On this special episode of Piecing It Together, film-critic Josh Bell joins me to discuss our favorite movies of 2021… so far. After last year’s weirdness, there’s still some residual strangeness to this year’s release schedule with delayed movies and movies that were quickly shot and released post-pandemic. One way or another, we’ve got plenty of films to talk about.
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On the 185th episode of Piecing It Together, Josh Bell from Awesome Movie Year joins me to talk about Alexandre Aja’s Oxygen, a claustrophobic sci-fi thriller set entirely in a cryogenic pod where a woman wakes up with no memory of how she got there or any idea how to get out. Puzzle pieces include Phone Booth, Gravity, Searching and Moon.
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On the 9th installment of our Missing Pieces series, Josh Bell and Jason Harris from Awesome Movie Year join me to talk about Peter Jackson’s adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord Of The Rings. This crossover episode follows up the Awesome Movie Year episode on the 2003 Best Picture Winner, The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King. After rewatching the whole trilogy, the three of us thought this epic series would make a perfect entry in the Missing Pieces series looking at films that inspired them, and films they inspired.
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On the 179th episode of Piecing It Together, Josh Bell from Awesome Movie Year joins me for Come True, a unique sci-fi horror film that features scientists that can look into people’s nightmares… Which all happen to look a little like Tool music videos. Puzzle pieces include Inception, A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Cell and Silent Hill.
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On the 174th episode of Piecing It Together, Josh Bell from Awesome Movie Year joins me for The Vigil, a horror movie that finds its inspiration not in Christian and Catholic iconography (like so many horror movies), but in Jewish imagery. Puzzle pieces include The Possession, The Exorcist, The Boy and The Evil Dead.
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On the 165th episode of Piecing It Together, I’m joined again by Josh Bell from Awesome Movie Year to talk about my favorite movie that I’ve seen so far this year… The criminally underrated The Kid Detective. Released to theaters only amid the pandemic and finally out on VOD, it stars Adam Brody as a guy who used to be the town’s cute kid detective, now faced with his first real, grown-up murder case. Puzzle pieces include The Big Lebowski, Inherent Vice, Under The Silver Lake and Mystery Team.
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On this special episode of Piecing It Together, Josh Bell from Awesome Movie Year join me to talk about all of the best older films that we watched for the first time in 2020. A mix of movies that we watched for his Awesome Movie Year podcast and other random classics that we spent this strange year sitting around and watching.
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On the 161st episode of Piecing It Together, Josh Bell from Awesome Movie Year helps me kick off 2021 with a look at Netflix’s The Midnight Sky, from director/star George Clooney. We all love George Clooney… But the films he’s directed have been very hit or miss… The Midnight Sky leans towards miss, but was still worth talking about. Puzzle pieces include Gravity, Interstellar, Apollo 13 and Adrift.
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On this special episode of Piecing It Together, Josh Bell and Jason Harris from Awesome Movie Year join me to talk about all of the best films of a very strange, but awesome movie year. It’s the Top 10 Films of 2020! With only a handful of crossovers and only one movie on all three of our lists, it’s a great conversation about a whole lot of great movies.
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On the 146th episode of Piecing It Together, Josh Bell joins me for Possessor from Brandon Cronenberg. Of course his famous father David comes up, as well as a bunch of other sci-fi oddities. Puzzle pieces include eXistenZ, Inception, Ghost In The Shell and Ex Machina.
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On the 144th episode of Piecing It Together, Josh Bell joins me for a movie I originally hadn’t planned on covering… But the ridiculous controversy surrounding Cuties made it a must to check out… And it was actually really good! Puzzle pieces include Mean Girls, The Florida Project, Little Miss Sunshine and Les Misérables.
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On this special episode of Piecing It Together, film-critic Josh Bell joins me to discuss our favorite movies of 2020… so far. It’s been a very strange year for movies what with everything going on in the world, but as our conversation should prove, there’s definitely no shortage of great ones.
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