Speaking English
The spot to be for anyone who says to themselves, "I want to watch more movies, or read more books, but I don't know where to start." Co-hosts Evan English and Addie Rzonca bring a passion for media consumption that is hard to find, and dive into the culture of movie-watching and book-reading from a unique perspective. A fun and interesting time for all involved.
Episodes
We're back with our first wrap-up in a while. It's the best of what we read and watched in September, October, AND November of 2024. Lots of good stuff here.
Introduction (00:00)
Mailbag (4:29)
Books (10:52)
Movies (22:30)
What's Coming Up and Our Albums (1:34:33)
Thanks for listening !
Well, we finally did it. It's Casablanca for this episode.
Introduction (00:00)
Op-Ed Corner (7:09)
Double Indemnity Ep 175
The Big Sleep Ep 136
Chinatown Ep 138
Movie Discussion (11:19)
What's Coming Up (44:37)
Albums and Outro (46:08)
Thanks for listening !
Well, we made it. For our 200th episode we are taking a look back over our first 4 1/2 years by selecting our podcast favorite book and movie of each decade. Join us for a fun discussion and nice retrospective.
Introduction (00:00)
Rules of the Game (7:45)
The Game Itself (9:50)
Summary and Look Ahead (1:21:30)
Our Album Recs (1:25:53)
Thanks so much for all the listening over the years !
We're back in action with the best of what we read and watched in August of this year. Back to our intercontinental format with this one.
Introduction/ What we've been up to (00:00)
What you guys put in the mailbag (7:35)
What we read (16:08)
What we watched (30:48)
What's coming up on the pod (1:18:50)
What we think you should be listening to (1:20:30)
Lot's of big milestones coming up, ...
A little different episode this time around, as we take a look at Battlefield Earth (2000), notorious for being one of the worst movies ever made. Find out what we thought of it, some of our opinions on what makes a movie bad, and much more here in this episode.
Introduction (00:00)
Decision to Leave (7:02)
Battlefield Earth (17:58)
What's coming up and our album recs (49:18)
Thanks for listening !
We're back with our July wrap-up for this time around, with the best of what we read and watched in July here in one place.
Intro (00:00)
Mailbag/ Show and Tell (4:17)
Books we read (10:10)
Movies we watched (21:10)
Album Recs (1:04:48)
Thanks for listening !
Challenge Week is back for the first time in quite a while. We have an excellent selection this week, with Bringing Up Baby (1938) d. Howard Hawks and Amadeus (1984) d. Milos Forman. Two excellent pictures directed by two of our best boys.
Intro (00:00)
Mailbag and etc (4:54)
Bringing Up Baby (18:54)
Amadeus (37:12)
The Fireman's Ball was featured in ep 84
What's Coming Up (51:07)
Album recs (52:40)
T...
We're back right on time with a June Wrap-up filled with fun discussions, primarily what we read and watched in June 2024.
Introduction (00:00)
Mailbag (8:58)
w/ special guest Sierra
What we Read (19:34)
Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler
Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Middlegame by Seanan McGuire
What We Watched (36:15)
24 ...
Welcome one and all, especially if this is your first time visiting us. We decided that our first episode doesn't really paint a good picture of what we do here, so we made a bonus episode as an intro to the pod.
So this is what Speaking English is all about: a little about ourselves, what you can expect from us here, and what we do in our different types of episodes.
Thanks for listening, and hope to se...
We're back in action this week again with another wrap-up episode of the best of what we read and watched in May 2024:
Introduction and Weeks (0:00)
Mailbag and Op-Ed (12:19)
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance featured in Ep. 15
Books we read (17:22)
Federico Garcia Lorca by Ian Gibson
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
La Nochevieja de Montalbano by...
It's a new movie this time around, as we watched The Fall Guy (2024) d. David Leitch, a PG-13 picture we may add. A fun time for all involved.
Bullet Train was discussed in Episode 158 for the record.
Introduction and what we've been up to (0:00)
Mailbag (7:36)
The Fall Guy (17:34)
What's Coming up on the Pod (44:40)
Our album recs (47:22)
Thanks for listening !
We're back at it this week with another movie episode, this time watching What a Way to Go! (1964). It was a wonderful time for one and all.
Intro and Our Weeks (0:00)
Mailbag and Editorial Corner ? (8:36)
What a Way to Go! (15:02)
What's coming up on the pod (54:34)
Our Album Recs (59:53)
Thanks for listening !
We're back with a movie episode this week: The Face of Another (1966) d. Hiroshi Teshigahara. Listen to hear what we thought about it, as well as some other fun stuff.
Intro (00:00)
All about our weeks (1:45)
Mailbag (12:27)
The Face of Another (12:40)
What's Next on the Pod (45:18)
Our Album Recs (50:10)
Other Episodes mentioned:
The Devil All the Time Ep. 30
100 episode special Eps. 99-101
Tha...
We're back in action once again, with a wrap-up for both March and April this time. The best of what we read and watched, and whether you should check it out too:
Intro & How our weeks have been (00:00)
Mailbag (11:20)
Books we read (12:36)
Movies we watched (26:50)
What's coming up next episode (1:34:14)
Albums for the week (1:38:00)
Other Episodes mentioned:
Norwegian Wood: Ep. 51
La Notte...
The Shiners have arrived once again! Tune in to see who took home the prizes in the biggest movie award show around !
Intro (00:00)
Our Previous Shiners episodes: 108, 152
What We Did This Week (02:30)
Quick Oscars Discussion (09:46)
The Shiners Begin (15:20)
Ensemble Cast (16:30)
Best Soundtrack (20:16)
Screenplay (22:57)
Sound Design (25:20)
Editing (27:30)
Costuming (31:13)
Production Design (33:38)
Suppo...
(LAST CHANCE TO VOTE)
We're back with another wrap-up for the month of February 2024. All the best of what we read and watched over the past month.
Thanks for listening !
We're back after another fairly long break with two movies for the price of one. This week we watched Wings of Desire (1987) and After Life (1998), two more entries from the Criterion Channel's Interdimensional Romance collection.
Thanks for listening !
It's our first regular movie episode of the year, and this time around we watched Starman (1984). We wanted to choose something from the Criterion Channel's Interdimensional Romance series and so we did just that.
Thanks for listening !
We're back at it with a new wrap-up episode. Happy February one and all! Celebrate the beginning of the new month with a wrap up of what we read and watched in the month of January 2024. Enjoy !
Episodes Featuring movies/books we talked about here:
4, 75 : PlayTime (1967)
24: Oldboy (2003)
82: I Married a Witch (1942)
112: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (The Book)
124: Prisoners (2013)
132...
All the movies from 1923 that should still be seen today (according to me)
Lists here on Letterboxd:
Canon (will be linked once I make the list)
Movies mentioned that aren't from 1923:
The Cameraman's Revenge (1912)
Corpus Christi (2019)
Sherlock Jr. (1924) - Watched for the pod in ep 149
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Shanghai Express (1932)
Thanks for listening !
Go vote for The Shiners HERE
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