The NeverEnding Movie Marathon

Alex, Matt, and Rocco each break down a favorite project that Steven Spielberg almost made throughout his long and storied career. An incredibly expensive adaptation of Daniel H. Wilson's Robopocalypse is Alex's pick, since he once got a moment to discuss the project with Michael Bay, who inherited the script (and some leftover sets) from Spielberg.

Matt reveals Spielberg's fascination with modern toilet in...

Steven Spielberg and Tom Cruise finally team up to pre-cog the future of our real-life surveillance state with this ultra-paranoid sci-fi thriller from the GOAT of that exact sub-sub-genre, Philip K. Dick!

Do all of the visual effects and fake-outs still hold up almost 20 years later after MINORITY REPORT blew up the 2002 summer blockbuster? Maybe not, but the ice-cold vision of a tomorrow without social media is fascinat...

We pick up the second half of our conversation about SAVING PRIVATE RYAN (1998) with the incredibly epic and ultra-violent Normandy Beach sequence that saw Steven Spielberg put all of his technical skill and wizardry behind the camera to create the most realistic portrayal of this turning point in World War II and world history. Plus, we finally get to Rocco's Connections Corner that has a couple of surprises from Matt.

Matt has been preparing for this episode his entire life, so we're dedicating TWO PARTS to cover Steven Spielberg's epic World War II sad-venture film, SAVING PRIVATE RYAN (1998). Alex and Rocco join Matt to discuss how Spielberg and writer Robert Rodat crafted the "documentary realism" approach to the true story of the Niland Brothers, why Tom Hanks decided it was time to take his friendship with Steve to the n...

In 1993 filmmaker Steven Spielberg made dinosaurs walk and the style of blockbuster that he had helped create completely extinct. JURASSIC PARK (1993) is a film that changed it all, including the lives of your hosts, Alex, Matt, and Rocco, especially when it came to the toys and their DINO DAMAGE! We detail how Michael Crichton, David Koepp, Dennis Muren, George Lucas, Kathleen Kennedy, John Williams, and Stevie Spielberg made it a...

While Rocco is away, Alex and Matt will play... with their little alien pal from Brodo Asogi! E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial has been delighting adults and terrifying children for 40 years now, becoming an instant blockbuster, then an icon for Spielberg's company Amblin, an Easter egg in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace, and eventually a punchline in Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers. But we think this lil guy deserves so...

Matt returns to talk about DAUGHTER OF THE SEA, the short film he made with his wife, and to discuss that artifact-lovin', Nazi-punchin', fedora-doffin', bullwhip-snappin' daddy, Harrison Ford! Steven Spielberg and George Lucas joined forces for RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, the first Indiana Jones movie in the five film franchise, an American James Bond romp that definitely belongs in a museum... of Cinema! Plus, Ro...

"We're gonna need a bigger podcast!" So, Alex and Rocco invite on STUNG (2015) screenwriter and expert in all things shark, Adam Aresty, to discuss Spielberg's first blockbuster, the one that changed it all, and made everyone afraid of the water... JAWS (1975)!

It's a new mini-marathon, folks! This summer, we're gettin' in the ring with Steven for the SPIELBERG SUMMER SLAM! We're hit...

It's a new mini-marathon, folks! This summer, we're gettin' in the ring with Steven for the SPIELBERG SUMMER SLAM! We're hitting up his incredible run of blockbusters from the genre-defining JAWS (1975) up through his hand-wave screen technology-introducing MINORITY REPORT (2002)!

But first, Rocco and Alex give you some context on the Hollywood Blockbuster, how Steven Spielberg rose from nowhere to the...

We've come to the end of our Tom Cruise mini-marathon, but honestly, folks, what a way to go out! Most of us doubted that 'Top Gun: Maverick' was going to be good, but no one (seriously, NO ONE) predicted that it was going to be GREAT! And perhaps even better than the original...?

Rocco and Alex start off with their opening thoughts on the new film before sounding the spoiler alarm to go deep on Cruise'...

TV writer and our own Tom Cruise correspondent, Gina Ippolito, returns to the NeverEnding Movie Marathon to talk TOP GUN... and a million other things, since she, Alex, and Rocco keep getting derailed to discuss which state has the best rollercoasters, if you can wipe down another man's cat, and Marlon Brando's food pranks on Frank Sinatra.

On topic, they debate the future of Cruise's career and whether he c...

This week on the NeverEnding Movie Marathon, Alex and Rocco are pitting brother against brother in the Battle of the Great Scotts!
Tony versus Ridley in Three Rounds!
Two Scotts enter the ring, but only one Scott will be crowned King of Movies!

Rocco represents Ridley Scott with three films that he loves: ALIEN (1979), BLADE RUNNER (1982), and MATCHSTICK MEN (2003), while Alex toasts Tony Scott with a trio of abso...

Paul Thomas Anderson's primal scream about coincidence, fate, frogs, and Hollywood is on the table today thanks to our friend, Alex Kauffman. She reveals that at 18-years-old she got a Magnolia-inspired tattoo that she maaaaybe regrets getting back then as she, Rocco, and Alex Logan try to get to the bottom of what the hell this movie actually means, and if it is a masterpiece, a mess, or perhaps, both?

The trio discu...

Today, Rocco and Alex kick off our May Double Feature... Tom Cruisin’ USA! We begin with a handful of films that you’ve NEVER seen as these are all near-misses for the Cruise Missile. This is Tom Cruise Almost Made!

We begin with his near-miss launching the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Tony Stark, a.k.a. Iron Man in an adaptation that never quite found its footing in the mid-2000s. Cruise says that he didn't think the project w...

Rocco and Alex continue April Double Features with another significant other's choice! This time, producer extraordinaire, legendary cat-mom, pizza aficionado, horror movie connoisseur, and the Gale to Rocco's Dewey, KAT HARTMAN (BuzzFeed), is here with Wes Craven's meta-horror masterpiece, SCREAM (1996)!

We break down how Kevin Williamson's brilliant script turned the slasher genre on its head, what tr...

Before we get to Wes Craven's supreme slasher commentary 'Scream' (1996) next week, Rocco and Alex trace the history of three films that came before it and three more that followed in its footsteps. These are our favorites in the Meta Horror subgenre, and they create their own mini-marathon with 'Scream' in the dead center... emphasis on DEAD!

In today's discussion, find out...
Why Michael...

Our April Double Feature begins with this Aussie bouquet-tossin' gem that was hand-picked by Jennifer Logan, the political activist, artist, and wife of Alex, one-third of your hosts here at the NeverEnding Movie Marathon. With Matt off making a film with his wife, Alex and Rocco are inviting their significant others on the pod to gush about the movies that they love! 

Toni Collette and Rachel Griffiths explode fully-...

In this week's mini episode, Matt's got a big announcement to break, Alex has a little bit of Oscar shade to throw, and Rocco has some dots to connect between our past episodes to create brand new thematically-tied mini-marathons in a segment we call Hidden Marathons.

The NeverEnding Movie Marathon is a weekly podcastic celebration of cinema. Dive deep into fan-favorite films (#NoStinkers!), thematically curated ...

April Stinkers Day hacks up its hairball a little early this year as Alex, Rocco, and Matt relax their USUALLY strict #NoStinkers policy to let this mangey stray onto the pod. And we couldn't possibly celebrate another April Stinkers Day without our filmmaker friend Giovanni Iacobucci (modmythmedia.com, donut.media), who we must apologize to once more for making him watch...

THE CAT IN THE HAT! 

A film that M...