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Alex Billington (firstshowing.net) and Mike Eisenberg (@Eisentower30) discuss the 2019 Academy Awards, analyzing the winners and nominees along with a discussion about how voting works and how voters are influenced. Featuring special guest Clayton Davis (@AwardsCircuit) - who owns and runs the website AwardsCircuit.com.

Alex Billington (firstshowing.net) and Mike Eisenberg (@Eisentower30) discuss M. Night Shyamalan's film Glass (his highly anticipated sequel to Unbreakable and Split), with guest film critic Amon Warmann (@awarmann). We also briefly discuss the new trailer for Spider-Man: Far From Home.

Alex Billington (firstshowing.net) and Mike Eisenberg (@Eisentower30) discuss their Top 10 favorite movies of 2018, featuring special guest Alicia Malone (@aliciamalone, Host on TCM, Backwards & In Heels, The Female Gaze). We count down our Top 10 of 2018 and spend some time discussing why we love each of these films.

Alex Billington (firstshowing.net) and Mike Eisenberg dive into a heated discussion about Brady Corbet's provocative, brilliant new film Vox Lux, starring Natalie Portman and Raffey Cassidy, on this latest episode of The First Word Podcast. We also discuss a few new trailers including Avengers: Endgame and Men in Black International.

Alex Billington (firstshowing.net) and Mike Eisenberg are joined by producer & filmmaker Amirose Eisenbach to discuss documentaries on this latest episode of The First Word Podcast. We talk about the doc films we love and discuss the experience of making documentaries.

Alex Billington (firstshowing.net) and Mike Eisenberg are joined by Peter Sciretta (owner of slashfilm.com) to debate and discuss the good & the bad of Netflix on this latest episode of The First Word Podcast. Is it really good for cinema? Can they be better? Do we still love Netflix anyway?

Alex Billington (firstshowing.net) and Mike Eisenberg discuss Damien Chazelle's First Man, starring Ryan Gosling as the first man on the moon, Neil Armstrong.

Alex Billington (firstshowing.net) records this episode from Venice joined by Anton Volkov for a discussion about a few of the films seen at the Venice Film Festival on this latest episode of The First Word Podcast. We discuss First Man, Roma, The Favourite, and The Mountain, along with a few other thoughts on Venice.

Alex Billington (firstshowing.net) and Mike Eisenberg discuss the entire Mission: Impossible movie series starring Tom Cruise, with a focus on Fallout directed by Christopher McQuarrie, on this latest episode of The First Word Podcast. Featuring filmmaking, actor, screenwriter Leigh Whannell as our special guest.

Alex Billington (firstshowing.net) and Mike Eisenberg discuss horror movies including Ari Aster's Hereditary and John Krasinski's A Quiet Place on this latest episode of The First Word Podcast, featuring guest and genuine horror fan Annette DiGiovanni.

Alex Billington (firstshowing.net) and Mike Eisenberg discuss movie trailers galore from the epic movie trailer week in June 2018 on this latest episode of The First Word Podcast, featuring trailer expert Anton Volkov from Trailer-Track.

Alex Billington (firstshowing.net) and Mike Eisenberg discuss Ron Howard's Solo: A Star Wars Story in the 10th episode of The First Word Podcast, featuring entertainment journalist guest Germain Lussier from io9.

Alex Billington (firstshowing.net) and Mike Eisenberg (@Eisentower30) discuss Marvel's Avengers: Infinity War full-on with spoilers, featuring two guests: Alisha Grauso (@AlishaGrauso) & Amon Warmann (@awarmann). We chat about all the good, the bad, theories about what's next, and what really happened in this movie, and much more in this Marvel mania episode.

Alex Billington (firstshowing.net) and Mike Eisenberg (@Eisentower30) briefly review Wes Anderson's stop-motion animated film Isle of Dogs, then discuss dog love and dogs in movies with film journalist guest Tomris Laffly (@tomilaffly). We love dogs!

Alex Billington (firstshowing.net) and Mike Eisenberg (@Eisentower30) talk about the new Tomb Raider movie and discuss video game movies in general, and why there still isn't a good one yet, with special guest filmmaker Jordan Vogt-Roberts (@VogtRoberts).

Alex Billington (firstshowing.net) and Mike Eisenberg (@Eisentower30) discuss the 2018 Academy Awards, analyzing the winners and nominees along with a discussion about the power of the Oscars. Featuring special guest Sasha Stone (@awardsdaily) - who owns and runs the website Awards Daily.

Alex Billington (firstshowing.net) and Mike Eisenberg discuss Alex Garland's Annihilation adaptation on this special breakdown episode of The First Word Podcast.

Alex Billington (firstshowing.net) and Mike Eisenberg (@Eisentower30) discuss Ryan Coogler's Black Panther movie, with special guest film critic Amon Warmann (@awarmann). We also briefly discuss the current state of Marvel movies at the end.

Alex Billington (firstshowing.net) and Mike Eisenberg (@Eisentower30) discuss Season 4 of Black Mirror with special guest, Academy Award-nominated screenwriter of Arrival, Eric Heisserer (@HIGHzurrer). Alex also gives a recap of his favorite films from Sundance 2018.

Alex Billington (firstshowing.net) and Mike Eisenberg (@Eisentower30) discuss their favorite movies of 2017 and a few to look forward to in 2018. Special guest: Alicia Malone (@aliciamalone, Filmstruck, Fandango, Backwards & In Heels)