We Like Movies

Mar 09 2024 239 ep. 62 mins 67
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Walking the movie walk, talking the movie talk

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NOLAN WEEK: Bonus Podcast - 25 Years of Nolan on the Eve of the "Oppenheimer Oscars"

Mar 09 2024 169 mins  
We’ve come to the end of Nolan Week, folks. The Academy Awards are nigh and we’re here to offer the last word on the soon-to-be-Oscar-annointed OPPENHEIMER. Join Matt and SPECIAL GUEST BRIAN BOARINI (!) for a three-hour tour of a quarter-century filmography. It’s time, folks. It’s Nolan time. Email: [email protected] Donate: Thanks! Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / S

NOLAN WEEK: Encore Podcast - Episode 319 - The TENET Talkdown and Final Rankings

Mar 08 2024 60 mins  
It’s TENET-talkdown time, team. We chat. We disagree. We rank. Sound good? Email: [email protected] Donate: Thanks! Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Stitcher / Overcast / RSS Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Stitcher / Overcast / RSS Donate: Thanks! Email: [email protected] Sound good? We chat. We disagree. We rank. It’s TENET-talkdown time, team.

NOLAN WEEK: Encore Podcast - Episode 316 - Temporal Anxiety or “The Fear of the Clock”

Mar 07 2024 91 mins  
It’s time to talk temporality, team. - INCEPTION (2010) - INTERSTELLAR (2014) - DUNKIRK (2017) Email: [email protected] Donate: Thanks! Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Stitcher / Overcast / RSS

NOLAN WEEK: Encore Podcast - Episode 313 - Confidence, Misdirection, and Nolan’s Neo-Noir Bona Fides

Mar 06 2024 77 mins  
With Nolan’s vision of Gotham City in our rearview, we’re now flashing back to the beginning of the auteur’s cinematic journey. We’ll scrutinize his dexterity with the daylight noir, his interest in self-victimizing sleuths, and his fascination with prestidigitation. - FOLLOWING (1998) - MEMENTO (2000) - INSOMNIA (2002) - THE PRESTIGE (2006) Email: wlmpodcast@gmail.

NOLAN WEEK: Encore Podcast - Episode 311 - The DARK KNIGHT Trilogy and the Battle for the Soul of a City

Mar 05 2024 93 mins  
You know them, you’ve seen them, and you certainly have opinions about them. Join us as we revisit three of the most successful, influential, and subversively political films of the 21st century- courtesy of a man who insisted that he had absolutely no political agenda in mind when he made them. We’ll [attempt to] get to the bottom of this thematic paradox… - BATMAN BEGINS

NOLAN WEEK: Encore Podcast - Episode 310 - A Keynote Introduction to our CHRISTOPHER NOLAN Series

Mar 05 2024 62 mins  
As we traverse the last few miles in the marathon that will end at the 96th Academy Awards, it has become clear that “foregone conclusion” is the proper term to describe this year’s Best Director race. We here at WE LIKE MOVIES could not be happier with this inevitability as we look forward to no longer living in a world in which Christopher Nolan has zero Oscars. In honor o

320: Our Epic, Spoiler-Filled Discussion about NO TIME TO DIE and All Things 007 (w/Special Guest Jamie Lawrence!)

Oct 31 2021 137 mins  
It’s Bond time again. We’re podcasting about it. Need we say more?

318: Celebrating TRAFFIC on its 20th Anniversary (w/Special Guest Brian Boarini)

Dec 29 2020 64 mins  
On this week’s episode, we’re joined by special guest BRIAN BOARINI for a discussion about Steven Soderbergh’s undervalued and under-discussed 2000 masterpiece, TRAFFIC, on the occasion of the film’s 20th anniversary. Email: [email protected] Donate: Thanks! Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Stitcher / Overcast / RSS

317: Present Tense - MANK, Netflix and the State of the Cinematic Union in the Late Hours of 2020

Dec 11 2020 59 mins  
Greetings, WLM faithful! We return to you now, after an extended, fall hiatus, with a State-of-the-Cinematic-Union-style discussion pod, followed by a thorough review of David Fincher’s decades-in-the-making, pseudo-historical biopic Mank. We’re excited to be back, have a backlog of hot takes, and promise to never stay away so long again. If you’re playing the WLM drinking

315: AFI #58 - THE GOLD RUSH (1925)

Aug 12 2020 34 mins  
“Eureka! I’ve found it!” Email: [email protected] Donate: Thanks! Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Stitcher / Overcast / RSS