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There's lots of movie podcasts where the hosts talk about bad movies. But how many talk about good movies (other than "Unspooled" which is also great!)? In Actually Best Choice Movies, longtime friends and total movie geeks Caleb Shively and Chris Chafin (contributor to Rolling Stone and New York Magazine's Vulture) talk about some movies that are actually worth seeing, in a way that's actually worth listening to. In this weekly show, the pair discuss/review/argue about two films: one new release and one other film that's related to it in a way that makes sense to them (and maybe to you). It's like Siskel & Ebert on Comedy Bang Bang, The Critic on Jordan, Jesse, Go!, or if the Doughboys watched movies instead of eating lethal amounts of fast food.

  • 53 minutes 46 seconds
    Petit Maman & Where Is The Friend’s House

    This week, it's two films about the vast, unknowable world of children: Petit Maman and Where Is the Friend's House.

     

     

    16 May 2022, 2:51 pm
  • 53 minutes 40 seconds
    We’re All Going to the World’s Fair & Unfriended

    This week, it's two films valiantly trying to capture the slippery, universal experience of ~~being online~~. It's We're All Going to the World's Fair (2022), and Unfriended (2014). 

    2 May 2022, 6:06 pm
  • 1 hour 8 minutes
    Apollo 10 1/2 & Dazed and Confused

    It's 420! Zone out to two Linklater films: his latest rotoscope cartoon, the '60s nostalgia fest Apollo 10 1/2, and a film you may have seen on VHS 10,000 times, Dazed and Confused. 

    18 April 2022, 3:13 pm
  • 1 hour 12 minutes
    Deep Water& Body Heat

    This week, we're looking at two ~~erotic thrillers~~ !! A much-maligned genre making a small, tentative comeback, in part thanks to this week's movie, Deep Water (2022); we're also talking about one of the genre's foundational texts, 1981's Body Heat. 

    4 April 2022, 1:59 pm
  • 51 minutes 2 seconds
    Turning Red & Eighth Grade

    This week, it's two extremely different movies about almost exactly the same extreme situation: being a 13-year-old girl. It's Turning Red (2022) and Eighth Grade (2018). 

    21 March 2022, 11:52 pm
  • 1 hour 14 seconds
    After Yang and Alphaville

    This week, we're talking about two philosophical science fiction films made by critics-turned-directors: After Yang (2022, Kogonada), and Alphaville (1965, Jean-Luc Godard). 

    7 March 2022, 6:04 pm
  • 1 hour 4 minutes
    Flee and Summer of Soul

    This week, it's two films nominated for Best Documentary Feature: Summer of Soul (Amir Questlove Thompson, 2021), and Flee (Jonas Poher Rasmussen, 2021; also nominated for Best Foreign Language Film and Best International Feature, a first!). Like all great documentaries, these movies make you ask what a documentary really is, anyway. 

    21 February 2022, 4:48 am
  • 55 minutes 19 seconds
    A Hero & Pickpocket

    This week, we're looking at two films that untangle the messy web of supposedly criminal acts -- A Hero (Asghar Farhadi, 2021) and Pickpocket (Robert Bresson, 1959). 

    7 February 2022, 2:46 pm
  • 56 minutes 32 seconds
    Bergman Island & Day for Night

    This week, it's two transcendent European movies about Europeans makin' movies: 2021's Bergman Island and 1973's Day For Night. 

    24 January 2022, 9:19 pm
  • 1 hour 18 seconds
    The Lost Daughter & Night of the Hunter

    This week we're looking at a very small category: directorial debuts from actors in which they do not appear as actors. So, we've got The Lost Daughter (2022, Maggie Gyllenhaal), and Night of the Hunter (1955, Charles Laughton).

    10 January 2022, 2:49 pm
  • 53 minutes 53 seconds
    2021 Best Of

    We're looking back at the best of 2021 -- shows we talked about on the podcast, and those we didn't (one guess which one of us saw more movies lol). Happy New Year! 

    28 December 2021, 5:18 pm
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