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Movie Tournament - Season 2

32 movies enter the Tournament… but only ONE can be crowned the CHAMPION!!

The Insider (1999) vs. Se7en (1995)

Poor Things (2023) vs. In the Mouth of Madness (1994)

Marked for Death (1990) vs. Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)

O.C. and Stiggs (1987) vs. Cloak & Dagger (1984), and so many more!

SEE MOVIE BRACKET HERE

Our Official Tournament Referee JR (Wordle in 5 podcast) returns to guide Carlo & Steve through the Bracket of Movies covered in Season 2 of the pod. Will a 2023 release make it through to the final (Barbie, Oppenheimer, Poor Things, Infinity Pool)? Will an old favorite bull its way to the top (Exorcist 3, Hiroshima 2009, OC & Stiggs)?

Time Codes:

4:30 Tournament Introduction

9:00 Round of 32

53:00 Sweet 16

1:10:00 Elite 8

1:20:00 Final 4

1:29:00 The Championship Matchup

 

ShowNotes:

BRACKET

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Repo Man (1984)

Carlo & Steve kick-off Season 3 aka Movie Food '84 w/ Repo Man, starring Emilio Estevez; written & directed by Alex Cox. Discussion of the life of a Repo Man is intense! (35:00)

But first in our Appetizers (2:30):

3:00 Carlo’s Canon: Falcon Lake (2022)

11:00 NEW JINGLE DEBUT

14:30 Carlo’s Canon: Blink 182's Untitled Album

21:00 Steve’s Racial Corner on the New York City tunnels and a movie pitch for Season 3

27:30 Carlo’s Canon: Stop Making Sense (1984)

35:00 Our Main Course: Repo Man (1984)

1:55:00 Wine Pairings for Repo Man

SHOW NOTES:

Tera melos house party show, 2006

Sunami's house party show, 2019

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2023 Awards Show & Year-in-Review

Join Carlo & Steve for the Inaugural Movie Food Awards! Hear which 2023 film took home Best Kiss, Best Needle Drop, Best Stunt, Best Storage Unit, Most Annoying Character, and so many more! It's our version of a Year-in-Review. We hear from past guests, including Kay, Bill Scurry, & Petros Papadakis, and also get Carlo & Steve's favorites of the year. 

After a brief recap of Season 2 and announcing the theme for Season 3 (2:00), in our Appetizers we discuss the Golden Globes w/ Jo Koy (32:00) and Letterboxd Wrapped (54:30).

1:08:30 The 2023 Movie Food Awards

1:10:00 Best Sex Scene

1:19:00 Best One Take

1:29:30 Bill Scurry’s Favorite of 2023

1:34:30 Best Original Song

1:40:00 Most Annoying Character

1:49:30 Kay’s Favorite of 2023

1:56:00 Best Stunt

1:59:30 Best Kiss

2:06:00 Carlo’s 2023 “Terrible Turds” Movie-Tier

2:16:30 Line of the Year

2:20:00 Best Food

2:26:30 Ken Jeong Award

2:36:30 Brandon Boozer’s Favorite of 2023

2:41:00 Carlo’s 2023 “Odd One I Did Not Get” and “Fairly Forgettables” Movie-Tiers

2:48:00 Ken Jeong Award, Part Deux

2:51:30 Surprise Mother F@#KER Award

2:58:30 Hype Me Up Award

3:07:00 Petros Papadakis’s Favorite of the Year

3:10:30 Best Emotions Award

3:14:00 Best Original Movie Moment Award & Best Trailer Award

3:20:30 Best Needle Drop Award

3:29:30 Best Guest Moment Award

3:35:00 Andrew Warren’s Favorite of the Year

3:39:00 Best Movie Phrase Award

3:41:30 Best Storage Unit Award

3:42:45 Best Kill Award

3:46:45 Best Post-Movie Conversation Award

3:56:00 Kai Parker’s Favorite of 2023

3:59:00 Carlo’s 2023 “Auteurist Armour” Movie-Tier

4:19:00 Carlo’s 2023 Movie Experience of the Year 

4:27:30 Carlo’s 2023 “Vary Gud” Movie-Tier

4:43:00 Carlo’s 2023 “Certified Bangers” Movie-Tier

5:03:00 Steve’s Favorites of 2023

5:07:00 Season 3 Preview

 

Show Notes:

Pharoahe Monch "Simon Says"

Herb Alpert "Rise"

La Libertad Trailer 

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Poor Things w/ Kay

Kay is back for our Season Finale! Carlo, Kay and Steve do NOT hold back with their thoughts on Poor Things, Yorgos Lanthimos’ latest release (2023, starring Emma Stone) (1:52:00). This holiday season, enjoy ALL the takes!

But first (10:00), we get to know Kay’s favorite holiday movies, dating litmus test movies, discuss Godzilla Minus One, and Letterboxd reviewing.

In our Appetizers (1:06:30), we quickly discuss Thanksgiving (2023), May December (2023), and Manhunter (1986).

1:13:00 Movie Food News on Melissa Barrera/Scream and we play a round of “Who’s Ghostface?”

1:20:00 Scott Take on movie recommendations

1:29:30 Carlo’s Canon: Murch: Walter Murch on Editing (2007) and The Lobster (2015)

And in The Main Course:

1:52:00 Poor Things (2023, directed by Yorgos Lanthimos)

And Kay ends the episode with an incredible round of The Game (aka the Man, I Love Films trivia game) (3:06:30).

 

Show Notes:

Check out Kay on Jena Cinema 

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Chilly Scenes of Winter w/ Bill Scurry

The omnipotent Bill Scurry (I Don’t Get it Podcast) joins Carlo for an EPIC (and we mean EPIC) discussion featuring Winter movies and a tasting menu trio by Joan Micklin Silver. So, prepare a warm beverage, grab a blanket and cozy up!

But first in Appetizers (10:00), Carlo puts Bill through the Rapid Fire Round which includes Life Lessons, Nick Nolte, TMNT, The Marvels, The Killer, Bottoms, and Please Don’t Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain. Also…

34:00 The Holdovers and Alexander Payne

1:03:00 December releases

1:08:45 Scott Take on Death of Cinema

Favorite Winter Movies (1:29:00)

1:33:00 The Thing (1982)

1:42:30 Force Majeure (2014)

1:49:00 Ice Station Zebra (1968)

1:53:00 Joe Pera Talks with You (2018-2021)

2:09:00 Winter Sleep (2014)

2:14:00 Coen Brothers: Fargo (1996) & Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)

2:40:00 A Touch of Sin (2013)

2:49:00 The Day He Arrives (2011)

3:02:00 The Main Course: Who was Joan Micklin Silver and what were the hallmarks of her work?

3:10:00 Between The Lines (1977) and Crossing Delancey (1988)

4:16:00 Chilly Scenes of Winter (1979)

NOTES:

The Mighty Boosh clip Bill mentions

Check out Bill also on Twitter and his Podcast

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Bill's Podcast I Don't Get It

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Killers of the Flower Moon, The Killer w/ Jacob Rivera

Jacob Rivera returns for a Killer Ep! Jacob, Carlo & Steve feast upon Killers of the Flower Moon from Martin Scorsese and The Killer from David Fincher. We celebrate storytelling, haircuts, title sequences, and storage units...

But first in our Appetizers:

4:00 Showing classics to the kids, like the Terminators, Alien(s) & Predator; and musical documentaries: Whitney Houston doc "I Wanna Dance with Somebody" and Amy (Winehouse).

17:30 Survival Family (2016, Shinobu Yaguchi)

20:00 Cure (1997, Kiyoshi Kurosawa)

25:00 the discourse about Mike Flanagan's Top 20 movies on Letterboxd

38:00 Horror Fan Films: Dylan's New Nightmare (2023) and Never Hike Alone (2017)

43:00 In the Mouth of Madness leftover

47:00 Summer of Anger addendum: The Portland Parade Road Rage Video

And in The Main Course, our Double-Feature:

54:00 Killers of the Flower Moon & the Martin Scorsese filmography

2:08:00 Our Scorsese favorites

2:26:30 Wine Pairings for Killers of the Flower Moon

2:37:00 The Killer & the David Fincher catalog

4:13:00 Wine Pairings for The Killer

4:20:00 Fincher Rankings

Notes:

The Audition, short from Scorsese

Fincher Title Sequences 

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Spooky Selections

It's Halloween Horror Buffet Time! We tear into our Movie Appetizer Grab Bag, but this time it's all horror and thrillers. Alien invasions (No One Will Save You, Under the Skin, Monsters of California), slashers (Jason Takes Manhattan, Freddy vs Jason), demons (Exorcist 3, Exorcist: Believer, In the Mouth of Madness) and more!!!

But first in our Appetizers (8:45): Sexy Beast

12:45 Bottoms

24:00 Trailer for Argylle

28:00 Wes Anderson’s The Wonderful World of Henry Sugar

30:30 Corrections and Retractions

32:45 Carlo’s Canon: Stop Making Sense (Talking Heads doc)

And in our Main Course (41:45): General Thoughts on the Horror Buffet

45:00 31 (Rob Zombie)

51:00 No One Will Save You

1:01:00 Doctor Sleep

1:12:30 Under the Skin

1:20:45 Kill List, The Nun II, The Twilight Zone

1:27:30 Exorcist 3, featuring a Scott Take on the original Exorcist)

1:51:00 Exorcist: Believer

1:57:15 Universal Horror Nights

2:03:00 Friday the 13^th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan

2:12:00 Freddy vs. Jason

2:22:45 In the Mouth of Madness

2:33:00 The Hitcher, Hocus Pocus, Red Eye, & Tales from the Hood

2:42:00 Rec and Final Destination 2 & 3

2:51:00 Monsters of the California

3:09:15 Of Unknown Origin, The Empty Man, & Lifeforce

3:18:00 Carlo’s Canon: L'Étoile de mer or The Star Fish (Man Ray)

3:21:00 Carlo’s Canon: Tetsuo II: Body Hammer

3:25:00 The Scary of Sixty-First

Then we end with a general horror film wrap up.

3:38:30 Scariest Scenes from this Spooky Buffet

 

Show Notes

Mentioned Dead Meat review of Doctor Sleep

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Signs | The Faculty

We kick-off “Alien Invasion Autumn” with two spooky classics: Signs (2002, M Night Shyamalan) and The Faculty (1998, starring Josh Hartnett and Elijah Wood). We break it all down and get to the bottom of all this bs (1:04:15). 

But first, in our Appetizers (1:30) we discuss The Long Goodbye and leftovers on our Robert Altman episode.

15:45 MF News: Monsters of California trailer

25:00 Martin Short & Clifford (1994)

32:30 Asteroid City

38:30 The Protector (1985, Jackie Chan)

41:45 Tom Petty Doc: Somewhere You Feel Free

46:00 Peep Show

51:30 Ronin

55:00 Scott Take on MAX

58:30 Carlo’s Canon: Harmony Korine’s Duck Duck and Peter Tscherkassky’s The Exquisite Corpus and Outer Space

And in our Main Course:

1:04:15 Signs

1:44:30 The Faculty

2:31:30 We preview what horror films we will likely cover next episode.

 

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