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#572: Comedies About The Rich

adam

5. DAMSELS IN DISTRESS
4. SMILES OF A SUMMER NIGHT
3. THE THIN MAN
2. THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL
1. SULLIVAN’S TRAVELS

Honorable Mentions: Clueless, Coming To America, Trading Places, Brewster’s Millions, Overboard, The Palm Beach Story, Night at the Opera, Harold and Maude, The Royal Tenenbaums, It Happened One Night, Roman Holiday, The Lady Eve, The Wolf of Wall Street, The Queen of Versailles, Grey Gardens, The Big Short

JOSH

5. THE BLING RING
4. A NIGHT AT THE OPERA
3. CLUELESS
2. WHY WORRY?
1. HOLIDAY

Honorable Mentions: Sullivan’s Travels, Kind Hearts and Coronets, Billy Madison, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Trading Places, City Lights, The Navigator, It Happened One Night, Mr. Deeds Goes To Town

#567-568: Top 10 Films of 2015

Josh

1. Ex Machina

2. White God

3. Mad Max: Fury Road

4. Inside Out

5. Chi-Raq

6. Tangerine

7. The Revenant

8. Trainwreck

9. The Assassin

10. It Follows

Adam

1. The Big Short

2. Ex Machina

3. 45 Years

4. Mad Max: Fury Road

5. Carol

6. While We're Young

7. Taxi aka Taxi Tehran

8. Spotlight

9. Anomalisa

10. Tangerine


Michael Phillips

1. Spotlight

2. Anomalisa

3. Love & Mercy

4. Diary of a Teenage Girl

5. Son of Saul

6. Carol

7. Beasts of No Nation

8. Creed

9. Heart of a Dog

10. Tangerine

Scott Tobias

1. The Look of Silence

2. Phoenix

3. Carol

4. Brooklyn

5. The Assassin

6. Heaven Knows What

7. It Follows

8. Mad Max: Fury Road

9. The Hateful Eight

10. Western


Guest #1 Films

Pt. 1

Katey Rich - Son of Saul

Sean Gilman - The Assassin

Rian Johnson - The Lobster

Alison Willmore - Mad Max: Fury Road

Matt Gourley - Sicario

Peter Labuza - Magic Mike XXL

Rachel Handler - Mad Max: Fury Road

David Wain - Spotlight

Joel Potrykus - Buzzard

Sam Smith - Queen of Earth,  The Assassin (Posters)

Pt. 2

Chris Harris - Clouds of Sils Maria

Dana Stevens - Carol

Scott Pfeiffer - Brooklyn

Tasha Robinson - Inside Out

Daniel Nava - World of Tomorrow

Matt Singer - Inside Out

Chris Klimek - Mad Max: Fury Road

Melissa Tamminga - 45 Years


Worst Films of 2015

 
 

Adam - Black Mass

Josh - Chappie, Aloha

Michael - Vacation, Get Hard, Sisters, Stonewall, Pan, Terminator Genisys, Chappie

Scott - The Cobbler, The Human Centipede III, United Passions, Pan

#566: Top 5 Discoveries of 2015

adam

5. Mark Rylance, BRIDGE OF SPIES
4. Rebecca Ferguson, MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: ROGUE NATION
3. Amy Schumer, TRAINWRECK
2. John Crowley and Emory Cohen, BROOKLYN
1. Don Hertzfeldt, EDGE OF TOMORROW

JOSH

5. Lily James, CINDERELLA
4. Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi, THE TRIBE
3. Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings
2. Teyohna Parris, CHI-RAQ
1. Don Hertzfeldt, EDGE OF TOMORROW

#560: Top 5 Cold War Movies

michael phillips

5. KISS ME DEADLY
4. PICK UP ON SOUTH STREET
3. INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS
2. DR. STRANGELOVE
1. THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE

Honorable Mentions: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, My Son John,

JOSH

5. THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD
4. THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL
3. WINGS OF DESIRE
2. THE IRON GIANT
1. THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE

Honorable Mentions: The Third Man, K-19: The Widowmaker, Good Night, and Good Luck, Goodbye, Lenin, Top Secret

#559: Top 5 Back-to-Back Movies

adam

5. Albert and David Maysles, SALESMAN & GIMME SHELTER
4. Ridley Scott, ALIEN & BLADE RUNNER
3. William Friedkin, THE FRENCH CONNECTION & THE EXORCIST
2. Sergio Leone, THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY & ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST
1. Ingmar Bergman’s THE SEVENTH SEAL & WILD STRAWBERRIES

Honorable Mentions: Andrew Stanton Finding Nemo & WALL-E

JOSH

5. Alan Resnais, HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR & LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD
4. Jane Campion, AN ANGEL AT MY TABLE & THE PIANO
3. Charlie Chaplin, CITY LIGHTS & MODERN TIMES
2. Mel Brooks, BLAZING SADDLES & YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN
1. Wes Anderson, RUSHMORE & THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS

Honorable Mentions: Hayao Miyazaki Princess Mononoke & Spirited Away, Jaques Tati Mon Oncle & Playtime, Brad Bird The Iron Giant, The Incredibles, & Ratatouille

#556: Top 5 Neighborhood Movies

adam

5. COOLEY HIGH
4. WEST SIDE STORY
3. THE DEPARTED
2. MILK
1. THE WARRIORS

Honorable Mentions: Attack The Block, A Serious Man, Hoop Dreams, The Interrupters, Inside Llewyn Davis, Poltergeist, The Ice Storm, E.T., Little Children, Crooklyn, M

JOSH

5. COOLEY HIGH
4. PATHER PANCHALI
3. TANGERINE
2. IN JACKSON HEIGHTS
1. HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY

Honorable Mentions: Beasts of the Southern Wild, Rear Window, Attack The Block, Block Party, City of God, Boyz N The Hood, George Washington, Winter’s Bone, The ‘Burbs, The Village


 
 

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