The Important Cinema Club

Justin and Will talk critic Pauline Kael and their biases, her legacy and the people she pissed off.

Justin and Will tackle the eternal question through the work of Canada's golden boy director/writer/actor/country singer Paul Gross. They watch Men with Brooms, Passchendaele and Hyena Road. Plus, they talk about the past cinematic exploits of the great white north and argue what its future could be. NOTE: If you are Canadian, this is required listening enforced by federal law.

Justin and Will talk writer/director/actor/composer/renaissance man Melvin Van Peebles and watch his incendiary studio film The Watermelon Man (1970) and his revolutionary Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971). And yes, the hosts are two white dudes.

It's an super-sized episode that's 100% PURE WELLES.

A deep dive into the filmography of one of the most energetic (and popular) filmmakers of all time leads the club watch the nihilistic anger scream Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind (1980) and the maximum fun blast that is Peking Opera Blues (1986) Justin explains why HK cinema is his favorite in the world, Will is a scholar of Chinese history (not really) and they both wax rhapsodical about the wonders of mutating monster wrestlers in BLACK MASK 2: CITY OF MASKS. Its the most action packed episode yet!

Will and Justin team up with Mallory Andrews (of cléo: a journal of film and feminism) to talk John Carpenter - Halloween, They Live and everything in between. One of them likes Memoirs of the Invisible Man! Who could it be? Only a listen will unearth the pulse pounding answer.

Will and Justin tackle the myth, the legend, the god of pissing off directors. Do they have something new to say about a man most commonly called the 'Greatest Actor of All Time'? Lets be honest, they probably don't, but they're going to talk about their 'feelings' about Brando anyway after watching Marlon's only directorial effort One Eyed Jacks and Last Tango in Paris.

Justin and Will crumble to societal pressure and join 98% of the internet in discussing two dudes that love to punch each other. They watch Tim Burton's Batman and Richard Donner's Superman and break down why they work, what they love about them, and why Will can't be critical of the Bat and Justin's just another loser Webhead.

Justin and Will take a deep dive into after hours cinema with a watch of Radley Metzger's Camille 2000 and the GREATEST PORN FILM OF ALL TIME (so they hear). They discuss the genre as a whole, why it hasn't had a cross over hit in decades and promise to share some steamy secrets that have been never seen the light of day. Close the curtains, make sure you're alone, and prepare yourself for something 'special'* *Not guaranteed.

We take a phantasmagorical trip down the cinematically lathered mind slide of director Guy Maddin in this week's Canadian Content sponsored episode of The Important Cinema Club. Are his films weird enough? Do they move us emotionally? Will he ever direct a Marvel super hero film? All those answers* and more will be answered inside this newfangled example of the audiosonic story machine** *Well, some of them. **A.K.A: A podcast