Three former cinema studies students navigate working in the industry, continuing their cinematic education, and bickering with one another about the movies. Po...
Black Cinema Month stays contemporary with Mick's pick as the gang discusses Ava DuVernay's biopic essay feature Origin. Other topics include Zack's feelings on all of the 2025 Best Picture Nominees, Mick's tirade against Emilia Pérez, and Alexis's literal shitstorm that postponed the recording.LA Wildfire Donation ResourcesCalifornia Fire FoundationLos Angeles Regional Food BankLos Angeles Fire Department FoundationAltadena Girls Fire RecoveryProject Angel FoodWorld Central KitchenCalifornia Community FoundationPalisades Flowers GoFundMe (Zack and Coworkers)
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Mission: Mondays - Mission: Impossible II (2000)
The Film Majors, along with acting director Elisabeth, return to face an impossible mission: discussing every film in their beloved Mission: Impossible franchise until the release ofMission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning. Here, the team faces/off with perhaps the most contentious film in the series: John Woo's insane and operatic Mission: Impossible II.LA Wildfire Donation ResourcesCalifornia Fire FoundationLos Angeles Regional Food BankLos Angeles Fire Department FoundationAltadena Girls Fire RecoveryProject Angel FoodWorld Central KitchenCalifornia Community FoundationPalisades Flowers GoFundMe (Zack and Coworkers)
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Sorry to Bother You
February is here and with it is Black Cinema Month on The Film Majors Podcast! The gang returns to talk Alexis's emotional experience with the new animated children's filmDog Man, Zack's maddening experience with the 2024 Robert Zemeckis nightmareHere, and Boots Riley's magical realist anti-capitalist screedSorry to Bother You.LA Wildfire Donation ResourcesPalisades Flowers GoFundMe (Zack and Coworkers)California Fire FoundationLos Angeles Regional Food BankLos Angeles Fire Department FoundationAltadena Girls Fire RecoveryProject Angel FoodWorld Central KitchenCalifornia Community Foundation
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1:34:07
The Substance
The balance must be respected as 2024 in Review comes to a bombastic conclusion. The gang discusses the 2025 Academy Award nominees, Alexis's viewing experience of Sing Sing, what constitutes an effective cinematic reference, and Coralie Fargeat's bombastic body horror box office smash The Substance.
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Nosferatu (2024)
Tis a black omen not to listen to a new episode of The Film Majors: 2024 in Review! The gang is back to talk the passing of the great David Lynch, what they like in a vampire movie, and Robert Eggers' latest gothic horror feature Nosferatu (2024).
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Three former cinema studies students navigate working in the industry, continuing their cinematic education, and bickering with one another about the movies. Popcorn is their ammunition, the couch is their foxhole, and the cinema is their place of worship. Welcome to the party, pal.