Noah and JAM operations manager Mike Cannon dive into Noah's 2nd favorite movie of all time, Paul Thomas Anderson's Punch-Drunk Love, and try to articulate what makes the strange, stressful, and beautiful experience of watching the film so resonant.

Filmmaker, podcaster and musician Brian Carroll sits down to discuss one of the most famous horror films put to screen, The Shining, and dive into how Kubrick's meticulous attention to detail amounts into a viscerally unnerving experience that audiences have been analyzing since the day it came out.

Comic book artist August Driussi chats with Noah about their shared love of Satoshi Kon's 2003 anime masterpiece Tokyo Godfathers, and what makes it stand head and shoulders above the usual Christmas movie fare.

Artist Meg Hill discusses the apex teen comedy that is 2004's Napoleon Dynamite, and what makes its comedy so funny with layers of truth that make the movie much more than just a cultural fluke.

Mike Purvis returns to discuss the themes and making of his own film Reunion, plus the joys of wordless visual (and auditory) comedy exemplified in Jacques Tati's 1967 masterwork PlayTime.

Chico returns to discuss the unbridled creativity of Sam Raimi's 1987 slapstick horror sequel Evil Dead 2, and what makes it so giddily creative and inspiring as both a filmgoing experience and as a how-to in low-budget filmmaking.

Josh returns off the heels of PTA's first Oscar wins to dive into his flawed 1999 masterpiece Magnolia. Together, Noah and Josh break down PTA's early, reckless instincts, why some of them don't work but also what makes them so impactful.

How does a sequel to a decent kid's movie starring a CGI bear end up becoming one of the best films ever made? Noah and filmmaker Jordyn Lich attempt to answer that question in this episode and in the process, tears are shed on this show for the first time!