Jamie and Thelonious are watching a movie every single day of the COVID-19 quarantine. In this podcast, they discuss the movies they watched for each week and offer ratings and recommendations for each one. Tune in to hear hot takes and opinions for a wide variety of movies.
Joe Biden has been elected POTUS and Sean Connery passed away so naturally Jamie and Aidan chose a movie to review for each of these events. All the President's Men (1976) and Finding Forrester (2000) were the the two films chosen for this special. Tune in and listen for some political movie talk and reflection on Connery's life in film.
It's 6pm on Halloween. You've got 2 hours to get ready before you go out and get sloshed in some half-assed costume you thought of this morning. What do you do to get in spirit? You listen to this mf podcast. tldr; Unsane was shot on an iPhone 7, Apostle was kinda badass, and Evil Dead was a cash-grab remake of the 80's original.
Good horrors are hard to come by and on this week's episode the boys try and figure out why that's often the case. Was The Taking of Deborah Logan just a cheap grandma version of Paranormal Activity? Is Nic Cage a demigod? Answers to these questions and more on this episode of Quarantine Reviews!
On a rare late night episode, Jamie and Aidan cover two 2020 releases as well as the anime cult classic Perfect Blue (1997). In between lost trains of thought, the boys manage to get a couple coherent discussions going and even land an epiphany or two.
Thelonious is still nowhere to be found leaving Aidan and Jamie to navigate their way through depression and voyeurism. Following is the best Christopher Nolan film you've never heard of and Melancholia shows us the wrong way to treat depressed people. Also we threw in Peanut Butter Falcon to show Shia Labeouf's bayou origin story.
Thelonious takes a break from the pod which leaves Jamie and Aidan to review Susperia (2018) and I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020). Just when you think Charlie Kaufman was done with relationship fever dreams he comes at us with a quarantine banger except this time it's lethal. Meanwhile, the boys found True Blood: The Movie.
This episode we get high with Timothée Chalamet and Steve Carrell in Beautiful Boy and then we hit the desert to quarantine and live every day like it was the day before with Andy Samberg and Cristin Milioti out in Palm Springs
This week we reflect on experiences of Pain and Glory in a foreign film, come to an understanding of just how much of Dick the Vice was in the Bush administration and lastly we took a bumpy ride on the conflicting racial roads of the deep south with the 91st Oscar winner for best picture: Green Book.
Was Good Boys the best comedy of 2019? And how the hell did Les Mis get the best foreign nom over Portrait of a Lady on Fire? Tune in for answers and more on the latest episode of Quarantine Reviews.
After our brief hiatus, QR is back and better. First we are introducing our new host who has been a guest on previous weeks, the one and only Aidan Huggins, and a new format of three movies with much harder and in depth takes than before. This week we hopped around with Jojo Rabbit, time traveled back to 1917 and marveled at a Portrait of a Lady on Fire.
We cut down to 5 movies this week but improved our quality of takes. This week we made some splashes with Waves, lost our balance due to Vertigo, monkeyed around with 12 Monkeys, shined some light on What We Do In The Shadows, and unearthed the Uncut Gem
Did Spotlight deserve the best picture win in 2015? Was Boyhood better than Birdman? These questions and more are covered by Thelonious and Jamie as they review The Fountain, Eighth Grade, Mr Nobody, Spotlight, Boyhood, The End of the Tour, and Silverado.
Jamie gives his first 9.0 rating and Thelonious admits to snoozing through Martin Scorsese's favorite movie of the 90's. This episode features Sin Nombre, The Horse Thief, Birdman, The Last Black Man in San Francisco, Room, Life, and Synechdoche, NY.
How does Yorgos' 2017 film compare to the rest of his filmography? What the hell went wrong with A History of Violence? These questions and more are tackled by Thelonious and Jamie as they discuss The Killing of a Scared Deer, Blue Valentine, A History of Violence, Brazil, Pi, The Butterfly Effect, and Tekkonkinkreet.
How good was Parasite? Did Logan run so Stars could War? These questions and more are answered by Thelonious and Jamie as they cover Parasite, Paid in Full, 28 Weeks Later, Cape Fear, Logan's Run, Her, and Lady Bird.
On this episode Jamie and Thelonious review 12 Years a Slave, American Psycho, K-Pax, A Clockwork Orange, Lighthouse, Incendies, and Waking Life. They also give their movie of the month and are joined by a special guest. This episode's title and intro song are from the movie Incendies.
Some say isolation strengthens before it weakens. For week 4, Jamie and Thelonious watched Beasts of No Nation, The Science of Sleep, Magnolia, Ed Wood, Raging Bull, Good Time, and Ip Man.
As the quarantine became everyday routine, Jamie and Thelonious watched Reservoir Dogs, Man on the Moon, Black Swan, I Love You Phillip Morris, Brothers, Moonlight, and Annihilation. They also covered what the 10 point rating scale means and how these movies are rated.
For week 2, Jamie and Thelonious cover Tusk, Goodfellas, Shawshank Redemption, Swingers, Babel, Roma, and Cabin in the Woods. Tune in to hear our reviews, ratings, and recommendations for each one.
In the first episode of quarantine reviews, Jamie and Thelonious cover 28 Days Later, Sling Blade, Candyman, Snowpiercer, Purple Rain, Dallas Buyers Club, and The Place Beyond the Pines. Tune in to hear our reviews, ratings, and recommendations for each one.