The Film Studies Club Podcast

#47 Malcolm & Marie, The Dig, Judas and the Black Messiah

Malcolm & Marie (IMDb): A director and his girlfriend's relationship is tested after they return home from his movie premiere and await critics' responses.

The Dig (IMDb): An archaeologist embarks on the historically important excavation of Sutton Hoo in 1938.

Judas and the Black Messiah (IMDb): Bill O'Neal infiltrates the Black Panther Party per FBI Agent Mitchell and J. Edgar Hoover. As Party Chairman Fred Hampton ascends, falling for a fellow revolutionary en route, a battle wages for O'Neal's soul.

 

 

#46 NICO PATEL!!!!!!

The Little Things (IMDb): Kern County Deputy Sheriff Joe Deacon is sent to Los Angeles for what should have been a quick evidence-gathering assignment. Instead, he becomes embroiled in the search for a serial killer who is terrorizing the city.

The White Tiger (IMDb): An ambitious Indian driver uses his wit and cunning to escape from poverty and rise to the top. An epic journey based on the New York Times bestseller.

Derek DelGaudio's in & of Itself (IMDb): Storyteller and Conceptual Magician Derek DelGaudio attempts to understand the illusory nature of identity and answer the deceptively simple question 'Who am I?'

#45 ALYSSA TORRES LIVE ON DA POD

News of the World (IMDb): A Civil War veteran agrees to deliver a girl, taken by the Kiowa people years ago, to her aunt and uncle, against her will. They travel hundreds of miles and face grave dangers as they search for a place that either can call home.

Locked Down (IMDb): A couple attempts a high-risk, high-stakes jewelry heist at a department store.

Outside the Wire (IMDb): In the near future, a drone pilot sent into a war zone finds himself paired with a top-secret android officer on a mission to stop a nuclear attack.

#44 JOHN PARKER ON DA PODCAST

One Night In Miami (IMDb): A fictional account of one incredible night where icons Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X, Sam Cooke, and Jim Brown gathered discussing their roles in the Civil Rights Movement and cultural upheaval of the 60s.

The Three Deaths of Marisela Escobedo (IMDb): Follows a mother's tireless crusade to jail her daughter's murderer after Mexico's justice system failed to do so.

Disclosure (IMDb): An in-depth look at Hollywood's depiction of transgender people and the impact of those stories on transgender lives and American culture.

#43 The Forgotten Episode

Shithouse (IMDb): A homesick college freshman goes to a party at Shithouse and ends up spending the night with his sophomore RA who's had a shitty day and wants someone to hang out with.

Pieces of a Woman (IMDb): When a young mother's home birth ends in unfathomable tragedy, she begins a year-long odyssey of mourning that fractures relationships with loved ones in this deeply personal story of a woman learning to live alongside her loss.

 

Feels Good Man (IMDb): Artist Matt Furie, creator of the comic character Pepe the Frog, begins an uphill battle to take back his iconic cartoon image from those who used it for their own purposes.

#42 Joe Rogan said WHAT?!?!?!?!? (Feat. Joe Rogan????)

40 Year Old Version (IMDb): Radha is a down-on-her-luck NY playwright, who is desperate for a breakthrough before 40. Reinventing herself as rapper RadhaMUSPrime, she vacillates between the worlds of Hip Hop and theater in order to find her true voice.

Time (IMDb): Fox Rich fights for the release of her husband, Rob, who is serving a 60-year sentence in prison. 

Ammonite (IMDb): 1840s England, acclaimed but overlooked fossil hunter Mary Anning and a young woman sent to convalesce by the sea develop an intense relationship, altering both of their lives forever.

#41 Ken Again (The Midnight Sky, Wonder Woman 1984, Soul)

The Midnight Sky (IMDb): This post-apocalyptic tale follows Augustine, a lonely scientist in the Arctic, as he races to stop Sully and her fellow astronauts from returning home to a mysterious global catastrophe.

Wonder Woman 1984 (IMDb): Rewind to the 1980s as Wonder Woman's next big screen adventure finds her facing two all-new foes: Max Lord and The Cheetah.

Soul (IMDb): A musician who has lost his passion for music is transported out of his body and must find his way back with the help of an infant soul learning about herself.

 

#40 Gal Pals Pt. 2 (Willa and Kayla)

Madrigal Dinner Movie! (Me): Explore a magical and historical event through your own eyes and visit Shasta High School's Madrigal Dinner, where everything from the food to the dialect will take you back to the 15th Century!

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (IMDb): Chicago, 1927. A recording session. Tensions rise between Ma Rainey, her ambitious horn player and the white management determined to control the uncontrollable "Mother of the Blues". Based on Pulitzer Prize winner August Wilson's play.

Wolfwalkers (IMDb): A young apprentice hunter and her father journey to Ireland to help wipe out the last wolf pack. But everything changes when she befriends a free-spirited girl from a mysterious tribe rumored to transform into wolves by night.

 

#39 Warren and Fran-Fran (Sound of Metal, Let Them All Talk, The Prom)

Sound of Metal (IMDb): A heavy-metal drummer's life is thrown into free fall when he begins to lose his hearing.

Let Them All Talk (IMDb): A famous author goes on a cruise trip with her friends and nephew in an effort to find fun and happiness while she comes to terms with her troubled past.

The Prom (IMDb): A troupe of hilariously self-obsessed theater stars swarm into a small conservative Indiana town in support of a high school girl who wants to take her girlfriend to the prom.

#38 CORBINNNNN (Mank, The Christmas Chronicles 2, Fatman)

Mank (IMDb): 1930's Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing social critic and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish the screenplay of Citizen Kane (1941). 

The Christmas Chronicles 2 (IMDb): Kate Pierce, now a cynical teen, is unexpectedly reunited with Santa Claus when a mysterious troublemaker threatens to cancel Christmas - forever.

Fatman (IMDb): A rowdy, unorthodox Santa Claus is fighting to save his declining business. Meanwhile, Billy, a neglected and precocious 12 year old, hires a hit man to kill Santa after receiving a lump of coal in his stocking.