The Great Movies Pod: A Retrospective Film Review Show

May 10 2023 108 ep. 115 mins 73

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In this podcast, we plan on discussing the films of Roger Ebert's seminal film essay collection The Great Movies. We aim to review each movie in individual episode discussions and bringing our opinions and Ebert's writing to the forefront. We will finish each episode with a thumbs up/thumbs down reaction and a rating out of four stars. We also hope to bring you intermittent current event episodes discussion favorite new movies of the past month or two.

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Nosferatu/Pandora's Box Silent Film Extraveganza

May 10 2023 87 mins

Apologies for the delay on epsidoes! We have been stuck in a rut with lost recordings as well as Dylan moving states. We have a few episodes backed up that we hope to bring you soon. For now, enjoy our full discussion on Nosferatu and Pandora's Box, two great silent films worthy of rememberance with some of the most memorable filmic devices in history.

2022 DA MOVIES AWARDS SHOW!

Feb 16 2023 178 mins

Dylan, Nick, and Jana have gathered to partake in their most important yearly episode...dolling out awards from the films in the past year. This will include the classic Oscar categories as well as lots of silly awards like Achievement in Hotness and Best Bronco Henry!

The Night of the Hunter

Jan 20 2023 129 mins

We're back! For an episode recorded a few months ago! Apologies it's taken a while to get back and running but we hope you enjoy our thrilling discussion on The Night of the Hunter

Sight and Sound Predictions!

Nov 28 2022 92 mins

We got a couple days till the Sight and Sound 2022 ballot is released! Nick and Dylan sit down and try to make some general, and bold, predictions about what you might see from the new ballot.

Season 7 FINALE! (Prince of Darkness Review)

Oct 28 2022 130 mins

We're finally at one of our favorite times of the year. A season finale episode! Bad movie review! Well according to Ebert at least as we discuss a now Carpenter Classic and Apocalypse Trilogy member Prince of Darkness. Then we give out "silly" and "serious" awards for the movies we discussed in this last season of the show including The Maltese Falcon, Manhattan, McCabe and Mrs. M

Network

Oct 21 2022 115 mins

I'M MAD AS HELL AND I'M NOT GONNA PODCAST ANYMORE! Just kidding we got a new episode here discussing the 70's classic Network.

Nashville

Oct 10 2022 117 mins

In for an interesting episode this week, Nick, Jana, and Dylan break down the Altman classic Nasvhille. There's Oscar talk, character drafts, 9/11 tangents and more supplementing the truly insightful discussion.

2022 Movie Catchup!

Sep 19 2022 127 mins

It's becoming tradition! Jana and Dylan, with Nick gone, decide they're gonna run down some of the big movies that came out over the beginning of the year and summer. We couldn't get to them all but we hope you like the slate. In order of what was discussed we did: - Kimi- Turning Red- The Batman- Everything Everywhere All At Once- AmbuLAnce- RRR (kinda....)- Top Gun: Maverick- Cri

Vivre Sa Vie

Sep 13 2022 98 mins

Our first podcast up in a month, and our 100th ever, is one that comes on a somber day. We celebrate Godard and a great film of his on this day of his passing. Recorded a while back but it was time for me (Dylan) to post it after struggling with it as I was not a positive influence on the podcast that day. Hope you still enjoy the episode Nick and Jana were excellent.

A Canterbury Tale

Aug 12 2022 79 mins

DYLAN GOT A BIRTHDAY WISH! With his birthday this past week he picked a completely unique movie with Nick gone and needing to fill in and he picked....THE ARCHERS' A CANTERBURY TALE!