Happy New Year! Billy Dee Williams in a TV sequel to a Sidney Poitier classic? Must be Christmas (Lilies of the Field)!
Joe, Nate, and Alex are back together to spill their beans as they try to figure out Robert Eggers' newest tale of isolation and madness.
Treachery! Satanic rituals! Elvis hair! The Sleepy Eyes of Death series goes for the throat in its fourth outing.
Joe and Katy discuss one of the greatest movie couples of all time: Nick and Nora Charles.
Peter Billingsley! Thanksgiving! And…a giant chicken?? Join Katy and Joe as they take a look at this forgotten 80’s TV special!
Happy Halloween! This year we’re checking in to the Bates Motel as we check out Psycho II and also we maybe check out Psycho III.
Joe and Alex try to find out what makes this modern cerebral thriller and cult classic tick. Spoiler alert: they don’t figure it out.
In this new episode of Film Illiterates, Joe and Katy try to shrink Joe down for their review of THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN! Or they just try a gimmicky effect that gets really old really quick...
Happy Halloween! Here's our review of a failed pilot to a TV spinoff of PSYCHO! Because we hate ourselves...
Joe jumps into the world of Japanese samurai films with the first entry in this lesser known series.
That haunted house movie that everyone goes, "Oh yeah, that was a thing" when they hear it brought up in conversation.
Joe can't stop talking about some stupid slow-moving artsy french movies, so here's one that's at least kind of creepy.
In our ongoing countdown to Halloween, Nathan and Vincent Price invite you to watch a movie so good, it'll melt your face off.
In this installment of our countdown to Halloween, Joe tries to convince you that a crappy sci-fi horror flick he likes is actually any good.
Katy brings us the second entry in our countdown to Halloween with a movie that showed the world Robert Mitchum is pretty crazy, y'all.
Bill (Alex Winter) and Ted (Keanu Reeves) reunite to finish what they were destined to do: to unite and save the world with the most epic song ever.
We watched Satoshi Kon's PAPRIKA, a Japanese animated film that pushes the limits of dream-sharing to a new reality.
In this episode, we watched three video-game movie adaptions: DOOM (2005), SUPER MARIO BROS. (1993), and POKEMON: DETECTIVE PIKACHU (2019).
We've returned... what, did you think we got abducted by aliens or something? Lucky for everyone, we reviewed this abduction thriller that has almost been forgotten, until now.
Joe, Nathan, and Alex kick back and discuss some of their favorite filmmakers.
Joe, Nathan, and Alex descend into absurdity as they dive into the world of Monty Python.
Joe, Nathan, and Alex dive deep into the fears as they discuss this surreal 2018 psychological horror film.
Joe, Nathan, and Alex spend an ungodly amount of money to review THE HUNT and talk about the future of digital distribution.
Let's play a game... how about Global Thermonuclear Warfare? This week, Nathan picked the 1983 classic about one gaming nerd who hacked into something bigger than he expected. Directed by John Badham, and starring Matthew Broderick, Ally Sheedy, and Dabney Coleman.
Looks like the Oscars happened this past weekend... too bad we won't be talking about them in this podcast. Instead, we're going to dig into our grab bag of discussion and randomly talk about other less-important things. Like why Joe wants to watch SALO so much.
In this episode, we review a classic anime movie from 1999 about soldiers and Little Red Riding Hoods... sadly, there are no werewolves.
As promised, here is the rest of our Top 10 picks of 2019. If you made it through the first part, you clearly have too much time on your hands.
It’s finally here! Our favorite movies (and in Alex’s case, albums) of 2019!
Alex and Nathan think poking fun at Nazis is still a barrel of laughs. Too bad Taika Watiti beat them to the punch in his latest satire, JOJO RABBIT. A coming-of-age story about a German boy who learns maybe the most important thing in life is not impressing your imaginary friend Adolph Hitler.
Grab your pumpkins and cheap dollar-store candy. It's Halloween-time. Our boys discuss some of their favorite scary movies and horror classics in this special grab-bag episode.
Send in the clowns! Joe and Nathan finally got around to reviewing JOKER and whether it's worth of all the criticism and praise it's been receiving.
It's Alex Patin's turn to host a Director Spotlight and he chose for us to review Derek Cianfrance, the indie director who is behind films like BLUE VALENTINE, A PLACE BEYOND THE PINES, and A LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS.
Nathan and Joe discuss their thoughts on IT Chapter Two, and whether this latest movie is the beginning of even more adaptations by Stephen King.
Mumblecore. Connecticut. Fresh slut zombie. What else do you need? Joe makes Nathan and Alex sit through a buddy/road trip zombie movie that was made for literally nothing.
From screwball comedies to Hays-Code Law, Joe and Nathan sum up the year 1934 in a nutshell, as they looked at three films: Tarzan and His Mate, Manhattan Melodrama, and It Happened One Night.
Time to tap into your Tarantino foot-fetishes and inner-Dwayne Johnson. Joe and Nathan are back in action for this double-feature review of Tarantino's ONCE UPON A TIME... IN HOLLYWOOD and FAST AND FURIOUS PRESENTS: HOBBS AND SHAW... Just try to guess which one they both loved!
Our boys buckle up their spurs and bubble-wrap goggles for a deep look into this 80's cult classic of a man whose name makes just as much sense as what goes on in the movie.
With the new Joker teaser released, Nathan brings guest speaker David MacCalla to talk about the legacy of the DC villain and what to expect from the new movie starring Joaquin Phoenix.
The guys bring the noise as they look over the films of Edgar Wright!
In which Joe attempts to justify his love of terrible movies.
This week we review the renowned documentary on the fine art of sushi making!
On a day when everyone is celebrating cinema, we’re here to make a mockery of it. Anything goes in our first Grab Bag Special!