The List Movie Podcast: Recent Episodes
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The guys hop into a spaceship to witness the birth of a new miserable existence in famously-banned "On The Silver Globe." The guys muse about apocalypses (and how many you can reasonably have in one movie), various philosophies and whether or not this movie was banned for personal reasons and not because its content was incendiary. If none of this makes sense to you, then I have good news!
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The List continues its lightning fast 1-episode-per-month pace with 1963's Charade. The guys talk about identity and what kind of closet they think they're spending time in when they do the synopsis. Also we talk about various ways to act inappropriately at an open casket funeral! Enjoy!
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Merry Listmas everyone! Nick, Jacob and Will continue their Christmas tradition of watching an off list movie for the holiday season by watching 2003's The Hebrew Hammer. The guys have a great time with this classic-ish Christmas-ish film, discussing what it means to drink Manischewitz straight and how cold a circumcision detecter might be.
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WE'RE BACK! Well, we didn't actually go anywhere, just Will has been busy but you don't care about that because it's PART PRIEST, PART DINOSAUR, ALL MAN as the guys watched Velocipastor. Nick, Jacob and Will dive deep into the silliness and fun of this campy ride, probably getting a little too nitpicky on the costumery, religious philosophy and portrayal of sex work. Anyhow, enjoy this good time with a toga yoga none of us saw coming!!
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Nick, Jacob and Will get paroled from prison and are immediately lured back in to a life of crime watching 1991's Hudson Hawk. The guys try to decipher which insensitive jokes are entirely Bruce Willis and which were just his idea and workshopped later. Jacob gets to premiere his signature segment as he lambasts the Rube Goldberg DaVinci mess that is the chief macguffin of this film. Nick calls out Dan Brown for plagiarizing/improving the basic story and Will ponders if sacred oaths of chastity are mostly just suggestions. We just really wanted a cappuccino, but instead we had to do crimes.
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Nick, Jacob and Will get sent to a brutally unfair private prison (in the dystopian future) and watch Riki Oh: The Story of Ricky. The guys have a great time talking about this gory, crazy martial arts film. Nick does some toga yoga, Jacob ponders the business model and Will turns "Hey, Kool Aid!" into a verb. This is a super fun episode! You should listen!!
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CW: There is the depiction of non-consensual sex in the movie we discuss on the episode. Please pass if the subject is distressing to you and we'll catch you next week!
Nick, Jacob and Will go on a mystic quest of self discovery by watching Jodorowski's 1970 film El Topo. That's right, Alejandro Jodorowski, you know...the guy who didn't make Dune? The guys debate auteur vs con, death vs rebirth and laser vs taser. They also have a short conversation about Neil Breen's Passion of the Christ, a movie that doesn't exist!
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Welcome to Season 2 of the list! Nick, Jacob and Will updated the format to bring you a shorter and tighter podcast! We debut Nick's Toga Yoga segment where he goes deep into the mythological underpinnings of the 2015 horror comedy, Krampus. The guys also talk about Checkov's Sinister Toy Bag, the logistics of a St. Elsewhere situation and why you should never go Full Gandalf. Check it out!
Nick, Jacob and Will share the same scramble suit and really aren't sure if it's been washed recently. The guys watch 2006's A Scanner Darkly and we GET INTO IT. We talk about addiction, who benefits from drug use, Heidegger's ontological death and Plato's Allegory of the Cave. But of course we can't get too heavy, we talk about cat butts, too!
Nick, Jacob and Will get animated talking about Richard Linklater's 2001 cartoon for grownups Waking Life. We meet our new podcast character "Tony Vignetti" the Italian-stereotype-who-likes-short-bits! We also talk about lucid dreaming and how to tell when you're in a dream. If you like podcasts, maybe you'll like a movie where you get talked at by a bunch of dudes, who knows! We didn't!
Nick, Jacob and Will dive off a sinking ship and get stuck on a lifeboat together, but they're two Stanleys and some buoyancy tanks so they're lost at sea forever discussing Hitchcock's 1944 film Lifeboat. We talk about the wartime portrayal of Germans as literal Ubermenchen, what kind of surgery can be done with a three inch pocket knive, and what "energy pills" meant for Captain Willi. Also discussed: The anatomy of a chair, where is its nose?
Nick, Jacob and Will demolish a town in 2003's Northfork. We discuss what it means to be a Ford person or a Chevy person, how to waste an Anthony Edwards and whether or not all planes go to heaven. Also...lots of dam jokes.
Nick, Jacob and Will take jobs as freelance actors and end up in a family of chimps! The guys talk Holy Motors, a crazy French impressionist film that leaves quite an impression on our hosts! What is a sewer leprechaun? Why is Eva Mendes here? What is identity? All things we get into!
Nick, Jacob and Will go to the 8th dimension and come back with snacks and an extra personality! It's really good and fun and you should listen!
Nick, Jacob and Will celebrate professional amateurism (is that a thing?) watching 2013's Fateful Findings! We talk about the uncanny valley, lizard lip kissing and that 12 year olds have a better conception of what sex is than this movie. This one almost broke Nick, because of all the stories humans tell, this movie is none of them...on the other hand Jacob and Will were inspired by the audacity of doing something so badly and loudly. What side do you fall on? Find out on this episode of The List!!
Nick, Jacob and Will go back to the 90's to go back to the 80's, taking a trip to a Wyoming liquor store and watching SLC Punk! The guys discuss their own experiences being and feeling like posers, try to decide if you can be a punk and go to Harvard law school, and whether your ideas are really that secure if you can have them exploded by a two minute conversation with an 19 year old. This is a movie that carries books it hasn't read, but that's okay because its dad did their admissions essay!
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Nick, Jacob and Will don't speak Spanish while watching Jim Jarmusch's Limits of Control! The guys talk about the surprisingly boring life of an international assassin, a definition of nudity and what the best beverages are to eat a piece of paper with! Is this film a criticism of American cultural and political hegemony or just a pleasant little film about art and murder? Also, two extremely unexpected impressions! You won't be able to guess!
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Nick, Jacob and Will witness Richard Kelley's end of the world and they are not particularly impressed with what they see. The guys watch 2006's Southland Tales and talk about bong rip profundity, horny SUV's and Mr. Ice Cream. This movie is insane, though...the cast list is chock full of SNL alums, actors, directors, musicians, wrestlers and even Wallace Shawn! Jacob talks perpetual motion and energy, Nick dives into the Marx family tree, and Will pulls out some Zizek because Will is absolutely insufferable!
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Nick, Jacob and Will take on the afterlife in DMT/death film Enter The Void. Three guys who have neither died nor taken any drugs discuss ideal drugs to die on and the afterlife they'd prefer and opt out of sharing their cornerstone memories. We talk trauma, fixation and OH MY GOD WE'RE IN THE FRONT ROW AT A GWAR SHOW, WE KNOW WHAT HAPPENS NEXT! Also, weirdly a lot of talk about the mating habits of seahorses and a sex-seahorse-ouroboros?
The guys also give a little of their individual brands: Nick does a long digression on the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Jacob introduces our listener to Control Theory and Will gets wildly uncomfortable with the amount of sex jokes made about a movie with a ton of sex in it. "I'm not judging, I'm just asking!"
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Nick, Jacob and Will get in too deep in 2019's Uncut Gems! The discussion goes to every pawn shop in town, talking about leaf peeping, dramatic Sandler, and not understanding how luck works. The fellas try to discuss their own levels of risk management when compared with Howie's, what compulsive gambling looks like and the appropriate etiquette for having your son take a number two at your mistress's apartment (that you pay for). Also, Nick pitches the Swedish Transformer Megatron who's final form is an unassembled Ikea desk! Call us Michael Bay!
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Nick, Jacob and Will are on a noble quest to find the grail when they watch 1991's "The Fisher King" from Terry Gilliam, a guy who knows something about finding the grail. The guys review the movie as well as revisiting some of their own childhood memories and traumas. They also discuss how many soft spots Nick has for Terry Gilliam films (a lot) probably due to their shared obsession with Don Quixote!
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Nick, Jacob and Will "Meet the Feebles" in watching Peter Jackson's 1989 puppet cabaret show gone horribly wrong. This is the only time we've had to do a content warning for a show with no visible human actors, but there is a lot of violence, drug use and sexual coercion in this dark vision of show business, so skip it if these things are rough for you!
Jacob takes interspecies muppet sex in stride, but Will gets really grossed out by Nick's discussion of hippo-puppet-lady sexuality. The guys cast themselves in the alternate universe where they're anthropomorphic puppet performers with fatal flaws that would be taken advantage of by the Weinsteinian Bletch.
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Nick, Jacob and Will get freaky-deaky watching Panos Cosmatos's psychadelic revenge thriller Mandy. The guys discuss several different kinds of manhood measurement from cult leaders (I'm a grower not a shower let me show you) to chainsaw duelists (it's not the size of the chainsaw, after all). We discuss the relative merits of cult recruiting at the home depot and leaving the subtitles on all the time. Also Will takes a shot at Quentin Tarantino for no reason! He didn't even deserve it this time!
All this and more on the podcast that reminds you that when dealing with an LSD biker gang: If you need a jump, you'd better have cables, because these demon biker guys do not seem like planners.
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Buckle up, listener! Nick, Jacob and Will go on a massive head trip with the psychadelic thriller "Beyond The Black Rainbow." We talk about "The Nurse Margo Position," ESP suppression pyramids and the job prospects for sentionauts after they leave the Arboria Institute. We once again go for the on brand trifecta: Nick tries to force a literary metaphor! Jacob points out the lack of multi-touch screens in 1983! And Will giggles at an exploding head but can't handle contact lens removal! That's right, it's the Kentucky Fried Movie of podcasts!
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Nick, Jacob and Will are mad as hell and they're not going to take it anymore! Just kidding! Instead we mess with the forces of nature and have to atone by talking about Paddy Chayefsky's classic media critique Network. We talk about how well the 70's view of sensationalized media stacks up with the modern 24 hour news cycle, will it be as fresh as breaking news or as dated as Robert Duvall's french cuffs?
The guys share some shared nostalgia of growing up poor with off brand Reebok Pumps and Trapper Keeper envy, how we would die on TV and what ironic commercial would play after the segment! We also muse about how a man can leave his wife to move in with younger woman and come out looking like the good guy...it's wild!
Find out all this and more on the movie podcast that doesn't have a gun it its jacket, it's just gained a little weight.
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Note: We record well ahead of time so any jokes about coups and regime change that seem insensitive given current events are completely incidental! It's not our fault that history keeps happening, we're just trying to make a podcast about weird movies.
Nick, Jacob and Will aren't sure what they saw after watching the "digitized dime bag" that is Michael Bay's 6 Underground. The guys discuss the average American brain's knowledge of central Asian geography, making movies by algorithm and whether or not "representation matters" if the representation is a lame stereotype. Join us on the podcast where "stuff keeps happening" whether or not it makes any sense!
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Nick, Jacob and Will get golden tickets to Quentin Tarantino's Slur Factory and get caught in the Pulp Fiction machine, oh no! The guys talk about the iconic 1994 film, debate the style and substance of the movie and the waterproofing of WWI era watches that have to spend a lot of time in "the usual place." Zed's dead, baby, but that doesn't mean you should write yourself saying the "hard r" a bunch of times.
Grab a Big Kahuna Burger and settle in for a messy ride in a '74 Nova!
Merry Listmas, List Listener and Happy Garbage Day to all! Nick, Jacob and Will go off-list for this very special Christmas episode, watching Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2, a movie that spends 40 minutes of its 90 minute run time cutting together clips of the first movie. It's awesome. The guys muse about the superheroic strength of slasher movie slashers, and whether this film proves that police shot first in the War on Christmas. The guys can't decide whether a side character is a young Adam Corolla, Skeeter from Doug or just half of Will's psyche...but he definitely heckled his way into our hearts.
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Nick, Jacob and Will learn the hard way that you should never click on the first google result in Soderbergh's 2018 iPhone-shot movie Unsane, but at least someone remembered our breakfast sandwich and coffee order. The guys are forced against their will into a different kind of horror movie hospital, sraight out of 90's made-for-cable dramas with a super powered stalker and a view of psychiatric healthcare that makes Will get super mad!
Mental health is no joke, and mental health professionals are on your side. The phone number for the National Suicide Hotline is 1-800-273-8255.
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Nick, Jacob and Will get trapped in a vertical inequality metaphor and ride it all the way to the bottom talking about the 2019 Spanish horror/sci-fi film The Platform. Enjoy the moveable feast as the guys talk about what item they'd bring to the hierarchical murder prison, what food they want to see on the platform and Will being really, really grossed out by all of it. This is a podcast, so you don't have to worry about how many people have touched it!
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CW: This movie is graphic and contains a lot of sexualized violence and consent is not always clear! Please skip this episode if the discussion of that is not what you want in a podcast!
Nick, Jacob and Will combine yet again into an amalgam of steel and wires (a podcast) to talk about Tetsuo: The Iron Man. We get assimilated into the bizarre metal fetishism movie and somehow come away without getting tetanus. Maybe the real transhumanism is the friends we made along the way.
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Nick, Jacob and Will are given cyborg parkour powers, but we traded them all in to get our voices back and talk about Hardcore Henry. Is the "giant machine gun in a burlap sack" the equivalent of booze in a paper bag? Where do you put your gun on a motorcycle? Would you brush your teeth hands free if you had telekenetic powers? We answer these questions and more! Music by Loyalty Freak Music!
Nick, Jacob and Will embark on an inappropriate friendship and one of them ends up bleeding from the eyes. The guys talk about The Killing of a Sacred Deer and the valuable life lessons it teaches like "you shouldn't take your shirt off at work" and "if you have a murder basement, why use your living room?"
Nick, Jacob and Will get into 1981's Time Bandits by each taking a different thing way too seriously in a very on brand way! Nick squabbles with the accuracy of the portrayal of Greek history, Jacob asks some vital physics questions about the tensile strength of a magical forcefield, and Will finds a way to talk about Margaret Thatcher because of course he does.
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Nick, Jacob and Will go to the horror movie hospital and drink all the water and sign all the documents presented to them along the way. Our only regret is that we have...bone-itis. Music thanks to Loyalty Freak Music!
Nick, Jacob and Will are sad about the passing of Sean Connery and decided to post this conversation we recorded last month during a yet-unreleased episode. RIP Mr. Connery, there could be only one.
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Nick, Jacob and Will get trapped in a house and life they aren't sure they asked for! Would this movie have been scarier before 2020 made it everyone's reality? Good advice, though: Never follow a realtor to a second location. Gemma/Gemma the remix. Music thanks to Loyalty Freak Music! https://loyaltyfreakmusic.com
Nick, Jacob and Will talk about the Witch, witches, and the price of a 12 year old boy's soul. Theme music and outtro by Loyalty Freak Music. https://loyaltyfreakmusic.com
Nick, Jacob and Will talk about 1972's Silent Running. The guys discuss the eternal codgeriness of Bruce Dern, recumbent ATVs and how to live with murdering the only people you've seen in months! Intro and outtro music by Loyalty Freak Music! https://loyaltyfreakmusic.com