Film Explorers

SHE’S BACK… LOOKING AS GORGEOUS AND OUTRAGEOUS AS EVER IN A BRAND NEW FROCK. Pride Month's rolling on like a lavender bus through the Outback as we tackled some early '90s Aussie queer cinema with THE ADVENTURES OF PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT! We talk about that post-Paris is Burning moment in the early '90s, fabulous drag queens on road trips through barren lan

SOME PEOPLE LEARN THE HARD WAY. Happy Pride to all of our LGBTQIA+ community, we love you so much! This month we're celebrating you and watching all queer cinema. We start with Jackson's pick BAD EDUCATION starring Hugh Jackman and a whole bunch of character actors. We talk through the complicated queer content, the HBO Original to Emmys pipeline, and how much we love jour

JOYOUS ENTERTAINMENT FOR EVERY SEASON, ANY YEAR!!!! You see that?! The tagline says "ANY SEASON" so it's only a little bit weird that we're covering a totemic Christmas classic in late May. Anyways, this week is WHITE CHRISTMAS, our first Michael Curtiz and the conclusion to the chaos that comes with Sutherland picking for an entire month. We talk life getting in

EVIL TAKES MANY FORMS. "This is Chicago all over again!" In one of our most off-the-rails episodes yet, we head into the woods to discuss Robert Eggers' THE VVITCH! Josh goes all in on Black Philip, Satan himself curses Joey's audio, we debate evil itself! I don't even know how to start describing this episode, it's crazy... We also talk a little bit of

NO SEARCH OF HUMAN EMOTIONS HAS EVER PROBED SO DEEPLY, SO TRUTHFULLY AS… ANATOMY OF A MURDER. To celebrate our new host and best friend Sutherland's birthday, we dive headfirst into some legal proceedings with his pick of Otto Preminger's ANATOMY OF A MURDER! We talk how it handles the moral ambiguity of the American court system, Jimmy Stewart's voice, and if this m

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