Get Your Film Fix

Nerd alert!  This week, Chapin is joined by special guest Kevin Glenn to break down all 11 theatrical Star Wars films in (dis)honor of the release of The Rise of Skywalker.  Hold on to your lightsabers kids, this is one dives deep into the Sarlacc and comes out with takes as hot as the lava on Mustafar! Or the sands on Tatooine!  Or Jakku?  Or...Jedha?   Let us know what you think feedback@getyourfilmfixpodcast.com 

We kick off our 20th anniversary series with one of our favorites from the year 2000 High Fidelity!  Starring and co-written by Jon Cusack, this flick brings back old memories and may reveal more than the Get Your Film Fix boys want you to know!  We finish it all up with a Top 5 in tribute to the film that inspired it, our Top 5 movies we judge people by! Send us your thoughts and voice memos feedback@GetYourFilmFixPodcast.com  

Best Actor!  Best Actress!  Best Director!  BEST PICTURE!  The second part of our Fixie Award show, counting down the Top 10 movies of 2019!  Enjoy!   Let us know what you think - feedback@getyourfilmfixpodcast.com  

It's finally here!  Our breakdown of the best of 2019 in cinema.  Part 1 covers Best Cinematography, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress and Best Screenplay!  Enjoy!    

It's the height of Fixie season and somehow we snuck in time to review the decade!  We use the dreaded Oscars as a kickoff point to look back at the last ten years in film and try to fill in some gaps left by our hiatuses.  Send us your voice memos about 2019 and you could be featured on our two-part Fixie award show: feeback@getyourfilmfixpodcast.com 

Our old segment "just F-ing watch it" returns! This week we go back to 1959's Rio Bravo directed by Howard Hawks starring the Duke himself, John Wayne.  Then we count down the worst movie moments of 2019 (36:00).

Can three grown men like a film called Little Women?! Of course they can!  But do they loooove it??  Find out!  We break down Greta Gerwig's adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's novel first published in 1868.  But is the subject matter still relevant?  Is Gerwig cut out for the job, with only 2017's Ladybird under her belt? Finally, we break down arguably the greatest living actress' Top 5 best performances!   Friends, we'd so love to hear from you!  Let us know what you thought about 2019 at the movies, your favorites, what you hated, what reckoning should take place at the Fixies next month.  Record a voice memo on your phone and send it our way and we'll play it on the show!  Feedback@getyourfilmfixpodcast.com 

We're doing this podcast in one take!  This week we went all the way back to 1917 directed by Sam Mendes to get a message to our listeners.  Turns out, we're like England and Germany...divided!  We talk a little more in depth about Sam Mendes and his eclectic career, then finally finish it off with a discussion of yesterday's Oscar nominations.   Let us know what you think!  Send your emails and voice recordings to feedback@getyourfilmfixpodcast.com 

This week, Lee and Chapin are shopping in the diamond district for some Uncut Gems! We dive into Sandler's acclaimed performance and the young Safdie brothers, before finally wrapping it up with our Top 5 Antiheroes. Let us know what you think!  feedback@getyourfilmfixpodcast.com

The holidays are over and we're back, baby!  We get religious this week with Netflix's The Two Popes, a serious contender this award season.  And then we count down our Top 5 most anticipated movies of 2020! Let us know what you think!  Feedback@getyourfilmfixpodcast.com 

This week, Chapin and Lee go back to the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta to check out Richard Jewell directed by Clint Eastwood.  We discuss the new film and Eastwood's extraordinary prolific career and his economic work style.  Then we wrap it all up with our Top 5 Clint Eastwood-directed performances.     Tell us what you think!  Feedback@Getyourfilmfixpodcast.com. 

Noah Baumbach's latest film has received a wave of nominations and accolades this week, but did Marriage Story win our hearts?  We then countdown our Top 5 Worst Marriages in film. We'd love to hear from you!  If you have thoughts you want to share and would like to be heard on the podcast, send a voice memo from your phone to feedback@getyourfilmfixpodcast.com     

Rian Johnson's Knives Out has surprised critics and moviegoers alike with its irreverent take on the whodunit genre, but the question on everybody's lips is, "what do the Get Your Film Fix boys think?"  We give you the answer and more on Johnson's motley career and his place in genre filmmaking.  Finally, we wrap up our revisit of 1999 with our Top 5 movies from that illustrious cinematic period 20 years ago. 

Start your engines, folks!  We're off to France (or is it Italy?) with James Mangold's Ford v Ferrari (or Le Mans '66 for some of our international friends)!  We discuss Mangold's successful but perhaps unmemorable career, the importance of tone and the two great actors who lead this film.  Finally, we wrap it up with our Top 5 performances by Christian Bale or Matt Damon!

Scorsese! De Niro! Pacino!  Pesci!  Romano!  They're all here!  This week on the pod we review our most anticipated film of 2019, The Irishman.  We discuss our thoughts on the film, the de-aging technology that drove the film's budget into the stratosphere and finally wrap it up with the future of films and streaming.  

It's Palme d'Or time, baby!  This week we're going subterranean with Bong Joon-ho's Parasite, the winner of the Cannes Film Festival's highest honor this year.  We discuss the film's worldwide appeal and our thoughts.  Then we finish with our Top 5 foreign films since 1999! We'd love to hear from you!  Email us at feedback@getyourfilmfixpodcast.com. 

In space, nobody can hear your podcast!  So good thing you're on Earth, because this week we're looking waaaaay back at 1979's Sci-Fi masterpiece Alien, directed by Sir Ridley Scott.  But, do we all believe it's as fine as history remembers?   Then we move on to a preview of podcasts to come with our thoughts on the anti-aging technology that has swept through Hollywood and will be a significant factor in the hotly anticipated  The Irishman.     Let us know what you think at feedback@getyourfilmfixpodcast.com 

Another game changing film from 1999!  The Blair Witch Project shocked audiences and critics alike 20 years ago, but how does it hold up today?  We bring in horror expert/connoisseur Brantley Palmer to discuss what was once the most profitable movie ever made.  Later, Brantley has a bone to pick with Lee concerning our Midsommar podcast and his thoughts on the horror genre.   Let us know what you think!  Email us at feedback@getyourfilmfixpodcast.com.  

Lol!  The Joker's back!  We're on top of it this week with an on-time review of Todd Phillips' controversial Joker!  The film leaves us divided to say the least and that disagreement takes up most of the episode until we wrap it up with our Top 5 Lonely Characters.  

A couple weeks late to the celestial party that is James Gray's Ad Astra, but we've reviewed it and we've got some diverging takes!  We move on to two compelling emails from listeners, and finally, Chapin shares an existential crisis with the boys over Hustlers.