Film Explorers

THERE’S BEEN A GRAVE MISUNDERSTANDING. Potentially the strangest month in the show's short history continues as Sutherland picks for us Tim Burton and Mike Johnson's (not the current Speaker of the House, don't worry we checked) CORPSE BRIDE! We talk all things stop-motion, cinematography and lighting in the world of animated films, and if every movie should be 70 mi

POWER CAN BE MURDER TO RESIST. This week, we're going back to last July for another Tom Cruise pick, this time Sydney Pollack's The Firm. We break down our history with John Grisham, ask if 3.4 is the best average rating a movie can have on Letterboxd, and question why Jigsaw can run that fast. Joey talks Chernobyl, Josh sees an all time favorite in theaters for the first

THEY LEFT FOR WAR AS BOYS NEVER TO RETURN AS MEN. This week, we're going back to our first ever theme with Sutherland picking one of the first Best Picture winners ever, All Quiet on the Western Front from 1930. We spend a ton of time comparing and contrasting with the 2022 German adaptation that's become rather polarizing between the four of us, break down the Classic Hol

This week, we've got what may be the biggest show in Explorers history as we welcome on previous guest Sutherland as the official fourth Film Explorer! Applaud alongside us as we also dive into a long discussion of the existential conversations of MY DINNER WITH ANDRE, our first Louis Malle and one of the biggies of the time period. We go long on our personal journeys with mund

WHERE HAPPILY EVER AFTER IS JUST A DREAM This week, we're tapping into the insane fantastical world of THE CITY OF LOST CHILDREN! We talk finding Terry Gilliam vibes where we least expect it, our disappointment at us not getting ten of these movies every year, and maybe Ron Perlman's best performance? We also break down Josh's complicated thoughts on Civil War, some Li

Ohayō, everyone! This week we're covering one of the all-time greats, Yasujiro Ozu, and his postwar comedy GOOD MORNING! We work through the film's relationship with Western culture and consumerism, the gorgeous use of color alongside the immobile camera, and of course, the abundance of fart jokes (guys, there's so many). We also break down our thoughts on Monkey Man,

...DON'T EXPECT TO LIKE 'EM. This week we go to the streets of Philly and explore maybe the most broken male relationship of all time in MIKEY AND NICKY. We talk about Elaine May's career, Peter Falk's eye acting, queering male friendship, and if we can even qualify this as a friendship. We also talk about some more Todd Haynes, Godzilla x Kong, and a big name dire

WHAT IS THE KEY TO LIFE - POWER, PRESTIGE OR PEACE? Akira Kurosawa's arrival on the pod with his final collaboration with one of the all time greats, Toshirō Mifune, RED BEARD. We talk humanism, films that feel literary, random slapstick fight scenes, building a whole town for literally no reason other than the fact that you're Akira Kurosawa, and much more. We also go thr

Happy birthday Joey <3 Our long-awaited discussion of his new obsession, D. A. Pennebaker's Monterey Pop is here. We go long on each band in order, talking influence and energy and pure unbridled vibes. Joey falls in love with rock again and again, Josh drops some hot takes about some of the so-called greatest musicians of all time, and we talk about Joey's first beer e

With Spring Training going on (Josh: "I do not know what Spring Training is"), we had to get a baseball film on the pod. Tom Hanks, Geena Davis, MADONNA! Baby, you know we're talking A League of Their Own. We talk about our history playing sports, Joey's hatred of baseball, and all of these women getting injured on set. Like seriously, look it up, it's crazy.