Jason and the Movienauts

By Jason Sacks

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Episodes: 236

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Jason and his friends talk about old and new movies

Episode Date
Spider-Man: Brand New Day: Peanut Butter and Teriyaki Sauce
Aug 21, 2026
The Great Douglas Sirk: There's Always Tomorrow and All That Heaven Allows
Aug 11, 2026
Shohei Imamura-cast: The Sublime Pigs and Battleships and Intentions of Murder
Aug 04, 2026
John Carpeter-cast: Big Trouble in Little China and Memoirs of an Invisible Man
Jul 27, 2026
Shōhei Imamura-cast: Women at Drift Through Japanese History
Jul 13, 2026
Douglas Sirk: the Melodrama Before the Melodrama
Jul 06, 2026
John Carpenter Goes Commercial: Christine and Starman
Jun 29, 2026
Alan Rudolph's Historical Dramas: Mrs Parker and The Moderns
Jun 22, 2026
Douglas Sirk: the Noirs
Jun 15, 2026
'Backrooms' and the surprisingly great state of movies these days
Jun 08, 2026
Carlos Didn't Love Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
Jun 01, 2026
John Carpenter's The Thing: How Could the Critics Be So Wrong in 1982?
May 26, 2026
Ranking Billy Wilder's Films!
May 18, 2026
The Great Ozu: Green Tea and What Did the Lady Forget?
May 11, 2026
Billy Wilder-cast: The Apartment
May 04, 2026
Two Amazing Japanese Noirs: Black Test Car and Giants and Toys
Apr 27, 2026
John Carpenter's Escape from New York and Escape from L.A.
Apr 20, 2026
Billy Wilder: The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes and Avanti!
Apr 13, 2026
Jason and Paul Talk "THX-1138" and "Silent Running"
Mar 30, 2026
Jason and Eric Talk "The Man Who Knew Too Much" (1934) and Other Classic Hitchcock
Mar 23, 2026
John Carpenter's TV Movies Are His Proving Ground for Halloween
Mar 16, 2026
Japanese Crime Drama: Vengeance is Mine and A Fugitive from the Past
Mar 09, 2026
Billy Wilder: the Matthau and Lemmon Films
Mar 02, 2026
Shōhei Imamura: The Eel and The Pornographers
Feb 23, 2026
John Carpenter's Halloween and The Fog
Feb 16, 2026
John Carpenter-cast: Dark Star and Assault on Precinct 13
Feb 02, 2026
Billy Wildercast: Major & Minor Films...
Jan 26, 2026
The Smart, Intense Films of Peter Watkins
Jan 19, 2026
Jason's Top 10 of 2026!
Jan 12, 2026
Jason and Eric Talk Jacques Tati Movies
Jan 05, 2026
Billy Wilder-cast: Ace in the Hole and Witness for the Prosecution
Dec 22, 2025
Diving deep into Shōhei Imamura's Profound Desires of the Gods
Dec 15, 2025
Two Versions of the Same Story: The Different Approaches to The Ballad of Narayama
Dec 08, 2025
Saving the Best for Last? Alien: Romulus and Predator: Badlands
Nov 30, 2025
Billy Wilder at His Wackiest: Irma La Douce and Kill Me, Stupid!
Nov 24, 2025
Jason and Paul Talk "Rollerball" and "Logan's Run"
Nov 17, 2025
Jason and Eric Talk "The Crazies" and "No Blade of Grass"
Nov 10, 2025
Billy Wilder: The Great (Stalag 17) and the Obscure But Great (One, Two, Three)
Nov 03, 2025
Is Alien: Earth A Classic or a Failure?
Oct 27, 2025
Orcas Island Film Festival Wrapup!
Oct 20, 2025
The Mysterious Robert Altman Female Dramas: 3 Women, Images and That Cold Day in the Park
Oct 13, 2025
Billy Wilder: the Marilyn Monroe Films
Oct 06, 2025
Are AvP and AvP Requiem really as bad as people say they are?
Sep 29, 2025
Purple Rose of Cairo and Zelig
Sep 22, 2025
Billy Wilder-cast: The Audrey Hepburn films
Sep 15, 2025
Kinoshita - cast: Twenty Four Eyes and The River Fuefuki
Sep 08, 2025
Predator: Prey and Killer of Killers
Sep 01, 2025
Billy Wilder-cast: Double Indemnity and The Lost Weekend
Aug 25, 2025
Wrapping up our watch of every Masahiro Shinoda film
Aug 18, 2025
Predators and The Predator: Are they actually pretty decent?
Aug 11, 2025
Irma Vep, Personal Shopper, Summer Hours and More Great Olivier Assayas films
Jul 28, 2025
The best and worst of 90s action films: Predator and Predator 2
Jul 21, 2025
Jason and Paul Talk "The Parallax View" and "All the President's Men"
Jul 14, 2025
Billy Wilder: The Brilliant (Sunset Boulevard) and the Flawed (Fedora)
Jun 30, 2025
Shinoda-cast: Spy Sorge and Moonlight Serenade
Jun 23, 2025
The Great Alien Rewatch: How Good is Prometheus? Is Alien Covenant A Good Movie?
Jun 16, 2025
Paul Schrader Directed Movies Rated: His Top 11
Jun 09, 2025
Rating Every Film Directed by Paul Schrader, Part One
Jun 02, 2025
Aliens3 and Aliens Resurrection: How Good Are They, Actually?
May 27, 2025
Billy Wilder Part 2: Five Graves to Cairo and A Foreign Affair
May 19, 2025
Alien and Aliens: Greatest Ever Sci Fi Films
May 05, 2025
Teshigahara Again: His Late Films
Apr 28, 2025
The Great Billy Wilder! Part One: Collaborations
Apr 21, 2025
Teshigahara's Brilliant Short Films
Mar 31, 2025
Powell & Pressburger Rated! Plus A Matter of Life and Death and Thief of Bagdad
Mar 24, 2025
Lost Highway and Natural Born Killers: The Movies Which Examine OJ
Mar 17, 2025
Twin Peaks the Return: Finale
Mar 10, 2025
Twin Peaks the Return Episodes 13, 14 and 15
Mar 03, 2025
Schradercast: Master Gardener and The Card Counter
Feb 24, 2025
Shinoda-cast: Island of the Evil Spirits and Captive's Island
Feb 17, 2025
'Wolfs' Gives Carlos Hope He Can Love Movies Again
Feb 10, 2025
Powell Without Pressburger: Peeping Tom and Age of Consent
Feb 03, 2025
Powell & Pressburger: The Red Shoes, The Tales of Hoffmann and Bluebeard's Ghost
Jan 27, 2025
RIP David Lynch: Twin Peaks the Return Episode 10, 11 and 12
Jan 20, 2025
Emergency Podcast: A Complete Unknown and I Walk the Line
Jan 13, 2025
Existential Japanese Police: A Man Vanishes and the Man without a Map
Jan 06, 2025
Powell & Pressburger: 49th Parallel, Col. Blimp and The Small Back Room
Dec 23, 2024
Twin Peaks the Return Episodes 7, 8 and 9
Dec 16, 2024
Schradercast: Dog Eat Dog and First Reformed
Dec 09, 2024
Teshigahara: The Face of Another and Ako
Dec 02, 2024
Lynchcast: Twin Peaks the Return Episodes 4, 5 and 6
Nov 25, 2024
Lynchcast: Twin Peaks the Return Episodes 1, 2 and 3
Nov 11, 2024
Teshigahara-cast: Pitfall and Woman in the Dunes
Nov 04, 2024
Powell and Pressburger Knew Where They Were Going!
Oct 28, 2024
A long, smart discussion of "The Shining"
Oct 21, 2024
Our Criterion 40 Box Set
Aug 26, 2024
Paul Schrader Gets Weird in a New Way...
Aug 12, 2024
Shinoda-cast Continues with a Lot of Love
Aug 06, 2024
Shinoda-cast: Tokyo Olympics and Sapporo Olympics
Jul 29, 2024
Wait, they directed that?! David Lynch's The Straight Story and David Cronenberg's Fast Company
Jul 22, 2024
Schrader-cast: Adam Interrupted and The Canyons
Jun 03, 2024
The Valiant Comics Cinematic Universe That Never Was
May 27, 2024
The Brilliant, Mysterious Films of Ari Aster
May 13, 2024
Lynchcast: Mulholland Drive
May 06, 2024
Lynchcast: Inland Empire
Apr 29, 2024
Shinoda-cast: Our Marriage, Gonza the Spearman & The Petrified Forest
Apr 22, 2024
Schradercast: Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcist and The Walker
Apr 15, 2024
Two Great Killers: Le Samouraï (1967) and The Killer (2023)
Apr 08, 2024
Is The Fablemans the Best Movie from Steven Spielberg?
Mar 11, 2024
Lynchcast: Lost Highway and Wild At Heart
Feb 12, 2024
Shinoda-cast: MacArthur's Children and Takeshi: Childhood Days
Jan 29, 2024
SchraderCast is Back! Time to look at Forever Mine and Auto Focus
Jan 22, 2024
The Ultra-Modern, Ultra-'60s Films of Seijun Suzuki
Dec 04, 2023
The Vastly Underrated George Roy Hill
Nov 13, 2023
Is Fellini's 8½ One of the Greatest Films of All Time?
Nov 06, 2023
Lynchcast Continues! With Twin Peaks
Oct 30, 2023
Schrader-cast Continues: The Pointless 'Touch' and the Amazing 'Afflicted'
Oct 23, 2023
Shinoda-cast Continues: Full Sui Generis Shinoda!
Oct 16, 2023
The Brilliance and Bravery of Fritz Lang's M and Metropolis
Oct 09, 2023
The Yin and Yang of David Lynch: Blue Velvet is a Perfect Film; Dune... is Not
Sep 18, 2023
Schradercast Part 5: Light Sleeper and Witch Hunt
Sep 11, 2023
Altmancast: Brewster McCloud and A Prairie Home Companion (yes, reviewed together...)
Sep 06, 2023
The Challenging, Brilliant, Real World of John Cassavettes
Aug 21, 2023
The Beautful Complexity of 2001: A Space Odyssey
Aug 14, 2023
Shinoda Goes Noir and Blind: A Flame at the Pier and The Ballad of Orin
Aug 09, 2023
Shinoda-cast: One of these movies is a masterpiece. The other two movies, well, it's complicated...
Jul 31, 2023
Lynchcast Starts! Paul, Shawn and Jason Talk Eraserhead and Elephant Man
Jul 24, 2023
Schrader-cast Continues: Patty Hearst and The Comfort of Strangers Are Interesting Surprises
Jul 18, 2023
The world of Wong Kar Wai: Great Films or...?
Jul 10, 2023
Just in time for Asteroid City... Keith and Jason discuss Grand Budapest Hotel and The Darjeeling Limited
Jun 26, 2023
The Charming, Bittersweet and Beautiful Films of Jacques Demy
Jun 20, 2023
Schrader-cast Continues with the Incredible Mishima and the Way-Better-Than-You-Think Light of Day
Jun 12, 2023
Akira Kurosawa Loves Russian Lit: The Idiot and The Lower Depths
Jun 05, 2023
Looking at the amazing, contrasting vesions of "Silence" directed by Shinoda and Scorcese
May 25, 2023
Schrader-cast Continues with Kinky Sexy (?) Films, "American Gigolo" and "Cat People"
May 08, 2023
2001: A Space Odyssey and Solaris: Two Sci Fi Classics Which Are Mirrors to Each Other
May 01, 2023
David Cronenberg Ranked! Ranking all 19 Commercial Features by the Master Filmmaker
Apr 24, 2023
Shinoda-cast: A Journey into Folkloric Strangeness with "Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees", "Himiko" and "Demon Pond"
Apr 17, 2023
Beginning Paul Schrader-cast with Blue Collar and Hardcore
Apr 10, 2023
Cronenberg-cast Part 9: "Maps to the Stars" and "Crimes of the Future"
Apr 03, 2023
Shinoda-cast Part 2: Assassination and Samurai Spy
Mar 27, 2023
Kurosawa-cast: the Exquisite Sadness of Dreams and I Live in Fear
Mar 20, 2023
The Brain Bending Movies of Robert Downey Sr
Mar 13, 2023
Cronenberg-cast Continues with Part 8: Cosmopolis and A Dangerous Method
Mar 06, 2023
Authenticity and Megalomania: TÁR and The Stunt Man
Feb 27, 2023
Beginning Masahiro Shinoda-cast: An Underrated Japanese Director: With Beauty and Sorrow and Pale Flower
Feb 20, 2023
Altmancast Continues: Are "A Wedding" and "HealtH" Secret Classics?
Feb 06, 2023
Kurosawa-cast Looks at Rashomon and The Hidden Fortress
Jan 30, 2023
Cronenberg-cast Part 7 Explores the Genius of Viggo Mortensen with "A History of Violence" and "Eastern Promises"
Jan 23, 2023
Sam Peckinpah: Deflating the Old West
Jan 17, 2023
Altmancast continues: Is Popeye Secretly Good? Is Buffalo Bill and the Indians Subversive?
Jan 09, 2023
The Beautifully Quirky Cinema of Bill Forsyth
Jan 02, 2023
Kurosawa-cast Continues: Drunken Angel and A Quiet Duel
Dec 26, 2022
Cronenberg-cast continues with Part 6: eXistenZ and Spider
Dec 01, 2022
Beginning Our Look at the Films of Robert Altman: McCabe and Mrs. Miller and Thieves Like Us
Nov 28, 2022
George Clooney Becomes a Star Because of Three Kings and Michael Clayton
Nov 21, 2022
PTA: Creating the Complicated Worlds of "The Master" and Licorice Pizza"
Nov 14, 2022
Cronenberg-cast Part 5: M. Butterfly and Crash
Nov 07, 2022
More Than Just Pinhead: Hellraiser (1987), Hellraiser II (1988) and Hellraiser (2022)
Oct 30, 2022
Takahatacast Concludes with The Tale of Princess Kaguya, The Wind Rises and The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness
Oct 24, 2022
Kurosawa-cast Continues: Red Beard and Kagemusha
Oct 18, 2022
Cronenberg-cast Part 4: Cronenberg gets even more surreal with Dead Ringers and Naked Lunch
Oct 03, 2022
Takahata-cast Part 4: Pom Poko and My Neighbors the Yamadas
Sep 26, 2022
Looking at Charlie Kaufman Films, Or, Jason was completely baffled by "I'm Thinking of Ending Things"
Sep 19, 2022
Takahata-cast Part 3: Grave of the Fireflies and Only Yesterday
Sep 06, 2022
Kurosawa-cast becomes Noirosawa-cast: Stray Dog and The Bad Sleep Well
Aug 29, 2022
Cronenberg-cast Part 3: Paul, Shawn and Jason Love "The Fly" and "The Dead Zone"
Aug 22, 2022
Talking Two Woody Allen Classics, Annie Hall and Hannah and Her Sisters
Aug 15, 2022
The Fantastical Films of Alejandro Jodorowsky - Fantastical in every sense of the word
Aug 08, 2022
Takahata-cast Part 2: Gauche the Cellist and The Story of Yanagawa’s Canals
Aug 01, 2022
Beginning our exploration of the films of Isao Takahata with "Chie the Brat" and "Horus Prince of the Sun"
Jul 18, 2022
Cronenberg-Cast Part 2: Talking The Brood, Scanners and Videodrome with Paul and Shawn
Jul 11, 2022
Kurosawacast continues with Dodes'ka-den and Dersou Uzala
Jun 30, 2022
Cronenberg-cast Part 1: Paul and Jason look at Cronenerg's first two features, Shivers and Rabid.
Jun 14, 2022
The Genius of Werner Herzog: Aguirre and Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans
May 23, 2022
Kurosawa-cast Continues with Yojimbo and Sanjuro
May 16, 2022
Two 60s Greats - "The Russians are Coming, The Russians are Coming" and "Flight of the "Phoenix" - with Gideon and Lorelei
May 09, 2022
Wait, the guys liked Twilight: Breaking Dawn?!
May 02, 2022
Jason, Paul and Shawn Watch the First Three Twilight Movies So You Don't Have To
Apr 25, 2022
Kurosawa Chat Continues as Jason and Eric Discuss High and Low
Apr 18, 2022
When the Moon Hits Your Eye Like a Big Pizza Pie... Jason and Carl Talk Moonstruck
Apr 11, 2022
Three Movies About Love in Diverse Forms - "Worst Person in the World", "Love Story" and "Bad Luck Banging"
Apr 04, 2022
The Awesomely Weird Films of Larry Cohen
Mar 28, 2022
Concluding the Marvelcast with a Bang! Time for a Look at Spider-Man: No Way Home
Mar 21, 2022
Paul, Shawn and Jason Visit a Dark Gotham in "The Batman"
Mar 14, 2022
Ikiru: Another Kurosawa Classic
Feb 28, 2022
Jason and Chris Find Beauty in the Films of Harmony Korine
Feb 21, 2022
"If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out": The Films of Hal Ashby
Feb 14, 2022
Jason and Keith Look at Two Odd Alfred Hitchcock films
Feb 07, 2022
A Deep Dive Into Robert Altman's Nashville
Jan 31, 2022
Marvelcast: The Eternals is, Sadly, Mostly Awful
Jan 25, 2022
Seven Samurai: Best Movie Ever or Just One of the Best Movies Ever?
Dec 20, 2021
Marvelcast: Jason and Carlos want to love "Shang-Chi and the Legend of the 7 Rings", but, sadly, third act problems...
Dec 17, 2021
With the new Matrix movie due soon, are the original Matrix sequels worth watching?
Dec 13, 2021
Marvelcast: lots of people love "Spider-Man: Far from Home", but Jason and Carlos really didn't like it
Dec 10, 2021
Keith and Jason Celebrate Two Jack Nicholson Classics: "Chinatown" and "The Last Detail"
Dec 06, 2021
Marvelcast: Wow, "Avengers: Endgame" is actually really great!
Dec 03, 2021
Dom, Eric and Jason Look at Two Akira Kurosawa Classics, "Ran" and "Throne of Blood"
Nov 29, 2021
Chris and Jason watch "Eraserhead" for the first time
Nov 22, 2021
Marvelcast: Ant-Man and the Wasp is... yeah, it's not great
Nov 15, 2021
Marvelcast: "Avengers Infinity War" is loooong and kind of depressing...
Nov 08, 2021
Dune (2021) vs. Dune (1984) - Does Villeneuve Outdo Lynch? Is the '84 Movie Actually Any Good?
Nov 01, 2021
Jason and Keith are Haunted by "Don't Look Now" and "The Man Who Fell to Earth"
Oct 29, 2021
Marvelcast Part Nineteen: Is "Thor: Ragnarok" the best Marvel movie? Jason and Carlos Explore
Oct 25, 2021
Just in time for Halloween, Jason and Eric talk John Carpenter Films
Oct 18, 2021
Marvelcast Part Eighteen: Jason and Carlos really like "Dr. Strange"
Oct 11, 2021
Punk and New Wave Movies - Jason and Chris Review "Repo Man" and "Starstruck"
Sep 27, 2021
Jason and Eric Talk "The Long Goodbye" and "The American Friend", Two Classic NeoNoirs
Sep 07, 2021
Marvelcast Part Seventeen: No Love for "Spider-Man: Homecoming"
Aug 31, 2021
Jason and Chris Talk Two Odd Canadian Films, "My Winnipeg" and "Thirty Two Short Films About Glen Gould"
Aug 23, 2021
Jason and Keith Talk Two of the Greatest Sports Movies Ever: "Hoosiers" and "Slap Shot"
Aug 16, 2021
Ugh, yeah, Carlos and Jason had to talk about "The Suicide Squad"
Aug 10, 2021
Jason and Eric Discuss Two Japanese Classics Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi: "Sansho the Balliff" and "Ugetsu"
Aug 05, 2021
Jason and Carlos Agree in Marvelcast Part Sixteen: Black Widow is a Pretty Damn Good Movie
Aug 02, 2021
Jason and Paul are Hyped for "The Suicide Squad" So They Review James Gunn's "Slither" and "Super"
Jul 26, 2021
Another Polarizing Episode of Marvelcast... Carlos Really Dislikes "Civil War" and Jason is Meh About It
Jul 23, 2021
Jason and Carl Find a Lot to Discuss in "The Conformist"
Jul 19, 2021
Marvelcast Part Fourteen: Are Jason and Carlos Anti-"Ant-Man" or Pro-"Ant-Man"?
Jul 16, 2021
Jason and Chris Try to Make Sense of "Enemy" and "Under the Silver Lake"
Jul 12, 2021
Marvelcast Part Thirteen: Jason and Carlos Discover that Avengers: Age of Ultron is a Thing
Jul 08, 2021
Jason and Paul Talk Two Classic Dystopian Films, "Planet of the Apes" and "Soylent Green"
Jul 06, 2021
Jason and Eric Talk Two Opposite Westerns: "The Searchers" and "Once Upon a Time in the West"
Jun 28, 2021
Marvelcast Part Twelve: Jason and Carlos Are Shocked How Much They Love Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Jun 21, 2021
Jason and Keith Talk Two Opposite Musicals, "Singin' in the Rain" and "All That Jazz"
Jun 17, 2021
Marvelcast Part Eleven: Is Guardians of the Galaxy the best Marvel movie?
Jun 14, 2021
Jason and Rafael Talk "The Departed" and "The Friends of Eddie Coyle"
Jun 07, 2021
Jason and Paul Talk "The Battery" and "Blue Ruin"
Jun 03, 2021
Marvelcast Part Ten: Jason and Carlos Debate "Captain America: the Winter Soldier"
Jun 01, 2021
"Southland Tales": Great, Weird or Terrible? Jason and Chris Debate!
Jun 01, 2021
Marvelcast Part Nine: Jason and Carlos Argue About "Thor: the Dark World"
May 24, 2021
Marvelcast Part Eight: Jason and Carlos Argue About Whether "Iron Man 3" Sucks
May 17, 2021
Marvelcast Part Seven: Jason and Carlos Talk "Avengers"
May 10, 2021
Jason and Keith Talk "Withnail and I" and "Another Round"
May 03, 2021
Jason and Paul Talk "Faster Pussycat Kill Kill" and "Bad Girls"
Apr 29, 2021
Marvelcast Part Six: Jason and Carlos Talk "Thor"
Apr 26, 2021
Jason and Daniel Talk "Weiner" and "Feels Good Man"
Apr 19, 2021
Marvelcast Part Five: Jason and Carlos Talk "Hulk" and "The Incredible Hulk"
Apr 19, 2021
Marvelcast Part Four: Jason and Carlos Talk "Iron Man 2"
Apr 09, 2021
Jason and Paul Talk "The Parallax View" and "All the President's Men"
Apr 05, 2021
Marvelcast Part Three: Jason and Carlos Talk "Iron Man"
Apr 02, 2021
Jason and Keith Talk "Point Blank" and "One False Move"
Mar 29, 2021
Marvelcast Part Two: Jason and Carlos Talk "Captain Marvel"
Mar 25, 2021
Marvelcast Part One: Jason and Carlos Talk "Captain America: the First Avenger"
Mar 18, 2021
Jason and Paul Talk Benson & Moorhead Movies
Mar 15, 2021
Jason and Carlos Talk "Willy's Wonderland" and Indie Film in 2021
Mar 08, 2021
Jason and Keith Talk "Klute" and "She Dies Tomorrow"
Feb 24, 2021