The Take-Up Podcast

Shannon Weber, Managing Editor of Feast Magazine, returns to the podcast to take up her favorite movie year! She joins Joshua and Andrew to party like it's 1999 when they discuss her pick from that year, The Virgin Suicides. Before flashing back to Sofia Coppola's debut feature, the boys talk some films that are Now Showing: Radu Jude's (masterpiece) Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World and a spider-rific St...

Things get hot in the cold as The Take-Up goes a little stir crazy with Stanley Kubrick's The Shining. It's Joshua's pick for the new My Favorite Movie Year series, and guest Katharine Coldiron joins to discuss the horror classic and the totally un-horrific, great movie year that is 1980 (and 30-plus films that prove it so).

First, Late Night with the Devil, Stopmotion, Riddle of Fire, and, sure, ⁠Ghostbusters: Kicking...

Andrew picks the final film in the Critics Are Stupid program, Jonathan Glazer's misunderstood 2004 film Birth. Before he, Joshua, and returning guest Katharine Coldiron dive into the Nicole Kidman-starring "ghost story," Io Capitano, Here, and Behind the Haystacks are all Now Showing. Lastly, they all have One More Thing with Alamo Drafthouse's Time Capsule, the African Film Festival at Wash University, Forbidden...

Katharine Coldiron joins Andrew and Joshua for the latter's pick for the Critics Are Stupid program, The Truth About Charlie. Before rushing the streets of Paris in Jonathan Demme's Charade remake, the film critics discuss Dune: Part Two, Drive-Away Dolls, and The Legionnaire. Finally, everyone has One More Thing with some Swans, some Terror, and more on The Zone of Interest.

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Harmony Korine goes to Ohio in Gummo, guest Pete Timmermann's pick for the Critics Are Stupid program. Before diving into the iconoclast director's red flag-raising debut feature, the Webster University Film Series Director joins Joshua and Andrew to discuss Lisa Frankenstein, How to Have Sex, Under the Fig Trees, and Skin Deep, all of which are Now Showing. Finally, they'll round the episode out with video game, book, ...

The great Katharine Coldiron returns to the podcast with her pick for the new Critics Are Stupid program, celebrating critically reviled films we love. Before breaking down the 1991 porkchop/bulldozer Stone Cold, Andrew and Joshua are Now Showing True Detective: Night Country, Trunk: Locked In, Dario Argento Panico, and The Seeding. Finally, they'll have One More Thing featuring good bad movies and good good movies, like the 19...

On this special episode, Andrew and Joshua countdown their respective top ten films of 2023. They talk some tentpole franchise entries marking the return of Ethan Hunt and Spider-Man, tasty docs like Frederick Wiseman's latest, not-so-tasty ones like De Humani Corporis Fabrica, critcs' darlings like Past Lives and The Zone of Interest, one-half of Barbenheimer, and a lot more.

Before that, the Mean Girls musical, Inside th...

Joshy's with the maggots now! Calm down, he's just picked Lee Cronin's Evil Dead Rise for the final episode of the Gems of '23 program. He and Andrew spill all the gory tea (be warned!) about one of the year's better genre entries. After that, they're catching you up on 2023 with reviews of Saltburn, Infinity Pool, Silent Night, Bottoms, and Blackberry. Finally, they're Landscapers-ing and thinking about...

It's your last chance for the Last Dance with Max Havey of St. Louis Magazine! He joins Joshua and Andrew with his pick for the Gems of '23 program: Steven Soderbergh's latest (and last) Magic Mike. Before that, the two hosts have Now Showing blow-out bonanza with the final segment of the of the year covering Ferrari, The Color Purple, Wonka, Eileen, The Iron Claw, and The Zone of Interest. After allllll that, the three...

Past and future guest Billy Rock of Do You Like Apples returns to the Gems series for our 2023 edition with agitprop melo-thriller How to Blow Up a Pipeline in tow. Before that, Godzilla Minus One and Frederick Wiseman's Menus-Plaisirs - Les Troisgros are Now Showing. Later, they'll play a Pipeline edition of Known Four and recommend One More Thing each: real Christmas trees and two Criterion Channel recs among them.

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John Boyega, Jamie Foxx, and Teyonnah Paris headline the sci-fi satire They Cloned Tyrone. Juel Taylor's debut feature is Andrew's pick for the Gems of '23 series, highlighting the best of the underrated or underseen films of the year. First, they'll talk Todd Haynes' May December and Yorgos Lanthimos' Poor Things in Now Showing. After Tyrone, they've got a few suggestions for Academy members. Finally, t...

The blood-sucking Brady Bunch is back with Dark Dream Cinema's Michael Morlaine picking The Lost Boys for QU66R COD6D. Before getting into Joel Schumacher's 1987 vampy vampire cult hit, Andrew and Josh go long on some killers: David Fincher's The Killer and Martin Scoresese's Killers of the Flower Moon. Later, the Take-Up critics preview the 32nd St. Louis International Film Festival, presented by partners Cinema St...

Andrew picks Tomas Alfredson's contemporary classic, Let the Right One In, for the QU66R COD6D series. Before getting into its trans (non-)allegories and whether they should let in American remake Let Me In, they'll talk The Exorcist: Believer, Fair Play, and The Royal Hotel in Now Showing. Finally, they recommend (more than) One More Thing with a lot of Stanley Kubrick talk and just a bit about Lana Del Rey and the Virgini...

It's the most wonderful time of the year... Spooky Season, of course! For the first episode in the QU66R COD6D program, a celebration of queer horror, Joshua picks a childhood favorite: Robert Aldrich's follow-up to What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, the Gatekeep/Gaslight/Girlboss thriller Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte. Before launching into the 1964 camp classic featuring Bette Davis, Andrew and Josh have Trailer of a Movie...

CRUNCH! CRUNCH! Joshua picks Eaten Alive, Tobe Hooper's killer-crocodile follow-up to The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, for the final episode of the Cinema Speculation program. As if that weren't enough to satiate hungry listeners, he and Andrew also cover Hooper's 1981 meta-slasher The Funhouse. After this Hooper Fest, the critics pick their most anticipated films from the fall fests. Crocs! Hamaguchi! Haynes! Oh my!

For the next Cinema Speculation episode, Andrew picks Escape from Alcatraz, the 1979 prison-break from Don Siegel. Before they discuss star Clint Eastwood in possibly too much detail, Joshua and Andrew talk what's Now Showing: DC's Blue Beetle, Ira Sach's Passages, and Between Two Worlds with Juliet Binoche. After, they'll play Quoting Tarantino. Finally, they're recommending One More Thing.

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Joshua and Andrew are joined on a perilous journey by author and critic Katharine Coldiron, when the three of them discuss her pick for the Cinema Speculation program, Deliverance. Did QT get it right saying the first half of John Boorman's 1972 classic is better than the second? First up, the three talk Barbenheimer, Meg 2: The Trench, and Afire. Later, they find out what the cast of Deliverance is Known 4. Finally, they'l...

For the 23rd annual St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase hosted by Take-Up partners Cinema St. Louis, Joshua moderated a panel of esteemed St. Louis film critics called "Film Criticism in Flyover Country". Former guests Elliott Collins and Cliff Froehlich joined colleagues Eileen G'Sell and Diane Carson to bring their diverse experiences as film critics to this master class. The panel was recorded live, so please be aware it...

Cliff Froehlich, critic for The Riverfront Times and former Executive Director of Cinema St. Louis, joins Joshua and Andrew to chat about Quentin Tarantino's latest work, Cinema Speculation, and Cliff's pick from the film-essay memoir, Rolling Thunder. Before diving into that 1977 revenge-o-matic cult classic, Andrew and Joshua review Mission: Impossible: Dead Reckoning - Part One, The Miracle Club, and Lynch/Oz. Cliff stic...