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Double Bill Chill
Two movie-obsessed buddies (Spike Alkire & Jake Kelley) pick a movie every week to cover at length and then each pairs the chosen film with yet another film. Three movie recommendations a week (and probably more). Our episodes are researched and we go pretty in-depth on the breakdowns. We love doing it, and we thank you for listening! Enjoy!
Episodes
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Bring Her Back (Movie History, Plot Breakdown, & Pairings)
This week we are covering a film from 2025, "Bring Her Back." We talk about the film and its simultaneous development after the Philippou's debut feature…
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The Lighthouse (Movie History, Plot Breakdown, & Pairings)
This week we are diving right into Robert Eggers' sophomore feature, "The Lighthouse." We discuss the path to making this film, and why the success of "The…
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Hereditary (Movie History, Plot Breakdown, & Pairings)
This week we discuss Ari Aster's horrifying first film, "Hereditary." We talk about the long road to making this film starting with a discussion of his early…
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The VVitch (Movie History, Plot Breakdown, & Pairings)
This week we are beginning our October programming, A-Twenty-Horror. We are covering Robert Eggers' debut film, The Witch! We start by talking about the…
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Eddington (Movie History, Plot Breakdown, & Pairings)
This week we are covering Ari Aster's most recent panic attack film, "Eddington." We cover the writing of this film early in Aster's career, as well as the…
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Love Lies Bleeding (Movie History, Plot Breakdown, & Pairings)
This week we are covering Rose Glass' sophomore feature, "Love Lies Bleeding." We talk about Glass' collaboration with co-writer Weronika Tofilska, and the…
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Aftersun (Movie History, Plot Breakdown, & Pairings)
This week we dive into Charlotte Wells' debut feature, "Aftersun." We open the episode with the background of the film, discussing the long development of this…
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Uncut Gems (Movie History, Plot Breakdown, & Pairings)
This week we discuss another breakout hit for A24, Uncut Gems. We talk about the long road to this film getting made from listening to their fathers "hustling…
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Moonlight (Movie History, Plot Breakdown, & Pairings)
This week we are getting into A24's first financed film and its first Best Picture winner, "Moonlight." We talk about the long road to writing this film for…
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The Lobster (Movie History, Plot Breakdown, & Pairings)
This week we are covering one of Spike's favorite films, Yorgas Lanthimos' "The Lobster." We discuss the development of this film with writer, Efthymis…
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Green Room (Movie History, Plot Breakdown, & Pairings)
This week, we discuss the Neo-Nazi siege film, "Green Room." We discuss director, Jeremy Saulnier's career up to this point and how it fits into what A24 was…
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Ex Machina (Movie History, Plot Breakdown, & Pairings)
This week we continue our A24 themed season with Alex Garland's first directed feature: Ex Machina. We start off by talking about the film within the context…
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Spring Breakers (Movie History, Plot Breakdown, & Pairings)
This week we kick off our A24 season with the first big financial success for the distributor, "Spring Breakers." We discuss the early days of A24 and its…
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Paul Thomas Anderseason Recap & Rankings
This week we are recapping our Paul Thomas Anderseason with a short discussion followed by our futile attempt at ranking these masterworks. We also tease the…
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Licorice Pizza (Movie History, Plot Breakdown, & Pairings)
This episode is our finale of the Paul Thomas Anderseason, since we already covered "One Battle After Another" earlier in the year. In this episode, we talk…
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Phantom Thread (Movie History, Plot Breakdown, & Pairings)
This week we cover our penultimate episode of Paul Thomas Anderseason with "Phantom Thread." We discuss the development of this project and its production. We…
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Inherent Vice (Movie History, Plot Breakdown, & Pairings)
This week we cover Paul Thomas Anderson's smoky noir, "Inherent Vice." We discuss the long process of adapting Thomas Pynchon's work into a screenplay, and the…
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The Master (Movie History, Plot Breakdown, & Pairings)
This week we're back with Paul Thomas Anderson's excellent post-war drama, "The Master." We discuss the long road to getting this film made as well as the…
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There Will Be Blood (Movie History, Plot Breakdown, & Pairings)
This week we discuss one of our favorite films of all time, "There Will Be Blood." We discuss the five years in between this and his previous film…
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Punch-Drunk Love (Movie History, Plot Breakdown, & Pairings)
This week we cover Paul Thomas Anderson's follow-up to "Magnolia," "Punch-Drunk Love." We cover the beginnings of the script and what PTA was doing in between…
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Magnolia (Movie History, Plot Breakdown, & Pairings)
This week we continue our PT Anderseason with "Magnolia." We discuss how the film came about after the success of Boogie Nights, and Anderson's first…
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Boogie Nights (Movie History, Plot Breakdown, & Pairings)
This week we continue our Paul Thomas Anderseason with his San Fernando Valley epic, Boogie Nights. We talk about the inception of this film as a short, then…
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Hard Eight (Movie History, Plot Breakdown, & Pairings)
Welcome back for our PT Anderseason where we cover all of the films of recent Oscar-winning director, Paul Thomas Anderson. We begin with his first film…
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Jesus Christ Superstar (EASTER SPECIAL, WE IS RISEN)
This week we are diving into our favorite Easter movie, Jesus Christ Superstar. We discuss the making of this Norman Jewison film in 1970s Israel. We also…
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2026 Oscar Reactions
This episode is our official 2026 Academy Award reactions episode. We talk about everything we loved and hated about the show, and our reactions to each…
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Oscar Predictions & The Best Films of 2026
This week we are talking our favorite movies of 2025. We think this was a great year for movies, and we are here to gush about our favorites. After we cover…
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The Ugly Stepsister (Movie History, Plot Breakdown, & Pairings)
This week, we finish our Oscars 2026 movie coverage with "The Ugly Stepsister." We discuss the long road for director, Emilie Blichfeldt, to get her film made…
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If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (Movie History, Plot Breakdown, & Pairings)
This week we continue our Oscars 2026 coverage with Mary Bronstein's "If I Had Legs I'd Kick You." We discuss the film's inception from script to screen, and…
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Bugonia (Movie History, Plot Breakdown, & Pairings)
This week we are diving into one of our favorite films of 2025, Yorgos Lanthimos' "Bugonia." We discuss the original Korean film and the background to this…
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2026 Oscar Nominated Animated Shorts (Movie History, Plot Breakdown, & Pairings)
This week we continue our Oscar coverage with a deep look into all five of the animated shorts nominated this year. We begin with Florence Miailhe's…
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Sirât (Movie History, Plot Breakdown, & Pairings)
This week we cover our third film in a row which features a prosthetic leg, Sirât by Galician filmmaker, Oliver Laxe. We cover the long road to getting this…
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Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein (Movie History, Plot Breakdown, & Pairings)
This week we continue our Oscar coverage with Guillermo del Toro's adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. We discuss the long road to making del Toro's…
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It Was Just an Accident (Movie History, Plot Breakdown, & Pairings)
This week we cover Jafar Panahi's Palme d'Or winning film, "It was Just an Accident." We cover the clandestine process of making this film in the repressive…
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2026 Oscar Nominations
It's Oscar time, baby! We are happy and disappointed with (some of) the nominees. Here we break down the categories and pick early frontrunners. Thank you so…
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One Battle After Another (Movie History, Plot Breakdown, & Pairings)
It's Oscar season, baby! This week, we are kicking it off with our coverage of Paul Thomas Anderson's new masterpiece, "One Battle After Another." We discuss…
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In Bruges (Movie History, Plot Breakdown, & Pairings)
MERRY EVERYONE! This week we cover one of our favorite Christmas movies, "In Bruges." We discuss Martin McDonagh's theater career and his transition to…
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The Silent Partner (Movie History, Plot Breakdown, & Pairings)
This week we continue Noir-Ël series with Daryl Duke's Christmas crime film, "The Silent Partner." We discuss everything from the inception of the film from…
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The Night of the Hunter (Movie History, Plot Breakdown, & Pairings)
This week we cover the sole directing credit for Charles Laughton, "The Night of the Hunter." We cover the development from book to screen of this film…
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Devil in a Blue Dress (Movie History, Plot Breakdown, & Pairings)
This week we cover Carl Franklin's 1995 Neo-Noir, Devil in a Blue Dress. We discuss the development of the film with Jonathan Demme and Denzel Washington. We…
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Blade Runner (Movie History, Plot Breakdown, & Pairings)
This week we cover one of Jake's favorite movies, "Blade Runner." We talk about the contentious shooting of the film, and its long development through the…
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Out of the Past (Movie History, Plot Breakdown, & Pairings)
This week we're covering what is possibly the best Noir film ever made, "Out of the Past." We discuss the creation of the script by Daniel Mainwaring and its…
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The Third Man (Movie History, Plot Breakdown, & Pairings)
This week we start Noirvember proper with "The Third Man." We discuss the history of the film, and it's dual American/British super producers. After we discuss…
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John Carpenter's Halloween (Movie History, Plot Breakdown, & Pairings)
This week we're covering one of our favorite horror films, John Carpenter's Halloween! We begin by diving into the background of the film, and its shoestring…
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Cape Fear (Movie History, Plot Breakdown, & Pairings)
This week we are covering the 1962 version of "Cape Fear" directed by J. Lee Thompson. We begin the episode with the history of the film's development and…
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Taste of Fear (Movie History, Plot Breakdown, & Pairings)
This week we take a trip overseas to look into Hammer Films and one of their "mini-hitchcocks," "Taste of Fear" (or "Scream of Fear" in the US). We discuss the…
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The Seventh Victim (Movie History, Plot Breakdown, & Pairings)
This week we dive right into Val Lewton's atmospheric output at RKO with a strange little satanic cult movie called, "The Seventh Victim." We discuss the…
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M (Movie History, Plot Breakdown, & Pairings)
This week we kick off our spooky Noir season with Fritz Lang's "M." We discuss the status of this film as a proto-noir, and discuss Fritz Lang's place in the…
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Season 18 PREVIEW
We've got an exciting season coming up called "Noir-stravaganza!" Here we reveal all of the upcoming films included in our Noir subcategories: Noir-Oween…
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The Ring (2002) (Movie History, Plot Breakdown, & Pairings)
This week we dive into the cursed videotape phenomenon with "The Ring" remake by Gore Verbinski. Spike watched too many Ring movies and fried his brain, but it…
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Adaptation. (Movie History, Plot Breakdown, & Pairings)
This week we are covering the meta-film by Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman, Adaptation. We cover everything from the early trouble Charlie Kaufman had with the…
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Woman in the Dunes (Movie History, Plot Breakdown, & Pairings)
This week, we cover Hiroshi Teshigahara's 1964 classic, "Woman in the Dunes." We discuss the collaboration with writer Kobo Abe, composer Toru Takemitsu, and…
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The Cable Guy (Movie History, Plot Breakdown, & Pairings)
This week we are beginning our random ass season of four films. The first is Ben Stiller's panned-at-the-time film, "The Cable Guy." Join us as we discuss the…
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David Lynch RANKED
This week we do our typical post-season ranking. This is tough, as Lynch has a 90% success rate, but we do our best. We also offer a preview of our next grab…
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Inland Empire (Movie History, Plot Breakdown, & Pairings)
This week we cover our final film for our David Lynch season, and boy is it something else. We cover the lead-up to this film and the creation of David Lynch's…
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Mulholland Drive (Movie History, Plot Breakdown, & Pairings)
This week we're covering David Lynch's Hollywood nightmare, "Mulholland Drive." We cover everything from the TV beginnings of Mulholland Drive as well as the…
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The Straight Story (Movie History, Plot Breakdown, & Pairings)
This week we are covering the strangest of David Lynch's films, "The Straight Story." We cover the time in Lynch's life that led him to this project, his…
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Lost Highway (Movie History, Plot Breakdown, & Pairings)
This week we are covering what critics called a confounding film, "Lost Highway." We discuss everything we love about Lost Highway and its conception by David…
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Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (Movie History, Plot Breakdown, & Pairings)
This week we dive into David Lynch's most fleshed out universe, that of Twin Peaks. We discuss the cancellation of the television show that led to the making…
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BONUS: Spike & Jake Do LA 2025
We'll be back next week with a new episode, but for now here is a quick episode about our trip to LA, and our visit to David Lynch's favorite place, Bob's Big…
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Wild at Heart (Movie History, Plot Breakdown, & Pairings)
1990 was an importqnt year for David Lynch. He began his successful TV series, "Twin Peaks," and won the top prize at the Cannes film festival for "Wild at…