The Actor and The Engineer Podcast

This week we talk about male and female actors who choose roles (or are chosen for roles) that are a bit out of their comfort zone.  We bring up a few of our favorite filmmakers and wonder how they s…

This week we talk about the new movie starring Johnny Depp as the blue-eyed, ruthless South Boston Mob leader Whitey Bulger.  Will this Scott Cooper-directed movie add to the long legacy of brilliant…

We spend the beginning of the episode talking about the return of Matt Damon and Ben Affleck's Project Greenlight to HBO and the small furor that the first episode's "Damonspaining" created.  Then we…

This week we talk about an independent horror movie from 2014 that has been fairly devisive among critics and horror fans.  We discuss how the movie uses horror tropes to its advantage and where we m…

This week we talk about two movies that may be considered opposites, but we attempt to connect them with some creative license.  City of God is a Brazilian film from 2002 that was nominated for multi…

This week we talk about the documentary centering on one of the most influential movie critics of our time, Roger Ebert.  We talk about how his criticism has affected our movie watching and his fight…

This week we talk about the movies that we are excited to see that are coming out in the next few months.  We talk about the blockbusters (Star Wars, Spectre, etc.), some smaller "independent" movies…

This week we talk about the new Kurt Sutter-penned, Antoine Fuqua-directed fighter movie.  We talk about our favorite performances and what this movie adds to the already lengthy list of boxing movie…

In this episode we talk about the newest addition to the Mission Impossible anthology series of movies.  Once again a different director tries his hand at directing (and writing) an adventure for Eth…

In this episode we talk about actors and actresses that have the difficult task of playing a role that has already been portrayed in film or on stage.  Of course, we talk about Batman and other super…

We talk about the newest installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, although in many ways it feels like a standalone movie that just happens to be in the Marvel Universe.  We talk about young Mich…

We start of this week talking about the DC Comics and Star Wars footage that came out of Comic Con.  Our love affair with Margot Robbie continues and we get a first glimpse of Jared Leto's Joker and …

This week we talk about two movies that are available to rent.  Lost River is the directorial debut of Ryan Gosling who also wrote the film.  We talk about the possible inspirations for a movie like …

We talk about the new Pixar movie and about how it once again has found a way to affect adults and children in a different way.  We also compare it to other Pixar movies and try to figure out where i…

This week we talk about what some people might call "Character Actors" and how excited we get when we see them on screen.  These are actors who may not have many starring roles, but they add their sp…

For our one year anniversary episode, we tackle four movies from different eras with more similarities than we initially thought.  Our "Old" movie is the Italian film from 1948, The Bicycle Thief.  O…

When we both realized that neither one of us had seen any of James Dean's three film performances, we decided we needed to fix that.  In this episode we discuss James Dean's performances and what we …

What can happen in a day?  We talk about movies set in a 24-hour period or less.  How does this constrain the filmmakers?  How does it help?  What are our favorites?  Take a listen!  Subscribe on iTu…

For our 50th episode, we talk about films from the 1950s.  This decade saw the development of auteurs like writer/directors Billy Wilder and Akira Kurosawa, the master of suspense, Alfred Hitchcock a…

We talk about a creepy Australian horror film that has been getting great reviews.  The movie has a couple great performances that we discuss, along with an off-the-wall theory about a particular cha…