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CML Classics – Episode 24: Sonic The Hedgehog
January 22, 2022 0

CML Classics – Episode 24: Sonic The Hedgehog

By Jeff Bulmer

Featuring the silver-screen debut of SEGA’s wise-cracking mascot, as well as Jim Carrey’s first film performance in four years, Sonic the Hedgehog is a movie years in the making. But as a video game movie with well-documented production troubles, cards were certainly stacked against it!

CML Classics – Episode 23: Birds of Prey
January 15, 2022 0

CML Classics – Episode 23: Birds of Prey

By Jeff Bulmer

On this classic episode of Classic Movies Live!, Pierre and Jeff discuss DC’s new Harley Quinn movie. Can Harley Quinn break free of the spectre of Suicide Squad? Can Margot Robbie break free from the spectre of Jared Leto? Tune in to find out!
Also on this week’s episode, our hosts take a look at the future of the DC Universe. Could Jeff’s dream Clayface movie ever get made?

Classic Movies Live, Episode 27: The 93rd Academy Awards Nominations!
March 17, 2021 0

Classic Movies Live, Episode 27: The 93rd Academy Awards Nominations!

By Jeff Bulmer

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.

Classic Movies Live, Episode 24: Slumdog Millionaire
February 24, 2021 0

Classic Movies Live, Episode 24: Slumdog Millionaire

By Jeff Bulmer

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!

Classic Movies Live, Episode 17: Soul
January 13, 2021 0

Classic Movies Live, Episode 17: Soul

By Jeff Bulmer

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!

Losing It Over Leo, Episode 14: The Great Gatsby
January 2, 2021 0

Losing It Over Leo, Episode 14: The Great Gatsby

By Jeff Bulmer

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…).

Classic Movies Live, Episode 14: Yojimbo
December 23, 2020 0

Classic Movies Live, Episode 14: Yojimbo

By Jeff Bulmer

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!

Classic Movies Live, Episode 13: The Maltese Falcon
December 16, 2020 0

Classic Movies Live, Episode 13: The Maltese Falcon

By Jeff Bulmer

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!

Losing It Over Leo, Episode 9: The Departed
November 28, 2020 0

Losing It Over Leo, Episode 9: The Departed

By Jeff Bulmer

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!

Losing It Over Leo, Episode 6: Catch Me If You Can
November 7, 2020 0

Losing It Over Leo, Episode 6: Catch Me If You Can

By Jeff Bulmer

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.

Classic Movies Live, Episode 7: Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
November 3, 2020 0

Classic Movies Live, Episode 7: Borat Subsequent Moviefilm

By Jeff Bulmer

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?

Losing It Over Leo, Episode 5: Titanic
October 31, 2020 0

Losing It Over Leo, Episode 5: Titanic

By Jeff Bulmer

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!

Losing It Over Leo, Episode 4: Romeo + Juliet
October 24, 2020 0

Losing It Over Leo, Episode 4: Romeo + Juliet

By Jeff Bulmer

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.

Classic Movies Live, Episode 4: Bill & Ted Face the Music
October 14, 2020 0

Classic Movies Live, Episode 4: Bill & Ted Face the Music

By Jeff Bulmer

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?

Losing It Over Leo, Episode 2: What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?
October 10, 2020 0

Losing It Over Leo, Episode 2: What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?

By Jeff Bulmer

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!

Classic Movies Live, Episode 3: I’m Thinking Of Ending Things
October 7, 2020 0

Classic Movies Live, Episode 3: I’m Thinking Of Ending Things

By Jeff Bulmer

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!

Losing It Over Leo, Episode 1: This Boy’s Life
October 3, 2020 0

Losing It Over Leo, Episode 1: This Boy’s Life

By Jeff Bulmer

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?

Classic Movies Live, Episode 1: Tenet
September 21, 2020 0

Classic Movies Live, Episode 1: Tenet

By Jeff Bulmer

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!