How many films will we be able to agree on this time? Listen in as Arthur, Chris, Sol, and Tom reveal their top 10 films of 2024. Spoiler: As usual, even our number 1s are not safe from criticism, though we did have a few surprising overlaps and agreements.And while we may not see eye to eye on everything, we do seem to all have one thing in common: the belief that 2024 was a pretty amazing year for cinema.
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Top 50 Films of the 2020s (So Far)
The ICMForum community has voted on the best films of the 2020s (so far). Join us as we present and react to their (our) choices, with a surprising number of disagreements!In this episode, we go through the top 50. Feel free to explore the complete list of ICMForum's Top 250 of the 2020s.You can also see the list on IMDb and iCheckMovies.
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Evolving Tastes: Do We All Become Film Snobs as We Get Older?
Do you love exactly the same films for exactly the same reasons as you did 10-20-30+ years ago?In this episode, we try to figure out how and why taste changes, and explore how different our preferences are from when we first got into cinema.We will also ponder the very serious possibility that cinema acts as a literal drug, where the more exposed we are, the stronger a fix we need.Could it be that we are all on the same path to more and more extreme tastes, be it experimental cinema or the goriest horrors we can find?Listen in and find out.
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Should Everyone Be Forced to Rewatch Showgirls?
Showgirls went from being considered one of the worst films of all time to one of the best in less than 30 years.How does a film go from winning both Worst Picture and Worst Picture of the Decade at the Razzies to being in They Shoot Pictures Don't They's Top 1000?Was everyone who saw it then just "wrong"? Did they come in with the wrong expectations? Or: Was Showgirls just too ahead of its time? In this episode, Sol and Arthur tackle these and more questions while complaining, over and over again, how none of the original haters wanted to rewatch the film and join the podcast.Should everyone just bite the bullet and see Showgirls again?
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Quentin Dupieux: The Prince of Weird
He made the B-movie about a rubber tyre killing people with its psychic powers. He had superheroes give monsters cancer and stoners raise a dog-sized fly. Quentin Dupieux is weird. He's surreal. And ... kinda trashy and lowbrow when he wants. In this episode, we turn everything on its head, starting with his most recent film (that we have all seen - Daaaaaalí! - and working our way back to his very first mini-feature Nonfilm - as we try to figure out what makes him tick and how we could explain his films at a dinner party.Timestamps:Intro: 00:00:00Dinner Party Pitch - 00:03:00Daaaaaalí! - 00:12:14Yannick - 00:22:08Smoking Causes Coughing - 00:34:07Incredible but True - 00:39:38Mandibules - 00:45:00Deerskin - 00:51:17Keep an Eye Out - 00:56:32Reality - 00:59:23Wrong Cops - 01:04:33Wrong - 01:09:19Rubber - 01:11:46Steak - 01:19:43Nonfilm - 01:23:17
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