This Film Could Be Your Life

It's the age-old love story - a young guy, out of a rocky relationship, finds warmth, companionship, and eventually love...in his Operating System. Spike Jonze's brilliant 2013 film explores the rawest of human emotions and the baffling depths of love, set against an incredible science-fiction world of the future. Join Jonathan Divine and Mike Overstreet as they discuss Her.

"In space, no one can hear you scream." In this episode Jonathan Divine and Mike Overstreet ponder the horrors of facing a truly unknowable monster, perfectly evolved to kill, and try to mine the deeper truths buried in one of the greatest films ever made: it's Ridley Scott's Alien.

A murder case that never ends, but spins out of control until enough time has passed that too few care to chase the truth anymore. It doesn't necessarily sound like a great story, but David Fincher's 2007 masterpiece effortlessly pulls you deep into its dark conspiracy. Join Jonathan Divine and Mike Overstreet as they discuss the brilliantly disorienting Zodiac.

What if your whole life - everything you'd seen, everyone you'd met - was a fabrication? Jonathan Divine and Mike Overstreet revisit a dark horse contender for one of their all-time favorite movies and find a goldmine of philosophy, ethics, and incredible sci-fi worldbuilding: it's 1998's The Truman Show.

John Wick cemented Keanu Reeves' legacy as an all-time great action movie star. Now, two sequels and seven years later, film geeks Jonathan Divine and Mike Overstreet try to figure out just how an action movie can be so brutal, simple, elegant, and incredibly fun.

Though Reservoir Dogs (1992) was his breakout, Pulp Fiction (1994) took the film world by storm, announcing writer-director Quentin Tarantino as a creative force to be reckoned with. More than 25 years later, Mike Overstreet and Jonathan Divine revisit the film that remains many people's introduction to the rich world of independent cinema.

Vulgar, philosophical, dark, hilarious, and dripping with meaning; it's no wonder our hosts find this movie so compelling. The 2008 black comedy explores deep moral questions by way of a suicidal hitman and his fatherly friend - also a hitman - sightseeing a mecca of medieval European culture. Jonathan Divine and Mike Overstreet try to avoid fawning over one of their favorite films as they discuss the bleak and perhaps inspiring In Bruges.

Steven Spielberg's mega-blockbuster from the early 80's is still held up as a pinnacle of childlike wonder in entertainment - but how long has it been since you actually rewatched it? Jonathan Divine and Mike Overstreet return to their childhoods to unpack E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.

Blade Runner 2049, Denis Villeneuve's follow-up to the iconic 80's Sci-Fi masterpiece, is a complex thing to untangle; longer, slower, stranger, and murkier, the film's low box-office returns could mark it as a failure. Hosts Jonathan Divine and Mike Overstreet think otherwise, and in this episode seek to dissect what might be one of the most effective sequels ever made.

Ridley Scott's Sci-Fi classic "Blade Runner" isn't remembered just for its sweeping visuals, gorgeous soundtrack, and genre-defining aesthetic; the story and characters have a tremendous emotional impact which, we think, makes it one of the most effective movies of its kind. Join Mike Overstreet and Jonathan Divine as they dive into "Blade Runner."