Film School
A filmmaker and a writer tackle the AFI's Top 100 Films and beyond to educate themselves about movies and storytelling. Welcome to Film School!
- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 52 minutes
- Episodes
- 467
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
Depression, Anxiety, and David Lynch (Cutting Room Floor #001)
Our first Cutting Room Floor episode! This one from the recording of Toy Story covers the trials of moving (we always have 50% more sh*t than we thought we did), the pains and inspirations of a love …
The Last Picture Show (AFI Top 100 Films #95)
The boys talk growing up as a small-town country bumpkin versus a city slicker, Sam the Lion, and about that empty feeling deep in the center of all of us. Why do we love it so much? And why is it th…
Do The Right Thing (AFI Top 100 Films #96)
Fight the Power! Film School smokes its first Spike Lee Joint, and it's jazzy, wacky, funny, and edgy AF. A very young Mr. Lee makes a statement with his masterpiece both behind the camera, and in fr…
Blade Runner (AFI Top 100 Films #97)
He's seen things us people wouldn't believe! Josh and Ira dive into one of the most influential SciFi films of all time and, amazingly enough, the first movie both of the boys have seen before. We've…
Yankee Doodle Dandy (AFI Top 100 Films #98)
Music is in the air! Vaudeville! Romance! Franklin Delano Roosevelt! It's the 1942 classic Yankee Doodle Dandy this time around, a movie neither Josh nor Ira had ever even HEARD of...so what put this…
Toy Story (AFI Top 100 Films #99)
To Infinity, and beyond! Join Josh on his own personal journey to figure out if he's ever actually SEEN this movie, and Ira's dive into the Dark Night of the Soul. It's Toy Story time!
Ben-Hur (AFI Top 100 Films #100)
Chariots, Revenge and Jesus, oh my! Josh and Ira kick off Film School with the first movie on AFI's Top 100 Films of all time with the sword and sandal epic Ben-Hur. Let's get this journey through ci…