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   It’s Bond time again. We’re podcasting about it. Need we say more? —-THERE WILL BE SPOILERS!—-

    On this week’s episode, we’re joined by special guest BRIAN BOARINI for a discussion about Steven Soderbergh’s undervalued and under-discussed 2000 masterpiece, TRAFFIC, on the occasion of the film’s 20th anniversary. Email: wlmpodcast@gmail.com Donate: Thanks! Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Stitcher / Overcast / RSS

    Greetings, WLM faithful! We return to you now, after an extended, fall hiatus, with a State-of-the-Cinematic-Union-style discussion pod, followed by a thorough review of David Fincher’s decades-in-the-making, pseudo-historical biopic Mank. We’re excited to be back, have a backlog of hot takes, and promise to never stay away so long again. If you’re playing the WLM drinking game, today’s buzzword is EVOCATIVE! Email: wlmpodcast@gmail.com Donate: Thanks! Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Stitcher / Overcast / RSS

    It’s time to talk temporality, team. (Maybe someday we’ll get to talk TENET…) We’re referring to this episode as “The Fear of the Clock”. - INCEPTION (2010) - INTERSTELLAR (2014) - INSOMNIA (2017) Email: wlmpodcast@gmail.com Donate: Thanks! Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Stitcher / Overcast / RSS

    “Eureka! I’ve found it!” Email: wlmpodcast@gmail.com Donate: Thanks! Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Stitcher / Overcast / RSS

    Welcome to the inaugural episode of our new podcast series “The Quintessentials”! Here we will be identifying and excavating a sub canon of important films that, for whatever reason, have been lost to time or overshadowed by their more popular or successful counterparts in a a chosen filmmaker’s oeuvre. These are the b-sides, the rarities, the deep dive picks… And while they’re almost never the most well known or celebrated selections in a body of work, they might just be–covertly–the filmmaker’s most instructive, stylistically-defining, and quintessential movies. For our first episode we figured we’d start with a layup- William Friedkin’s genre-defying 1977 masterpiece SORCERER. Fasten your seatbelts. It’s going to be a bumpy ride. Email: wlmpodcast@gmail.com Donate: Thanks! Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Stitcher / Overcast / RSS

    Here at the halfway point of our Christopher Nolan series–with Gotham City in our rearview–we’re flashing back to the beginning of the auteur’s cinematic journey. We’ll scrutinize his dexterity with the daylight noir, his interest in self-victimizing sleuths, and his fascination with prestidigitation. We’re referring to this episode as “Confidence and Misdirection”. - FOLLOWING (1998) - MEMENTO (2000) - INSOMNIA (2002) - THE PRESTIGE (2006) Email: wlmpodcast@gmail.com Donate: Thanks! Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Stitcher / Overcast / RSS

  View fullsize   “Y'all take it easy now. This isn't Dallas, it's Nashville! They can't do this to us here in Nashville!” Email: wlmpodcast@gmail.com Donate: Thanks! Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Stitcher / Overcast / RSS

  View fullsize   You know them, you’ve seen them, and you certainly have opinions about them. Join us as we revisit three of the most successful, influential, and subversively political films of the 21st century- courtesy of a man who insisted that he had absolutely no political agenda in mind when he made them. We’ll [attempt to] get to the bottom of this thematic paradox… We’re referring to this episode as “The Struggle for the Soul of a City”. - BATMAN BEGINS (2005) - THE DARK KNIGHT (2008) - THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (2012) Email: wlmpodcast@gmail.com Donate: Thanks! Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Stitcher / Overcast / RSS

  View fullsize   If you’re looking for a deep-dive academic analysis of a particularly popular filmmaker who is currently getting a lot of press as he fights the good fight to make sure his latest 200 million dollar science fiction epic makes it to IMAX screens in less than 2 months… then have we got a podcast for you! Matt hosts the rare “solo pod” and inaugurates our newest Oeuvre series with a narratology lecture about Nolan’s unique and groundbreaking approach to temporal structure. Only the most inquisitive Nolanites need apply… Oscar returns next week for an affectionate but critical breakdown of “The Dark Knight Trilogy” with an eye toward singling out what that film franchise is principally concerned with, from a thematic standpoint. We're “TENET-ively” optimistic that we’ll be back in movie theaters to see Nolan’s latest in July so that we can podcast about anything and everything it means for Nolan’s Oeuvre. Email: wlmpodcast@gmail.com Donate: Thanks! Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Stitcher / Overcast / RSS

  View fullsize   “Calling all nations. This is Rufus T. Firefly coming to you through the courtesy of the enemy. We're in a mess folks, we're in a mess. Rush to Freedonia! Three men and one woman are trapped in a building! Send help at once! If you can't send help, send two more women!” Email: wlmpodcast@gmail.com Donate: Thanks! Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Stitcher / Overcast / RSS

  View fullsize   We’re wrapping up our series on the career of one, John McTiernan, with a bang. Even if you haven’t seen or don’t care about the man’s relatively inauspicious, forgotten, “late period” films, consider joining us for an episode in which we reckon with some unexpected revelations and speculate about the potential for McT’s third act… We’re referring to this third age as the “Spiral into Self-Inflicted Exile”. -THE 13TH WARRIOR (1999) -ROLLERBALL (2002) -BASIC (2003) (special thanks to Mr. Beau Marks — a true gentleman and longtime friend and collaborator of John McTiernan — for consulting on this series) Email: wlmpodcast@gmail.com Donate: Thanks! Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Stitcher / Overcast / RSS

    “There's always a girl in the picture. What's the matter, don't you go to the movies?” Email: wlmpodcast@gmail.com Donate: Thanks! Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Stitcher / Overcast / RSS

    At long last we return to continue our journey through the career of one, John McTiernan. We’re referring to this second age as his struggle from the “Jungle to the Upper East Side”. -MEDICINE MAN (1992) -LAST ACTION HERO (1993) -DIE HARD WITH A VENGEANCE (1995) -THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR (1999) (special thanks to Mr. Beau Marks — a longtime friend and collaborator of John McTiernan — for consulting on this series) Email: wlmpodcast@gmail.com Donate: Thanks! Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Stitcher / Overcast / RSS

    We’re going back to ‘99 ONE MORE TIME to organize our thoughts about the inaugural “retrospectating” series, the cosmic significance of the year in question, and whether or not decade-cappers consistently produce the best cinematic output. And now we play the waiting game… Let’s all agree to meet back here in 2029 to take another look at that red letter year on the occasion of its 30th birthday… Talkin’ 1999 just never gets old. Email: wlmpodcast@gmail.com Donate: Thanks! Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Stitcher / Spotify / Overcast / RSS

    We’re back from the winter hiatus just in time to submit our official Oscar predictions and lock in the choices that will determine the winner of our yearly WLM wager. Join us as we break down all 24 categories, get foolishly optimistic about PARASITE’s chance to make history on Oscar night, and even outline a few additions and subtractions we’d love to see implemented with respect to the future slate of categories. We’re mere hours away from Hollywood’s biggest night! Whether the big prize goes to 1917 or PARASITE, it’s just important to remember that MALEFICENT: MISTRESS OF EVIL has more Oscar nominations than UNCUT GEMS. Stew on that, get comfortable with the fact that you’re going to die someday, and just give in to the annual, bizarre, intoxicating power of Oscar weekend… Just let it happen. Email: wlmpodcast@gmail.com Donate: Thanks! Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Stitcher / Spotify / Overcast / RSS

    It’s our annual ode to opinions. We do it every year. We love it. What more do you need to know? Listen in and leave comments. We value YOUR opinion. We treasure your friendship! 2019, we hardly knew ye…. Email: wlmpodcast@gmail.com Donate: Thanks! Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Stitcher / Spotify / Overcast / RSS

    So here we are… We’ve finally come to the end of our year-long Retrospectating 1999 series and we’re bringing this thing in for a landing with the help of special guest Dan Kelly. He joins us for a bonus episode to celebrate Oliver Stone’s misunderstood masterpiece ANY GIVEN SUNDAY on the occasion of its 20th anniversary. It’s a fun one to end the series on, even if concluding this feature is quite bittersweet. Thanks for hanging with us through this crazy game of inches, WLM family. Happy holidays and we’ll see you in the next decade! Email: wlmpodcast@gmail.com Donate: Thanks! Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Stitcher / Spotify / Overcast / RSS

    As we near the end of our Retrospectating 1999 series we’ve come to a long-awaited double-header: Anthony Minghella’s THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY and Paul Thomas Anderson’s MAGNOLIA. These films have very little in common besides the fact that they both feature the most important cinematic Phillips of 1999 (Seymour Hoffman and Baker Hall) and both premiered in late December of that year. But on this week’s episode–featuring special guest Ryan Julio in his 3rd WLM appearance–we dig deeper into other potential similarities and even fabricate scandalous conspiracy theories about filmmaker/composer relationships and histories. It’s a post-Christmas miracle! Email: wlmpodcast@gmail.com Donate: Thanks! Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Stitcher / Spotify / Overcast / RSS

    What a long, strange, trip it’s been. It took us nearly a decade to get there but we’re extremely excited to announce that we’ve officially made it to 300 episodes on the We Like Movies Podcast feed! In honor of the occasion we’ve invited back the ten beautiful individuals who have guested on the podcast over the years to share their thoughts on the greatest films of the last decade. Since we started this journey in October of 2010 (reviewing The Social Network, no less) and hit 300 episodes just shy of 2020, we decided it made sense to spend this week creating the definitive “WLM Best of the 2010s List”. So, between our two lists and our ten guests’ lists there are 120 individual film picks in play. We’ve assigned a point system that works in contrary order to the ranking number. In other words, ranking ten on a list gets a film one point, ranking nine is worth two points, and so on. But a film has to have been mentioned on at least two lists in order to qualify for points. Using this highly sophisticated balloting system we will seek to create a master list that we can all take ownership of. But first, join us as we scrutinize the individual lists, wax affectionate about our wonderfully-opinionated contributors, and take a walk down memory lane to reminisce about how this whole podcasting journey got started. We are We Like Movies and we’re SO elated and grateful to still be liking movies (and each other) after 300 glorious episodes! Thanks to YOU, WLM family. Here’s to 300 more. Email: wlmpodcast@gmail.com Donate: Thanks! Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Stitcher / Overcast / RSS