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It's been 20 years since the influential and award-winning American Beauty was released and we gathered to discuss Sam Mendes' divisive film.  We move on to a brief chat about the Oscar-winning documentary Free Solo, and finally wrap it all up with our Top 5 roles we'd recast.  

Here's a discussion from a couple weeks ago about Netflix and its role in independent filmmaking.  Enjoy!

The Academy spoke, and we listened!  Finally, the three of us watched 2018's Best Picture Winner Green Book (17:00) directed by Peter Farrelly (or is it Farley?) and we had some thoughts to say the least.  But first, we discuss the importance of the Oscars to us and the film industry.  And our Top 5 this week comes from a listener, who suggested we list our Top 5 Critically Successful Films we believe are overrated (39:40). 

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It's another double feature this week with Steven Soderbergh's High Flying Bird (2:45) and Dan Gilroy's Velvet Buzzsaw (24:30).  Then we reveal our Top 5 most anticipated films of 2019 (40:00).  

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Part 2 of our SPOILER FREE award show celebrating the best in movies in 2018!  We announce our picks for Best Actor (1:20), Best Actress (29:10), Best Director (56:54) and Best Picture (1:25:41).

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It's here!  At last!  Part 1 of our SPOILER FREE awards show celebrating the best in movies in 2018!  In this part we cover Best Cinematography (2:10), Best Supporting Actress (21:45), Best Supporting Actor (45:10) and Best Screenplay (1:10).  

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Here's a quick excerpt from our Destroyer podcast that didn't make the cut.  We discuss our favorite productions we've had the pleasure of working on after a question from the mailbag.

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And look out for our TWO PART 4th Annual Fixies Awards coming this week!

 

This week we watch Karyn Kusama's Destroyer starring Nicole Kidman.  We move on to answer some of your questions and wrap it up with our Top 5 Non-Linear Movies.

It's a double feature!  This week we re-visit teenage angst and more serious issues with Joel Edgerton's Boy Erased and Bo Burnham's Eighth Grade.  We wrap it all up with our Top 5 Teenage Performances.  

 

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We're going back to 70s Harlem in Barry Jenkin's adaptation of James Baldwin's If Beale Street Could Talk.  Later, we discuss the trend of politically charged films in 2018 (29:00) and finally we wrap it all up with our Top 5 Innocent Prisoners (43:00).  

 

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This week found us on both sides of the aisle with Adam McKay's Vice, featuring a transformative performance by Christian Bale.  We move on to a brief discussion of film budgets and shooting days and how some of our favorite directors use (or abuse) them.  Finally, we wrap it all up with our Top 5 transformative performances. 

This week we head south to Mexico City for Alfonso Cuaron's Roma.  As he's one of our favorites, we delve further into Cuaron's filmography and, finally, wrap it all up with our Top 5 Long Shots.  

We recorded this back in December, but are finally releasing our review of Steve McQueen's Widows.  We wrap it up with our Top 5 Widows or Widowers.

 

Tune in NEXT WEEK when Lee, Jeremy and Chapin reveal their Fixie Award winners in the two-part podcast.  

 

Also, email us at feedback@getyourfilmfixpodcast.com. We'd love to hear from you and possibly read your questions or comments out on the show!

 

 

Powder your wigs, ladies and gentlemen, we're going way back to the 1700s for Yorgos Lanthimos' The Favourite.  We move on to a discussion of the director and finish it all up with our Top 5 Power Struggles. 

We saddle up for The Coen Brothers' newest film from Netflix The Ballad of Buster Scruggs.  We transition into a brief discussion of Netflix' role in prestige filmmaking and the award season (29:30), and finally finish it all off with your Top 5 Deaths in Westerns (44:00).  

We blast off this week with Damien Chazelle's First Man.  We then move on to a broader discussion of Chapin's love for the Sci-Fi/Space movie genre, and finally finish it all of with our Top 5 Biopics!

We're hitting the gin hard this week with Bradley Cooper's A Star is Born.  We continue on with our discussion of Lady Gaga in her first major big screen performance and the casting of non-actors in pivotal roles.  Finally, we wrap this all up with our Top 5 cinematic drunks.  

We're a little bit late for Halloween, but nevertheless, this week we go way back to 1976 for Brian De Palma's Carrie.  We're joined by Brantley this week, who we poke and prod for his thoughts on the state of the horror genre.  Then we wrap it all up with our Top 5 High School Outcasts.  

It’s a very special episode this week after we return from our extended hiatus.  The Office premiered in the U.K. in 2001 and a few years later, one our hearts forever.  It’s the single most important piece of content in our friendship and we hope you enjoy!

We find religion this week with Paul Schrader's new film First Reformed featuring Ethan Hawke.  That leads us into a discussion of writers who've turned to directing (42:00), then we wrap it all up with our Top 5 Church Scenes (50:00). 

We're undercover this week and our target is the KKK!  We dive into the latest Spike Lee Joint BlacKkKlansman and after a brief discussion about the director, we settle a few questions about last week's Fincher Retrospective (40:30).  Finally, we wrap it up with our Top 5 Characters pretending to be someone else (46:00).  

This week we bring you an EPIC Director's Retrospective: David Fincher!  We count down our TOP 10 David Fincher movies and handout Fixie Awards to Best Actor, Actress, Screenplay and Cinematography!  

For our mission this week we look at the newest and BEST REVIEWED film in the series so far...Mission: Impossible - Fallout.  We jump into the mailbag (33:30) to answer your questions and finally, wrap it all up with our Top 5 Tom Cruise scenes (42:00).

The monolith paid us a visit and we were inspired to watch Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece.  We dissect the film and discuss its enormous influence on film and pop culture.  Finally, we wrap it all up with our Top 5 scenes with little or no dialogue.  

We're blasting some replicants away this week with a double feature of Blade Runner and the sequel Blade Runner 2049.  We compare the two, then move on to question if there are any original ideas left in Hollywood.  We wrap it all up with our Top 5 Sequels we'd like to see made.  

It's just Jeremy and Chapin this week as Lee's on vacation in the quantum realm.  We look at Marvel Studios' newest film Ant-Man and the Wasp.  We move on to a discussion of the modern movie star and wrap it all up with our Top 5 Male/Female Duos.  

We’re experimenting with releasing segments from the cutting room floor.  Here, Lee and Chapin dissect Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. Let us know if you like these shorter segments by emailing us at feedback@getyourfilmfixpodcast.com

This week we watched the follow up to Sicario, one of our favorite films of the last couple years.  Did it live up to it's predecessor?  We then revisit last week's discussion on Jaws to clear up a few remaining thoughts.  And finally, we wrap it all up with our Top 5 characters who are great at their jobs. 

We're hitting the high seas, comparing scars and saying farwell and adieu to some fair Spanish ladies!  This week we revisted Jaws, a movie we unamiously find one of the best ever made.  We wonder how the film would fair in today's fast paced world and finally wrap it up with our Top 5 movies that had no business being good. 

We saw the new(ish) horror film Hereditary in theaters.  The film's been wooing critics and we expore if it lives up to the hype.  Finally, we move on to our Top 5 worst cinematic parents. 

Welcome to Jurassic Park!  It's been 25 years since the monumental, record breaking cultural phenomenon changed movies forever.  We chat about its impact on us and the film industry.  That leads us into a debate over visual effects and their use in modern blockbusters.  Finally, we wrap it all up with our Top 5 cinematic worlds we'd love to live in.

Our 100th episode!  We've stopped and started a few times since our Inception in 2010.  But we've finally made it to 100!  We take a look back at The Deer Hunter, an important film for the three of us.  Next, with the help of a special suprise guest, we break down Marvel's most recent works Avengers: Infinity War and Black Panther. Finally, we wrap it all up with our Top 5 of the 2010s.  

We get wet this week with 2017's Best Picture winner/fish porno The Shape of Water.  We move on to a brief discussion of Hollywood's love affair with itself.  And finally, we wrap it all up with, you guessed it, our Top 5 scenes involving water.  

Get your breast pumps out, cause we're reviewing Tully this week!  The latest from Jason Reitman and Diablo Cody leaves us a little divided, in particular over the "twist" ending.  We wrap it up with our Top 5 assistant/helpers.  

Knock, knock.  We hammer into Joaquin Phoenix's newest film You Were Never Really Here, directed by the eclectic Scottish filmmaker Lynne Ramsay.  And then we finish the episode with our top 5 characters we wouldn't want showing up at our door.  

Shhhhh...We watched A Quiet Place but we had to break our silence to give you our take.  We then transition into a larger discussion on using a lack of dialogue in movies, while finally wrapping it all up with our Top 5 Movies directed by Actors.  

The first in what we hope will be our Director's Series, the Tarantino Retrospective counts down the infamous director's 8 films.  We list our favorites in order then award Fixies to Quentin's career bests.  

We entered the Shimmer!  And we've come out with strong opinions on Alex Garland's Annihilation.  We talk more about the the science fiction drama and how it's envolved.  Finally, we wrap it all up with our Top Five movies about fear and dread.  

This week we look at one of our ALL TIME favorite directors with Paul Thomas Anderson's newest film Phantom Thread.  We move on to a brief discussion about directors and esoteric subject matter and finally wrapping it all up with our Top Five Food Scenes. 

This week we take a look at Martin McDonagh's Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.  We move on to a closer look at McDonagh and his short career in cinema.  Finally, we wrap it all up with our Top 5 Bad Movies by Directors We Love.  

We did it!  Two episodes within a week!  We chat about Baby Driver and Edgar Wright's career in general.  We then switch gears into a discussion about Netflix's The Cloverfield Paradox and the future of film on streaming services.  We wrap it all up with our top 5 bar scenes.  

We're back!  And better than ever.  On this new, 3.0 version of the podcast, we jump right in with a quick chat about Dunkirk, the year in review, Get Out and Batman Begins vs. The Dark Knight.  

Lee, Jeremy and Chapin take a look at Richard Linklater's 12 year project, Boyhood. Then a quick discussion on Morten Tyldum's Oscar nominated The Imitation Game and finally their top 5.

It's been two years, but we're back!  Lee and Chapin spill the beans on Interstellar, stick their noses into Foxcatcher and fly with Birdman in the triumphant return to the Get Your Film Fix Podcast!

Join Jeremy, Chapin and Tyson in their belated discussion of Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained.

We kick things off again with our third annual Fixie Awards Show, wherein we discuss our favorite films, directors, writers and performances of 2012. Enjoy and welcome back!

Lee, Chapin and Tyson spend some time in Beantown with Mark Wahlberg and his buddy Ted with Seth MacFarland’s debut film. They review the film, discuss Wahlberg himself and give their Top 5 transitions from TV to movies.

Lee, Chapin and Tyson try to uncover if the new reboot of the Spider-Man franchise is any better than Sam Raimi’s film. They discuss whether or not there was any point in rebooting the franchise in the first place. Then it’s their top 5 performances they didn’t expect to be good.

Lee, Chapin and Tyson argue over Wes Anderson and his new film Moonrise Kingdom. They talk about one of their (one time) favorites, Edward Norton and the trajectory of his career. Then they struggle through their top 5 camping films of all time.