Episodes
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Movie Victory! "Lost Episode!" #1 ~ Anomalisa
David & Huey chat about the bizarrely tender yet ultimately never uplifting Charlie Kaufman's (2015) masterwork Anomalisa, then decide to have their chat read to them by a professional.
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Movie Victory! Ep. 711.1 ~ The Menu
Huey.jpeg is rearranging furniture in his longlost bedroom when David Victory calls to try to talk about the shitshow that is The Menu (2022) by Mark Mylod, whoever that is, and they discuss that rich people can only ever make bad art if it tries to critique the rich while having too big a…
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Movie Victory! Ep. 711 ~ Malcolm & Marie
David Victory's wife is going into labor! & Huey.jpeg is very busy trying to pick the right music for the episode, meanwhile, Malcolm & Marie (2021) by Sam Levinson starring the indefagitable Zendaya & Denzel's son John David Washington is maybe a little too perfect?
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Movie Victory! Ep. 709.2 ~ Doctor Sleep
Huey hasn't slept in days & interrupts David's podcast about sleep therapy, the how when & why people sleep, how too much sleep is tied to depression, & eventually get around to talking about Stephan King's Doctor Sleep: The Movie! about ten minutes in, & end up discussing parasitism, addict...
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Movie Victory! Ep. 709.1 ~ The Shining
David & Huey sit a little too long with The Shining, which Huey didn't watch & instead watched the documentary Room 237, & along the way discuss its analogy of alcoholism, its many possible interpretations for the atrocities of man throughout history, the latent homosexuality of Jack Torrance…
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Movie Victory! Ep. 708 ~ La Piscine (The Swimmers Pool)
Lawry visits David & Huey's very special guest as himself, & they all watched different versions of Jacques Deray's The Swimmer's Pool (aka La Pissscene) ((1969)) with its inherent eroticism of water; Lawry, our water-expert chimes-in with his three-cents about what water "really" ""is."" How Wes...
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Movie Victory! Ep. 800 ~ Hedgehog in the Fog
David is generally perplexed by one of Huey's all-time favorites, Yuri Norstein's Hedgehog in the Fog (1975) a classic Russian fable, beautifully adapted into a classic of experimental animation techniques. The problem of presence, of memory & prediction; the fog representing the pataphysics of…
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Movie Victory! Ep. 701.2 ~ Eyes Wide Shut 2: EYES SHUT WIDER.
David plans to do a follow-up solo-commentary to Eyes Wide Shut but Huey shows up unannounced & very high, so they watch Eyes Wide Shut, Live! for this Very Special Christmas episode of Movie Victory! Cue it up at 2:47 if you want to watch along!
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Movie Victory! Ep. 707 ~ King Vidor's Street Scene
David & Huey watch King Vidor's Street Scene (1931) & talk about "hot summer day" movies; the American experiment of 'let's have people from all around the word live in the same place & see if they get along!' Then David & Huey have a séance to summon King Vidor's ghost using Huey as a vessel....
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Movie Victory! Ep. 706 ~ A Streetcar Named Desire
The biological clock is ticking! As David & Huey fawn & fury over Elia Kazan's A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) with its firm hold on the nature of attraction & the law of attraction. Attraction, repulsion? Sun Gods & Moon Gods & Saturn Gods? What days are what "Gods"? Hurt people hurt people?...
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Movie Victory! Ep. 704 ~ King Vidor's Truth & Illusion: An Introduction to Metaphysics
As a non-sequitur prelude to their overwhelming undertaking of enduring both versions of Scenes from a Marriage, David & Huey overtake King Vidor's Intro to Metaphysics: Truth & Illusion (1964) & they take the frequency illusion to its exponent. Targeted Ads & their Infinite Jest from Netflix to...
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Movie Victory! Ep. 703 ~ Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Who's Afraid of David Victory & Huey J. Peg? Not Virginia Woolf! This fuckin' movie... (1966) with its insufferable characters & which one is the worst among them? Passive aggression & spitefulness getting under your skin as a viewer? Yeah, that's Virginia Woolf. Is Season 7 where Movie Victory!...
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Movie Victory! Ep. 702 ~ Certified Copy
Well, Hells Bells! Looks like David Victory & Huey J. Peg are on a mission to find a reason for the season by finding out how to ignore your family via VR artifice :) The multilayered magic-trick of balancing complex ambiguities that Kiarostami plays with so well in Certified Copy (2010) ((& all…
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Movie Victory! Ep. 701.1 ~ EYES WiDE SHUT
David & Huey excitedly parse through the particularities of Kubrick's final film (1999), including how multiple rewatches of a film allow a viewer to give their attention to different facets of the frame & background details, the fugue-like structure of the film, some photography talk about how…
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Movie Victory! Ep. 705.4 ~ Scenes from a Marriage, Episodes 4, 5 & 6
David & Huey, exhausted & delirious, finish both series of Scenes from a Marriage (1973 & 2021) while David deals with an audio delay as Huey eats on an airplane via videochat, visual humor in podcasts, the importance of living with illiteracy in society, aural & oral tradition, the ever evolving...
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Movie Victory! Ep. 705.3 ~ Scenes From a Marriage, Episodes 3 & 4
David & Huey power through the next episodes of the original & the HBO version of Scenes from a Marriage (1973 & 2021), talk at length about the audio-only credit sequences, wonder aloud "How do blind people read or hear movie credits?" As well as topics that range from being friends with exes…
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Movie Victory! Sidecast ~ What Time Do You Write?
While comparing Hagai Levi's & Ingmar Bergman's Scenes From A Marriage Series's, David & Huey go on a long diversion to talk about different writing styles, morning writers & night writers, certain famous writers' processes, routines & rotations, getting the gunk out, the importance of starting...
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Movie Victory! Ep. 705.2 ~ Scenes From a Marriage, Episodes 2 & 3
David & Huey deconstruct how they feel about episodes 2 & 3 of both the reboot & the original Scenes from a Marriage (1973 & 2021), as well as America's inevitable class war, Huey's experiences at Occupy Wall Street, the psychological density of Ingmar Bergman's dialog, the reasons why episode 2…
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Movie Victory! Ep. 705.1 ~ Scenes From a Marriage, Episodes 1 & 1
David & Huey compare & contrast the original & the remake of Scenes from a Marriage in tandem & along the way a wide-range of topics come-up, including but not limited to: State flags with bears on them, how to correctly interact with insects, bad plumbing in old houses, how gender roles have...
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Movie Victory! Sidecast: Video Rental Store Stories
David & Huey wax nostalgic about their childhood experiences at video rental stores. Topics that come-up include planned obsolescence, human ineptitude & human selfishness, late fees, schoolbus politics, the unparalleled glory of the quiet of the library, smoking cigarettes & clove cigarettes…
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Movie Victory! Ep. 610 ~ Bell, Book & Candle
Using Bell, Book & Candle (1958) as a jump-off point, David & Huey talk about witchcraft, the atom bomb, the seeming reasonableness of the tenets of Satanism, David's inherent prejudice of ageism, how age gaps in relationships can reflect differentials of maturity between genders, how people…
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Movie Victory! Ep. 609 ~ Vertigo
David & Huey take turns trying to explain the inexplicable plot of Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958), its nervous dream logic, the age disparity of the characters, seeing dark Jimmy Stewart from a feminine perspective, obsession & desperation, the weight of losing a loved one (even if they're…
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Movie Victory! Ep. 608 ~ La Jetée
David & Huey go back in time with Chris Marker's La Jetée (1962) to discuss the nuances of translation, the annoyance of predestination, the paradoxes of nonlinear time, the mysteries of consciousness, first impressions & second guessing, the importance of learning from being wrong, the evolving...
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Movie Victory! Ep. 607 ~ Animal Crackers
David & Huey explain the jokes of the Marx Brothers' Animal Crackers (1930), talk about how difficult it is to talk about comedy, vaudeville & early Hollywood, which Marx Brother is their favorite, Huey reveals his middlename... & the show has it's first ever call-in listener give her two cents.
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Movie Victory! Ep. 606 ~ Mon Oncle
David & Huey watch Jacques Tati's Mon Oncle (1958) & talk about comedy, silence, technology, stray dogs, Where's Waldo, films with minimal dialogue, concept versus execution, & the freedom of attention that a Tati movie allows the viewer.
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Movie Victory! Ep. 605 ~ Sunrise: A Song Of Two Humans
David & Huey watch the so-called "silent" film Sunrise (1927) & go over a range of topics including Hollywood's bad habit of giving European directors 'creative control', then editing their work &\or the film becoming a flop. The difference between silent movie acting & everything after it; the...
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Movie Victory! Ep. 604 ~ To Sleep With Anger
David & Huey find the devil in the details of Charles Burnett's novelistic To Sleep With Anger (1990), the depth of its characters & the density of narrative it consistently delivers. A true Movie Victory!
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Movie Victory! Ep. 603 ~ The Dead
For Bloomsday, David & Huey read between the lines of John Huston's adaptation of James Joyce's The Dead (1987), & discuss how being too technical can sacrifice passion, or put another way, how being too formal can lack spirit. The importance of open communication as the foundation of any healthy...
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Movie Victory! Ep. 602 ~ The Swimmer
David & Huey, & special guest Lawry, wade through the psychological tragedy of The Swimmer (1968), offering various readings of both the movie & the short story it's based on. They wonder aloud what the genesis of strange story ideas might've been, why a phrase like "sugar on your strawberries"…
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Movie Victory! Ep. 601 ~ Paris, Texas
David & Huey express differing but nonetheless admiring views of Paris, Texas (1984) & all there is to unpack within the film. How good writing & natural dialogue are often is a result of knowing your characters well before you even start writing. Assuming the audience is smarter than the...
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Movie Victory! Sidecast ~ The Seasons
David calls Huey, who has been missing for sometime & turned up at a hospital. David expresses concern for Huey's drug use. Huey expresses his totally reasonable dislike of pants, blacking out & being told all the shit you did when you wakeup the next day, then eventually getting around to…
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Movie Victory! Ep. 510 ~ Viridiana
David & Huey mostly agree about Buñuel's Viridiana (1961) having a bad attitude. The fairly new taboo of NOT marrying your cousin. The diversity of personalities in homeless communities. Why rape & murder are so common in storytelling throughout history, from the Greeks to the Bible, to…
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Movie Victory! Ep. 509 ~ Werckmeister Harmonies
David & Huey have a difficult time interpreting Werckmeister Harmonies (2000), naked old men, slow-cinema, stream-of-consciousness literature, the metaphor of an eclipse, the correlation between fear & ignorance, how fear & anger are political tools used to control whole populations, the…
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Movie Victory! Ep. 508 ~ Fritz Lang's M
David & Huey try to figure out how they feel about Fritz Lang's M (1931), how modern society continues to not even try to rehabilitate the mentally ill who commit serious crimes, the cycles of abuse inherent in most serial killers' childhoods, the semi-unrelated & mostly avoided topic of how...
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Movie Victory! Ep. 507 ~ Tokyo Story
David & Huey, knowing very little about Japanese culture, parse out the subtleties of Tokyo Story (1953), their own families' dynamics, conflicting feelings about aging, some views on subtitles & translation, conversations with former coworkers, dealing with high school principles, learning from...
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Movie Victory! Ep. 506 ~ After the Storm
David & Huey get to know each other a little better during their talk about After the Storm (2016), including but not limited to: their travel experiences, fatherhood in contrast to the bachelors' life, balancing ones ambitions with being practical, their lingering feelings about having parents...
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Movie Victory! Ep. 504 ~ Rashomon
David & Huey offer different perspectives on Rashomon (1950), the importance of trying new things, gradually expanding ones tastes as an important lifelong habit, the topics of truth & trust, the misinformation age & controlled narratives, propaganda & the importance of what you give your…
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Movie Victory! Ep. 503 ~ Wild Grass
Huey breaks into David's house & during a very tense April Fools Joke they discuss the film Wild Grass (2009), its absurdist view of decision-making, chance & consequence, the difference between meaning & value, memory & hypothetical-thinking, mania & melancholy, as well as their personal TV...
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Movie Victory! Ep. 502 ~ Microbe & Gasoline
David & Huey use the film Microbe & Gasoline (2015) as a jump-off point to discuss their own childhoods, difficult teen years, bullying, popularity, Huey's recent experience with ayahuasca, & why you should never try to start a conversation with someone who is quietly reading in public. I'm…
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Movie Victory! Ep. 501 ~ Chungking Express
David & Huey switch gears to review Chungking Express (1994), its narrative & stylistic experimentation, its use of motion-blur & time-lapse via signature step-printing, slow-motion & high-contrast photography, its nod to John Cusack being a loser, the safety issues surrounding coprophagia,...
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Movie Victory! Ep. 405 ~ Days of Heaven
David & Huey parse out the subtleties of Days of Heaven (1978), the rickety trajectory of Terrence Malick's filmography, his love of nature, use of natural lighting, sense of the seasons, & as always, somehow finding a way to talk about peanut butter.
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Movie Victory! Sidecast ~ Movie Theater Experiences
On this special side-episode of Movie Victory!, David & Huey cover a wide range of topics under the umbrella of Movie Theater Experiences, including but not limited to: kissing babies, pet ownership & kitten politics, atypical dates & the nuances of modern dating apps, midnight movies, concession...
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Movie Victory! Ep. 404 ~ The Passenger
David & Huey muse over the intricacies of Michelangelo Antonionionioni's The Passenger (1975), what the film may or may not be suggesting about identity & careerism, continuity & ambiguity, noir tropes & neo-noir, cinematic subversions, why some movies that can only be understood after multiple...
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Movie Victory! Ep. 403 ~ McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Dave & Hue talk about a film they love, McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971), the strange career of Robert Altman, Vietnamese food, overlapping dialog, different kinds of bread, & the wild wild west.
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Movie Victory! Ep. 402 ~ Only Lovers Left Alive
For Valentines Day, Davey & Hugo hash-out their feelings about Only Lovers Left Alive (2013), its unique take on intimacy, romance, addiction, modern vampires, tongue-in-cheek historical references, & the importance of nut butter. Product Disclaimer: This episode may contain traces of tree nuts....
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Movie Victory! Ep. 401 ~ The Lost Weekend
David & Hugo talk less about the movie The Lost Weekend (1945) than they do about their own struggles with & advice about alcoholism. The topic of how we consume, both media & substances, is a recurring theme. Nothing is resolved. And that's okay.
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Movie Victory! Ep. 305 ~ Wings of Desire
David & Hugo discuss the fact that David only watched the movie Wings of Desire (1987) in 5 minute intervals, which precluded his ability to be swept-up by the film. Hugo interruptedly tries to explain the sequel to Wings of Desire. David frantically tries to justify his inability to watch a…
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Movie Victory! Ep. 304 ~ The Seventh Seal
David & Hugo go through their differing interpretations of Bergman's The Seventh Seal (1957), covering a wide range of topics including the legality of squatting, general audiences' views on subtitles, mythology & astrology, superstition & the supernatural, patience & presence. Not a bad episode,...
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Movie Victory! Ep. 303 ~ Pixar's Soul
David & Huey (who now goes by Hugo) dissect Pixar's Soul (2020), slaloming through topics as vast as the nature of the self, different views of the possibility of an afterlife, Tina Fey doing blackface, whether its okay to stay in touch with former students, & David repeatedly trying to rewrite…
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Movie Victory! Ep. 302 ~ Citizen Kane
David & Huey discuss the "classic" film Citizen Kane (1941), the difference between influence & reference, the life & work of Orson Welles, pancakes & various types of milk, all while David's cats ruin the episode by constantly brushing up against his microphone. Skip this episode! Not worth your...