Season 1: Episode 10 – Con Men

Season 1: Episode 10 – Con Men

It's "Con Man" Week! Steven Spielberg's Catch Me If You Can goes toe to toe with Ridley Scott’s Matchstick Men. This week Jeff, Nate, and Steve are the marks in a long con. Two cons, actually. Spielberg and Scott both used the early aughts to explore fraud and how a...

Season 1: Episode 9 – War is Hell

Season 1: Episode 9 – War is Hell

It's "War Movies" Week! Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan goes up against Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down. This week Jeff, Nate, and Steve discuss two movies about soldiers engaged in military combat, though at very different times in our country’s history. To...

Season 1: Episode 8 – On the Run

Season 1: Episode 8 – On the Run

It's "On the Run" Week! Steven Spielberg's The Sugarland Express goes up against Ridley Scott's Thelma & Louise. This week Jeff, Nate, and Steve discuss two movies about people on the run. From law enforcement, from last mistakes, from their own lives. Doing...

Season 1: Episode 7 – Spy Vs Spy

Season 1: Episode 7 – Spy Vs Spy

It's Spy sv Spy week! Steven Spielbergs Bridge of Spies goes up against Ridley Scotts Body of Lies. This week Jeff, Nate, and Steve discuss two spy thrillers with vastly different approaches. One more of a cold war, slow-burn thriller. The other, a post-9/11 diatribe...

Season 1: Episode 6 – Cyberpunk Detectives

Season 1: Episode 6 – Cyberpunk Detectives

It's Cyberpunk Detective Week (aka Cyberpunk DICKtective Week)! Two movies this week involving detectives in the future! Steven Spielberg’s Minority Report, based on the short story “The Minority Report by Phillip K. Dick, goes up against Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner,...

Season 1: Episode 5 – Frankenstein Week

Season 1: Episode 5 – Frankenstein Week

It's Frankenstein Week! Neither director has helmed a movie version of that famous novel but they have both tackled the premise at the core of Mary Shelley's masterpiece: playing god. This week Jeff, Nate, and Steve take a look at a tandem of films for both directors...