We Like Movies

We’ve come to the end of Nolan Week, folks.
The Academy Awards are nigh and we’re here to offer the last word on the soon-to-be-Oscar-annointed OPPENHEIMER.

Join Matt and SPECIAL GUEST BRIAN BOARINI (!) for a three-hour tour of a quarter-century filmography.
It’s time, folks. It’s Nolan time.

Email: [email protected]
Donate: Thanks!
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Stitcher / Overcast / RSS

It’s TENET-talkdown time, team.

We chat. We disagree. We rank.
Sound good?

Email: [email protected]
Donate: Thanks!
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Stitcher / Overcast / RSS

Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Stitcher / Overcast / RSS
Donate: Thanks!
Email: [email protected]

Sound good?
We chat. We disagree. We rank.

It’s TENET-talkdown time, team.

It’s time to talk temporality, team.

- INCEPTION (2010)
- INTERSTELLAR (2014)
- DUNKIRK (2017)

Email: [email protected]
Donate: Thanks!
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Stitcher / Overcast / RSS

With Nolan’s vision of Gotham City in our rearview, we’re now flashing back to the beginning of the auteur’s cinematic journey.
We’ll scrutinize his dexterity with the daylight noir, his interest in self-victimizing sleuths, and his fascination with prestidigitation.

- FOLLOWING (1998)
- MEMENTO (2000)
- INSOMNIA (2002)
- THE PRESTIGE (2006)

Email: [email protected]
Donate: Thanks!
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Stitcher / Overcast / RSS

You know them, you’ve seen them, and you certainly have opinions about them.
Join us as we revisit three of the most successful, influential, and subversively political films of the 21st century- courtesy of a man who insisted that he had absolutely no political agenda in mind when he made them.
We’ll [attempt to] get to the bottom of this thematic paradox…

- BATMAN BEGINS (2005)
- THE DARK KNIGHT (2008)
- THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (2012)

Email: [email protected]
Donate: Thanks!
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Stitcher / Overcast / RSS

As we traverse the last few miles in the marathon that will end at the 96th Academy Awards, it has become clear that “foregone conclusion” is the proper term to describe this year’s Best Director race. We here at WE LIKE MOVIES could not be happier with this inevitability as we look forward to no longer living in a world in which Christopher Nolan has zero Oscars.

In honor of the occasion, we have decided to revisit our recent Oeuvre series about Mr. Nolan. For the next few days, leading up to Sunday’s Oscar Ceremony, we will be posting “encore presentations” of all episodes of the Nolan series, culminating in a brand new BONUS EPISODE celebrating the only film not covered in our original countdown: Best Picture frontrunner OPPENHEIMER.We begin with the rare “solo pod,” in which Matt inaugurates the series with a narratology lecture about Nolan’s unique storytelling acumen.

Follow us this week for podcasts about all twelve of the director’s films, spanning his quarter-century career.

View the complete version of Matt’s Nolan video essay HERE

Email: [email protected]
Donate: Thanks!
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Stitcher / Overcast / RSS

The year in cinema that was 2023 started slowly, built to a crescendo, exploded and imploded simultaneously–when the Barbenheimer phenomenon and twin work stoppages both landed on the same whirlwind weekend in July–attempted to rebound and rally in the latter days of the post-strike holiday season (industry, heal thyself!), before closing out the calendar and entering awards season with slew of best-of lists that all seemed to reach the same conclusion: “considering the apocalyptic prognostications that seemed to define entertainment industry editorials in 2023, it was a pretty damned solid year for movies!” I’m inclined to agree. My top 10 lists reflects my allegiance to this opinion:

It’s Bond time again. We’re podcasting about it. Need we say more?

On this week’s episode, we’re joined by special guest BRIAN BOARINI for a discussion about Steven Soderbergh’s undervalued and under-discussed 2000 masterpiece, TRAFFIC, on the occasion of the film’s 20th anniversary. Email: [email protected] Donate: Thanks! Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Stitcher / Overcast / RSS

Greetings, WLM faithful! We return to you now, after an extended, fall hiatus, with a State-of-the-Cinematic-Union-style discussion pod, followed by a thorough review of David Fincher’s decades-in-the-making, pseudo-historical biopic Mank. We’re excited to be back, have a backlog of hot takes, and promise to never stay away so long again. If you’re playing the WLM drinking game, today’s buzzword is EVOCATIVE! Email: [email protected] Donate: Thanks! Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Stitcher / Overcast / RSS