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| Title | Pub. Date | Duration | |
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| TITANIC (1997) | 22 Dec 2022 | 01:07:40 | |
On the 25th anniversary of James Cameron's record-breaking blockbuster, The Unenthusiastic Critic is going down with the ship. | |||
| SLEUTH (1972) & THE LAST OF SHEILA (1973) | 04 Dec 2022 | 01:35:02 | |
Let the games begin, as The Unenthusiastic Critic enjoys her first viewings of two twisty murder mysteries. | |||
| LONE STAR (1996) | 15 Nov 2022 | 00:52:38 | |
In celebration of #Noirvember, we're watching John Sayles' underrated masterpiece about murder and lies in a Texas border town. | |||
| BARBARIAN (2022) | 31 Oct 2022 | 01:26:16 | |
By popular demand, The Unenthusiastic Critic concludes this year's Halloween marathon with an absolutely bonkers new horror classic. | |||
| GINGER SNAPS (2000) | 26 Oct 2022 | 01:06:54 | |
The Unenthusiastic Critic's annual October marathon reaches "that time of the month," as we watch John Fawcett's hormone-fueled horror movie. | |||
| EYES WITHOUT A FACE (1960) | 17 Oct 2022 | 01:17:25 | |
The Unenthusiastic Critic's 2022 horror marathon continues with Georges Franju's poetically creepy classic. | |||
| DAY OF THE DEAD (1985) | 11 Oct 2022 | 01:03:16 | |
Our 2022 Halloween marathon continues with the third film from George Romero's genre-defining horror trilogy. | |||
| NEAR DARK (1987) | 04 Oct 2022 | 00:59:54 | |
After a long and mouldering slumber, we're crawling out of our graves just in time for The Unenthusiastic Critic's Fifth Annual Halloween Movie Marathon. | |||
| BLOOD SIMPLE (1984) & BOUND (1996) | 30 Nov 2021 | 01:16:34 | |
We're celebrating #Noirvember with a neo-noir double-feature from two sets of cinematic siblings, The Coen Brothers and The Wachowski Sisters. | |||
| THE WITCH (2015) | 27 Oct 2021 | 01:42:57 | |
Something wicked this way comes, as The Unenthusiastic Critic's 2021 Halloween Movie Marathon comes to a conclusion with Nakea's first viewing of Robert Egger's new horror classic. | |||
| INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (1978) | 20 Oct 2021 | 01:04:03 | |
It's podcaster versus pod-people as The Unenthusiastic Critic's 2021 Halloween Movie Marathon continues with Philip Kaufman's creepy conspiracy story of conformity as a communicable disease. | |||
| ERASERHEAD (1977) | 13 Oct 2021 | 01:15:03 | |
The Unenthusiastic Critic's 2021 Horror Marathon continues with David Lynch's darkly disturbing debut feature. | |||
| AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON (1981) | 06 Oct 2021 | 01:12:09 | |
Things get a little hairy as The Unenthusiastic Critic's 2021 Halloween Marathon gets underway with John Landis's comedy-horror hybrid. | |||
| KING KONG (1933) & GODZILLA (1954) | 30 Mar 2021 | 01:32:23 | |
On a new episode of the podcast, we witness a clash of the titans, as The Unenthusiastic Critic meets two timeless movie stars for the very first time. | |||
| FACE/OFF (1997) | 02 Feb 2021 | 01:14:02 | |
We have met the enemy and he is me, as I use a MAGA conspiracy theory as an excuse to introduce Nakea to John Woo's preposterous action thriller. | |||
| RISKY BUSINESS (1983) | 21 Jan 2021 | 00:58:50 | |
Sometimes, The Unenthusiastic Critic just has to say "What the f——." So on this week's episode, we're watching Tom Cruise's breakout movie Risky Business (1983). | |||
| THE SILENT PARTNER (1978) | 29 Dec 2020 | 00:57:13 | |
We're finishing our "Christmas-Adjacent" marathon with Daryl Duke's unjustly forgotten crime thriller. | |||
| CHILDREN OF MEN (2006) | 24 Dec 2020 | 00:57:04 | |
The Unenthusiastic Critic watches the perfect movie for Christmas 2020: Alfonso Cuarón's dystopian (but strangely hopeful) nativity story. | |||
| MOONSTRUCK (1987) | 08 Dec 2020 | 00:51:10 | |
The Unenthusiastic Critic is looking for the holiday spirit in Norman Jewison's Christmas-adjacent romantic comedy. | |||
| SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS (1957) | 29 Nov 2020 | 01:01:16 | |
This #Noirvember, we're serving a cookie full of arsenic, as The Unenthusiastic Critic enjoys her first viewing of Alexander Mackendrick's cynical cinematic masterpiece. | |||
| DANCES WITH WOLVES (1990) | 17 Nov 2020 | 00:57:09 | |
In 1990, Kevin Costner's epic western was widely hailed as major progress in Hollywood's representation of indigenous people. But what will The Unenthusiastic Critic make of it 30 years later? | |||
| THE STRANGERS (2008) | 29 Oct 2020 | 00:57:53 | |
There's no place like home, as The Unenthusiastic Critic's 2020 Halloween Movie Marathon concludes with Bryan Bertino's harrowing home-invasion thriller. | |||
| HEREDITARY (2018) | 23 Oct 2020 | 01:16:30 | |
What's scarier than family? So we're talking about Ari Aster's breakthrough horror movie this week, as The Unenthusiastic Critic's Halloween movie marathon continues. | |||
| REBECCA (1940) | 15 Oct 2020 | 01:21:52 | |
We're headed back to Manderley as The Unenthusiastic Critic's 2020 Halloween Movie Marathon continues with Hitchcock's Oscar-winning suspense classic. | |||
| THE DEVIL'S BACKBONE (2001) | 08 Oct 2020 | 01:01:53 | |
The Unenthusiastic Critic's Halloween Movie Marathon continues with Guillermo del Toro's classic wartime ghost story. | |||
| PHANTASM (1979) | 01 Oct 2020 | 01:24:52 | |
The Unenthusiastic Critic's 2020 Halloween Movie Marathon gets underway with a viewing of a creepy cult classic. | |||
| DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS (1995) | 15 Sep 2020 | 00:51:36 | |
This week we're revisiting Carl Franklin's sorely under-appreciated neo-noir, which celebrates its 25th anniversary this month. | |||
| SPIRITED AWAY (2001) | 02 Sep 2020 | 01:13:22 | |
This week we're getting Ghibli with it, as we sit down for The Unenthusiastic Critic's first viewing of Hayao Miyazaki's weird and wonderful animated classic. | |||
| BATMAN (1989) AND BATMAN & ROBIN (1997) | 11 Aug 2020 | 01:20:44 | |
This week, we're watching a dynamic duo of movies: the film that started Hollywood's love affair with superheroes, and the film that almost ended it. | |||
| DRESSED TO KILL (1980) | 28 Jul 2020 | 01:26:29 | |
The Unenthusiastic Critic is dressing down Brian De Palma's controversial thriller, released 40 years ago this week. Will she find it brilliant, offensive, both, or too ridiculous to be either? | |||
| HAMILTON (2020) | 09 Jul 2020 | 01:17:11 | |
The Unenthusiastic Critic is back, to face the ultimate test of her musical-hating convictions. | |||
| ROPE (1948) | 16 Jan 2020 | 01:24:50 | |
The Unenthusiastic Critic is contemplating murder, as we sit down for Alfred Hitchcock's taut exercise in sustained suspense. | |||
| DINER (1982) | 09 Jan 2020 | 01:13:07 | |
This week, Nakea and I are making much ado about nothing, as we revisit one of the most influential comedies of the 1980s. | |||
| FIDDLER ON THE ROOF (1971) | 27 Dec 2019 | 01:18:24 | |
If I were a rich man, The Unenthusiastic Critic would probably be less resentful about having to watch a Broadway musical on her Christmas vacation. | |||
| KRAMER VS. KRAMER (1979) | 20 Dec 2019 | 00:51:57 | |
The Unenthusiastic Critic is contemplating divorce—not for the first time—as we sit down for her first viewing of Robert Benton's Christmas-tangential classic on its 40th anniversary. | |||
| THE APARTMENT (1960) | 12 Dec 2019 | 01:17:41 | |
A serious comedy about loneliness, infidelity, predatory men, workplace harassment, and attempted suicide? Sounds like the perfect Christmas movie for The Unenthusiastic Critic. | |||
| CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (1977) | 05 Dec 2019 | 01:18:10 | |
The Unenthusiastic Critic is making first contact with Steven Spielberg's sci-fi classic, and asking the question: Is it about a space-age prophet, or just an intergalactic deadbeat dad? | |||
| AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN (1982) | 21 Nov 2019 | 01:22:42 | |
This week we're discussing "Magical Negroes," and The Unenthusiastic Critic is eyeballin' Taylor Hackford's 1982 romantic military melodrama. | |||
| THE BIG SLEEP (1946) | 14 Nov 2019 | 01:09:52 | |
The Unenthusiastic Critic is celebrating #Noirvember with Bogie & Bacall in Howard Hawks' adaptation of Raymond Chandler's classic detective story. | |||
| FRIDAY (1995) | 07 Nov 2019 | 00:46:17 | |
In honor of the great John Witherspoon's passing, we're f–ing up the rotation this week, as Nakea introduces Michael to a '90s comedy classic. | |||
| THE LOST BOYS (1987) | 01 Nov 2019 | 01:05:00 | |
Sleep all day, party all night, never get old, never die. It's good to be the Unenthusiastic Critic. | |||
| PHENOMENA (1985) | 28 Oct 2019 | 01:05:18 | |
The Unenthusiastic Critic is bugging out, as our Halloween Movie Marathon continues with Dario Argento's weirdest movie. | |||
| DON'T LOOK NOW (1973) | 24 Oct 2019 | 01:15:06 | |
Our horror marathon continues with Nicolas Roeg's masterpiece of grief, marital disintegration, and impending doom. (In other words, it's business as usual for The Unenthusiastic Critic.) | |||
| A QUIET PLACE (2018) | 11 Oct 2019 | 01:05:51 | |
It's quiet in here—a little TOO quiet—as The Unenthusiastic Critic continues her 2019 Horror Movie Marathon with John Krasinski's muffled monster movie. | |||
| FRANKENSTEIN (1931) & BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1935) | 03 Oct 2019 | 01:18:48 | |
It's alive! The Unenthusiastic Critic's 2019 Halloween Movie Marathon gets underway with a classic creature double-feature from the golden age of the Universal movie monsters. | |||
| SEX, LIES, AND VIDEOTAPE (1989) | 26 Sep 2019 | 01:03:26 | |
We're recording our deepest, most intimate thoughts on Steven Soderbergh's seminal debut feature, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary. | |||
| BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID (1969) | 19 Sep 2019 | 00:53:09 | |
The fall's probably gonna kill us, as we celebrate the 50th anniversary of Newman and Redford's quintessential buddy western with The Unenthusiastic Critic's first viewing. | |||
| ARMAGEDDON (1998) | 05 Sep 2019 | 01:23:52 | |
It's the end of the world as we know it, and it can't come fast enough for The Unenthusiastic Critic, as she endures her first viewing of Michael Bay's disaster porn. | |||
| THE DARK CRYSTAL (1982) | 29 Aug 2019 | 00:53:18 | |
It's the most sensational, inspirational, celebrational, muppetational episode of The Unenthusiastic Critic yet. | |||
| ARTHUR (1981) | 22 Aug 2019 | 00:53:23 | |
This week, The Unenthusiastic Critic is caught between the moon and New York City, as we sit down for Steve Gordon's dipsomaniacal comedy. | |||
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