The Sticky Floors Podcast
Sticky Floors is a weekly movie podcast from the minds of New Jersey natives, CJ and Will. The long-time friends discuss current and past movies and try to find the hidden, deeper meanings in films while having fun blending popular culture, hip hop, sports, and 1990’s references. In every show they examine and critique films and leave listeners with something to consider until the next show.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 51 minutes
- Episodes
- 91
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
EP51: Heat – Cops vs Crooks vs Villains
This week, we review the Michael Mann classic, Heat, featuring an ensemble cast and starring Al Pacino, Robert Dinero, and Val Kilmer. We discuss how the characters and families reflect concepts of …
Sun 29 Sep 2024
EP50: Killing Them Softly – Crime and Capitalism in America
We celebrate our 50th episode with 2012’s Killing Them Softly, starring Brad Pitt, James Gandolfini, Ray Liotta, Scoot McNairy, Richard Jenkins, and Ben Mendelsohn. We talk about the movie as an all…
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Sun 22 Sep 2024
EP49: Predator – We Ain’t Got Time to Bleed
This week we review the 1980’s classic, Predator, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers, Bill Duke, and Jesse Ventura. We discuss the 80’s movies as a vibe, Schwarzenegger vs Stallone, the be…
Sun 15 Sep 2024
EP48: Dark Waters – Corporations vs Everybody
This week we review the movie Dark Waters, starring Mark Ruffalo, Anne Hathaway, and Tim Robbins. We discuss corporate malfeasance and responsibility, the real-life story this movie is based on, wha…
Sun 08 Sep 2024
EP47: The Program – Hurt vs Injured
As we get closer to the start of the football season, we review the college football classic, The Program, starring James Caan, Omar Epps, Craig Sheffer, Andrew Bryniarski, Duane Davis and Halle Berr…
Sun 01 Sep 2024
EP46: The Purge – Welcome to the Purge World
We kick off Season Five with the 2013 horror movie, The Purge, starring Ethan Hawke and Lena Headey. We discuss whether the Purge makes people violent or stops them from being more violent, what the…
Sun 25 Aug 2024
EP 45: Deadpool & Wolverine: Make Money or Make Movies?
Major spoilers ahead as we close out Season 4 with the newest Marvel Studios release, Deadpool & Wolverine starring Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman. We discuss the state of the MCU up to this movie (…
Sun 28 Jul 2024
EP44: The Fall Guy: All the Right Pieces
This week, we discuss The Fall Guy starring Ryan Gosling, Emily Blunt, and Winston Duke. We discuss the main themes in the movie, the way the male and female characters are depicted and whether this…
Mon 22 Jul 2024
EP43: The Bike Riders: Rage Against the Dying of the Man
This week, we discuss The Bike Riders starring Jodie Comer, Tom Hardy, and Austin Butler. We discuss the habits of men from the “greatest generation”, what happens to men that are forgotten by the s…
Sun 14 Jul 2024
EP42: Bad Boys 4: Ride Till The Wheels Fall Off
This week, we discuss the latest installment in the Bad Boys franchise, Bad Boys 4: Ride or Die, starring Wil Smith and Martin Lawrence. We discuss the history of the franchise, the changing form of…
Sat 06 Jul 2024
EP41: Boyz n the Hood: The Autobiography of Furious Styles
This week, we close out our movies about fathers with Boyz n the Hood starring Laurence Fishburn, Cuba Gooding Jr., Morris Chestnut, Angela Bassett, and Nia Long. We discuss the lasting trauma of gu…
Sun 30 Jun 2024
EP40: A Bronx Tale – Love vs Fear
This week, we review the coming-of-age story, A Bronx Tale, starring Robert Dinero, Chazz Palimnteri, and Lillo Brancato. We discuss the career of Robert Dinero, the attraction of gangsters, what it…
Sun 23 Jun 2024
EP39: He Got Game – Survivor’s Remorse
This week we reviewed He Got Game, starring Denzel Washington, Ray Allen, and Rosario Dawson. We discuss the themes of absentee fatherhood, survivor’s remorse for those who are able to leave the nei…
Sun 16 Jun 2024
EP38: 99 Homes – No Such Thing as Halfway Crooks
This week we review 99 Homes starring Michael Shannon, Andrew Garfield, and Laura Dem. We discuss what happens when a father is not present, how young men will search out and find manhood models for…
Mon 10 Jun 2024
EP37: Dune 2 – Messiah Complex
This week, we review the Denis Villeneuve instant classic, Dune 2, starring Timothee Chalamet, Zendaya, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Florence Pugh, Stellan Skarsgard, Charlotte Rampling, and Christoph…
Sun 26 May 2024
EP36: Monkey Man – Enter the Kid
This week, we review the revenge flick, Monkey Man, written, directed, and starring Dev Patel with Makarand Deshpande, Sikandar Kher, and Sobhita Dhulipala. We discuss the reimagined revenge story, …
Sun 19 May 2024
EP35: Civil War – Too Close for Comfort
This week, we discuss the stunning and unsettling movie, Civil War, starring Kirsten Dunst, Cailee Spaeny, Wagner Moura, and Stephen McKinley. We discuss the possibility of civil war in America, the…
Sun 12 May 2024
EP34: Revenge of the Sith – Playing the Long Game
This week we kick off season 4 on May the 4th with Star Wars, Revenge of the Sith starring Hayden Christensen, Ewan McGregor, Ian McDiarmid, Natalie Portman, and Sam Jackson. We discuss the love Sta…
Mon 06 May 2024
EP33: The Matrix – The Choice is Yours
This week, we close out season 3 with one of the all-time greats, The Matrix, starring Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburn, Carrie-Ann Moss, Hugo Weaving and Joe Pantoliano. We discuss why the Matrix is…
Mon 15 Apr 2024
EP32: Enter the Dragon – Enter the GOAT
This week we discuss Enter the Dragon, the great Bruce Lee and co-stars John Saxon and Jim Kelly. We discuss how Han is the father to so many styles in so many movies, the history of Black people in…
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Sun 07 Apr 2024
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