Cinema Joes

Happy Thanksgiving! The Joes have gathered together with one of their favorite returning guests, ThePopBreak.com’s Editor in Chief Bill Bodkin. Bill was kind enough to take a break from hosting the Socially Distanced, TV Break, and Bill vs The MCU podcasts to help us break down one of the biggest cinematic events of the year, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Bill and the gang discuss their feelings around the first Black Panther film, the weight of Chadwick Boseman’s untimely passing on this film, the introduction of Namor and Riri Williams, and the rise of Shuri. In their Full Disclosure segment, they also give their brief thoughts on recent releases She Said (2022), Andor (2022), Till (2022), and The Dragon Prince’s 4th Season. Don’t forget to follow the show @CinemaJoes on Twitter and follow our hosts around the web at the following places! Hosts' Other Pods Podwork Angels - TV Break - Bill vs. The MCU Hosts' Writing Justin’s Blog - Justin’s Letterboxd Noah‘s Blog -  

Co-hosts Justin Mancini & Noah Franc could not be here with us today, but, Alex welcomes onto the show Tyler McCarthy, one half of the great Pop Break bad romance podcast Not Couple Goals and writer for USAInsider.com! Tyler is here for another installment in our Flashback series of episodes, where we invite a guest onto the show to discuss one of their all time favorite films, and Tyler has selected the 1993 family classic Mrs. Doubtfire, starring Robin Williams, Sally Fields, Pierce Brosnan and Harvey Firestein, and directed by Chris Columbus! Don’t forget to follow the show @CinemaJoes on Twitter and follow our hosts around the web at the following places! Hosts' Other Pods Podwork Angels - TV Break - Bill vs. The MCU Hosts' Writing Justin’s Blog - Justin’s Letterboxd Noah‘s Blog -  Noah’s Twitter Alex’s Letterboxd - Alex’s Twitter - Alex’s PopBreak --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/CinemaJoes/support

This week, Manish Mathur returns to the podcast to discuss Gina Prince-Bythwood’s latest African historical episode The Woman King, starring Viola Davis, Lashana Lynch, Thuso Mbedu, Sheila Atim & John Boyega. We break down the action, drama, and the incredible acting in one of the year’s best films to date. We also discuss other recent releases including Netflix’s Do Revenge and the Drive My Car follow up Wheel of Fortune & Fantasy, while saving some time to discuss the Avatar IMAX Re-Release. Don’t forget to follow the show @CinemaJoes on Twitter and follow our hosts around the web at the following places! Hosts' Other Pods Podwork Angels - TV Break - Bill vs. The MCU Hosts' Writing Justin’s Blog - Justin’s Letterboxd Noah‘s Blog -  Noah’s Twitter Alex’s Letterboxd - Alex’s Twitter - Alex’s PopBreak --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/CinemaJoes/support

This week, Justin couldn’t be with us today, but in his place we are excited to welcome back to the pod one half of the great podcasts Blerd Life with My Wife and Blerd Watchers and the twitch channel The Okami Council, it’s Marshall Stevenson! Marshall is joining us here today for another installment in our Flashback series of episodes, where we invite a guest onto the show to discuss one of their all time favorite films, and Marshall has selected the 2001 Best Picture winning film A Beautiful Mind, written by Akiva Goldsman, starring Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Ed Harris, Paul Bettany, Christopher Plummer, and Adam Goldberg, and directed by Ron Howard! Don’t forget to follow the show @CinemaJoes on Twitter and follow our hosts around the web at the following places! Hosts' Other Pods Podwork Angels - TV Break - Bill vs. The MCU Hosts' Writing Justin’s Blog - Justin’s Letterboxd Noah‘s Blog -  Noah’s Twitter Alex’s Letterboxd - Alex’s Twitter -&nbs

This week, the Joes go deeply in depth on the Fall Movie Season. Alex, Justin, and Noah go through the release calendar month by month discussing the big budget tent poles, festival favorites, awards bait, and the potential hidden gems to be on the lookout the fall! Time Codes provided with highlights from each month: September (3:00) Saloum Medieval Moonage Daydream The Woman King Do Revenge God’s Country Catherine Called Birdy The Good House October (30:15) TÁR Triangle of Sadness The Lost King Decision to Leave Till Ticket to Paradise The Banshees of Inisherin The School for Good & Evil One Fine Morning Armageddontime Call Jane November (1:12:45) Amsterdam Weird: The Al Yankovic Story Black Panther: Wakanda Forever The Fablemans The Son She Said The Menu Bones and All Devotion Strange World December (1:55:00) Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies Women Talking Empire of Light Avatar: The Way of Water I Want to Dance with Somebody Shazam: Fury of the Gods Living Babylon Undated Fall Releases (2:15:52) Chevalier

We are officially in the summer doldrums of movie calendar, and, for Cinema Joes, that means finally paying off this years Oscar bet. As loyal listeners already know, every year Alex, Justin, and Noah try to guess who will win and who will lose at the Academy Awards. This year, Justin took home the top prize by guessing the most categories correctly, and that means we are watching a film of his choice. He was gracious enough to chose an excellent and, until recently, hard to see French film from last year called Petite Maman, directed by Portrait of a Lady on Fire director Céline Sciamma. In our Full Disclosure segment, we also discussed Prey (2022), Bad Luck Banging or Looney Porn (2021), The Gray Man (2022), & Cherry (2021). Don’t forget to follow the show @CinemaJoes on Twitter and follow our hosts around the web at the following places! Hosts' Other Pods Podwork Angels - TV Break - Bill vs. The MCU Hosts' Writing Justin’s Blog - Justin’s Letterboxd Noah‘s Blog - &n

This week, George Heftler returns to the podcast to discuss Jordan Peele’s latest sci-fi horror picture NOPE, starring Daniel Kaluuya & Keke Palmer. We break down the thrills, chills, and social messaging embedded in this unlikely alien adventure. We also discuss other recent releases including Not Okay and Azor and the classic documentary Heavy Metal Parking Lot. ——————————————————————————— Full Disclosure Alex - Not Okay (2022) George - Heavy Metal Parking Lot (1986) Justin - Azor (2021) ——————————————————————————— Don’t forget to follow the show @CinemaJoes on Twitter and follow our hosts around the web at the following places! Hosts' Other Pods Podwork Angels - TV Break - Bill vs. The MCU Hosts' Writing Justin’s Blog - Justin’s Letterboxd Noah‘s Blog -  Noah’s Twitter Alex’s Letterboxd - Alex’s Twitter - Alex’s PopBreak --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/CinemaJoes/support

This week, Alex, Justin, and Noah have reassembled for the first time this summer, just like the broken shards of Mjölnir, in order to pay tribute to the gods and review the latest MCU offering Thor: Love & Thunder. But even with three hosts on hand, we needed to welcome a fourth to our fellowship of podcasters, and, we were so happy for Josh Sarnecky, the host of The Anniversary Brothers and Pop Break TV’s TV Break podcasts, to take up arms with us in pursuit of this noble quest. We also check in on some recent releases including the anime Spy x Family, as well as films such as Elvis (2022); What We Do In The Shadows (2015); There Is No Evil (2021); and the DisneyPlus limited series Obi-Wan Kenobi (2022). Don’t forget to follow the show @CinemaJoes on Twitter and follow our hosts around the web at the following places! Hosts' Other Pods Podwork Angels - TV Break - Bill vs. The MCU Hosts' Writing Justin’s Blog - Justin’s Letterboxd Noah‘s Blog -  Noah’s Tw

Summer movie season is upon us, but in between Marvel events and Sundance darlings, we thought we’d invite a friend of the show, Justin Moore of Justin Watches Movies, to take a trip to a world of pure imagination as we discuss one of his all time favorite films Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory (1971). Don’t forget to follow the show @CinemaJoes on Twitter and follow our hosts around the web at the following places! Hosts' Other Pods Podwork Angels - TV Break - Bill vs. The MCU Hosts' Writing Justin’s Blog - Justin’s Letterboxd Noah‘s Blog -  Noah’s Twitter Alex’s Letterboxd - Alex’s Twitter - Alex’s PopBreak --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/CinemaJoes/support

This week, we are down one Joe, but, in his stead, we are happy to welcome back onto the podcast Courtney Stevenson, the incomparably talented podcast host of Blerd Life with My Wife and Pop Break TV’s Blerd Watchers. She is joining us today as we review the Sundance darling dejour Cha Cha Real Smooth (2022), written, directed by, and starring young newcomer Cooper Raif, alongside Dakota Johnson, Leslie Mann, Raul Castillo, and Odeya Rush. The film, available now on AppleTV+, tells the story of a young man (Raif), refresh out of college, struggling to get his life in order when he meets an intriguing older woman (Johnson) with a daughter on the autism spectrum while chaperoning his younger brother at a series of Bar Mitzvahs around New Jersey.  We also check in on some recent releases including Fantastic Beasts and The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022), Jurassic World Dominion (2022), and Bergman Island (2021). Don’t forget to follow the show @CinemaJoes on Twitter and follow our hosts around the

DisneyPlus has everyone talking Star Wars with the latest episode of Obi-Wan Kenobi, so we decided to bring on Michael T. Ford III, host of The Racial Draft Podcast, to discuss his favorite Star Wars film and one of his all time favorite films period, Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi. We discuss Michael’s strong personal attachment to the film, dating back to when he was invited to the NYC premiere as a six year old, all the way to today where expanded universe and animated adventures help amplify an already excellent entry into the SciFi epic. And yes, this is a pro-Ewok podcast! Don’t forget to follow the show @CinemaJoes on Twitter and follow our hosts around the web at the following places! Hosts' Other Pods Podwork Angels - TV Break - Bill vs. The MCU Hosts' Writing Justin’s Blog - Justin’s Letterboxd Noah‘s Blog -  Noah’s Twitter Alex’s Letterboxd - Alex’s Twitter - Alex’s PopBreak --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spoti

This week, the Joes sit down and preview all the summer movie season has in store for us this year. Alex, Justin, and Noah go through the release calendar month by month discussing the big budget tent poles and the potential hidden gems to be on the lookout this summer! Time Codes provided with highlights from each month: May (4:45) On The Count of Three The Innocents Men The Valet Chip ’n Dale: Rescue Rangers Paris, 13th District June (25:16) Benediction Crimes of the Future Fire Island Lightyear Good Luck To You, Leo Grande Cha Cha Real Smooth Press Play Flux Gourmet July (54:10) The Forgiven Thor: Love & Thunder The Sea Beast Where The Crawdads Sing Persuasion Father of the Bride NOPE The Gray Man Bullet Train August (1:23:13) Secret Headquarters Bodies Bodies Bodies Resurrection Not Okay Luck Day Shift 13: The Musical Beast Samaritan Don’t forget to follow the show @CinemaJoes on Twitter and follow our hosts around the web at the following places! Hosts' Other Pods Podwork Angels -&n

This week, the doctor is in, as we review Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Directed by OG Spider-Man director Sam Raimi, written by Michael Waldron, and starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Elizabeth Olsen, Benedict Wong, Rachel McAdams, and Xochitl Gomez. Multiverse of Madness continues the MCU’s Phase 4, which got started in earnest with DisneyPlus original series WandaVision, and also helps kick off our summer movie season.  To help us sort through all the multiversal shenanigans, we are happy to welcome back to the show Matt Farley of Marvel Guides. Together we tour the multiverse, consider the future of Phase 4, and give our hot takes on everything from Wanda to the Illuminati.  Time Codes provided below: MCU Phase 4 Heat Check - 1:30 Noah & Justin Check-In - 13:37 Featured Review - 21:31 Don’t forget to follow the show @CinemaJoes on Twitter and follow our hosts around the web at the following places! Hosts' Other Pods Podwork Angels - TV Break - Bill vs. The MCU

Today we are very excited to welcome on to the show the founder of Daytime Confidential & Geek Confidential, Luke Kerr! Luke is joining us today to help kick off the summer movie season with one of his favorite blockbusters of all time, 1997’s SciFi Action Adventure film The Fifth Element, starring Bruce Willis, Mila Jovovich, Chris Tucker, and Ian Holm. Don’t forget to follow the show @CinemaJoes on Twitter and follow our hosts around the web at the following places! Hosts' Other Pods Podwork Angels - TV Break - Bill vs. The MCU Hosts' Writing Justin’s Blog - Justin’s Letterboxd Noah‘s Blog -  Noah’s Twitter Alex’s Letterboxd - Alex’s Twitter - Alex’s PopBreak --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/CinemaJoes/support

Welcome back to Cinema Joes! With Director Richard Linklater flashing back to the 1960's Apollo Space Program for his latest Netflix film Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood earlier this month, we decided to flashback to a film near and dear to our own coming of age story, 2014’s Boyhood, starring Ellar Coltrane, Patricia Arquette, & Ethan Hawke. To help us take a look at the film, which took over a decade to make (spanning almost our entire collective childhood), is special guest and resident Coming-of-Age Film Expert Jeremy Lesser, last heard on our 2017 review of Lady Bird. During this discussion we reflect on the innovative and historic nature of the discussion; the film’s insights into growing up, family, and the human condition; Linklater's evolving approach to the narrative, both thematically and aesthetically; and the ways in which the film comments on and touches elements of our own childhood. We also consider how different some of the aspects of the film play now, when we are nearly a decade o

It’s finally here! Turning Red, the latest from Pixar Studios, was released recently, and we are so excited to welcome Live, Laugh, & Lovey’s titular host Lovey McPherson onto the pod to help us review it. Before we get into all the giant pandas, boy bands, teen crushes, and bffs Turning Red has to offer, we check in on some things we’ve been watching recently including The Lost City, Bel-Air, The Gilded Age, & Attica. Plus, one of our host's gives a special shout out to their new favorite YouTube channel Two Set Violin. Don’t forget to follow the show @CinemaJoes on Twitter and follow our hosts around the web at the following places! Hosts' Other Pods Pod on the Rooftops - TV Break Hosts' Writing Justin’s Blog - Justin’s Letterboxd Noah‘s Blog -  Noah’s Twitter Alex’s Letterboxd - Alex’s Twitter - Alex’s PopBreak --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/CinemaJoes/support

Welcome back to CinemaJoes! It’s hard to believe that summer movie season could be kicking off already…especially since it is March…but it certainly feels that way this week as Justin and Alex welcome a dynamic duo of an all together different sort, Marshall & Courtney Stevenson of the podcast Blerd Life with My Wife and Pop Break TV’s Blerd Watchers, onto the pod to review Matt Reeves’ three hour rain soaked epic The Batman, starring Robert Pattinson & Zoe Kravitz. Don’t forget to follow the show @CinemaJoes on Twitter and follow our hosts around the web at the following places! Hosts' Other Pods Pod on the Rooftops - TV Break Hosts' Writing Justin’s Blog - Justin’s Letterboxd Noah‘s Blog -  Noah’s Twitter Alex’s Letterboxd - Alex’s Twitter - Alex’s PopBreak --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/CinemaJoes/support

This week, we are going to continue looking back at the past just a BIT longer as we take some time out of the late winter film festivities to celebrate our FIFTH anniversary! That’s right, we’ve taken five trips around the sun since we reviewed 2017’s Beauty & The Beast and the world and we have changed quite a bit since then. We get a bit self indulgent and nostalgic, talking about our podcaster origins, what we’ve learned along the way, and what we are looking forward to in the future. Don’t forget to follow the show @CinemaJoes on Twitter and follow our hosts around the web at the following places! Hosts' Other Pods Pod on the Rooftops - TV Break Hosts' Writing Justin’s Blog - Justin’s Letterboxd Noah‘s Blog -  Noah’s Twitter Alex’s Letterboxd - Alex’s Twitter - Alex’s PopBreak --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/CinemaJoes/support

This week we are joined by ThePopBreak.com’s Film Editor and all around Oscar expert Marisa Carpico to break down the highs and lows of the 2021 Oscar nominations. We discuss our pleasant surprises, our biggest disappointments, our bold predictions, and our Best Picture winners! Follow Marisa on Twitter, Instagram, & Letterboxd, keep up with her film reviews at The Pop Break, and find her subscribe to her podcasts The Way Too Early Oscars Podcast & ...And The Winner Still Is. Don’t forget to follow the show @CinemaJoes on Twitter and follow our hosts around the web at the following places! Hosts' Other Pods Pod on the Rooftops - TV Break - Podwork Angels Hosts' Writing Justin’s Blog - Justin’s Letterboxd Noah‘s Blog -  Noah’s Twitter Alex’s Letterboxd - Alex’s Twitter - Alex’s PopBreak --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/CinemaJoes/support

Welcome back to the second half of our 2021 year in review! Last episode we gave the highs and lows of the films released in 2021. This time around, we are cracking those media diaries to talk about the films we watched in 2021 that were NOT released in 2021. Categories include our favorite classic films, our favorite recent films that should be classics, our favorite rewatches, and the actors and directors we fell in love with in 2021. Make sure to check back in two weeks for our annual Oscar nomination special! Favorite Classic Film Noah - On The Waterfront (1954) Alex - Whatever Happened to Baby Jane (1962) Justin - Rachel Getting Married (2008) Favorite Recent Film that should be a classic (10 years or less): Noah - The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019) Alex - Moonrise Kingdom (2012) Justin - Holy Motors (2012) Actor/Director we fell in love with Noah - Carrie-Anne Moss Alex - Wong Kar Wai Justin - Wes Anderson Best Rewatch Noah - The Matrix (1999); The Matrix: Reloaded (2003) Alex - Election (1999)