Classic Movies Live Season 6, Episode 22 – The Smashing Machine
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And as always: How does Anna Kendrick transform the part of Cinderella into something truly special?
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HARK! On this classic episode of Classic Movies Live!, Pierre and Jeff talk about Robert Eggers’ 2019 movie The Lighthouse!…
This is Kickin’ It With Kendrick, the only podcast on Spotify devoted entirely to Anna Kendrick (we checked!)
In this week’s episode, Pierre and Jeff are joined by indie film expert Alex Mowbry to discuss Kendrick’s second nomination at the Film Independent Spirit Awards, Rocket Science! But first, what are the Indie Spirit Awards?
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In a first for Classic Movies Live!, Pierre and Jeff discuss a movie by Cary Fukunaga: 007 in No Time To Die. Does the latest James Bond film hold up after Spectre? How does it compare to Casino Royale? Also, is it possible this plot has already been done? Perhaps by a video game by Hideo Kojima?
In this week’s classic episode of Classic Movies Live!, Pierre and Jeff discuss James Gray’s lonely space epic starring Sad Brad Pitt. Tune in to hear our hosts break down 2019’s hard-hitting universal character study, and finally answer the question: what is the best space movie of this decade?
Welcome to the first episode of Kickin’ It With Kendrick! To start the series off strong, our hosts discuss Kendrick Lamar’s most recent album: DAMN.
It’s time to taste Pierre and Jeff’s VENOM, as they review the latest film from cinematic visionary Andy Serkis!
Just in time for spooky season, Pierre is back to discuss the thrilling conclusion of Stephen King’s magnum opus — but as a movie!
You may have heard of a little place where Classic Movies are born called Cannes Film Festival. Jeff and Pierre certainly have!
On today’s episode, our hosts work their way through the winner of the highest prize at 2021’s iteration of the festival: Titane! Julia Ducournau’s sophomore feature is part tender family drama, and part horror bloodbath! But, is it also all classic?
In a special episode for the summer blockbuster hit of 2019, Jeff brought in an old friend and local Marvel expert to break down Disney’s biggest movie ever (so far)!
On today’s episode of Classic Movies Live!, Pierre and Jeff discuss the latest smash hit from a legendary producer, The Eyes of Tammy Faye Candyman! That’s right, it’s time for the start of this year’s month of Scary Movies Live!
Normally on Classic Movies Live!, our hosts will discuss new movies that just hit theatres. Occasionally, Pierre and Jeff will revisit an old classic to talk about what makes movies great!
One thing our hosts haven’t talked about much on Classic Movies Live! is musicals. But on today’s episode, Pierre and…
Hot off the heels of Captain Marvel, it’s time to talk about… Captain Marvel!
Does Disney’s new theme park movie starring The Rock and Emily Blunt make for a pleasant ride, or get lost in the jungle? Tune in to hear Pierre talk about the most recent movie he saw in theatres! (And Jeff’s there, too!)
We’ve talked about a lot of Marvel movies here on Classic Movies Live!, but our very first was the titular heroine herself!
Simu Liu and Tony Leung both star in their first major Hollywood production! Does Shang-Chi break the mould? Or is this yet another victim of the Marvel formula? Tune in for Pierre and Jeff’s most heated discussion of this season, yet!
To date, we’ve covered the Oscars three times on this show: once per season. Check out our first Oscars episode here!
Season 3 of Classic Movies Live! started with Old, but it didn’t have to! For a while, our hosts were debating starting with A Quiet Place 2, Black Widow, F9: The Fast Saga, or even Space Jam: A New Legacy. Unfortunately, the timing never worked out of those episodes, but rather than ignore those movies, Pierre and Jeff decided to talk about all four at once!
Tune in to hear our resident film experts talk about the meaning of Family, specifically in the context of the movies of Summer 2021!
To date, we’ve only talked about one Lord/Miller movie on this show. Can you guess which one?
In another first for Classic Movies Live!, our hosts review a James Gunn movie!
Tune in to hear Pierre and Jeff discuss John Cena, Margot Robbie, and a Giant Starfish!
From visionary director Dan Gilroy comes the subject of the second ever episode of Classic Movies Live!
Dev Patel stars in an Arthurian moral tale about keeping your promises. Does that sentence spoil the whole movie? Tune in to find out!
In this episode of Classic Movies Live, Pierre and Jeff discuss the final movie in M. Night Shyamalan’s
bizarre superhero trilogy. Is Glass a worthy successor to Unbreakable and Split? Is it even a good movie?
Find out as our hosts tackle their first classic movie… live!
What if there was a beach… that made you Old?
This very special episode goes out to friend of the show Andy!
Tune in starting next week for season 3!
You’ve heard their thoughts on the Best Picture nominees for 2020, now listen to Jeff and Pierre give their rundown of the first major contender for Best Picture for 2021: Steven Soderbergh’s astounding, narrative-driven Oscars Ceremony!
Instead of an intro for this, we opted to simply recreate our favourite moment from the Ceremony to start off the episode. Are you ready?
In this year’s final episode before the Oscars, our hosts discuss the last Best Picture nominee: Sound of Metal! When…
Promising Young Woman is a bold movie that handles the topic of sexual assault in a way thoroughly unlike any other movie that’s come before. Several years after her college best friend Nina was assaulted, Cassie Thomas (Carey Mulligan), now a med-school dropout, spends her nights finding and punishing sexual predators. When she finally discovers Nina’s abuser, she sets in motion a plot to avenge her friend, while bringing down everyone else around her.
This movie is hard not to spoil, so be warned that this is a full-spoilers podcast! Is Promising Young Woman 2020’s Best Picture? Tune in and find out on this week’s episode of Classic Movies Live!
Nominated for six awards, Judas is one of the latest releases up for Oscars. Despite that, Judas will be going into the Oscars having won Best Supporting Actor for Kaluuya at nearly every other awards show so far! Can Kaluuya expect to walk away with an Oscar this year? What about surprise entrant Lakeith Stanfield?
Find out on today’s episode of Classic Movies Live!
On our first Best Picture episode, Pierre and Jeff talk about The Father, an adaptation of Florian Zeller’s play of the same name starring Anthony Hopkins. Nominated for six awards, which ones can it win? Could Zeller’s debut take Best Picture?
From Sam Levinson, director of the television show Euphoria comes the first film produced entirely during the 2020 pandemic. But is Malcolm & Marie just a quarantine film, or something actually worthwhile? Find out on today’s episode of Classic Movies Live!
In 2011, The Artist made history as the first silent movie to win Best Picture since Wings at the very first-ever Oscars, as well as the first time a French actor would win the coveted Best Actor in a Leading Role award. Directed by Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist is a feature-length celebration of Old Hollywood through the eyes of silent film star George Valentin! As “talkies” become increasingly popular, Valentin learns that his days in Hollywood are numbered. But with the silent film era now decades behind us, were The Artist’s days numbered from the start?
Tune in to this week’s episode of Classic Movies Live! to find out!
On this very special episode of Classic Movies Live!, Pierre and Jeff go through all the nominations for the 2021 Academy Awards!
What was nominated? What shouldn’t have been nominated? What should win? Maybe most importantly, which of these nominated movies will go down in history as timeless classics? The answers to all these questions and more on today’s episode of Classic Movies Live!
Today’s episode also features 3 songs from the movie Eurovision: The Story of Fire Saga, as well as a segment of the song “Wuhan Flu” from Borat Subsequent Moviefilm. Please beward of spoilers for the Romanian documentary film Collectiv.
The earliest movies our hosts have covered on this show are from 1941, and today they tackle that year’s Best Picture: How Green Was My Valley!
Chloe Zhao’s third movie looks at the subculture of American nomads through the eyes of Fern (played by Frances McDormand), a woman who recently turned to living on the road.
This week on Classic Movies Live!, our hosts talk about Boyle’s Mumbai-set game show drama. How good is it? Is it an accurate portrayal of India, or even Indian cinema?
Come to think of it, why don’t we talk about Indian cinema more? The answers to all these questions and more on this week’s episode of Classic Movies Live!
In 2005, critics all over the world predicted that Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain would win the 78th Academy Award for Best Picture. Imagine their shock when Crash won instead!
Since earning his Oscar with The Revenant, Leo has only been in one other movie that’s released. That movie is none other than his second collaboration with Quentin Tarantino: Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood!
Fitting with our theme of Oscar-bait movies leading up to the 93rd Academy Awards, Hillbilly Elegy seems designed to win awards. Will it?
BREAKING NEWS: The Golden Globe nominations for 2021 are out!
In this special episode, our hosts discuss the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s annual celebration of the best movies in Hollywood! *airhorn sound*
This week, our hosts return to the distant past of 2018 to rewatch that year’s Best Picture winner: Green Book!
On this episode, Pierre and Jeff travel back to 2010, the year that a movie about Mark Zuckerberg faced off against an LGBTQ psychological horror movie to be Best Picture at the Academy Awards! But which film won that year? None other than The King’s Speech!
Now that we’re firmly in 2021, and with less than 5 months to go until the Oscars, this week’s episode of Classic Movies Live! begins our yearly Oscars coverage!
First up, our hosts discuss a likely contender for several categories at this year’s Academy Awards, including Best Lead Actor, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Picture: Minari!
Hot off the heels of Birdman, Alejandro González Iñárritu re-entered Awards Cinema in 2015 with The Revenant, a half-true story about trapper Hugh Glass. A larger-than-life personality even in reality, Glass is given an extra layer of hyperbole by Leo, here giving perhaps his most animated physical performance ever.
Soul is the second Pixar movie released in 2020, and one of the year’s final films. Featuring Jamie Foxx and Tina Fey, Soul tells a story about a jazz pianist at the end of his life, and a soul who has yet to begin theirs. From Pete Docter, director of Inside Out and Up, Soul is another deep Pixar story with weighty themes. How does it stack up against the rest? Tune in this week to find out!
Starring Margot Robbie, Jonah Hill, Matthew McConaughey, and of course Leonardo DiCaprio as Jordan Belfort, The Wolf of Wall Street is a hilarious and occasionally horrifying look at one man’s pursuit of the American Dream at the expense of thousands of others.
For the very first episode of 2021, hosts Pierre and Jeff talk about the state of movies and award shows during a global pandemic! Then, our hosts list their respective Top 5 movies of 2020!
Starring Leo in as the exuberantly wealthy titular socialite, Gatsby is an exploration of class, vanity, and the American Dream in the roaring ’20s! It also features the reunion of Leo and his good friend Tobey Maguire — last seen together in the 2001 flop Don’s Plum (itself likely the subject of an upcoming episode…).
Here on Classic Movies Live, we consider ourselves serious movie critics. However, any serious movie critic must eventually review Citizen Kane, and this week, our hosts have decided to do this.
In 2012, Leonardo DiCaprio received critical acclaim for a role he took in a movie directed by Quentin Tarantino. But…
This week on Classic Movies Live!, Pierre and Jeff explore the origins of Revisionist Western Cinema by looking at one of the most influential movies on the genre: Akira Kurosawa’s 1961 samurai cinema classic Yojimbo!
Starring Leo in the title role, J. Edgar tells the story of J. Edgar Hoover, the man responsible for building the FBI into what it is today! But while J. Edgar puts on a tough, no-nonsense persona, he hangs on to secrets that threaten to bring him and the entire bureau down for good!
So what did our hosts think about Leo’s noir biopic? Tune in to find out!
Starring Humphrey Bogart and Mary Astor, The Maltese Falcon is arguably the first and most important noir movie ever made. Its influence can be seen in everything from Touch Of Evil and Woman in the Window to Drive and The Happytime Murders. What else is there to say about this timeless classic? Tune in to find out!
Christopher Nolan’s high-concept ensemble action movie about dreams is easily one of the most influential films of this millennium so far! As Inception celebrates its tenth anniversary this year, we discuss Nolan’s filmmaking, Hans Zimmer’s compositions, Wally Pfister’s cinematography, and of course one of Leo’s biggest leading roles yet!
On Classic Movies Live!, you’ll always get to hear about the latest movies that, one day, will come to be regarded as true titans of cinema! In no episode has that been more true than this week’s, in which our hosts, Pierre and Jeff, discuss Kelly Reichardt’s latest film, First Cow!
In 2006, Leonardo DiCaprio would earn critical acclaim for two back-to-back performances. The first of those was that in year’s Best Picture winner, The Departed. The second, Blood Diamond, would net Leo his third-ever Oscar nomination, and second for Best Actor in a Leading Role.
On today’s episode of Classic Movies Live!, Jeff talks about his favourite thing: the American Midwest! Also, our hosts discuss the 2020 frontrunner for… all the Oscars?
The Departed won Scorsese his first-ever directing Oscar, as well as Best Picture at the 79th Academy Awards. Leo was also nominated for an Oscar at the same ceremony, but notably not for this movie! Was that a mistake? Should this have been the year Leo took home Oscar gold? Tune in and find out on the ninth episode of Losing It Over Leo!
On this week’s episode of Classic Movies Live!, our hosts dig deep into Aaron Sorkin’s new ensemble film The Trial of the Chicago 7!
In today’s episode, Pierre and Jeff lose it over Leo’s second Scorsese performance!
Just in time to be too late for Halloween, Pierre and Jeff discuss Brandon Cronenberg’s latest horror movie: Possessor!
Tune in to hear Pierre and Jeff discuss Daniel Day-Lewis, the John C. Reilly Award, Scorsese’s career, and of course Leonardo DiCaprio on today’s episode of Losing It Over Leo!
Of all the movies that have come out this year, few will be as influential as the one-two punch of Trolls: World Tour and Scoob!
Tune in and find out why!
Featuring Leo as legendary scam artist Frank Abagnale, Jr. alongside Tom Hanks as FBI agent Carl Hanratty, Catch Me If You Can sees our illustrious silver screen superman stepping out of the role of teen heartthrob for the first time since Titanic.
In today’s very special out-of-order episode, Pierre and Jeff discuss the hotly-anticipated sequel to 2006’s Borat! Borat: Gift of Pornographic Monkey for Make Benefit Recently Diminished Country of Kazakhstan, or more simply Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm, was written, filmed, and released almost entirely inside of one year. With such an unprecedentedly quick turnaround, did Sacha Baron Cohen and Co. still have time to make the movie any good?
In 1997, James Cameron released a movie so monumental it would go on not only to be nominated for the most Academy Awards of any movie up to that point (tying 1950’s All About Eve) and win the most as well (tying Ben Hur), but also perform so well with audiences it would hold the record for best box office performance for almost 12 years. That movie was the disaster/romance epic Titanic, featuring Kate Winslet, Kathy Bates, Billy Zane, and of course Leonardo DiCaprio!
Having now watched Titanic for the first time, Pierre and Jeff talk about the end of an era for Leo, as we close out our discussion of early-period DiCaprio with one of the biggest movies of all time!
For the first time in this show’s history, Pierre and Jeff talk about a Nicolas Cage movie!
At the end of the 90’s, Leonardo DiCaprio was best known for two movies he made within a year of each other. The first of those movies, starring the young heartthrob in what could be considered his breakout role (if you don’t already consider that to have been Gilbert Grape), was Baz Luhrmann’s visionary take on William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet.
Pierre and Jeff discuss the latest adaptation of Charles Dickens’ masterpiece.
The Basketball Diaries, Leonardo DiCaprio’s third movie, and the subject of this week’s episode of Losing It Over Leo!
After almost 30 years, the final movie in the Bill & Ted franchise has arrived! Was there ever a movie more obviously destined to be a classic?
This week on Classic Movies Live!, franchise newbie Pierre and lifelong fan Jeff discuss Keanu Reeves and Alex Winters’ return to the roles that made them famous! After so much time in development hell, does Bill & Ted Face the Music live up to expectations?
In the second episode of Losing It Over Leo, Jeff and Pierre talk about What’s Eating Gilbert Grape. Leo’s second movie is also his first Oscar nomination! Tune in to hear our hosts’ thoughts on Leo, as well as remarkable early performances from Johnny Depp, Juliette Lewis, John C. Reilly, Mary Steenbergen, and Crispin Glover!
This week on Classic Movies Live!, Pierre and Jeff watch the latest movie from renowned screenwriter/director Charlie Kaufman! Based on the novel by Iain Reid, I’m Thinking of Ending Things is a surreal, abstract experience that’s almost more Lynchian than Kaufman-esque. Does this work in the film’s favour? Tune in to find out!
In the pilot episode of Losing It Over Leo, Pierre and Jeff discuss Leonardo DiCaprio’s first movie: This Boy’s Life. The only movie to feature both Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro, This Boy’s Life has largely fallen out of the public conscience. That said, is it worth your time? Also, how is the first silver-screen performance from our boy Leo?
At long last, the final movie in Fox’s X-Men franchise is out! Is it any good?
For the Spotify debut of Classic Movies Live!, our hosts tackle Christopher Nolan’s latest masterpiece: Tenet! Heavily featuring what can most scientifically be called “time shenanigans”, Tenet is Nolan at his Nolan-est! But does it pay off? Tune in to hear what our hosts think of this soon-to-be-enduring classic!