The Actor and The Engineer Podcast

This week we conclude our 300th episode focusing on Spike Lee by discussing 25th Hour and other films he directed but didn't write, his Four Little Girls documentary and how Bamboozled hit us. Subscr…

For our milestone 300th episode, we look at one of America's most prolific and important filmmakers, Spike Lee. In this first part of our episode we get into a few of his earlier films including Do T…

This week we look back at MASH, Robert Altman's first big feature film. Set during the Korean War and released in 1970, we discuss how it uses comedy to comment on war, how particular scenes have age…

This week we finish the countdown of our favorite films of 2020.  Enjoy!! Subscribe on Apple Podcasts: Here Check out our Facebook page: www.facebook.com/actorandengineer and follow us on twitter @ac…

We look back over a unique Oscars experience and start to dig in to our favorite movies of the extended 2020 film year. We each count down from 10 to 6 this episode, leading up to our favorites of th…

This week we put on our prognosticator's hats to try to sift through the awards season and figure out who will win at the Academy Awards this year. We also talk about who we would love to win. Subscr…

This week we talk about The Father where playwright Florian Zeller's feature debut drops us into the mental space of a man experiencing dementia. We get into Anthony Hopkins' powerful performance, wh…

This week we talk about Thomas Vinterberg's Oscar-nominated directing of this Danish film starring Mads Mikkelsen. We get into the Dogme 95 movement and why it's hard to act drunk. Subscribe on Apple…

This is the first Tarkovsky film for either of us and we get thrown into the deep end with Stalker. We talk about how the film hit each of us and talk through a few theories about The Zone, Tarkovsky…

This Lee Isaac Chung film does what it does really well.  It keeps its focus on a family and their journey. This week we talk about the editing, acting and some pretty emotional scenes in this film t…

This week we talk about how Chloé Zhao captures the journey of Frances McDormand's Fern as she acclimates to a roving lifestyle brought on by the loss of her job and her partner. We also get into the…

This Fred Hampton (Daniel Kaluuya) biopic includes an interesting hook that spends just as much time with the FBI informant (LaKeith Stanfield) who contributed to his death. We talk about their perfo…

This week we wade into the discourse on Malcolm & Marie, differentiating it from a play adaptation, talking about specific shots, music usage and two BIG performances by Zendaya and John David Washin…

This week we talk about Regina King's Golden Globe nominated feature directing debut. We talk about the difficulties of characterizing iconic public figures and some interesting shot selections in th…

Emerald Fennell's hyper-stylistic revenge tale has Carey Mulligan in a role that she can really sink her teeth into. We go through the film and analyze the shots, the music, the performances and the …

This week we talk about the loud and powerful performances by Riz Ahmed, Olivia Cooke and Paul Raci in this quiet film about a heavy metal drummer who loses his hearing and has to figure out how to m…

We talk about the Denzel Washington produced adaptation of August Wilson's play which features Viola Davis and Chadwick Bozeman in his last on-screen performance. We get into the performances, underl…

Armed with not enough time and way too many questions, we discuss Christopher Nolan's newest movie Tenet, how it's release may have affected movie-going in the future, what he expects out of his audi…

We are looking back a couple of years to a time before Jessie Buckley was in everything (I'm Thinking of Ending Things, Fargo, Judy, Chernobyl). Wild Rose puts her center-stage, literally, as a young…

It's time to dive deep into David Fincher's long-gestating passion project, Mank. He get's Gary Oldman, Amanda Seyfried and a great cast of supporting characters to bring his father's incisive screen…