Movies For Decades

Oct 31 2023 23 ep. 69 mins 8

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Three siblings explore film history by watching one film from every decade from the 1920's to the 2020's

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2022 - Everything Everywhere All at Once

Oct 31 2023 61 mins

We're back, to talk Everything Everywhere All at Once, not only the best picture winner but undoubtedly the defining movie of 2022. Our pal Christien Sulliven joins us to unpack this big hearted zany multiverse adventure, and do a little litigation of its qualities and faults, and some retrospective of the discourse surrounding it.

2012 - The Raid

Jun 26 2023 71 mins

Epic fights! Ultral violence! A true short king! Redemption, or lack therof! On this season's Cottingham special, we disect one of the ultimate and most influential action movies of the century, what makes it awesome and what makes it, not for everyone

2002 - Adaptation

Apr 10 2023 67 mins

Here we discuss another of our favorites, Adaptation, a mind bending movie that makes us ask deep sounding questions about the creative process, how stories represent real life and vice versa and whether or not we're done with fish.

2022 - Oscar Special

Mar 06 2023 85 mins

Making a quick detour to the present we've got an Oscar Special! Helen and Colin make both Oscar predictions and work out their own picks for who should collect statues at this year's Academy Awards, and discuss the movies from this year and where Cinema is in the year 2022.

1992 - A League of Their Own

Dec 19 2022 63 mins

Digging back into our childhoods with one of Helen's favorite movies (and one her brothers love as well) we talk A League of Their Own, Dottie Hinson as a heroic ideal, a little Hanks and maybe just a lil BASEBALL

1982 - Blade Runner

Dec 12 2022 76 mins

Here we discuss Blade Runner, an essential science fiction film and also a fairly essential Albea family film. Unpacking what that might say about us, we examine the tortured history of this film's many versions, strengths and weaknesses of those changes, how we feel about Deckard as a replicant, Harrison Ford's unique star power and how to sell this movie as a fairy tale to little

1972 - Aguirre, the Wrath of God

Oct 24 2022 59 mins

Entering the 70's via a highly influential historical epic set in the 1500's, we dig into the fraught stories of behind the scenes difficulties, similarities between conquistadors and filmmakers, all while Helen and Colin try their best Werner Herzog impressions

1962 - What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

Sep 12 2022 74 mins

This episode we along with guest Chase Tinnon ask the titular question, what ever did happen to Baby Jane?

1952 - Ikiru

Aug 08 2022 69 mins

Returning to Japan we pay our first visit to the legendary filmography of Akira Kurosawa, with his melancholy but gently comedic drama, Ikiru. As usual, we spend some time discussing details we might be missing, be it things lost in translation, lost in time, and whether or not we can even speak English, let alone pronounce Japanese words

1942 - Casablanca

May 23 2022 74 mins

Diving into Casablanca, arguably the ultimate classic Hollywood movie, we explore its magnetic cinematic power, the intensity of the wartime context in which it was made, and make sure to spend time on the saucy romance at its heart