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Co-hosts Henry and Samuel go through franchises and filmographies in the vain hope of answering one simple question: How can we get the most out of the movies we watch?
Henry and Samuel hosts Peak Viewing, a tv show with 122 episodes published.
(CW: Mild discussion of the sexual assault scene throughout the episode.) For a Few Dollars More is the name of Leone’s second western, and it can also describe a couple parts of the movie: it was made for a few dollars
This week we dip our toes into Leone’s Dollars Trilogy with the first film, A Fistful of Dollars. We’ve got gunslingers, tricksters, Spanish countryside, whistling, and enough stolen plot points to warrant a lawsuit! Whi
We’re kicking off our Sergio Leone miniseries with The Colossus of Rhodes, a sword-and-sandal epic centered on one of the seven wonders of the world. This film, which came near the tail-end of the peplum film’s heyday, i
Our journey through the cinematic endeavors of Star Trek comes to a close this week with 2016’s Star Trek Beyond. This sequel may not quite live up to the first Kelvin movie, but it was certainly a step in the right dire
Star Trek Into Darkness stinks! The lightning-in-a-bottle magical energy of the first Kelvin film has been replaced with a serious tone, less characterization, worse VFX, and a muddied plot. The result? We (mostly Henry)
We’ve entered the Kelvin timeline! The 2009 reboot of Star Trek brought with it a lot of things: fresh faces on iconic characters, modern cinematic action, and enough lens flares to blind a small child. That said, we rea
(CW: Brief discussion of the sexual assault scene from 1:18:00 to 1:21:00.) Y’all are wrong about Star Trek: Nemesis. We get disliking the CGI, and the silly off-road vehicle action, but everything related to Picard’s cl
Star Trek: Insurrection is a film of peaks and valleys. On the one hand, the villain isn’t particularly memorable and the drone special effects suck. On the other hand, it provides some pretty damning commentary on the p
The most well-regarded Next Gen movie is First Contact, but does it deserve that recognition? Yes! This time travel romp is an exciting adventure that pretty expertly weaves together all the things that make Star Trek so
It’s time to enter a new era of Star Trek films. Last week we said goodbye to (most of) the original cast, today we say hello to the Next Generation! This film is a classic example of the “passing the baton” sequel we se
This week we make it to the end of the Star Trek movies with the original series cast. The final swan song for this crew somehow features a murder mystery, courtroom drama, a prison escape, and lots of touching moments o
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier is perhaps best described as a mess. Shatner’s only time in the director’s seat produced a Star Trek film with strange tone, questionable villain writing, hasty visual effects, and some fa
If you were three movies deep into the Star Trek series and getting annoyed at how self-serious it was, then Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home should hit you like a cold lemonade on a hot summer day. This light and airy time
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock is unfortunately not very good! An emphasis on bringing back Spock means that the other subplots have to a take the backseat, and as a result nothing of consequence or importance reall
Ask any Star Trek fan what the best Star Trek movie is, and a lot of them will tell you it’s The Wrath of Khan. Like most Star Trek stories, it’s a mishmash of ideas: you’ve got a villain-of-the-week from the original se
This miniseries we’re boldly going where no podcast has gone before! Wait, actually there are a lot of Star Trek podcasts… Well then, we’re going somewhere we’ve never gone before, and that’s 1979’s Star Trek: The Motion
In 2026, Peak Viewing covered The Bride!… on a DARE. Maggie Gyllenhaal’s sophomore film felt like a nice coda to the Frankenstein series we did last year, so we added it to the slate. Having now seen it, do we still want
It’s been a long miniseries, but the day is finally here: we’re becoming made men. Not in the Italian mafia or anything, just men who made a podcast about Goodfellas! We’re finally discussing what is arguably the crownin
This Last Temptation of Christ is arguably Scorsese’s most controversial film (at least at the time of release). This passion project that was years in the making is less about retelling the Gospels and more about strugg
The Color of Money delivers on a lot of fronts: hot young Tom Cruise, old (but still hot) Paul Newman, and enough great pool shots to fill the two hour runtime. Still, it’s perhaps an outlier in this miniseries, in the s
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