Screen of Consciousness

Dmitri and Jonathan discuss the films they watched in 2021, including Dune, Old, Luca, Raya and the Last Dragon and Encanto. They also discuss movie classics such as Moonstruck, Die Hard with a Vengeance and The Sum of All Fears.

In their first episode of season 4, Jonathan and Dmitri discuss James Bond's latest (and possibly last?) outing as 007 in No Time To Die. WARNING - there will be spoilers!

In the final episode of season 3, Dmitri and Jonathan discuss the importance of locations, especially how locations can compliment the narrative and become a character in their own right. They discuss films and television shows such as: King Kong (1933); Rome Open City; La Dolce Vita; Southland; The Wire; Bosch; Dexter; Braquo; Creep (2004); Cube (1997); Das Boot; Alien; Dark City; Underworld (2003); Legend of the Seeker; The Lord of the Rings Trilogy; The Chronicles of Narnia (1998 -1990); Pride and Prejudice (1995) and many more.

Jonathan and Dmitri discuss the enduring appeal of 1990s action movies such as: Arnold Scwarzenegger vehicles Terminator 2: Judgement Day, Total Recall and Last Action Hero; Tony Scott's films including Days of Thunder and Crimson Tide; Speed; Steven Sommer's The Mummy and Deep Rising; Brian De Palma's Mission: Impossible and Nicholas Cage's many action efforts.

Jonathan and Dmitri discuss why romantic movies have been so popular since the birth of cinema, with a particular focus on the films made in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. They discuss movies such as: Pretty Woman; Nora Ephron's and her works such as When Harry Met Sally and Sleepless in Seattle; As Good As It Gets; Jerry Maguire; Adam Sandler vehicles The Wedding Singer and 50 First Dates; The Notebook; 500 Days of Summer; Netflix produced When We First Met and Crazy Rich Asians.

Jonathan and Dmitri discuss the films released by Dreamworks Animation Studio including their big film franchises such as Shrek, Kung Fu Panda, How To Train Your Dragon and Madagascar and their one-ff films such as Turbo, Megamind, Home and Rise of the Guardians.

Dmitri interviews Jonathan about the enduring popularity of the James Bond film franchise as they discuss its origins and its potential future.

Also known as the Bechdel-Wallace Test, Jonathan and Dmitri discuss this famous measure of the representation of women in fiction, now a staple in feminist film theory. Films and television shows they talk about include: Gravity; The African Queen; Doubt; Sister Act; Clueless; Legend of the Seeker; Lifeboat and other Hitchcock films; Ordinary People; Silence of the Lambs; Star Wars; Who Framed Roger Rabbit and many more.

Jonathan and Dmitri continue their controversial discussion of Steven Spielberg, this time covering his movies from the 1990s to the present day. They talk about: Hook; Jurrassic Park and its first sequel; Schindler's List; Saving Private Ryan; A.I. Artificial Intelligence; Minority Report; Munich; Bridge of Spies; The BFG; The Post; Ready Player One and others.

In the first episode of the third season, Jonathan and Dmitri unleash some controversial opinions as they discuss the films of Steven Spielberg from the 1970s and 1980s including: Duel; Jaws; Close Encounters of the Third Kind; 1941; the Indiana Jones films; E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial; The Color Purple and Empire of the Sun.

In this episode, Jonathan and Dmitri talk about the films and television shows scheduled to release in 2021. They discuss Clint Eastwood's newest film Cry Macho; the potential Friends Reunion movie; the newest James Bond film No Time to Die; Denis Villeneuve's interpretation of Dune; the three Fear Street films coming to Netflix; all the newest Marvel TV shows and films coming to Disney+ and many more.

Jonathan and Dmitri discuss the films and TV shows released in 2020 that they were able to watch in spite of the lockdown, including: Danish smash hit 'Another Round'; Netflix drama 'Mank'; Disney Pixar films 'Onward' and 'Soul'; Christopher Nolan's 'Tenet'; Season 4 of 'The Crown'; Guy Ritchie's 'The Gentlemen' and Viggo Mortensen's directorial debut 'Falling'. 

In a surprise Special Episode, Jonathan and Dmitri disucss the films they watch on Christmas Eve: The Muppet Christmas Carol, While You Were Sleeping and The Lord of the Rings. 

Jonathan and Dmitri discuss their favourite Christmas films, have the Die Hard debate, and answer the age old question: The Holiday vs Love Actually. They also talk about: Home Alone and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York; Call Me Claus, The Associate; Cool Runnings; Holiday in Handcuffs; 12 Dates of Christmas; Christmas Getaway; White Christmas and It's a Wonderful Life.

Jonathan and Dmitri return to the world of Disney Pixar to discuss their most recent movies - and the ones they forgot to talk about in the first episode - including: The Incredibles; WALL-E; Up; Inside Out; Coco and revisit Finding Dory and Onward. 

Jonathan and Dmitri discuss movies, filmmakers and actors they feel were unfairly snubbed by the Academy Awards including: Oprah Winfrey in The Color Purple; The Butler; Captain Phillips; Taraji P. Henson in Hidden Figures; Ava DuVernay and Seven. 

Jonathan and Dmitri dicuss 'Mise-en-scène' - the idea that everything in front of the camera has a reason to be there and can tell us a lot more than we might think. Films that are critiqued include: Back to the Future; Star Wars; The Truman Show; Inside Out; The Matrix and Marvel's The Avengers.

Dmitri tells Jonathan why Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy means so much to him, and also provides insight and trivia on the celebrated Academy Award winning film franchise.

In their fourth and final episode of their Halloween themed 'Tetralogy of Terror', Jonathan and Dmitri discuss their favourite 2000s horror films such as: Identity (2003); The Mist (2007); The Skeleton Key (2005); 28 Days Later (2002); The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005); The Ring (2002); Trick 'r Treat (2007) and The Orphanage (2007).

In the third of their Halloween-themed podversations, Jonathan and Dmitri discuss their favourite 1990s horror films, such as: The Silence of the Lambs (1991); Scream (1996) and Scream 2 (1997); The People Under the Stairs (1991); The Faculty (1998); The Blair Witch Project (1999) and many many more as one presenter tries his best to squeeze in as many films as he can!

In the second of their Halloween-themed podversations, Jonathan and Dmitri discuss their favourite 1980s horror films, such as: Friday the 13th (1980); The Thing (1982); The Shining (1980); Fright Night (1985); The Blob (1988); Peter Jackson's 80s movies and two hair-raising werewolf classics.

In the first of their Halloween-themed podversations, Jonathan and Dmitri discuss their favourite 1970s horror films, such as: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978); Don't Look Now (1973); The Exorcist (1973); The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) and, of course, Halloween (1978).

Jonathan and Dmitri begin their second season by discussing their love of Disney Pixar films. They talk about animated classics such as Toy Story, A Bug's Life, Cars, Ratatouille, Monsters Inc and Pixar's newest release Onward. 

In another VERY SPECIAL EPISODE Jonathan and Dmitri discuss the television show that has influenced their lives the most - The Simpsons - notable for being both the longest running American sitcom and longest running scripted primetime television series of all time.

In this episode, our hosts discuss hard hitting and headline grabbing series produced by Netflix such as 'Making a Murderer', 'The Keepers', 'Jeffery Epstein: Filthy Rich' and 'The Staircase'.

Our hosts discuss movies that have a countdown 'ticking clock' element - often used for tension and suspence. Films mentioned include: 'Run Lola Run'; Alfred Hitchcock's 'Rope'; 'Phone Booth' and other Joel Schmacher films; 'Speed'; 'Airplane'; 'Timecode (2000)', 'Inception' and the 'Back to the Future' Trilogy.

Jonathan and Dmitri discuss animated classics they watched as children such as Disney's ‘The Little Mermaid' and ‘The Lion King', Don Bluth's ‘The Land Before Time' and ‘An American Tail', Pixar's ‘Finding Nemo' and it's sequel and Raymond Briggs' ‘The Snowman'.

Our hosts try to avoid a political discussion as they talk about 'foreign' films they love - most of which happen to be political. Films they mention include: 'Look Who's Back', 'No' (2012), 'The Wave' (2008) and 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly'.

In a VERY SPECIAL EPISODE, our hosts discuss the 2008 television series 'Legend of the Seeker'.  Why? Because it's one of the best television series of all time and everyone needs to know about it!!

Our hosts discuss movies that take you to an unexpected place because of their use of multiple genres. They discuss films and filmmakers such as: 'John Carpenter's Vampires', Robert Rodriguez, 'Jacob's Ladder', 'Strictly Ballroom', 'Ghost' and Robert Zemeckis.

In this episode, our hosts discuss Laura Mulvey's theory 'The Male Gaze', and debate the idea that in modern cinema the gaze has now shifted from the female form to the male form. They mention films and film series such as the Marvel Cinematic Universe, James Bond, 'Star Wars', 'Frozen', 'The Silence of the Lambs', 'The Dark Knight Rises' and 'The Last Seduction'.

Jonathan and Dmitri talk about films and performers they feel do and do not deserve their Academy Awards. They discuss films and people such as 'Ordinary People', 'Shakespeare in Love', 'Toy Story' and its sequels, Quentin Tarantino, Mo'Nique, Marisa Tomei and many more.

In this episode, in which Dmitri vastly underestimates the money-making potential of 'Trolls: World Tour', our hosts go on a complete tangent as they discuss films such as 'Too Big to Fail', 'Dark City', 'The Matrix' and its sequels, 'The Truman Show', "Peeping Tom' and 'Frenzy'.