I Am The Wiz Film Club

Dec 25 2024 407 ep. 29 mins

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Hosted by The Wiz, he does film reviews and discussions with co-host Zero on a diverse set of movies, from blockbuster to art house films. Have a suggestion for us to talk about or review? Email us at [email protected]!

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Wiz's Top Ten First Watches of 2024

Dec 25 2024 16 mins

This is it: The Top Ten First Watches of 2024! Thanks all for listening to the podcast! Moving forward, reviews will be exclusively on YouTube but I will be working on what I will do on the feed, possibly a weekly podcast rounding up what I reviewed and other things I'd like to talk about. Thank you again for listening and I hope you have a great 2025!

Holiday Inn, dir. Mark Sandrich

Dec 20 2024 6 mins

Wiz RECOMMENDS Holiday Inn...But It's Not A Christmas Movie I came into Holiday Inn under the pretense of "I watched White Christmas last year and liked it...and this is a remake of Holiday Inn...so I'll watch Holiday Inn to compare the two!" Well...there's a few problems with this mode of thinking. FIrst: White Christmas is a loose remake of Holiday Inn...and loose is the key w

Three Days of the Condor, dir. Sydney Pollack

Dec 18 2024 12 mins

Zero and Wiz RECOMMEND Three Days of the Condor Sometimes you watch a movie and you just enjoy it even though there are glaring issues with the finished product. This was my exact feeling finishing Three Days of the Condor, Sydney Pollack's paranoia thriller about a CIA reader (Robert Redford) who comes back from lunch finding his entire team assassinated. The movie is actually

Tangerine, dir. Sean Baker

Dec 17 2024 7 mins

Wiz RECOMMENDS Tangerine I've heard about Tangerine for nearly a decade now. But there's a few things that get mentioned about the film whenever I hear about it: it's about transsexual sex workers and it was shot on three iPhone 5s'. But unless you pay real close attention (and I mean REAL CLOSE ATTENTION) you won't be able to tell. Tangerine takes the seedy, grimy L.A. setting

Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale, dir. Jalmari Helander

Dec 13 2024 6 mins

Wiz DOES NOT RECOMMEND Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (But You Should Probably See It Anyway) I may struggle to convey how odd Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale is. This Finnish genre blender incorporates a whole load of genre and film sensibilities: It's a dark, brooding thriller that slowly boils up the tension It's a grim-dark like fantasy It's a children's Christmas movie

Edward Scissorhands, dir. Tim Burton

Dec 11 2024 13 mins

Zero and Wiz RECOMMEND Edward Scissorhands Combining a gothic horror monster with a 1950s aesthetic and sensibility, Edward Scissorhands takes this odd mash-up and turns it into an allegorical story on being an outsider and the vapidness of suburban life. Edward has Johnny Depp as the title character who's scarred face, leather and buckle attire hides a very child-like, mousey de

Arthur Christmas, an Aardman Production

Dec 09 2024 7 mins

Wiz DOES NOT RECOMMEND Arthur Christmas I understand to a certain extent that critics overrate movies for kids to a certain extent. The reason why is simple: how are they going to review something meant for kids through a kids perspective? They can't. For the most part, it feels like they review those movies based on how painful it will be for the adult watching it with them. Bu

Klaus, dir. Sergio Pablos

Dec 06 2024 6 mins

Wiz RECOMMENDS Klaus For the first thirty minutes of Klaus, I had the most acute sense of deja vu: did the filmmakers seriously just copy/paste The Emperor's New Groove from the main character to the humor? Honestly, it sure as hell felt like it: Jesper can easily be a stand-in for Kusco with his smarmy, rude sense of humor that might as well have been David Spade. The only diff

In Bruges, dir. Martin McDonagh

Dec 04 2024 10 mins

Zero and Wiz RECOMMEND In Bruges Part pulpy crime story, part morality play with a crass, blackened humorist tinge, In Bruges is a film that is a hilariously dark with a surprisingly sweet aftertaste. Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson carry a curse-laden, non politically correct yarn about two hit men waiting for their next assignment while they discuss what happened in the last

Spencer, dir. Pablo Lorrain

Dec 03 2024 8 mins

Wiz RECOMMENDS "Spencer" To be honest, I was conflicted after watching Spencer. On the one hand, the biopic is chock full of formulaic crap that highlights performances that are little more than good mimicry than anything that lets you see the heart and soul of the person it's about. For every brilliant movie like I'm Not There, Mishima: A Life In Four Chapters and Malcolm X, th