Episode 157: The 2024 Bird Report (Part Two)

Aye! We’re back with part two of our three-part Bird Report for 2024! This week, we're talking about our favourite movies and movie-going experiences of 2024. Once again, this is not an objective “best-of” list. Instead, our picks are based on what we’ve actually seen and personally enjoyed. Before we start on our lists, though, we share our thoughts on the passing of a titan in the world of filmmaking, David Lynch, and his impact on the medium and society at large. We lost a real one. May he rest in power. Then it’s time to share our favourite movies from the last year. We do our best to give a little context as to why we picked what we did without spoiling too much in case you haven't seen them yet. Surprisingly, we only overlapped a bit which led to a long conversation about a wide variety of movies across many genres. Included in these lists are movies like “Twisters”, “Dune: Part Two”, “The Substance”, “Anora”, “Nosferatu”, “Challengers”, “Conclave”, “Sing Sing”, “Civil War”, “Queer”, “Kinds Of Kindness”, “Rebel Ridge”, “The Bikeriders”, “The Apprentice”, “Evil Does Not Exist”, “Hundreds Of Beavers”, and more. We also list some of the movies that one, or both of us, have yet to see and want to including “The Brutalist”, “The Last Showgirl”, “A Real Pain”, “Oh, Canada”, “A Complete Unknown”, “Cuckoo”, and more. We realize (while recording) that the episode has gone on for so long that we’ll have to do TV next week... so, instead, we take the end of the episode to unpack some of our honourable mentions from the year (movies that were good but didn’t necessarily crack the top of our lists) including “Monkey Man”, “Alien: Romulus”, “Gladiator 2”, “Love Lies Bleeding”, “I Saw The TV Glow”, “Hitman”, “Y2K”, “Furiosa”, “Late Night With The Devil”, “Longlegs”, “Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes”, “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice”, “Maxxxine”, and more. We also talk about some absolute stinkers including "Red One" (The Rock slap-boxing Krampus?) and "Roadhouse" (Cocaine McGregor might be the worst actor alive?). A lot of good stuff was released last year! What were some of your favourites from 2024? Let us know in a comment on Spotify or hit us up on Instagram! We’ll be back next week with our top TV series of 2024 and a general recap of the year. INITIATE BIRD PROTOCOL! Follow us on Instagram! Instagram: @palmreadr @otismorrisdude