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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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Brick (Breakdown & Pairings)
This week we are leaving the classic Noirs behind for a 21st century Neo-Noir by Rian Johnson, "Brick." We begin the episode by discussing the background on…
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In a Lonely Place (Breakdown & Pairings)
This week, we cover Nicholas Ray's noir masterpiece, "In a Lonely Place." We discuss the production of the film with the recently separated Ray & Gloria…
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Gilda (Breakdown & Pairings)
This week we cover one of the sexiest films ever made, "Gilda." We discuss the subtext of the film, which borders on full-on text. We also discuss the making…
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Touch of Evil (Breakdown & Pairings)
Noir-vember begins with what Paul Schrader once called, "Film Noir's Epitaph." A strange place to start, sure, but this is one of the best noirs there is. We…
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Ernest Scared Stupid (Breakdown & Pairings)
Have you ever heard two guys talk about "Ernest Scared Stupid" for over two hours? Buckle up, booger lips, it's Jim Varney time! In this episode, we discuss…
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The Wicker Man (Breakdown & Pairings)
This week, we cover "The Wicker Man" with our composer and Wicker fan Breck McGough. We cover a lot in this episode, including the quick production, the…
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Audition (Breakdown & Pairings)
Our scary season continues! This week, we cover Miike Takashi's romantic comedy, "Audition." We discuss Miike's prolific career, and the three week shoot that…
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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Breakdown & Pairings)
This week we begin our new holiday season with a very special guest, our composer and friend, Breck McGough! Join us for a free-wheeling discussion on Tobe…
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Bong Joon-ho Films Ranked
This week we wrap up our Bong Joon-ho season with our definitive ranking of his films. We discuss each film briefly and whiy we put it where it is in the…
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Parasite (Breakdown & Pairings)
This week we cover the most celebrated of Bong Joon-ho's films, "Parasite." We discuss the play this began as and how it quickly developed into the taut…
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Gremlins 2 (Breakdown & Pairings)
It's time to celebrate our 100th episode with an episode about our most requested film, Gremlins 2. We cover everything from Joe Dante's reluctance to make a…
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Okja (Breakdown & Pairings)
We hope you like big hippo dog pigs, because it's time for our episode on "Okja!" We discuss Bong Joon-ho's original idea and how that developed over a couple…
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Snowpiercer (Breakdown & Pairings)
This week we cover Bong Joon-ho's English language debut, "Snowpiercer." We discuss the making of the film including special effects and casting. We then go…
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Mother (Breakdown & Pairings)
This week, we are covering Bong Joon-ho's "Mother." Not to be confused with Darren Aronofsky's "Mother!," which must be shouted. We discuss the creation of the…
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The Host (Breakdown & Pairings)
It's monster time! This week, we are covering "The Host" by Bong Joon-ho and it is a delightful film. We begin the episode discussing the background and the…
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Barking Dogs Never Bite (Breakdown & Pairings)
This week we begin our new season covering the films of Bong Joon-ho. We start with the beginning of Bong's feature film career, "Barking Dogs Never Bite" or…
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Two Year Anniversary Spectacular!
Today marks our 2nd anniversary for the podcast. We have covered 93 films in that time and paired with 186 films for 186 different double bills! We love doing…
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Il Cinema Ritrovato Film Festival Report
Spike has just returned from Italy and the Cinema Ritrovato Festival 2023. This episode is a report on all the movies he was able to see, and one complaint…
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Top 10 Films of Spike & Jake (Plus Season 8 Rankings)
This week, Spike and Jake do the impossible task of picking 10 films for their Sight & Sound personal top 10. But first, we dive back into our films covered…
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The Red Shoes (Breakdown & Pairings)
This week, we finish our Sight & Sound season with Powell & Pressburger's "The Red Shoes. We begin with a discussion on why this has been added to the top 100…
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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Breakdown & Pairings)
This week we begin our two week look at Powell & Pressburger, otherwise known as "The Archers." First, we are looking into a film kicked off the Sight & Sound…
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Tropical Malady (Breakdown & Pairings)
This week we cover Apichatpong Weerasethakul's 2004 film, "Tropical Malady" in the context of the Sight & Sound top 100 films list. We discuss the making of…
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Wild Strawberries (Breakdown & Pairings)
This week we dive into our first Ingmar Bergman film for the podcast, "Wild Strawberries." We cover the background of the film and look into Bergman's angst…
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Wanda (Breakdown & Pairings)
This week we cover the iconic and pioneering "Wanda" by first-time director, Barbara Loden who also stars in and wrote the film. We discuss her life and put…
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Chinatown (Breakdown & Pairings)
This week we cover the phenomenal 1974 neo-noir, "Chinatown." We discuss Roman Polanski's crimes and their stain on his films' legacies. After that we discuss…
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Cléo from 5 to 7 (Breakdown & Pairings)
This week we cover Agnès Varda's real-time classic, Cléo from 5 to 7. We discuss how the film is really only Cléo from 5 to 6:30. We also discuss the making of…
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Rio Bravo (Breakdown & Pairings)
This week, we go West to discuss Howard Hawks' classic John Wayne Western, "Rio Bravo." We discuss who was the most racist person on set and the troubling…
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Spirited Away (Breakdown & Pairings)
This week's episode is all about Miyazaki's masterpiece, "Spirited Away." We cover a lot of background on the film including its production and cultural…
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Aguirre, The Wrath of God (Breakdown & Pairings)
This week, we begin our Sight & Sound Season where we cover 5 films no longer on the Top 100 list and 5 films new to the Top 100 list in 2022. This episode is…
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2023 Oscar Reactions
This episode consists of our reactions to the 2023 Oscars. We mainly discuss how much we are glad certain things won (and didn't win). This year was the year…
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2023 Oscar Winner Predictions
This week, Spike and Jake look back at the movies from this Oscar season and predict what will win in each category. Both preferred winners and expected…
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Triangle of Sadness (Breakdown & Pairings)
This week, we cover Ruben Östland's Palme d'Or winner, "Triangle of Sadness." We dive deep into the pool of vomit for an at-length discussion of the film…
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Oscar Nominated Animated Short Films 2023 (Breakdown & Pairings)
This week, we do a deep dive on the Oscar Nominated Animated Short Films: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse (Directed by Peter Baynton & Charlie…
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All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (Breakdown & Pairings)
This week, we dive into the Best Documentary Feature category with Laura Poitras' portrait of Nan Goldin, "All the Beauty and the Bloodshed." We follow along…
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Eo (Breakdown and Pairings)
This week, we cover Jerzy Skolimowski's donkey road film, Eo. We cover the conception of the film with Skolimowski's writing partner and wife, Ewa Piaskowska…
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Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (Breakdown & Pairings)
This week we cover Guillermo del Toro's stop motion masterpiece, "Pinocchio." We cover the lengthy film production as well as the history of the Pinocchio…
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Everything Everywhere All at Once (Breakdown & Pairings)
This week we cover the multiversal masterpiece by the Daniels, Everything Everywhere All at Once. We discuss the background of the film including the career of…
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The Banshees of Inisherin (Breakdown & Pairings)
This week, we cover Martin McDonagh's brilliant pitch black Irish comedy, "The Banshees of Inisherin. We discuss the works of Martin McDonagh including the…
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Oscar Nominations 2023
Spike and Jake react to and give random thoughts on the 2023 Oscar Nominations. We discuss the movies we're excited for and the upcoming Oscar movies to be…
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Bicycle Thieves (Breakdown & Pairings)
Oscar season begins with a look back at one of the first foreign language films to be awarded an Oscar, "Bicycle Thieves." We discuss the road to Vittorio de…
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Jingle All the Way (Breakdown & Pairing)
In this episode, we cover our final Christmas movie of the season, the holiday classic, "Jingle All the Way." We do many Arnold Schwarzenegger impressions and…
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Black Christmas (Breakdown & Pairings)
This week, we cover Bob Clark's slasher Christmas classic, "Black Christmas." We discuss the making of the film including a possible beef between two of the…
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Tokyo Godfathers (Breakdown & Pairings)
This week we continue our Christmas Movie Mini Season with the late great Satoshi Kon's christmas classic, "Tokyo Godfathers." We discuss the John Ford film…
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Batman Returns (Breakdown & Pairings)
We begin our short Christmas Season with Tim Burton's "Batman Returns." We discuss the long road to undo the television show's camp legacy and the the short…
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BONUS: The Unmade Films of Martin Scorsese + Martin Scorseason RANKED
This week as a little bonus, we have gathered the unmade projects of Martin Scorsese to discuss. We also discuss the one time he got fired, and the projects he…
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Halloween List-o-Mania!
This week we've got a Halloween spooky special featuring, at least, 30 scary movies discussed. We have a special guest, Breck McGough, who with us provides a…
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Silence (2016) (Breakdown & Pairings)
This week is our final film covered in our Martin Scorseason, but also the final film of Scorsese's religious trilogy of films beginning with "The Last…
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The Wolf of Wall Street (Breakdown & Pairings)
For the penultimate episode of the Martin Scorseason, we cover "The Wolf of Wall Street." We leave no stone unturned in our breakdown of the plot, and also…
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The Departed (Review & Pairing)
This week, we cover Scorsese's thrilling Boston crime epic, "The Departed (The De-pah-did)." We do some uneven Boston accents throughout as we discuss the…
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Kundun (Breakdown & Pairings)
This week, we continue our Martin Scorseason with a breakdown of "Kundun." We share our apprehension for men dressed in gold, then we discuss the historical…
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The Age of Innocence (Breakdown & Pairings)
This week we cover Martin Scorsese's Gilded Age film, "The Age of Innocence." The history of the novel and film are discussed in detail. We then discuss the…
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The Last Temptation of Christ (Breakdown & Pairings)
This week we cover Martin Scorsese's personal spiritual masterpiece, "The Last Temptation of Christ." We cover the rocky road to getting this made and the…
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After Hours (Breakdown & Pairings)`
This week we discuss Martin Scorsese's late night yuppie nightmare, "After Hours." We discuss the development of the film including Tim Burton's early…
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The King of Comedy (Breakdown & Pairings)
This week we continue our Martin Scorseason with "The King of Comedy." We discuss the behind-the-scenes information including Jerry Lewis calling Sandra…
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Raging Bull (Breakdown & Pairings)
This week we cover the 1980 masterpiece, "Raging Bull." We discuss Scorsese's near-death experience and addictions that led to finally making "Raging Bull," a…
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Taxi Driver (Breakdown & Pairings)
This week we break down the cinema classic, "Taxi Driver." We discuss the rocky road to getting the film made, as well as the cultural impact and fallout of…
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Mean Streets (Breakdown & Pairings)
These streets are mean as hell, and we're covering them! We cover the making of the film, John Cassavetes' blunt advice to Scorsese, and cover the film plot…
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Scorsese Shorts (Breakdown & Pairings)
This week, we kick off our Martin Scorseason with a collection of his early short films. We cover "What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This?…
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1st ANNIVERSARY Movie Draft!
This is a celebration of reaching a year with the podcast! We will be going over all 45 of our films we have covered, and picking ones to take with us to our…
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In the Realm of the Senses (Breakdown & Pairings)
This week we cover Nagisa Oshima's controversial 1976 film, "In the Realm of the Senses." We discuss the filming of the unsimulated sex scenes, the…