Watching 100 Movies - 2024 Oscar Marathon Update 1

Videogames have been around long enough now for multiple generations of filmakers to try their hand at adapting them. We take a look at two of the franchises that have had more than one bite at the apple: Tomb Raider and Mortal Kombat!

We sit back with a couple of Hitchcock classics that begin and end Hitch's "peak years"... Rear Window (1954) and The Birds (1963).

We dive into the Guardians of the Galaxy franchise, discussing their arc across the MCU.

Christiana and Mike discuss a pair of classics, one a silent German scifi that has influenced dozens of filmakers, and the other an iconic spaghetti western. Metropolis, and The Good The Bad and the Ugly.

Christiana and Mike pull another pair of classics from the Sight & Sound list, Akira Kurosawa's "Rashomon" (1950), and Carol Reed's "The Third Man" (1949)

Christiana and Mike do some heist research with the best heist franchise out there! Ocean's 11, Ocean's Eleven, Ocean's Twelve, Ocean's Thirteen, and Ocean's Eight

Christiana and Mike revisit Christopher Nolan's Batman Trilogy: Batman Begins, The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises

We discuss, with spoilers, Elemental, Nyad, Society of the Snow, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, and Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning Part 1

We discuss our first batch of nominated films, with spoilery discussions of Anatomy of a Fall, Barbie, The Holdovers, Killers of a Flower Moon and Oppenheimer.

We discuss another pair of movies from the Sight and Sound Top Movies of All Time list, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, and There Will Be Blood, and then introduce our 2024 Oscar Movie Marathon!