Grierson & Leitch

We had a time crunch this week, but we hope it's worth it. So! First, we dig into "Gemini Man," which is bad. But then: Good movies! First, "Parasite," which might win some Oscars this year, and then the "Breaking Bad' culmination, "El Camino." Timestamps: 5:18  "Gemini Man" 24:10 "Parasite"" 43:13 "El Camino" Thanks to Dylan Mayer and My Friend Mary, both of which are wonderful, for the music. We hope you enjoy. Let us know what you think @griersonleitch on Twitter, or griersonleitch@gmail.com. As always, give us a review on iTunes with the name of a movie you'd like us to review, and we'll discuss it on a later podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The world can now go back about its business: "Joker" has finally been released. Grierson saw it back in August in Venice; Will just saw it this weekend. Does the distance make a difference? We dig in (very) deep on Todd Phillips' and Joaquin Phoenix's "Joker." Then Grierson solos on Pedro Almodovar's "Pain and Glory" and Noah Hawley's "Lucy in the Sky."  Also, we're doing a mailbag show in two weeks. Email us griersonleitch@gmail.com with any and all questions. Timestamps: 8:50 "Joker" 1:01:06 "Pain and Glory" 1:06:48 "Lucy in the Sky" Thanks to Dylan Mayer and My Friend Mary, both of which are wonderful, for the music. We hope you enjoy. Let us know what you think @griersonleitch on Twitter, or griersonleitch@gmail.com. As always, give us a review on iTunes with the name of a movie you'd like us to review, and we'll discuss it on a later podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There's only one new movie this week, the big Renee Zellweger Oscar play "Judy," about Judy Garland.  But the real fun is in the Reboots, in which we discuss Michael Bay's "Bad Boys 2" and the 2009 Spike Lee joint "Passing Strange."  Also, we're doing a mailbag show in a few weeks. Email us griersonleitch@gmail.com with any and all questions. Timestamps: 12:25 "Judy" 35:46 "Bad Boys 2" 55:20 "Passing Strange" Thanks to Dylan Mayer and My Friend Mary, both of which are wonderful, for the music. We hope you enjoy. Let us know what you think @griersonleitch on Twitter, or griersonleitch@gmail.com. As always, give us a review on iTunes with the name of a movie you'd like us to review, and we'll discuss it on a later podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brad Pitt is not named Ad Astra in "Ad Astra," so stop thinking that. That's not true! His name is Roy. He is dealing with Dad stuff in outer space. We discuss James Gray's new movie, as well as Sylvester Stallone trotting out Rambo one more time in "Rambo: Last Blood." Then, in our Reboot movie, we look at 2007's Pixar film "Ratatouille." How does it hold up?  12:22 "Ad Astra" 36:09 "Rambo: Last Blood" 59:44 "Ratatouille" Thanks to Dylan Mayer and My Friend Mary, both of which are wonderful, for the music. We hope you enjoy. Let us know what you think @griersonleitch on Twitter, or griersonleitch@gmail.com. As always, give us a review on iTunes with the name of a movie you'd like us to review, and we'll discuss it on a later podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Grierson's back! After a two-plus-week absence while traveling to the Venice Film Festival and the Toronto Film Festival, Grierson has returned to us! He gives us the best and worst films from each festival, and then dives right back in with discussions of two movies out this weekend. First, it's the Jennifer Lopez stripper-crime-drama "Hustlers," and then it's the adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "The Goldfinch."  Our reboot isn't messing around either: It's the Federico Fellini classic "8 1/2." Timestamps (approximate): 12:32 "Hustlers" 31:22 "The Goldfinch" 46:19 "8 1/2" Isn't it nice having Grierson back? Thanks again to Bilge Ebiri and Jessica Pressler for hanging with us in his stead. Thanks to Dylan Mayer and My Friend Mary, both of which are wonderful, for the music. We hope you enjoy. Let us know what you think @griersonleitch on Twitter, or griersonleitch@gmail.com. As always, give us a review on iTunes with the name of a movie you'd like us to review, and we'll discuss it on a later p

Hello! Grierson still is not back from the Toronto Film Festival, so our fill-in guest with Will is the great Bilge Ebiri, film critic for Vulture and New York Magazine. He is the best. Together, Will and Bilge discuss the horror sequel/part two "It, Chapter Two," with bigger actors this time. Then, in our Reboot segment, we look at the 1988 Nicolas Cage cult "classic," "Vampire's Kiss." Apologies, by the way: The podcast was recorded in mono for reasons we don't entirely understand. We think it still sounds OK, but just to warn. Timestamps (approximate): 10:50 "It, Chapter Two" 35:39 "Vampire's Kiss" Thanks to Dylan Mayer and My Friend Mary, both of which are wonderful, for the music. We hope you enjoy. Let us know what you think @griersonleitch on Twitter, or griersonleitch@gmail.com. As always, give us a review on iTunes with the name of a movie you'd like us to review, and we'll discuss it on a later podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New concept alert! We proudly introduce "Grierson and Leitch Conversations," in which we sit down with someone OTHER than each other to talk movie stuff, or culture stuff, or sports stuff, or whatever stuff! It'll be fun. We can't just talk to each other FOREVER. We introduce the occasional, sporadic series with Jessica Pressler, a longtime writer for New York Magazine whose 2015 story "The Hustlers at Scores" was adapted into the upcoming film "Hustlers," starring Jennifer Lopez. Jessica talks about the process of the film, working with Adam McKay, whether she's met J-Lo and what it's like to be played by Julia Stiles in the film. (Which she is!) We're excited about this interview, and we hope you are too. Thanks to Dylan Mayer and My Friend Mary, both of which are wonderful, for the music. We hope you enjoy. Let us know what you think @griersonleitch on Twitter, or griersonleitch@gmail.com. As always, give us a review on iTunes with the name of a movie you'd like us to review, and we'll discuss it on a late

Grierson is about to head to Venice and then Toronto for the biggest film festivals of the fall, so we preview both of 'em: There's some good stuff coming out. Then we talk about the Evil 1 Percenter movie "Ready Or Not." And none of that prepares us for the insanity of returning to 1997 and watching Luc Besson's unhinged "The Fifth Element." That movie is nuts. Timestamps (approximate): 9:03 Film Festival Previews 36:15 "Ready Or Not" 52:10 "The Fifth Element" Thanks to Dylan Mayer and My Friend Mary, both of which are wonderful, for the music. We hope you enjoy. Let us know what you think @griersonleitch on Twitter, or griersonleitch@gmail.com. As always, give us a review on iTunes with the name of a movie you'd like us to review, and we'll discuss it on a later podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Richard Linklater having a new movie coming out is usually cause for celebration in Grierson & Leitch land, but "Where'd You Go Bernadette" is a major disappointment. We also discuss "Blinded by the Light," which is about Bruce Springsteen, kind of. Also, in our Reboot, we dig into Joel Schumaker's 1987 teen vampire flick "The Lost Boys." Timestamps (approximate): 9:39 "Where'd You Go Bernadette" 28:04 "Blinded by the Light" 45:16 "The Lost Boys" Thanks to Dylan Mayer and My Friend Mary, both of which are wonderful, for the music. We hope you enjoy. Let us know what you think @griersonleitch on Twitter, or griersonleitch@gmail.com. As always, give us a review on iTunes with the name of a movie you'd like us to review, and we'll discuss it on a later podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Strange week! Hard week. Relax with us with some movie talk. First, it's the odd Women Gangster movie "The Kitchen." Then the Guillermo Del Toro-produced "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark," or, as Grierson puts it, "Tonka's My First Horror Movie." Then it's Reboot time, with Panos Cosmatos' wild 2012 head trip "Beyond the Black Rainbow." Timestamps (approximate): 10:50 "The Kitchen" 30:12 "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark" 44:41 "Beyond the Black Rainbow" Thanks to Dylan Mayer and My Friend Mary, both of which are wonderful, for the music. We hope you enjoy. Let us know what you think @griersonleitch on Twitter, or griersonleitch@gmail.com. As always, give us a review on iTunes with the name of a movie you'd like us to review, and we'll discuss it on a later podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Yep, there's another Fast and the Furious movie. This now makes nine. This one has The Rock and Jason Statham, and it's "Hobbs & Shaw." It's directed by a man named Leitch, but not our co-host. We also have two reboots: The 2013 rom-com (kinda) "About Time," and the 1997 Japanese animation classic "Perfect Blue." 9:3327:3648:44 Timestamps (approximate): 10:33 "Hobbs & Shaw" 29:16 "About Time" 50:44 "Perfect Blue" Thanks to Dylan Mayer and My Friend Mary, both of which are wonderful, for the music. We hope you enjoy. Let us know what you think @griersonleitch on Twitter, or griersonleitch@gmail.com. As always, give us a review on iTunes with the name of a movie you'd like us to review, and we'll discuss it on a later podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Yep, here's our big Tarantino episode. First, we go long on Quentin Tarantino's fascinating "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood." Honestly, we could have talked even longer. Then we, because it's the law, each give our Top 10 Tarantino Movies. They're different, but not as different as we thought. And if that weren't enough ... then, in our Reboot segment, we talk about a little movie called "The Shining." Kubrick! It's, uh, a packed show. Timestamps (approximate): 8:38 "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" 59:11 "The Shining" Thanks to Dylan Mayer and My Friend Mary, both of which are wonderful, for the music. We hope you enjoy. Let us know what you think @griersonleitch on Twitter, or griersonleitch@gmail.com. As always, give us a review on iTunes with the name of a movie you'd like us to review, and we'll discuss it on a later podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It has been a long time since critics were as actively divided about a big movie as they are "The Lion King." We are no different: One of us is down, and one is definitely not. Also, some fun, very different Reboots this week. We look at Rob Reiner's "The Princess Bride" and Michael Haneke's "Cache." As we said: Different. Timestamps: 10:06 "The Lion King" 34:30 "The Princess Bride" 55:25 "Cache" Thanks to Dylan Mayer and My Friend Mary, both of which are wonderful, for the music. We hope you enjoy. Let us know what you think @griersonleitch on Twitter, or griersonleitch@gmail.com. As always, give us a review on iTunes with the name of a movie you'd like us to review, and we'll discuss it on a later podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There was only one new movie we could get Will and Tim to even agree on watching this week: Lulu Wang's heralded "The Farewell." Grierson saw "Stuber," and Leitch saw "Crawl." Eh! Much better business in the Reboot, when we discussed Lee Chang-Dong's "Poetry" from 2012. Timestamps: 7:52 "The Farewell" 27:00 "Stuber" 35:18 "Crawl" 49:10 "Poetry" Thanks to Dylan Mayer and My Friend Mary, both of which are wonderful, for the music. We hope you enjoy. Let us know what you think @griersonleitch on Twitter, or griersonleitch@gmail.com. As always, give us a review on iTunes with the name of a movie you'd like us to review, and we'll discuss it on a later podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hey, hope you had a great Fourth! We've got two really big new movies for you this week. First, it's the next Marvel movie -- and last for a while, maybe? -- with "Spider-Man: Far From Home." Then we look at Ari Aster's, uh, polarizing new horror film "Midsommar." Then, in our Reboot segment, we go back to 2001, and Steven Soderbergh's "Ocean's 11." Timestamps (approximate): 6:45 "Spider-Man: Far From Home" 32:00 "Midsommar" 57:09 "Ocean's 11" Thanks to Dylan Mayer and My Friend Mary, both of which are wonderful, for the music. We hope you enjoy. Let us know what you think @griersonleitch on Twitter, or griersonleitch@gmail.com. As always, give us a review on iTunes with the name of a movie you'd like us to review, and we'll discuss it on a later podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're halfway through 2019! Can you believe that? That's crazy. That means it's time for our annual Best Movies of the First Half of the Year show. We only have one crossover. We also discuss one new movie, the Danny Boyle Beatles fantasy "Yesterday." Our Reboot is another musical movie, Tom Hanks' directorial debut "That Thing You Do!" Timestamps (approximate): 48:41 "Yesterday" 1:09:24 "That Thing You Do!" Thanks to Dylan Mayer and My Friend Mary, both of which are wonderful, for the music. We hope you enjoy. Let us know what you think @griersonleitch on Twitter, or griersonleitch@gmail.com. As always, give us a review on iTunes with the name of a movie you'd like us to review, and we'll discuss it on a later podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's the Pixar movie you've been waiting nine years for, another one that'll make you cry: It's "Toy Story 4." Don't worry: It doesn't kill your childhood. We also look at the new version of the '80s horror "classic" "Child's Play." And then there's a big fun Reboot, John McTiernan's thriller "The Hunt for Red October." Timestamps (approximate): 10:12 "Toy Story 4" 39:00 "Child's Play" 1:00:53 "The Hunt for Red October" Thanks to Dylan Mayer and My Friend Mary, both of which are wonderful, for the music. We hope you enjoy. Let us know what you think @griersonleitch on Twitter, or griersonleitch@gmail.com. As always, give us a review on iTunes with the name of a movie you'd like us to review, and we'll discuss it on a later podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

No Reboot this week, because we've got four spanking new movies for us both to discuss. There's the "Men in Black" branding exercise, Jim Jarmusch's new film "The Dead Don't Die," Martin Scorsese's Netflix documentary (sort of) about Bob Dylan "Rolling Thunder Revue" and ... another Shaft movie. (This has not been the best summer.) Timestamps (approximate): 7:23 "Men In Black: International" 24:28 "The Dead Don't Die" 45:33 "Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story" 1:08:15 "Shaft" Thanks to Dylan Mayer and My Friend Mary, both of which are wonderful, for the music. We hope you enjoy. Let us know what you think @griersonleitch on Twitter, or griersonleitch@gmail.com. As always, give us a review on iTunes with the name of a movie you'd like us to review, and we'll discuss it on a later podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Congratulations, America: You are finally done with the "X-Men" movies. OK, not really, but "Dark Phoenix" is a lackluster end to a once-excellent franchise. We discuss. We also get into Mindy Kaling's "Late Night." (We're split on that one.) Grierson solos on "The Last Black Man in San Francisco," and then, in our Reboot segment, we check out the 2008 pseudo-zombie Canadian thriller "Pontypool." Timestamps (approximate): 8:00 "Dark Phoenix" 23:50 "Late Night" 44:15 "The Last Black Man in San Francisco" 50:00 "Pontypool" Thanks to Dylan Mayer and My Friend Mary, both of which are wonderful, for the music. We hope you enjoy. Let us know what you think @griersonleitch on Twitter, or griersonleitch@gmail.com. As always, give us a review on iTunes with the name of a movie you'd like us to review, and we'll discuss it on a later podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wait, there's another Godzilla movie? There is! It's "Godzilla: King of the Monsters." It's ... another Godzilla movie. Also, there is another movie about a classic rock star. This time Elton John gets the biopic treatment in "Rocketman." We disagree on that one. Also, in our Reboot segment, we have another "Will and Tim soil the favorite movies of your youth" entry, as we talk about 1978's "Animal House." Timestamps (approximate): 9:52 "Godzilla: King of the Monsters" 29:10 "Rocketman" 54:00 "Animal House" Thanks to Dylan Mayer and My Friend Mary, both of which are wonderful, for the music. We hope you enjoy. Let us know what you think @griersonleitch on Twitter, or griersonleitch@gmail.com. As always, give us a review on iTunes with the name of a movie you'd like us to review, and we'll discuss it on a later podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices