird fright flick. As infl...
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Whiplash from 2019-09-23T14:05:12
Ten hut, you maggots! Wait, this isn’t a movie about boot camp, although the award-winning performance by J.K. Simmons Listen
Dirty Dancing from 2019-09-16T10:04:47
Nobody puts the Next 164 Project in a corner because that would be stupid and inaccurate. It’s not a corner! There’s a lot of discussion about that terrible line in this episode, plus there’s mo...
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The Rules Of The Game from 2019-09-09T11:35:48
Bonjour, nos amis! Auteur Jean Renoir’s beloved French classic is the subject of the Next 163 Project. This is the r...
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Goldfinger from 2019-08-26T15:38:36
“Controversy Month” wraps up with the Next 162 Project as we analyze the greatest of the classic 007 flicks. Beloved as it is (especially by the AFI), it’s...
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Green Book from 2019-08-12T15:12:47
"Controversy Month" begins with this Next 160 Project podcast as we cover a clumsy flick about a virulent racist learning to respect at least 1 (brilliant) black person. Listen
Parenthood from 2019-07-29T13:53:58
Our final episode in July digs into what might be Ron Howard’s most personal film. For the Next 159 Project, we dig ...
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Inglourious Basterds from 2019-07-22T15:10:58
With respect to The Secret In Their Eyes, Quentin Tarantino's masterpiece (?) was the best foreign-language film of 2009. It was probably the best film of 2009, period. This 158th helping of Nex...
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The China Syndrome from 2019-07-15T13:58:45
What better way to enjoy the summer (and our staycation) than to spend 45 minutes jawing about a potential nuclear disaster? Fun in the sun, baby! The Next 157 Project has a lot of praise to dol...
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Once Upon A Time In The West from 2019-07-08T10:13:13
We're back in the old west for the 156th gunshot's worth of the Next 100 Project. Italian directing legend Sergio Leone'...
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Spider-Man 2 from 2019-06-24T10:03:59
For the Next 155 Project, we spend a good long while jamming about all the big-screen Spider-Man pictures, not just #2. In #2 specifically, though, Peter Parker is the young web-slinger with per...
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Men In Black from 2019-06-03T13:33:01
MIB International comes out June 14th, so our Next 152 Project basks in some of that hype by jamming about the sci-fi/comedy blockbuster that started this oft-crappy (and oft-gooey) franchise. T...
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Glory from 2019-05-27T10:06
So Ferris Bueller plays White Saviour to a bunch of courageous, black, Civil War soldiers in the Next 151 Project. And, against the odds...
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Brightburn from 2019-05-24T22:29:21
It's the return of the Now Playing Project! Horror flick Brightburn (aka A-Hole Superman) opens this weekend and Ryan decided to *gasp* pay money to see it on Friday afternoon. It's the new age ...
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show from 2019-05-13T10:09:49
This marks 150 Next 100 Project podcasts (go figure on that numbering) and we get to rat-a-tat about the most sexually liberated musical of all time. Listen
White Heat from 2019-04-29T10:03:17
We’re gandering at our first Jimmy Cagney picture in almost 6 years…and what a hard left turn from his patriotic musical Yankee Doodle DandyListen
Dogma from 2019-04-15T10:04:02
Easter is coming, so it’s time to cover a religious movie for the Next 147 Project. Catholic foul-mouth Kevin Smith ...
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Rio Bravo from 2019-04-08T12:11:03
Bev was not as gunned about the topic of our 146th Next 100 Project podcast as most critics (and a lot of film people) seem to be...
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Clueless from 2019-04-01T10:05:15
The Next 145 Project takes us into the world of pretty & popular teenagers in sun-filled Beverly Hills. Amy Heckerling’s flick is...
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The Matrix from 2019-03-25T14:16:47
Today is our 6th anniversary, so yay for that, but also yay for one of the most influential, cool, wire-fu, sci-fi thrillers of all time. It’s the ultimate Jeopardy question: “what is The Matrix...
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Wayne's World from 2019-03-18T10:04:21
Pop your Queen tape into the deck and dial up the Next 143 Project to hear us having a ball with this very worthy comedy. Mike My...
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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon from 2019-03-11T11:47:22
Let's chase an awesome sword all over the Far East's countryside as the Next 142 Project peeks at a picture about tigers and/or dragons who are crouching and/or hidden. Listen
Oscars Post-View 2019 from 2019-02-25T18:31:42
Bonus episode! For the first time ever, we've got a timely review of the Oscars and our thoughts about the winners and losers, not just a preview show the week before. Find out what we liked and...
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Birdman from 2019-02-25T12:58:58
Ah, that virtue of ignorance. It's just so unexpected. So cue the drummer and turn Michael Keaton loose as the Next 140 Project j...
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Oscars Preview 2019 from 2019-02-18T11:10:50
Awards Season is almost at an end, so it's high time for the Next 139 Project to talk about the terrific movie year that it was in 2018. Strangely, though, many of the Oscar nominees aren’t so t...
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Driving Miss Daisy from 2019-02-11T13:27:39
There's no point in pussy-footing around it. We think Driving Miss Daisy is cutesy crap. The Next 138 Project delves deep into this poor choice for the Academy's Best Picture of 1989 as we analy...
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The Hurt Locker from 2019-02-04T11:14:13
Addict yourself to war and to the Next 137 Project by defusing bombs in Baghdad and by listening to us talk about that dicey topic. The huge Oscar success of 10 years ago might be the b...
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Hereditary from 2019-01-28T13:09:43
Hail, the Next 136 Project! Hail! We’ve got a super-duper-sized episode this week, one that takes us into the shattered heart of a family in demonic crisis. This is another insta-classic frightf...
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A History Of Violence from 2019-01-14T15:17:48
Activate Joey mode! The Next 135 Project takes us to Tinytown Indiana as we delve into what makes a staggeringly good man return to his vicious mobster roots. Listen
Elf from 2018-12-24T11:05:34
Joyous Christmas Eve and such from the Elliseseseses as we explore Will Ferrell with his comedy phasers set on hilarious in this ...
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Mary Poppins from 2018-12-17T11:28:19
It's the one about Sharry Bobbins! The Next 132 Project gets into all of our complaints about this over-long and plot-flimsy Disney Listen
A Simple Plan from 2018-12-10T11:02:35
With this 131st Next 100 Project episode, we dig into what at least one of us thinks is Sam Raimi’s best work. Listen
Bicycle Thieves from 2018-12-03T13:36:05
The Next 130 Project takes us back to post-WWII Italy as we gaze at director Vittorio De Sica's piece de resistance. The amateur...
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On Golden Pond from 2018-11-26T11:03:47
The Next 129 Project marks 275 episodes in total for the Elliseseseses (although we’re getting close to 300 overall on this channel) and this one looks back at The Old Coots & The Kid Up At The ...
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Lost In America from 2018-11-19T11:43:55
Next 100 Project ep #128 gives us a nice turn on the "they went looking for America and instead found themselves" angle. Albert Brook...
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The Producers from 2018-11-12T14:27:20
Episode 127 in the Next 100 Project focuses on another comedy, this time EGOT winner Mel Brooks’ crass comedy classic. Listen
Wag The Dog from 2018-11-05T14:25:22
This is something, piece of cake! It’s a day before the mid-terms, so it’s time for the Next 126 Project to get all political again. Actually, the vitriol is pretty muted this time. We focus on ...
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Rosemary's Baby from 2018-10-29T10:05:07
The Next 125 Project is our final choice in Scary Movie Month and it’s got us yapping about the big bad red guy for the 2nd week in a row. While Listen
It Follows from 2018-10-08T12:29:45
The 122nd edition of the Next 100 Project is our 1st of 4 consecutive horror pictures in Scary Movie Month. It's also the 1st episode that was recorded in our new house! You'll definitely notice...
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Cat On A Hot Tin Roof from 2018-09-24T12:50:06
The Newman/Taylor love (well, hate) fest is the order of the day in the Next 121 Project. The Mississippi-living Pollitt family fuss and feud for the entire movie, but Newman’s booze-chugging Br...
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Fahrenheit 9/11 from 2018-09-10T13:46:29
The Next 119 Project has us spitting nails about the horrendous presidency of George W. Bush, as documented (mostly accurately?) by Am...
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How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days from 2018-08-20T10:36:29
The 2nd week in “Movies We Hate Month” digs deep into a very shallow rom-com. The Next 117 Project gleefully hacks on this McCona...
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The Shape Of Water from 2018-08-13T13:13:51
The Next 116 Project staggers back 8 short months to re-look at Guillermo Del Toro’s Oscar-nabbing smash. The Fish F*%^er didn’t...
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Pleasantville from 2018-07-30T13:14:48
We’re going back to when times were pleasant (well, for a certain type of person they were) in our Next 115 Project podcast. Tobe...
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The Dead Zone from 2018-07-23T15:17:59
Chris Walken has a premonition that the Next 114 Project is a complex episode. Both the 1st half's murder mystery and the 2nd half's future-president-turned-madman angle resonate today....probab...
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The Dark Knight from 2018-07-16T14:37:44
The Joker dominates the Next 113 Project (which is as it should be) as we spend nearly an hour jawing about the greatest superhero movie of ’em all. Or is it? The flick sure isn’t perfect, altho...
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit from 2018-06-25T10:04:14
The Next 111 Project is our last podcast in June and the movie is a (mostly) jovial cartoon noir. Full marks to Bob Hoskins for s...
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Jurassic Park from 2018-06-11T10:11:38
This 25-year-old monster movie game-changer that, for a while, was the biggest blockbuster ever. Steven Spielberg has made better films (character-wise, especially), but the technical wizardry a...
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The Truman Show from 2018-06-04T13:16:37
The 108th dip into the Next 100 Project pond takes us into the world of Reality Television and the fake world of Truman Burbank. Our podcasts spend a lot of time praising fine films, but this is...
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Hud from 2018-05-28T11:25:39
The 107th installment of the Next 100 Project is Paul Newman at his early-60’s peak. Listen
The Adventures Of Robin Hood from 2018-05-14T10:02:49
Laugh big (HAHAHAHAHA!) as you drink in the Next 106 Project podcast. Errol Flynn is the perfect Robin Hood in the eyes of a lot ...
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Creed from 2018-05-07T13:42:10
Our 105th Next 100 Project podcastaroo goes back to Philly as the son of The Count Of Monte Fisto punches his way into the elder...
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Touch Of Evil from 2018-04-23T13:49:22
In the most logical move in film history, Charlton Heston plays a Mexican (cue the hilarity!) in our 103rd Next 100 Project endeavour. He’s actually pretty good and Janet Leigh is also strong in...
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Shadow Of A Doubt from 2018-04-16T13:51:34
For the 102nd Next 100 Project podcast (and our 248th podcast overall), we dive into “Fred” Hitchcock’s supposedly favourite movie with all its squirm-inducing sexual innuendo. This flick has so...
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Bull Durham from 2018-04-09T13:09:15
The 101st edition of the Next 100 Project (yup, 101 out of 100) delves into humour and romance and also Ryan’s passion, having poetry read to him while tied up. Wait…no! Baseball! The performanc...
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The Last Temptation Of Christ from 2018-03-26T13:13:48
The Next 100 Project reaches episode #100 and we do it with an in-depth pre-Easter chat about a life-changing Jesus movie. Willem Daf...
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Citizen Kane The Re-Release from 2018-03-25T14:16:46
To commemorate 5 years of this podcast (March 25th, 2013, saw us kick off the Top 100 Project), we’re releasing a special edition of one of the all-time classics. We trimmed the fatty two-part e...
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The Big Lebowski from 2018-03-12T16:08:06
Dudes, the Next 100 Project’s 98th venture is possibly our greatest chit chat yet. Bold claim, yes, but one of the funniest movies ever made inspired us to up our wisecrack game. Listen
Cries And Whispers from 2018-03-05T15:00:08
For the 97th time, the Next 100 Project has an entry...and we're back in God-silenced Sweden to talk about an Ingmar Bergman clas...
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Oscars Preview 2018 from 2018-02-26T15:09:12
The Next 100 Project’s 96th ep blabs about this year’s lust for statues, which is on deck this coming weekend. We’ve got our oft-snarky ...
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Slumdog Millionaire from 2018-02-19T11:16:48
Episode #95 in the Next 100 Project scoots over to India to look at the Oscar-sweeping love story/fairy tale between Jamal & Listen
Shakespeare In Love from 2018-02-12T14:24:11
The 94th dose of your Next 100 Project fix goes all the way back to 16th Century London with a comedy/romance/historical fact-u-fiction. Listen
Melancholia from 2018-01-29T12:53:27
We finish the Month Of Bev with the Next 100 Project's 92nd entry. This movie delves very deep into depression and suicidal thoughts, but when a movie is done so brilliantly, you can't let sadn...
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Pan's Labyrinth from 2018-01-15T12:55:34
The 91st Next 100 Project episode journeys back to 1940’s Spain for some war and some fantasy and several monsters, all of it pretty rough stuff. Terrific stuff though. Listen
Best In Show from 2018-01-08T11:15:48
We kick off 2018 with a big dose of funny as Christopher Guest and his tremendous troupe of comic improvisers are at their peak. ...
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How The Grinch Stole Christmas from 2017-12-25T13:19:26
We end 2017 with the 89th Next 100 Project podcast and it’s a quickie chat about the Jones/Seuss Christmas classic. The foul one and his wonderful dog Max are always a delight. This is a perenni...
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Miracle On 34th Street from 2017-12-18T15:48:08
The 88th drop in the Next 100 Project bucket gabs about the Christmas movie for skeptics. This 70-year-old fantasy flick (or is he really Saint Nick?) won us over, despite some rough pa...
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Broadcast News from 2017-12-11T11:29:43
Tune into the 87th Next 100 Project podcast where we gab about the fil-lm wi...
Adaptation from 2017-12-04T17:01:29
Episode #86 in the Next 100 Project gets all meta & introspective with a pee...
Fight Club from 2017-11-27T10:52:37
The 85th drop in the Next 100 Project bucket burrows into the schizophrenic ...
The Awful Truth from 2017-11-06T15:04:02
The 82nd edition of the Next 100 Project zooms back 80 years to the beginnin...
The Babadook from 2017-10-30T12:56:14
Watch out for the Nosferatu-like boogeyman in the 81st Next 100 Project podc...
Cool Hand Luke from 2017-09-25T14:05:13
The 77th Next 100 Project ‘cast gabs about Paul Newman and his chain-gang ch...
The Usual Suspects from 2017-09-18T10:29:39
For Next 100 Project podcast #76, we drop into the criminal underworld. Brya...
Zero Dark Thirty from 2017-09-11T14:27:16
If you don’t like passionate diatribes that challenge phony patriotism, then...
The Princess Bride from 2017-08-28T17:19:37
It took until the 74th Next 100 Project podcast for us to get to this movie?...
The Lion King from 2017-08-21T14:17:27
The 73rd edition of the Next 100 Project takes us to an animated Africa star...
In Cold Blood from 2017-08-14T13:23:25
A dynamite 50-year-old true-crime thriller is the subject of Next 100 Projec...
Movies We Hate from 2017-08-07T10:02:34
The 71st Next 100 Project podcast is a special episode. We lowlight 15 films...
Deliverance from 2017-07-31T11:22:55
Seventy eps of the Next 100 Project now and this one discusses the flick abo...
Full Metal Jacket from 2017-07-10T10:27:25
The 68th episode of the Next 100 Project has Stanley Kubrick taking us to Bo...
Sweet Smell Of Success from 2017-06-26T16:27:29
The cynical and mean subject of the 67th Next 100 Project podcast is one of ...
Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan from 2017-06-05T14:19:07
The best Trek movie was an easy choice for Next 100 Project episode #64. Nim...
Paths Of Glory from 2017-05-29T10:30:17
Stanley Kubrick’s anti-war classic is what we’ve got for the 63rd episode in...
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance from 2017-05-08T13:10:02
61 Next 100 Project podcasts and here’s our first (John Ford) western in a v...
Return Of The Jedi from 2017-05-01T10:29:15
We’ve hit 60 eps in the Next 100 Project and it’s a biggie. The 3rd of the o...
Hearts Of Darkness from 2017-04-24T13:00:11
Episode numero 59 in the Next 100 Project touches on 3 different documentary...
Life Of Brian from 2017-04-10T12:59:01
The 58th edition of the Next 100 Project takes us to a foreign land yet agai...
A League Of Their Own from 2017-04-03T10:32:16
The 57th Next 100 Project podcast is the rare sports episode. Geena Davis an...
The Seventh Seal from 2017-03-27T13:17:52
Travel with us to Crusades-era Sweden for Episode #56 in the Next 100 Projec...
Saturday Night Fever from 2017-03-20T10:22:39
The 55th Next 100 Project podcast (and our 200th podcast overall, yay!) take...
Raising Arizona from 2017-03-13T16:13:55
The Coens & the Cage combine to give us Next 100 Project ep # 54. Joel & Eth...
Terms Of Endearment from 2017-02-27T14:42:17
Our 52nd Next 100 Project podcast marks the end of Oscar Month. This movie i...
Oscars Preview 2017 from 2017-02-20T12:12:30
The Oscars are on February 26th, so here’s a detailed week-ahead glance at t...
L.A. Confidential from 2017-02-13T14:20:22
Make it an even 50 in the Next 100 Project! We cheat a bit in Oscar Month by...
Spirited Away from 2017-01-30T14:05:10
Episode #48 in the Next 100 Project series takes us to a mystical fantasy wo...
Moonstruck from 2017-01-23T11:22:25
The 47th edition of the Next 100 Project finds us heart-deep in a zany love ...
The Royal Tenenbaums from 2017-01-02T14:16:16
Here comes some comedy mixed with tragedy to kick off Year #2 of the Next 10...
A Christmas Carol from 2016-12-19T13:39:05
We end the year with Charles Dickens’ bittersweet Christmas treat, one of th...
Children Of Men from 2016-12-12T11:42:54
Hey, it’s a Jesus story just 2 weeks before Christmas! The 43rd edition of t...
Trainspotting from 2016-12-05T11:17
The 42nd hit of your Next 100 Project heroin injection takes us into a gritt...
The Day The Earth Stood Still from 2016-11-28T11:55:45
Aliens attack! Or they threaten to, which gives us plenty of opportunity to ...
Three Colours trilogy from 2016-11-14T11:26:01
The 39th edition of the Next 100 Project takes us overseas to France, Poland...
Mulholland Drive from 2016-10-17T10:25:26
Next 100 Project podcast #35 is a big pile of delicious intrigue. Is it also...
Blue Velvet from 2016-10-03T10:26:41
One of the more messed-up movies ever made has us talking for more than an h...
The Hustler from 2016-09-26T12:53:20
A movie about pool? Those are 2 of Ryan's favourite things! The 33rd ep in t...
Lost In Translation from 2016-09-12T13:08:36
Trek to Japan to shoot booze ads and find your unrequited love interest in t...
Stand By Me from 2016-08-29T11:03:22
If you haven’t come of age in a while, standing by a bunch of foul-mouthed p...
Seven Samurai from 2016-08-22T10:28:07
With our 29th Next 100 Project podcast, we deal in honour and shame...and al...
Boyz n The Hood from 2016-08-08T10:26:50
The 27th edition of the Next 100 Project takes us into inner-city Los Angele...
Breakfast At Tiffany's from 2016-07-25T10:20:05
N100P podcast #26 is all about a romantic comedy that isn’t very funny and a...
Invasion Of The Body Snatchers from 2016-07-18T12:33:43
Paranoia, mistrust and fear. They said this movie was about Communism or McC...
Ghostbusters from 2016-07-11T10:23:09
In advance of the lady-filled remake coming out later this week, N100P podca...
The Shallows from 2016-07-04T19:54:34
The Now Playing Project returns! We were supposed to be off this week (and t...
Terminator 2: Judgment Day from 2016-06-27T12:57:54
Coolness personified, baby! The 23rd ep of the Next 100 Project has us in F/...
The Great Escape from 2016-06-20T13:00:34
Steve McQueen is the main attraction in the 22nd N100P podcast (although som...
The Lady Eve from 2016-06-13T10:31:53
Lucky #21 in the Next 100 Project is one of the great screwball rom-coms to ...
Ferris Bueller's Day Off from 2016-06-06T13:22:26
Oooooooooh yeah! The 20th edition of the Next 100 Project is a bonafide clas...
Thelma&Louise from 2016-05-30T10:35:22
Ridley Scott's feminist road movie is 25 years old, but some of the characte...
His Girl Friday from 2016-05-09T12:12:30
A comedy classic with Cary Grant & Rosalind Russell is #17 in the Next 100 P...
The Empire Strikes Back from 2016-05-02T10:26:31
The consensus choice for best Star Wars movie is what we'll talk about in ep...
No Country For Old Men from 2016-04-18T10:25:41
Joel and Ethan Coen’s Oscar-winning modern western chase picture is the subj...
Blackboard Jungle from 2016-04-11T13:20:46
Movies about inspirational teachers are common, but this one---although quit...
The Pride Of The Yankees from 2016-04-04T10:49:48
To honour baseball’s 2016 Opening Day, we cover a genial biopic about the re...
The Ten Commandments from 2016-03-21T10:18:12
The daddy of Biblical epics is our first (and probably only) chance to talk ...
The Wages Of Fear from 2016-03-16T06:03:18
The 9th episode in the Next 100 Project tackles a foreign film, something th...
American Beauty from 2016-02-29T14:17:09
Oscar Month ends with this episode as Kevin Spacey & Annette Bening share th...
Oscars Preview 2016 from 2016-02-22T11:27:42
With this 7th Next 100 Project podcast, we join the cacophony of movie peopl...
Kramer vs. Kramer from 2016-02-15T14:37:13
A month ahead of another "vs." movie (with the bitter bat & the arrogant ali...
There Will Be Blood from 2016-02-01T14:14:38
Oil! Also, money, religion, power...and blood! Paul Thomas Anderson’s bliste...
Reservoir Dogs from 2016-01-25T11:28:50
It’s the 24th anniversary of the launch of Quentin Tarantino’s career when t...
Before Sunrise from 2016-01-18T14:21:47
Next 100 Project episode #2 is a romance in the land of Schwarzenegger! Rich...
Edward Scissorhands from 2016-01-11T15:03:01
Welcome to our 2nd phase, which we’re calling the Next 100 Project. Movie #1...
Wrapping Up The Top 100 Project from 2015-12-28T11:35:50
And it so it goes, and so it goes. We close it out with a journey back in ti...
The Lord Of The Rings from 2015-12-21T14:48:12
We end the T100P with a cliffhanger! LOTR: FOTR clearly represents the entir...
The Sixth Sense from 2015-12-14T11:22:07
The 122nd T100P 'cast dives into an intimate ghost story after weeks of big-...
Saving Private Ryan from 2015-12-07T14:22:45
War! The 121st edition of the T100P digs into the horror & brutality of WWII...
The Shawshank Redemption from 2015-11-02T11:21:30
Hey, it’s a prison movie with no women where the hero is tortured, raped, be...
Pulp Fiction from 2015-10-26T13:22:46
It's funny, it's violent, it's jammed with F's, it's brilliant and it's...fu...
Back To The Future from 2015-10-19T10:18:49
Marty! Why not cover this incredibly fun movie 2 days before Michael J. Fox ...
Forrest Gump from 2015-10-05T19:53:07
A movie hated as much as it is loved occupies T100P #115. This flick shouldn...
Schindler's List from 2015-09-28T13:15:45
The pinnacle of Holocaust movies is featured in our 114th episode. Steven Sp...
Unforgiven from 2015-09-21T20:00:27
Clint Eastwood's ballyhooed western is the subject of our 113th podcast. Gen...
The Silence Of The Lambs from 2015-09-14T13:11:46
Our 112th edition is a cannibalistic thriller treat with Jodie Foster & Anth...
Dances With Wolves from 2015-08-31T20:46:27
Kevin Costner makes his sole AFI appearance where he acts, produces and dire...
Goodfellas from 2015-08-24T10:18:46
We begin the '90s with one of the most fun gangster movies ever put on film:...
Brokeback Mountain from 2015-08-17T14:31:20
It's been a while, but here's our first Not 100 Project podcast in 4 months....
Do The Right Thing from 2015-08-10T10:47:02
T100P podcast #109 is ageless and urgent. Spike Lee's finest film stars hims...
Sophie's Choice from 2015-07-13T17:30:19
The AFI shows us snippets of the Holocaust and the cruelty of Nazis in T100P...
Blade Runner from 2015-06-22T13:44:38
The warmth and fun of recent Spielberg AFIers gives way to cold, futuristic ...
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial from 2015-06-15T17:46:28
The foreign botanist with healing powers is the star of our 103rd T100P ‘cas...
Raiders Of The Lost Ark from 2015-06-08T13:52:47
Our 102nd T100P podcast is one of the most enjoyable movies anybody has ever...
Raging Bull from 2015-06-01T16:35:22
We enter the ’80s on the T101P with the ferocious Scorsese/De Niro abusive b...
Apocalypse Now from 2015-05-25T13:46:02
Our *ahem* wordiest podcast yet is #100 (!) on the T100P. This epic, messy f...
The Deer Hunter from 2015-05-18T10:32:38
We sic T100P podcast #99 on you one week before America's Memorial Day. That...
Close Encounters Of The Third Kind from 2015-05-11T12:30:57
Or: alien invasion of the nice kind. Then again, are these aliens as benevol...
Annie Hall from 2015-04-27T15:23:48
Woody Allen's only AFI picture, great as it is, isn't even appreciated by it...
All The President's Men from 2015-03-30T13:12:36
Journalists as righteous heroes? Fantasy film? Nope. T100P podcast #93 is ba...
Taxi Driver from 2015-03-23T16:15:52
First, the winner of our “Pick Your Podcast” contest is announced right at t...
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest from 2015-03-16T13:04:35
All therapy and no freedom makes Mac something something. Jack Nicholson roa...
The Godfather Part II from 2015-02-23T19:01:45
The crime sage continues in our 88th edition of the T100P. Al Pacino and Joh...
American Graffiti from 2015-02-09T17:29:51
George Lucas's 1st AFIer is a lot more grounded than his most famous one, bu...
Groundhog Day from 2015-02-02T14:16:10
We tip our hat to the stupidest observance on the calendar with our 9th Not ...
The Godfather from 2015-01-26T15:33:31
If we have to hard-sell you on T100P podcast #85, then you probably don’t li...
A Clockwork Orange from 2015-01-05T13:06:21
Our first ‘cast of 2015 is the last Stanley Kubrick Top 100 film! Malcolm Mc...
The French Connection from 2014-12-29T18:15:28
Popeye’s here in the action-packed Gene Hackman cop thriller. Chasing foreig...
The Last Picture Show from 2014-12-22T14:35:48
New Hollywood meets Classic Hollywood in this John Ford homage. Names like B...
Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid from 2014-12-01T18:40:43
Funny westerns are not common and our 78th ‘cast features a big debate about...
Easy Rider from 2014-11-24T15:38:52
Get your motor runnin’ because our 77th edition revs up the hippy bike movie...
The Wild Bunch from 2014-11-17T18:03:21
Sam Peckinpah’s only AFI film is another 1960’s game-changer, this time on t...
Midnight Cowboy from 2014-11-10T15:28:12
A small-time cartoonish cowboy hits the big time and struggles to find his d...
2001: A Space Odyssey from 2014-11-03T17:30:44
Zarathustra! Whatever that means! Yup, the 74th T100P podcast sees us trying...
The Shining from 2014-10-24T05:10:55
The 8th edition of the Not 100 Project is Stanley Kubrick’s horror classic! ...
The Graduate from 2014-10-20T16:09:56
Mike Nichols’ much-ballyhooed counter-culture com-dram makes for T100P podca...
Guess Who's Coming To Dinner from 2014-10-13T14:13:44
Wouldn’t you want perfect Poitier as your son-in-law? Maybe not if you’re “l...
Bonnie And Clyde from 2014-10-06T16:22:35
Beautiful people are bank-robbing rage-against-the-machiners in the 71st T10...
In The Heat Of The Night from 2014-09-29T13:25:11
Cop Sidney Poitier travels through the south and gets caught up in a murder ...
Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf from 2014-09-22T16:46:20
Have no fear (of Miss Woolf or any other long-dead author) because Burton & ...
Doctor Zhivago from 2014-09-15T13:14:40
Da, comrades, it’s David Lean’s Russian picture postcard period piece. One o...
Dog Day Afternoon from 2014-09-08T15:01:34
Al Pacino robs a bank. The end. Wait, there’s more. The 7th edition of the N...
The Sound Of Music from 2014-09-01T20:19:56
The most-successful musical of all time is the 67th T100P podcast. Despite t...
My Fair Lady from 2014-08-25T17:21:48
The "other" Hepburn and the inspiration for Stewie from Family Guy star in t...
Dr. Strangelove from 2014-08-18T13:38:13
Mein fuhrer, nuclear war is funny! T100P ‘cast #65 is an Ellis favourite. Pe...
To Kill A Mockingbird from 2014-08-11T17:27:21
Gregory Peck stars in this much-loved coming-of-age tale, our 64th podcast i...
Lawrence Of Arabia from 2014-08-04T12:11:31
A white madman embeds himself amongst warring Arab tribes during WW1. What c...
The Manchurian Candidate from 2014-07-28T17:10:48
The T100P passes the halfway point with podcast #62, a paranoid, sweaty thri...
West Side Story from 2014-07-21T13:39:15
If you like to snap and leap and prance whilst threatening brutal violence a...
Planet Of The Apes from 2014-07-07T13:37:06
Monkey Planet! Those damn simians are the focus of the 6th edition of The No...
The Apartment from 2014-06-23T13:32:41
We begin the ‘60s with Billy Wilder’s final AFI flick, a rom-com-dram starri...
North By Northwest from 2014-06-09T13:47:57
“Bond before Bond” is one way to nutshell our 56th Top 100 podcast. Cary Gra...
Some Like It Hot from 2014-06-02T17:12:55
The AFI’s most revered comedy is the 55th edition of the T100P. Billy Wilder...
The Bridge On The River Kwai from 2014-05-19T13:57:52
Bridge On The River Kwai is the T100P’s 53rd podcast and it’s a jolly good s...
12 Angry Men from 2014-05-04T17:56:43
Get furious a dozen times because 12 Angry Men is the 52nd edition of the T1...
The Searchers from 2014-04-21T16:55:28
We jump back on the John Wayne horse and cover another western in podcast #5...
Rebel Without A Cause from 2014-04-14T14:38:32
You’re tearing the T100P apart! Jimmy Dean brings his angst to the party in ...
Rear Window from 2014-04-07T16:55:14
Rear Window peeps into YOUR window as the 48th podcast from the T100P. Alfre...
Canadian Special from 2014-03-31T13:13:45
It’s the return of The Not 100 Project! No AFI movies need apply. This week ...
On The Waterfront from 2014-03-24T15:50:03
On The Waterfront is the subject of podcast #47! It’s Marlon Brando in top f...
From Here To Eternity from 2014-03-17T14:33:24
Edition #46 of the T100P is the star-studded From Here To Eternity. Boxing, ...
Singin' In The Rain from 2014-02-24T17:58:48
Our 43rd Top 100 podcast is an almost perfect musical and it’s Singin’ In Th...
The African Queen from 2014-02-17T15:30:40
The T100P’s podcast #42 might not be the answer to all of life's questions, ...
Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind from 2014-02-10T16:47:02
We take our 4th break from the AFI Top 100 and review a movie that didn’t ma...
An American In Paris from 2014-02-03T14:48:57
We are 1/3rd of the way through The Top 100 Project with this 41st podcast, ...
The Wolf Of Wall Street&American Hustle from 2014-01-28T10:16:57
No AFI Top 100 films here! This time we peruse and analyse 2 controversia...
A Streetcar Named Desire from 2014-01-27T17:07:01
The 40th Top 100 Project podcast has so much to offer, highlighted by all th...
A Place In The Sun from 2014-01-20T14:02:20
Melodrama alert! A Place In The Sun is our 39th Top 100 Project podcast. Thi...
All About Eve from 2014-01-13T18:47:46
The 38th Top 100 Project podcast explores the backstabbing world of Broadway...
Sunset Boulevard from 2014-01-06T16:13:12
The Top 100 Project enters the ‘50s with one of the most-celebrated films of...
When Harry Met Sally from 2013-12-30T15:31:14
For the 3rd time we take a break from AFI’s Top 100 and review a movie they ...
Inside Llewyn Davis&Her from 2013-12-29T19:54:54
The AFI's Top 100 takes a back seat as we talk about zeitgeisty flicks yo...
The Third Man from 2013-12-23T14:22:53
The 36th Top 100 Project podcast is the mystery noir, The Third Man! Citizen...
The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre from 2013-12-16T17:46:57
The 35th instalment of The Top 100 Project takes us on a hunt for Mexican go...
Nebraska&Dallas Buyers Club from 2013-12-13T14:49:08
Our 4th Now Playing Project is here! The AFI Top 100 is not the honey thi...
It's A Wonderful Life from 2013-12-09T14:34:19
It’s A Wonderful Life is the subject of our 34th Top 100 Project podcast! It...
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire&Carrie from 2013-12-03T17:54:35
We’ve got our 3rd Now Playing Project, where we forgo the AFI Top 100 and...
The Best Years Of Our Lives from 2013-12-02T18:59:51
Podcast #33 finds us exploring post-war melodrama, The Best Years Of Our Liv...
Double Indemnity from 2013-11-25T14:18:41
Our 32nd Top 100 podcast is the brilliant noir about lust and insurance scam...
Casablanca from 2013-11-18T19:17:34
Just a week shy of its 71st anniversary, Casablanca is the 31st Top 100 Proj...
Yankee Doodle Dandy from 2013-11-11T14:03:54
Let your redwhiteandblue flags fly for the 30th movie in The Top 100 Project...
Sullivan's Travels from 2013-11-04T17:58:05
The 29th edition of The Top 100 Project takes us on the road with Sullivan’s...
Night Of The Living Dead from 2013-10-28T15:15:08
The 2nd edition of The Not 100 Project is a monumental entry for Scary Movie...
12 Years A Slave&Captain Phillips from 2013-10-19T22:03:05
For the 2nd time, we branch out to movies currently in theatres with The ...
The Maltese Falcon from 2013-10-19T13:45:27
This 28th Top 100 Project podcast finds us venturing down the mean streets o...
Citizen Kane Part 2 from 2013-10-14T19:39:56
The Kane chat continues in the second half of our 27th AFI Top 100 movie, Ci...
Citizen Kane Part 1 from 2013-10-07T13:25:50
What do you say about AFI’s Greatest Movie Of All Time, Citizen Kane? Well, ...
Enough Said&Gravity from 2013-10-05T13:54:54
We’re branching out again, this time with The Now Playing Project! AFI cl...
The Philadelphia Story from 2013-09-30T19:31:05
The 26th episode of The Top 100 Project finds us digging into The Philadelph...
The Grapes Of Wrath from 2013-09-16T17:13:37
The Top 100 Project fires up the jalopy for the 24th time with an analysis o...
Gone With The Wind from 2013-09-09T13:44:23
Movie #23 of the 123 AFI movies is the event film to end all event films! It...
Mr. Smith Goes To Washington from 2013-09-02T18:53:50
This Top 100 Project flick is Mr. Smith Goes To Washington! It’s podcast #22...
The Wizard Of Oz from 2013-08-26T18:18:01
The Top 100 Project hits you with a little Munchkin magic in podcast #21 bec...
Wuthering Heights from 2013-08-12T02:37:29
The 20th Top 100 Project podcast is the tortured-love soaper, Wuthering Heig...
Stagecoach from 2013-08-05T18:31:25
Saddle up dem horses and hit the trails as the Top 100 Project brings you po...
Bringing Up Baby from 2013-08-01T19:50:13
The 18th Top 100 Project podcast is the zany rom-com Bringing Up Baby! It’s ...
Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs from 2013-08-01T19:47:36
Podcast #17 finds us chatting about one of the all-time box office champs, S...
Swing Time from 2013-08-01T19:44:38
16 podcasts in and here is our first full-fledged musical, the Astaire & Rog...
Modern Times from 2013-08-01T19:40:47
Podcast #15 is...wait a minute! What? They give away the ending on the cover...
A Night At The Opera from 2013-08-01T19:35:26
For the 14th time, the Ellises podcast their thoughts about an ancient AFI f...
Mutiny On The Bounty from 2013-08-01T19:33:11
It’s a baker’s dozen! Podcast #13 is Mutiny On The Bounty, the Oscar-winner ...
It Happened One Night from 2013-08-01T19:29:49
We’ve reached a dozen podcasts with this analysis of the Oscar-sweeper and r...
Frankenstein from 2013-08-01T19:19:01
The 9th podcast in the Top 100 Project is James Whale’s Frankenstein. Does t...
City Lights from 2013-08-01T18:06:51
The Top 100 Project’s 8th podcast takes us back into Charlie Chaplin’s quain...
All Quiet On The Western Front from 2013-08-01T17:56:31
The Top 100 Project’s Numero 7 film takes us into the depths of World War 1 ...
The Jazz Singer from 2013-08-01T17:41:06
The 5th flick in The Top 100 Project sees the cinema start to talk…and The J...
The General from 2013-08-01T16:14:24
Part 4 in The Top 100 Project takes us into Buster Keaton’s orbit with his s...
The Gold Rush from 2013-08-01T13:33:41
Part 3 in the Top 100 Project finds Bev and Ryan tackling Charlie Chaplin’s ...
Intolerance from 2013-08-01T13:22:39
What’s the logical follow-up to a controversial three-hour silent epic? Anot...
Introducing the Top 100 Project from 2013-08-01T01:13:01
An introduction to The Top 100 Project podcast, where we explain our noble m...
The Birth Of A Nation from 2013-07-11T19:15:54
We're Ryan and Bev Ellis, married film nerds who've set a multi-year goal of...