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Barry Jenkins’ 2017 (UK release date) Oscar winner gets the Forgot You Forgot treatment. Adam watched in on blu-ray, no big deal, but does the blurb give the right movie nod for each actor? Starring Mahershala Ali, Trevante Rhodes and Naomie Harris, this episode  sees Joe and Adam tussle over the film’s choices, and whether poetry is better than realism. Oh, and coming-of-age movies more generally. Got a film you forgot you forgot? Join our Discord community and let us know, or chip in a comment or two on one of the various threads:https://discord.gg/WjE2H22ZWk Or send us an email at [email protected] with your thoughts, episode suggestions, or just some light praise. You can also follow Adam @errorofways on Letterboxd; he rates and reviews the films he watches.  Also, be a pal: tell your chums, rate us, review us, shout our name into the void - whatever helps spread the word.

It's 2004's indie rom-com Garden State, starring (and written & directed by) Zach Braff of Scrubs fame. Also Natalie Portman. Joe & Adam discuss this and also debate the differences between movies and films. Got a film you forgot you forgot? Join our growing Discord community and tell us all about it: https://discord.gg/WjE2H22ZWk Or send us an email at [email protected] with your thoughts, episode suggestions, or just some light praise. You can also follow Adam @errorofways on Letterboxd; he rates and reviews the films he watches.  Also, be a pal: tell your chums, rate us, review us, shout our name into the void - whatever helps spread the word.

Find out Joe’s rubbish excuses for not having watched Garden State. Never mind, because the pair had still watched some other movies/films that they chatted about instead. Mainly, The End of Oak Street. Why is David Robert Mitchell’s 80s-inflected Amblin-style popcorn blockbuster getting so many shrugs? Joe likes football, and he’s seen a sort of football based documentary - The Last Resident of the Holloway Motel.  Also on the docket: a bit on the latest Spiderman (Brand New Day!) and Joe’s finally seen Before The Devil Knows Your Dead. Did he like it? Cul-de-sac chats veer off into strip club territory. Excuses and reasons aplenty. Got a film you forgot you forgot? Join our growing Discord community and tell us all about it: https://discord.gg/WjE2H22ZWk  Or send us an email at [email protected] with your thoughts, episode suggestions, or just some light praise. You can also follow Adam @errorofways on Letterboxd; he rates and reviews the films he watches.  Also, be a pal: tell your chums, subscribe, rate us, review us, shout our name into the void - whatever helps spread the word.

Mathieu Kassovitz's 1995 French masterpiece La Haine is the topic of today's episode. Joe & Adam dive into the film but also discuss: in-laws, Cliff Curtis' character names, how many Speilberg references are there in the film? And more. Got a film you forgot you forgot? Join our growing Discord community and tell us all about it: https://discord.gg/WjE2H22ZWk Or send us an email at [email protected] with your thoughts, episode suggestions, or just some light praise. You can also follow Adam @errorofways on Letterboxd; he rates and reviews the films he watches.  Also, be a pal: tell your chums, rate us, review us, shout our name into the void - whatever helps spread the word.

The 2002 action thriller, The Bourne Identity got forgot; really? Adam says so, says he’s a Supremacy guy… but what of the Doug Liman director first one, scripted by Tony Gilroy?  What are the best bits? Who would we be if we got Bourned? Who is Jason Bourne? Who is a good recast for a modern (baby) Bourne? All this and more! Got a film you forgot you forgot? Join our growing Discord community and tell us all about it: https://discord.com/invite/b3CUUdPRf7 Or send us an email at [email protected] with your thoughts, episode suggestions, or just some light praise. You can also follow Adam @errorofways on Letterboxd; he rates and reviews the films he watches.  Also, be a pal: tell your chums, rate us, review us, shout our name into the void - whatever helps spread the word

Quentin Tarantino's 1998 flick Jackie Brown is the topic of today's discussion. Joe & Adam dive into the movie, Tarantino's catalogue and more, including: are you a page folder or bookmark person? Which actors belong with which directors? Could Jake Gyllenhaal do a Nolan movie? And how big is Joe's new lamp?

How much is there to say about 1997’s The Fifth Element, beyond the great production design and some fun performances… not a whole lot it turns out.  There’s the Gary Oldman Game though, and who won acting Oscar chat, and there is a prolonged diversion into Django Unchained. Got a film you forgot you forgot? Join our growing Discord community and tell us all about it: https://discord.com/invite/b3CUUdPRf7 Or send us an email at [email protected] with your thoughts, episode suggestions, or just some light praise. You can also follow Adam @errorofways on Letterboxd; he rates and reviews the films he watches.  Also, be a pal: tell your chums, rate us, review us, shout our name into the void - whatever helps spread the word.

The Mask of Zorro, starring Antonio Bandares, Anthony Hopkins & Catherine Zeta-Jones, is the film of choice for today's episode. But don't worry: Joe & Adam barely talk about it.

Joe and Adam muse over films they’ve seen recently, focusing on a shoddy trip to the cinema for 500 Miles. Plus Supergirl gets both barrels for its approach to covers, Mando & Grogu splits opinion and Savage House gets some heady praise. But it’s not really about the movies (or films) is it? It’s the fun in between. Got a film you forgot you forgot? Join our growing Discord community and tell us all about it : https://discord.gg/b3CUUdPRf7 Or send us an email at [email protected] with your thoughts, episode suggestions, or just some light praise. You can also follow Adam @errorofways on Letterboxd; he rates and reviews the films he watches.  Also, be a pal: tell your chums, rate us, review us, leave a comment - something to do with algorithms.

Revisiting the most lauded film of 2025, Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another (or for the too busy to say things fully: PTA’s OBAA). Joe loved it, saw it twice. Adam was chillier… has he chilled? And what Christopher Nolan got to do with it? Expect to hear all about expectation and a run down of PTA’s oeuvre (love that word.) This is the last in this current solo series, and it’s the best one. Got a film you forgot you forgot? Join our growing Discord community and tell us all about it: https://discord.gg/b3CUUdPRf7 Or send us an email at [email protected] with your thoughts, episode suggestions, or just some light praise. You can also follow Adam @errorofways on Letterboxd; he rates and reviews the films he watches.  Also, be a pal: tell your chums, rate us, review us, shout our name into the void - whatever helps spread the word.

It’s here, Sir Christopher Nolan’s take on Homer’s epic tale of a man’s journey home, The Odyssey. Starring Matt Damon, Anne Hathaway, Tom Holland et al, the MYFYF duo ponder what went right and what went wrong. Spoiler alert: there are spoilers. They then each rank and rate Nolan’s films (leaving out Following, Insomnia and Batman Begins though, cos Joe hasn’t seen those). Enjoy!

Some films carry a weight: it’s a classic; it’s a masterpiece, it’s a classic masterpiece. Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal is one such film, and Joe loves it. Till now, it’s never felt like the right time for Adam to dally with Bergman. Now Joe has made him watch a Knight play chess with Death.  This episode comes with no weight, it’s a tale of a man, a film and a rusty nail. Got a film you forgot you forgot? Join our growing Discord community and tell us all about it: https://discord.gg/b3CUUdPRf7 Or send us an email at [email protected] with your thoughts, episode suggestions, or just some light praise. You can also follow Adam @errorofways on Letterboxd; he rates and reviews the films he watches.  Also, be a pal: tell your chums, rate us, review us, shout our name into the void - whatever helps spread the word.

This week, Joe made Adam watch First Blood, starring John J Rambo aka Slyvester Stallone. How come 80s action aficionado Adam never watched it? It stirs all sorts of thoughts, not least on loners new in town, righteous kills and how inevitable is it that such films male violent anti-heroes aspirational. Also: Sir Christopher puts in a call to Homer, to check all’s good. Got a film you forgot you forgot? Join our growing Discord community and tell us all about it: https://discord.gg/b3CUUdPRf7 Or send us an email at [email protected] with your thoughts, episode suggestions, or just some light praise. You can also follow Adam @errorofways on Letterboxd; he rates and reviews the films he watches.  Also, be a pal: tell your chums, rate us, review us, shout our name into the void - whatever helps spread the word.

Joe’s busy for a few weeks or so, but he’s getting Adam to watch some films and talk about them. First up for this is 2016’s Lion, directed by Garth Davis and starring Dev Patel. It’s a good flick, well worth watching - but how good? Can Joe guess what Adam will think of it? Got a film you forgot you forgot? Join our collegiate Discord community and tell us all about it:  https://discord.gg/b3CUUdPRf7 Or send us an email at [email protected] with your thoughts, episode suggestions, or just some light praise. You can also follow Adam @errorofways on Letterboxd; he rates and reviews the films he watches.  Also, be a pal: tell your chums, rate us, review us, shout our name into the void - whatever helps spread the word.

Stephen Spielberg is back to the alien well with 2026’s government chase caper Disclosure Day. Starring Emily Blunt and Josh O’Connor.  Did Joe really make Adam watch it? How’s Stevie’s new flick match up to his others? Do directors age out? And what’s Toy Story 5 got to do with it all? Find out on the first of these summer specials where Joe Makes Adam Watch A Film, and Adam talks about it - by himself. Usual episodes will return after the World Cup. Got a film you forgot you forgot? Join our collegiate Discord community and tell us all about it: https://discord.gg/b3CUUdPRf7 Or send us an email at [email protected] with your thoughts, episode suggestions, or just some light praise. You can also follow Adam @errorofways on Letterboxd; he rates and reviews the films he watches.  Also, be a pal: tell your chums, rate us, review us, shout our name into the void - whatever helps spread the word.