Repeat Viewing - Why People Rewatch Movies

The season of new films dropping left and right to streaming platforms continues, and we have more hot first take action, as we dive into Pixar's latest, Soul. As creatives, we found quite a lot to cover in this first look at the film, and not doubt we missed a lot too! We dig into the very nuanced, personal themes, the boundaries it breaks for Pixar animation, and the important, powerful cultural elements that help make this film not just relatable, but ultimately universal. Subscribe to Repeat Viewing wherever you listen, please rate, review & share! Please support us patreon.com/repeatviewpod & follow us @repeatviewpod! Theme music by Samuel Oak.

Happy 2021 everyone! Like many of you, we opened our Christmas Present of Wonder Woman '84 on the day it was released. So how did it add to our holiday? How does it add up to the first WW and other recent DC films? Plus, we talk briefly about other strong female characters with Stargirl, and the Amazon original film I'm Your Woman. Subscribe to Repeat Viewing wherever you listen, please rate, review & share! Please support us patreon.com/repeatviewpod & follow us @repeatviewpod! Theme music by Samuel Oak.

Our final episode of 2020 brings another original film from a major streaming platform, with the Amazon original drama, Sound of Metal. We breakdown the phenomenal use of sound, the intensely focused and connected acting, and the painfully relatable plight of an independent creative person who encounters serious life challenges. Happy New Year Repeat Viewers! Thank you for making our year memorable and encouraging. Wishing you a great 2021!! Subscribe to Repeat Viewing wherever you listen, please rate, review & share! Please support us patreon.com/repeatviewpod & follow us @repeatviewpod! Theme music by Samuel Oak.

With the 3rd season of Cobra Kai dropping on Netflix as our first treat of 2021, this episode from our Patreon feed was poised and ready for the All Valley Tournament. We chat about the different themes playing out between different characters across the overall show, what it borrows from the formula in the original 3 films, then we take a hard look at the fights. Everybody say your best Ki-Ya, because this episode kicks ass! Subscribe to Repeat Viewing wherever you listen, please rate, review & share! Please support us patreon.com/repeatviewpod & follow us @repeatviewpod! Theme music by Samuel Oak.

'Tis the season for holiday themed episodes, and we wanted to rise to the challenge with an actual Christmas movie (with minimal explosions), and Netflix's Klaus did not disappoint. We have a blast talking about the 2D rendering and design styles, the incredibly timely, socially conscious story, and the unique take on the Santa Klaus mythos. Also, we recorded this in my car in our home town of Folsom, CA, while visiting our families for the holidays, (yes, don't worry, after both getting negative Covid tests), so the nostalgia is thick and adds to the already ample hilarity. Plus, some fun special guests. Subscribe to Repeat Viewing wherever you listen, please rate, review & share! Please support us patreon.com/repeatviewpod & follow us @repeatviewpod! Theme music by Samuel Oak.

Our first stop on the journey through the many new films releasing to streaming platforms this month, is "Mank", the newest film by David Fincher & his latest collaboration with Netflix. In a deep talk  about this film's theme, "letting artists make art", we find our way through details about the modern film industry, while simultaneously exploring the many hidden levels of Hollywood history within it, and the different subtexts implanted underneath that. Plus, some very interesting hidden tidbits about this film and it's creators! Subscribe to Repeat Viewing wherever you listen, please rate, review & share! Please support us patreon.com/repeatviewpod & follow us @repeatviewpod! Theme music by Samuel Oak.

In a bizarrely congruent follow up to our previous episode Addams Family Values, we talk about the strangely similar Knives Out, without intending the parallel. We lean into that topic, plus the vast array of details & levels to discuss, much like all Rian Johnson films, and break down as much as we can, all while not spoiling the mystery at the heart of the film. Subscribe to Repeat Viewing wherever you listen, please rate, review & share! Get extra episodes each month at patreon.com/repeatviewpod & follow us everywhere else @repeatviewpod! Theme music by Samuel Oak.

In the spirit of the still spooky season, we have the perfect "Thanksgiving" episode, and a blast, discussing Barry Sonnenfeld's wicked Addams Family Values from 1993. We spend a good chunk of our talk covering (& quoting) the knockout, brilliant script by Paul Rudnick, and Sonnenfeld's exquisite storytelling, but we also lavish attention on the top notch cast, and will probably go to our graves doing our best impressions of Raul Julia's fantastic swagger. Plus, the Sonnenfeld Get Shorty connection is alive from our episode on the film, and we get to follow up with a quick chat about the show, now on Amazon Prime. Then Seamus gets defensive about his fake movie. It's a doozie! Subscribe to Repeat Viewing wherever you listen, please rate, review & share! Get extra episodes each month at patreon.com/repeatviewpod & follow us everywhere else @repeatviewpod! Theme music by Samuel Oak.

Continuing our tribute to the late Sean Connery, we tackle what is one of his most puzzling, crazy entries, and it also happens to be his final on screen performance. Why was this movie such a mess? How did it become instantly notorious? How is has it aged? Also, we discuss our favorite Connery movies, his overall career, and of course, James Bond. Plus, a game! Subscribe to Repeat Viewing wherever you listen, please rate, review & share! Please support us patreon.com/repeatviewpod for extra episodes & follow us everywhere @repeatviewpod! Theme music by Samuel Oak.

In our fist of two tributes to the first Scotsman of cinema, we tackle the Rock as a companion to our previous episode on Michael Bay's Armageddon. We discuss what the then-71-year-old Connery definitely added to the film, how he and Cage play off each other, the many different screenwriters who doctored this film, and then answer the most important question of all: how did Michael Bay get on our show, not once, but twice?! Subscribe to Repeat Viewing wherever you listen, please rate, review & share! Please support us patreon.com/repeatviewpod & follow us @repeatviewpod! Theme music by Samuel Oak.

For a special PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION EVE show, we pulled a very appropriate unreleased episode from the vault. Although recorded over 3 years ago before we launched the podcast, this episode on the original and remake of the Manchurian Candidate could not be more timely. We tackle the differing takes each director, John Frankenheimer & Jonathan Demme, had on the adaptation of the novel by George Axelrod, and we talk about the different implications each version has for its time, and for ours. Also, this one is proof that our little movie show has always been on brand. Subscribe to Repeat Viewing wherever you listen, please rate, review & share! Please support us patreon.com/repeatviewpod & follow us @repeatviewpod!Theme music by Samuel Oak.

In a rowdy and random, hilariously drunken Vodkast, we dig into the career of the muscles from Brussels, and run down a few odd entries from his career, "Black Eagle", "No Retreat, No Surrender" & "In Hell", all strangely involving Russia in one way or another. We talk about whether or not Jean Claude Van Damme is a truly good fighter, citing evidence from several indie and early projects, where he can always be seen bringing a lot more to the table, such as Black Eagle in which he fights the great Sho Kosugi), and we muse about why his mainstream career quickly became such a parody of itself. Subscribe to Repeat Viewing wherever you listen, please rate, review & share! Please support us patreon.com/repeatviewpod & follow us @repeatviewpod! Theme music by Samuel Oak.

Continuing our spooky dive for Halloween, special guest J Gonzo joins us to talk more Cronenberg, with his extremely personal work, the Brood. We dive into the very bizarre story, the proto-Cronenbergian body horror, the most interesting Oliver Reed in the world, and what the filmmaker was getting at with this inspired entry in his canon. Support J Gonzo on Kickstarter and follow him @jgonzoart. Subscribe to Repeat Viewing wherever you listen, please rate, review & share! Please support us patreon.com/repeatviewpod & follow us @repeatviewpod! Theme music by Samuel Oak.

We get spooky just in time for Halloween with a David Cronenberg spotlight double-feature. This time we look at Cronenberg's efforts to adapt Stephen King's the Dead Zone, and compare it to the rest of their respective film libraries, as well as the typical stylistic earmarks of both. Plus we talk acting, both big and small, as we tackle talkin' Walken and Martin Sheen. Stay tuned for a second Cronenberg-Halloween episode with "the Brood", just 48 hours after this one. Subscribe to Repeat Viewing wherever you listen, please rate, review & share! Please support us patreon.com/repeatviewpod & follow us @repeatviewpod! Theme music by Samuel Oak.

With just 10 days until the 2020 Presidential Election, two films have arrived on streaming platforms from master documentarian Alex Gibney, which all America should watch and share. Agents of Chaos (HBOmax) & Totally Under Control (Hulu) encapsulate the two most important factors of the Trump era, honing in on facts and timelines of the Russia hack of the 2016 election, (and American culture), and the botched U.S. government response to Covid-19. Trigger warning: this is a very political episode, but it is fair, fact based, and the films discussed may be the most vital we will ever cover. Subscribe to Repeat Viewing wherever you listen, please rate, review & share! Please support us on Patreon/repeatviewpod & follow us @repeatviewpod! Theme music by Samuel Oak.

Our march toward the Presidential election continues with the 1990 John Cusack/James Spader political parable, True Colors. We dive into the dueling natures of idealism and ambition, along with some serious filmmaking interrogation, in a detailed, insightful and funny episode. Plus, we play more of our new game! Subscribe to Repeat Viewing wherever you listen, please rate, review & share! Please support us on patreon.com/repeatviewpod, and follow us everywhere @repeatviewpod! Theme music by Samuel Oak.

In a HUGE deviation from our normal episodes, we have come up with a game, and decided to spend an episode introducing it to give you a taste of the premium episodes you can find on our Patreon page (repeatviewpod). It was a breezy and hilarious use of our time, (and now your time,) to say the least. Subscribe to Repeat Viewing wherever you listen, please rate, review & share! Please follow @repeatviewpod and support us on patreon.com/repeatviewpod. Theme music by Samuel Oak.

As a vital Presidential election looms, and our "commander in chief" just spent a weekend in the hospital, coming out somewhat altered by the experience, Ivan Reitman's "Dave" from 1993 seems the only film we could possibly discuss this episode, and it's more relevant than ever! We chat about the endless layers of satire, humor and heart, and how this film has aged, given all the changes in American politics in recent years. Subscribe to Repeat Viewing wherever you listen, please rate, review & share! Please follow us @repeatviewpod! Theme music by Samuel Oak.

To hopefully complete an unintentional theme, we honor the recently passed, highly influential Supreme Court Justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, by talking about the documentary with her initials, and then some. We weigh her impact in the court against our current national crises and share one of our best, most politically open minded conversations yet. Subscribe to Repeat Viewing wherever you listen, please rate, review & share! Please follow us @repeatviewpod! Theme music by Samuel Oak.

Our biopic trilogy of appreciation in memory of Chadwick Boseman comes to a strong close with Marshall, the 2017 courtroom drama directed by Reginald Hudlin. As we mourn the passing of RBG, this story of the first black Supreme Court Justice was a timely watch and discussion in more ways than one. We peel back the dense layers of nuance, performance and stellar filmmaking! Plus we naturally sing the praises of Chadwick Boseman throughout. Subscribe to Repeat Viewing wherever you listen, please rate & review kindly before sharing with your film friends! Please support us on Patreon.com/repeatviewpod! Theme music by Samuel Oak.