Movies For Decades

We're back, to talk Everything Everywhere All at Once, not only the best picture winner but undoubtedly the defining movie of 2022. Our pal Christien Sulliven joins us to unpack this big hearted zany multiverse adventure, and do a little litigation of its qualities and faults, and some retrospective of the discourse surrounding it.

Here we discuss another of our favorites, Adaptation, a mind bending movie that makes us ask deep sounding questions about the creative process, how stories represent real life and vice versa and whether or not we're done with fish.

Digging back into our childhoods with one of Helen's favorite movies (and one her brothers love as well) we talk A League of Their Own, Dottie Hinson as a heroic ideal, a little Hanks and maybe just a lil BASEBALL

Entering the 70's via a highly influential historical epic set in the 1500's, we dig into the fraught stories of behind the scenes difficulties, similarities between conquistadors and filmmakers, all while Helen and Colin try their best Werner Herzog impressions

Returning to Japan we pay our first visit to the legendary filmography of Akira Kurosawa, with his melancholy but gently comedic drama, Ikiru. As usual, we spend some time discussing details we might be missing, be it things lost in translation, lost in time, and whether or not we can even speak English, let alone pronounce Japanese words

Back in the early sound era, we discuss the one of a kind classic, Freaks, along with the life and career of director Tod Browning, what made the movie controversial at the time and how we should feel about it today (besides the fact that we love).

We conclude our first season with the 2021 film, Pig, starring Nicholas Cage

Entering the 21st century and the glorious city of Hong Kong, we discuss the gloriously exuberant kung fu soccer comedy, Shaolin Soccer and are joined this week by special guest, Eric Cottingham 

We enter the 80's with a classic horror comedy romp from director John Landis, and are joined this week by our friend Christien Sullivan 

We enter the 60's and leave America for a detour to Japan, where we discuss the social commentary infused crime drama, Pigs and Battleships and are joined by a friend and fellow cinema aficionado, Karson Goodman Along the way we talk bigger context of changing cinematic styles around the world as well as the the historical context surrounding the American occupation of Japan, what Japanese Hollywood operated and make no pig puns whatsoever  

Is Citizen Kane the greatest film ever made? Is that even fair to ask from any movie? And what is the recipe for Lobster Newburg anyway? Tune in as we ponder these and other profound questions

The first episode of Movies For Decades, a podcast in which three cinema imbibing siblings explore film history by watching one film from each decade, from 1921 to the present day, in this case, 2021. Our choice for 1921 is Charlie Chaplin's first feature film, The Kid. Remarkably, even though this is the pilot episode, nothing went wrong during our first recording session. Nope. No technical issues whatsoever.