Movies For Life

Mar 05 2024 95 ep. 122 mins 17

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A podcast from Brian Keiper and Michele Eggen about the movies that mean the most

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Best Picture Winners: REBECCA and THE APARTMENT

Mar 05 2024 134 mins

March means awards season in the movie world so here on Movies for Life we're doing a couple episodes in the month of March having to do with the Oscars. For today's episode, we've chosen a couple of our personal favorite movies from the Oscars' history of Best Picture winners! First we discuss Michele's choice, the Best Picture winner of 1940 - Alfred Hitchcock's REBECCA. It's def

Imaginary Friends: HARVEY and DROP DEAD FRED

Feb 20 2024 89 mins

'Ello, snotfaces! Welcome back to Movies for Life where this week we have a wonderful double feature of two movies with very sweet messages at their core, but at the same time are also dealing with some serious stuff. It's all about the power of the imaginary friend and what they represent and can do for just about everyone around them. First up for discussion is Brian's choice of

Snowbound: THE GREY and FARGO

Feb 06 2024 145 mins

It's cold out there! And since it is that winter time of year for many people, we at Movies for Life are bringing you some snowbound movies to talk about. We have a couple of truly great ones this week, starting with Michele's pick of the 2011 survival drama THE GREY. Though it was marketed as just being Liam Neeson vs wolves in the snow, we get into why this movie is really so muc

Favorite Discoveries of 2023: Part 2

Jan 24 2024 78 mins

We're back counting down our top five favorite discoveries of 2023. The picks are yet again very eclectic and we hope you hear about something that piques your interest. We start this episode with a few documentaries we loved and end with a whole lot of movies that we really liked that didn't quite make the list. Follow the hosts and show on social media Movies for Life: @movielife

Favorite Discoveries of 2023: Part 1

Jan 16 2024 55 mins

In this episode we count down numbers 10 to 6 of our favorite movies we saw for the first time in 2023 and they run the gamut from Hollywood classics to recent hidden gems. It's been a great year for discovery and we hope you'll find some recommendations for your future movie watching! Follow the hosts and show on social media Movies for Life: @movielifepod on Twitter and Instagram

Favorites of 2023

Jan 02 2024 97 mins

We each pick or favorites of the year just past with one of our favorite episodes to do each year. We each count down our ten favorites of 2023 and offer a few others that didn't quite make the cut but are still worth checking out. Follow us on social media Movies for Life @movielifepod Brian Keiper @Brianwaves42 Michele Eggen @micheleeggen on Instagram

A Sly Christmas: FIRST BLOOD and COBRA

Dec 23 2023 131 mins

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, Movies for Life listeners! We hope you all are having a wonderful and happy holiday season however you celebrate or don't! Here on the show, we're having a very Sly Christmas by celebrating actor Sylvester Stallone with two movies of his that don't have anything to do with Christmas but take place around the holiday! First we discuss FIRST BLOOD

Mysteries: THE LADY VANISHES and THE LAST OF SHEILA

Nov 28 2023 124 mins

Keeping up with our noir-ish theme for this month, on this week's episode of Movies for Life, we're tackling a couple of Michele's absolute favorite kinds of films - mysteries! And these are some truly banger titles so we know you'll dig them! First up is Brian's choice of an early Hitchcock masterpiece, 1938's THE LADY VANISHES. It's a mystery, it's an espionage thriller, it's a c

Bank Heists: CASH ON DEMAND and SUGAR & SPICE

Nov 14 2023 114 mins

This month on Movies for Life we're doing our own version of Noirvember with a couple of episodes about crime and mystery! For our episode this week, we're robbing banks and talking about two very different approaches to the bank heist film. First up for discussion is Brian's choice, the 1961 Hammer film CASH ON DEMAND. This movie has a lot of things that both of us like - Peter Cu

More Ghost Movies Because

Oct 30 2023 93 mins

We take a page from our friends at the Pure Cinema Podcast and share ten "Ghost Movies Because" each. These aren't necessarily the best or even our favorites, but movies about ghosts and hauntings that we like, want to shine a light on, and talk about. We had a lot of fun this Halloween season and hope you enjoy this special bonus episode about one of our favorite sub-genres. Follo