The Filmography

Reece and Bjorn discuss Spike Lee's underseen and under appreciated 2008 joint, the epic war drama, The Miracle at St. Anna, which attempts to address the lack of films portraying the black experience of WW2.

Reece and Bjorn take a deep dive into Spike's wildly successful 2006 heist feature, Inside Man, where he reunites with his favourite leading man, Denzel Washington for the 4th time. Co-starring Clive Owen and Jodie Foster.

Reece and Bjorn are joined by very special returning guest Cameron Pulley for a deep dive discussion about Spike Lee's 15th feature film joint, 2004's whistle-blower sex farce (yes, you read that right) She Hate Me.

Reece and Bjorn are joined by special returning guest - part of the three timers club - Mark Hanson, Nic Cage-a-holic, co-host of the Bay Street Podcast, and as Bjorn says, "Toronto's Best Film Writer," for a deep dive into Spike Lee's 14th feature film joint - 2002's deeply moving, funny, and devastating Edward Norton led ensemble drama, 25th Hour.

Reece and Bjorn are joined by returning special guest, former Queen Video clerk (and guest editor!) for a deep dive into Spike Lee's 13th feature joint - the blistering satire on media and race - Bamboozled.

Reece and Bjorn are joined by special returning guest - and fellow former Queen Video clerk - Brian Davey, for a discussion of Spike Lee's incendiary 1999 crime drama, Summer of Sam.

Reece and Bjorn are joined by returning special guest and fellow ex-Queen Video clerk, Adam Trozollo, to discuss Spike's 11th joint, the searing father-son basketball drama, He Got Game.

Reece and Bjorn take a deep dive into Spike Lee's second joint from 1996, Get On The Bus, starring Charles S. Dutton as a bus driver carrying a group of black men to Washington D.C. for the million man march.

Reece and Bjorn take a deep dive into Spike Lee's 9th joint, the raucous 1996 phone sex comedy, Girl 6, starring Theresa Randle and featuring a soundtrack by Prince.

Reece and Bjorn take a deep dive into Spike Lee's 1995 joint, Clockers, based on the genre defining masterpiece novel by Richard Price (The Color Of Money; The Wire) .

Reece and Bjorn are joined by special guest Jason Azzopardi to discuss Spike Lee's follow up to Malcolm X, the sweet valentine to his childhood, co-written with his siblings, 1994's Crooklyn. Featuring searing performances by Alfre Woodard and Delroy Lindo, Crooklyn is another worthy addition to the growing number of Spike joints!

Reece and Bjorn discuss Spike's 6th joint, the monumental achievement that is Malcolm X, one of the greatest films ever made, anchored by one of the greatest performances of all time by Denzel Washington in the title role.

Reece and Bjorn dive into Spike Lee's fifth joint, 1991's Jungle Fever, starring Wesley Snipes and Annabella Sciora as interracial lovers, in a sexy comedy-drama about race, class, sex, love, family, etc. Features Sam Jackson in his break out role as the crack addicted Gator, for which the Cannes Jury that year created a special award just to honour him.

Reece and Bjorn discuss Spike Lee's jazzy follow up to Do The Right Thing, 1990's Mo Better Blues, marking the director's first of five collaborations with Denzel Washington, never more magnetic and charismatic than he is here as a talented young trumpet player trying to juggle love, sex, and ambition.

Reece and Bjorn are joined by special guest, Yaw Djang, a Manchester restauranteur and former owner of X-Ray Films, for a discussion about Spike Lee's funny and furious masterpiece about race, community, and what happens when things get too hot on one blistering summer day on one simmering block of a Brooklyn neighborhood in 1989, all too relevant today.

Reece and Bjorn discuss Spike Lee's 2nd joint Scool Daze, about the events and tensions surrounding homecoming week at an all black college.

In the first episode of the new season, taking a deep dive into the many Spike Lee Joint's, Reece and Bjorn are joined by very special guest, Toronto filmmaker, Rebeccah Love, for a discussion about Spike's first feature, She's Gotta Have It.

In this bonus episode, Reece and Bjorn follow up their second season, on the films of Paul Schrader, with the director's most recent picture, Oh Canada.

In this bonus episode, Reece and Bjorn return to their Season One subject, Mr. Francis Ford Coppola to discuss his polarizing return to cinema, the long gestating, completely self financed wonder that is Megalopolis!

In the first ever Filmography Bonus Episode, Reece and Bjorn discuss their respective top 10 favourite films released in 2024.

Reece and Bjorn wrap up their Paul Schrader season with the second part of their rankings from least to most favourite.

Reece and Bjorn compare notes on Schrader's films, ranking them from least to most favourite.

Reece and Bjorn are joined with very special guest and fellow former Queen Video clerk Adam Trozzolo for a deep dive into Paul Schrader final entry in his late period "man in a room" trilogy, starring Joel Edgerton as a reformed Neo-Nazi (surprise, surprise) seeking redemption through love.

Reece and Bjorn discuss Paul Schrader's 22nd picture, "The Card Counter," the second in the so-called "man in a room" trilogy, starring Oscar Isaac as a gambler with a very dark past.

Reece and Bjorn discuss Paul Schrader's comeback picture, starring Ethan Hawke as the most Schrader-esque of protagonists, a priest suffering a crisis of faith. A 180-degree-turn from his last film, "First Reformed" is a provocative and deeply moving meditation on love, guilt, grief, and God (but way more entertaining than that suggests).

Reece and Bjorn take a deep dive into Paul Schrader's wildest picture, his second collaboration with Nic Cage (doing his best Bogart) in the bonkers 2016 neo-noir, Dog Eat Dog, featuring a gleefully unhinged supporting turn from Willem Dafoe., and based on (most of) a novel by Edward (Mr.Blue) Bunker.

Reece and Bjorn are joined by returning special guest and noted Cage-o-holic Mark Hanson to discuss the first of two Schrader / Nic Cage pictures, 2014's CIA spy thriller, Dying of The Light, as well as Schrader's own bootleg cut, "Dark."

Reece and Bjorn discuss (and disagree on!) Paul Schrader's divisive, self-financed Bret Easton Ellis collaboration, "The Canyons," starring Lindsay Lohan and pornstar James Deen in a story about sex, jealousy, and murder.

Reece and Bjorn discuss Paul Schrader's 2008 psychological drama starring Jeff Goldblum as a Holocaust survivor struggling to hold onto his sanity after suffering unspeakable loss and humiliation at the hands of Willem Dafoe's Nazi officer.

Reece and Bjorn discuss Paul Schrader's return to his "man in a room" films with this 2007 crime-drama starring Woody Harrelson, as the eponymous "walker," a gay man who escorts the wealthy wives of Washington elites to social events in place of their neglectful husbands - until, as these men in rooms tend to do, he gets caught up in a murder.

Reece and Bjorn discuss Paul Schrader's divisive 2005 prequel to William Friedkin's horror classic, starring Stellen Skarsgard in the role made famous by Max Von Sydow in the original. Considering Schrader was fired off the picture, replaced by Renny Harlin (Die Hard 2: Die Harder) and the film was mostly re-cast and reshot, it's a miracle that this version even exists!

Reece and Bjorn discuss Paul Schrader's 2002 Bob Crane biopic about twin obsession: sex and videotape, featuring some career-best performances by Greg Kinnear and Willem Dafoe.

Reece and Bjorn are joined by very special guest Cameron Pulley, to discuss Paul Schrader's ultra-strange 1999 noir melodrama, Forever Mine, starring Joseph Fiennes, Gretchen Moll, and Ray Liotta.

Reece and Bjorn discuss Paul Schrader's second feature of 1997, Affliction, an adaptation of Russell Banks' novel, starring a powerhouse Nick Nolte, and a hard-as-nails James Coburn as his abusive father. Both were nominated for Oscars (Coburn won).

Reece and Bjorn are joined by returning special guest Noah Taylor to discuss Paul Schrader's adaptation of Elmore Leonard's strangest novel, “Touch,” the first of two films Schrader released in 1997.

Reece and Bjorn discuss Paul Scrader's strange, comic, supernatural noir, Witch Hunt, starring Dennis Hopper, as a ‘50s private dick, surrounded by magic and murder.

Reece and Bjorn discuss Paul Schrader's 1992 existential crime drama, Light Sleeper, starring Willem Dafoe as a middle-aged drug dealer ready for anything but change.

Reece and Bjorn discuss Paul Schrader's seductive and dangerous 1990 thriller, The Comfort of Strangers, starring Natasha Richardson and Rupert Everett as young lovers searching for passion in Venice, finding instead the not-so-comforting strangers, played by Christopher Walken and Helen Mirren.

Reece and Bjorn discuss Paul Schrader's 1988 true crime biopic, Patty Hearst, starring Natasha Richardson as the eponymous heiress who was kidnapped by and then joined (willingly?) the SLA.

Reece and Bjorn discuss Paul Schrader's 1987 family drama about a working class brother and sister chasing their rock 'n roll dreams in Cleaveland, starring Michael J. Fox, Joan Jett, and Gena Rowlands.

Reece and Bjorn discuss Paul Schrader's 1985 biopic on the life and works of Japanese author (and wannabe fascist!) Yukio Mishima, featuring one of the greatest film scores of all time, courtesy of Mr. Philip Glass!

Reece and Bjorn discuss Paul Schrader's 1982 erotic horror remake of the 1942 Jacques Tourneur film, starring Natassja Kinski, Malcolm McDowell, and John Heard, and a big cat!

Reece and Bjorn are joined by Danny Flynn, co-host of That's Dark podcast, in a discussion about Paul Schrader's 1980 picture American Gigolo, in which Richard Gere goes looking for love while being framed for murder.

Reece and Bjorn discuss Paul Schrader's second film as director, 1979's Hardcore, starring George C. Scott as a devoutly religious midwestern furniture manufacturer who descends into the underworld of hardcore pornography in search of his lost daughter.

Reece and Bjorn are back with the first episode of the second season. Focusing on the works of Paul Schrader this season, we discuss the first four produced screenplays that Schrader wrote for other directors (The Yakuza, Taxi Driver, Obsession, and Rolling Thunder), before taking a deep dive into his directorial debut, Blue Collar.

In the first season finale (until Megalopolis comes out!), Reece and Bjorn finally meet up in person to rank Coppola's 22 major theatrical releases in order from least to most favourite.

Reece and Bjorn discuss Coppola's 2012 spooky ghost story, Twixt, starring Val Kilmer and Elle Fanning.

Reece and Bjorn are joined by special guest Mark Hanson for a discussion about Tetro, Coppola's 2009 drama about family rivalry, starring Vincent Gallo.

Reece and Bjorn discuss Coppola's beguiling 2007 rejuvenation drama Youth Without Youth, starring Tim Roth, the first in a trio of a smaller, more personal pictures.

Reece and Bjorn discuss Coppola's 1997 legal drama, an adaptation of John Grisham's The Rainmaker, with our first special guest: Noah Taylor.

Reece and Bjorn try to find things to like about Coppola's 1996 dramedy Jack.