Movie Night Extravaganza

It's a CREW Episode!!

Forrest, Kristina Oakes, and Conan Neutron discuss Boots Riley's new movie I Love Boosters!!

We covered Sorry To Bother You in the 3rd episode, so it's only natural we cover I Love Boosters

Starring Keke Palmer, LaKeith Stanfield, Taylour Paige, Will Poulter, Naomi Ackie, Demi Moore, Eiza Gonzalez, Don Cheadle. #BootsRiley #Iloveboosters #sorrytobotheryou #kekepalmer #lakeithstanfield #demimoore #2026 #naomiackie #willpoulter #capitalism #labor #laborstrike #fashon #filmpodcast #moviepodcast #booster #boosters #doncheadle #livestream #livestreaming

Forrest, Conan Neutron, Kristina Oakes and joining us once again is ADAM MCKAY!!

We are talking about Jonathan Kaplan's 1979 coming of age film Over The Edge!!!

Set in the semi-fictional New Grenada, CO which is a stand-in for Foster City, CA.. Over the Edge shows a planned community where 25% of the residents are 18 or under.

With nobody thinking of activities for kids, besides hanging around a Rec Center, the kids have turned to vandalism, fighting, drugs, and drinking.

Over the Edge was Matt Dillon's first movie.

Also starring, Michael...

Forrest, Conan Neutron, and Kristina Oakes are joined once again by Josh Olson to talk about Charley Varrick!

Josh Olson is the Oscar Nominated screenwriter of "A History of Violence" and the co-host of Movies That Made Me with Joe Dante as well as the former co-host of West Wing Thing.

Don Siegel's follow up to Dirty Harry just two years later

Walter Matthau, of all people, stars as Charley Varrick.. a former stunt pilot and crop duster turned small time bank robber.. who robs a bank with his wife and his associate...

Forrest, Conan Neutron, Kristina Oakes and Eileen Jones talk about Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo!

Starring Jimmy Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, and Tom Helmore

Vertigo tells the story of Scottie, a former San Francisco Police Department Detective, who is battling with a bad case of Acrophobia after seeing a Police Officer fall off a building.

He becomes romantically obsessed by his college friend's mysterious wife Madeleine that he's been hired to tail.

Released in 1958, along with another Jimmy Stewart and Kim Novak film Bell, Book and Candle which we've talked about...

Forrest, Conan Neutron, Kristina Oakes, and Marta Djordjevic AKA Marta McFly @mcflysmoviehouse discuss Wim Wenders Perfect Days

After a long period of mostly doing documentaries, Wim Wenders returns to narrative feature filmmaking with a film originally envisioned to help the Tokyo Toilet Project showcase their 15 internationally designed public bathrooms.

Kōji Yakusho stars as Hirayama, a public toilet cleaner, who is mostly silent and enjoys the small pleasures of life.

From his trees, to his cassettes, to his bike rides, Hirayama lives a structured and repetitive existence in a minimalist apartment appreciating the s...

Forrest and Conan Neutron talk with Rob Kassees and Tom Monaghan about Ivan Reitman's Ghostbusters!!

The classic 1984 GHOST BUSTIN' comedy starring Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis, Sigourney Weaver, and Ernie Hudson

Written by Dan Akroyd and Harold Ramis

When there's something strange.. in your neighborhood who you gonna call???? #ghostbusters #danaykroyd #billmurray #slimer #ghostbustersmovie #filmpodcast #moviepodcast #haroldramis #rickmoranis #sigourneyweaver #1984 #staypuft #erniehudson #rickmoranis #ghost

Rob Kasses and Tom Monaghan of The Chop! have put out a Ghostbusters themed album Stay Puft available here https://thechopunlimited.bandcamp.com/album/stay-puft<...

Forrest, Kristina Oakes, and Dead Domain talk about Maggie Gyllenhaal's second film The Bride!

Starring Jessie Buckley, Christian Bale, Jake Gyllenhaal, Peter Saarsgard, Annette Benning, Zlatko Buric, and Penelope Cruz

Adapted from the 1935 James Whalen Universal film "The Bride of Frankenstein"

Maggie Gyllenhaal set out to metaphorically give ownership of the Bride of Frankenstein to Mary Shelley.. having her possess Jesse Buckley's Ida and causing her to call out the local Chicago Mob Boss leading to her untimely demise

Meanwhile, Christian Bale stars as Frankenstein's Monster who is extremely lonely and...

Forrest, Kristina Oakes, and Eileen Jones talk about the Testament of Ann Lee!

The second film from the Brutalist's filmmakers, co-written by Brady Corbet and directed and written by Mona Fastvold

Starring Amanda Seyfried as Ann Lee, the Founder of Shakerism, a religious sect in 1700s America

Also starring Lewis Pullman, Thomasin McKenzie, Matthew Beard, and Viola Prettejohn

It's also.. a musical, repurposing Shaker Hymns for a really fascinating musical experience.

Shakers believed that in order to truly commune with God you must abstain from sexual intercourse among many...

Oscars 2026!!

We are going to be covering the 98th Academy Awards LIVE!

You can watch Forrest, Kristina Oakes, Conan Neutron and our special guests watch the Oscars LIVE Sunday March 15th. 8e/7c/6m/5p #oscars #academyawards #academyawards2026 #onebattleafteranother #sinners #livestream #live #oscarslive #bestpicture #bestactor #bestdirector #bestactress #moviepodcast #filmpodcast #thesecretagent #bugonia #sentimentalvalue #academyaward #oscars98 #martysupreme #traindreams #f1 #vertical #verticallive #conanobrien

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On our last episode before the Oscars, Forrest, Conan Neutron, Kristina Oakes and Zach B. Marsh talk about the Kleber Mendonça Filho film The Secret Agent #thesecretagent #brazil #braziliancinema #oagentesecreto #wagnermoura #oscars2026 #academyawards #academyawards2026 #oscars #bestactor #bestpicture #oscars97 #moviepodcast #filmpodcast #podcast #recife

Starring Wagner Moura who is up for Best Actor for his role as Marcelo/Armando/adult Fernando

Drawing parallels between the Military Dictatorship of the 1970s and Bolsonaro's Brazil where for a while, media was once again censored a bit and artists like Wagner Moura had their work censored.

And f...

On our official speed round: Hamnet, F1, K-Pop Demon Hunter, Train Dreams, Sentimental Value!!!

Going over all the movies we didn't get to before the Oscars #filmpodcast #oscars #oscars2026 #traindreams #f1 #sentimentalvalue #sinners #hamnet #awardseason #awardsshow #joeledgerton #kpopdemonhunters #onebattleafteranother #stellanskarsgård #stellanskarsgård #ellefanning #renatereinsve #jessiebuckley #vertical #verticallivestream #verticallivefeed #bestpicture #bestactor #bestdirector #bestoriginalscreenplay

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Forrest, Kristina Oakes, Conan Neutron and Josh Duggan talk about Yorgos Lanthimos's Bugonia!!

A remake of the 2003 South Korean sci-fi black comedy 'Save the Green Planet!'

Starring Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Aiden Delbis, Stavros Halkias, Alicia Silverstone

Written by the former Onion Editor-in-Chief and screenwriter and producer of the Menu, Will Tracy and produced by Ari Aster and Lars Knudsen

The story of a conspiracy theorist named Teddy who becomes convinced that a Pharma CEO that he kidnaps is actually an alien species called an Adromedan #bugonia #emmastone #jesseplemons #yorgoslanthimos...

Forrest. Conan Neutron, Kristina Oakes and Scott Interrante talk about Richard Linklater's Blue Moon

Paired with Nouvelle Vague, Linklater's biopic about Jean Luc Godard and the making of Breathless in 1960.

This is another non-standard biopic, this time about Lorenz Hart, the former partner of Richard Rogers, on the opening night of Oklahoma.

Starring Ethan Hawke, in a totally transformed role, that's gotten him Oscar buzz and critical praise as Lorenz Hart

Also starring Margaret Qualley, Bobby Cannavale, Andrew Scott, and Simon Delaney.

Scott Interrante can be found both on...

Forrest, Kristina Oakes, Conan Neutron and Kayla Says ⁨@kaylasays⁩ talk about Josh Safdie's Marty Supreme

Starring Timothee Chalamet, Gweynth Paltrow, Fran Drescher, Tyler the Creator, Odessa A'Zion, and Abel Ferrara

Set in the 1950s, Timothee Chalamet plays Marty Mauser, an arrogant young Jewish-American table tennis player, at a time when ping pong is on the rise.

When he tours around the world, his antics draw a bunch of attention, but when he's home he's hustling for the money to keep it happening.. regardless of who it effects.

It's our Oscars Month, we g...

Forrest, Kristina Oakes, and Conan Neutron are joined by Julia Linger to talk about Wicked For Good

It's our Oscars Month, we got a bunch of 2025's biggest movies (that we haven't covered already) up on deck, culminating with our Oscars LIVE Coverage in March.

Starring Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo, Jeff Goldblum, Michelle Yeoh, Ethan Slater, Jonathan Bailey, Marissa Bode, Bowen Yang, and Coleman Domingo as the Cowardly Lion.

We previously did the first Wicked as an episode last year during Oscar Month.

Although Wicked For Good was snubbed, we do...

Forrest, Conan Neutron, and Kristina Oakes talk to Jacobin and FilmSuck Film Critic Eileen Jones about Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another!!

It's our Oscars Month, we got a bunch of 2025's biggest movies (that we haven't covered already) up on deck, culminating with our Oscars LIVE Coverage in March.

Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Chase Infiniti, Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro, Teyana Taylor, Regina Hall, JunglePussy, Tony Goldwyn, and Alana Haim

One Battle After Another is up for 13 Oscars including Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor twice, Best Supporting Actress, Best Director...

Josh Olson, screenwriter of A History of Violence, talks about Michael Mann's Thief with Forrest, Conan Neutron, and Kristina Oakes

Starring James Caan as Frank, who has pretty recently gotten through an 11 year bid in Joliet, and has since structured his life as a safecracker buying a bar and a car auto body shop.

This life is disturbed when a Chicago Outfit Boss Leo (first appearance for Robert Prosky) slowly brings Frank and his partner Barry (first film for JIM BELUSHI) into his employ with a seductive vision of temporary employment that Leo wants to...

Adam McKay, director of Step Brothers, Anchorman, The Big Short, Vice, Don't Look Up, RETURNS for a special friday episode!!!

Forrest, Conan Neutron, Kristina Oakes and Adam McKay talk about Federico Fellini's Nights of Cabiria!!!

Starring Fellini's wife and muse, Giulietta Masina, as Cabiria a role she had played in the 1952 Fellini film "The White Sheik" as well.

Nights of Cabiria is Fellini's last neorealist style film, right before the surrealist avant-garde period that would create films like La Dolce Vita and 8 1/2.

Some of that has to do with where Italy...

Forrest, Kristina Oakes, and Conan Neutron are joined by Sean McGrath, the other half of Unkind Rewind, to talk about Bong Joon-ho's Memories of Murder (2003)

Starring Song Kang-ho, Park Hae-il, Kim Roi-ha, and Song Jae-ho

Years before the more International Acclaim of Parasite and English Language films Snowpiercer and Mickey 17, Bong Joon-ho's second film is probably his most culturally Korean.

It's also his most brutally realistic, telling the story of the first modern South Korean Serial Killer, who at that time had not yet been caught, and the Police who hoped to bring...

Forrest, Kristina Oakes, and Conan Neutron talk about CITIZEN KANE on the first episode of 2026 with Eileen Jones!!

Orson Welles groundbreaking drama, telling the story of Charles Foster Kane, America's biggest newspaper magnate, a man who had everything and lost it all.

Based on William Randolph Hearst, Charles Foster Kane's love of power and wealth, leads him to lose everyone in his life and eventually spend his whole fortune trying to impress his ex-wife Susan Alexander

Orson Welles directorial debut stars many first time film actors from Welles's Mercury Theater, Joseph Cotten, Ray...

Forrest, Kristina Oakes, Conan Neutron and Kev talk about Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Starring Leonardo DiCaprio as the fading film star Rick Dalton and his stunt double Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt) who live in Hollywood, next door to Sharon Tate and Roman Polanski in 1969.

Starring a huge cast, Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Margaret Qualley, Austin Butler, Dakota Fanning, Emile Hirsch, Sydney Sweeney, Al Pacino, Bruce Dern, Timothy Olyphant, Mikey Madison, Lena Dunham

Tarantino's revisionist history of the night that destroyed the 1960s. The Manson Murders. #onceuponatime #leonardodicaprio...

Forrest, Conan Neutron, Kristina Oakes and Daniel House talk about Tim Burton's Ed Wood

Written by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski who would go on to write "The People vs. Larry Flynt" "Man on the Moon" and "Dolemite is my Name, at a time when they were tired of being seen as solely "family friendly screenwriters" and launching the sub-genre of "Anti-Biopics."

Ed Wood is a biopic about the filmmaker Edward D. Wood, once voted "Worst Director of All Time," operating under massive constraints in the 1950s as he struggled to make films like "Glenn...

Forrest, Conan Neutron, Kristina Oakes and Mike Scott of Bottled 'n' Bond talk about Who Framed Roger Rabbit

A 1988 Disney BLOCKBUSTER, directed by Robert Zemeckis and produced by Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment

Pioneering an advanced version of hybrid live action/cartoon style using both animation cels and some small early CGI technological advances by Industrial Light and Magic

Starring Bob Hoskins, Charles Fleischer, Kathleen Turner as Jessica Rabbit, Joanna Cassidy, and Christopher Lloyd

It was also Mel Blanc's last time playing Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck. Tweety, Sylvester the Cat, and Porky Pig...

Forrest, Conan Neutron, Kristina Oakes and Ian Miller of Kowloon Walled City talk about Robert Altman's the Player

After a decade in the wilderness, Robert Altman returned to Hollywood in 1992 to lacerate it with a satirical look at the Holywood Studio system of the 1980s and 1990s.

The Player is the story of Griffin Mill (Tim Robbins) a sleazy Hollywood Executive whose life spirals out of control after he murders a writer David Kahane (Vincent D'Onfrio)

Featuring an array of cameo appearances Anjelica Huston, Jeff Goldbum, Bruce Willis, John Cusack, Julia Roberts, Burt...

Forrest, Kristina Oakes, and Conan Neutron talk about Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard!!

Starting off a month where we talk about Movies about Making Movies

Sunset Boulevard examines the wreckage left behind by the transition from Silent Era pictures to the "Talkies"

A failing screenwriter named Joe Gillis (William Holden) is found floating face down in a pool on Sunset Boulevard, beyond the grave he begins telling us his story..

Struggling to make a living in Hollywood, Joe Gillis stashes his car which is about to be towed away in a random...

Forrest, Kristina Oakes, Conan Neutron and Matt "The Letterhack" Strackbein talk about the classic Coen Brothers movie The Big Lebowski

Written in the early 1990s, but not released until 1998 because John Goodman and Jeff Bridges had been quite busy.

Starring Jeff Bridges as Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski, John Goodman, Steve Buscemi, John Turturro, Julianne Moore, David Huddleston, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Sam Elliott and Tara Reid.

The Dude is bumming around Los Angeles, minding his own business, when a case of mistaken identity throws him into a kidnapping plot. #coenbrothers #thebiglebowski #jeffbridges #noirvember #noir...

Forrest, Kristina Oakes, and Josh Duggan talk about Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye

Starring Elliot Gould, Nina Van Pallandt, Henry Gibson, Mark Rydell, and Sterling Hayden

A 1970s Neo-Noir version of Raymond Chandler's iconic Phillip Marlowe novel. #TheLongGoodbye #RobertAltman #neonoir #gould #elliotgould #raymondchandler #phillipmarlowe #marlowe #noirvember #filmnoirvibes #noir #sterlinghayden #filmpodcast #moviepodcast #classiccinema #newhollywood #arnoldschwarzenegger #altman #shortcuts #theplayer #postmodern

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On our second Noirvember Episode, Forrest, Conan Neutron, Kristina Oakes and McKenzie Wilkes talk about John Huston's 1948 Crime Drama Key Largo

Starring Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, and Edward G. Robinson

It was Bogart and Bacall's fourth and final film together.

WW2 Veteran Frank McCloud goes to Key Largo to pay his respects to the family of a dead comrade and stays at the hotel owned by his widow Nora only to get stuck during a hurricane with a group of mobsters led by the infamous Johnny Rocco at gunpoint for the duration of...

Forrest, Conan Neutron, and Kristina Oakes talk about Michael Curtiz's 1945 psychological drama Mildred Pierce.

Starring Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, and Zachary Scott

Based on James M. Cain's 1941 novel, a story of “social inequity and opportunity in America" set during the Great Depression.

The 1945 Michael Curtiz's film turns the novel into a story of murder. money, and a mother's obsessive love for her spoiled ungrateful daughter.

Movie Night Extravaganza is doing another month of Noir movies for Noirvember. #MildredPierce #joancrawford #michaelcurtiz #casablanca #1945 #noir #filmnoirvibes #filmnoir #warnerbros #warnerbrosentertainment #jamesmcain #hardboiled #moviepodcast #filmpodcast

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Forrest, Conan Neutron, and Kristina Oakes talk about Zach Cregger's Weapons

After Zach Cregger's last film Barbarian in 2022, Weapons is a supernatural horror film about a town where 17 children in the same 3rd grade class suddenly go missing.

Starring Josh Brolin, Julia Garner, Alden Ehrenreich, Benedict Wong, Austin Abrams, Amy Madigan #weapons2025 #weapons #zachcregger #juliagarner #joshbrolin #benedictwong #aldenehrenreich #barbarian #WKYK #whitestkidsuknow #weaponsmovie #witches #witchcraft #filmpodcast #moviepodcast #amymadigan

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Forrest, Kristina Oakes and Josh Duggan talk about Anna Biller's horror comedy the Love Witch

Written, Directed, Produced, and even Scored by Anna Biller, a Feminist Filmmaker raised by a Fashion Designer mother and Visual Artist father.

The Love Witch satirizes the fact that most horror/supernatural/thriller in fact most cinema in general is filmed with the "male gaze" in mind.

And attempts to create a movie about Witchcraft filmed from the female gaze.. with female visual desire in mind.

Starring Samantha Robinson as Elaine Parks, a recently widowed Witch...

On October 21st, Forrest and Kristina will be joined by AlexHaha @devilsadvocateproductions to talk about Hayao Miyazaki's Kiki's Delivery Service (1989)

One of the earliest Studio Ghibli films after My Neighbor Totoro just 4 years after Ghibli was founded.

Based on the book Witch's Express Home Delivery by Eiko Kadono

Miyazaki made a whole lot of changes to the story in the book, in order to create a story about maturing, growing up, and feeling confident about yourself.

The 1989 version in Japanese stars Minami Takayama, Rei Sakuma, Kappei Yamaguchi, Keiko Toda

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Forrest, Conan Neutron, Kristina Oakes and Lauren Chouinard talk about Robert Eggers debut feature film The Witch.

It's episode 300!!! This is SPARTA!!!

The directorial debut of Robert Eggers and the breakout film for Anya Taylor Joy.

Eggers, who grew up in New England, spent alot of time around the Plimouth Plantation both on field trips and while writing the film.

It tells the story of a Puritan Family in the 1630s, who are banished from Plimouth, and left to fend for themselves in the woods.

While they slowly starve...

Forrest, Conan Neutron, and Kristina Oakes talk about Kenny Ortega's 1993 family Witch comedy Hocus Pocus

Produced by Disney and written by Mick Garris

Hocus Pocus was a flop when it came out, but over time, and through Disney Channel and ABC Family.. it's become one of the biggest Halloween Films ever.

Starring Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najmi as the Sanderson Sisters. Three Witches in Salem who need to steal the life essence from children to keep being young.

When they get hung by the Salem Villagers, they must...

Podcaster, Writer, Film Journalist, and Cinephile Marta McFly of McFly's movie house is coming on Movie Night Extravaganza, for what movie? We find out together in a live 16 movie elimination round! https://www.martadjo.com/ ‪@mcflysmoviehouse‬ https://letterboxd.com/martamcfly/

Starting our Witches Month early with Bell. Books, and Candle (1958) Eileen Jones of Filmsuck and Jacobin joins Forrest, Conan Neutron, and Kristina Oakes to talk about the Jimmy Stewart + Kim Novak Romantic Comedy "Bell, Book and Candle"

Coming the same year as Vertigo, a 50 year Jimmy Stewart and 25 year old Kim Novak were once again paired up in the last film where Jimmy Stewart would star as a Romantic Lead.

Also starring Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs, and Elsa Lanchester

For Spooky October, we are covering a month of movies about Witches!! #jimmystewart #jamesstewart...

Forrest, Conan Neutron, and Kristina Oakes are joined by Scott Interrante and Kev Reilly to talk about Annette (2021)

Leos Carax first English Language film, a Rock Opera starring Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard written by the Sparks.

It took 8 years to make, partially because Adam Driver was cast and then became Kylo Ren in Star Wars.

Adam Driver stars as Henry McHenry, a misanthropic Stand Up Comedian who falls in love with Anne, an opera singer and they have Annette, a wooden puppet who can sing. #annette #leoscarax #adamdriver #kyloren #standupcomedy #standup #marioncotillard...

Forrest, Conan Neutron, Kristina Oakes and Lauren Chouinard talk about Milos Forman's 1984 Amadeus!

Starring Tom Hulce as Mozart and F. Murray Abraham as Salieri

Known for its liberties with historical fact as much as the intense revenge story it put on screen between rival composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri. #amadeus #mozart #wolfgang #vienna #joseph #salieri #classicalmusic #salzburg #filmpodcast #moviepodcast #movie #revenge #rivalry #oneflewoverthecuckoosnest #cuckoosnest #oscars #bestpicture #bestdirector #bestactor

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Forrest, Conan Neutron, Kristina Oakes and Marta McFly ( @mcflysmoviehouse / @RewindandRevivebyMartaMcfly ) talk about Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig's Frances Ha.

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Not the first film Greta Gerwig co-wrote or the first film she technically did with Noah Baumbach, but Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach's creative partnership began here.

Starring Greta Gerwig as Frances Halladay, a 27 year old trying to survive in New York City, in the time between graduating college and "real adulthood."

Frances lives with her best friend Sophie...

Forrest, Conan Neutron, and Kristina Oakes are joined by former Social Media Strategist and Senior Editor for LucasFilm Bonnie Burton to talk about Return of the Jedi!!

Directed by Richard Marquand and written by George Lucas and Lawrence Kazdan and released in 1983!!

We've done episodes on A New Hope: youtube.com/live/c-fbA3Q2X84

And the Empire Strikes Back: youtube.com/live/SUK5dhB9XLs

On the final film of the Original Trilogy, the Empire and the Rebellion face off, Luke grapples with the knowledge Vader is his father, Han...