The boys are back in the Bayou this week to talk about the utterly demented yet oddly heartfelt Werner Herzog crime thriller addiction parable "Bad Lieutenant - Port of Call: New Orleans". We get into...

Ben and Tim are joined this week by Charles Austin (Trouble in River City, Episode 1) to talk about our boy Soderbergh and his 2009 bonkers biopic "The Informant!". We talk about the real Mark Whitacr...

Friend of the show Jonah ships back up to Boston with the boys to discuss Ben Affleck's 2010 Heat tribute "The Town". We talk about the many ups and downs of Ben's career, mean Jon Hamm, FBI crime sta...

Ben and Tim are joined by Hesse Deni (Trouble in River City, Seeking Derangements, Movie Mindset) to talk about Neil Jordan's 1994 classic "Interview with the Vampire". We talk about Jordan's catalog,...

The boys are back this week in 2012 as we dig into Andrew Dominik's brutal, bitter Boston by way of Louisiana crime thriller "Killing Them Softly". We talk about the unfortunately career of Dominik, h...

Friend of the show Jeremy returns as we try to discuss Troy Duffy's 2000 Boston crime thriller "The Boondock Saints", a movie that we all hate so much that this really becomes more a discussion of the 2003 making of documentary "Overnight". We get into Troy Duffy, his cool overalls, how hard directing movies is, delusional thinking, the incredible levels of bridge burning on display, enslaving your best friends, WWE theme songs and marvel at a man so unlikable we all wind up taking Harvey Weinstein's side on something. Also discussed: The End of Oak Street, La Flor pt. 4, the Venom films, The Samurai and the Prisoner, Schindler's List and The Worst Person in the World. All that plus Tim saw and didn't like "Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma" and the boys pitch a new subgenre of death metal. Please note we recorded this during a bad rain storm and Ben and Jeremy's internet has some struggles but this episode is still plenty listenable and remember that this show is free. We will be back next week with a slight schedule change, come back for Andrew Dominik's brutally bleak Boston by way of Louisiana mob noir "Killing Them Softly".  Thanks to Disco and Eric as always and make sure to follow Jeremy on Letterboxed at Jmball321. Letterboxed: DeadFormatPod Bluesky: DeadFormatPod  

Tim and Ben are joined by friend of the show Nick to discuss Kenneth Lonergan's brutal yet hopeful "Manchester by the Sea". We talk about the incredible comeback story this movie represents for Lonerg...

Ben and Tim head down to the Gulf Coast for the first of Tim pick in our summer block, Mira Nair's 1991 "Mississippi Masala". We get into the real life odyssey Nair went through in her career to arriv...

With a Manchester By the Sea episode officially on the books go back to the halcyon days of 2023 with Ben and friend of the show Erik as we do insanely deep on Kenneth Lonergan's 2011 masterpiece "Mar...

Ben and Tim are joined by Caucasian Kaiju expert and Pod About List co-host Cameron Fetter to discuss Steven Spielberg's 1975 blockbuster classic Jaws. We get into the rise and further rise of Spielbe...

The boys are back this week discussing the first direct sequal to a previous episode's movie, Stefano Sollima's "Sicario: Day of the Soldado". We talk about how cheap and bad this looks by comparison,...

Tim and Ben strap on their night vision goggles and go weapons free to talk Denis Villeneuve's narco-procedural horror/thriller "Sicario". We get into the curious case of Taylor Sheridan, the CIA, Rea...

In a very special episode the boys are joined by former PNAC host and pro cat nurse Erik to talk Mel Gibson's psycho War World 2 biopic "Hacksaw Ridge". We talk the rise and fall and rise and fall of ...

The boys are back this week talking Gregg Araki's 2004 child abuse coming of age drama Mysterious Skin. We get into working with child actors, shoegaze, how cool Preston is, Awesome Culture and apprec...

Fun time is over as Ben brings the boys back into their element with S Craig Zahler's brutal, nasty crooked cop heist nightmare "Dragged Across Concrete". Tim is left utterly confused as to what this ...

Tim and Ben conclude the Spring of Love by going back to 1999 with Robert Iscove's delightful high school Pygmalion riff "She's All That". The boys talk high school, M Night's ghostwriting, what a goo...

The boys are back this week to talk about Maren Ade's nerve shredding, demented daddy-daughter dramedy "Toni Erdmann". We get into how much of this movie is actually about work, globalization, The EU,...

The boys get romantic again this week as we go back to Ang Lee's 2005 queer cowboy romance "Brokeback Mountain". We talk about Lee as demented auteur, the murder's row cast and crew, the insanely good...

The boys celebrate Tim's birthday this year with a much better episode than the last bday one we did! We get into Guillermo del Toro's nasty, classical 2021 noir "Nightmare Alley". Tim argues for the ...

The boys are back discussing Wes Anderson's 2001 film about hating your dad and wanting to smash with your hot not-sister (?). We get into fake New York City, bird ransom, the secret sauce that is Owe...

The boys are back this week for one of Ben's all timer favorite romcom's, Andrew Bujalski's beautifully demented look at love and personal training, "Results". We talk about Bujalski's catalog, this m...

Tim and Ben continue the Spring of Love with another low budget, sci-fi romance horror (?) Bertrand Bonello's brutal 2023 film "The Beast". We dig into the insane generation spanning plot, marvel at t...

Tim and Ben really shake up  the format this week and talk about a pleasant movie with a happy ending, Claude Lelouch's dreamy 1966 romance "A Man and A Woman". We get into the fly by night produ...

The boys kick off The Spring of Love proper with a beefy double feature of Andrei Tarkovsky's arthouse sci-fi tale of love and loss along with the confusing but interesting remake by our boy Soderberg...

With Tim in Ireland Ben enlists a tag team of special guests, returning champ Nick (Nyid07) and Jeremy (jmball321) to talk Darren Aronofsky's 2008 masterpiece "The Wrestler". We get into the coolness ...

The boys are back with another episode before Tim left in the first place. This week we are talking one of the coolest to ever do it, Jean-Pierre Melville and his brutally personal mangum opus "Army o...

With Tim in Ireland we are back this week with an episode from the old show where we dig into Ridley Scott and Cormac McCarthy's utterly insane 2013 film "The Counselor". Everyone knows this movie suc...

Tim and Ben are back with Kelly Reichardt's masterfully tense and morally thorny terrorism thriller "Night Moves". Ben argues for her status as one of our most underrated working filmmakers and offers...

Tim and Ben are back and have reached the logical end point crap auterism, Ireland's first kung-fu crime thriller "Fatal Deviation". We talk about movie fighting, how this feels legitimately dangerous...

The boys wrap up the Winter of Torture with the first big studio comedy we have done and sorry, it's a Ben pick so it's still super nasty and unpleasent! We dive into Jody Hill's blacker than black 20...

Tim and Ben go absurdly deep into Lars Von Trier's 2003 black box theater psycological horror small town drama "Dogville". We talk about what the hell this movie actually is, the murder's row cast and...

Ben and Tim are back talking Jordan Peele's 2019 home invasion, horror movie "Us". Ben gets really confused about why this movie exists and Tim provides some analysis that kinda helps even things out....

Ben and Tim continue to talk crap auterism as they dig into Ryan Gosling's 2014 directorial debut Lost River. We talk non-professional actors, attempt to parse what the hell this movie is actually abo...

Mangia, mangia bon appetit! Ben and Tim are joined by friend of the show PD to discuss the notorious final film by Pier Paolo Pasolini 1976's "Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom". We talk about how the he...

Welcome to a very special episode of Dead Format, the mental health extravaganza! Ben and Tim dig into Robert Greene's 2016 documentary(??)/psychological horror(???) movie "Kate Plays Christine". The ...

Ben and Tim, reeling from finding out a glitch has caused their eggs to be empty examine Olivia Wilde's* 2022 film "Don't Worry Darling". We talk about a steakhouse worth of behind the scenes beef, wh...

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Ho ho ho, it's Christmas in January. In the last of the early episodes, Ben cashes in on his birthday episode and the boys sit down to talk Stanley Kubrick's 1999 "Eyes Wide Shut". Ben turns this into...

Ben and Tim put on their grayest fighting cardigans and crack open some alcohol free moonshine to talk about John Hillcoat's 2011 bootlegger crime thriller Lawless. We get into Nick Cave & Rod Dre...

The boys, along with music correspondent Gus don their powered wigs and pantaloons to discuss Miloš Forman's 1984 biopic fantasia Amadeus. We talk the real guys, if it holds up given it's reputation (...

Live from Barcelona, it's Dead Format! The boys are back talking Soderbergh, show muse Michael Fassbender and look back at one of the great Hollywood bag fumbles in recent memory. Also discussed: Fred...

Tim and Ben don their finest velvet capes and big ass floppy hats as they discuss Peter Strickland's giallo tinged BDSM romantic thriller. Also discussed: Fredrick Wiseman's "Belfast, Maine", the vide...

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Tim and Ben draw their suitcase guns and activate optical camo to discuss the 1995 cyberpunk anime classic "Ghost in the Shell" along with it's beloved 2017 live action remake. The boys also discuss "...

Ben, Tim and Nick (NYid07) meet at the corner of Washington & Cherry to compare notes on David Fincher's 2007 serial killer newspaper procederual "Zodiac". Also discussed on the episode: Park Chan...

Tim and Ben slide into a clawfoot bathtub together and talk Jonthan Glazer's 2004 reincarnation psychodrama "Birth" and ask "is Nicole Kidman indeed in GOAT?".   Thanks to Disco for the show art ...