The Silver Screenings

As Ethan Hunt gets ready to retire for good, Nate, Matt, and Bryan look back at his most overcooked and forgettable mission--trying to rescue John Woo's ill-considered "Mission: Impossible II."Follow us, leave a review, and check us out on Letterboxd at:BlindBuyMedia https://boxd.it/2jJyfandBryan_P https://boxd.it/Rjp7

Free range chickens for all! Nate, Matt, and Bryan discuss 2000's "Chicken Run" and all of its claymation glory. Note: Google confirmed that "Fantastic Mr. Fox" also contained claymation.Follow us, leave a review, and check us out on Letterboxd at:BlindBuyMedia https://boxd.it/2jJyfandBryan_P https://boxd.it/Rjp7

Nate, Matt, and Bryan climb aboard the bus and exchange shocking revelations. They also digress.Follow us, leave a review, and check us out on Letterboxd at:BlindBuyMedia https://boxd.it/2jJyfandBryan_P https://boxd.it/Rjp7

Are you not entertained? Then you must be watching "Gladiator II." Turn back the clocks and watch "Gladiator" with Nate, Matt, and Bryan instead.Follow us, leave a review, and check us out on Letterboxd at:BlindBuyMedia https://boxd.it/2jJyfandBryan_P https://boxd.it/Rjp7

What better way to grow our podcast in the new year as we begin our look back at 2000 with a mostly forgotten independent film because of Nate's fascination with current, obscure filmmaker Robert Eggers and his remake of "Nosferatu"! Matt and Bryan really need to start vetting his ideas.Follow us, leave a review, and check us out on Letterboxd at:BlindBuyMedia https://boxd.it/2jJyfandBryan_P https://boxd.it/Rjp7

Nate, Bryan, and Matt select their personal choices for the 1999 Oscars in the categories of Best Picture, Actor, Actress, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress, and Director. There's no business like nerd business!

Bryan, Matt, and Nate end their film discussions of 1999 with the Best Picture Oscar-winner "American Beauty." Let the awkwardness begin! Follow us, leave a review, and check us out on Letterboxd at: BlindBuyMedia https://boxd.it/2jJyf and Bryan_P https://boxd.it/Rjp7

I see...M. Night Shyamalan's reputation dying. Follow us, leave a review, and check us out on Letterboxd at: BlindBuyMedia https://boxd.it/2jJyf and Bryan_P https://boxd.it/Rjp7

Get ready to root for the bad guy--Mel Gibson! Follow us, leave a review, and check us out on Letterboxd at: BlindBuyMedia https://boxd.it/2jJyf and Bryan_P https://boxd.it/Rjp7

Bryan and Matt are off to the stars, while Nate is down in the mines wondering how the hell Jake Gyllenhaal's career ever amounted to anything.

Bryan, Nate, and Matt travel back in time with "Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me." Follow us, leave a review, and check us out on Letterboxd at: BlindBuyMedia https://boxd.it/2jJyf and Bryan_P https://boxd.it/Rjp7

Matt, Bryan, and Nate take a look back at "The World Is Not Enough" and ask, "Can you ever have enough Christmas?" Follow us, leave a review, and check us out on Letterboxd at: BlindBuyMedia https://boxd.it/2jJyf and Bryan_P https://boxd.it/Rjp7

The holidays are upon us, so get together with your family and gather around the fire to watch Stanley Kubrick's Christmas classic, "Eyes Wide Shut." Follow us, leave a review, and check us out on Letterboxd at: BlindBuyMedia https://boxd.it/2jJyf and Bryan_P https://boxd.it/Rjp7

Nate, Matt, and Bryan chase ambulances looking for gold in Martin Scorsese's "Bringing Out the Dead" starring Nic F-ing Cage.

The episode has been heavily censored in solidarity with Canadian-hating parents everywhere.

A pre-War on Terror war film about war with Iraq. Confused? You must be Gen Z. Follow us, leave a review, and check us out on Letterboxd at: BlindBuyMedia https://boxd.it/2jJyf and Bryan_P https://boxd.it/Rjp7

Talentless hacks tackle Patricia Highsmith's classic story, but who are the talentless hacks to whom we are referring? Follow us, leave a review, and check us out on Letterboxd at: BlindBuyMedia https://boxd.it/2jJyf and Bryan_P https://boxd.it/Rjp7

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Michael Mann's drama takes on the tobacco companies and corporate media, while Nate takes on Matt and Bryan's anti-freedom crusade. Smoke 'em if you've got 'em.

The evil of Imhotep infects the podcast as Bryan, Matt, and Nate all tear into each other over this 1999 cinematic masterpiece starring Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz. Please leave us a review and follow us wherever you get your podcasts. Check us out on Letterboxd at: BlindBuyMedia (https://boxd.it/2jJyf) and Bryan_P (https://boxd.it/Rjp7)

It's 1999's biggest hit! George Lucas takes us back to where it all began with a collection of characters nobody cares about. Nate, Matt, and Bryan look back at their 1999 selves with utmost contempt.

To tackle "Analyze This", Matt, Bryan, and Nate sit on the couch, listen to one another, and achieve no great, actionable insights. It must be a therapy session!

DreamWorks successfully made "Galaxy Quest" a PG, family favorite movie in 1999. Matt works hard to make this a family friendly pod, but Nate and Bryan thwart his efforts. BY GRABTHAR'S HAMMER!!!

Bryan, Matt, and Nate start 2024 off with a bang as they enter the Matrix. What would it have been like with Will Smith and Val Kilmer? Or a little Jennifer Connelly, amirite?

Nate, Matt, and Bryan finish up 1998's silver anniversary with Peter Weir's "The Truman Show"--now a lived reality on social media!

Nate, Matt, and Bryan fight nihilists and cut off toes with "The Big Lebowski."

Happy Halloween! Matt and Nate talk about Martin Brest's "Meet Joe Black," a movie about death. And peanut butter. But no chocolate.

It's a pre-War on Terror surveillance bonanza! Nate, Matt, and Bryan spy in on Will Smith and Gene Hackman.

Matt, our resident Soderbergh fan is a little cool about "Out of Sight," but George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez are red hot. Nate is a gushing fanboy.

Like a comet hurling towards Earth, Nate and Matt clash over Mimi Leder's 1998 disaster drama, "Deep Impact." Watch out for inexplicable car explosions!

"Rounders" hit theaters on September 11th, 1998. It's the second most noteworthy thing to happen on that day in history.

The 1954 Japanese classic "Godzilla" is now considered a masterpiece of Cold War, nuclear fear drama. For some reason, Matt and Nate decide to talk about the 1998 American remake from Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin instead. Check out our episode on the actual classic over at our flagship podcast, The Criterion Chat.

Matt and Nate boldly go back to 1998's "Star Trek: Insurrection"--perhaps the most uninspired movie in the entire series! Nate forgets to mention his name in the introductions he's so excited, or else he is trying to keep it on the DL that he actually enjoys Trek.

Long before he became a household name, Christopher Nolan produced this "no budget" film that launched his career and garnered him an instant, er, following. Check out Nate and Matt's thoughts on "Following" as it celebrates its 25th anniversary.

Moonwalk back to 1998 as it plays a mix tape of '80s hits in “The Wedding Singer.” Matt and Nate are now older than everyone who headlines this movie.

As 1997 comes to an end, Matt Peterson, Nate Meyers, and Bryan Piras take a look back at Andrew Niccol's dystopian sci-fi film “Gattaca” and wonder if they can get some genetic modifications in their middle age.

Another podcast on movies? That's right! Check out The Silver Screenings, where we focus solely on films celebrating their 25th anniversary. For our inaugural episode, Nate and Matt reminisce over Curtis Hanson's adaptation of James Ellroy's neo-noir novel L.A. Confidential. Noir November anybody?