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Phoebe thinks she hasn't seen enough movies. People say Nathaniel has seen too many. So together, NBB and PRJ are walking through some of cinema's greatest (or at least, most conversation-worthy) entries, and debating, discussing, and enjoying some Initial Thoughts.
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Black Bat Productions' latest play, The Time Has Passed , premieres this week at VAULT's The Glitch - Weds 25th & Thurs 26th, at 8:30pm - so here's a quick ep about it. Directed by our very own Phoebe and starring Lydia
This is Part 2 of our Top Films of 2025 super-episode return. Here we tackle what Phoebe & Nathaniel make of this past week's Academy Award nominations. To hear them tell it, this is not a good year. Find out why they wo
Welcome back. As we face fascism and lament a lamentable year for the Oscars, we also return to Initial Thoughts to discuss what the hell we've been up to and what the heck we made of the year in cinema since we last did
It's the 97th Oscars! Listen in! Conan made us laugh (mostly). Winners won well (mostly). We were pretty accurate (to a point). Intrepid correspondent Michael Zwiauer even joined us from sunny California. Not to be misse
Today this could be, the greatest pod of our lives. Phoebe and Nathaniel are back for Oscar Week, predicting (and in their own way, improving) the Academy’s cinematic selections. Tune in for ribald and robust discussion
Determine your nominees and initialize your thoughts, it is once again time for Phoebe and Nathaniel to weigh in on The Academy's choices! Did your favorite film of 2024 get enough love? Did ours? Find out! _____ Music b
As Phoebe would say, we are so back. Initial Thoughts returns as if our last chat were only yesterday, to discuss a year of high highs, low lows, multiple plays directed, and quite a lot of films viewed. NBB & PRJ discus
Hollywood is a killer. MAXXXINE is a movie. Initial Thoughts is a podcast. You are a listener. This is an episode. Listen in! Neither Phoebe nor Nathaniel have seen this week's film, though one of them has seen the previ
We do this for a living. Does it star Tom Cruise? Who directed it? Do you believe in Santa Claus? Find out all these things and more as Phoebe and Nathaniel rev up their taxicab and drive through the streets of podcastin
There's a difference between knowing the pod, and listening to the pod. So listen to the podcast! This week we're casting our mind back 25 years (or ahead 175?) to the world of green text, omnipotent agents, teleportatio
Revisiting our second Picture Pitcher game, featuring remarkably... determined judge Richard McIver. As previously featured in our episode on Love Lies Bleeding, this round features sophomore efforts from the likes of Ch
Heists! LA! Queen Latifah! Jada Pinkett! Blair Underwood! More heists! It's a wonder F. Gary Gray's 1996 thrill ride isn't more of a household name, so Nathaniel and Phoebe set out to change that. N.b. Our pre-film conve
80 years ago today, Allied forces landed on the beaches at Normandy, in an operation we now call D-Day. Perhaps the most famous and respected depiction of that operation takes place in Steven Spielberg's 1998 war film Sa
Phoebe and Nathaniel rev their engines and expect an epic as they return to George Miller's Wasteland... but what did they find when they got there? (31:44) With Furiosa making headlines and proving historic (but not qui
If we're gonna pod, we're gonna pod historic on the Fury Road. WITNESS! Phoebe and Nathaniel rev their engines and take to the desert for George Miller's 2015 post-apocalyptic adventure starring Tom Hardy and Charlize Th
Thirty episodes in, time for an all-time classic. One of our hosts is passionately, quite openly an acolyte of this film, so the surprise element wasn't exactly front of our minds, but thankfully that didn't hinder discu
It's a mega-episode, but worth every minute! First off, our intrepid filmgoers Nathaniel and Phoebe wrap their muscly arms around Rose Glass' new film in cinemas, Love Lies Bleeding - a neo-noir thriller that bears discu
In Everglade Studio finishes this weekend! Get your tickets if you haven't already. We thank everyone who came to see the show, and look forward to the next Black Bat Productions venture... and to round out our Everglade
As In Everglade Studio enters its final week of performances at The Hope Theatre, Nathaniel and Phoebe reconvene for the third in their Everglade series: Robert Altman's revered 1975 film Nashville. They discuss the conn
In Everglade Studio is coming to The Hope Theatre, and co-directors Phoebe and Nathaniel are featuring some of the films that inspired it! Second in our series is the moving, deeply profound story of Dewey Cox (John C. R
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