A moovie podcast
It’s time to celebrate the films of 2025! No film can win in more than one of the following categories:
+ Best Supporting Character
+ Movie Most Likely to Grow on Me
+ Hidden Gem
+ Best Music
+ Best Line / Speech
+ Best Antagonist
+ Best Protagonist
+ Best Story
+ Best Picture
Welcome to the Blobscars!
Justin
Pick up your paddles, it’s time to PONG! Marty Supreme is a 2025 movie directed by Josh Safdie starring Timothy Chalamet about an upstart New York table tennis savant who’ll do anything to succeed at the sport and who just wants someone to treat him as seriously as he takes himself. We’re joined by Sean Burns (WBUR, Spliced Personality) to explore the movie’s manic energy.
I have a purpose. You don’t.
Marty Mauser
Roxana Hadadi (Vulture / New York Magazine) joins us to discuss Paul Thomas Anderson’s BP lock(?) and everything surrounding the film: its structure, violent / non-violent resistance, broader themes in PTA’s films… and much more! Is it time to call in a Greyhawk-10?
Ocean waves. Ocean waves.
Sensei Sergio St. Carlos
Players, chimes, noir conventions, screenwriting tips, running hot, tacit communication, and horny lawyers can only mean one thing — we’re discussing BODY HEAT! Joining us is Alex Kugelman, writer/director of the new hit film DON’T TRIP (streaming now on Tubi). Can you handle the heat??!?
My temperature runs a couple of degrees high, around a hundred. I don’t mind. It’s the engine or something.
Matty
To celebrate the life and work of Rob Reiner, we wanted to cover our favorite of his films, which also happens to be a great NEW YEAR’S film! So join us to discuss the mysteries of love, and disagree about how to interpret the interstitial older couple interviews. Here’s to 2026!
You see? That is just like you, Harry. You say things like that, and you make it impossible for me to hate you.
Sally
Oh no Scott Calvin (maybe) killed Santa Claus and now through the power of legally binding contracts he has to become the Big Man himself! Will the power of belief triumph over police and psychiatry? Who will be crowned champion of the elves-only cocoa-making competition? Who are those puppets hanging out in Santa’s room? All this and more!!
We’re a family! You, me, mom… and Neil.
Scott Calvin
Join us and Brianna Ashby (Bright Wall / Dark Room) to discuss 2001’s AMELIE! We discuss loneliness, color theory, mediated interactions, breaking through stasis, and whether this is a post-COVID movie made before COVID!
Without you, today’s emotions would be the scurf of yesterday’s.
Hipolito
We are joined by Sam Liao (Philosophy, University of Puget Sound) to discuss our first animated film on the show: Isao Takahata’s Grave of the Fireflies! We discuss childhood, innocence, war, societal collapse, and much more!
You must also eat to build a strong body and go to war.
Aunt Yokokawa
We sit down with Rachel Fraser (MIT, Philosophy) to discuss Bong Joon Ho’s Academy Award winning movie PARASITE! What do Freud, Jane Eyre, and Marx have to do with a movie about three families in South Korea? Psychoanalysis, transgression, class consciousness, ideology, ghosts, Hitchcock, and lots more!
Dad, today I made a plan – a fundamental plan. I’m going to earn money, a lot of it. University, a career, marriage, those are all fine, but first I’ll earn money. When I have money, I’ll buy the house. On the day we move in, Mom and I will be in the yard. Because the sunshine is so nice there. All you’ll need to do is walk up the stairs. Take care until then. So long.
Ki-Woo
Continuing spooky season, we sit down with Pete Turner (Oxford Brookes University) to discuss found footage horror and the now-classic entry into the genre, REC! We discuss why this isn’t “found footage”(!) although it is diegetic camera horror, and how the film uses the limited perspective to shape our identification with its characters. Don’t go in the attic!!
We have to tape everything, Pablo. For fuck’s sake.
Angela
Cows in the Field