Filmspotting
Adam Kempenaar and Josh Larsen review new and classic movies, offering "affable, insightful film analysis since 2005" (NY Times).
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July 18, 2025 • 108 mins
Adam and Josh reckon with James Gunn’s SUPERMAN and then consider all the Supermen for their Top 5 Superman Movie Moments. Plus Massacre Theatre and more.
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July 16, 2025 • 41 mins
To celebrate its 25th anniversary, Wong Kar-Wai's intoxicatingly romantic film returns to theaters in select cities. Adam and Josh discussed the film, which placed 4th on the New York Times' recent list of the 100 Best Movies of the 21st Century, as part of a 2021 marathon devoted to the filmmaker.
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July 11, 2025 • 116 mins
Adam and Josh take stock of the movie year with their Top 5 Films of 2025 (So Far), and take another look at Billy Wilder’s THE APARTMENT, which took home the Best Picture and Best Director prize 65 years ago.
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July 9, 2025 • 47 mins
With a new SUPERMAN coming to theaters, we're sharing a Top 5 from the Zack Snyder era: "Batman/Superman Moments" featuring Adam joined by Pop Culture Happy Hour's Glen Weldon and Chris Klimek.
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July 4, 2025 • 118 mins
Adam and Josh decided they could and should give Steven Spielberg’s 1993 blockbuster JURASSIC PARK the Sacred Cow treatment, along with a review of the franchise’s latest (and best since ‘93?) installment JURASSIC WORLD REBIRTH. Plus, Josh recommends M3GAN 2.0 and SORRY, BABY.
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July 2, 2025 • 21 mins
With THIS IS SPINAL TAP back in theaters for its 41st anniversary, we're sharing our 8 From '84 review of the mock rock doc classic. Also from '84, the Talking Heads' classic concert film directed by Jonathan Demme, STOP MAKING SENSE.
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June 27, 2025 • 128 mins
Whether you agree 28 YEARS LATER has too many ideas “smooshed” together or that it all coheres around a single compelling one, Adam and Josh are both eager to see how these rage zombies evolve. Plus, a revisit of the Top 5 Danny Boyle Characters with Danny Boyle.
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June 20, 2025 • 88 mins
Adam and Josh review Celine Song’s love-and-money triangle MATERIALISTS, the follow-up to her exquisite 2023 debut "Past Lives." Plus, reviews of Mike Flanagan’s Stephen King adaptation THE LIFE OF CHUCK and Pixar’s ELIO.
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June 18, 2025 • 20 mins
With Celine Song's MATERIALISTS now in theaters, we share our review of her remarkable 2023 debut, PAST LIVES.
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June 13, 2025 • 104 mins
Wes Anderson and the Anderson Players are back in theaters with THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME. Adam and Josh have a review, plus thoughts on the Philippou Brothers’ BRING HER BACK and Alex Ross Perry’s PAVEMENTS.
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June 11, 2025 • 37 mins
With his latest, THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME, now in theaters, here's Adam and Josh's 2023 review of Wes Anderson's previous feature, ASTEROID CITY.
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June 6, 2025 • 117 mins
It’s CLUELESS’s 30th anniversary garden party and everyone’s invited, including NPR’s Aisha Harris, who joins Adam for a revisit of Amy Heckerling’s ‘95 comedy and the Top 5 Movie Quotes (In Our Lexicon).
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May 30, 2025 • 113 mins
Inspired by their review of MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - THE FINAL RECKONING, the latest and allegedly last film in the 30-year-old Tom Cruise-led franchise, Adam and guest Michael Phillips share their Top 5 Movie Stunts. Plus, what is the best M:I film anyway?
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May 23, 2025 • 122 mins
Adam and Josh revisit BEFORE SUNSET for its 20th-ish anniversary and share their conversation about BEFORE SUNRISE, which followed a 30th-anniversary screening earlier this year to close Filmspotting Fest. Scott Tobias (The Next Picture Show, The Reveal) and Producer Sam Van Hallgren joined them for that. Plus, the final film in the Andrei Tarkovsky Marathon, 1983’s NOSTALGHIA.
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May 16, 2025 • 116 mins
The Best of the Century conversation continues with a draft of the best actors and actresses of the last 25 years, and the Andrei Tarkovsky Marathon brings Adam and Josh into STALKER’s The Zone.
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May 9, 2025 • 85 mins
Adam and Josh leave their Filmspotting Madness brackets behind to make their Top 25 Films of the Century picks – and they manage to do it with only a little overlap. Plus, the return of Massacre Theatre.
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Adam sits down with film writer Violet Lucca to discuss David Cronenberg's provocative filmography and his latest foray into body horror, THE SHROUDS. Plus, he revisits STAR WARS: EPISODE III - REVENGE OF THE SITH for the first time since his five-star review in 2005, Josh has a review of the new VULCANIZADORA from director Joel Potrykus, and a new Madness Champion is crowned.
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April 25, 2025 • 101 mins
Ryan Coogler puts everything, and we do mean everything, into SINNERS, his first film post-”Black Panther.” Adam and Josh have a review, plus ANDREI RUBLEV, THE LEGEND OF OCHI, and the Filmspotting Madness: Best of the Century Final.
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April 18, 2025 • 116 mins
The same weekend that Sean Baker won a shelf-full of Oscars, Filmspotting was screening his 2015 breakout TANGERINE as part of Filmspotting Fest. Following that screening, Vulture’s Alison Willmore joined Adam and Josh to discuss the film. That conversation, plus reviews of THE BALLAD OF WALLIS ISLAND and THE FISHING PLACE, the Filmspotting Madness Final 4, and the start of the Andrei Tarkovsky Marathon.
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April 11, 2025 • 129 mins
Adam and Michael Phillips revisit Joe Wright’s PRIDE & PREJUDICE for its 20th anniversary – and to see if Adam has warmed up to a film he was tepid on back in 2005. (Spoiler: boy, has he.) Will C-beams glitter in the dark for the Top 5 Rain Scenes? Plus, Brickspotting with the indie baseball movie EEPHUS and the Filmspotting Madness Elite 8.
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