Modern Cinema: The Movie Podcast

Montage Cinemas Creative Director Jachai Dejesus joins to play the Bad Logline Game, talking horror and thriller films. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

We’re joined by actor and Instagram film critic Noah Bennett to talk Tenet, and later (33 minutes in to avoid spoilers) we have The Bad Logline Game and draft our own Movies Where People Save The Day. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

5 movies, 5 Bad Loglines, and drafting a heist team. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

We’re switching it up. New intro music, and a game that we’ll be doing weekly - the Bad Logline Game. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

We’ve been gone for a little bit now, but we’re back with an episode recorded just over a month ago. How much stronger is the second half of the 2000’s than the first? What’s the best movie of the decade? This is the important list. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Inception raises the question; if the movie is purely enjoyable while watching, but doesn’t hold up as well when you analyze it when it’s over, is it really good? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

We’ve found it! We’re not breaking new ground by saying The Dark Knight is GREAT, but we’ve found Christopher Nolan’s first good movie post Memento. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

We love making lists that don’t matter, but treating them like they’re of the utmost importance. We’re starting by breaking down every half decade of the 2000’s. Enjoy. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Christopher Nolan’s The Prestige is.... not good even if it’s entertaining. Dive in with us. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Grail Moviehouse owners Steve White and Davida Horwitz join Modern Cinema to talk about the last few months as cinema owners. After that, Mason reviews 7500 and Never Rarely Sometimes Always --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

We remembered this being less corny than it is, and Christopher Nolan seems to continue his trend of asking big questions of his characters just to let them off the hook. Here’s our review of Batman Begins. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

It’s been a weird year for movies (among other things...). We rank our favorite films release so far in 2020 followed by a quick review of The Vast of Night. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

The last of Christopher Nolan’s crime films, Insomnia boasts some of the decades best performances from Al Pacino and Robin Williams. As with most Nolan films, he asks big, interesting questions of his protagonists and then lets them off the hook. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

How do we keep up with the newest releases if we aren’t actively searching for them? Modern Cinema has you covered. Today we talk Shirley, Tommaso, and You Should Have Left. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In our second director series, we deep dive the works of Christopher Nolan - the ultimate narcissistic filmmaker. In this episode we discuss what may be his best film, MEMENTO --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

As a final goodbye to Spike Lee on Modern Cinema, we ranked each film we discussed and took one last look at the career of Spike Lee. Our next director series will focus on the works of Christopher Nolan. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Mason and Kyle review Spike Lee’s new film and award Delroy Lindo the best actor Oscar 10 months to early on this episode of Montalk on Modern Cinema. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Gaffer and Chief Lighting Technician Kiva Knight joins the podcast to discuss the current and future impacts of COVID-19 on film sets, cinema in the streaming age, and his work on some of the last decade’s best films (Moonlight, If Beale Street Could Talk, etc.)

BlackKlansman is not Spike Lee’s best film, but it’s his best film. Mason and Kyle dive deep and go full on movie nerd about this surreal, meta commentary of a film that feels more relevant today than ever. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Inside Man, Spike Lee’s 2006 heist/thriller Spike’s most financially successful film to date. While it gives us more to dissect than the average popcorn film, and is a great example of what happens when an auteur dives into genre, we’re left with a little bit to be desired. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Our deep dive into the works of Spike Lee continues this week with 25th hour, the wonderful 2002 film starring Edward Norton, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, and Rosario Dawson. This might be our favorite Spike film so far. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Polish Academy Award Winner Bartosz Bielenia joins Montalk to discuss the film Corpus Christi, life during the quarantine and following up a successful awards season. Bartosz recorded our conversation outside, so enjoy the sounds of nature in the background! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Clockers, Mason and Kyle agree is Spike’s most overlooked and overrated film. It is the start of a new era for Spike that the two dive deep into and try to dissect. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

On this episode of Montalk, Kyle Law takes the lead on this classic comedy Best in Show featuring an all time performance from the late Fred Willard. Kyle Law - Recommends Mason - Recommends the second half only --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

The Montalk director series continues on Spike Lee with 1992’s Malcolm X. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Mason and Kyle try to talk about Josh Trank’s Capone but quickly find it’s hard to talk about a movie that isn’t trying to say anything. This one goes all over the place. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This week’s Wednesday Cinema Report comes to you on a Thursday. Mason spends a few minutes talking about this week’s movie news, then gives quick reviews on Corpus Christi and Deerskin.

Mason and Kyle talk about one of the all time great films in American cinema, Spike Lee’s DO THE RIGHT THING as they kick off a month of Spike. Deep diving a different Spike Lee film every week leading up to Da 5 Bloods

Mason and Kyle talk 1993’s True Romance and how the contrasting style of Tony Scott’s direction and Quentin Tarantino’s writing makes this an all time great piece of American Cinema.

Every Wednesday Montage Cinemas founder and Montalk host Mason Boudreau gives an update on the film industry, Montage Cinemas, and recommends and reviews two new release films. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In what turns out to be a serious Agree to Disagree, Mason and Kyle deep dive 2003’s Oldboy. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

On this episode of Montalk Mason and Kyle review the newly released “The Assistant” written and directed by Kitty Green Starring Julia Garner --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

The 2019 Film Waves is Mason’s favorite film of the year and one of his favorite films of the decade. Kyle didn’t buy into it. This is Agree to Disagree on Montalk. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Mason and Kyle deep dive the 2015 Best Picture winner “Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorane)” --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Mason and Kyle each give 10 film recommendations to watch while you’re stuck inside. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Mason and Kyle dive deep deep into 1992’s Unforgiven. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Streaming services have changed the way we watch and find movies. Is this good, bad, or just the next step of evolution of cinema? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Kyle and Mason deep dive the 2015 film “The Big Short” with new categories including one in which they each re-cast and re-make the film. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

What’s better, 1917 or the trailer for 1917? Mason and Kyle debate. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Baby Driver; film with great style or corny action flick? Mason and Kyle debate. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

As far back as we can remember, we wanted to podcast about movies. In Episode 1 Mason and Kyle go deep on one of the greatest gangster films of all time. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app