Friends From Film School Podcast

EP 69 Friends From Film School Podcast - A Quiet Place Part 2 Review! Well we made it all the way to episode 69 so far! And since Lee, from "A Quiet Place," was robbed of winning Best Movie Dad last week, we thought it was only fitting to take a work outing and all go see "A Quiet Place Part II" together! We talk about the movie in depth, including behind the scene secrets and the

Friends From Film School Podcast - Best and Worst Movie Dads  Just in time for Father's Day 2021, Brad, Ellis, and the soon to be Dad himself, Luke take it upon themselves to debate and rank the best of best movie Dads of all time. With contenders such as Darth Vader, Jack Torrence, Clark Griswold, and Marlin from Finding Nemo, this bracket is difficult yet hilarious. Watch an

Friends From Film School Podcast - Army of the Dead: Blockbuster or Lackluster?    Listeners' Discretion Advised: This podcast contains clips of the film containing strong language    Zack Snyder is at it again with yet another high profile streaming film, this time on Netflix. Starring Dave Bautista and a digitally-added Tag Notaro, Army of the Dead follows a g

Friends From Film School Podcast - EP 66: Mortal Kombat (2021) -  Do Video Games Make Good Movies? Listeners' Discretion Advised: This podcast contains clips of the film containing strong language    Ever since the Super Mario Bros. Movie came out in 1993, popular video game properties have quickly been greenly to live action movies, but in many ways, the art form ha

Friends From Film School Podcast - EP 65: Princess Mononoke -  Can Anime Reach Universal Acclaim?   This week we conclude our journey to the East in search of becoming true Anime fans. We watch the 1997 Hayao Miyazaki classic, Princess Mononoke and tackle the question of "Can anime reach universal acclaim?" Mononoke tells the story of a young Emishi prince named Ashitaka,

Friends From Film School Podcast - EP 64: Akira - The Cult Anime Classic This week we continue the journey into the weird and wonderful world of Anime. Ellis has been taken on the duty to teach Luke & Brad about the intricacies of Japanese animation and ultimately try to win them over as "Anime fans." This week, we take a look at where America's modern anime obsession started,

Friends From Film School Podcast EP 63:    Attack on Titan: An Intro to Anime   Well, we're going international! Ellis has taken it upon himself to teach the friends from film school gang the intricacies of the wild world of anime. This week we watch the first episode the the acclaimed anime series, Attack on Titan. Attack on Titan tells the story of Eren Jaeger a yo

Friends From Film School Podcast EP 62: Monster Mayhem: Godzilla vs. Kong What happens when Titans duke it out? That's the topic of this week's episode of Friends From Film School. Brad, Luke, and Ryan sit down and discuss the first official blockbuster of the post-Covid era, Godzilla vs. Kong. The movie follows Kong and his protectors as they undertake a perilous journey to find h

Friends From Film School Podcast EP 61:    Bigger, Badder, and in 4:3 -  Zack Snyder's Justice League We're back after another long hiatus, aka Ellis' COVID quarantine to discuss the biggest film event of 2021 so far. That's right, this week Brad, Luke, and Ellis dive right into Zack Snyder's moody, dark, slow-motion & square ratio'd, 4 hour director's cut of 201

Friends From Film School Podcast EP 60:    When Does Style Become Parody?   This week the FFFS gang attempts to answer the age old question, "when does an actor, director, or series style eventually become a parody of itself?" Ellis shares his theory about how it's connected to meme culture. Luke allowed the group to discuss the phenomena with  examples such as