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Trilogy in Theory

Michael Denniston and Web Bist

A month of movies meeting movies to form a good trilogy... in theory.

tv & film film reviews

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00:37:12

Fight Club (1999)

Trilogy in Theory ·

2024/09/13

The Second Part in our Identity Crisis Cinema TrilogyThe first rule of FIGHT CLUB show notes... Catchup on last year's Movie Book Club from Quentin Tarantino's CINEMA SPECULATION! Follow along at our Patreon page as once a month (although sometimes more) we read AND watch films from 1999 for BEST MOVIE YEAR EVER by Brian Raftery! Threads/Twitter/Instagram/Facebook: @trilogyintheory Letterboxd: @projectingfilm & @webistrying Artwork by: @nasketchs Find out more at

00:06:47

Patreon Preview of Best Movie Year Ever: AMERICAN BEAUTY

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2024/08/28

If you have a buck instead of a book you too can time travel with us back to 1999!As usual one host works in a comic book origin story for AMERICAN BEAUTY as part of a clever ruse to avoid talking about Kevin Spacey in one of his Oscar-winning performances. The other host talks about aging out of being Mena Suvari's peer to Annette Bening. There is some hope of personal growth in this episode! Enjoy and catchup on last year's Movie Book Club from Quentin Tarantino's CINEMA

00:27:11

Charade (1963)

Trilogy in Theory ·

2024/08/21

The First Part in our Identity Crisis Cinema TrilogyIf ever we have an identity crisis we can only hope to handle it with as much charm as Audrey Hepburn or Cary Grant. Instead you get us. And that ONCE AGAIN involves us comparing ourselves once again to Paul Giamatti's character in SIDEWAYS. So... as far from Ms. Hepburn and Mr. Grant as you can get. Which is why this episode is on CHARADE! Because we all need a little more of Audrey and Cary and a little less... well, I won't say less Paul

00:07:04

Patreon Preview of Best Movie Year Ever: THE WOOD &...

Trilogy in Theory ·

2024/08/16

If you have a buck instead of a book you too can time travel with us back to 1999!In which the comparisons to AMERICAN PIE never end but at least it wasn't forced into a trilogy on Taye Diggs ALMOST ruining a wedding. That may have been us playing the part of Mr. Diggs by ruining two great slice-of-life comedies from the Best Movie Year Ever of 1999 in THE WOOD and THE BEST MAN. In the former we get a classic hang movie as three young men move onto adulthood and in the latter it's an ensemble of

00:38:35

Deadpool & Wolverine (2024)

Trilogy in Theory ·

2024/08/07

A special bonus episode for the latest funny book on film!In true DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE fashion are we pandering by featuring this latest MCU joint without a proper trilogy in theory? Or are we doing everyone a favor by NOT trying to force two other innocent bystander films in to a discussion on a silly superhero played by a very silly Ryan Reynolds in a "plot" that spends two hours making excuses for why Hugh Jackman is back as Wolverine and why Deadpool still exists at all? Look..

00:39:51

The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

Trilogy in Theory ·

2024/08/02

The Third Part in our Mask of the Doctor TrilogyWe finish our trilogy on masks of doctors (although that comes into question by the end of the episode) by starting with comparing our podcast to FRIENDS or SEINFELD and every other podcast is the 9:30 sitcom that everyone hate watched until ER started. In some regard THE DARK KNIGHT RISES is seen as maybe the misfire of Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy... although that is not backed up financially or critically. It's just a vibe! And that's also

00:28:58

The Skin I Live In (2011)

Trilogy in Theory ·

2024/07/29

The Second Part in our Mask of the Doctor Trilogy This episode is uncomfortable but we assure you that we are no longer talking about the AMERICAN PIE saga. Catchup on last year's Movie Book Club from Quentin Tarantino's CINEMA SPECULATION! Follow along at our Patreon page as once a month (although sometimes more) we read AND watch films from 1999 for BEST MOVIE YEAR EVER by Brian Raftery! Threads/Twitter/Instagram/Facebook: @trilogyintheory Letterboxd: @projectingfilm & @webistrying

00:31:51

Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

Trilogy in Theory ·

2024/07/19

The First Part in our Mask of the Doctor TrilogyWe couldn't let July end without a little Hallmark-like summer Christmas celebration by continuing our summer sexcapade! For this combination of highly specific events one most to go the master of the cinema. Kubrick. Cruise. Kidman. You know who isn't included in that list? Nolan! For that you must wait for the end of this month's trilogy BUT FOR NOW we amble about fake New York City with The Last Movie Star as he just can't stop running into sexual

00:36:36

Sleeping with Other People (2015)

Trilogy in Theory ·

2024/07/10

The Third Part in our Sex Pact TrilogyThe only climax one could expect from our trilogy on a sex pact among friends would have to involve two former sitcom stars in Alison Brie and Jason Sudeikis who are... SLEEPING WITH OTHER PEOPLE. But mainly we want them to sleep with each other (if not us, of course) in this lovely romcom from Leslye Headland. One host falls for the first time while the other perhaps has aged into a world where he can accept a platonic relationship with Ms. Brie and/or Mr

00:32:03

Friends with Benefits (2011)

Trilogy in Theory ·

2024/07/04

The Second Part in our Sex Pact TrilogyHappy Fourth of July with one of your hosts stranger holiday traditions (we'll get to EYES WIDE SHUT every Christmas very soon) with the auteur Will Gluck's FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS. And while spending America's birthday with Jenna Elfman and Richard Jenkins doesn't sound particularly sexy (though delightful!) that's where the sex positivity of Mila Kunis and Justin Timberlake come on. We debate whether this film subverts the romcom tropes it winks at enough or

00:30:39

American Pie (1999)

Trilogy in Theory ·

2024/06/29

The First Part in our Sex Pact TrilogyFor our latest trilogy we make a sex pact. Not with each other but with three films on films where friends take "the next step" together. Unfortunately for our first entry in AMERICAN PIE it's the likes of Jason Biggs and Chris Klein awkwardly making these moves on the likes of the Alyson Hannigan and Mean Suvari. Thankfully all of them mostly come out unscathed as we remark on the strange sweetness of this perverted movie that was THERE'S SOMETHING

00:05:44

Patreon Preview of Best Movie Year Ever: THE SIXTH SENSE

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2024/06/28

If you have a buck instead of a book you too can time travel with us back to 1999! Toni Collette should have won an Oscar for and Bruce Willis at his best in THE SIXTH SENSE! This is the episode where we do not trash a universally loved modern classic ("modern" so we don't feel so old on this film's twenty-fifth anniversary) HOWEVER... the show does open with a bit of some IT FOLLOWS rules lawyering. But then it's right back to the love fest for M. Night Shyamalan's biggest hit. No, it's

00:35:42

The Straight Story (1999)

Trilogy in Theory ·

2024/06/27

The Third Part in our Driving with Death Trilogy Although David Lynch's THE STRAIGHT STORY didn't make the cut for our Book Club (shame on you Best Movie Year Ever!) but it's better than END OF DAYS (another strange omission from the book on 1999 in film) and so it gets to be included in a proper trilogy. On the definitive movie podcast on movie trilogies. That are not actually trilogies. Okay, we are going a bit off the rails here so how about a hot take? This is better Lynch than MULHOLLAND DRIVE

00:31:46

Speed (1994)

Trilogy in Theory ·

2024/06/26

The Second Part in our Driving with Death Trilogy They don't make them like they used to. Because every movie coming out now Is. Simply. Not. SPEED. From the auteur Jan de Bone we were introduced to the next great Hollywood star in Sandra Bullock (apologies to DEMOLITION MAN) and Keanu was anointed as The Next Great Action Star (though THE MATRIX and JOHN WICK would still be some years away.) And then there's Jeff Daniels as the boozing, cynical Obi-Wan Kenobi who knows everything about bombs and

00:30:52

Sorcerer (1977)

Trilogy in Theory ·

2024/06/25

The First Part in our Driving with Death Trilogy We open with an attack on Star Wars and then quickly move to expressing annoyance at the auteur Nicolas Winding Refn's interview style. Populist and independent cinema... no one is safe with us! Much like the characters in William Friedkin's SORCERER. Just a bunch of dudes driving through the jungle with dynamite in the back of the truck and two brave podcasters airing their various grievances. Same same! Catchup on last year's Movie Book Club from

00:05:51

Patreon Preview of Best Movie Year Ever: THE MUMMY

Trilogy in Theory ·

2024/06/24

If you have a buck instead of a book you too can time travel with us back to 1999! The renaissance of Brendan Fraser as a beloved actor owes a lot to his crowd-pleasing adventures with Rachel Weisz in THE MUMMY; a movie better than it has any right to be and one that your hosts thought of themselves as too cool for upon initial release. Twenty-five years later they are recording a podcast on the not-so-hip mummy movie and it is clear that these two guys were never cooler than Mr. Fraser and Ms

00:33:46

Batman Begins (2005)

Trilogy in Theory ·

2024/05/22

The Third Part in our Liam Neeson is a Short-Term MentorWhen a podcast host programs a Batman movie for a his co-host who usually shows up to record in a Batman t-shirt he expects a little more respect shown to BATMAN BEGINS! Alas, this is an episode in which one man's hatred of Christopher Nolan is put to the test when combined with his love of The Dark Knight... but not that movie because we needed to complete our trilogy on Liam Neeson mentoring young people to fairly bad results. Stay tuned for

00:30:15

Gangs of New York (2002)

Trilogy in Theory ·

2024/05/16

The Second Part in our Liam Neeson is a Short-Term-Mentor We dare to go after the great Martin Scorsese. And also Cameron Diaz. Catchup on last year's Movie Book Club from Quentin Tarantino's CINEMA SPECULATION! Follow along at our Patreon page as once a month (although sometimes more) we read AND watch films from 1999 for BEST MOVIE YEAR EVER by Brian Raftery! Threads/Twitter/Instagram/Facebook: @trilogyintheory Letterboxd: @projectingfilm & @webistrying Artwork by: @nasketchs Find out

00:32:53

Star Wars: Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace (1999)

Trilogy in Theory ·

2024/05/12

The First Part in our Liam Neeson is a Short-Term Mentor Trilogy How did one podcaster spend his May the Fourth? By running out on his sleeping family for a late night twenty-fifth anniversary screening of the George Lucas opus STAR WARS: EPISODE 1 - THE PHANTOM MENACE. He then spent a week questioning his commitment to cinema and this podcast and pondering this question: if this podcast sticks around for two decades will people come around to our way of thinking or do we need to be bought out by

00:06:21

Patreon Preview of Best Movie Year Ever: GALAXY QUEST

Trilogy in Theory ·

2024/04/24

If you have a buck instead of a book you too can time travel with us back to 1999!The delightful ensemble of Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman, Sam Rockwell and who else? I'm forgetting someone. Oh, that's right! Justin Long also stars in GALAXY QUEST which graces the pages of our Movie Book Club in this chapter from the book BEST. MOVIE. YEAR. EVER. by Brian Raftery!. To listen to the full episode please consider throwing us a buck (there is only one Patreon tier and it is a whopping ONE DOLLAR) to

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