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Clearing The Queue
Join Hosts Mike and Zak on a journey through the fabulous, whimsical, and sometimes demented world of Film making. Explore movies that you may or may not have heard of with two opinionated indie filmmakers who have no shortage of opinions about the craft. Clearing the Queue is a conversation about m...
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Episode 153: What are we Watching (The Master of the Beast)
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In this Episode Mike and Zak discuss Marty Supreme, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, Hamnet, and The Thing.
Patreon Preview: What are We Watching With Kaleb Smith
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In light of the tragic news about our friend Kaleb, we have decided to share the episode we recorded with him last year after his in...
Episode 152: 2025 a Year in Review
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Mike and Zak do their usual end of the year round up, and talk about their top 5 movies of the year!
Episode 151: Jakob the Liar
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In the spirit of giving, Mike has gifted Zak the gift of Holocaust movie. Towards the end of WWII, Jakob, a Jew living in one of the...
Episode 150: Beginners
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In the Spirit of giving, Zak has gifted Mike with a viewing of Beginners, a modern love story that is, in part, biographical to Dire...
Episode 149: Murder Magician
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We are joined by Kaleb Smith to talk about his new short film Murder Magician. We talk about the conceptualization of the script, th...
Episode 148: What are we Watching? (Monsters are Sexy)
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This week on what are we watching, you get to hear about Zak's thoughts on the new Frankenstein movie, then Mike launches into a rev...
Episode 147: Possession
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Join us for a romp into one of the most unsettling breakup movies of all time! Mark, an Englishman living in West Berlin before the...
Episode 146: What are we Watching? (a Different kind of Spoopy)
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Today we are overjoyed to welcome back, recurring guest on the podcast, Max Minkowitz! Who joins us this week to talk spoopy and to...
Episode 145: Is Film in LA Dead?
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This week, Mike and Zak welcome their friend Corey Chaney to join in on a conversation that covers a lot of ground. The film industr...
Ep 144 What are we Watching? (Weapons of Mass Dysfunction)
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This week we have a lot of thoughts on Weapons, but we also talk about Hurry up Tomorrow and the new Naked Gun movie. Come have a l...
Episode 143 Under The Skin
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It's August and, as is tradition, Mike and Zak have set their sights on an A24 flick for this dedicated episode. Under The Skin is a...
Episode 142 What are we Watching? (it's the Whiskey Talking)
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This Week our friend Rob Wolk sat down with us to talk about the stuff he's been putting his peepers on, and indeed fun times were h...
Episode 141: Born in East LA
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Today we're joined by Elena Muruato for a a classic comedy, written and directed by Cheech Marin. When Rudy, a mechanic from east LA...
Episode 140 What are we Watching? (We're Baaaaaack)
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Mike and Zak welcome Back long time friend of the podcast Max Minkowitz for our triumphant return to sharing our thoughts about what...
Episode 139: Red State
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Three teenage boys are lured into the evil clutches of a christian extremist cult, and things take a turn for the cataclysmic.
Episode 138: Dogma
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Bethany Sloan is your average Turn of the Century Catholic woman, struggling to rely on her faith in an ever changing world. Until o...
Episode 137: What are we Watching? (For the Kids)
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This week Mike and Zak discuss the precarious position of the Looney Toons cartoons amidst the release of The Day the Earth Blew Up....
Episode 136: Orlando
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Orlando is an androgynous immortal being born into wealth and privilege. Through their perspective, the audience is invited to take...
Episode 135: What are we Watching? (The Trouble with the Troubles)
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This week the boys are talking Mickey 17, Companion, The Wind that Shakes the Barley, and The Black Cat. A wild collection of movies...
Episode 134: The Brother from Another Planet
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An alien crash-lands on Earth looking to escape a life of slavery in outer space and find himself in the heart of Harlem in the 1980...
Episode 133: What are we Watching? (Monkey Business)
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This week, the boys kick things off with their thoughts on The Monkey, I'm Still Here, Captain America: Brave New World, and Bring T...
Episode 132: Space is the Place
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A little Afro-Futurism for your consideration. Join Mike and Zak as they journey into space and then back to earth circa the groovie...
Episode 131: What are we Watching? (Oscar Noms & Other Bombs)
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This is our First "What are we Watching" of the new year, and Mike and Zak are still picking the meat from the corpse of 2024. Thing...
Episode 130: Tickled
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When New Zealand journalist David Farrier reaches out to a production company about potentially doing an interview on the subject of...
Episode 129: David Lynch Tribute
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Love him or Hate him, you cannot deny the power of his work. The Godfather of Avant-Garde filmmaking, the King of the uncomfortable...
Episode 128: Exit Through the Gift Shop
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Our First dedicated episode of the year and it's our first time covering a Documentary! People think of this Doc as: "the Banksy Doc...
Episode 127: 2024 A Year in Review
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What were your Top 5 movies this year? Listen to find out Mike and Zak's, then go over to Threads and let us know about yours! @clea...
Episode 126: SLC Punk
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This Holiday Season Mike shared with Zak one of his favorite coming of age tales through the lens of a self proclaimed Anarchist. Jo...
Episode 125: Prisoners
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Tis the Season of Giving, and that's why Zak gave Mike the opportunity to broaden his horizon with this deeply unsettling film for h...
Episode 124 What are we Watching? (All Wiz No Riz)
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We're talkin Gladiator II, Wicked Part 1, Hellboy: the Crooked Man, and 16 Candles? WHAT YEAR IS IT?! Tune in next week for a much b...
Episode 123: The Pink Panther Strikes Again
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Years after he lost his mind, former chief inspector Dreyfus of the french police is about to be released from the asylum, having ma...
Episode 122: What are we Watching? (Prodigious and Religious)
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This week we start things off with some ruminations on the new a24 horror flick Heretic, and then we follow up with another film tha...
Episode 121: A Shot in the Dark
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When the driver for a wealthy french family is murdered suspicion begins to surround the young housekeeper Maria Gambrelli, but not...
Episode 120: What are we Watching? (Doomspiral)
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We're taking spoopy season leftovers this week, and we kick things off with some of Zak's thoughts on Rumours, then Mike chats about...
Episode 119: Come to Daddy
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A young man receives a letter from his estranged father and with the hope of reconnecting, he pays him a visit. However, his father...
Episode 118: What are we Watching? (Spoopy Doopy)
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Today the boys are talking Spoopy and we kick things off with our thoughts on Child's Play. Then we move on to gush about the Candym...
Episode 117: Jacob's Ladder
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The guys welcome first time guest Alexandria Perez to the studio today to talk spooky movies! Jacob Singer is a Vietnam veteran who'...
Episode 116: What are we Watching? (Megaflopolis)
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This episode the boys welcome back friend of the podcast Max Minkowitz to talk about some fun films, starting of course with Megalop...
Episode 115: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
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A grief stricken mother lashes out at the local police over their inaction regarding the investigation of her daughter's tragic murd...