For Your Consideration

The podcast kicks off the new year with Wong Kar Wai's undeniably sumptuous romantic drama, In the Mood for Love. Join Dustin and Mike as they discuss one of the director's finest films at the roundtable and determine whether or not they think it qualifies to be a true masterpiece of cinema or simply a classic romance story. Music: "Yumeji's Theme" (Shigeru Umebayashi) "Angkor Wat Theme I" (Michael Galasso) "Quizas, Quizas, Quizas (Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps)" (Nat King Cole) Like us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter Join our Patreon Subscribe for free: itunes Stitcher

Halloween may be over but we have one more Spooktacular episode left to complete our celebration for 2019. This time at the roundtable, Mike and Dustin talk about the 1932 Universal Monsters classic, The Mummy, and try to convince you of the greatness of its 2017 Alex Kurtzman reimagining, The Mummy. Music: "Monster Mash" (Bobby "Boris" Pickett & the Crypt Kickers) "The Mummy" (Brian Tyler) Like us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter Join our Patreon Subscribe for free: itunes Stitcher

It's week three of our October Halloween Fright Fest Spooktacular and Dustin and Mike take to the roundtable to discuss James Whale's 1931 Universal Monster classic, Frankenstein, and Paul McGuigan and Max Landis' 2015 riff on Shelley's characters, Victor Frankenstein. Music: "Monster Mash" (Bobby "Boris" Pickett & the Crypt Kickers) "Prometheus Ascending" (Craig Armstrong) Like us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter Join our Patreon Subscribe for free: itunes Stitcher

In the second installment of our 2019 October Fright Fest Spooktacular, Mike and Dustin continue their roundtable look at the Universal Monsters franchise of films with a discussion of 1941's The Wolf Man and its 2010 remake, The Wolfman. Music: "Monster Mash" (Bobby "Boris" Pickett & the Crypt Kickers) "Wolf Suite Pt 1" (Danny Elfman) Like us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter Join our Patreon Subscribe for free: itunes Stitcher

October means it's time for another Fright Fest Spooktacular on the podcast and the 2019 edition brings you Mike and Dustin discussing some of Universal's original monster films and what they have done with those properties since. Kicking off the season is 1931's Dracula and its most recent update, 2014's Dracula Untold. Music: "Monster Mash" (Bobby "Boris" Pickett & the Crypt Kickers) "Prologue" (Ramin Djawadi) Like us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter Join our Patreon Subscribe for free: itunes Stitcher

Mike and Dustin tackle the mystery of The Blair Witch Project on this week's roundtable discussion. Tune in to the podcast to find out if the found footage film that popularized a whole sub-genre of horror is determined to be a masterpiece or a museum piece of cinema. Music: "Blair Witch Theme" and "The Cellar" (Antonio Cora) Like us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter Join our Patreon Subscribe for free: itunes Stitcher

A quick Considerations minisode featuring regular host, Mike Jozic, and guest commentator, Sulya Fenichel, reviewing the brand-new 20th Century Fox release, Ad Astra. Like us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter Join our Patreon Subscribe for free: itunes Stitcher

On this week's episode of the podcast your hosts, Mike Jozic and Dustin Friesenhan, take to the roundtable to discuss Mathieu Kassovitz' highly stylized black and white drama, La Haine. Music: "Burning and Looting" (Bob Marley and the Wailers) "Nique La Police" (Cut Killer) Like us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter Join our Patreon Subscribe for free: itunes Stitcher

We're back! The long silence has been broken as Dustin and Mike return to the podcast and the roundtable to discuss a classic of the silent era (no, the irony is not lost on us), Paul Leni's 1928 film, The Man Who Laughs. Like us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter Join our Patreon Subscribe for free: itunes Stitcher

On this installment of the podcast we finally bring the Lord of the Rings trilogy analysis to a close as we discuss Peter Jackson's concluding chapter of the saga, The Return of the King. Helping out with this monumental task, we also welcome back guest commentator, Cat McDonald, to the roundtable. Cat was right there with us breaking things down for the previous two films and was more than happy to come back and get some closure on the series. How will our panel fall on their assessment of the film and the series as a whole? As always, you'll have to listen to find out. Music: "Roots and Beginnings" (Howard Shore) and "Into the West" (Annie Lennox/Howard Shore) Like us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter Join our Patreon Subscribe for free: itunes Stitcher

Our Summer of '89 series comes to an end with a podcast about the biggest success of that year, Tim Burton's landmark gothic super-hero adventure, Batman! Check out the episode to hear Mike and Dustin relate their first encounters with the movie and how they feel about it 30 years on. Music: "Main Title" and "Waltz to the Death" (Danny Elfman) Batdance (Prince) Like us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter Join our Patreon Subscribe for free: itunes Stitcher

The Summer of '89 continues on the podcast with Dustin and Mike bringing Ghostbusters 2 to the roundtable for a full-on discussion of its pros and cons, whether or not they think it holds up 30 years on, and play with a little head canon while they're at it. Music: Ghostbusters (Ray Parker, Jr.) On Our Own (Bobby Brown) Like us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter Join our Patreon Subscribe for free: itunes Stitcher

On this installment of our Summer of '89 series we celebrate the 30th anniversary of Star Trek V: The Final Frontier with Dustin and Mike taking a deep dive on the film and discuss its strengths and weaknesses, and why God might need a starship, at the roundtable. Music: "Main Title/The Mountain" and "A Busy Man" (Jerry Goldsmith) Like us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter Join our Patreon Subscribe for free: itunes Stitcher

Join Mike and Dustin as they revisit the Summer of '89 over four weeks and four films that were a large part of that unforgettable season of movies. The first week of our summer series kicks off with our roundtable discussion of Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, the much beloved third installment of the Indy series of films. Music: "Finale and End Credits" and "Indy's Very First Adventure" (John Williams) Like us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter Join our Patreon Subscribe for free: itunes Stitcher

On this episode of the podcast your intrepid hosts, Dustin and Mike, take a deep dive on another comedy in the form of Mike Judge's 2006 sci-fi/satire, Idiocracy. The film got a lot of mixed reactions on its release and it's safe to say that our roundtable reaction wasn't much different. Tune in to hear if Idiocracy will get crowned a masterpiece or museum piece or if, at the very least, it's just got what plants crave. Music: "Buckaroo" (Buck Owens), "History of Man/Garbage Avalanche" "Future Shock" "Looking For the Time Machine" (Theodore Shapiro) Like us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter Join our Patreon Subscribe for free: itunes Stitcher

Zack Snyder's Watchmen has drawn a lot of praise and criticism since its release in 2009 and for its tenth anniversary we are taking it to the roundtable to discuss whether the film holds up ten years on. Has it gotten better or worse with time, Mike and Dustin endeavour to answer this question with the help of guest commentator, Eric Nash of the Watchmen Minute podcast. Who watches the Watchmen? We do. Music: "Pruit Igoe and Prophecies" (The Philip Glass Ensemble) and "Desolation Row" (My Chemicl Romance) Like us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter Join our Patreon Subscribe for free: itunes Stitcher

Steven Soderbergh's 2002 adaptation of Stanislaw Lem's sci-fi classic, Solaris, gets the roundtable treatment on this week's episode of the podcast. Check out Dustin and Mike's discussion of the film to find out if they grant the film masterpiece status or designate it a museum piece. Music: "Is That What Everybody Wants" and "Will She Come Back" (Cliff Martinez) Like us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter Join our Patreon Subscribe for free: itunes Stitcher

Lars von Trier's unsurprisingly controversial 2009 drama/thriller, Antichrist, is the film up for discussion at the roundtable on this episode of the podcast. Will Mike and Dustin vote the film as a masterpiece or a museum piece? You'll have to check out the episode to find out. Like us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter Join our Patreon Subscribe for free: itunes Stitcher

On the latest episode of the podcast, we celebrate an anniversary of sorts for the cult-classic Coen Brothers film, The Big Lebowski. Mike and Dustin take to the roundtable to discuss in the parlance of our times this tale of greed, destiny, and mistaken identities. Music: "The Man In Me" (Bob Dylan), "Technopop" (Carter Burwell), & "Hotel California" (Gipsy Kings) Like us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter Join our Patreon Subscribe for free: itunes Stitcher

It's up, up, and away on the latest episode of the podcast as Dustin and Mike take to the roundtable to discuss Richard Donner's 1978 super-hero classic, Superman: The Movie. Will the man of steel be able to withstand our analysis of the film and emerge as a masterpiece or will will it, like kryptonite, bring the man of tomorrow down to be counted among the museum pieces? You'll have to check out the podcast to find out. Music: "Superman March (Alternate)", "The March Of The Villains", & "Finale And End Title March" (John Williams) Like us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter Join our Patreon Subscribe for free: itunes Stitcher