Make the Case

About Make the Case

A podcast to help you fall in love with movies all over again. Each week, Conrad Rothbaum and his co-host ShwinnyPooh come on to "Make the Case" -- that is, to put forth a hot take, argument or simply a new perspective -- about a movie they love. For questions or comments please email us at makethecasepodcast@gmail.com and we might read your email on the air! You can also call us and leave us a voicemail at (818) 538-4966 -- we want to hear from you, and may play your voicemail on the podcast! Follow the show on Twitter at @makethecaseshow. Co-hosts Conrad and Shwin are also on Twitter as @csroth and @shwinnypooh respectively, but if you follow them, be prepared for many, many tweets about the New York Knicks on your feed.

Publisher

Make The Case Podcast

Category

arts · tv & film · tv & film

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

9 Sept 2022

Latest episode

1 Jan 2024

Latest episodes

34 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   1 Jan 2024

   Episode 33: The Best Films of 2023 with Rebecca Goldstein, Dylan Visvikis and Simon Schiller

   Join Conrad, Shwin and special guests Rebecca Goldstein, Simon Schiller and Dylan Visvikis as they break down their favorite films of the year. We laughed! We cried! We blew up a pipeline. Please note that while we try to avoid specific spoilers, if you want to go into these films completely fresh, you may want to wait to listen to this pod or to avoid the specific segment on the film in question. Below is a list of of the films we discussed with handy timestamps so that you may skip around: May December 00:03:54 Beau is Afraid 00:12:09 Killers of the Flower Moon 00:18:55 Priscilla 00:30:08 Wonka 00:36:38 Oppenheimer 00:46:52 Poor Things 00:58:02 How to Blow Up a Pipeline 01:04:35 Zone of Interest 01:12:07 Satlburn 01:28:43 Honorable Mentions 01:35:50 (Past Lives, Shortcomings, Theater Camp, Bottoms, Sanctuary, The Holdovers, Monster, Juwan, Landscape with Invisible Hand, Missing, I Have To Do This) Other Things We Liked This Year 01:42:29 (Succession, The Last of Us, Jury Duty, I'm a Virgo, The Bear, Game Theory with Sam Vecenie, Troye Sivan's "One of Your Girls," Spider-Man 2 (the video game), The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen)

2. 

   4 Aug 2023

   Episode 32: Kubrick Part III: Dr. Strangelove

   ...OR HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE POD! Today, we make this pod short and sweet, as we talk Stanley Kubrick's nuclear panic satire, DR. STRANGELOVE! Topics include: 1) What is the corollary today for fear of nuclear war in 1965; 2) Are we more  afraid of atom bombs or bodily fluid theft; 3) did we want Peter Sellers to play a fourth role? (Of course we did). If you liked this podcast, please rate and review it (5 stars please), and click the subscribe button to get next week's episode!

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   30 Jun 2023

   Episode 31: Kubrick Part II: Spartacus and Lolita

   THEY TRAINED THEM TO PODCAST FOR THEIR PLEASURE...  BUT THEY TRAINED THEM A LITTLE TOO WELL!! // HOW DID THEY EVER MAKE A PODCAST OF LOLITA? In this episode, we continue our analysis of Kubrick's career with the "Least Kubrick" of Kubrick's films: Kirk Douglas' SPARTACUS and Vladimir Nabokov's LOLITA! Topics include: SPARTACUS' tangled web of inconsistent subtext; the historical significance of SPARTACUS in breaking Hollywood's communist blacklist; an unexpected analysis of Brad Pitt's legacy; if there was  a good reason (besides $$$) to make a movie of LOLITA; alternate  Humbert Humbert casting ideas (including Marlon Brando and Matthew McConaughey), and a Hitchcock movie ranking. If you liked this podcast, please rate and review it (5 stars please), and click the subscribe button to get next week's episode!

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

9 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

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