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?...affable, insightful film analysis since 2005."?NY Times / New + classic reviews and top 5s. Every episode and exclusive content at filmspotting.supportingcast.fm. Also on WBEZ Chicago.

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#895: Top 5 Bromances / The Banshees of Inisherin / Ticket To Paradise

In Martin McDonagh's new THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN, Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson play a couple of longtime friends whose relationship takes a sudden and mysterious turn. Along with their review of the film - one of the year's best - Adam and Josh consider the long history of Movie Bromances, from classic noirs and westerns to a beloved fantasy epic to a couple of notable (but possibly forgotten?) comedies from the early 2000s. Josh also has a report from his TICKET TO PARADISE date night. 0:58 - Top 5: Movie Bromances Mike Schank, "Mr. Bojanges" 34:27 - Next Week / Notes / R.I.P. Robbie Coltrane 39:09 - Polls 48:44 - Review: "The Banshees of Inisherin" 1:02:46 - Top 5, cont. 1:37:10 - Outro / Outtake Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2022-10-28
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#894: Top 5 Cops In Love / Decision To Leave

Korean auteur Park Chan-wook's DECISION TO LEAVE is something of a departure for a director best known for the violent and sexual provocations of films like "Oldboy," "The Handmaiden," and "Stoker." His latest involves a murder, but Park's camera is more attentive to the mounting attraction between Hae-joon's married police detective and the victim's wife, played by Tang Wei. Park's film inspires this week's Top 5: Cops In Love, which gives Adam and Josh a chance to give director Kathryn Bigelow some love, along with titles from Jane Campion, Peter Weir, Martin Scorsese, and Otto Preminger. 1:14 - Top 5: Cops In Love 32:12 - Next Week / Notes 39:58 - Massacre Theatre 44:35 - Review: "Decision to Leave" 58:23 - Top 5, cont. 1:16:17 - Outro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2022-10-21
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#893: TÁR / Amsterdam

Director Todd Field ("In The Bedroom," "Little Children") returns after a sixteen-year hiatus with TÁR, the most acclaimed film of his career and possibly of the year. Cate Blanchett stars as an accomplished composer and conductor who faces a personal crisis that could derail her career. Gender politics, identity politics, the "Me Too" movement, cancel culture: the movie circles around these issues without necessarily being about any of them. In their review, Adam and Josh praise the film's complexity and intelligence along with what may be the definitive Blanchett performance. Plus, a review of David O. Russell's latest, AMSTERDAM, a film that is "very wobbly right from the start, regains its balance but is still teetering, and then? Things absolutely collapse." Plus, Blanchett v Swinton and the battle of the seasonably appropriate stop-motion features. 1:20 - Review: "TÁR" 42:03 - Next Week / Notes / Angela Lansbury 48:31 - Polls 57:07 - Review: ?Amsterdam" 1:09:19 - Outro With ?Tár,? Todd Field Returns to Directing. Where Has He Been? Sam smartly points out that TÁR is also an anagram for ART. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2022-10-14
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Weekly film podcast featuring in-depth reviews, top 5 lists, interviews, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2022-10-07
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#892: Most Anticipated at Chicago Film Festival / Quotable '80s Movies / God's Creatures

The 58th annual Chicago International Film Festival closes out the fall fest season with screenings of highly anticipated titles from Sarah Polley, Rian Johnson, Martin McDonagh, Park Chan-wook, Noah Baumbach, and others. But with 90+ features playing over CIFF's ten days - many of them available via streaming - there are countless under-the-radar films worth checking out. Adam and Josh highlight some of those titles in their fest preview. Plus, a review of Anna Rose Holmer ("The Fits") and Saela Davis's GOD'S CREATURES, and listeners respond to our request to name the most quotable movie of the '80s. 0:00 - Billboard 1:03 - Preview: Chicago Int'l Film Festival 26:44 - Feedback: Quotable '80s Movies 41:24 - Next Week / Notes  51:09 - Massacre Theatre 59:19 - Review: ?God's Creatures" 1:13:19 - Outro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2022-10-07
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#891: Don't Worry Darling / Top 5 Utopias Gone Wrong

Caught up in a storm of bad press following its festival debut earlier in the month, Olivia Wilde?s highly anticipated DON?T WORRY DARLING finally opened in theaters and was met with mostly scornful reviews. But the movie has its defenders?including Josh. So he and Adam get to spar over the movie?s handling of its social critique and get into some spoilers to discuss its provocative? infuriating? ending. Plus, private Edens, corporate paradises, and rainforest idylls: it?s the Top 5 Utopias Gone Wrong. 0:00 - Billboard 1:00 - Top 5: Utopias Gone Wrong 28:09 - Next Week / Notes  37:37 - Polls 46:57 - Review: ?Don't Worry Darling" 56:10 - ?Don't Worry Darling" SPOILER TALK 1:08:08 - Top 5: Utopias Gone Wrong, cont. 1:27:11 - Outro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2022-09-30
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#890: Top 5 Movie Queens / The Woman King / Moonage Daydream

With the passing of Queen Elizabeth II in the news and Her Majesty Viola Davis currently on screens in Gina Prince-Bythewood?s THE WOMAN KING, Adam and Josh devote this week?s Top 5 to a consideration of movie monarchs. Making the cut: film royalty like Bette Davis and Katherine Hepburn and a certain teen queen who wants us all to eat cake. That Top 5, plus reviews of ?The Woman King? and the trippy new Bowie doc ?Moonage Daydream.? 0:00 - Billboard 1:08 - Top 5 Movie Queens 32:33 - Review (AK): ?Moonage Daydream? 40:41 - Next Week / Notes  48:14 - Massacre Theatre 53:09 - Review: ?The Woman King? 1:03:29 - Top 5 Movie Queens, cont 53:09 - Review: ?The Woman King? 1:21:12 - Outro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2022-09-23
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#889: Blonde / Double Indemnity (Stanwyck #6) / Hockeyland

Andrew Dominik's long-in-the-works Marilyn Monroe tale BLONDE (based on the 1999 novel by Joyce Carol-Oates), offers a nightmarish portrayal of the actress and icon that avoids some of the pitfalls of celebrity biopics (thanks in part to its impressive formal approach) while running headlong into others. Mostly in agreement on the film, Adam and Josh remain divided on a few things, including the central performance by Ana de Armas. Also on the show, the sixth and final film in the Summer of Stanwyck Marathon, DOUBLE INDEMNITY, and the Stanwyck Marathon Awards. Plus, Adam recommends the new doc HOCKEYLAND. 0:00 - Billboard 1:06 - Review: "Blonde" 35:41 - Review (AK): "Hockeyland" 40:47 - Next Week / Notes / R.I.P. Jean-Luc Godard 45:41 - Polls (Fall Movies / Comedies) 55:53 - Summer of Stanwyck #6: "Double Indemnity" 1:24:44 - Stanwyck Marathon Awards 1:51:34 - Outro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2022-09-16
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#888: Three Thousand Years of Longing / Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul / Ball of Fire (Stanwyck #5)

When George Miller's THREE THOUSAND YEARS OF LONGING premiered at the Cannes Film Festival earlier in the year, it was met with some pans, some shrugs, and some raves (including a six-minute standing ovation). Most agreed, however, that it was an unexpected departure from a director whose previous film was "Mad Max: Fury Road." An intimate and intellectual dialogue-driven drama between stars Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba for much of its runtime, it occasionally blossoms into a fantastic, millennia-spanning tale. While both Adam and Josh admired much of what Miller was attempting, only one of them managed to get and stay on the director's eccentric wavelength. That review, plus Josh's review of the new comedy HONK FOR JESUS. SAVE YOUR SOUL, and the fifth film in the Summer of Stanwyck Marathon, Howard Hawks' BALL OF FIRE (1941), with Barbara Stanwyck as a worldly showgirl who goes into hiding with eight buttoned-up bachelor academics (including Gary Cooper). 0:00 - Billboard 1:11 - Review: "Three Thousand Years of Longing" 28:32 - Review (JL): "Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul." 32:11 - Next Week / Notes 39:36 - Massacre Theatre 45:22 - Stanwyck Marathon #5: "Ball of Fire" (1941) 1:08:27 - Outro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2022-09-02
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#887: Top 5 Fall Movie Questions

The fall movie season has lots of intriguing titles that raise all sorts of questions. De Armas as Marilyn. Black Panther without Chadwick Boseman. Spielberg in autobiographical mode. This week, it's a Fall Movie Preview in the form of Adam and Josh's five most pressing questions. Plus, their picks for the 5 Most Anticipated Films of the Fall. 0:00 - Billboard 1:07 - Top 5: Fall Movie Questions 18:04 - Next Week / Notes 37:11 - Polls 42:41 - Top 5 Questions, cont. / Top 5 Most Anticipated 1:06:25 - Outro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2022-08-26
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#886: Bodies Bodies Bodies / Meet John Doe (Stanwyck #4)

If Dutch director Halina Reijn's BODIES BODIES BODIES doesn't remain the definitive snapshot of Zillennial life in the early 2020s, that won't be the fault of the ace ensemble, featuring standout performances from Rachel Sennott ("Shiva Baby"), Maria Bakalova ("Borat Subsequent Movifilm"), or Amandla Stenberg ("The Hate You Give"). Josh and guest critic Marya E. Gates praise the cast along with the film itself for its incisive observations about the chronically online generation. Later in the show, Josh is joined by the Chicago Tribune's Michael Phillips to talk about Frank Capra's surprisingly bleak MEET JOHN DOE (1941), with Gary Cooper as a down-on-his-luck ballplayer who becomes a populist hero and current marathon subject Barbara Stanwyck as the conflicted newspaper columnist who created him?and maybe loves him. 0:00 - Billboard 1:07 - Review: ?Bodies Bodies Bodies? (w/Marya E. Gates) 36:21 - Next Week / Notes 40:05 - Massacre Theatre 48:02 - Stanwyck #4: ?Meet John Doe? (w/Michael Phillips) 1:16:43 - Outro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2022-08-19
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#885: A24 10th Anniversary Draft / Prey

Indie distributor A24 started memorably, if modestly, back in 2012 and 2013, with titles like Harmony Korine's "Spring Breakers" and Sofia Coppola's "The Bling Ring." Within the next couple of years, they'd launched the directing careers of Alex Garland ("Ex Machina") and Robert Eggers ("The Witch"). Then in 2016, they went ahead and - very memorably - won the Oscar for Best Picture with Barry Jenkins' "Moonlight." And they haven't slowed down since. David Lowery's "A Ghost Story," Greta Gerwig's "Lady Bird," Sean Baker's "The Florida Project," and Ari Aster's "Hereditary" are just a fraction of the acclaimed titles released by the company in its first ten years. To celebrate the occasion, Adam and Josh hold the debut Filmspotting Draft: ten A24 titles each, no shared picks, no trades, no fighting. Listen and then cast a vote for who built the better roster. Also on the show, a review of the new entry in the "Predator" franchise, PREY. 0:00 - Billboard 1:11 - A24 Draft 43:07 - Review: "Prey" 59:02 - Next Week / Notes 1:04:39 - Polls 1:11:48 - A24 Draft, cont. 1:42:37 - Outro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2022-08-12
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#884: Top 5 Brad Pitt Performances / Bullet Train

When Brad Pitt arrived on screen 30+ years ago, he was a pretty face with a surprising sinister side. That brief turn in Ridley Scott's "Thelma and Louise" proved to be a template for the actor's diverse and increasingly accomplished film career. For proof of Pitt's growth as an actor, look no further than the very existence of this week's TOP 5 PITT PERFORMANCES, featuring long-time Pitt skeptic Adam's mea culpa. And for proof of the high quality of the Pitt filmography, consider that Adam and Josh share only one title between them. Also on the show, Adam's thoughts on Pitt in the new BULLET TRAIN from director David Leitch. 0:00 - Billboard 1:04 - Top 5: Brad Pitt Performances 42:40 - Review (AK): "Bullet Train" 48:31 - Next Week / Notes 52:58 - Massacre Theatre 58:07 - Top 5, cont. 1:20:10 - Outro The Pitt Reviews Fight Club at 20 (2019) Babel (2006) Oceans 13 (2007) The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford (2007) The Assassination... (2019 Reappraisal) Burn After Reading (2008) The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2009) Inglourious Basterds (2009) The Tree of Life (2011) Moneyball (2011) Killing Them Softly (2012) 12 Years A Slave (2013) The Big Short (2015) War Machine (2017) Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019) Ad Astra (2019) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2022-08-05
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#883: Nope / The Gray Man / The Lady Eve (Stanwyck #3)

With their potent mix of horror, comedy, and social satire, the films of Jordan Peele are the rare Hollywood films that succeed in entertaining while also puzzling, sending audiences out of the theater sifting through clues in an attempt to find meaning. Peele's latest - NOPE - is no exception, with Adam and Josh sharing their own theories about the director/prophet's wild west sci-fi that's loaded with themes of trauma, spectacle, race, and the movie industry's complicity in all those things. Also, there are some scares. And some laughs. Adam and Josh get spoiler-y in the second half of the review to sort out some lingering questions. Adam also recommends the Russo Brothers' new THE GRAY MAN, and the Summer of Stanwyck continues with Preston Sturges's 1941 screwball classic THE LADY EVE, starring Stanwyck and Henry Fonda. 0:00 - Billboard 1:05 - Review: "Nope" 25:01 - "Nope" Spoilers 46:20 - "The Gray Man" 50:32 - Notes / Polls 1:09:33 - Stanwyck #3: "The Lady Eve" 1:40:22 - Outro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2022-07-29
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#882: Thor: Love & Thunder / Top 5 Chris Power Ranking

Taika Waititi helming another Thor movie was always going to mean a great deal of silliness along with whatever planetary crisis the MCU brain trust cooked up, but with THOR: LOVE & THUNDER, the question has become: how much silliness is too much? Put another way: how many goats is too many goats? Adam defends his 1-star Letterboxd review and Josh (sort of ) defends Waititi. With its two movie Chrises (Hemsworth and Pratt), "Love and Thunder" also gives us an opportunity to revisit 2018's TOP 5 CHRIS POWER RANKING, with Adam and Josh offering their revised rankings at the end of the show. Plus Josh shares thoughts on the new GKids feature THE DEER KING and has a Golden Brick-spotting review of Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman's NEPTUNE FROST. 0:00 - Billboard 1:19 - Review: "Thor: Love & Thunder" Saul Williams, "Binary Stars" 29:10 - Golden Brickspotting (JL): "Neptune Frost" 33:10 - Review (JL): "The Deer King" 35:52 - Notes / Polls 48:04 - Top 5: Chris Power Rankings (2018) 1:26:39 - Chris Power Rankings Redux (2022) 1:39:48 - Outro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2022-07-15
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#881: Stanwyck #2 - Stella Dallas / Marcel the Shell With Shoes On / Top 5 Movie Mother-Daughters

As a social climber turned selfless mother in the heartbreaking 1937 melodrama STELLA DALLAS, Barbara Stanwyck earned the first of her four Oscar nominations. And two films into their Stanwyck Marathon, Adam and Josh remain in awe of both the actress's power and her subtlety. The film itself offers a still-potent critique of class as its heroine is forced to choose between her own identity and her beloved daughter. It also gives us an opportunity to revisit 2013's Top 5 Movie Mother-Daughters, with Adam and Josh considering the memorable mothers and daughters that have come to screens in the intervening decade (lookin' at you, Greta Gerwig). Plus, Josh reviews the new stop-motion animated charmer MARCEL THE SHELL WITH SHOES ON. 0:00 - Billboard 1:04 - Stanwyck #2: "Stella Dallas" 33:28 - Review (JL): "Marcel The Shell With Shoes On" 38:20 - Next Week / Notes 43:07 - Massacre Theatre 49:44 - Top 5: Movie Mother-Daughters 1:20:17 - Outro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2022-07-08
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#880: Stanwyck #1 - Baby Face (1933) / 1930s Starter Pack

The frank sexuality of 1933's BABY FACE has made it one of the defining films of Hollywood?s precode era, with new Filmspotting marathon subject Barbara Stanwyck as Lily Powers, a young woman who escapes the abuse and exploitation facing her at home for the big city, where she acquires money and status by exploiting her own sexual power. Adam and Josh agree that Stanwyck is electrifying and the movie?s precode directness is a lot of fun while considering how successfully it pulls off its balance of proto-feminism provocation and sentimentality. The launch of the Stanwyck Marathon also offers a chance to revisit the 1930s Starter Pack, which has Adam and Josh sharing their favorite comedies, musicals, action, and horror films from that rich decade. 0:00 - Billboard 1:01 - Stanwyck #1: ?Baby Face? (w/SPOILERS) 36:03 - Polls / Notes 51:07 - Top 5: 1930s Starter Pack 1:36:12 - Outro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2022-07-01
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#879: Top 5 Movie Summers / Elvis / Lightyear

The summer movie season offers the promise of a special kind of escape. With our brains and bodies fried from the heat, we go to the multiplex less for the subtlety of great cinema and more for big pleasures: belly laughs, impossible action sequences, jump scares, and explosions. Lots and lots of explosions. But which movie years best delivered on that promise? This week, Adam and Josh break out the spreadsheets to determine the Top 5 Movie Summers of all time (or at least since 1975), and Josh weighs in on Baz Luhrmann's ELVIS and Pixar's LIGHTYEAR. 0:00 - Billboard 1:20 - Top 5 Movie Summers 30:28 - Reviews (JL): "Elvis," "Lightyear" 39:10 - Next Week / Notes 44:10 - Massacre Theatre 49:51 - Top 5 Movie Summers, cont. 1:10:50 - Outro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2022-06-24
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#878: Cooper Raiff (Cha Cha Real Smooth) / Hustle / Top 5 Toy Story Moments w/Griffin Newman (2019)

Cooper Raiff's debut film, 2020's "Sh*thouse," put the young writer/director on the map with a tale of collegiate malaise, and was made not long after Raiff himself left college. His follow-up, the new CHA CHA REAL SMOOTH, sees Raiff exploring the existential restlessness that awaits college grads. As with his debut, Raiff is back in a starring role, this time with a legit movie star as his co-star, Dakota Johnson. Adam interviews Raiff, who talks about crying in movies, his mentor Jay Duplass, and why Michael Caine isn't right about everything. And with Buzz currently flying solo in the new "Lightyear," we revisit Adam's TOP 5 STORY STORY MOMENTS (2019) with guest Griffin Newman from the Blank Check podcast. And Adam adds to the praise that has met the latest Netflix Adam Sandler joint, HUSTLE. 0:00 - Billboard 1:24 - Interview: Cooper Raiff ("Cha Cha Real Smooth") 25:01 - Review (AK): "Hustle" 34:37 - Next Week / Notes 44:51 - Polls 54:09 - Top 5: Toy Story Moments w/Griffin Newman 1:50:40 - Outro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2022-06-17
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#877: Top 5 Films of the Year So Far / Keaton Marathon Awards (Live in Chicago)

At the midpoint of the movie year, Adam and Josh come to the show with several titles big and small vying for their Top 5 Films of the Year So Far, along with a shared number one that Josh describes as "the standard that cinema 2022 will have to meet." Plus, highlights from last weekend's live event at Chicago's Music Box Theatre, which featured a screening of Buster Keaton's THE CAMERAMAN, and Slate's Dana Stevens joining Adam and Josh for "The Porkpies," the end-of-Keaton-marathon awards. 0:00 - Billboard 1:30 - Top 5 Films of the Year So Far 41:30 - Next Week / Notes 47:43 - Massacre Theatre 59:42 - Live in Chicago: "The Cameraman" / Keaton Awards 1:53:03 - Outro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2022-06-10
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