Director Showdown

Adam and Brent get into 'Transformers' with Delfinpod head honcho Emmanuel! They talk about what makes the action in this Michael Bay movie different from his others, other iconic franchises from the early-to-mid 2000's, and ponder why the leads of the movie had sex on top of their sentient car! It's a loose, fun one to welcome listeners back after our brief break, and only two episodes are left this season so we hope you enjoy!Make sure to check out all the DelfinPod shows at https://delfinpod.com/ as well as the patreon for days of exclusive content! https://www.patreon.com/delfinpodAlso, follow Adam and Brent on https://letterboxd.com at 'Relativistic' and 'Binary1138' respectively!

Adam and Brent get into Zack Snyder's audacious yet messy 2011 action film 'Sucker Punch'! They break down what works about it and what doesn't, where the disconnect might be for fully hitting on all cylinders, and what it means to make 'commentary about geek culture' and the inherent irony in doing so! They also praise Oscar Isaac for bringing a ton of integrity to a role that doesn't really call for it. It's a great breakdown of a real mixed bag of a movie and the guys had a good time getting into it!Make sure to check out all the DelfinPod shows at https://delfinpod.com/ as well as the patreon for days of exclusive content! https://www.patreon.com/delfinpodAlso, follow Adam and Brent on https://letterboxd.com at 'Relativistic' and 'Binary1138' respectively!

Adam and Brent get into Michael Bay's Action-opus 'Bad Boys 2' with friend of the show Zach Cavender! They discuss the changes from the first movie to the second, embracing the psychotic insanity of Michael Bay's cynical worldview and the best jokes from each movie! It's a fun discussion of one of the defining action-comedies of the 2000's so enjoy!Make sure to check out all the DelfinPod shows at https://delfinpod.com/ as well as the patreon for days of exclusive content! https://www.patreon.com/delfinpodAlso, follow Adam and Brent on https://letterboxd.com at 'Relativistic' and 'Binary1138' respectively!

Erik Casarez is back to talk Snyder's 2nd comic book adaptation, 'Watchmen'! They get into the works of Alan Moore, what works and doesn't work in Snyder's approach to the material, and a Carla Gugino corner! Thanks so much for checking out the season so far, and make sure to recommend the show to your friends and family. Next week we're talking Bad Boys 2 (and maybe 1 as well) so we'll see you then! Make sure to check out all the DelfinPod shows at https://delfinpod.com/ as well as the patreon for days of exclusive content (including Adam and Brent's 2-part Mass Effect trilogy discussion!) https://www.patreon.com/delfinpodAlso, follow Adam and Brent on https://letterboxd.com at 'Relativistic' and 'Binary1138' respectively!

Adam and Brent break down Michael Bay's box-office hit and critical failure 'Pearl Harbor'! They get into comparisons to other epics of the time (especially Titanic), where it fails in comparison, but also ways it could've been really special. They also do their first live commentary on Brent experiencing the R-rated scenes that make up the extended edition that actually turned out to exist, despite Brent gaslighting Adam via the Mandela effect! It's a fun, tangent-heavy episode, shorter than most, ironically on one of the longest movies of the podcasts yet, so enjoy and thanks for subscribing/listening/reviewing! ******This episode also contains a secret, nested review of 'Space Jam: A New Legacy' the boys meant to record weeks ago but didn't because it drained them physically, emotionally and spiritually, so enjoy**********Also, sorry I didn't count the number of bays in the whole ass world, ain't got that kind of time****Make sure to check out all the DelfinPod shows at https://delfinpod.com/ as well as the patreon for days of exclusive content! https://www.patreon.com/delfinpodAlso, follow Adam and Brent on https://letterboxd.com at 'Relativistic' and 'Binary1138' respectively!

Adam and Brent are talking Zack Snyder's epic follow-up to ‘Dawn of the Dead', the adaptation of the graphic novel 300, with Sean Menard joining once again! They break down their history seeing this movie, it's breakthroughs in VFX and the real Spartan history the movie is pulling from! They also get into unexpected recent comparisons to 'The Green Knight' as well as 'Snake Eyes: GI Joe Origins'! (Also Brent gets attacked by a bug live lol). It's a fun one, so enjoy and thank you for listening! Make sure to check out all the DelfinPod shows at https://delfinpod.com/ as well as the patreon for days of exclusive content! https://www.patreon.com/delfinpodAlso, follow Adam and Brent on https://letterboxd.com at 'Relativistic' and 'Binary1138' respectively!

Sean Menard joins Adam and Brent to talk Michael Bay's Space epic 'Armageddon'! How does the movie hold up on it's 23rd anniversary (again falling on the day we recorded the episode!) How does it compare to similar twin-movie of the era 'Deep Impact', what makes this one stand out from the rest of Bay's filmography, and why is this maybe Brent's favorite Bay movie?? It's a great talk about one of the goofiest movies of it's era, so stick around because you won't wanna miss a thiiiiiiing! Make sure to check out all the DelfinPod shows at https://delfinpod.com/ as well as the patreon for days of exclusive content! https://www.patreon.com/delfinpodAlso, follow Adam and Brent on https://letterboxd.com at 'Relativistic' and 'Binary1138' respectively!

John Casares (resident zombie expert of the pod) returns to discuss the modern day Romero adaptation 'Dawn of the Dead'! The guys get into a bit of Zack Snyder's origins in commercials and music videos, their favorite zombie movies, and where this movie falls in the huge zombie resurgence of the early 2000's! Is this still the best movie Snyder has made?? Watch along and let us know what you think!Make sure to check out all the DelfinPod shows at https://delfinpod.com/ as well as the patreon for days of exclusive content! https://www.patreon.com/delfinpodAlso, follow Adam and Brent on https://letterboxd.com at 'Relativistic' and 'Binary1138' respectively!

Adam and Brent get into the first Michael Bay film of the season with 'The Rock', recorded on the 25th anniversary of the movies release! Their friend Brian Menard returns to get into a bit of Nicolas Cage, the heavy hitting writers that worked on the script, why Ed Harris is one of our best actors, and general cultural context for the movie. It's generally agreed upon as a staple of 90's action cinema, so enjoy the fellas getting into the nitty gritty!Make sure to check out all the DelfinPod shows at https://delfinpod.com/ as well as the patreon for days of exclusive content! https://www.patreon.com/delfinpodAlso, follow Adam and Brent on https://letterboxd.com at 'Relativistic' and 'Binary1138' respectively!

Adam and Brent kick off season 10 with Michael Bay vs Zack Snyder! Going a bit out of order to cover Snyder's recent film 'Army of the Dead', they get into what makes the movie so much fun and how it stacks up to Snyder's other movies. From here on out we're going back to the beginning of each directors careers and we're excited to get into 2 modern action directors and what makes each of them unique. Buckle up for a high-octane season of Director Showdown and make sure to rate/review/subscribe and recommend the show to friends and family!Make sure to check out all the DelfinPod shows at https://delfinpod.com/ as well as the patreon for days of exclusive content! https://www.patreon.com/delfinpodAlso, follow Adam and Brent on https://letterboxd.com at 'Relativistic' and 'Binary1138' respectively!

Adam and Brent are talking Kurosawa's near-final film and pivotal magical realist exploration 'Dreams'! They get into each of the 8 vignettes, talk what works best and what doesn't, and the darkness behind Kurosawa's late-in-life world view. Beyond that, they also rank their movies discussed this season and what they took away from these 2 directors filmographies! Thank you all so much for listening along over these past 5(!) months and we're excited to reveal what's next on an upcoming bonus ep! Make sure to rate/review/subscribe if you haven't!Make sure to check out all the DelfinPod shows at https://delfinpod.com/ as well as the patreon for days of exclusive content! https://www.patreon.com/delfinpodAlso, follow Adam and Brent on https://letterboxd.com at 'Relativistic' and 'Binary1138' respectively!

The guys get into Lean’s final movie and penultimate episode this season, 'A Passage to India', the subversions they didn’t expect and what does/doesn’t work in execution. Brent also gives some context on the British Raj and Indian independence, areas that he definitely knew before the episode and didn’t have to read about to know the modern context for this film! They also get into why movies like this can’t be made today and some exceptions to that rule. It’s the final movie of Lean’s career so thanks for sticking with us while we wrap things up for this season next episode! Make sure to check out all the DelfinPod shows at https://delfinpod.com/ as well as the patreon for days of exclusive content! https://www.patreon.com/delfinpodAlso, follow Adam and Brent on https://letterboxd.com at 'Relativistic' and 'Binary1138' respectively! 

Adam and Brent discuss Kurosawa's epic late-career King Lear adaptation 'Ran'!

Adam and Brent take a brief break from talking old classics to talk about a new epic, Zack Snyder's Justice League!

Adam and Brent talk David Lean's 1965 Romantic Epic 'Doctor Zhivago'!

The guys welcome back Emmanuel Delfin to talk Kurosawa's influential adventure film!

Adam and Brent are joined once again by Brian Menard to discuss David Lean's monumental epic!

Adam and Brent talk Kurosawa's spin on Macbeth and all things Shakespeare!

John Casares returns to the podcast to talk David Lean's WW2 epic 'The Bridge on the River Kwai'!

Adam and Brent take a trip back to season 6 and talk David Fincher's great new movie 'Mank'!

It's the 100th episode Centennial Spectacular! The guys discuss the oft mentioned National Treasure!

Brent and Adam are back talking Kurasawa and his timeless masterpiece 'Seven Samurai'!

Adam and Brent talk the first David Lean movie of the season, his 1945 Romantic masterpiece 'Brief Encounter'!

Adam and Brent are back with a new season, this time talking classic directors: Akira Kurosawa and David Lean!

The guys decided to do one final spur-of-the-moment bonus episode to wrap up this season, so they took the trip on down to Marwen!

It's the 5th Dealers Choice as Brent and Adam are joined once again by Amy, who picked one of her favorites movies 'Black Beauty' to discuss! So much horse talk!

Adam and Brent are back after a brief hiatus to revisit Christopher Nolan and his new cerebral Spy-fi film 'Tenet'!

It’s our first random grab-bag bonus episode this season, and we decided to watch Kevin Connolly’s ‘Gotti’. It’s a truly awful movie that the guys had a lot of fun watching, with plenty of fun things to get into about what makes it such a badly executed riff on gangster movie tropes. There’s a lot […] The post GOTTI appeared first on Sticker Fridge Studios.

Adam and Brent welcome back season-opener Erik Casarez to the podcast to close out the season with ‘Jojo Rabbit’! The guys get into their favorite moments in the movie, what they believe Waititi’s intention to be in making it, and their final season rankings (and winner???). It’s a great one to cap the season and […] The post Jojo Rabbit appeared first on Sticker Fridge Studios.

Adam and Brent are once again joined by buddy Gus Kelley to talk ‘Baby Driver’! The guys get into their historical context of seeing it together (AKA Brent’s Big Piss), City Pop music from 70’s/80’s Japan, Slimepunk being an ACTUAL REAL THING and much more! Also a very deep dive into what Edgar Wright is […] The post Baby Driver appeared first on Sticker Fridge Studios.

Adam and Brent are back from their break to talk one of Taika’s most recent films, ‘Hunt for the Wilderpeople’! The guys talk about what they’ve been up to, comparisons between Wilderpeople and Waititi’s ‘Boy’, a ‘Sam Neill’ corner, and what they’ve been watching in quarantine! It’s just the boys this week, talking one of […] The post Hunt for the Wilderpeople appeared first on Sticker Fridge Studios.

Adam and Brent are once-again joined by John and Delfin from ‘Countdown to Infinity’ to talk Thor: Ragnarok! The guys are back with their wealth of MCU and Marvel comics knowledge to talk one of the better MCU films. The guys get into a lot of Hollywood industry talk, the balance between making a producer-driven […] The post Thor: Ragnarok appeared first on Sticker Fridge Studios.

Brent and Adam are closing out the Cornetto trilogy with a bang, talking ‘The World’s End’ with some dynamite guests, John Casares and Emmanuel Delfin from Delfinpod! They get into the depth of ‘The World’s End’ compared to the other Cornetto films, which character they each think they are, and many, many other tangents. It’s […] The post The World’s End appeared first on Sticker Fridge Studios.

Adam and Brent are joined by David Rodriguez once again to talk Taika Waititi’s 2015 vampire mockumentary ‘What We do in the Shadows’! The guys get into favorite movies in each genre, What various attractions one could find at ‘Waititi World’ (Brent’s is a KILLER joke, one of the best of the season) and what […] The post What We Do in the Shadows appeared first on Sticker Fridge Studios.

Adam and Brent are talking Edgar Wright’s 3rd feature ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World’. They get into the multiple influences that go into making a movie this weird, celebrity crushes, action directing and a brief tangent about Michael Cera’s weird career! It’s a great episode on a (still) underappreciated gem of the early 2010’s, so […] The post Scott Pilgrim vs. the World appeared first on Sticker Fridge Studios.

Adam and Brent are back talking about Waititi and his sophomore effort ‘Boy’! They get into why and how the movie is a drastic improvement on Eagle vs Shark (no offense to lovers of that one), how getting vulnerable and personal helps with authenticity, and Waititi as an actor as well as writer/director. Also the […] The post Boy appeared first on Sticker Fridge Studios.

Adam and Brent are back talking Edgar Wright with his second film, ‘Hot Fuzz’. The guys talk the many influences of Edgar Wright’s filmmaking, dense plotting of Hot Fuzz and if they think this is low-key Edgar Wright’s best movie! Also, which country is better: New Zealand or Great Britain!? Thank you all for listening, […] The post Hot Fuzz appeared first on Sticker Fridge Studios.

Adam and Brent are once again joined by Erik Casarez to talk ‘Eagle vs Shark’, Taika Waititi’s debut film! The fellas talk about mid-to-late 2000’s indie films, the oddly massive impact of Napoleon Dynamite, and some of their issues with Waititi’s first film! It’s a fascinating first movie to start a career, as Waititi has […] The post Eagle vs Shark appeared first on Sticker Fridge Studios.

It’s finally time for Season 8 of Director Showdown: Edgar Wright vs. Taika Waititi, kicking things off with 2004’s ‘Shaun of the Dead’! We’re talking lighter fare this season, since the whole damn world is locked inside and quarantined. We’ve also been talking about covering comedy directors since practically the beginning, deciding on these two […] The post Shaun of the Dead appeared first on Sticker Fridge Studios.

Listen, you guys asked for it and here it is. Our shortest episode with a fittingly weird energy to discuss Tom Hooper’s cinematic travesty, ‘Cats’. We get into the financial loss of the movie, the indecision of any strong choices to make it something more interesting, and the inherent hubris of attempting a Cats cinematic […] The post Cats appeared first on Sticker Fridge Studios.

Adam and Brent are finally back with this seasons Dealers Choice winner ‘Wet Hot American Summer’ with Erik Casarez! It’s the first ‘good’ movie of the 4 Dealer’s Choice competitions we’ve had so far, and the fellas enjoy getting into the nitty gritty of David Wain’s cult comedy classic! The first on-screen appearance of Bradley […] The post Dealer’s Choice: Wet Hot American Summer appeared first on Sticker Fridge Studios.

Adam and Brent finally wrap up season 7 with Bigelow’s acclaimed Bin Laden manhunt film ‘Zero Dark Thirty’! They get into the complicated legacy of the film, it’s depiction of torture scenes as well as the intense and realistic raid at the end of Zero Dark Thirty! Aside from that, they get into a brief […] The post Zero Dark Thirty appeared first on Sticker Fridge Studios.

Adam and Brent wrap up James Cameron for the season talking ‘Avatar’ with Brian Menard! It’s an episode filled with even more 2010 Oscar context, as well as discussions about the tropes of the movie and it’s many technological advancements. This one also has plenty of historical context from 2009! It’s our penultimate episode for […] The post Avatar appeared first on Sticker Fridge Studios.

Adam and Brent are back talking Bigelow’s Best Picture-winner ‘The Hurt Locker’! The guys get into comparisons to both Point Break and the Safdie brothers’ Uncut Gems, the bomb sequences in the movie as well as a lot of good context for the 2010 Oscars, and the battle between Bigelow and Cameron! It’s just the […] The post The Hurt Locker appeared first on Sticker Fridge Studios.

Adam and Brent are once again joined by Amy Kidwell to talk James Cameron’s box-office behemoth ‘Titanic’! They get into their personal histories with Titanic, it’s place in society as a huge cultural touchstone for generations, and the sexual awakenings caused by Leo DiCaprio. Some other topics are tangents into practical vs. digital VFX, balancing […] The post Titanic appeared first on Sticker Fridge Studios.

Adam and Brent are once again joined by friend David Rodriguez to discuss Kathryn Bigelow’s millenium-epic ‘Strange Days’! They talk the movies many themes, how it represents the era of late 90’s/early 2000’s , the ‘squid’ technology, and how it’s box office failure knocked her career off course for a decade. It’s a great, tangent-y […] The post Strange Days appeared first on Sticker Fridge Studios.

Adam and Brent are back to Cameron/Bigelow with James Camerons 1991 action classic ‘Terminator 2: Judgement Day’! This week, they’re joined by friends of the show Laura Banuelos and Alissa Perez! They get into their history (or lack thereof) with the franchise as a whole, middle school fashions, and some more Sinbad chat! It’s a […] The post Terminator 2: Judgment Day appeared first on Sticker Fridge Studios.

Adam and Brent are kickstarting their return to Cameron V Bigelow with a look back with a ‘decade in review’! With 2020 quickly approaching, the guys picked their 10 favorite movies between the years 2010-2019, and count them down, talking about what they love about each one! After that, they take a moment to highlight […] The post Decade in Review: Top 10 of the 2010’s appeared first on Sticker Fridge Studios.

Adam and Brent are talking 90’s action classic ‘Point Break’ with returning friend Erik Casarez! The guys get into the relationship at the center of the movie between Bodhi and Johnny Utah, as well as Keanu Corner and Swayze talk. They also introduce a new crucial segment called ‘Would Sinbad make this better?’ to look […] The post Point Break appeared first on Sticker Fridge Studios.

Aliens! After much talk and speculation, and a brief flirtation last season, Adam and Brent finally officially cross over with ‘Revenge of the Sequel‘ to talk Aliens! The ROTS guys add a lot of historical context on the movie and James Cameron’s career at this time, and the fellas get into their adoration (and some […] The post Aliens appeared first on Sticker Fridge Studios.

Adam and Brent are talking the first Kathryn Bigelow movie of the season, her 1989 cop-thriller ‘Blue Steel’! The fellas talk the importance of female perspective in film (sorry it took us 7 seasons to talk a female director, we’re jackasses), Jamie Lee Curtis, Clancy Brown as a prime ‘Snack’ and the truly unpredictable turns […] The post Blue Steel appeared first on Sticker Fridge Studios.