Measuring Flicks is back in the arthouse again with director Lee Chang-Dong’s brilliant Murakami adaptation Burning. Confronted with one of the most deliciously ambiguous slow-burn thrillers either of them have ever seen, Max and very special guest Alex dig into what precisely they saw, what precisely it means, and why the hell cat-sitting for some…

Max and Cassandra (of Cassandra Explains It All and Drenched In Drama) kick off their monthlong exploration of the cinematic archetype and cultural phenomenon that is the Manic Pixie Dream Girl with 2004’s Garden State. Are MPDGs just a holdover of outdated feminine societal structures from eras past? Infantilized male fantasies? Freudian Mommy sta…

Hop back in the tub for Part II of Underwater, with Max and Connor! Plus: Suede Rainbow Live from the Barrel Room! Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.comโดย Max Peterson and Connor Sweeney

Connor’s back in the studio to avoid talking about 2020’s Underwater. Why? We have no idea. The flick is actually really good, super fun, legit scary, well-made, well-paced, and filled with good performances and a subtle touch of world-building that’s creepy and insidious as hell. We just hadn’t seen each other in about a year, so what we ended up …

Ryan Gosling goes out strong with an Oscar-nominated turn as a crack-addicted middle-school teacher whose life is on the verge of absolute collapse, and whose only hope might be one of his pre-teen students…if only she can avoid a life selling crack on the street to scumbags like him. It’s a very Measuring Flicks Christmas Special with very special…

Part II of our discussion of Fritz Lang’s prescient 1927 masterpiece, METROPOLIS, with special guest Jeff Morgan! Support the show! Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm Talk to us! MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com Jeff’s Stuff: Prometheus Motion Picturesโดย Max Peterson, Karl Hartley, and Jeff Morgan

Jeff Morgan is back again with another iron-clad classic for the fellas to frolic around in. It’s a look into the future from somewhere in the past, and honestly? Fritz Lang pretty much called it. At long last, and long overdue, it’s…METROPOLIS (1927)! Like the show? Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm Chime in! MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com Jeff’s stuff: …

Part II of our discussion of Terry Gilliam’s best time-travel movie, 12 Monkeys (1995). Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com Jeff: prometheusmotionpictures.comโดย Max Peterson, Karl Hartley, and Jeff Morgan

Jeff Morgan continues to melt our minds with Terry Gilliam’s ecologically-minded time-travel head trip, 12 Monkeys (1995). Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com Jeff: PrometheusMotionPictures.comโดย Max Peterson, Karl Hartley, and Jeff Morgan

Jeff Morgan’s Tour of the Masterworks continues with Chris Marker’s mind-exploding still-image picture experience La Jetée. It’s weird to cover something that is, essentially, the exact opposite of our wheelhouse: we do motion pictures. La Jetée is a, uh…hmm. “Non-motion picture”. And one of the best we’ve ever seen. Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm Measur…

The Kurosawa conversation expands into an examination of the pressures exerted by the online age on the art life. Jeff drops some wisdom, but only one drops his sword after the final draw… Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com Check Jeff out at Prometheus Motion Pictures!โดย Max Peterson, Karl Hartley, and Jeff Morgan

Unofficial Pledge of the FZK and literal film legend Jeff Morgan is back for Measuring Flicks’ first crack at the work of Akira Kurosawa. You’ve seen the poster in Bosch’s office. You’ve see A Fistful of Dollars. You’ve seen Last Man Standing. If you haven’t seen Yojimbo, you haven’t seen anything yet. Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcas…

🎬HEY YOU GUYS! Join Chris and Leslie as they talk about kids hunting gold with a monster as they cover The Goonies with music by Dave Grusin. Find out if this score is buried treasure or a booby trap set by pirates. 🎬 You can listen, rate, and review us on: Spotify/Apple/Google/YouTube and more! 🎬 You can find our social media here: Facebook/Twitte…

🎬 Composer Alex Belcher joins Chris and Leslie on this surprise bonus episode as they talk about his work on the Amazon Prime spy show "Citadel". Find out his love for film music, working with Avengers Endgame directors The Russo Brothers, and how to create a voice for spies through music. 🎬 CITADEL is now streaming on Amazon Prime. Check out Alex'…

🎬 What action-packed film has Denzel on a train with Captain Kirk? It's Unstoppable with a score by Harry Gregson-Williams. Find out if the score rides the rail into the sunset or if it derails and crashes as Chris and Leslie tackle this thrill ride of a score. 🎬 You can listen, rate, and review us on: Spotify/Apple/Google/YouTube and more! 🎬 You c…

Part II of our discussion of the mind-bending Dark City (1998). Jim either becomes enlightened or goes off the deep end. The fellas learn a lot about the nature of reality, and the genius of tons of cuts! Support the Show: Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm Talk to Us, Goose: MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.comโดย Max Peterson, Karl Hartley, and Jeff Morgan

🎬 Chris and Leslie put on their adventuring hats and dive deep into the cinematic gold, National Treasure. Find out of the score lives up the riches that it is expected or if X does not mark the spot. 🎬 You can listen, rate and review us on: Spotify/Apple/Google/YouTube and more! 🎬 You can find our social media here: Facebook/Twitter/Instagram…

Jeff Morgan returns to take over the podcast, warping our minds and our very concept of Reality with Dark City (1998). Where has this flick been all our lives? From the director of The Crow, it’s the granddaddy of The Matrix. Gnostic philosophy in a timeless Neo-noire sci-fi occult package. Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com…

Ryan Gosling appreciation month rolls on with one of the best dramas the boys have see yet: it’s Nicolas Winding Refn’s neo-noir masterpiece, Drive (2011). Star-studded cast, stunning cinematography, and one of the best scores we’ve heard all season—what’s not to love? If you’ve only ever seen the trailer, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet. Patreon.com/Qu…

Director John Scheibe talks his doc IRON TOWN, and what lies ahead for The Yonder Studio. You can watch the documentary at TheYonder.Studio. (While you’re there, you should definitely check out Perhaps We Wrong Them as well.) If you like the show, you can find out how to support it over on Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm. Or drop us a line at MeasuringFli…

Max sits down with award-winning filmmaker and festival darling John Scheibe to talk about his latest short, the breathtaking PERHAPS WE WRONG THEM. You can find the film at TheYonder.Studio If you like what you hear, head on over to Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm to find out how you can help support the show, or drop us a line at MeasuringFlicksPodcast@…

The fellas duck and weave their way through Ryan Gosling’s intense and impressive performance as a Jewish Neo-Nazi in 2001’s The Believer. It’s a harrowing and powerful bit of art (that maybe gets a little too arthouse for its own good at times, but hey, it was 2001), and one hell of a delicate topic for discussion. Cue the comedic breaks! Patreon.…

Wrapping up our discussion of 2007’s brilliant Lars and the Real Girl. Truly a love story for the ages, and a perfect date night flick. (No, really.) Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.comโดย Max Peterson and Karl Hartley

This is the podcast episode of Measuring Flicks which is about Bianca. Bianca stars in the moving picture Lars and the Real Girl, which is about a real girl and a lie named Lars, that is Ryan Gosling inside. The story is about how the Lie that is Ryan Gosling inside dies and is broken and is reborn, and is about Bianca. Buy now. Patreon.com/QuillAn…

More Nick Cage than you waggle a Flick at! The strapping young men get down to brass tacks and golden guns in the conclusion to their outpouring of love for THE UNBEARABLE WEIGHT OF MASSIVE TALENT. Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.comโดย Max Peterson and Karl Hartley

It’s the movie we all knew we wanted, in our secret hearts: Nicolas Cage playing himself in an action comedy movie about movies, with Pedro Pascal as his opposite number. Honestly, if you need more than that, I mean…who hurt you? Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.comโดย Max Peterson and Karl Hartley

Max and Karl wrap up their (surprisingly emotional) discussion of 2021’s Pig. This movie took both of us by surprise. Astoundingly good. Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.comโดย Max Peterson and Karl Hartley

Pig is a hard movie to write a blurb about. It’s infinitely blurbable—the problem is catching the actual experience of watching this incredible film. I could write: It’s John Wick with a pig. Or: It’s the story of a truffle hunter’s love for his pig. But that misses it entirely (even if both are true). It’s one man’s journey into the underworld to …

Nicolas Cage month (ha—more like quarter) continues, with Martin Scorsese’s surreal and frenetic drama, BRINGING OUT THE DEAD (1999). Burned-out EMT has a terrible week, shot like a nightmare, and scored with U.S. Soul and UK punk. Nicolas Cage is brilliant. So is Ving Rhames, John Goodman, Patricia Arquette, Marc Anthony (yeah, the excellent singe…

Wrapping up our discussion of 1997’s Con Air. Sorry about our voiceover guy. He drinks. Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.comโดย Max Peterson and Karl Hartley

Welcome back to the Cage. Come on in, the water’s fine. I mean, the swimming pool is empty except for a little girl having a tea party with a serial murderer, but it’s really more an expression, anyway. This is an audio medium, so there’s no water ever, really--just in your imagination, and if you're anything like us, you're imagining that imaginar…

We’re getting our feet under us again and wrapping up our look at the black and white era with Buster Keaton’s most famous film, The General (1927). Is it a masterpiece? We’re not sure. The stunts are pretty incredible, but all the stuff in between the stunts…well, you’ll have to tune in and find out. The episode is a blast, at least. Stay tuned fo…

The fellas finally circle back to wrap up their discussion on one of the last great masterpieces of the Silent Era, and catch up after a couple hard months apart. Not to break the fourth wall or anything, but it was really good to hear Karl’s voice and see his face again (albeit back to being on the other side of a screen for a little while). Stay …

Just a quick update about why the show’s been on hiatus, with some bangin’ jams at the end. Thanks to our listeners for their patience and support while Max finds his footing, and thanks to our Patrons for the new iMac, without which there could be no Jamz this Sweaty. (Apparently the youthz have some new slang. Let’s go.) MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gm…

🎬 Chris and Leslie get a chance to talk with Academy Award Nominated Composer Marco Beltrami. Listen as they talk about his career and their favorite music. 🎬 You can listen, rate and review us on: Spotify/Apple/Google/YouTube and more! 🎬 You can find our social media here: Facebook/Twitter/Instagram 🎬 Visit Marco Beltrami's Official Website Here a…

🎥 Chris and Leslie are joined with Randy from Soundtrack Alley and they are swept away with the storm as they tackle the score to Twister. 🎬 You can listen, rate and review us on: Spotify/Apple/Google/YouTube and more! 🎬 You can find our social media here: Facebook/Twitter/Instagram 🎬Check out Soundtrack Alley and Cinematic Sound Radio…

This week, the boys sit down to discuss Charlie Chaplin’s final silent film, Modern Times. Enduringly relevant, hilariously funny, and surprisingly powerful, even all these years later: if you haven’t seen it, watch it, and if you have seen it, then listen to us talk about it! This episode was a blast. Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcas…

🎬 11 Guys, 2 podcasters, 1 ultimate score. Chris and Leslie tackle the score to Ocean's Eleven by David Holmes and decide whether it is the ultimate cool heist score or if it fails to deliver the goods. Find out! 🎬 Buy Our Merch Here! 🎬 You can listen, rate and review us on: Spotify/Apple/Google/YouTube and more! 🎬 You can find our social media her…

🎬 Chris and Leslie are joined with Josh from Twist My Arm network for the Tim Burton horror/comedy Sleepy Hollow. Will the score work or will Heads Roll. Find out! 🎬 Follow us on social media! Facebook/Twitter/Instagram/and more! 🎬 Follow the Twist My Arm Network HEREโดย Chris Lott & Leslie Lott

🎬 Chris and Leslie tackle the worms under the sun as they cover the scores for the 1990 film "Tremors". They essentially cover two scores and see which works and which don't. 🎬 You can listen, rate and review us on: Spotify/Apple/Google/YouTube and more! 🎬 You can find our social media here: Facebook/Twitter/Instagram…

PRIVATE EYES AND FUNNY GUYS The fellas wrap up their brandy-fueled discussion of The Maltese Falcon (1941). Part 2 of 2. Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.comโดย Max Peterson and Karl Hartley

PRIVATE EYES AND FUNNY GUYS We’re kicking off Season 5 with a memorial month for Max’s grandmother, a lifelong film fan with a fondness for classics, funnies, and film noir. What better way to begin our celebration of her memory (and her impeccable taste) than with John Huston’s brilliant adaptation of Dashiell Hammett’s novel THE MALTESE FALCON. B…

Max remembers his Grandma Linda, and takes a little time to heal before the boys spin up the next reel.โดย Max Peterson

🎬 Chris and Leslie have Dan and Manny from The Nostalgia Test join them for the final episode of the year. They tackle the score to The Nightmare Before Christmas and discuss is it a Halloween film or a Christmas film..or both? 🎬 You can listen, rate and review us on: Spotify/Apple/Google/YouTube and more! 🎬 You can find our social media here: Face…

✈️🚂🚗 In this episode Chris and Leslie are joined with Mark and Joe from Digital Dissection as they cover the John Huges classic Planes, Trains, and Automobiles. They discover the lack of score and coin the Hughesenverse. Thank you to Digital Dissection for joining us. Facebook/Instagram/Twitter Digital Dissection…

Sister Sara Hartley joins us in the studio to talk The Last Starfighter (1984), directed by Nick Castle. (Yes, that Nick Castle.) A fantastic sci-fi adventure, and a great talk down memory lane. Patreon.com/QuillAndFilm MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.comโดย Max Peterson and Karl Hartley

🦕 Chris and Leslie take on one of the greatest films of all time as it was 65 million years in the making. Enjoy this surprise episode as they test the waters of having audio clips in the score. Facebook/Twitter/Instagamโดย Chris Lott & Leslie Lott

🎃 You know the film. It's the one with the guy in the white mask who stalks the babysitters. That's right Chris and Leslie are covering Halloween. Not just one though. They are covering Halloween 1978 and Halloween 2018. They have brought along Shawn and Sam from Cheapseat Reviews for help. Stay scared! Facebook/Twitter/Instagram Cheapseat Reviews…

Part 2 of 2 of our discussion of Kathryn Bigelow’s harrowing and masterful K-19: The Widowmaker (2002). MeasuringFlicksPodcast@gmail.com Patreon.com/QuillAndFilmโดย Max Peterson and Karl Hartley

THE GUNS OF AUGUST (in October) wraps up with K-19: The Widowmaker (2002), directed by Kathryn Bigelow. We were ready for a masterpiece. We just weren’t ready for all the…melting people. Wow. Measuringflickspodcast@gmail.com Patreon.com/QuillAndFilmโดย Max Peterson and Karl Hartley