The Actor and The Engineer Podcast

This week we are back with our slightly delayed discussion on Denis Villeneuve's new Blade Runner movie.  We talk about why it was even worth making this movie, the score, cinematography and the acti…

Happy Halloween!  This is our Horror Movie episode from a few years back.  Enjoy!  New episodes coming soon!  Subscribe on iTunes:  https://itun.es/i6gB67Y  Check out our Facebook page:  www.facebook…

In this contentious episode, we try to figure out what writer/director Darren Aronofsky wanted to say with this surreal film without reading any reviews or interviews.  We also talk about how he deci…

The newest adaptation of Stephen King's best-selling novel is out in the theaters and is doing really well despite the poor box office numbers this summer.  We come at this from two different angles:…

This week we dish out our thoughts on how food is used in film, both narrative movies and documentaries.  We also spend a little time at the start of the episode talking about the new MoviePass chang…

Steven Soderbergh is back!  Back in the director's chair (and cinematographer, camera operator, editor, etc).  We talk about his new film starring one of his regulars, Channing Tatum, along with Adam…

This week we circle back on a film that Josh hadn't gotten around to seeing during Oscar season.  This French film directed by Paul Verhoeven and starring Isabelle Huppert (in an Oscar nominated role…

This week Christopher Nolan gives us an account of the British rescue mission of hundreds of thousands of men on the beach at Dunkirk during World War II.  He does it in true Nolan fashion (in 70MM!)…

This week we talk about a true romantic comedy with equal doses of both.  This film (based on a true story) is about a comedian who falls in love with a woman and quickly has to deal with his feeling…

This week we get into the newest entry into the Marvel Cinematic Universe and an official return for the Spider-man character to Marvel Studios.  Tom Holland plays the titular character that got bit …

This week we talk about Edgar Wright's much-anticipated next film about a young getaway driver that curates a soundtrack to his life by way of an iPod.  Only just the right song will do for anything …

This week we finish up our discussion on one of the big blockbusters of the year, so far, what we loved about it and a couple of questions that we have about it.  Subscribe on iTunes:  https://itun.e…

This week we talk about the most successful film in the new DC Extended Universe and what we think it did to resonate with us as the audience.  We spend some time at the beginning of the episode chec…

This week we talk about an Oscar-nominated film that Paul saw around the time of it's release and has thought recently about revisiting.  This film is a retelling of the Passion Play (Jesus' last few…

Writer/Director Jordan Peele impresses with his debut film that you can't pigeon-hole into one genre.  We talk about the "social thriller" moniker that it is getting, along with the strong performanc…

Ridley Scott goes back to the well for the follow-up to 2012's Prometheus.  We get new and different species of the Xenomorph alien and multiple Fassbenders.  We have multiple questions about the plo…

Paul has just watched Billy Wilder's Oscar-winning 1950 film for the first time and we talk about it.  Is the Norma Desmond character too over-the-top, or just enough?  How about that cool cigarette …

This is the sequel that we have been waiting for.  James Gunn writes and directs the second chapter in the Guardian's story and tells us more about the established characters while introducing new an…

This week we talk about the new pseudo-sci fi film from the minds of Charlie McDowell and Justin Lader.  This thought provoking and discussion starting movie is acted well (by Robert Redford, Rooney …