Marathon Me: A Movie Marathon Podcast

Feb 02 2025 139 ep. 61 mins

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An entertaining conversation from friends, Rhys and Kane, as they marathon films that share the same series, director, actor or themes. The movies explored, reviewed and ranked could be anything from cinema mastery and mindless entertainment, to visual and auditory assaults - as long as they're viewed as part of a movie marathon.

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Chasing Amy (1997) - A more serious Kevin Smith

Feb 02 2025 62 mins

KEVIN SMITH FILMOGRAPHY MARATHON Our friend Kevo takes a step in a new direction - one towards a more mature film... a Spike Lee film (in Rhys' opinion). When two comic book artists meet a girl, one of them falls for her but the man's hopes are crushed when he finds that she is a lesbian. Kane and Rhys jump on this third entry to the View-Askew-niverse and debate over whether its t

Mallrats (1995) - From the store to the mall

Jan 28 2025 63 mins

KEVIN SMITH FILMOGRAPHY MARATHON So you've made "Clerks". You're the new hot kid on the block. You can make something great for almost no money. Hollywood is throwing you an opportunity to break it into the mainstream. Whatever you do: don't screw it up. "Mallrats" sees two best friends seek the comforts of the mall when their girlfriends leave them on the same day. After a day of

Clerks (1994) - Kevin Smith's first smash hit

Jan 19 2025 72 mins

KEVIN SMITH FILMOGRAPHY MARATHONMarathon Me takes on another director. Feels a bit soon, doesn't it? Well, this one has been a long time coming. Rhys and Kane dive into the View-Askew-niverse, and look at all the films of Kevin Smith.The rightful and only place to start is Smith's first major hit that took indie-wood by storm. A simple and humble effort filmed entirely in and aroun

Black Christmas Franchise Ranking/Overview - A Trilogy of Remakes

Dec 27 2024 27 mins

BLACK CHRISTMAS FRANCHISE MARATHONChristmas 2024 may have already passed, but Marathon Me has one more Christmas task: to rank this trilogy of remakes.An oddity that Black Christmas never got any direct sequels, but instead reinvention after reinvention, all spanning from a spine-tingling original classic slasher.Kane and Rhys probably undertake one of the easiest rankings they've

Black Christmas (2019) - 'Elevating' a classic

Dec 22 2024 42 mins

BLACK CHRISTMAS FRANCHISE MARATHONA far more modern interpretation of "Black Christmas," all inclusive with a nice sheen of amateurism and (attempted) elevation.With holidays around the corner, Riley and her friends prepare for a Christmas party. But when a masked stalker targets girls and goes on a killing spree, they decide to fight back.Following the 2006 remake, Kane and Rhys'

Black Christmas (2006) - Is this the remake the world wanted?

Dec 19 2024 54 mins

BLACK CHRISTMAS FRANCHISE MARATHON In the thirty years since the original, movies changed quite a lot. But horror changed A LOT. From a film that inspired Halloween, how do we think this 2006 Dimension slasher film with fare? A murdering sociopath escapes prison and returns to his childhood home. However, he finds out that his house has been converted into a sorority house and begi

Black Christmas (1974)

Dec 10 2024 63 mins

BLACK CHRISTMAS FRANCHISE MARATHON Marathon Me gets festive this holiday season; but of course with a bit more blood, plastic bag kills and a freak in the attic than you're usual family Christmas (most of the time). The boys take on the trilogy of remakes that is the 'Black Christmas' franchise. As winter break begins, a group of sorority sisters begin to receive anonymous, lascivi

Ranking the films of Paul Thomas Anderson

Dec 03 2024 61 mins

PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON FILMOGRAPHY MARATHON One marathon, spanning three decades and nine films. PTA touches on many themes, taking our hosts from the porn industry on the 1970s, to the oil rush on the late 1800s, and what it means to grieve in a contemporary turn into the 2000s. But one thing runs true... this director knows what he's doing. Rhys and Kane try to rank their individua

Licorice Pizza (2021) - The Rose-Tinted Glasses of PTA

Nov 27 2024 58 mins

PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON FILMOGRAPHY MARATHON There's very little stranger than the transition from adolescence to adulthood... and the fact that maybe it may never happen. Licorice Pizza is one of those 'vibe movies' where you're transported to another era, an earlier time in your life, and a place where maybe your ethics are put on hold temporarily so that you can feel something pret

Phantom Thread (2017) - A More Mature PTA

Nov 04 2024 57 mins

PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON FILMOGRAPHY MARATHON The first PTA film set outside of L.A., this journey puts us in a new location, and on a new path for the director. Quiet, slow, serious and mature. Renowned dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock and his sister Cyril are at the center of British fashion in 1950s London. Women come and go in Woodcock's life, providing the confirmed bachelor with insp