Cinema Double Shot

Susan Bassler, our multi-talented filmmaking friend, joins us to chat about her favorite movies from every season — and all the work that goes on behind the scenes to make a film.Learn more about Wally Films:🎬 ⁠⁠⁠https://www.wallyfilms.com/⁠⁠⁠Check us out on YouTube:📹 https://www.youtube.com/@wallyfilmLike what you see? Consider supporting the filmmaker at:☕️ ⁠⁠https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wallyfilm⁠⁠Subscribe to my newsletter:⌨️ ⁠https://wallyfilm.substack.com/welcome⁠Follow what I'm watching on Letterboxd:📽️ ⁠⁠https://letterboxd.com/inwidescreen/

AI slop is everywhere these days, clogging up our inboxes and social media feeds. But does it have a role to play in art? And could it eventually replace human artists?Disclaimer: This week's thumbnail was created using Adobe Firefly. This, apparently, is how the algorithm sees Paul and Wally.Learn more about Wally Films:🎬 ⁠⁠⁠https://www.wallyfilms.com/⁠⁠⁠Check us out on YouTube:📹 https://www.youtube.com/@wallyfilmLike what you see? Consider supporting the filmmaker at:☕️ ⁠⁠https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wallyfilm⁠⁠Subscribe to my newsletter:⌨️ ⁠https://wallyfilm.substack.com/welcome⁠Follow what I'm watching on Letterboxd:📽️ ⁠⁠https://letterboxd.com/inwidescreen/

Paul joins Wally to talk about the Blackest Films Ever™, just in time for Black History Month. The freewheeling conversation includes Spike Lee, Ryan Coogler, Jordan Peele, Ava DuVernay, Kasi Lemmons, Tina Mabry — and, yes, M. Night Shyamalan and Bob Dylan. Check us out on YouTube:📹 https://www.youtube.com/@wallyfilmLike what you see? Consider supporting the filmmaker at:☕️ ⁠⁠https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wallyfilm⁠⁠Subscribe to my newsletter:⌨️ ⁠https://wallyfilm.substack.com/welcome⁠Follow what I'm watching on Letterboxd:📽️ ⁠⁠https://letterboxd.com/inwidescreen/⁠⁠Learn more about Wally Films:🎬 ⁠⁠⁠https://www.wallyfilms.com/⁠⁠⁠

The Academy Award nominations have arrived, continuing a nearly century-old tradition. But we’ve got a few of our own: The Wallys, an annual awards show now in its 21st year. Josh and Wally talk about awards while handing out a few of their own to the best movies of 2025.You can see the full list of Wally award winners here:🏆 https://inwidescreen.blogspot.com/Check us out on YouTube:📹 https://www.youtube.com/@wallyfilmLike what you see? Consider supporting the filmmaker at:☕️ ⁠⁠https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wallyfilm⁠⁠Subscribe to my newsletter:⌨️ ⁠https://wallyfilm.substack.com/welcome⁠Follow what I'm watching on Letterboxd:📽️ ⁠⁠https://letterboxd.com/inwidescreen/⁠⁠Learn more about Wally Films:🎬 ⁠⁠⁠https://www.wallyfilms.com/⁠⁠⁠

Film friend Gabriel Brown (arthouse theater programmer, filmmaker, all-around movie nerd) joins Josh and Wally to talk about the best movies they saw in 2025.Check us out on YouTube:📹 https://www.youtube.com/@wallyfilmLike what you see? Consider supporting the filmmaker at: ☕️ ⁠⁠https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wallyfilm⁠⁠Subscribe to my newsletter:⌨️ ⁠https://wallyfilm.substack.com/welcome⁠Follow what I'm watching on Letterboxd: 📽️ ⁠⁠https://letterboxd.com/inwidescreen/⁠⁠Learn more about Wally Films:🎬 ⁠⁠⁠https://www.wallyfilms.com/⁠⁠⁠

What is a Christmas movie? Wally and Josh have VERY different takes on this age-old debate. Along the way, they reminisce about their favorite Christmas movies.00:03:37 Josh’s definition of a Christmas movie00:07:11 Side tangent: When the “setting is a character.”00:09:28 Wally’s loosey goosey definition of a Christmas movie00:14:00 Chris Columbus, the king of the Christmas movieIS THIS A CHRISTMAS MOVIE?00:15:39 Die Hard00:17:36 The Holdovers00:19:06 Love Actually00:20:54 Black Christmas (by Bob Clark, the other King of Christmas)00:23:33 Side tangent: Why do movie serial killers make such a dang mess?00:24:30 Side tangent: Crime Scene Cleaner video game00:25:59 In Bruges (with a special appearance by Mystery the Cat)00:28:48 Batman Returns00:31:31 Todd Haynes’ Carol00:33:11 Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring00:35:06 The Wizard of Oz00:35:59 John Waters’ Pink Flamingos00:36:55 Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut00:39:01 The Nightmare Before ChristmasOUR FAVORITE CHRISTMAS MOVIES00:43:23 Joe Dante’s Gremlins (Josh)00:48:26 National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (Wally)00:50:23 Lewis Jackson’s Christmas Evil (Josh)00:53:42 Sean Baker’s Tangerine (Wally)00:57:25 Satoshi Kon’s Tokyo Godfathers (Josh)01:01:07 Bob Clark’s Christmas Story (Wally)01:03:46 Jim Henson’s Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas (Josh)01:06:26 Side tangent: Open Stage’s production of Emmet Otter01:07:59 Chris Columbus’ Home Alone movies01:09:53 Brian Henson’s A Muppet Christmas Carol (Josh and Wally)01:16:39 Are any Christmas Carol adaptations horror movies?Check us out on YouTube:📹 https://www.youtube.com/@wallyfilmLike what you see? Consider supporting the filmmaker at: ☕️ ⁠⁠https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wallyfilm⁠⁠Subscribe to my newsletter:⌨️ ⁠https://wallyfilm.substack.com/welcome⁠Follow what I'm watching on Letterboxd: 📽️ ⁠⁠https://letterboxd.com/inwidescreen/⁠⁠Learn more about Wally Films:🎬 ⁠⁠⁠https://www.wallyfilms.com/⁠⁠⁠Get tickets for Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas at Open Stage:🎟️ ⁠https://www.openstagehbg.com/shows/emmetotter⁠

Join Wally and Josh as they recount their adventures in Japan — including a pilgrimage to the grave of master filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu — and share some of their favorite works of Japanese cinema.00:00:29 What we’ve been up to: Emmet Otter’s Jug Band Christmas00:04:10 What we’ve been up to: Film Festivals00:05:00 Shai Carmeli-Pollak’s The Sea at Centre Film Festival00:07:47 Our trip to Japan00:29:03 Visiting Kita-Kamakura and paying respects to Yasujiro Ozu00:39:18 Our quest to find Machiko Soga and Kogo Noda’s graves00:45:44 The World of Yasujiro Ozu: Good Morning, Late Autumn, Tokyo Story, and more!00:50:40 Takashi Miike’s Audition00:53:22 Kiyoshi Kurosawa: Cure, Tokyo Sonata, Cloud, Chime, and more!00:58:17 Obligatory Hayao Miyazaki nerd-out01:00:01 Satoshi Kon’s Perfect Blue01:02:36 Hirokazu Kore-eda: After Life, Shoplifters, Monster, and more!01:05:29 Shinichirou Ueda’s One Cut of the Dead01:09:01 Side tangent: Chris Smith’s American Movie01:09:45 Mikio Naruse: When a Woman Ascends the Stairs, Sound of the Mountain, Yearning and more!01:15:10 Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuichi’s Shin Godzilla01:19:25 Kinuyo Tanaka’s The Moon Has Risen01:24:14 Screaming Mad George’s The Guyver01:26:35 Nobuhiko Obayashi’s House (Hausu)01:32:22 The things we are thankful forCheck us out on YouTube:📹 https://www.youtube.com/@wallyfilmLike what you see? Consider supporting the filmmaker at: ☕️ ⁠https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wallyfilm⁠Subscribe to my newsletter:⌨️ https://wallyfilm.substack.com/welcomeFollow what I'm watching on Letterboxd: 📽️ ⁠https://letterboxd.com/inwidescreen/⁠Learn more about Wally Films:🎬 ⁠⁠https://www.wallyfilms.com/⁠⁠Get tickets for Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas at Open Stage:🎟️ https://www.openstagehbg.com/shows/emmetotter

Paul joins Wally as they talk about a busy fall taking RIVER CITY STORIES to film festivals, as well as avoiding burnout, rocking cardigans, and recording a public service announcement about the importance of off-year elections.Check us out on YouTube:📹 https://www.youtube.com/@wallyfilmLike what you see? Consider supporting the filmmaker at: ☕️ ⁠https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wallyfilm⁠Subscribe to my newsletter:⌨️ https://wallyfilm.substack.com/welcomeFollow what I'm watching on Letterboxd: 📽️ ⁠https://letterboxd.com/inwidescreen/⁠Learn more about Wally Films:🎬 ⁠https://www.wallyfilms.com/⁠Get tickets for River City Stories at the Red Rose and Centre County film festivals:🎟️ Nov. 7 & 8: ⁠⁠https://redrosefilmfestival.com/⁠🎟️ Nov. 16: ⁠https://centrefilm.org/⁠

Join us for a special crossover episode with ⁠The Biz Bruja⁠ herself, Vanessa Codorniu, as we talk about improv comedy, the art of being silly, and the joy of embracing your inner payaso.Check us out on YouTube:📹 https://www.youtube.com/@wallyfilmLike what you see? Consider supporting the filmmaker at: ☕️ ⁠https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wallyfilm⁠Subscribe to my newsletter:⌨️ https://wallyfilm.substack.com/welcomeFollow what I'm watching on Letterboxd: 📽️ ⁠https://letterboxd.com/inwidescreen/⁠Learn more about Wally Films:🎬 https://www.wallyfilms.com/Get tickets for River City Stories at the Red Rose and Centre County film festivals:🎟️ Nov. 7 & 8: ⁠https://redrosefilmfestival.com/🎟️ Nov. 16: https://centrefilm.org/

Fresh off a successful run of River City Stories (Part 2), Paul and Wally talk about the latest Spike Lee joint, Highest 2 Lowest, and various issues facing cities big and small.Check us out on YouTube:📹 https://www.youtube.com/@wallyfilmLike what you see? Consider supporting the filmmaker at: ☕️ ⁠https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wallyfilm⁠Subscribe to my newsletter:⌨️ https://wallyfilm.substack.com/welcomeFollow what I'm watching on Letterboxd: 📽️ ⁠https://letterboxd.com/inwidescreen/⁠Learn more about Wally Films:🎬 https://www.wallyfilms.com/

Just in time for Harrisburg Fringe Festival, Paul and Wally recount some of their favorite — and perhaps less favorite — experiences making RIVER CITY STORIES as the next round of stories screens at Midtown Cinema July 17-19.Check us out on YouTube:📹 https://www.youtube.com/@wallyfilmGet tickets for River City Stories and Cinderella at Harrisburg Fringe: 🎟️ July 17-20: ⁠https://www.hbgfringe.com/ticketsLike what you see? Consider supporting the filmmaker at: ☕️ ⁠https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wallyfilm⁠Subscribe to my newsletter:⌨️ https://wallyfilm.substack.com/welcomeFollow what I'm watching on Letterboxd: 📽️ ⁠https://letterboxd.com/inwidescreen/⁠Learn more about Wally Films:🎬 https://www.wallyfilms.com/

Just in time for Pride, Josh and Wally recount some of their favorite LGBTQ+ themed films, ranging from Pre-Code Hollywood through modern-day classics. 00:02:30 River City Stories and the Harrisburg Fringe Festival00:05:41 Cinderella at Fringe00:09:18 Mrs. Doubtfire and Robin Williams00:13:17 Mike Nichols’ The Birdcage00:17:56 Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope00:24:47 Pre-Code Movies and Baby Face00:27:56 Nightmare on Elm Street Part II00:31:30 Sidney Lumet’s Dog Day Afternoon00:36:35 Jamie Babbit’s But I’m a Cheerleader00:39:23 Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight00:43:27 The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Fake-out)00:43:58 Hairspray and the films of John Waters00:47:26 John Cameron Mitchell’s Hedwig and the Angry Inch00:52:16 Reprise: Mike Nichols’ The Birdcage00:55:13 Sean Baker’s Tangerine00:59:37 Bury Your Gays Pick: Andrew Haigh’s All of Us Strangers01:03:37 Bury Your Gays Pick: Tom Ford’s A Single Man01:06:14 Queer-coded Villains: Doctor Pretorius in Bride of Frankenstein01:07:09 Queer-coded Villains: Herbert West in Re-Animator01:07:45 Queer-coded Villains: Joel Cairo and His Gang in The Maltese Falcon01:08:35 Queer-coded Villains: Ursula in The Little MermaidCheck us out on YouTube:📹 https://www.youtube.com/@wallyfilmGet tickets for River City Stories and Cinderella at Harrisburg Fringe: 🎟️ July 17-20: ⁠https://www.hbgfringe.com/ticketsLike what you see? Consider supporting the filmmaker at: ☕️ ⁠https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wallyfilm⁠Subscribe to my newsletter:⌨️ https://wallyfilm.substack.com/welcomeFollow what I'm watching on Letterboxd: 📽️ ⁠https://letterboxd.com/inwidescreen/⁠Learn more about Wally Films:🎬 https://www.wallyfilms.com/

Join us for a special crossover episode with The Biz Bruja herself, Vanessa Codorniu, and River City Stories collaborator Paul Hood as we discuss what inspires our creativity. Along the way, we also talk about Alfred Hitchcock, Spike Lee, and what we've inherited from our ancestors.Get tickets for River City Stories: 🎟️ May 16 & 18: ⁠https://zoetropolis.com/movies/river-city-stories/⁠Subscribe to my newsletter:⌨️ https://wallyfilm.substack.com/welcomeFollow what I'm watching on Letterboxd: 📽️ ⁠https://letterboxd.com/inwidescreen/⁠Learn more about Wally Films:🎬 https://www.wallyfilms.com/🔮 ⁠https://www.thebizbruja.com/⁠

Inspired by Ryan Coogler’s Sinners, an epic vampire tale set in 1930s Mississippi, Josh and I talk about some of our favorite blood-sucking horror films of all time — everything from F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu (the O.G.) to Grace Jones’ underrated performance in Vamp.00:49 SIR Christopher Lee and Dracula01:43 The Man with the Golden Gun (And Three Nipples)04:14 Creature Feature Weekend and Hacktress04:57 Ryan Coogler’s Sinners09:08 Robert Johnson and “Preacher Boy”13:13 Lovers Rock meets From Dusk Till Dawn23:20 Dracula and Nosferatu, the O.G.’s36:58 Tomas Alfredson’s Let the Right One In39:50 Abel Ferrara’s The Addiction41:20 Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive45:01 Richard Wenk’s Vamp49:45 Joel Schumacher’s Lost Boys55:20 Josh Dorsheimer’s Cinderella at Fringe56:15 River City StoriesCheck us out on YouTube:📹 https://www.youtube.com/@wallyfilmGet tickets for River City Stories: 🎟️ May 16 & 18: ⁠https://zoetropolis.com/movies/river-city-stories/⁠Like what you see? Consider supporting the filmmaker at: ☕️ ⁠https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wallyfilm⁠Subscribe to my newsletter:⌨️ https://wallyfilm.substack.com/welcomeFollow what I'm watching on Letterboxd: 📽️ ⁠https://letterboxd.com/inwidescreen/⁠Learn more about Wally Films:🎬 https://www.wallyfilms.com/

River City Stories collaborator Vanessa Codorniu joins Wally to talk about the movies they watched as young people — everything from Alfonso Arau’s Like Water for Chocolate to Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo — and the lasting impressions those films left at an early age.00:01:26 An update on River City Stories00:06:06 Billy Elliott and Bend It Like Beckham00:07:17 Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Biutiful00:13:17 Alfonso Arau’s Like Water for Chocolate00:25:39 What we inherit from our ancestors00:31:27 Improv comedy and the power of performance00:41:51 Solange Knowles and Cranes in the Sky00:57:00 Roman Polanski's Chinatown00:59:00 Luis Puenzo's The Official Story01:03:27 Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo01:05:40 Emotional Processing and the Myth of the Minotaur01:06:08 John Duigan’s Wide Sargasso Sea01:10:44 The Biz BrujaConnect with Vanessa at The Biz Bruja:🔮 ⁠https://www.thebizbruja.com/⁠Get tickets for River City Stories: 🎟️ May 16 & 18: ⁠https://zoetropolis.com/movies/river-city-stories/⁠Like what you see? Consider supporting the filmmaker at: ☕️ ⁠https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wallyfilm⁠Subscribe to my newsletter:⌨️ https://wallyfilm.substack.com/welcomeFollow what I'm watching on Letterboxd: 📽️ ⁠https://letterboxd.com/inwidescreen/⁠Learn more about Wally Films:🎬 https://www.wallyfilms.com/

River City Stories collaborator Amandine Pope joins Wally for a screening of Agnès Varda's French New Wave masterpiece Cleo from 5 to 7. Along the way, they talk about the politics and culture of France, the use of psychic mediums in movies, and — of course — mortality.00:03:13 An introduction to Agnès Varda's Cleo from 5 to 700:07:09 Wally's fascination with psychics00:10:52 Amandine's brush with the occult00:15:34 Quantum physics and the outer reaches of what we know00:23:23 Cleo from 5 to 7 as a feminist film00:26:11 The vagaries of language and translation00:31:37 Teaching French to Americans00:37:35 French culture and politics00:49:12 Amandine's favorite French filmsLearn French with Amandine:🇫🇷 https://www.aufrenchcorner.com/Get tickets for River City Stories: 🎟️ May 16 & 18: https://zoetropolis.com/movies/river-city-stories/Like what you see? Consider supporting the filmmaker at: ☕️ https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wallyfilmFollow what I'm watching on Letterboxd: 📽️ https://letterboxd.com/inwidescreen/

Inspired by Lupita Nyong’o’s charmingly complex work in The Wild Robot, Josh and I talk about some of our favorite voice performances of all time. We also reflect on some of our own experiences. Josh played a psychotic pumpkin in the horror anthology flick HeBGBTV and on stage as Karnak in Ride the Cyclone. Wally has, somewhat reluctantly, recorded ADR (or automatic dialogue replacement).00:00:49 River City Stories and switching to a bi-weekly format00:03:09 Josh's role as Karnak in the Ride the Cyclone musical00:06:56 HAL 9000 and 2001: A Space Odyssey00:10:48 Lupita Nyong'o in The Wild Robot00:16:54 Vincent Price in The Great Mouse Detective00:17:47 Robin Williams in Aladdin00:18:55 Mandy Moore's Rapunzel in Tangled (and Wally stumps for her music, too)00:19:48 Eartha Kitt in The Emperor's New Groove00:22:14 Kevin Conroy and Mark Hamill in Batman: The Animated Series00:28:03 Josh Dorsheimer in HeBGB TV and the process of finding a voice00:32:37 ADR or automatic dialogue replacement00:36:12 Scarlett Johansson in Her00:39:42 Levi Stubbs in Little Shop of Horrors (1986)00:43:04 Mercedes McCambridge in The Exorcist00:49:33 Brad Dourif and Jennifer Tilly in the Child's Play (Chucky) movies00:50:58 Howie Mandel, Frank Welker and Michael Winslow in the Gremlins movies00:52:11 Ben Burtt in Wall-E00:54:43 James Earl Jones as Darth Vader in the Star Wars movies00:58:32 Andy Serkis in... everything? (Lord of the Rings, Planet of the Apes, Tintin and more)Get tickets for River City Stories: 🎟️ https://www.westshoretheatre.org/tickets/🎟️ https://zoetropolis.com/movies/river-city-stories/Like what you hear? Check us out on YouTube: ☕️ http://www.youtube.com/@wallyfilmFollow what I'm watching on Letterboxd: 📽️ https://letterboxd.com/inwidescreen/

River City Stories collaborator Paul Hood joins Wally to talk about Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show and the many forms of protest that artists have at their disposal. Along the way, we talk about Iranian cinema, Spike Lee, the Civil Rights Movement, and the underrated gem that is The Last Black Man in San Francisco.00:00:29 Kendrick Lamar and the Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show00:13:01 Why Did Samuel L. Jackson Show Up?00:16:40 Gil Scott-Heron and The Revolution Will Not Be Televised00:25:59 Difficult art and Pablo Picasso’s Guernica00:30:19 The Last Black Man in San Francisco00:42:20 Ava DuVernay’s Selma and Historical Protest00:45:50 Alex Garland’s Civil War00:53:06 Iranian Cinema and The Seed of the Sacred Fig00:57:43 Jafar Panahi and This Is Not a Film01:03:58 Spike Lee’s Protest Cinema: Bamboozled01:05:59 Inside Man: Hiding Protest in Plain Sight01:08:18 The 25th Hour01:08:50 Do the Right Thing01:12:14 Chi-Raq01:13:27 Modern Protest CinemaGet tickets for River City Stories: 🎟️ https://www.westshoretheatre.org/tickets/Like what you see? Consider supporting the filmmaker at: ☕️ https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wallyfilm Follow what I'm watching on Letterboxd: 📽️ https://letterboxd.com/inwidescreen/

"Baby, take a ride on my disco ball!" Filmmaking friend Hal Cramer joins Wally to talk about their adventures in low-budget indie filmmaking — and, yes, a few of their favorite Hollywood movies, too.Some of the films discussed: Disney Pixar's Coco, the BBC TV show Inside No. 9, Documentary Now, David Lynch's The Return, Top Gun: Maverick, Timothee Chalamet and A Complete Unknown (again!), Todd Haynes' I'm Not There and Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story, Christopher Nolan's films (Memento, The Prestige, Interstellar, and Oppenheimer), Kevin Smith, Richard Kelly's films (Donnie Darko and Southland Tales), Paul Thomas Anderson (Licorice Pizza), The Simpsons, John Waters, Francis Ford Coppola, and Nora Ephron.Follow Hal and Josh on YouTube, where you can see some of the films mentioned on this podcast:🎬 https://www.youtube.com/@wallyfilm🎬 https://www.youtube.com/@MrHalcramerfaceLike what you see? Consider supporting the filmmaker at:☕️ https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wallyfilmFollow what I'm watching on Letterboxd:📽️ https://letterboxd.com/inwidescreen/Get tickets for River City Stories:🎟️ https://www.westshoretheatre.org/tickets/

Frequent collaborator Lisa Lutton Weitzman, an actor and educator, joins Wally to talk about the process of preparing for a role. They also discuss a few of their favorite performances, the business of acting, and Willem Dafoe's *ahem* body double. Just a few of the actors, movies, and teachers discussed: Timothée Chalamet in A Complete Unknown; Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable in The Misfits; Yorgos Lanthimos' frequent collaborators: Olivia Colman, Emma Stone, and Rachel Weisz; Meryl Streep; Viola Davis; Glenn Close; Konstantin Stanislavski; Sanford Meisner; Stella Adler; Lee Strasberg; Pamela Anderson and The Last Showgirl; and, of course, Willem Dafoe. Check out Lisa's acting course, Mastering the Monologue: 🎭 https://bit.ly/4guuYdH Like what you see? Consider supporting the filmmaker at: ☕️ https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wallyfilm Follow what I'm watching on Letterboxd: 📽️ https://letterboxd.com/inwidescreen/ Get tickets for River City Stories: 🎟️ https://www.westshoretheatre.org/tickets/

Playwright Paul Hood joins Wally to talk about their favorite biopics — and some famous people who deserve the biopic treatment. Inspired by this year's Oscar-nominated biopics (and biopic-adjacent) A Complete Unknown and The Brutalist, we take a deep dive into the history of the genre. Just a few of the movies discussed: A Complete Unknown, The Brutalist, Malcolm X, Ray, Rocketman, Bohemian Rhapsody, Notorious, What's Love Got to Do With It, Strange Days, The Aviator, The Wolf of Wall Street, What Happened Miss Simone? and Hunger. Get tickets for River City Stories: 🎟️ https://www.westshoretheatre.org/tickets/ Like what you see? Consider supporting the filmmaker at: ☕️ https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wallyfilm Follow what I'm watching on Letterboxd: 📽️ https://letterboxd.com/inwidescreen/

Academy Award nominations will be announced soon, continuing a film tradition that began nearly a century ago. We’ve got traditions of our own: The Wallys, an annual awards show now in its 20th year. Josh and Wally discuss the absurdity of pitting movies against each other and our obsession with awards, all while handing out a few of them ourselves to the best movies of 2024. Featuring guest appearances by Steven Spielberg, Gloria Stuart, and Yasijiro Ozu! 😉 See all of this year’s Wallys, the Snoddys, and previous years: 🔗 http://inwidescreen.blogspot.com/ Like what you see? Consider supporting the filmmaker at: ☕️ https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wallyfilm Follow what I'm watching on Letterboxd: 📽️ https://letterboxd.com/inwidescreen/

Inspired by the cult classic-in-the-making horror movie (or is it?) The Front Room starring Brandy and Kathryn Hunter, Josh and Wally discuss what makes a good horror film. Along the way, they talk about some of the more ambiguously horrific movies of the last century. Just a few of the movies discussed: Black Swan, Freaks, Hocus Pocus, I Saw the TV Glow, In a Violent Nature, The Lighthouse, Midsommar, Notes on a Scandal, Perfect Blue, Requiem for a Dream, Serial Mom, The Shape of Water, Silence of the Lambs, The Substance, Targets, Under the Skin, Zodiac and Martin Scorsese's rarely seen student film The Big Shave.