The Actor and The Engineer Podcast

This is the week that we put it all out on the table.  We choose which movies and people that we would vote for in the Oscar race and, more realistically, we predict which movies and people will prob…

This week we sum up all of our new movie watching for 2015 in our two Top 5 lists of 2015.  These movies were the ones that we wanted to single out as our most impactful cinematic experiences of the …

This week we get a new Coen Brothers movie to digest.  Can it live up to the hype of what the trailers have promised?  How does it fit within the canon of other Coen Brothers comedies?  All this and …

This week we talk about a movie with difficult subject matter, but executed in a superb manner.  Academy Award nominee Brie Larson gives a great performance in a film that also gets Frank director Le…

This week we dig into the Oscar controversy relating to the lack of racial diversity in Oscar nominees.  We also use this opportunity to talk about two movies that many people believe missed Oscar no…

This week we dig into the Academy Award nominated film from Alejandro Gonzáles Iñárritu and Leonardo DiCaprio.  We briefly comment on some of the other newly announced Oscar nominations, but the bulk…

This week we go back to post Civil War era Wyoming and are trapped in a room with eighth (or nine) despicable characters.  How does this new film from Quentin Tarantino compare to his other films?  H…

Just yesterday, in a galaxy very close to this one...we talk about the newest entry in the Star Wars saga, helmed by JJ Abrams.  We get to see Han, Chewie, Leia and meet new characters (Rey, Finn and…

This week we talk about the newest film from writer/director Tom McCarthy that tackles the cover-up of child molestation in the Catholic church from the point of view of the Boston Globe newspaper.  …

This week we hear those sleigh bell ring-aling, ting-ting-ting-a-ting too.  We talk about our favorite Christmas movies and what meets our criteria for a Christmas movie.  Will John McClane make an a…

This week we watch the classic Newman-Redford western (Paul for the first time).  How does it match up to other westerns of the time and what makes it unique?  Check out our discussion to find out wh…

This week we finish up our discussion on Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2.  Subscribe on iTunes:  https://itun.es/i6gB67Y  Check out our Facebook page:  www.facebook.com/actorandengineer and follow us…

This week we try something a little different.  We are breaking up a rather lengthy discussion of the newest Hunger Games movie into two episodes.  We begin this episode talking about the new Batman …

This week we finish up our discussion of the fourth season of Project Greenlight and our impressions of the show and the movie.  We also talk about the film Frank.  Between the cast including Domhnal…

Bond...James Bond is the subject of our podcast this week.  We talk about the fourth Bond movie for Daniel Craig (and the second for director Sam Mendes).  We explore the info from the Sony email hac…

This week we talk about the new collaboration between Aaron Sorkin and Danny Boyle that we had a hard time categorizing.  Is it a biopic?  Is it a slice-of-life movie?  Is it a tryptic?  We also talk…

With October 21st, 2015 recently behind us, we talk about the first star of Back to the Future that never made it on screen, Eric Stoltz.  We also talk about other movies that had major roles recast …

This week we try to get into the Halloween spirit by taking in writer-director Guillermo Del Toro's newest film, Crimson Peak.  Does it live up to his previous creepy films?  Or does it leave us want…

This week we talk about an independent movie that ratchets up the tension quickly and keeps it there.  The second feature by writer-director Jeremy Saulnier focuses on a man who is bent on revenge, b…

This week we talk about what could be considered the first big movie of awards season.  Ridley Scott is back to sci-fi, and this time it has nothing to do with Aliens.  We talk about Matt Damon's per…