The Love of Cinema – Details, episodes & analysis

After Dave treats us to a “Thunderbolts*” mini-review and John discusses “The Accountant 2”, the boys dive into the year 1934 to discuss “The Thin Man”, a film so successful and unique it spawned FIVE sequels and made a dog one of the most famous dogs in cinema history. Written by a husband-and-wife team, “The Thin Man” is a detective “pseudo-comedy” whodunit with tension, laughs, fun, mystery, and intrigue, all done by some stellar characters. Grab a beer and join us for a ride!

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0:00 Intro; 6:50 Tariffs & Incenstives; 19:38 Dave’s “Thunderbolts*” mini-review; 22:28 John’s “The Accountant 2” mini-review; 27:27 Gripes; 32:12 1934 Year in Review; 54:33 Films of 1934: “The Thin Man”; 1:27:19 What You Been Watching?; 1:32:58 Next Week’s Movie Announcement

Additional Cast/Crew: William Powell, Myrna, Maureen O’Sullivan, Nat Pendleton, W.S. Van Dyke, Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich, Dashiell Hammett, James Wong Howe, Florence Pugh, Sebastian Stan, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Lewis Pullman, David Harbour, Wyatt Russell, Hannah John-Kamen, Jake Schreier, Stan Lee, Ben Affleck, Jon Bernthal, J.K. Simmons, Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Daniella Pineda, Gavin O’Connor, Bill Dubuque.

Hosts: Dave Green, Jeff Ostermueller, John Say Edited & Produced by Dave Green. Beer Sponsor: Carlos Barrozo Music Sponsor: Dasein Dasein on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/77H3GPgYigeKNlZKGx11KZ 
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Additional Tags: The New Avengers, Iron Man, Marvel, MCU, The Suicide Squad, New Mutants, France, The War of 1812, Napoleon, Russia, Russian History, Aristocracy, Dueling, Swans, Ducks, Chickens, Generals, Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Black Mirror, Slow Horses, The First Look, Ben Mendelsohn, French Accents, The Monuments Men, George Clooney, The Stock Market Crash, Bear Market, Trains, Locomotions, Museums, Fuhrermuseum, Nazis, WWII movies, WWI Shows, Plastic ExplosivesThe Crusades, Swedish Art, Knights, Death, MGM, Amazon Prime, Marvel, Sony, Wicked, All Quiet on the Western Front, Wicked, Conclave, Here, Venom: The Last Dance, Casablanca, The Wizard of Oz, Oscars, Academy Awards, BFI, BAFTA, BAFTAS, British Cinema. England, Vienna, Leopoldstadt, The Golden Globes, Past Lives, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, The Holiday, Sunset Boulevard, Napoleon, Ferrari, Beer, Scotch, Travis Scott, U2, Apple, Apple Podcasts, Switzerland, West Side Story, Wikipedia, Adelaide, Australia, Queensland, New South Wales, Melbourne, Indonesia, Java, Jakarta, Bali, Guinea, The British, England, The SEC, Ronald Reagan, Stock Buybacks, Marvel, MCU, DCEU, Film, Movies, Southeast Asia, The Phillippines, Vietnam, America, The US, Academy Awards, WGA Strike, SAG-AFTRA, SAG Strike, Peter Weir. 

This week, John was the only one of us who saw “Sinners” on Easter, so he offers a spoiler-free mini-review before the boys get to their featured conversation, “Black Swan”: Films of 2010. The random year generator spun 2010, a repeat for us (The Social Network, Incendies), so we break down the film year, the news year, and dive into a conversation about this psychological thriller that hit three artists- two of whom once took dance classes…- close to home!

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0:00 Intro; 3:03 “Sinners” mini-review; 12:09 Gripes; 14:51 2010 Year in Review; 34:20 Films of 2010: “Black Swan”; 1:18:08 What You Been Watching?; 1:21:48 Next Week’s Movie Announcement

Additional Cast/Crew: Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Vincent Cassel, Winona Ryder, Barbara Hersey, Benjamin Millepied, Sebastian Stan, Janet Montgomery, Toby Hemingway, Mark Margolis, Charlotte Aronofsky, Kurt Froman, Sarah Lane, Darren Aronofsky, Mark Heyman, Andres Heinz, John J. McLaughlin, Ckint Mansell, Matthew Libatique, Michael B Jordan, Ryan Coogler, Saul Williams, Jack O'Connell, Ludwig Göransson.

Hosts: Dave Green, Jeff Ostermueller, John Say Edited & Produced by Dave Green. Beer Sponsor: Carlos Barrozo Music Sponsor: Dasein Dasein on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/77H3GPgYigeKNlZKGx11KZ 
Dasein on Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/dasein/1637517407

Additional Tags: Variety, Israel, Sinners, Vampires, The Town Podcast, That 70s Show, crocs, Australian Accents, Ballet, Commercial Ballet, Contemporary Ballet, Dance, France, The War of 1812, Napoleon, Russia, Russian History, Aristocracy, Dueling, Swans, Ducks, Chickens, Generals, Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Black Mirror, Slow Horses, The First Look, Ben Mendelsohn, French Accents, The Monuments Men, George Clooney, The Stock Market Crash, Bear Market, Trains, Locomotions, Museums, Fuhrermuseum, Nazis, WWII movies, WWI Shows, Plastic ExplosivesThe Crusades, Swedish Art, Knights, Death, MGM, Amazon Prime, Marvel, Sony, Wicked, All Quiet on the Western Front, Wicked, Conclave, Here, Venom: The Last Dance, Casablanca, The Wizard of Oz, Oscars, Academy Awards, BFI, BAFTA, BAFTAS, British Cinema. England, Vienna, Leopoldstadt, The Golden Globes, Past Lives, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, The Holiday, Sunset Boulevard, Napoleon, Ferrari, Beer, Scotch, Travis Scott, U2, Apple, Apple Podcasts, Switzerland, West Side Story, Wikipedia, Adelaide, Australia, Queensland, New South Wales, Melbourne, Indonesia, Java, Jakarta, Bali, Guinea, The British, England, The SEC, Ronald Reagan, Stock Buybacks, Marvel, MCU, DCEU, Film, Movies, Southeast Asia, The Phillippines, Vietnam, America, The US, Academy Awards, WGA Strike, SAG-AFTRA, SAG Strike, Peter Weir. 

This week on the show, the boys head to Jerusalem! The random year generator spun 2005, so we chose “Kingdom of Heaven” (Directors Cut Roadshow Version) to see what Ridley Scott had in mind for his swords and sandals epic with lots of class and grace surrounding the religious tension that has disrupted the peace in Jerusalem for the last 1500 years or so… probably longer. What a cast, too! 

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0:00 Intro; 14:13 Gripes; 18:24 2005 Year in Review; 38:26 Films of 2005: “Kingdom of Heaven”; 1:26:46 What You Been Watching?; 1:40:14 Next Week’s Movie Announcement

Additional Cast/Crew:  Orlando Bloom, Eva Green, Jeremy Irons, Brendan Gleeson, Liam Neeson, Michael Sheen, David Thewlis, Nikolaj Coaster-Waldau, Marton Csokas, Alexander Siddig, William Monahan, Iain Glenn, Edward Norton, Ghassan Massoud, John Mathieson, Harry Gregson-Williams, Tom Rothman. 

Hosts: Dave Green, Jeff Ostermueller, John Say Edited & Produced by Dave Green. Beer Sponsor: Carlos Barrozo Music Sponsor: Dasein Dasein on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/77H3GPgYigeKNlZKGx11KZ 
Dasein on Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/dasein/1637517407

Additional Tags: The Crusades, Swedish Art, Knights, Death, MGM, Amazon Prime, Marvel, Sony, Wicked, All Quiet on the Western Front, Wicked, Conclave, Here, Venom: The Last Dance, Casablanca, The Wizard of Oz, Oscars, Academy Awards, BFI, BAFTA, BAFTAS, British Cinema. England, Vienna, Leopoldstadt, The Golden Globes, Past Lives, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, The Holiday, Sunset Boulevard, Napoleon, Ferrari, Beer, Scotch, Travis Scott, U2, Apple, Apple Podcasts, Switzerland, West Side Story, Wikipedia, Adelaide, Australia, Queensland, New South Wales, Melbourne, Indonesia, Java, Jakarta, Bali, Guinea, The British, England, The SEC, Ronald Reagan, Stock Buybacks, Marvel, MCU, DCEU, Film, Movies, Southeast Asia, The Phillippines, Vietnam, America, The US, Academy Awards, WGA Strike, SAG-AFTRA, SAG Strike, Peter Weir. 

This week the boys discuss M. Night Shyamalan's latest directorial feature, Knock at the Cabin (2023), which stars Dave Bautista, Jonathan Groff, and Rubert Grint. While Night had some source material to work with in Paul Tremblay's book "The Cabin at the End of the World", he changed the ending, so he was able to keep some surprise in how it's going to end. Not sure our co-host John liked that, he might have liked it more than his significant other, which is new for him. Jeff also made Dave edit some stuff out about the Chinese Spy Balloon because he ran his mouth about something he knew nothing about. However, since this movie has to do with the apocalypse, and we might have Russia and China both occupying land at the same time, maybe this movie will age well!

Additional Cast/Crew: Steve Desmond, Michael Sherman, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Ben Aldridge, Abby Quinn, Kristen Cui,

Intro/M. Night intro/Gripes: 0:00

Knock at the Cabin: 15:00

What've You Been Watching: 62:30

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Hosts: Dave Green, Jeff Ostermueller, John Say.

Edited and produced by Dave Green. Music: soundcloud.com/dasein-artist Beer: @cbarrozo.beer

Tags: The Last of Us, Aftersun, Grammys 2023, Unbreakable, The Visit, Signs, The Village, letterkenny, Zendaya, Zendaya's sister, Timothee Chalamet, Meryl Streep, Star Wars, Into The Unknown, Scotland, Family Guy, Lucas Hedges, Turkey, Turkish Film, Queensland, Melbourne, Resorts, all-inclusive, The White Lotus, Death Becomes Her, The Lost Daughter, The Crown, NYU Film.

This week the boys are joined by actress Tina Nikolova to drink some whiskey and beer and discuss Aftersun (2022), writer/director (and multiple-BAFTA nominee) Charlotte Wells' personal feature film starring Academy Award nominee Paul Mescal (Normal People, The Lost Daughter, Gladiator 2) and newcomer scene-stealer Frankie Corio. The film is very Scottish, and those UK-ers must really love their lottery because The National Lottery sponsored this. Apparently they sponsor a lot. The film is about a woman reflecting back on a vacation she took with her young father when she was young, reliving moments and flashes through home videos that capture more about her father than she was able to see as a child. Powerful stuff!

Additional Cast/Crew: Celia Rowlson-Hall, Sally Messham, Spike Fearn, Harry Perdios, Ruby Thompson, Kayleigh Coleman, Barry Jenkins, Oliver Coates, Gregory Oke.

Intro/Tiered Movie Pricing/Regal Cinemas/Gripes: 0:00

Aftersun: 18:00

What've You Been Watching: 62:30

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Hosts: Dave Green, Jeff Ostermueller, John Say.

Guest: Tina Nikolova

Edited and produced by Dave Green. Music: soundcloud.com/dasein-artist Beer: @cbarrozo.beer

Tags: The Last of Us, Aftersun, letterkenny, Zendaya, Zendaya's sister, Timothee Chalamet, Meryl Streep, Star Wars, Into The Unknown, Scotland, Family Guy, Lucas Hedges, Turkey, Turkish Film, Queensland, Melbourne, Resorts, all-inclusive, The White Lotus, Death Becomes Her, The Lost Daughter, The Crown, NYU Film.

This week Jeff & Dave went to another fun January thriller in the cinema before talking the walk without co-host John. Missing (2022) is standalone sequel to Searching (2022) and is a "desktop" movie, or screen-based thriller. With a bigger budget and time to create another simple mystery thriller completely enriched by it's premise, Missing is the second movie in three weeks (M3GAN) to know what it is and give it to us exactly as we wanted yet in a way we somehow almost didn't know we wanted it.

Cast/Crew: Nicholas D. Johnson, Will Merrick, Sev Ohanian, Aneesh Chaganty, Tim Griffin, Nia Long, Storm Rein, Ken Leung, Amy Landecker, Megan Suri, Lisa Yamada, Daniel Henney, Joaquim de Almeida, Lauren B. Mosley, Rick Chambers, Timur Bekmambetov, Congyu E, Adam Sidman, Natalie Qasabian, Jo Henriquez.

Intro/Password Protection/Music Complaint?/Gripes: 0:00

Missing: 16:00

What've You Been Watching: 52:30

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Hosts: Dave Green, Jeff Ostermueller.

Edited and produced by Dave Green. Music: soundcloud.com/dasein-artist Beer: @cbarrozo.beer

Tags: Euphoria, The Last of Us, Aftersun, letterkenny, Last of Us, Zendaya, Zendaya's sister, Timothee Chalamet, Hot Wonka, John Cho, Meryl Streep, Dies Irae, Star Wars, Into The Unknown, The Lion King, Hans Zimmer, Interstellar score, Australia, Sydney, Melbourne, Canada, Los Angeles, Columbia, Lock Bridge, Javi, Javier, June.

This week we drink whiskey and beer and keep it positive as we discuss Women Talking (2022), the Critic's Choice Award-winning film that helps ignite one hell of a conversation. Based on the 2018 novel by Miriam Toews, writer/director Sarah Polley guides an incredible ensemble cast to some incredible heights. The film takes place over the course of three days and two nights in an agrarian Mennonite society where every woman- and most girls- has experienced a sexual assault and a gaslighting about it (it was a ghost, it was the devil, you made it up... infuriating). The women meet in a barn to discuss their options. Produced by Frances McDormand and Brad Pitt, amongst others, the mostly-female cast is led by Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, McDormand, Judith Ivey, Kate Hallett, Sheila McCarthy, August Winter, and Ben Wishaw.

Intro/Gripes: 0:00

WOMEN TALKING: 16:00

What've You Been Watching: 60:30

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Hosts: Dave Green, Jeff Ostermueller, John Say.

Edited and produced by Dave Green. Music: soundcloud.com/dasein-artist Beer: @cbarrozo.beer

This week John, Dave, and Jeff discuss Babylon (2022), the film by writer/director Damien Chazelle that reminds us why we love going to see 3 1/2-hour long movies filled with extravagance and debauchery in the theater at Christmas. Critics have been split, audiences gave it a shrug… was it really that bad? 

Intro/Gripes: 0:00

BABYLON: 14:00

What've You Been Watching: 50:30

Additional Cast/Crew: Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Justin Hurwitz, Diego Calva, Jean Smart, Phoebe Tonkin, Olivia Wilde, Jovan Adepo, Flea, Jimmy Ortega.

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Hosts: Dave Green, Jeff Ostermueller, John Say.

Edited and produced by Dave Green. Music: soundcloud.com/dasein-artist Beer: @cbarrozo.beer

This week John, Dave & Jeff went with the teenagers to see M3GAN, the film that apparently makes young people in the theater want to watch Twitch, check their Snaps, record the screen, vape, and yell at each other for the duration. Lots of “bathroom” breaks, too. If only M3GAN would jump out of the screen and parent THESE kids by kicking their asses. 

The movie is about Allison Williams not wanting to parent her niece, so she develops a doll designed to make Mark Zuckerberg look like Winnie the Pooh. It’s not terrifying, but it’s spooky and thrilling enough with a skosh of humor to justify it’s $30mill opening weekend. 

Intro/Disrespectful Teens/F Facebook/Gripes: 0:00

M3GAN: 13:30

What've You Been Watching: 51:30

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Hosts: Dave Green, Jeff Ostermueller, John Say.

Edited and produced by Dave Green. Music: soundcloud.com/dasein-artist Beer: @cbarrozo.beer

Additional Cast/Crew: Ronny Chieng, Gerard Johnstone, Violet McGraw, Jenna Davis, Brian Jordan Alvarez, Jen Van Epps, Lori Dungey, Amy Usherwood, Stephane Garneau-Monten, James Wan, Akela Cooper, Anthony Willis.

After discussing the upcoming summer 2023 slate of big picture releases, the boys discuss Jeff’s #2 movie of 2022, Triangle of Sadness, written and directed by Ruben Östlund (Force Majeure, The Square). This Swedish film spoken primarily in English won Östlund his second Palme d’Or and is a social satire on wealth, classism, beauty obsession, and political ideology. Co-starring Woody Harrelson as the alcoholic Marxist captain of a luxury yacht, be prepared to see the most gutturally disturbing dinner scene since Stand By Me… maybe worse.  

Intro/Summer 2023 Movies/Gripes: 0:00

Triangle of Sadness: 13:00

What've You Been Watching: 56:30

Find all of our Socials at: https://linktr.ee/theloveofcinema

Hosts: Dave Green, Jeff Ostermueller, John Say.

Edited and produced by Dave Green. Music: soundcloud.com/dasein-artist Beer: @cbarrozo.beer

Additional Cast/Crew: Charlbi Dean Kriek, Harris Dickinson, Dolly De Leon, Vicki Berlin, Alicia Eriksson, Zlatko Burić, Sunny Miles, Amanda Walker, Oliver Ford Davies, Iris Berben, Thobias Thorwid, Fredrik Wenzel, Mikel Cee Karlsson