Filmbound

Film critics Mark Pfeiffer and Paul Markoff, formerly of the long-running TV show NOW PLAYING, get wrapped up in the journey into cinema with FILMBOUND. Each episode features their film discussions focusing on current releases, with additional time devoted to recommendations of new and old titles and conversations about hot topics in the world of cinema.

#124: Tenet 12/28/2021

#124: Tenet John David Washington tries to bring an end to a war being waged on those in the present by people in the future in Christopher Nolan’s TENET. /episode/index/show/filmbound/id/21618101

#123: Soul | Over the Moon 09/24/2021

#123: Soul | Over the Moon After an accident, a jazz pianist desperately wants his situation to return to normal so he can enjoy the big career break he’s finally received in Pete Docter and Kemp Powers’ animated film SOUL. /episode/index/show/filmbound/id/20584616

#122: Gremlins 09/08/2021

#122: Gremlins On this special holiday episode, a teenage boy receives an unusual creature as a Christmas gift. In director Joe Dante’s 1984 horror-comedy GREMLINS, chaos ensues in a small town when the rules for caring for the Mogwai are violated. /episode/index/show/filmbound/id/20411750

#121: The Truman Show | Real Life 02/08/2021

#121: The Truman Show | Real Life On this themed episode, Mark Pfeiffer and Paul Markoff look at two movies exploring the nature of filming realism for mass entertainment. Jim Carrey stars as a man unaware that his known reality has been built around and is the subject of a long-running and popular television series in director Peter Weir’s THE TRUMAN SHOW. /episode/index/show/filmbound/id/17867759

#120: Tesla 01/12/2021

#120: Tesla Starring Ethan Hawke as the famous inventor, writer-director Michael Almereyda’s experimental biopic TESLA covers about twenty years of Nikola Tesla’s time in the United States, from working for Thomas Edison in 1884 to his J.P. Morgan-funded experiments in Colorado Springs in the early 1900s. /episode/index/show/filmbound/id/17524451

#119: The Old Guard 12/28/2020

#119: The Old Guard Charlize Theron leads a team of immortals trying to fight the good fight and find a new, emerging one of their kind without detection by those who might exploit them in director Gina Prince-Bythewood’s THE OLD GUARD. /episode/index/show/filmbound/id/17346830

#118: Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga 10/30/2020

#118: Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga Will Ferrell and Rachel McAdams are Iceland’s best and most unlikely hope for international musical glory in director David Dobkin's comedy EUROVISION SONG CONTEST: THE STORY OF FIRE SAGA. /episode/index/show/filmbound/id/16611038

#117: Da 5 Bloods 10/12/2020

#117: Da 5 Bloods Four Vietnam veterans, including Delroy Lindo and Isiah Whitlock Jr., reunite in Ho Chi Minh City in search of the remains of their leader, played by Chadwick Boseman, and the gold bars they hid decades ago in Spike Lee’s DA 5 BLOODS. /episode/index/show/filmbound/id/16373570

#116: The Lovebirds 07/27/2020

#116: The Lovebirds In Michael Showalter’s romantic comedy THE LOVEBIRDS Kumail Nanjiani and Issa Rae star as a longtime couple on the verge of breaking up when they get mixed up in a murder and citywide conspiracy that compels them to run around New Orleans looking for answers and to clear their names. /episode/index/show/filmbound/id/15371972

#115: The Half of It 07/24/2020

#115: The Half of It High school senior Ellie accepts payments from second-string football player Paul to write love letters for him to popular girl Aster he has a crush on in THE HALF OF IT. Although their relationship starts out as just business, a friendship forms between them and is threatened when it becomes apparent that both are pining for Aster in writer-director Alice Wu’s twist on CYRANO DE BERGERAC. /episode/index/show/filmbound/id/15336335

#114: The Vast of Night 06/10/2020

#114: The Vast of Night In Andrew Patterson’s THE VAST OF NIGHT a 16-year-old switchboard operator and a young radio announcer in small-town New Mexico in the 1950s search for answers about the unidentified sound transmission she hears interrupting his broadcast. /episode/index/show/filmbound/id/14766716

#113: This Is Not a Film (In film nist) 06/02/2020

#113: This Is Not a Film (In film nist) While director Jafar Panahi appeals his 20-year filmmaking ban and potential incarceration by the Iranian government, he uses the time under house arrest to begin staging what his most recent film would have been in THIS IS NOT A FILM (IN FILM NIST). The 2011 non-fiction work is co-directed by Mojtaba Mirtahmasb. /episode/index/show/filmbound/id/14659949

#112: The Rookie 05/12/2020

#112: The Rookie In John Lee Hancock’s fact-based, inspirational sports drama THE ROOKIE, Dennis Quaid stars as a high school science teacher and former pitching prospect who gets one last unexpected chance to become a Major League Baseball player. /episode/index/show/filmbound/id/14383340

#111: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | The Last Starfighter 04/21/2020

#111: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | The Last Starfighter It’s a 1984 double feature as Mark Pfeiffer and Paul Markoff look back at another adventure featuring Harrison Ford’s whip-wielding archaeologist in Steven Spielberg’s INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM and the story of a teenager whose arcade game skills get him recruited to be an elite interstellar war pilot in THE LAST STARFIGHTER. /episode/index/show/filmbound/id/14076146

#110: Onward 04/14/2020

#110: Onward Elfin brothers voiced by Tom Holland and Chris Pratt embark on a quest to find a stone that will help them bring their deceased father back for a day in ONWARD. /episode/index/show/filmbound/id/13986743

#109: A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon 04/08/2020

#109: A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon In the stop-motion animated comedy A SHAUN THE SHEEP MOVIE: FARMAGEDDON, the woolly protagonist tries to help an alien return home while Farmer John turns his property into a extraterrestrial-themed tourist attraction for those fascinated by local rumors of outer space creatures being in the area. /episode/index/show/filmbound/id/13899689

#108: To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You 03/31/2020

#108: To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You Lana Condor's Lara Jean is now in a real relationship with Noah Centineo's Peter in TO ALL THE BOYS: P.S. I STILL LOVE YOU, but another boy who received one of her love letters responds positively and complicates matters. /episode/index/show/filmbound/id/13783016

#107: Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Portrait de la jeune fille en feu) | Downhill 03/24/2020

#107: Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Portrait de la jeune fille en feu) | Downhill In Céline Sciamma’s PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE (PORTRAIT DE LA JEUNE FILLE EN FEU), Noémie Merlant is brought to an island in the late 1800s under the guise of being a companion for Adèle Haenel when she has really been hired to paint the young woman’s wedding portrait for which she refuses to sit. /episode/index/show/filmbound/id/13683506

#106: The Best Films of 2019 03/18/2020

#106: The Best Films of 2019 Mark Pfeiffer and Paul Markoff reveal the titles making their lists of the Best Films of 2019 in this special edition episode. They also discuss their favorite performances in last year’s films. /episode/index/show/filmbound/id/13591970

#105: 1917 02/26/2020

#105: 1917 Two British soldiers in World War I are instructed to make a treacherous journey on foot to deliver a vital message to the 2nd Battalion in Sam Mendes' 1917, which is constructed to appear as though it unfolds in a single unbroken take. /episode/index/show/filmbound/id/13305530

#104: Little Women 02/19/2020

#104: Little Women LITTLE WOMEN writer-director Greta Gerwig brings a new version of Louisa May Alcott’s story about the March sisters to the screen with a cast including Saoirse Ronan, Florence Pugh, Emma Watson, Laura Dern, Meryl Streep, and Timothée Chalamet. /episode/index/show/filmbound/id/13211420

#103: Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker 02/04/2020

#103: Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker STAR WARS: EPISODE IX - THE RISE OF SKYWALKER wraps the third trilogy in the saga with with the resistance hoping to bring final defeat to the First Order and the reemergence of Emperor Palpatine. /episode/index/show/filmbound/id/13017245

#102: Uncut Gems | Richard Jewell 01/15/2020

#102: Uncut Gems | Richard Jewell Adam Sandler is a New York City jeweler who obtains a rare black opal that could be the score of his life in Josh and Benny Safdie’s UNCUT GEMS. Ever the risk-lover, he places big bets on the stone and the NBA playoffs that could cost him everything. /episode/index/show/filmbound/id/12735155

#101: Marriage Story 01/08/2020

#101: Marriage Story Writer-director Noah Baumbach’s MARRIAGE STORY tracks Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson as a couple trying to end their relationship amicably but finding that goal much harder to achieve. /episode/index/show/filmbound/id/12656792

#100: Frozen II | Knives Out 01/07/2020

#100: Frozen II | Knives Out The future of Arendelle is at risk, and the secret to saving it may require discovering the origin of Elsa’s powers in the Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee-directed FROZEN II. /episode/index/show/filmbound/id/12652277

#099: Home Alone 12/25/2019

#099: Home Alone On this special holiday episode, Macaulay Culkin is an eight-year-old who is accidentally left behind when his family goes on a Christmas trip to Paris and must defend himself and the house from burglars played by Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern in HOME ALONE. Chris Columbus directed and John Hughes wrote this 1990 blockbuster family film. /episode/index/show/filmbound/id/12530027

#098: The Irishman 12/25/2019

#098: The Irishman Robert De Niro looks back on a life working for the mob in Martin Scorsese’s decades-spanning crime drama THE IRISHMAN. Joe Pesci and Al Pacino also star in a film that reflects on the actors’ and director’s representations of gangsters in their work. /episode/index/show/filmbound/id/12528455

#097: Dolemite is My Name 12/24/2019

#097: Dolemite is My Name polishes the filthy jokes the neighborhood derelicts tell into an act as a kung-fu fighting pimp character he wants to bring to the movies in director Craig Brewer’s DOLEMITE IS MY NAME /episode/index/show/filmbound/id/12527051

#096: Parasite (Gisaengchung) 12/17/2019

#096: Parasite (Gisaengchung) The unemployed Kims scheme for every family member to get lucrative jobs in the home of the wealthy Parks, but holding onto their cushy positions is tougher than expected in director/co-writer Bong Joon-Ho’s PARASITE (GISAENGCHUNG). /episode/index/show/filmbound/id/12436892

#095: The Lighthouse 12/16/2019

#095: The Lighthouse Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson occupy a lonely island in 1890s New England where they must keep the lantern lit for the ships at sea while wrestling to maintain their sanity in director and co-writer Robert Eggers’ THE LIGHTHOUSE. /episode/index/show/filmbound/id/12422438

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