Wednesday May 11, 2022
Popcorn Counter: Top Three Movie Meals
Two Reel Cinema Club
Every episode we watch two movies, one old, one new, and try to connect the dots.
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Everything is connected
Join screenwriters James Ruzicka and Andres Llorente as they watch the latest movie releases through the lenses of film history and their own lives, looking for the connections between old and new.
Episodes
Episodes
Wednesday May 04, 2022
Wednesday May 04, 2022
Hold onto your aprons as blood pours off the screen in this episode: Robert Eggers’ new, hyper violent Viking revenge tale The Northman draws a sword to challenge Ingmar Bergman’s 1957 classic The Seventh Seal. Which of them has the most to say about love, faith and death? And which of them has some naked dudes fighting near lava?
Wednesday Apr 20, 2022
Wednesday Apr 20, 2022
Everyone’s favourite rotoscope animator Richard Linklater returns to screens with Apollo 10 1/2 this month. How does his new film about weightlessness measure up against his rather heavier 2006 picture A Scanner Darkly?
Tuesday Mar 29, 2022
Tuesday Mar 29, 2022
Three men, one woman, an isolated house, a gun. This episode we watch Netflix's new 90 minute thriller Windfall, and measure it up against 2004's German indie feature The Edukators. Lots of ideas in common here, but how do the body counts compare?
Wednesday Mar 16, 2022
Wednesday Mar 16, 2022
Two Afghan refugee stories this time, comparing current release Flee with 2002's In This World. Both detail harrowing journeys across borders and through the hands of traffickers. Have we learned anything in the last twenty years, or does the story remain the same?
Tuesday Mar 01, 2022
Tuesday Mar 01, 2022
Two Almodovar movies this episode: 2021's Parallel Mothers and 1999's All About My Mother. What's changed in 22 years of Almodovar's career, and how much do the two films have in common? (Spoiler: a lot.)
Wednesday Feb 02, 2022
Wednesday Feb 02, 2022
This episode we watch the much acclaimed new Paul Thomas Anderson film Licorice Pizza and take it for a date with one of its primary influences, Amy Heckerling's debut feature Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Two groups of teenagers from the 1970s and the 1980s: will they party on down by the pool or will they get into a fight over who scratched their older brother's car?
Tuesday Feb 01, 2022
Tuesday Feb 01, 2022
This episode we watch the famously expensive new Netflix feature Red Notice, and measure it up against 1955 French noir classic Rififi. Two heist movies, but do they have more in common than that?