Making Gravity Was So Much Harder Than You Could Possibly Imagine

Sunset Boulevard is STILL a Crazy, Meta Middle Finger to Hollywood: Sunset Boulevard is a classic genre blending, film noir, dark comedy that skewered the state of the film industry in 1950. Maybe the most incredible thing about it is that it’s as relevant right now as it was nominated for 11 Academy Awards. But where, oh where, does it end up on our algorithmically confusing Top 100 list? Clint, Cal and Alex are about to find out! by CineFix Top 100

70 min listen

Independence Day Is a Goddamn Masterpiece: In our first episode, we take on something near and dear to Clint's heart, aliens blowing up our greatest monuments in Roland Emmerich's 1994 destruction masterpiece, Independence Day. But where does it rank on the list? by CineFix Top 100

82 min listen

Introducing CineFix Top 100: The CineFix Top 100 is the first podcast from the long standing, movie obsessed YT page, CineFix. Always game for a movie list, the CineFix crew sets their sights on their biggest list ever, The CineFix Top 100. by CineFix Top 100

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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is Impossible To Forget: Dear Listener, Clint, Cal and Alex have had Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind's ranking erased from their memory. Please never mention where the film fits into the Top 100 again. Thank you. by CineFix Top 100

68 min listen

City of God is Eloquent Violence: In 2002, City of God came charging out of a Brazillian favela to get Clint, Cal and Alex to dig into the most stressful movie list, the strange Academy Awards directorial oversight and Cal’s favorite kind of movie (Scorsese clones) on their way to discovering where the film ranks on the CineFix Top 100. by CineFix Top 100

82 min listen

Who Framed Roger Rabbit Is An Ageless Miracle: Clint, Cal and Alex discuss bumping the lamp, how sometimes the only way to do a thing is the hard way and, on top of finding out where the film ranks on the Top 100, ask the important question… On a scale of John Cleese to Tim Curry, how scary is Sting? by CineFix Top 100

78 min listen

Parasite is Genre-Bending Social Satire At Its Most Metaphorical: In 2019 Bong Joon-ho dropped an amazing darkly comic satire on us with Parasite. Clint, Cal and Alex break down recent eat the rich movies, how the film was edited on Final Cut Pro 7 and why one of the greatest twists of all time is actually in the middle of the movie. by CineFix Top 100

76 min listen

The Exorcist Is Still Scary Thanks To Classic Film Trickery: “Your Mother ***** ***** in hell!” The Exorcist had audiences' heads spinning in 1973 and hasn’t really stopped since. William Friedkin had just won an Oscar for The French Connection and William Peter Blatty’s novel was a best seller, but the filmmakers still had a long way to go to make a classic. by CineFix Top 100

99 min listen

Has Star Wars' Relentless Retconning Hurt Its Legacy? | CineFix Top 100: Star Wars is inescapable now, but Clint, Cal and Alex try to dissect the movie it was while also keeping in mind all the tinkering, changes, sequels and spinoffs that have followed. by CineFix Top 100

91 min listen

Terminator 2: Judgment Day Is The Most Perfect Action Movie of All Time: “I’ll be back.” There are few who do sequels like James Cameron. In 1991, Terminator 2: Judgment Day blew the socks off everybody on its way to becoming, what we here at CineFix are happy to proclaim, the most perfect action movie of all time. Groundbreaking visual effects mixed with ingenious in-camera tricks and one of the greatest cinema face turns from Arnold Schwarzenegger, T2 is one helluva film. Clint, Cal and Alex try to discover just where it ranks on the CineFix Top 100, discussing Robert Patrick in his underwear, a Best Editing Oscar snub, and how papier mache can look like meat particles on camera. Meanwhile, producer Dan’s algorithm becomes self aware at 2:14am, eastern time, August 29th… by CineFix Top 100

89 min listen

Making Gravity Was So Much Harder Than You Could Possibly Imagine: "I hate space." For anyone that got to see Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity in the theater, it’s a breathless, palm-sweating, white-knuckled experience that is hard to describe. Essentially Castaway in space, Sandra Bullock is by herself for most of a tight 90 minute adrenaline rush just trying to survive. This episode of CineFix Top 100, Clint, Cal and Alex celebrate this harrowing film’s 10th Anniversary with its Academy Award winning Visual Effects Supervisor, Tim Webber. Tim walks us through all the little details and tries to describe how necessity really is the mother of invention when making a movie where only the faces are real. Buckle up. Meanwhile, producer Dan’s algorithm is floating quietly through space, looking down on the earth and probably scheming… by CineFix Top 100

99 min listen

The Fly is Science Fiction’s Most Accessible Body Horror: Clint and Cal spend another week waiting for Alex to rejoin them, but in the meantime they dig in to the amazing work of professional face-melter Chris Walas, just how much Mel Brooks campaigned for the movie and lament the unfortunate missed opportunity to “collude for Croney” to get more of the Canadian body horror maestro’s work on the Top 100. by CineFix Top 100

76 min listen

Midnight Cowboy Is A Time Capsule That Can’t Be Rebooted | CineFix Top 100: “I’m walkin’ here! I’m walkin here!” The late 60s marked the beginning of a new era in Hollywood and Midnight Cowboy was right in the middle of it. The 1969 film from John Schesinger follows a swaggering small town Texas stud trying to make it as a hustler in Manhattan and the unlikely relationship he discovers with a con-man. Jon Voigt and Dustin Hoffman turn in amazing performances, but the most incredible thing about the film is how perfectly and inextricably it fits into its place and time. With Alex a bit under the weather, Clint and Cal break down the Oscar nominated editing, relentless gum-chewing and the concept of the horny grandma that’s peppered throughout this Best Picture winner. Meanwhile, producer Dan’s algorithm has escaped the city and is on a bus somewhere between here and Florida… by CineFix Top 100

78 min listen

Groundhog Day Doesn’t Need to Explain Itself: Groundhog Day has become a genre all unto itself. Blending elements of time travel, magical realism, spirituality and good old fashioned romantic comedy, it doesn’t feel right to call it a cult classic but that’s not far off. by CineFix Top 100

71 min listen

RoboCop Features Cinema’s Smartest Shootout in a Cocaine Factory: "Your move, creep." The year… vaguely near future. The setting… Old Detroit. The hero… a robotic cop resurrected by corporate greed fighting to regain some of his humanity. RoboCop, in a word, is awesome. by CineFix Top 100

88 min listen

Orson Welles Created The 'Star Role' in The Third Man: "They had 500 years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock." Carol Reed’s The Third Man is a gorgeously photographed bit of post-war film noir that gave us one of the greatest grins in the history of cinema. It also gave us a ton of zither! It got booted off of AFI’s Top 100 movies list but find out where it ranks on the CineFix Top 100! by CineFix Top 100

84 min listen

Raiders of the Lost Ark Was Spielberg Shooting From The Hip | CineFix Top 100: Clint, Cal and Alex dig into the budget-minded approach Spielberg, George Lucas and crew took to the production and the incredible accidents responsible for some of the coolest imagery in the film. by CineFix Top 100

120 min listen

Season 2 Trailer | CineFix Top 100: CineFix Top 100 is back with a twist! by CineFix Top 100

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In Bruges' Script Is Its Greatest Asset | CineFix Top 100: “Just try not to say anything too loud or crass.” by CineFix Top 100

82 min listen

Wait, Did Disney’s Robin Hood Start The Furry Movement? | CineFix Top 100: Does this film stack up to all the other classics? Did it start the furry movement? More importantly, does it belong on the list? by CineFix Top 100

80 min listen

Does “Really Getting” The Babadook Make Clint A Bad Parent? | CineFix Top 100: A Guide To Hating Your Kids and Navigating Haunted Pop-Up Books by CineFix Top 100

80 min listen

Jackie Brown Has Aged the Best of All Tarantino’s Films | CineFix Top 100: In the 25+ years since Tarantino adapted the Elmore Leonard novel, Rum Punch, Jackie Brown has managed to age like Pam Grier herself, which is to say, incredibly. by CineFix Top 100

79 min listen

Seven Samurai: Is There a More Influential Film on Modern Cinema? | CineFix Top 100: Clint, Cal and Alex breakdown the patriarch of modern action cinema. by CineFix Top 100

93 min listen

Princess Mononoke Is Beautiful, But Does It Have Rizz? | CineFix Top 100: It's one of Hayao Miyazaki's MANY masterpieces, but how many of the characters in Princess Mononoke are actually compelling enough to carry the movie? by CineFix Top 100

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La Haine Is Tough Guy Posturing At Its Finest | CineFix Top 100: “So far, so good. So far, so good…” On one hand, La Haine is a grab bag of every filmmaking trick that was cool in the 90s. On the other hand, it’s a scathing look at systemic violence that’s as relevant as ever even 30 year later. The story of three guys outside of Paris grappling with the aftermath of a riot in which police officers put one of their friends in a coma, La Haine is a tough but essential watch. by CineFix Top 100

84 min listen

Why Three Amigos Still Holds Up Decades Later | CineFix Top 100: Clint, Cal and Alex discuss the difficulty of analyzing comedies, how this film’s comedy is completely character based and how hard it is to be grounded after being so absurd. by CineFix Top 100

91 min listen

Monty Python And The Holy Grail Gleefully Skewers The Filmmaking Process | CineFix Top 100 by CineFix Top 100

88 min listen

The ‘Burbs Taps Into Every Suburban American’s Fear | CineFix Top 100 by CineFix Top 100

102 min listen

Hot Fuzz Is A Buddy Cop Love Story | CineFix Top 100: Clint, Cal and Alex talk about editing paperwork like a fight scene, the comedy chops of Olivia Colman and audio commentary tracks with film references too numerous to keep up with. by CineFix Top 100

87 min listen

Being There Is Cinema’s Greatest Rorschach Test | CineFix Top 100 by CineFix Top 100

89 min listen

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