Cinema Joes

Welcome to Cinema Joes’s 6th Annual Oscar Nominations Reaction Special! The Joes, joined as always by ThePopBreak.com Film Editor Marisa Carpico, get into all of their thoughts on the major Oscar storylines this season, including pleasant surprises, snubs, the state of the best picture race, and a few bold predictions, while also taking a brief look back at what they had to say about last year’s Oscar nominations, back before all the races had crystallized and everything felt like a forgone conclusion. Stay tuned next month for our 6th Anniversary Special which will feature several special guests and a major announcement! Best Pleasant Surprise Alex - Women Talking in Best Picture Justin - Tar getting many below the line nominations Noah - Stephanie Hsu in Supporting Actress Marisa - Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris for Costumes Worst Snub Alex - Decision to Leave in International Feature Justin - Nope for Visual Effects Noah - The Woman King in Production/Costume Design Marisa - Triangle of Sadness Dolly De Leon missing in Supporting Actress; Till missing across the board Best Picture Prediction Alex - Everything Everywhere All At Once Justin - Everything Everywhere All At Once Noah - Everything Everywhere All At Once Marisa - Everything Everywhere All At Once Bold Prediction Alex - Spielberg wins Best Director Justin - Collin Farrell wins Best Actor Noah - Everything Everywhere All At Once wins most Oscars Marisa - All Quiet on the Western Front gets shut out Don’t forget to follow the show @CinemaJoes on Twitter and follow our hosts around the web at the following places! Hosts' Other Pods Podwork Angels - TV Break - Bill vs. The MCU Hosts' Writing Justin’s Blog - Justin’s Letterboxd Noah‘s Blog -  Noah’s Twitter Alex’s Letterboxd - Alex’s Twitter - Alex’s PopBreak

This week, Justin and Alex welcome back to the show for his seventh appearance It Pod to Be You's host Manish Mathur to return to the world of Pandora and review James Cameron's decade plus in the making Avatar sequel, Avatar: The Way of Water. Join our fearless podcasters as they explore the oceans of Pandora with Jake Sully and his family, marvel at the majesty of the world, debate over whether the archetypical nature of the character was a feature or a bug, and revel over the symphony of action in the film's final act. Don’t forget to follow the show @CinemaJoes on Twitter and follow our hosts around the web at the following places! Hosts' Other Pods Podwork Angels - TV Break - Bill vs. The MCU Hosts' Writing Justin’s Blog - Justin’s Letterboxd Noah‘s Blog -  Noah’s Twitter Alex’s Letterboxd - Alex’s Twitter - Alex’s PopBreak

Co-hosts Justin Mancini & Noah Franc could not be here with us today, but, Alex welcomes onto the show Tyler McCarthy, one half of the great Pop Break bad romance podcast Not Couple Goals and writer for USAInsider.com! Tyler is here for another installment in our Flashback series of episodes, where we invite a guest onto the show to discuss one of their all time favorite films, and Tyler has selected the 1993 family classic Mrs. Doubtfire, starring Robin Williams, Sally Fields, Pierce Brosnan and Harvey Firestein, and directed by Chris Columbus! Don’t forget to follow the show @CinemaJoes on Twitter and follow our hosts around the web at the following places! Hosts' Other Pods Podwork Angels - TV Break - Bill vs. The MCU Hosts' Writing Justin’s Blog - Justin’s Letterboxd Noah‘s Blog -  Noah’s Twitter Alex’s Letterboxd - Alex’s Twitter - Alex’s PopBreak

This week, Justin couldn’t be with us today, but in his place we are excited to welcome back to the pod one half of the great podcasts Blerd Life with My Wife and Blerd Watchers and the twitch channel The Okami Council, it’s Marshall Stevenson! Marshall is joining us here today for another installment in our Flashback series of episodes, where we invite a guest onto the show to discuss one of their all time favorite films, and Marshall has selected the 2001 Best Picture winning film A Beautiful Mind, written by Akiva Goldsman, starring Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Ed Harris, Paul Bettany, Christopher Plummer, and Adam Goldberg, and directed by Ron Howard! Don’t forget to follow the show @CinemaJoes on Twitter and follow our hosts around the web at the following places! Hosts' Other Pods Podwork Angels - TV Break - Bill vs. The MCU Hosts' Writing Justin’s Blog - Justin’s Letterboxd Noah‘s Blog -  Noah’s Twitter Alex’s Letterboxd - Alex’s Twitter - Alex’s PopBreak

We are officially in the summer doldrums of movie calendar, and, for Cinema Joes, that means finally paying off this years Oscar bet. As loyal listeners already know, every year Alex, Justin, and Noah try to guess who will win and who will lose at the Academy Awards. This year, Justin took home the top prize by guessing the most categories correctly, and that means we are watching a film of his choice. He was gracious enough to chose an excellent and, until recently, hard to see French film from last year called Petite Maman, directed by Portrait of a Lady on Fire director Céline Sciamma. In our Full Disclosure segment, we also discussed Prey (2022), Bad Luck Banging or Looney Porn (2021), The Gray Man (2022), & Cherry (2021). Don’t forget to follow the show @CinemaJoes on Twitter and follow our hosts around the web at the following places! Hosts' Other Pods Podwork Angels - TV Break - Bill vs. The MCU Hosts' Writing Justin’s Blog - Justin’s Letterboxd Noah‘s Blog -  Noah’s Twitter Alex’s Letterboxd - Alex’s Twitter - Alex’s PopBreak

This week, Alex, Justin, and Noah have reassembled for the first time this summer, just like the broken shards of Mjölnir, in order to pay tribute to the gods and review the latest MCU offering Thor: Love & Thunder. But even with three hosts on hand, we needed to welcome a fourth to our fellowship of podcasters, and, we were so happy for Josh Sarnecky, the host of The Anniversary Brothers and Pop Break TV’s TV Break podcasts, to take up arms with us in pursuit of this noble quest. We also check in on some recent releases including the anime Spy x Family, as well as films such as Elvis (2022); What We Do In The Shadows (2015); There Is No Evil (2021); and the DisneyPlus limited series Obi-Wan Kenobi (2022). Don’t forget to follow the show @CinemaJoes on Twitter and follow our hosts around the web at the following places! Hosts' Other Pods Podwork Angels - TV Break - Bill vs. The MCU Hosts' Writing Justin’s Blog - Justin’s Letterboxd Noah‘s Blog -  Noah’s Twitter Alex’s Letterboxd - Alex’s Twitter - Alex’s PopBreak

This week, we are down one Joe, but, in his stead, we are happy to welcome back onto the podcast Courtney Stevenson, the incomparably talented podcast host of Blerd Life with My Wife and Pop Break TV’s Blerd Watchers. She is joining us today as we review the Sundance darling dejour Cha Cha Real Smooth (2022), written, directed by, and starring young newcomer Cooper Raif, alongside Dakota Johnson, Leslie Mann, Raul Castillo, and Odeya Rush. The film, available now on AppleTV+, tells the story of a young man (Raif), refresh out of college, struggling to get his life in order when he meets an intriguing older woman (Johnson) with a daughter on the autism spectrum while chaperoning his younger brother at a series of Bar Mitzvahs around New Jersey.  We also check in on some recent releases including Fantastic Beasts and The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022), Jurassic World Dominion (2022), and Bergman Island (2021). Don’t forget to follow the show @CinemaJoes on Twitter and follow our hosts around the web at the following places! Hosts' Other Pods Podwork Angels - TV Break - Bill vs. The MCU Hosts' Writing Justin’s Blog - Justin’s Letterboxd Noah‘s Blog -  Noah’s Twitter Alex’s Letterboxd - Alex’s Twitter - Alex’s PopBreak

This week, the Joes sit down and preview all the summer movie season has in store for us this year. Alex, Justin, and Noah go through the release calendar month by month discussing the big budget tent poles and the potential hidden gems to be on the lookout this summer! Time Codes provided with highlights from each month: May (4:45) On The Count of Three The Innocents Men The Valet Chip ’n Dale: Rescue Rangers Paris, 13th District June (25:16) Benediction Crimes of the Future Fire Island Lightyear Good Luck To You, Leo Grande Cha Cha Real Smooth Press Play Flux Gourmet July (54:10) The Forgiven Thor: Love & Thunder The Sea Beast Where The Crawdads Sing Persuasion Father of the Bride NOPE The Gray Man Bullet Train August (1:23:13) Secret Headquarters Bodies Bodies Bodies Resurrection Not Okay Luck Day Shift 13: The Musical Beast Samaritan Don’t forget to follow the show @CinemaJoes on Twitter and follow our hosts around the web at the following places! Hosts' Other Pods Podwork Angels - TV Break - Bill vs. The MCU Hosts' Writing Justin’s Blog - Justin’s Letterboxd Noah‘s Blog -  Noah’s Twitter Alex’s Letterboxd - Alex’s Twitter - Alex’s PopBreak

Today we are very excited to welcome on to the show the founder of Daytime Confidential & Geek Confidential, Luke Kerr! Luke is joining us today to help kick off the summer movie season with one of his favorite blockbusters of all time, 1997’s SciFi Action Adventure film The Fifth Element, starring Bruce Willis, Mila Jovovich, Chris Tucker, and Ian Holm. Don’t forget to follow the show @CinemaJoes on Twitter and follow our hosts around the web at the following places! Hosts' Other Pods Podwork Angels - TV Break - Bill vs. The MCU Hosts' Writing Justin’s Blog - Justin’s Letterboxd Noah‘s Blog -  Noah’s Twitter Alex’s Letterboxd - Alex’s Twitter - Alex’s PopBreak

It’s finally here! Turning Red, the latest from Pixar Studios, was released recently, and we are so excited to welcome Live, Laugh, & Lovey’s titular host Lovey McPherson onto the pod to help us review it. Before we get into all the giant pandas, boy bands, teen crushes, and bffs Turning Red has to offer, we check in on some things we’ve been watching recently including The Lost City, Bel-Air, The Gilded Age, & Attica. Plus, one of our host's gives a special shout out to their new favorite YouTube channel Two Set Violin. Don’t forget to follow the show @CinemaJoes on Twitter and follow our hosts around the web at the following places! Hosts' Other Pods Pod on the Rooftops - TV Break Hosts' Writing Justin’s Blog - Justin’s Letterboxd Noah‘s Blog -  Noah’s Twitter Alex’s Letterboxd - Alex’s Twitter - Alex’s PopBreak

This week, we are going to continue looking back at the past just a BIT longer as we take some time out of the late winter film festivities to celebrate our FIFTH anniversary! That’s right, we’ve taken five trips around the sun since we reviewed 2017’s Beauty & The Beast and the world and we have changed quite a bit since then. We get a bit self indulgent and nostalgic, talking about our podcaster origins, what we’ve learned along the way, and what we are looking forward to in the future. Don’t forget to follow the show @CinemaJoes on Twitter and follow our hosts around the web at the following places! Hosts' Other Pods Pod on the Rooftops - TV Break Hosts' Writing Justin’s Blog - Justin’s Letterboxd Noah‘s Blog -  Noah’s Twitter Alex’s Letterboxd - Alex’s Twitter - Alex’s PopBreak

Welcome back to the second half of our 2021 year in review! Last episode we gave the highs and lows of the films released in 2021. This time around, we are cracking those media diaries to talk about the films we watched in 2021 that were NOT released in 2021. Categories include our favorite classic films, our favorite recent films that should be classics, our favorite rewatches, and the actors and directors we fell in love with in 2021. Make sure to check back in two weeks for our annual Oscar nomination special! Favorite Classic Film Noah - On The Waterfront (1954) Alex - Whatever Happened to Baby Jane (1962) Justin - Rachel Getting Married (2008) Favorite Recent Film that should be a classic (10 years or less): Noah - The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019) Alex - Moonrise Kingdom (2012) Justin - Holy Motors (2012) Actor/Director we fell in love with Noah - Carrie-Anne Moss Alex - Wong Kar Wai Justin - Wes Anderson Best Rewatch Noah - The Matrix (1999); The Matrix: Reloaded (2003) Alex - Election (1999) Justin - Blue Ruin (2014) Check out the Rundown below and don’t forget to follow the show @CinemaJoes on Twitter and follow our hosts around the web at the following places! Hosts' Other Pods Pod on the Rooftops - TV Break - Good Bye to All That Hosts' Writing Justin’s Blog - Justin’s Letterboxd Noah‘s Blog -  Noah’s Twitter Alex’s Letterboxd - Alex’s Twitter - Alex’s PopBreak