Modern Cinema: The Movie Podcast

Montage Cinemas Creative Director Jachai Dejesus joins to play the Bad Logline Game, talking horror and thriller films.

We’re joined by actor and Instagram film critic Noah Bennett to talk Tenet, and later (33 minutes in to avoid spoilers) we have The Bad Logline Game and draft our own Movies Where People Save The Day.

5 movies, 5 Bad Loglines, and drafting a heist team.

We’re switching it up. New intro music, and a game that we’ll be doing weekly - the Bad Logline Game.

We’ve been gone for a little bit now, but we’re back with an episode recorded just over a month ago. How much stronger is the second half of the 2000’s than the first? What’s the best movie of the decade? This is the important list.

Inception raises the question; if the movie is purely enjoyable while watching, but doesn’t hold up as well when you analyze it when it’s over, is it really good?

We’ve found it! We’re not breaking new ground by saying The Dark Knight is GREAT, but we’ve found Christopher Nolan’s first good movie post Memento.

We love making lists that don’t matter, but treating them like they’re of the utmost importance. We’re starting by breaking down every half decade of the 2000’s. Enjoy.

Christopher Nolan’s The Prestige is.... not good even if it’s entertaining. Dive in with us.

Grail Moviehouse owners Steve White and Davida Horwitz join Modern Cinema to talk about the last few months as cinema owners. After that, Mason reviews 7500 and Never Rarely Sometimes Always

We remembered this being less corny than it is, and Christopher Nolan seems to continue his trend of asking big questions of his characters just to let them off the hook. Here’s our review of Batman Begins.

It’s been a weird year for movies (among other things...). We rank our favorite films release so far in 2020 followed by a quick review of The Vast of Night.

The last of Christopher Nolan’s crime films, Insomnia boasts some of the decades best performances from Al Pacino and Robin Williams. As with most Nolan films, he asks big, interesting questions of his protagonists and then lets them off the hook.

How do we keep up with the newest releases if we aren’t actively searching for them? Modern Cinema has you covered. Today we talk Shirley, Tommaso, and You Should Have Left.

In our second director series, we deep dive the works of Christopher Nolan - the ultimate narcissistic filmmaker. In this episode we discuss what may be his best film, MEMENTO

As a final goodbye to Spike Lee on Modern Cinema, we ranked each film we discussed and took one last look at the career of Spike Lee. Our next director series will focus on the works of Christopher Nolan.

Mason and Kyle review Spike Lee’s new film and award Delroy Lindo the best actor Oscar 10 months to early on this episode of Montalk on Modern Cinema.

Gaffer and Chief Lighting Technician Kiva Knight joins the podcast to discuss the current and future impacts of COVID-19 on film sets, cinema in the streaming age, and his work on some of the last decade’s best films (Moonlight, If Beale Street Could Talk, etc.)

BlackKlansman is not Spike Lee’s best film, but it’s his best film. Mason and Kyle dive deep and go full on movie nerd about this surreal, meta commentary of a film that feels more relevant today than ever.

Inside Man, Spike Lee’s 2006 heist/thriller Spike’s most financially successful film to date. While it gives us more to dissect than the average popcorn film, and is a great example of what happens when an auteur dives into genre, we’re left with a little bit to be desired.