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Jason mentioned this online trend which gave us a chance to do a compare and contrast on these two.

We start with a 17 minute review before getting into spoilers. We tie in to Wes Anderson towards the end and Jason tells the story of that one time we saw Moonrise Kingdom.

As Nolan's Odyssey is upon us, we take a look back at this television gem. We start with a 19 minute review before getting into 3,000 years old spoilers.

We follow up our last silent movie selection with a visit to these two masterpieces by Chaplin. We start with a 19 minute review before getting into spoilers.Towards the end we discuss cases where dramatic directors attempt to do comedy and bring up some directors that we would find interesting if they tried.

We give a 15 minute review for this romp of a silent movie before getting into the details. We later take a couple of detours towards the end and also tease our next release.

We give a 13 minute review before getting into spoilers on this Sci-Fi epic that has grown in popularity over the years and is slowly cementing itself as a classic.

In this bonus episode we briefly discuss some of the better examples of "landing the plane" properly in trilogies and other cases where third movies worked well or not.

We give a 29 minute review of this nebulous journey into the unknown before getting into spoilers. Somehow Inception's ending rears its head and we revisit that debate while trying to crack some of the meaning and themes explored in this piece.

We give a 31 minute review of these two sci-fi epics before getting into the details in comparing and contrasting their style, story and themes. There are some spoilers for 2001 in the review portion, but it's also a tough movie to spoil.

The tail end of our last episode took us in various directions worth sharing separately.We start by discussing a couple of other movies relating to death. Jason ranks Shawn Levy's movies. We give some thoughts about Ben Stiller, Ryan Reynolds and Ben Affleck. We also discuss other comedy directors and the trend of some of them moving into other genres. Lastly we touch on when politics gets mixed up with movies as also relates to Kevin Costner's Horizon Saga.

We give a 19 minute review before getting into spoilers on this comedy with a blockbuster cast that dabbles in the Jewish grieving ritual of Shiva. Gil gets to share and contrast his own experience of the ritual while mourning his mother in Israel.

We give an 18 minute review before getting into spoilers on what is likely George Clooney's most substantial contribution to movies as a filmmaker. An underappreciated gem that still feels current to where we are. We get to discuss a little bit of what the media landscape has become and how it relates to the themes explored in the film.

Our friend Avihai joins us for this discussion about Snyder's big Sci-Fi swing which he was a crew member on. He shares some fun details about the production.We give a 30 minute review before getting into details and also spoil Seven Samurai and Magnificent Seven along the way.We also bring up other topics such as the rise of the director/cinematographer and the popularity of the docuseries in the age of streaming.

We have a second go at our directors cage match. This one was closer than the last.We get to delve into most of their movies as well as compare and contrast their careers and styles.

The camera steals the show in this propaganda movie which we've long been meaning to discuss. It's a tough movie to spoil but we're mostly spoiler free for the first 35 minutes before getting into more details. Gil also shares the experience he had showing the movie to his late mother in law Susy who was born in Cuba and spent her early years there. She passed away close to a year ago after a long battle with cancer. We dedicate this episode to her.