Movies For Life

Best Picture Winners: REBECCA and THE APARTMENT

March means awards season in the movie world so here on Movies for Life we're doing a couple episodes in the month of March having to do with the Oscars. For today's episode, we've chosen a couple of our personal favorite movies from the Oscars' history of Best Picture winners! First we discuss Michele's choice, the Best Picture winner of 1940 - Alfred Hitchcock's REBECCA. It's definitely not your typical romance story, and we have a great time breaking down all the wildly interesting characters and salacious plot points in this wonderful adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's novel. Then we move on to another amazing film from another amazing director for Brian's pick, the Best Picture winner of 1960 - Billy Wilder's THE APARTMENT. A movie as equally daring as REBECCA, this one is also emotionally moving while tackling some serious subjects, all of it spearheading by great directing and powerhouse performances from Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, and Fred MacMurray. Thank you all so much for listening and enjoy the show!

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Imaginary Friends: HARVEY and DROP DEAD FRED

'Ello, snotfaces! Welcome back to Movies for Life where this week we have a wonderful double feature of two movies with very sweet messages at their core, but at the same time are also dealing with some serious stuff. It's all about the power of the imaginary friend and what they represent and can do for just about everyone around them. First up for discussion is Brian's choice of the absolute classic, a movie starring one of the podcast's most talked about actors Jimmy Stewart, 1950's HARVEY. Then it's a childhood classic for Michele's pick, the zany and imaginative DROP DEAD FRED from 1991. We have much more focused discussions about both of these films that hopefully get to the deep meaning that is truly behind them both, so we really hope you enjoy the conversation! 

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Snowbound: THE GREY and FARGO

It's cold out there! And since it is that winter time of year for many people, we at Movies for Life are bringing you some snowbound movies to talk about. We have a couple of truly great ones this week, starting with Michele's pick of the 2011 survival drama THE GREY. Though it was marketed as just being Liam Neeson vs wolves in the snow, we get into why this movie is really so much more than that and therefore should be talked about a lot more! Then we tackle a true cinematic classic with Brian's choice - the Coen brothers' masterpiece FARGO. There is definitely a lot of imitating of the Minnesota accent, but there's also talk about why Marge is the best character ever, and really just some of our absolute favorite scenes, shots, and lines from this iconic film. So bundle up and enjoy the show!

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Favorite Discoveries of 2023: Part 2

We're back counting down our top five favorite discoveries of 2023. The picks are yet again very eclectic and we hope you hear about something that piques your interest. We start this episode with a few documentaries we loved and end with a whole lot of movies that we really liked that didn't quite make the list.

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Favorite Discoveries of 2023: Part 1

In this episode we count down numbers 10 to 6 of our favorite movies we saw for the first time in 2023 and they run the gamut from Hollywood classics to recent hidden gems. It's been a great year for discovery and we hope you'll find some recommendations for your future movie watching!

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Favorites of 2023

We each pick or favorites of the year just past with one of our favorite episodes to do each year. We each count down our ten favorites of 2023 and offer a few others that didn't quite make the cut but are still worth checking out.

 

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A Sly Christmas: FIRST BLOOD and COBRA

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, Movies for Life listeners! We hope you all are having a wonderful and happy holiday season however you celebrate or don't! Here on the show, we're having a very Sly Christmas by celebrating actor Sylvester Stallone with two movies of his that don't have anything to do with Christmas but take place around the holiday! First we discuss FIRST BLOOD from 1982 directed by Ted Kotcheff. Though the other films in this series just get bigger and bloodier, this first installment is a very serious, dramatic, and yeah still fun movie with an amazing cast all just absolutely killing it. Then we drop all the drama nothing but bonkers fun with the next movie - 1986's COBRA. It's all the cliches you could ever want from an 80s cop action movie, and that's exactly why we love this one. We hope you have fun with this episode, and as always, thank you all so much for listening!

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Mysteries: THE LADY VANISHES and THE LAST OF SHEILA

Keeping up with our noir-ish theme for this month, on this week's episode of Movies for Life, we're tackling a couple of Michele's absolute favorite kinds of films - mysteries! And these are some truly banger titles so we know you'll dig them! First up is Brian's choice of an early Hitchcock masterpiece, 1938's THE LADY VANISHES. It's a mystery, it's an espionage thriller, it's a comedy, it's a romance-on-the-road - this movie really has it all and we have a really fun time talking about it! Then we get into Michele's pick which is one of the twistiest and turniest of all the mysteries out there, from 1973 it's THE LAST OF SHEILA! This film has such a genius plot and that's really no surprise considering the minds that it came from; plus the cast is absolutely star-studded as well! We hope you all enjoy this one!

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Bank Heists: CASH ON DEMAND and SUGAR & SPICE

This month on Movies for Life we're doing our own version of Noirvember with a couple of episodes about crime and mystery! For our episode this week, we're robbing banks and talking about two very different approaches to the bank heist film. First up for discussion is Brian's choice, the 1961 Hammer film CASH ON DEMAND. This movie has a lot of things that both of us like - Peter Cushing, great character development and exploration, a short runtime, and a single location! It's a wonderful little film that we hope more people will check out. Then we get into Michele's pick, the 2001 dark comedy teen film SUGAR & SPICE! It's a PG-13 movie that still feels like an R movie with the witty and raunchy dialogue. And while it is a hell of a lot of fun to watch and laugh at and with, it's also one that is very clever at what it both plays into and riffs on. We hope you enjoy this pairing!

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More Ghost Movies Because

We take a page from our friends at the Pure Cinema Podcast and share ten "Ghost Movies Because" each. These aren't necessarily the best or even our favorites, but movies about ghosts and hauntings that we like, want to shine a light on, and talk about. We had a lot of fun this Halloween season and hope you enjoy this special bonus episode about one of our favorite sub-genres.

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