Late to the Movies

Portrait of a Lady on Fire

June 24th, 2024  |  1 hr 23 mins

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Pride Month continues with Céline Sciamma's Portrait of a Lady on Fire! Ben, Greg, Lindsey, Marshall, and Ray discuss the instant classic, which ranked 30th on the 2022 edition of Sight and Sound's critics' list of the greatest films of all time.

Written and directed by Céline Sciamma, starring Noémie Merlant and Adèle Haenel.

But I'm a Cheerleader

June 17th, 2024  |  1 hr 3 mins

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It's Pride Month and we're kicking it off with 1999's But I'm a Cheerleader! Ben, Andy, Aquielle, and Kate discuss Jamie Babbit's conversion camp cult classic, starring Natasha Lyonne and Clea Duvall.

Directed by Jamie Babbit, written by Brian Wayne Peterson, and starring Natasha Lyonne, Clea DuVall, Melanie Lynskey, RuPaul, and Cathy Moriarty.

Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century

May 27th, 2024  |  48 mins 33 secs

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It's the final episode of DCOM May, and we're blasting off with Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century! Ben, Kyle, Steph, and Miss Southeastern MA Teen 2024 Jaime discuss the 1999 Disney Channel classic.

Directed by Kenneth Johnson and starring Kirsten Storms and Raven-Symoné.

Smart House

May 20th, 2024  |  56 mins 29 secs

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DCOM May rolls on with 1999's Smart House! Ben, Andy, Cheddar, and Aquielle discuss the pre-Y2K-typifying millenial... classic?

Directed by LeVar Burton and starring Katey Sagal, Ryan Merriman, Katie Volding, Kevin Kilner, and Jessica Steen.

Motocrossed

May 13th, 2024  |  59 mins 37 secs

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DCOM May, our month-long look at Disney Channel Original Movies, continues with 2001's Motocrossed! Ben and Anthony tackle the second "Twelfth Night" adaption that we've done on the pod (after She's the Man) and discuss who well it holds up... if at all!

Directed by Steve Boyum and starring Alana Austin, Riley Smith, Mary-Margaret Humes, and Trever O'Brien.

Brink!

May 6th, 2024  |  1 hr 21 mins

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May is DCOM Month! By shockingly popular request, this month we're covering Disney Channel Original Movies and our first one is the third one ever: 1998's Brink! Ben, Sam, and Vaz get worked by this totally phat time capsule "film" from Greg Beeman, extremely loosely based on "Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates" by Mary Mapes Dodge.

Directed by Greg Beeman, starring Erik von Detten, Sam Horrigan, Christina Vidal, and David Graf.

Superbad

April 29th, 2024  |  59 mins 57 secs

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For the last week of One Night Only Month we're talking about 2007's Superbad! Ben, Andy, Aquielle, and Kate discuss Greg Mottola's totemic millennial buddy-comedy.

Directed by Greg Mottola, written by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, and produced by Judd Apatow. Starring Jonah Hill and Michael Cera and featuring Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Seth Rogen, Bill Hader, and Emma Stone.

After Hours

April 22nd, 2024  |  1 hr 8 mins

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One Night Only Month turns the clocks back to 1985 to stay up way too late with Martin Scorcese's After Hours! Ben and Vaz discuss the nocturnal misadventures of Griffin Dunne's protagonist, Paul, in this New York classic.

Directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Joseph Minion, starring Griffin Dunne, and featuring Rosanna Arquette, Teri Garr, Linda Fiorentino, Verna Bloom, Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong, John Heard, and Catherine O'Hara.

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

April 15th, 2024  |  1 hr 21 mins

One Night Only Month burns the midnight oil with Mike Nichols' directorial debut - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Ben, Greg, Lindsey, Marshall, and Ray discuss the ups and downs of the Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton-starring 1966 classic.

Directed by Mike Nichols, adaptated from Edward Albee's 1962 play of the same name. Starring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal, and Sandy Dennis.

The Cabin in the Woods

April 8th, 2024  |  1 hr 17 mins

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One-Night-Only Month continues with The Cabin in the Woods! Ben, Bree, and Sam discuss Drew Goddard's 2011 horror-comedy satire.

Directed by Drew Goddard, written by Joss Whedon and Goddard, and starring Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth, Anna Hutchison, Fran Kranz, Jesse Williams, Richard Jenkins, and Bradley Whitford.

Escape from New York

April 1st, 2024  |  57 mins 29 secs

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New month, new theme! All April long will be One Night Only - a celebration of films that (mostly) take place all in one night. First up is our latest look at a John Carpenter classic - Escape from New York! Ben and Anthony discuss the debut of Kurt Russell's most iconic character, Snake Plissken, the bizarre-yet-cool tone created by Carpenter (and cinematographer Dean Cundey), and the free production value of shooting this movie in St. Louis... which just kind of looked like that at the time.

Co-written, co-scored and directed by John Carpenter, and starring Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine, Donald Pleasence, Isaac Hayes, Adrienne Barbeau, and Harry Dean Stanton.

Poor Things

March 29th, 2024  |  1 hr 5 mins

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Oscar Month concludes with the Third Annual Laties Awards Best Picture winner - Yorgos Lanthimos' Poor Things! Ben, Bree, Sam, and Vaz discuss the stacked cast, bizarre tone, and Oscar-winning design of the instant classic.

Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, written by Tony McNamara, and starring Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe, Ramy Youssef, Christopher Abbott, and Jerrod Carmichael.

The Third Annual Laties Awards

March 25th, 2024  |  1 hr 41 mins

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It's finally here! Oscars Month hits its undisputed high point with the awards show we've all been for - The Third Annual Laties Awards! Ben, Greg, Jordan, Ray, and Robbie (and the all-important fan votes!) decide what 2023 movies will take home the hardware. Will sentimental favorite Past Lives" break "Poor Things' heart? Will Messi the dog (from Anatomy of a Fall) win our first ever animal award?? Will Barbie OR Oppenheimer win anything meaningful (aside from hundreds of millions of dollars)?!? Listen now to find out!!

Theme song: "In to the Deep" by Robbie

Barbie

March 18th, 2024  |  1 hr 18 mins

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The actual Oscars may have already happened, but it's still Oscar Month on the pod! This week's Best Picture nominee - Greta Gerwig's Barbie! Ben, Andy, Aquielle, Jeffrey, and Kate discuss 2023's highest-grossing movie.

Directed by Greta Gerwig, screenplay by Gerwig and Noah Baumbach, starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling as Ken, and featuring America Ferrera, Michael Cera, Kate McKinnon, Issa Rae, Rhea Perlman, and Will Ferrell.

Oppenheimer

March 11th, 2024  |  1 hr 5 mins

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Oscar season rolls on with the (as I'm writing this) odds-on Best Picture favorite - Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer! By the time this episode comes out, we'll know exactly how many of it's near-record 13 Oscar nominations it won. What we do know for now - in this episode, Ben and Robbie discuss the less-pink half of the biggest movie event of the last several years.

Written and directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr., Florence Pugh, and Josh Hartnett.

Past Lives

March 4th, 2024  |  1 hr 4 mins

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It's Oscar Season! We'll be covering a quartet of Oscar nominated movies this month PLUS the Third Annual Laties Awards in March. First up - Celine Song's instant-classic debut feature, Past Lives! Ben, Greg, Lindsey, and Ray discuss a collective favorite from a great movie year.

Written and directed by Celine Song and starring Greta Lee, Teo Yoo, and John Magaro.