Classic Movies Live!

Today's classic episode of Classic Movies Live!, it's the finale of Season 1! On this week's episode, our hosts talk about Nicolas Winding Refn again, but this time, his best-known movie: Drive! How does Drive stack up against Valhalla Rising? What can this movie tell us about Ryan Gosling? And what's ahead for our hosts in Season 2 (you already know this, Season 2 started over a year ago!) Tune in for the final episode of CML Classics!

Do you miss October? Well, you're in luck, because on this week's episode of Classic Movies Live!, our hosts are talking about two very Fall-vibes television specials! First off, Pierre and Jeff take on Kid Cudi's Entergalactic, an animated romantic comedy that was released on Netflix at the end of September. Then, it's time for yet another entry in Marvel's Phase Four: Werewolf By Night! Full spoilers abound for both television specials, so come prepared!

This week on Classic Movies Live!, it's another choice by the Wheel of Movies! A few weeks after reviewing her father's most famous movie (well, one of them), Pierre and Jeff talk about the debut feature of Sofia Coppola! Starring Kirsten Dunst, Josh Hartnett, and Kathleen Turner, The Virgin Suicides paints a fascinating portrait of a suffocating suburbia in the late 20th century. Effective in its themes and shocking in its execution, what can Coppola's first movie tell us about her as a director? Tune in to hear our hosts' takes!

This week on Spooky Movies Live!, it's our annual-ish Halloween episode! One year ago, our hosts took on Halloween Kills, the second movie in the trilogy of David Gordon Green's Halloween reboot. This year, Green's series Ends with the eponymous third movie! Will Halloween end on better note than Kills? What is the legacy of Michael Meyers?

It's another round of the Wheel of Movies on today's classic episode of Classic Movies Live! Today's movie: Nicolas Winding Refn's Valhalla Rising. Tune in as our hosts fumble their way through trying to say nice things about Refn's deeply personal Viking epic! Also in this episode: our hosts discuss Sofia Coppola, date the current episode by talking about episodes yet to come, and Pierre makes a promise he can't take back!

Since October 26th, 2022, it's been a dream of our hosts to talk about every single movie in James Cameron's Avatar series on the show! Towards that goal, this week's episode sees Pierre and Jeff discuss the recently re-released 2009 movie that started it all! Cameron's 3D, CGI, IMAX, 4DX, etc. extravaganza was lauded at the time for revolutionizing cinema. In the years since, it's been constantly re-evaluated. What has been the lasting impact of Avatar? Has the movie even had a lasting impact? Are you excited for a sequel? What's the name of the main character? All these questions and more are at the centre of this week's deep dive into the world of Pandora!

In a special, bonus-sized classic episode of Classic Movies Live!, Pierre and Jeff talk for the first time about Michael Bay! Bay, a renowned blockbuster director, has two movies in the Criterion Collection -- essentially the Hall of Fame of movies -- and we'd like to know: why? Tune in as our hosts talk about Armageddon, Bay's epic doomsday disaster movie from 1998 starring Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck. What makes this movie good? Is it even good?

This week on Classic Movies Live!, we're going to talk about two movies! First off, we discuss Justin Long's New Movie -- also called Barbarian -- one of the best examples of trailers giving nothing about the movie away in a long time! There's so much to talk about with Barbarian, but in the spirit of the movie, our review is entirely spoiler-free! Barbarian was previously mentioned in Pierre's Better Know a Contributor episode of Contra Zoom, which you can find over at Contra Zoom! In Jeff's case, he was recommended the movie by Bhavna of the Bloody Broads! Check out their show on Spotify! After Barbarian, don't touch that dial! Next up, our hosts' review Don't Worry Darling, the latest movie from Booksmart director Olivia Wilde! Should you worry, darling? Tune in to find out!

When it comes to classic movies, who could forget Judd Apatow? In this classic episode of Classic Movies Live!, Pierre and Jeff discuss Apatow's latest movie: a semi-biopic of Pete Davidson, written by the actor himself!

The Wheel of Movies has spoken! This week: Funny Girl! Based on the Tony-nominated musical of the same name, Funny Girl features the film debut of singer/actress/renaissance-woman Barbra Streisand! Chronicling the life of early 20th-century comedienne Fanny Brice and her complicated romance with swindler Nicky Arnstein (Omar Sharif), Funny Girl perfectly recreates the experience of going to a musical theatre production on the big screen... for better or worse! Which parts of the movie work? Which don't? Does this young upstart Barbra Streisand have promise? Will the Wheel of Movies ever return? The answers to at least three of those questions on this week's episode of Classic Movies Live!

When it comes to animation, it's hard to beat Disney and Pixar. That said, there's one Japanese studio that consistently challenges the great Western masters. In today's classic episode of Classic Movies Live!, Pierre and Jeff give their thoughts on Castle in the Sky, the first movie officially released by Hayao Miyazaki's company: Studio Ghibli. Also in this episode: Our hosts introduce the Wheel of Movies!

On this week's episode, we preview the year to come as Pierre interviews Jeff about his experience at TIFF! Which movies are destined to be this year's greatest? Which highly anticipated movies are actually kind of bad? And generally what's it like to go to a film festival in person? Jeff's full list from TIFF, ranking all the movies he saw, can be found here. This episode also contains clips from "Multi-Family Garage Sale" by YACHT (originally by Land of Loops). A big shoutout to friends of the show Rachel Ho and Bloody Broads, who Jeff got to meet in person at the festival. Bloody Broads just kicked off the most important month of the year with Episode 28 talking about Halloween! And as always, Rachel can be heard over on Contra Zoom, including a recent entry in their Better Know a Contributor series interviewing the man, the myth, the legend himself: Pierre Frigon!

Everyone who talks about movies eventually has to talk about Charlie Kaufman. As one of the greatest screenwriters of our time, Kaufman is responsible for indie darlings like Synechdoche, New York, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and today's movie: Being John Malkovich. In this classic episode of Classic Movies Live!, Pierre and Jeff discuss the deeply psychological, gloriously messed-up 1999 John Malkovich vehicle of the same name. Can our hosts decipher what it must be like to be acclaimed actor John Malkovich? Tune in to find out!

For the second week in a row, our hosts talk about Adam Sandler! This classic episode of Classic Movies Live! is about one of Jeff's favourite movies of 2019. After Reign Over Me, can Adam Sandler redeem himself as an actor? (Spoiler alert: yes!)

On this week's episode of Classic Movies Live!, Pierre and Jeff finally bond over their shared love of Akira Toriyama's Dragonball! With a new movie in theatres, our hosts talk about the legacy of Dragonball, as well as the effect of the series on their own lives! And of course, our hosts also talk about that new movie: Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero! Itself a celebration of the many storylines that came before, Super Hero sees Piccolo and Gohan teaming up to save the world from a new Android threat... and this one is super hero themed! Also in this episode, the Wheel of Movies returns! If you like this episode, check out the last episode we did about a TV show, wherein we reviewed the Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie. Or for more animated movie talk, check out our list of the Top 10 Animated Films By Genre!

After some heavy episodes like Eyes Wide Shut, Apocalypse Now, and Mulholland Drive, our hosts decided to go a bit lighter with episode 38. Hailed by many as one of Adam Sandler's best performances ever, Reign Over Me features Sandler as a 9/11 widower suffering from PTSD. After reuniting with his college roommate, played by Don Cheadle, Reign follows the two friends as they deal with their personal traumas. Similarly, Classic Movies Live follows friends Pierre and Jeff as they deal with a series of shared, but also deeply personal traumas in the form of the cinematic arts! Tune in for our thoughts on Adam Sandler's career-defining performance!

Neil Minow of Common Sense Media wrote in his review of David Lynch's Mulholland Drive: "If you like movies that make sense, "Mulholland Drive" isn't for you." A modern classic of abstract cinema, Mulholland Drive is adored by critics, and generally ignored by mainstream audiences... but not by our hosts! In today's classic episode of Classic Movies Live!, Pierre and Jeff attempt to talk about one of the strangest movies they've ever seen.

On today's episode of Classic Movies Live!, our hosts talk about a TV show they haven't seen: the movie! Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a recent Nickelodeon reboot of the TMNT franchise, with a sequel movie on Netflix. That sequel movie is the subject for today's episode! Tune in to hear our hosts break down the new movie, as well as comparing and contrasting to old TMNT series. How does Rise compare to what came before? Does the movie work as a movie? All these answers and more on today's episode of Classic Movies Live!

Another week, another classic episode of Classic Movies Live! This week, our hosts excitedly got back to talking about new movies with Da 5 Bloods! Spike Lee's collaboration with Netflix was highly anticipated at the time, and was making waves as an early Oscars contender. It wasn't to be, ultimately, but that didn't stop our hosts from breaking it down right when it came out!

In this week's extra-frenetic episode of Classic Movies Live!, our hosts talk about the new Predator movie from Dan Trachtenberg! Taking place almost 300 years in the past, Prey stars Amber Midthunder as a Comanche healer who must fight an otherwordly assailant! With few ties to the rest of the series, Prey represents a new direction for the Predator franchise as it nears its 40th anniversary! Also in this episode: Pierre expounds on Predator lore by way of the previous movies, Jeff previews The People's Joker, and we talk about what makes a great parody movie! Want to hear more about Prey? Friends of the show Calum McNab and Gisela Martinez recently talked about it on their show Scaretroducing! Check out their episode here!

On this week's classic episode of Classic Movies Live!, our hosts take a quick break from war to discuss a deeply psychological neo-western. Considered by some to be Joel and Ethan Coen's greatest movie, No Country For Old Men features Josh Brolin as a man who comes into possession of five million dollars, only to learn he's being hunted by the mysterious hitman Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem). Tune in to hear Pierre and Jeff gush about Brolin and Bardem for 45 minutes... and also to find out what we think about No Country for Old Men!

If you've been to a movie theatre anytime in the last year, you've undoubtedly seen the trailer for David Leitch's new movie Bullet Train. If you've been more than once, you've probably even seen it a couple, dozens, or even hundreds of times! Now that it's out, our hosts are going to talk about it! Tune in as Pierre and Jeff go through every element of this ensemble mystery-train-action movie! Also in this episode: Jeff gushes about Agatha Christie, and the value of twist-endings!

This week, we flash back to a very special episode of Classic Movies Live!, in which our hosts discussed one of the greatest movies of all time: Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now! An adaptation of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness set during the Vietnam War, Coppola's war epic tackles both the infamous war and the darkness of the human mind. Though it's since been eclipsed by a few episodes, Apocalypse Now! was at the time our longest episode, and remains a favourite among our hosts!

What's a bad miracle? We got a word for that? Nope On this week's episode of Classic Movies Live!, our hosts talk about the third movie from acclaimed comedian-turned-horror-director Jordan Peele! Does Nope live up to the high bar Peele set with Get Out and Us? Tune in as Pierre and Jeff break it down! This is a full-spoilers episode, so if you haven't seen Nope yet, now would be a good time!

Today's classic episode sees our hosts talking about Tony Leung Chiu-wai for the first time! On Classic Movies Live!, Pierre and Jeff discuss exclusively classic movies. But not all classics are made in California! Today, our hosts take on a movie from Hong Kong. But not just any Hong Kong movie: we're talking about 2002's Infernal Affairs, winner of the Best Film award at Hong Kong's 22nd Film Awards! It also happens to be the main inspiration for a particular movie our hosts watch in a different episode... can you figure out which one before they tell you?

For the past two years for Dakota Arsenault's birth, he's dedicated his podcast, Contra Zoom Pod, to celebrating some of his all-time favourite movies! In this year's birthday episode, Episode 199, he was joined by Bil Antoniou to go through each of their favourite films in ten different genres. And yet, something was not right. In the episode, Dakota controversially included "Animation" as a genre, despite claiming that "Animation is a medium, not a genre". Anticipating blowback, he also noted that "people are going to be really mad at me for this one." Here on Classic Movies Live!, nothing would make us happier than to indulge our friend in his search for new enemies! On today's episode of Classic Movies Live!, Pierre and Jeff go through ten different film genres and name our favourite animated films from each of them! See our picks below (Pierre's first, then Jeff's)! Comedy: The Spongebob Squarepants Movie and On-Gaku: Our Sound Crime: Batman: Mask of the Phantasm and A Scanner Darkly Musical: Frozen and The Hunchback of Notre Dame Documentary: Flee Live Action: Space Jam and Who Framed Roger Rabbit? SciFi: Wall-E and Akira Horror: Monster House and Perfect Blue Action: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and Redline Romance: Toy Story 4 and Wall-E (Your Name was a joint honourable mention) Biopic: Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles How many of our picks have you seen? Compare on our Letterboxd list. If you haven't caught Contra Zoom Pod's Best Films by Genre episode, it works as a great companion to this response episode, so you should check it out here! Finally, a very special thanks to Rachel Ho of Contra Zoom Pod for calling in as our first ever guest on the main series of Classic Movies Live! You can find more of Rachel over on Contra Zoom, or at her personal site. Rachel also regularly writes for Exclaim and That Shelf, and is pretty active over on Twitter!

Here's a fun fact: after Steven Spielberg, Joe and Anthony Russo are the second-most commercially successful directors of all time! And guess what? They've got a new movie out! In this week's episode of Classic Movies Live!, Pierre and Jeff discuss Netflix's latest original film from the auteur directors that brought you many of the best parts of the Marvel Cinematic Universe! In The Gray Man, Chris Evans and Ryan Gosling face off to do some spy stuff! So how does it hold up against the other Russo Brothers' films? Tune in to find out!

A cursory search on Spotify yields several podcasts devoted to a variety of actors, from Keanu Reeves to Josh Hartnett to Paul Mercurio. But only one of those is a 28-episode podcast devoted to America's favourite actor: Anna Kendrick! On the riveting season finale, Pierre and Jeff discuss the last movies from Ms. Kendrick's current filmography: The Company You Keep and Digging For Fire. Then, our hosts wrap up this year-long epic journey by summarizing everything we've learned. What is the story of Anna Kendrick the Actress? Had things gone differently, would her career be in a better place? A worse place? Do good and bad mean anything at all? And of course, it wouldn't be a season finale without some top 3s! Tune in as our hosts talk about the three Anna Kendrick movies that left the greatest impression on them. Some picks might surprise you! Special thanks this week to our good friend Cris, who made the cover art. Follow her on Instagram, Twitter, and Letterboxd to see more of her artwork, film opinions/reviews, or both! Today's episode is sponsored by Technically a Conversation, a podcast for curious people by curious people! You can listen to them on Spotify, or check out their website for all their links and socials! Be sure to follow them over on Twitter!

From Chris Williams, director of Bolt and Big Hero 6, comes Netflix's latest animated movie: The Sea Beast! In today's episode, Pierre and Jeff examine the former Disney lifer's first film for a different studio. Does Sea Beast succeed on the strength of its animation alone? Or does the movie's message transcend its look? Also in this episode: we discuss J. J. Abrams approach to the Star Trek franchise. Why? Well, you'll have to tune in to find out!

WHEN LAST WE LEFT OFF.... Thor, God of Thunder, had lost everything, but after a touching redemption arc during Endgame, he joined the Guardians of the Galaxy, and blasted off for the stars! Now three years later, Taika Waititi has brought Marvel's premiere divinity back for his fourth solo outing: Love & Thunder! In this episode, our hosts discuss the latest collaboration between Chris Hemsworth, Waititi, and Marvel. Will this be an episode steeped in discussions of the Guardians of the Galaxy (it won't), or a more traditional sequel to Ragnarok?(closer, but still not quite) Maybe most importantly of all: should you spend your hard-earned money to go see the MCU's "first-ever romantic comedy" after a difficult day in the salt mines? Well, look no further, citizen: we've got the answers to all those questions and more here on Classic Movies Live!

Content Warning: Discussions of Transphobia, Homophobia, Racism, as well as brief mentions of current American and international politics. Audio from tracks that include racial and homophobic slurs. Some actors have 30 films to their name, some musicians have discographies spanning 20 years, but there's only one podcast on Spotify that dares to devote entire episodes to the work of both Anna Kendrick and Kendrick Lamar! In today's episode, we're Kickin' It with both Kendricks, as Pierre and Jeff discuss Lamar's latest album Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers. Lamar's newest is also arguably his most personal, raw album yet, and it should be no surprise that, in order to talk about it, our hosts have to get pretty personal and raw as well! Later in the episode, we break down Anna Kendrick's most recent movie, the Netflix/Amazon Prime original Stowaway! In this isolated space drama, three astronauts on a mission to Mars discover they've accidentally wound up with an unexpected fourth passenger. It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that both Kendricks provides plenty of interesting philosophical fodder for our hosts! And with this being our longest episode ever, you may want to strap in for what you're about to hear! Big shoutout to Mic the Snare on YouTube, whose video "Making Sense of Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers" was a huge help to Jeff when preparing for this episode. Today's episode is sponsored by Technically a Conversation, a podcast for curious people by curious people! You can listen to them on Spotify, or check out their website for all their links and socials! Be sure to follow them over on Twitter!

Following Romeo + Juliet and The Great Gatsby, Pierre and Jeff are back for another review of a Baz Luhrmann movie! This time, Luhrmann is taking on the King of Rock himself, Elvis Presley! How does Elvis compare to the wave of other musician biopics releasing over the last few years? Does Luhrmann's excessive, maximalist style do the King justice? Tune in today to find out!

So they call a trainer a "sneaker", a few minutes a "quibi", and a podcast "the only podcast on Spotify about Anna Kendrick's filmography"? That's right! In today's episode of Kickin' It With Kendrick, Pierre and Jeff are joined by eloquent British man and Minding the Gap enthusiast Mark Morgan to talk about Dummy, a ten-episode limited series for the 2020 streaming service Quibi! But first: what was Quibi? Helmed by Meg Whitman and enemy-of-the-show Jeffrey Katzenberg, Quibi was a streaming service designed for phones, with content delivered in 10-minute or less chunks. Does that sound like a bad idea? I wouldn't be so sure! Tune in to get our thoughts on the merits of Quibi, as well as why it ultimately went belly-up. Of course, this wouldn't be an Anna Kendrick podcast if we didn't also dicuss our favourite actor's foray into the short-form streaming market. In Dummy, Kendrick plays Dan Harmon's girlfriend, Cody, who has a fateful encounter with her partner's sex-doll. Written by Cody Heller with a tone somewhere between Wilfred and Rick and Morty, Dummy dramatizes a real event involving Heller, Harmon, and a sex doll, using it as a framing device for one woman's journey of self-discovery. At only 76 minutes, Dummy is the shortest film we've talked about on this podcast! Heck, it's shorter than this episode! You can find more of Mark over on the Oscars Death Race Discord, where he enjoys simping for the movie Minding the Gap. Mark is also one of the founding members of the Academy of Death Racers, which you can check out over on aodr.net! Today's episode is sponsored in part by the folks over at Bad Dad, Rad Dad. Check out their podcast where they look for better dads one movie at a time! Today's episode is also sponsored by Technically a Conversation, a podcast for curious people by curious people! You can listen to them on Spotify, or check out their website for all their links and socials! Be sure to follow them over on Twitter!

This week on Classic Movies Live!, we go to infinity... and beyond! It's another Pixar episode, and this time, our hosts are talking about Lightyear. Starring Chris Evans and Keke Palmer, Lightyear serves as an origin story of sorts for the character of Buzz Lightyear. But! Lightyear isn't about Tim Allen's Buzz Lightyear toy, but instead the film that the toy was based on in-universe! Still following? Good! Because just that concept alone is so much to unpack! Were you hyped for Lightyear? Will the movie live up to that hyped? The answers to both of these questions as we discuss yet another classic of tomorrow... today!

The day shall come when there are multiple podcasts on Spotify devoted to the filmography of Anna Kendrick, but for now, Kickin' It With Kendrick is the only one! In today's episode, Pierre and Jeff are joined by Calum Macnab of Scaretroducing to discuss Chris Morris' second film, and Anna Kendrick's thirty-sixth! "Based on 100 true stories", The Day Shall Come is a darkly comedic look at governmental overreach in the post-9/11 world. In need of rent money, impoverished preacher Moses Al Shabazz (Marchant Davis) turns to a wealthy contact with ties to Al-Quaeda. Unbeknownst to Al Shabazz, that contact is actually an FBI plant under the command of an overly ambitious anti-terror agent (Anna Kendrick). To learn more about the inspirations for The Day Shall Come, check out Chris' Morris interview on the Adam Buxton podcast. And for more of today's guest, Calum Macnab, you can check out Scaretroducing, where he and his co-host Gisela Martinez talk about horror movies every week or so! Most recently, they've covered the films Dashcam, Men, and Lux Aeterna. Today's episode is sponsored in part by the folks over at Bad Dad, Rad Dad. Check out their podcast where they look for better dads one movie at a time!

Dear listeners, you've stumbled upon the only podcast on Spotify devoted to the filmography of the one and only Anna Kendrick! If you don't mind doing us a quick (and simple) favour, you should take a listen! In today's episode, Pierre and Jeff finally get to talk about one of Anna Kendrick's biggest movies: the psychological thriller/dark comedy A Simple Favor! Based on the book by Darcey Bell -- which itself draws inspiration from classic movies like Diabolique, Strangers on a Train, and Single White Female -- A Simple Favor tells the story of Stephanie and Emily, two friends brought together by their kids, whose relationship is thrown out of wack when Emily suddenly disappears. In preparation, our hosts watched Diabolique, while Jeff additionally read the book and watched a few of the other inspirations for this movie. Tune in as Pierre and Jeff break down the inspirations for the film before getting as nit-picky as they can about Paul Feig and his directing! And last but not least, check out author Darcey Bell's blog-post/review of the movie here: https://crimereads.com/darcey-bell-adaptation-a-simple-favor/ Today's episode is sponsored in part by the folks over at Bad Dad, Rad Dad. Check out their podcast where they look for better dads one movie at a time! https://open.spotify.com/show/0kJAVmHvSa8EzZnjra5bGM?si=67e17d9e210b4366

The enduring classics of tomorrow, today!

Experience the epic conclusion of the Jurassic Era... from the comfort of your home, or through your headphones, or however you listen to podcasts! In today's episode, Pierre and Jeff talk about Jurassic World Dominion. Get ready for spicy takes on the biggest dinosaur movie series the world has ever seen! Does the third movie in the second Jurassic Park trilogy deliver a satisfying conclusion to the long-running 6-movie arc? Is it good? The answers are no, and no, but you should tune in anyway to hear why! Also in this episode, Jeff ends up on the wrong side of the law (judging by all the police sirens in the background), and we shout out a bunch of cool creators we like! Mentioned in this episode: Jenny Nicholson's breakdown of Colin Trevorrow's Star Wars script. Patrick H Willems' comprehensive review of the Police Academy movies (including Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol). And of course Jeff's review of Jurassic World: Dominion.

Some people get paid to podcast, but when it comes to talking about Anna Kendrick, Pierre and Jeff are the only ones on Spotify who do it weekly for free! In today's episode of Kickin' It With Kendrick, we've got a double bill! First up, our hosts discuss the Miles Teller/Anna Kendrick/Bryan Cranston movie Get A Job! Filmed in 2012, Get A Job spent 4 years in what could charitable be called post-production before finally releasing in 2016, so you know it's going to be good! Next up, Table 19! In this mumblecore-adjacent ensemble comedy, Kendrick and friend of the show Craig Robinson attend a wedding where they are not wanted. Does it make for an entertaining premise? Tune in to find out!

You've been waiting for 36 years, and now it's finally time for the sequel to one of the biggest movies of the 80s: Top Gun: Maverick! In this episode, Pierre and Jeff review Tom Cruise's latest movie! After years of delays, and seemingly dozens of trailers, Maverick recently released exclusively in theatres. Could Cruise bring about the long-awaited "Return to Cinemas" that not even Chris Nolan could make happen? Tune in to this week's episode to hear our hosts break down everything about Top Gun, Maverick, and Tom Cruise's career, and find out whether you should go see the US Navy's latest recruitment movie (spoilers: you probably should!)

Podcasts on Spotify come and go, but even if the world ends, there'll always be at least one podcast devoted to the filmography of America's heartthrob, Anna Kendrick! In the triumphant return of Kickin' It With Kendrick, Pierre and Jeff are joined by Matthew Simpson of Awesome Friday Podcast to talk about end of the world movies, and more specifically, Rapture-Palooza! Around the end of the first decade of the 2000s -- give or take -- we got a lot of end of the world movies. An almost suspicious amount. An amount that's... maybe not so suspicious once you consider the swathe of other Hollywood trends around the same time. So how does Rapture-Palooza stack up against the likes of Left Behind and This is the End? Well, not to spoil anything, but it's worse than one of those, and the other one we didn't talk about! You can find more of Matthew over on Twitter, or alongside his co-host Simon on the Awesome Friday podcast! Make sure to check out episodes of Awesome Friday over on Spotify, and follow them over on Twitter! Recently, Matthew's had the opportunity to interview filmmakers Katie Boland, Seth A Smith, and many more!

In the long-awaited followup to our classic episode about The Lighthouse, our hosts take on Robert Eggers' latest film: The Northman! An adaptation of the legend of Amleth, which itself inspired Shakespeare's Hamlet, The Northman is a brutal, period-accurate viking drama that pulls no punches! Alexander Skarsgard, Claes Bang, Nicole Kidman, and Anya Taylor-Joy explode onto the screen alongside Ethan Hawke and Willem Dafoe in one of 2022's most exciting movies! The Northman is also Eggers' major studio debut. What are his odds of working with Universal again? More importantly, how was his first time? Tune in to this week's episode as Pierre and Jeff answer all these questions and more!

At the start of The Big Event, our hosts reviewed Jeff Fowler's directorial debut: Sonic the Hedgehog! Now, almost two years later, it's time for the sequel to that episode, in which we review Jeff Fowler's second movie: Sonic the Hedgehog 2! When Dr. Robotnik enlists the help of interdimensional echidna Knuckles to seek out the Master Emerald (read: Big MacGuffin), it's up to Sonic and his new friend Tails (played by Colleen O'Shaughnessey, reprising her role from the games) to get there first! Featuring the return of Ben Schwartz and Jim Carrey, alongside the supporting cast of the first film and several exciting new faces, Sonic 2 is bigger than the first in almost every way! But does bigger also mean better? Tune in as Pierre and Jeff explore the art of Sega and Fowler!

On this week's episode of Classic Movies Live!, our hosts talk about a Nic Cage movie for the second time on the show, but Jeff keeps saying it's the first time! The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent stars Nicolas Cage as a heavily fictionalized version of himself. In a last gasp to pay off massive debts he's accrued during a messy divorce, Cage agrees to appear at a party hosted by a Spanish millionaire and superfan (Pedro Pascal). But when it turns out this millionaire may be more dangerous than he lets on, Cage finds himself in the middle of a CIA plot, and must use his acting chops and impressive filmography to get to the bottom of things! Billed as "The Most Nic Cage Movie Ever", does Talent live up to the hype? Tune in to find out!

We've talked about Marvel movies on this show before, and now it's time to do it again! On this week's episode of Classic Movies Live!, our hosts discuss Sam Raimi's return to superhero movies! Starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Elizabeth Olson, Benedict Wong, Xochitl Gomez, and Rachel McAdams in her return to the MCU, Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness aims to continue the story of both Dr. Strange and WandaVision. It's also the 28th movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. With so much to live up to, how much of the actual filmmakers shine through in Multiverse? Is Marvel's latest among their best, or just another entry in the Marvel machine? Tune in to hear Pierre and Jeff's thoughts!

With summer blockbuster season fast approaching, it's time to turn our attention back to superhero movies! On today's episode, Pierre and Jeff talk about Matt Reeves' The Batman! Clocking in at 3 hours, The Batman is a sweeping epic featuring a brand new, noir-inspired take on Gotham City! Robert Pattinson dons the cowl alongside Jeffrey Wright as Jim Gordon, Zoe Kravitz as Catwoman, and Paul Dano as the Riddler! So how do they fare in the roles? Is The Batman the shot in the arm the DC Cinematic Universe needed? Tune in to hear our hosts break down Pattinson's biggest bat-themed movie yet!

On this week's episode, our hosts talk about a movie you've probably heard of, but maybe not, considering its limited release! Everything Everywhere All At Once is A24's first release in IMAX, and also one of the first movies both our hosts can actually agree to like! Seriously, if you haven't seen it yet, you'll want to go fix that before tuning into this spoiler-filled episode!

After a very long, one-week break, our hosts are back with yet another episode of Heatwave Radio's Classic Movies Live! In today's episode, Pierre and Jeff talk about the new Sandra Bullock/Channing Tatum vehicle The Lost City. Also, a little bit about the Oscars, because it would be weird to just leave that un-talked about.

Free from the curse of the Oscars, our hosts tackle the latest Pixar movie, Turning Red! In this week's episode of Classic Movies Live!, hear Pierre and Jeff talk about the first Pixar movie set in Canada! In Turning Red, Mei-Lin Lee discovers that she can turn into a red panda when she feels strong emotions. Will this newfound power be a curse to be overcome or exactly the thing she needs to get to the boy band concert in a few weeks? Also: is the movie any good? Tune in to hear our hosts' thoughts! Additionally, if you want more of Pierre and Jeff, you can check out the 2nd annual AoDR awards happening at 4 PM PST/7PM EST/11 PM GMT this Saturday! Put on by the Academy of Death Racers, the AoDRs are an annual awards ceremony honouring the best of cinema from the last year, with categories shamelessly stolen from the Oscars (and a few extras thrown in)! To learn more, check out aodr.net!

In today's classic episode of Classic Movies Live!, Pierre and Jeff take on their second Stanley Kubrick film, Eyes Wide Shut! Starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, Kubrick's final movie is a tense, two-and-a-half-hour-long erotic thriller completed only days before the director's death. So how does it stack up against Kubrick's other films, particularly the subject of last week's episode, A Clockwork Orange? Tune in to find out!