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11 Rules for Box Office Appeal with Amy Nicholson | The Movie Racket
Film critic Amy Nicholson joins host Michael Phillips to test a set of unofficial Hollywood axioms: Preston Sturges’ 11 Rules for Box Office Appeal.
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2 months, 1 week ago
The Sorrow and the Pity: Dismantling the Gaullist Myth | Dissident Cinema
The Dissident Cinema Marathon continues with Marcel Ophuls’s towering 1969 documentary The Sorrow and the Pity, which challenged the so-called “Gaull…
2 months, 1 week ago
Top 5 Films of 2026 (So Far) | #1073
Adam and Josh take stock of the movie year with their Top 5 Films of 2026 (So Far), making picks that reflect the strength of of the year’s genre off…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Lady Justice, Pt. 2 — Supergirl | The Next Picture Show
A good chunk of Supergirl’s DNA can be traced back to True Grit by way of the comics miniseries the film is adapting, which is why we paired it with …
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Top 5 Movie Tattoos (That We'd Get) | Archive
For this week's Archive episode, we go back to 2014 for the Top 5 Movie Tattoos (That We'd Get). The "we" being Adam and Josh. 16 years later... no t…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
The State of Streaming: Tubi | SVU
Matt and Jordan deep-dive into the free, ad-supported streaming platform Tubi. They evaluate the platform across five distinct categories: library; p…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
"Every film about war ends up being pro-war" with Michael Shannon | The Movie Racket
Welcome to The Movie Racket, a new Filmspotting production hosted by Michael Phillips.
Each week, we’ll test a so-called "law" of cinema — a bit of r…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Fargo: Lies, Myths, and Murder, plus The Invite | #1072
Adam and Josh celebrate Fargo's 30th anniversary with a Pantheon Project review (the show’s longest ever) of the Coen Brothers' career-altering 1996 …
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Miller's Crossing | Archive
This week's archive episode is Adam and Josh's 2018 Sacred Cow review of the Coen Brothers' period gangster film Miller's Crossing.
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2 months, 3 weeks ago
Little Brother: Chaos Agent vs. Real Estate Agent | SVU
Matt and Jordan review Netflix’s new comedy Little Brother, which stars Eric Andre as a chaos agent who disrupts the life of a tightly wound real est…
2 months, 3 weeks ago