TC’s Movie Podcast

With the ninth Star Wars episode out, TC Fleming and Justin Bell weigh in.

TC Fleming and Dan McDowell offer their reviews and thoughts of Todd Phillips’ Joker.

TC had the chance to interview the movie’s lead actor, Kumail Nanjiani, so it seemed like a fine excuse to review the movie. The review runs first, followed by the interview and a post-screening Q-and-A Kumail conducted in Dallas.

As the last regular episode of this movie podcast, I talk about my favorite movie with a fellow High Fidelity fan.

This movie centrally involves international adoption. Bob Sturm has participated in an international adoption. He discusses both the movie and the adoption process.

A modern classic! Justin and TC talk about LA and Jake Gyllenhaal and Nightcrawler.

This movie is up for a lot of awards. Figured I should probably see what the deal was. It’s pretty good.

Split is a movie with a lot of material to discuss, from the viability of escape attempts to where evil comes from. I talk about all of them with Josh Campbell.

It was recently revealed that KSCS morning show host Hawkeye pulled off a prank where he faked being MTV Sports host Dan Cortese in order to make a guest appearance on the Bob and Dan Show. In the interview, he dropped a multitude of references to The Usual Suspects. That seemed like a good reason […]

It sure looks like the movie podcast is having JFK month, but it’s just a coincidence. TC and Megan talk about the Jackie Kennedy biopic.

TC and frequent contributor Justin Bell discuss the Cuban Missile Crisis movie Thirteen Days. Naturally, there is a lot of talk about nuclear weapons.

Boxing Helena is a movie Dan McDowell will reference from time to time on BaD Radio when trying to shock. TC Fleming is calling his bluff, bringing Dan in to review the movie.

TC Fleming reviews the new Star Wars movie with Skyler Thiot and Dan McDowell.

Megan and I talk about the Washington thriller Miss Sloane. That includes discussions of guns, the constitution and the crazy conversation 2 girls were having in the line for refreshments.

The Ticket’s Trey Mitchell is back as guest host, and he’s always got a good sense for picking out movies. Watching Se7en with 2016 eyes, there are a lot of surprises. The last time I watched the whole movie start to finish was more than a decade ago, so it’s crazy to see how relationships […]

My good buddy Justin and I recently took a trip to Seattle. He lives in Michigan now, so we took this rare opportunity where we were in the same room to get something on wax. Moonlight was what was showing at the Egyptian, so we took a chance on that. It paid off beautifully. It’s […]

Movies about aliens are the best, and Arrival is a good one. There’s a lot to think on. It does a good job of illustrating many of the mind-boggling elements that would feature into any actual contact scenario. We try to walk through some of those angles. It also really gives some room for those […]

A couple months back, I talked with Old 97’s guitarist Ken Bethea about coming on the podcast. He gave me a list of movies he was excited about seeing in theaters, and Doctor Strange seemed like a good fit. He has some enthusiasm for the the comics, and it was very nice to have that […]

We took a chance this week, rolling the dice on an Ewan McGregor vehicle showing at the Angelika. It kind of paid off in that the movie touches on a lot of deep topics that spark plenty of talk. The look at parenting and how much it can be blamed when a child goes wrong […]

When I started this podcast, I made a list of my favorite movies that I’d like to get to one day. The Prestige was on the list. It’s about as well-crafted a movie as you can see. Mike Williams agrees. He is an actual magician who performs around Dallas. The first half of the conversation […]

This is a wonderful movie that gives a lot to talk about. I’m glad to have the situation line up where I’m talking about it with such wonderful guests. My wife and I were visiting our friend Justin who moved to Michigan, and it worked out so that the three of us were able to […]

We are back to new movies this week, and it’s a pretty solid one. There were things that made it worth seeing, like a couple deft twists. I talked about those with Central Track’s Angela Jones. There were also things that held it back, like some of the casting. Angela also read the book the […]

You have probably not seen this movie before. But if you had, we might not be talking about it. It’s a movie that sticks out because when you watch it, you can’t believe that you never heard a thing about it. Because it’s a really good comedy. It has a lot of well-crafted little moments. It’s […]

With nothing in theaters right now jumping out, it seemed like there would be no bad time to look back on this odd gem from 2009. I’d been meaning to get Ryan Maffei back on the podcast. I think all of those things came together pretty nicely, as we had a wide-ranging conversation that occurred around […]

The idea for this podcast came up when watching the last season of Silicon Valley. A character refrences making an Ocean’s-11-like plot, and there was a lot of discussion that week about what the plot might be. Jake and I talked about it on It’s Just Banter, and Jake mentioned off-hand that he loved the […]

After several weeks in the new movie bin, we reach again for a classic. This is one I have not seen. It was certainly not age appropriate for me when it came out. Then I just never made the time to go back for it until this week. Co-host Josh is in the same boat. […]

I don’t want to over-state this, but Morgan is a movie that has some science involved. Given that, it seemed natural to talk about it with someone with a science background. For that I turned to Dr. Hunter Stone, a Resident Physician at Parkland. The movie is about hubris, and that sort of fear of […]

This is a good movie, and a thought-provoking movie. In my opinion, it leads to one of the best kinds of episodes. We spend a good deal of time examining what seems to us like the central question of the movie: is there a situation a man can be in where bank robbery becomes justifiable? […]

War Dogs is one of my five favorite movies I’ve seen this year. It has a sizzling energy to it, an A+ performance from Jonah Hill. It keeps you wrapped around its figurative finger for all 2 full hours. Or at least that’s what I think. My friend Justin thinks it’s a piece of crap. […]

This movie was on the list of movies I wanted to review when I started the podcast. I saw it in theaters in 2013 and thought of it pretty often since then. It is a movie that certainly makes you think about it. On to think about it with me is Harper Weaver. He is […]

Maybe it’s just me, but it seems like this movie has gotten more negative press than the average comic book movie. I don’t see that. Really, through about 2/3’s of it there’s a decent movie going on. There’s a couple different levels of plot working. The pace is quick enough. Then it does fall apart […]

My dad is a guy who likes action movies. Specifically the kind like the Bourne movies. When going to see this, he declined because he had already seen it a day earlier, so it seemed to line up nicely to have him on. We both thought the movie was something definitely less than some of […]

There’s good things and bad things to be said about the new Star Trek. My friend Nick and I disagreed a bit about which part won out. I really enjoyed the easy, casual depth of the plot. He does rightly point out that we have heard more or less this same story three times now. […]

It’s the new Ghostbusters! In the end, it probably didn’t deserve near the attention it got. It’s neither bad enough not good enough to garner that degree of discussion. I talk with Megan about what deficiencies stood out to me. She has a list of her own. And then we do talk about some of […]

Every couple months I get real obsessed with Irish history. It’s got a lot of crazy stories. This Brexit stuff kind of sparked it for me this time. Any time I do get into it, I always tell myself I need to watch Michael Collins again. The movie does a nice job of telling that […]

As something to talk about, this movie has a lot of prompts to discuss. As something to watch, it’s a little more meh. I break it down with Central Track movie critic Javier Fuentes. We talk about the ways that this is poignant commentary on current elections and the ways it’s totally disconnected from them. […]

The original Independence Day was a true game changer for people around the age of Machine and I. There have been movies before that made a big show of blowing up the world, but we didn’t see them in theaters.  The second one is not as good. We break down why. Questioning some of the […]

We’ve reached a bit of a lull in summer movie season, so it’s a fine time to continue examining some of the more memorable movies of the middle 90’s. After deciding on my Ticket coworker Trey Mitchell as the guest co-host, I asked him what he wanted to talk about. He gave a list, and […]

This one is a good example of what I’d ideally like the podcast to sound like. Lots of good talk about ideas and themes. The movie is certainly full of them. Previous guest host Brad Folsom is back to talk about Fight Club. We talk about why this movie has the long-lasting impact it does. […]

This might be the coolest podcast of the 58 done so far. It’s certainly different from the other 57. Hello Gangster is a movie made by 3 guys from Dallas. They contacted Central Track looking for a review, and I got introduced to them that way. Since then we’ve had dinner and Simon was on an […]

I really like the X-Men. I like them for the same reasons most people like comic book characters: I was interested them as a kid. X-Men trading cards were my jam. Those and Goosebumps books are all I talked about from 1st through 4th grades. Since the X-Men people make a considerably more adult-friendly movie than the Jack […]

When I go to movies, this is the kind of movie I want to see. Multi-level plot that moves things along briskly enough and loads of sharp dialogue. This may not be what everyone is in for, but it is what I’m in for. As a wonderful treat, I had the chance to talk about […]

Money Monster looked potentially tantalizing in trailers but turns out to be an overwhelmingly average movie. Given that and the numerous times the movie pointedly side-steps engaging in serious conversations, it is a challenge on paper to talk about it for long. I believe we overcame that challenge comfortably and had quite the pleasant chat. We talk […]

This is a big movie for this summer, and I think it’s gonna have a big impact on my interactions with Marvel movies going forward. This feels like the tipping point where I realized that no matter how hard they are selling this type of movie, I don’t have to buy. Skyler Thiot and I […]

Heat is a movie Jake brings up from time to time. He likes it a lot. I’d seen it before and thought it was a real piece of crap. Seemed like an interesting experiment for both of us to watch it and see if our opinion changed any. It’s also of course notable for having […]

It took a tremendous amount of serendipity to have this come to pass. My good friend Justin lives in Michigan now, but after a rainout canceled his flight from a weekend wedding, he was able to catch a flight to Dallas for the night. We used it to see Elvis & Nixon and talk about it. […]

This week we took a gamble, seeing a movie having only the vaguest idea of its plot. It paid off big-time. The movie is spectacular. It’s available on iTunes and other such services, so I very strongly suggest you check it out if you have not yet. Then once you do, I think you’re going […]

I’ve been looking to get Dan on since starting the podcast. This movie came up when we were talking last week. We agreed we were intrigued by the trailer, and I punched on the opportunity. The result is something I’m really happy with. We talk about the movie, but talk as much about topics adjacent […]

Ryan Hamzeh is the co-host of the fighting hypotheticals podcast Below The Belt. I think he does great work on there and have been trying to think of a way to work him in. This movie is trash, so this probably isn’t the best way. But it’s the one we went with. We re-watched 1995’s Mortal […]

This movie has a lot of problems. I talked about them with Angela Jones. The character motivations are overly convoluted and unbelievable. Some of the plot points don’t add up. Superman is still super boring. All that said, it’s still a better movie than it’s getting credit for. Jesse Eisenberg is a live wire. Ben […]

This is a really well-done movie with a lot of thought behind it. I think most people who’ve seen it agree on that. That makes it a really good candidate for something to revisit. I really like the movie’s world view. I think it’s very frank about how inhospitable life can be. But it isn’t […]