Hardly The Hottest
A silly take on serious cinema. Your hosts, Ryan and Duncan, chat about prestige pics without being pretentious pricks. This podcast is Hardly The Hottest ticket in film reviews, analysis, and attempts at comedy.
Episodes
With THE BLACK MESSIAH and THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES, we dissect the dirty word “biopic” for these two true stories about best friends who become brutal betrayers. Spoiler alert! The titles for these films ARE spoilers!
00:00 - INTRO - We start the podcast out as fr...
Writer / Director Chloe Zhao takes us to the Badlands with her good films NOMADLAND, THE RIDER, and SONGS MY BROTHERS TAUGHT ME as she showcases her award winning neorealism approach to the neo-western.
00:00 - INTRO - Chloe is collecting trophies and Duncan’s tears with each ne...
After conquering the keyboard, Charlie Kaufman takes on directorial duties, and we suffer through mortality in SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK, get lost in the sea of faces in ANOMALISA, and watch our identity fracture into infinity with I’M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS. If that sounds depressing, don't worry, your hosts, the Maggot-Infested Pig and The Japanese Sex Doll, will help you find the humor in ...
Join us on the 7 ½ floor as we take the portal into Charlie Kaufman's mind. Explore the desire to be someone else in BEING JOHN MALKOVICH, hold on as we let go with ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND, and find the truth behind the Kaufman Conspiracies. This is an episode you won’t pay a doctor to help you forget.
We explore cinematic San Francisco, Duncan’s home city that Ryan learned to love after a dumpy introduction. Let’s talk about THE LAST BLACK MAN IN SAN FRANCISCO, Joe Talbot and Jimmie Fail’s love letter to their hometown, Bay Area native David Fincher’s obsession with ZODIAC, and the Chinese-American generational saga of THE JOY LUCK CLUB. Don’t listen to Dirty Harry, if you keep your eyes...
A24 wonder Kid Trey Edward Shults burst onto the scene with the microbudget masterpiece KRISHA, followed that up with the shelter in place thriller IT COMES AT NIGHT, and the brilliant WAVES.
00:00 - INTRO - Trey Edward Shults loves families in peril, imminent dread, and arm wrestling.
06:28 - KRISHA...
Come along and take a slow ride on a rickety wagon through KELLY REICHARDT’s filmography from Florida to Oregon. From her debut, RIVER OF GRASS, to WENDY AND LUCY, her first of many with MICHELLE WILLIAMS, as well as MEEK’S CUTOFF, and her latest (and greatest?), FIRST COW. Be one of the few, the proud, the I heart Reichardt.
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In the midst of the 2020 pandemic, we bring to you The Podcastination Of Ryan James by The Coward Duncan Ford. A silly take on serious cinema where we chat about prestige pics without being pretentious pricks. Get to know your hosts by learning how their relationship blossomed in a state park bathroom, the movies that traumatized them as children, and the themes of spiritual angst, outsider...
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