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The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm Podcast

Corbin Smith and Matt Ellis
The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm Podcast
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  • The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm Podcast

    "Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse" (2018, Dirs: Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman)

    13/03/2026 | 1h 34 mins.
    Did you know that one time Jean-Luc Godard got absolutely railed out on cocaine and made a Spider-Man Movie? We talk about it!
    Check out the show on Letterboxd if you're into that thing. Matt is also on there. And we got a Bluesky going.
    Next episode is about "Lessons of Darkness," watch it here.
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    "J'Accuse!" (1919, Dir: Abel Gance)

    06/03/2026 | 1h 40 mins.
    Corbin and Matt talk about "J'accuse!" a nearly-three hour long French silent film epic about the horrors of World War One and the generational mental breakdown it created. Watch it here.
    Check out the show on Letterboxd if you're into that thing. Matt is also on there. And got a Bluesky going.
    Next episode is about "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse." It's on Disney+.
  • The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm Podcast

    "Weapons" (2025, Dir: Zach Cregger) w/ Madeline Lane-McKinley

    25/02/2026 | 2h 5 mins.
    Oh hey! Sorry for the delay, Matt was really busy for a few weeks so we had to take a break. But, hey: we've back, talking with Madeline Lane-McKinley, the author of Solidarity with Children: an Essay Against Adult Sumpremacy, to discuss Weapons, Zach Cregger's horror comedy/suburban Brothers Grimm tale. Topics include, the person of the witch in contempary society, suburban living and the fortress mindset, how cruddy the cops in this movie are, the question of how we are supposed to process Gladys, and Julia Garner's incredible Madonna hair. 
    Madeline's book is available here at a fabulous price. Follow them here!
    Check out the show on Letterboxd if you're into that thing. Matt is also on there. And got a Bluesky going.
    Our next episode will be about BENNY'S VIDEO, check it out here if you can handle MH's hard truths.
  • The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm Podcast

    "RAN" (1985, Dir: Akira Kurosawa)

    23/01/2026 | 1h 36 mins.
    The master is here folks and this time he wields the themes and some of the particulars of WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S great work KING LEAR in service of a hypnotic nightmare about the horrors of war. It whips! We talk about that, about Kurosawa as a supremely 'Cinematic' figure trying on a 'Theatatrical' think in this movie, Lear as an eternal political fable, some of the hot shit sequences in here, and other stuff. 
    this is a weird way to deal with this bit theres a lot of interesting academic writing about RAN out there, in shakespeare journals and filmic ones. peek around if you wanna learn something. 
    Check out the show on Letterboxd if you're into that thing. Matt is also on there. We also got a Bluesky going.
    Matt's rec is in theaters. Corbin's rec is mega off the done. We dont know what the next episode is, for reasons that would take too long to explin here. Thanks!
  • The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm Podcast

    'The Secret Agent' (2025, Dir: Kleber Mendonça Filho) w/ Ryder C.

    16/01/2026 | 1h 52 mins.
    Ryder C. joins Matt and Corbs to discuss "The Secret Agent," a drama film that uses the rythyms of historical research to tell a story about a man getting suqeezed by the military dictatorship in 1970's Brazil. It's a cool movie, scope it out. 
    Matt rec. Ryder's rec sounds cool but is hard to find on streaming. Perhaps you can take a journey and find it. Corbin reccomends a movie currently in theaters. 
    Check out the show on Letterboxd if you're into that thing. Matt is also on there. We also got a Bluesky going.
    Our next episode is about RAN. Watch it here.

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About The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm Podcast

A Podcast about movies from the fine folks at the Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation, with Corbin Smith (The Famous Writer) and Dr. Movies, Matt Ellis (A Professor of Movies)
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