Ajay Discusses Movies
I talk movies both old and new with a rotation of guests on the podcast
The 2026 Academy Awards
The 2026 Academy Awards was a near 4 hour long award show that had plenty of twist and turns. I wouldn't recommend re-watching it in its entirety. book recommendation: Salman Rushdie - Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder https://bookshop.org/shop/ajayandnathan
Maggie Gyllenhaal's The Bride!
Despite a stellar cast and some memorable performances, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride! is a tediously dull film that misses on the horror and the humor, but will eventually develop a cult following in the coming years. Book Recommendation: Jay McInerney - Bright Lights, Big City https://bookshop.org/shop/ajayandnathan
John Patton Ford's How to Make a Killing
With just the right amount of campiness and adventure, How to Make a Killing is a fun dispensable film that will entertain you throughout its runtime. Book Recommendation: Nick Cave - The Death of Bunny Munro https://www.bookshop.org/shop/ajayandnathan
Emerald Fennell's Wuthering Heights
An emotionless, soulless film despite a great cast, Wuthering Heights overstays its welcome with a daunting 2 hour 16 minute runtime. Check out the bookshop.org link where I recommend Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire. My favorite Nabokov book and one of my favorite books I've ever read.
Sam Raimi's Send Help
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Nia DaCosta's 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
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2025 State of the Film Address
Hey everyone! Just wanted to update you on my current opinion on the film industry after a crazy 2025 film schedule. Here, I discuss the best and worst films of 2025 as well as the industry shake-up with Paramount/Netflix trying to buy Warner Bros. The bookshop has been updated. Check out https://bookshop.org/shop/ajayandnathan
Josh Safdie's Marty Supreme
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Park Chan-wook's No Other Choice
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November Film Recap (The Running Man, Sentimental Value, Predator: Badlands, Megadoc, Hamnet)
TIMESTAMPS (subject to be different from the video version) 0:00 RIP Ajay and Nathan Discuss Movies (February 2024-August 2025) 3:31 - Dan Trachtenberg’s Predator Badlands 9:37 - Ruben Fleischer’s Now You See Me: Now You Don’t 14:30 - Edgar Wright’s Running Man 20:48 - Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value 26:30 - Mike Figgis’ Megadoc 32:00 - Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet 38:10 - Wrap Up
Josh and Benny Safdie's Uncut Gems with Nic Ferreira
We are joined by Nic Ferreira. He is a Boston comedian who performs in the Boston area. Follow him on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/nicferreira14
Lynne Ramsay's Die My Love
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Yorgos Lanthimos' Bugonia
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Chris Stuckmann's Shelby Oaks
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Aziz Ansari's Good Fortune
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Joachim Rønning's Tron: Ares
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Benny Safdie's The Smashing Machine
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Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another
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Ajay Discusses Bob Saget's Dirty Work (1998) with Dan Doherty
Bob Saget's Dirty Work stars Norm Macdonald as Mitch Weaver and Artie Lange as Sam McKenna. They are half-brothers as they start a revenge for hire business to pay off their father's surgery. It is, dare I say, one of the best comedies of the 90s that no one saw at the time but has since garnered a cult following. Nathan is out, so we got friend of the pod Dan Doherty to discuss the film. You can see Dan all over the New England area doing stand up and gambling his money away. Wow, he really took the Norm...
Ajay Discusses Bob Saget's Dirty Work (1998) with Dan Doherty
Bob Saget's Dirty Work stars Norm Macdonald as Mitch Weaver and Artie Lange as Sam McKenna. They are half-brothers as they start a revenge for hire business to pay off their father's surgery. It is, dare I say, one of the best comedies of the 90s that no one saw at the time but has since garnered a cult following. Nathan is out, so we got friend of the pod Dan Doherty to discuss the film. You can see Dan all over the New England area doing stand up and gambling his money away. Wow, he really took the Norm...
Darren Aronofsky's Caught Stealing & Macom Blair's The Toxic Avenger
We're now a bookshop.org affiliate. check out https//www.bookshop.org/shop/ajayandnathan for our September picks! Nathan will be out for an extended period of time. He'll be back, but for now you're stuck with me and the various guests that I'll bring on a weekly basis.
Ajay and Nathan Discuss Zach Cregger's Weapons
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Ajay and Nathan Discuss Michael Shanks' Together and Akiva Schaffer's The Naked Gun
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Ajay and Nathan Discuss The Fantastic Four: First Steps
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Ajay and Nathan Discuss Ari Aster's Eddington
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Ajay and Nathan Discuss James Gunn's Superman
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Ajay and Nathan Discuss Gareth Edwards' Jurassic World Rebirth & Other Films
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Ajay and Nathan Discuss Danny Boyle's 28 Years Later
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Ajay and Nathan Discuss Wes Anderson's The Phoenician Scheme & Celine Song's Materialists
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Ajay and Nathan Discuss Len Wiseman's From The World of John Wick: Ballerina
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Ajay and Nathan Discuss Danny and Michael Philippou's Bring Her Back
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Ajay and Nathan Discuss Christopher McQuarrie's Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
Ajay and Nathan Discuss Final Destination Bloodlines
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Ajay and Nathan Discuss Michael Bay's Transformers (2007)
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Ajay and Nathan Discuss Thunderbolts
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Ajay and Nathan Discuss the 2000s Fantastic Four Films
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Ajay and Nathan Discuss Ryan Coogler's Sinners
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Ajay and Nathan Discuss Alex Garland & Ray Mendoza's Warfare
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Ajay and Nathan Discuss Alex Scharfman's Death of a Unicorn
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Ajay and Nathan Discuss Dan Berk and Robert Olson's Novocaine
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