Our Slice on Film: Recent Episodes
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Ghostface is back and is taking the world by storm. Micheal welcomes long-time friend of the pod and horror buddy Jolene to talk about the 5th entrance in the Scream Franchise, Jolene's Fangoria article, Wes Craven's legacy,
New heroes, a stacked cast, and an Oscar winning director. Who could ask for more? This week we slice up the "movie event of the year" and see where it stands against other MCU films.
Unfortunately, we have sand all over our slices this week. That's what happens when Dune get's released and we rush to see it! Doug returns for another major movie, we talk about how Denis Villenueve really wanted us to see the movie, and how it holds up to the book!
Daniel Craig's swan song premiered after getting delayed for almost two years! How did the blonde Bond saga wrap up? We welcome two long time Bond fans to share a slice and join the conversation.
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Jake Gyllenhaal sits at a dispatcher desk. That's it. That's the movie we watched. Tune in for our take on this amazingly talented actor and this Netflix film.
Micheal Keaton is our big selling point this week, he leads in this story of the 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund. Let's not forget about Stanley Tucci too!
Another Marvel movie has been released! This week we talk Shang-Chi, streaming wars, and a little more about Black Widow.
Hulu quietly released this movie, and we took a dive simply because we talk about Lil Rel Howry all the time. He and John Cena lead this movie alongside Meredith Hagner and Yvonne Orji. Was it worth the watch?
Hugh Jackman stars in the new neo-noir film that premiered in theatres and on HBOmax, and we can't remember if we watched this movie or not.
Life must be a simulation because it feels like we have been waiting for this movie to premier for a long time. Ryan Reynolds leads this original script released exclusively in theatres. Can he help break the sequel train?
In between blockbusters, we decide to find a hidden gem on Netflix and came across this movie starring Anna Kendrick, Daniel Dae Kim, Toni Collette, and Shamier Anderson. We chat about space movies, willing suspension of disbelief, the trolley problem, and Pizza!
Warner Bros. took a chance on a Space Jam movie this year, and it is causing quite a stir among the critics. Does it hold up compared to the original? Where is MJ? Why is Zendaya here? We chat all things Looney and Toony in this weeks episode.
Natasha Romanoff finally get's her own solo film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. We were all waiting for the franchise to return to theatres, where does it rank in the top Marvel movies? Guess which one of us had the nicest things to say!
It is blockbuster season and Chris Pratt stars in this action sci-fi flick sent straight to Prime Video. Time travel is once again on our agenda for this episode, so be sure to listen to this episode last week.
Brian and Kimberly chat about the lastest Fast and the Furious movie that brought some much needed action back to the box office. This film made the most money since the Great Box Office Reset, what did these two think?
2016 is a historic year in Our Slice on Film history, and in film history, I guess. The guys take a trip down memory lane while ranking their favorite movies of that year and talk about who they were back then.
The first summer movie has hit theatres and HBOMax! The box-office makes it seem like expectations were a bit too high for the Lin Manuel Miranda movie musical. Let us know what you thought of the movie by tweeting us @OurSliceonFilm!
Great Scott! We return back to the 80s for this week's installment with one of our host's favorite movies. We talk time travel, Michael J. Fox, and iconic movies.
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The long awaited sequel to John Krasinski's 2018 horror film is here, and it may or may not have saved the theatres. Brian covers his first horror movie, Micheal has complaints, and Jolene joins again to talk deafness, sequels, trilogies, monsters, costumes, and pizza!
This movie has been in theatres and on HBOMax for a few weeks, so we sat down to watch this new release. We talk about cinematic fires, Ben Mendelsohn, mystery thrillers, and how invincible some of these characters are.
Have you watched? Tweet us @OurSliceonFilm and let us know what you thought!
After a year of hiding in our homes, Amy Adams reminds us that we don't really know our neighbors in this new Netflix movie that's been shelved for a while. PLUS: Sibling rivalry, Hitchcock, Fincher fanboys.
Did you hear? Kong and Sub-Zero saved the box-office with some bloody fatalities! This week, Micheal and filmmaker Dalton break down this new R-rated movie, franchises for fans, and new projects from his team, Bedrock Productions.
On our episode celebrating ONE YEAR of Our Slice on Film we talk about this Michael B. Jordan action movie, genres, Cicadas, and talk about what one year has felt like to us.
The 93rd Annual Academy Awards was... something. The guys break down that big WTF moment and talk through the results of the night we've been waiting for! Plus, we get a sneak peek of next week's episode when the realization hits that it's almost been a full year of OSOF!
With the Oscar's this weekend, we took the time to watch one of the last nominees for Best Picture (sorry Anthony Hopkins). This movie has some heavy topics that we break down and Brian fights Micheal's definition of "horror".
We also talk about our predictions for the Academy Awards this Sunday!
This week we chat about the new Netflix movie taking audiences by storm! We compare our styles of comedy and break this movie down into it's best, sauciest slices.
Micheal and Brian are reunited for the smackdown that resurrected the theatres. We talk bad acting, monster history, and reveal the amount of money we raised last month for the Trevor Project!
Step up to the plate for a slice of pizza with Double the Deal this week. Baseball season is back in swing, so Brian's dad Doug hopped back on the pod to chat about the 1988 baseball movie Bull Durham with Kevin Costner, Susan Sarandon, and Tim Robbins.
Hear the great story behind why we're watching this cult horror/monster/desert classic ahead of next week's kaiju smackdown when we bring back two of our favorite guests to blend science with fiction! PLUS: Find out which one of us is only a few degrees away from Bacon himself!
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Happy Birthday Brian! Here's a movie that you picked just for the occasion. Who better else to spend your birthday slice with than Ryan Gosling and Steve Carrell? Even ten years later!
Plus, Micheal has the Razzie Nominations and we're still raising money for the Trevor Project! give.thetrevorproject.org/oursliceonfilm
Another movie with awards buzz, Minari is about the American Dream, family, culture, and ghost snakes.
This month we're raising money for the Trevor Project! Go to give.thetrevorproject.org/OurSliceOnFilm to help out!
This week we debate who is the worst person in this movie, Peter Dinklage or Rosamund Pike? Add this to the list of movies you love to hate! Also, we chat about the Golden Globes like it's a zoom class gone wrong!
This month we're raising money for the Trevor Project! Go to give.thetrevorproject.org/OurSliceOnFilmto help out!
I Care a Lot Review at 0:00
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Frances McDormand is being hailed for her performance as a modern day Nomad traversing the country following the recession. We brought Jason back on this week to help us slice up this Oscar-bait.
The best way to persuade you to listen to this episode and watch this movie is to list the cast: Daniel Kaluuya, Lakeith Stanfield, Jesse Plemons, Dominique Fishback, with Martin Sheen and Lil Rel Howery.
Awards season is here! The Hollywood Foreign Press and the Screen Actors Guild announced the nominations for their respective awards last week, so we looked back on some of the best films of the year and look at the race ahead. Why did they do Delroy so dirty?
Serial Killer Double Feature? Would you believe this was Brian's idea? This week we found some similarities between the new HBOmax movie and the mid-90s David Fincher thriller.
We're coming up on a year of living in a pandemic, and Hollywood is starting to notice. We shut ourselves in and watched Anne Hathaway and Chiwetel Ejiofor go through all the emotions we've felt.
We watched Regina King's directorial debut and tried to figure out how many awards it will receive.
Netflix released this film last week and we worked our way through it. Listen while we weigh Vanessa Kirby's performance against ... everything else in the movie.
Pixar was one of the only studios with a major holiday release and it scored big. Disney+ had the biggest increase in app downloads over the holiday week, up against HBOMax. We're ready to slice this film up and serve it hot. Jamie Foxx, Tina Fey, and existential questions about life and death ... what could be better for the family?
What's your favorite Pixar movie? Tweet us @OurSliceonFilm
We've waited so long for WW84 to come out, and it was one of the only films playing in theatres this holiday season. Did it live up to expectations?
Wrapping up the year with our top five films of 2020 and looking forward to see what's in store for the new year!
We've been looking forward to this Netflix Oscar-bait for a while. Viola Davis and the late Chadwick Boseman serve up some hot steamy slices for us to go through. Will we see some nominations of out this?
On top of watching this new holiday movie and slicing it up, we also list the top projects we are most looking forward to out of the Disney Investor Day announcement. The streaming wars are getting saucy.
Double feature this week after a brief hiatus! We tackle Mank on Netflix, the state of the studio system, Sound of Metal on Amazon Prime, and start the Oscars conversation.
To put it simply: two men talking about a movie in which a teenage girl goes to an abortion clinic. Give everyone involved an Oscar, we're begging you.
Brian and his dad talk about the new Aaron Sorkin movie that's making waves on Netflix! This is the most Chicago episode we've ever released.
Brian hates Halloween but we watched this movie anyway. Adam Sandler and Happy Madison gave us this Netflix movie recently, and it's exactly what we all needed right now.
To ring in this spooky season, Micheal and Jolene talk through some horror movie recommendations and catch up on the genre news!
We had no choice but to invite Brian's better half, Kimberly, on to the podcast this week. We recorded this four days before their wedding, and they got to pick this week's movie. Micheal's mission, should he choose to accept it: poke some holes in their favorite movie.
Among other things, this episode marks our second R-Pat flick in three weeks and the only one so far that featured the corpse of a family pet, so Oscars Season: Quarantine Edition is going great. We chat star power, narration, and acting on your faith.
Charlie Kaufman's new Netflix movie got us thinking about death and stuff. In our second "time works weirdly" movie in as many weeks, we try to make sense of Jessie Buckley's snowy drive to meet Jesse Plemons' parents. Wait, is that what happened?
After being delayed several times, Christopher Nolan's new movie Tenet premiered in theaters near us! We talk about the long delay, the anticipation, the movie going experience, and the big pay-off. We get deep into the movie AFTER a spoiler warning, and if you're still waiting to see it for yourself, check out Deep Dish #3 where we talk about the trailers and behind the scenes footage that was released!
Since we last got together, Christopher Nolan has recieved some praise for TENET (where theaters are open) and the trailer for THE BATMAN with R-Pat dropped. This week we talk about that great TENET behind the scenes feature and the dynamism of the newest Bruce Wayne.
We've been seeing ads non stop about this new HBOMax movie starring multiple Seth Rogens, and now we've got an episode about it! Brian and Micheal talk pickles and pizzas, movie tropes, and missed opportunities.
A Slice of Horror! If you've been using Zoom all summer and felt a little weird about it, then this movie is for you. HOST was filmed over 12 weeks in quarantine conditions and shows us what could happen to six friends who decide to hold a seance over Zoom. This week, Micheal welcomes fashion historian Jolene Richardson to talk with HOST's Executive Producer and Writer, Jed Shepherd, and Writer Gemma Hurley to talk about their movie that is taking the world by storm.
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It's been 10 years since Christopher Nolan's iconic 2010 reality bending film, and we're ready for the challenge of telling you why we love this movie so much. We chat about Tom Hardy, trains, and totems!
MLB is back! To celebrate we watched Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill in Moneyball, the story of Billy Beane, the Oakland A's, and their path to the 2002 World Series.
It's the 10-year anniversary of Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, directed by Edgar Wright and starring Michael Cera, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Kieran Culkin, Anna Kendrick, Alison Pill, Aubrey Plaza, Jason Schwartzman, Ellen Wong, and Chris Evans.. We chat 2010 stardom, cult classics, and Wright's personal style.
We take a refreshing dive into Palm Springs starring Andy Samburg, Cristin Milioti, and J.K. Simmons. We chat time travel, watching the credits, body aches, and we spend a lot of time complimenting Hulu.
We're back on Disney+ this week watching the theatrical recording of Hamilton, the influential and critically acclaimed stage production written and starring Lin-Manuel Miranda. The latter half of the last decade saw a seismic response of adoration and joy, and now you can watch it on your couch! We chat Disney, Broadway, history, and preferred pizza terminology.
We don't own any audio from Hamilton used in this episode, the only thing that's our is our opinions!
The guys challenged each other this week to pick some of their favorite movies that are connected to their roots in New York and Chicago! What do you think of our picks? Email us at sliceonfilm@gmail.com or tweet us @OurSliceOnFilm.
This week we take a break from features and dive into some movie news we've been hearing about including Tenet, Jurassic World, and Kristen Stewart. We also talk about how badly we want to go to the theater and chat about our pizza preferences.
Music: Treacherous Doctor by Wallows.
We don't own this music but we love it!
Micheal crashes a family reunion this week as we bring Brian's brother Jason on to chat about Judd Apatow and Pete Davison's new movie. We chat trauma, mental health, long comedies, New York culture, and pizza (of course!)
Brian and Micheal tackle Spike Lee's new movie, streaming on Netflix now. Four Vietnam veterans return to Vietnam to recover the remains of their fallen brother and the treasure they hid with him. We chat about Spike Lee's influence, American history, and a little bit of pizza. Be sure to stick around till the end to hear our last slices this week!
We're back from a brief hiatus so we could all focus on the bigger things. This week, Brian and Micheal watch Just Mercy, the true story of Harvard Law grad Bryan Stevenson (Michael B. Jordan) fighting for Walter McMillian (Jamie Foxx) and justice in Alabama. Brian get's pumped over the director, Destin Daniel Cretton, and Micheal gets pumped over High Wasted Shorts. PLUS, stick around till the end and we'll give you a great list of movies to check out next!
This week we bite into The Lovebirds, a hot slice of rom-com and mystery starring Issa Rae and Kimail Nanjiani. PLUS we talk geek out over Christopher Nolan's new trailer for Tenet and Edgar Wright's new production company.
This week, Micheal and Brian chat Love Triangles, Plagiarism, and Sausage and this high school rom-com Netflix original, written and directed by Alice Wu. If you saw this movie, let us know what you think at sliceonfilm@gmail.com.
In honor of May the 4th, the guys watch the final chapter in the Skywalker Saga which was just added to Disney+ along with the other eight films. Plus, we ponder the future of the Star Wars brand and talk about what Disney has lined up next. If you would like to lodge a formal complaint against our opinions, please email us at sliceonfilm@gmail.com. Audio Clip from Star Wars is not owned by Brian, Micheal, Anchor.fm, or any individual affiliated with the show. The only thing we own is our opinions.
Brian's pick for movie number two: Hell or High Water (2016). An Oscar nominated neo-western with Jeff Bridges, Chris Pine, and plenty of gunshots set in a reality somewhere between old school westerns and the modern stuff we see now. PLUS: We chat about where the movie industry is with all that Covid stuff out there.
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Dunkirk was Germany vs. Britain, but Our Slice on Film is New York vs. Chicago.
In our first episode of Our Slice on Film, we talk about how much we love Christopher Nolan movies, how much Micheal hates Harry Styles, and how much Brian appreciates a PG-13 war movie. We also challenged ourselves to pick one scene that would be better with some pizza and one character we'd like to sit down and have a slice with.
Audio clip from Dunkirk is not owned by Brian, Micheal, Anchor.fm, or any individual affiliated with the show. The only thing we own is our opinions.