Unspooled

By Earwolf, Paul Scheer & Amy Nicholson

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Scott
 Aug 30, 2019
This podcast seems to be more interested in the behind the scenes gossip than breaking down the movie.

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Listen up, film fans! Actor & comedian Paul Scheer and film critic Amy Nicholson want your advice as they make the ultimate list of the greatest movies of all time. In Season 1, they watched every one of the AFI’s Top 100 films...and decided they could kick off half. Now, they're filling in the gaps by investigating wildly diverse areas of film through miniseries on topics like horror movies, documentaries and romantic comedies, with help from listeners' picks. Along the way, they’ll dissect iconic scenes, spotlight their favorite characters, and talk to some of the actors and directors who worked on these classics. And when Unspooled has built their own list of the best movies on earth, they'll blast them into space to be immortalized for eternity. Seriously.

Episode Date
Jesus Christ Superstar
Mar 28, 2024
Moon
Mar 21, 2024
The Martian
Mar 14, 2024
2024 Oscars Special
Mar 07, 2024
Dune (2021)
Feb 29, 2024
The Sting
Feb 22, 2024
American Beauty
Feb 15, 2024
Amadeus
Feb 08, 2024
Jackie Brown
Feb 01, 2024
Out of Sight
Jan 25, 2024
Wayne's World
Jan 18, 2024
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Jan 11, 2024
Space Finalists: Season 4
Jan 04, 2024
2023 Holiday Party
Dec 28, 2023
Edward Scissorhands
Dec 21, 2023
The Emperor’s New Groove
Dec 14, 2023
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Dec 07, 2023
Concert Films
Nov 30, 2023
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Nov 23, 2023
The Hunger Games
Nov 16, 2023
Fight Club
Nov 09, 2023
Election
Nov 02, 2023
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Oct 26, 2023
The Wolf Of Wall Street
Oct 19, 2023
Hairspray
Oct 12, 2023
Saw
Oct 05, 2023
Imitation Of Life
Sep 28, 2023
The Karate Kid
Sep 21, 2023
Bullitt
Sep 14, 2023
American Psycho
Sep 07, 2023
Ranking the Mission: Impossible Films (with Light The Fuse)
Aug 31, 2023
Legally Blonde
Aug 24, 2023
Barbie & Oppenheimer (with Jamie Loftus)
Aug 17, 2023
Pee-wee's Big Adventure
Aug 10, 2023
The Listener's Choice Winner Revealed
Aug 03, 2023
Children Of Men
Jul 27, 2023
There Will Be Blood
Jul 20, 2023
Hot Fuzz
Jul 13, 2023
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Jul 06, 2023
Indiana Jones and the Temple Of Doom
Jun 29, 2023
Talking Trek (with Tawny Newsome & Paul F. Tompkins)
Jun 22, 2023
Inside Out
Jun 15, 2023
Labyrinth
Jun 08, 2023
Top 3: Adam McKay
Jun 01, 2023
The Little Mermaid
May 25, 2023
Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory
May 18, 2023
Blazing Saddles
May 11, 2023
Bonus: Sex Scenes In Film (with Dan Savage)
May 09, 2023
Young Frankenstein
May 04, 2023
What We Do In The Shadows
Apr 27, 2023
Frankenstein (Re-release)
Apr 25, 2023
Top 3: Karina Longworth
Apr 20, 2023
Evil Dead II
Apr 13, 2023
El Mariachi
Apr 06, 2023
Top 3: Bruce Campbell
Apr 04, 2023
In Bruges
Mar 30, 2023
John Wick
Mar 23, 2023
Bonus Reel: Creed III, Magic Mike’s Last Dance and Scream VI
Mar 17, 2023
Creed
Mar 16, 2023
Best of 2022 & Oscars Preview
Mar 09, 2023
Scream (Re-release)
Mar 09, 2023
Hollywood Shuffle
Mar 02, 2023
Top 3: Chapo Trap House
Feb 23, 2023
Magic Mike & Magic Mike XXL
Feb 16, 2023
Top 3: Hindi Romance Films
Feb 14, 2023
The Notebook
Feb 09, 2023
Crash
Feb 02, 2023
Bonus: 2023 Oscar Nominations
Jan 27, 2023
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Jan 26, 2023
Blue Velvet
Jan 19, 2023
Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
Jan 12, 2023
Love Actually (re-release)
Jan 05, 2023
A Christmas Story (re-release)
Dec 29, 2022
Die Hard
Dec 22, 2022
Avatar
Dec 15, 2022
Black Swan
Dec 08, 2022
Bonus: The 2022 Sight & Sound 100
Dec 07, 2022
Thelma and Louise
Dec 01, 2022
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Nov 24, 2022
Casino Royale
Nov 17, 2022
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
Nov 10, 2022
Goldfinger
Nov 03, 2022
Ringu
Oct 27, 2022
Halloween
Oct 20, 2022
Jennifer's Body
Oct 13, 2022
Hellraiser
Oct 06, 2022
Midsommar
Sep 29, 2022
Bonus: Summer Movie Wrapup
Sep 23, 2022
Season 3 Finale
Sep 22, 2022
The Dark Knight
Sep 15, 2022
Heat
Sep 08, 2022
White Heat
Sep 01, 2022
Top 3: Scott Aukerman & Shaun Diston
Aug 26, 2022
Training Day
Aug 25, 2022
The Night of the Hunter
Aug 18, 2022
Fatal Attraction
Aug 11, 2022
The Three Musketeers & The Four Musketeers (with Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary)
Aug 04, 2022
Starship Troopers
Jul 28, 2022
Top 3: Patton Oswalt & Meredith Salenger
Jul 21, 2022
RoboCop
Jul 14, 2022
Blade
Jul 07, 2022
Paddington 2
Jun 30, 2022
Supercop
Jun 23, 2022
RRR
Jun 16, 2022
Superman
Jun 09, 2022
BONUS: Top Gun: Maverick, Chip 'N Dale, and Doctor Strange 2
Jun 07, 2022
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Jun 02, 2022
Top Gun
May 26, 2022
Porco Rosso
May 19, 2022
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
May 12, 2022
Akira
May 05, 2022
Adaptation
Apr 28, 2022
Gauging Nicolas Cage (with Keith Phipps)
Apr 25, 2022
Conan the Barbarian
Apr 21, 2022
Shrek
Apr 14, 2022
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Apr 07, 2022
The Green Knight
Mar 31, 2022
Best of 2021/Oscars Preview
Mar 24, 2022
The Piano
Mar 17, 2022
Boogie Nights
Mar 10, 2022
Bonus: Batman On Film
Mar 08, 2022
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
Mar 03, 2022
The Shining
Feb 24, 2022
Remembering Ivan Reitman
Feb 21, 2022
Force Majeure
Feb 17, 2022
Jackass
Feb 10, 2022
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Feb 03, 2022
Top 3: Brian Cox
Feb 01, 2022
Frozen
Jan 27, 2022
Scream
Jan 20, 2022
Fargo
Jan 13, 2022
In The Heat Of The Night (Re-Release)
Jan 11, 2022
The Last Picture Show (Re-Release)
Jan 11, 2022
The Apartment (Re-Release)
Jan 06, 2022
A Christmas Story
Dec 30, 2021
The Matrix
Dec 23, 2021
Love Actually
Dec 16, 2021
Little Shop of Horrors
Dec 09, 2021
Lagaan
Dec 02, 2021
Chicago
Nov 25, 2021
Grease
Nov 18, 2021
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Nov 11, 2021
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Nov 04, 2021
The Blair Witch Project
Oct 28, 2021
Top 3: Ed Brubaker
Oct 26, 2021
Raw
Oct 21, 2021
Top 3: Tim Blake Nelson
Oct 19, 2021
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Oct 14, 2021
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Oct 07, 2021
The Exorcist
Sep 30, 2021
Top 3: Melanie Lynskey
Sep 27, 2021
Season 2 Finale
Sep 23, 2021
Mad Max: Fury Road
Sep 16, 2021
Inception
Sep 09, 2021
Bridesmaids
Sep 02, 2021
The Hangover
Aug 26, 2021
The Fugitive
Aug 19, 2021
Speed
Aug 12, 2021
Back To The Future
Aug 05, 2021
Top 3: Steve Zahn
Aug 04, 2021
Men In Black
Jul 29, 2021
Bonus: Vaccination Hesitation w/ Dr. Kate Grossman
Jul 29, 2021
Jurassic Park
Jul 22, 2021
The State Of Summer Blockbusters
Jul 15, 2021
Top 3: Karen Gillan
Jul 14, 2021
Apollo 13
Jul 08, 2021
Top 3: Tom Scharpling
Jul 07, 2021
Aliens
Jul 01, 2021
Top 3: Daveed Diggs
Jun 29, 2021
Solaris
Jun 24, 2021
Alien
Jun 17, 2021
Contact
Jun 10, 2021
Spool Party: Clueless
Jun 03, 2021
Screen Test: Darkness In The Force
May 27, 2021
Spool Party: Big (featuring Lauren Lapkus)
May 20, 2021
Galaxy Quest
May 13, 2021
A Trip to the Moon
May 06, 2021
Hoop Dreams
Apr 29, 2021
2021 Oscar Special
Apr 22, 2021
A League of Their Own
Apr 15, 2021
Chariots of Fire
Apr 08, 2021
Cool Runnings
Apr 01, 2021
Brian's Song
Mar 25, 2021
Hoosiers
Mar 18, 2021
Mike Nichols (with Mark Harris)
Mar 11, 2021
The Princess Bride
Mar 04, 2021
Brokeback Mountain
Feb 25, 2021
Love and Basketball
Feb 18, 2021
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Feb 11, 2021
BONUS: Promising Young Woman
Feb 10, 2021
A Place In The Sun
Feb 04, 2021
Groundhog Day
Jan 28, 2021
Chungking Express
Jan 21, 2021
When Harry Met Sally
Jan 14, 2021
Dogtooth
Jan 07, 2021
Home Alone
Dec 24, 2020
The Farewell
Dec 17, 2020
BONUS: Screen Test: Rattle My Chains
Dec 15, 2020
BONUS: THE GODFATHER, CODA: THE DEATH OF MICHAEL CORLEONE
Dec 11, 2020
Guess Who's Coming To Dinner
Dec 10, 2020
The Royal Tenenbaums
Dec 03, 2020
Eve's Bayou
Nov 26, 2020
Tokyo Story
Nov 19, 2020
Raising Arizona
Nov 12, 2020
The Thing
Nov 05, 2020
Ganja & Hess
Oct 29, 2020
Night Of The Living Dead
Oct 22, 2020
The Babadook
Oct 15, 2020
Frankenstein
Oct 08, 2020
Dazed and Confused
Oct 01, 2020
Fast Times At Ridgemont High
Sep 24, 2020
Cooley High
Sep 17, 2020
Rebel Without A Cause
Sep 10, 2020
The 400 Blows
Sep 03, 2020
Stand and Deliver
Aug 27, 2020
Mean Girls
Aug 20, 2020
Coming 8/20: Unspooled Season 2
Jul 24, 2020
Wrapping Up the AFI 100
Jul 23, 2020
Casablanca
Jul 15, 2020
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Jul 09, 2020
Jaws
Jul 01, 2020
It Happened One Night
Jun 25, 2020
Modern Times
Jun 18, 2020
Shane
Jun 11, 2020
Blade Runner
Jun 04, 2020
A Streetcar Named Desire
May 28, 2020
The Bridge On The River Kwai
May 21, 2020
Spool Party: House Party
May 14, 2020
Goodfellas
May 07, 2020
Intolerance
Apr 30, 2020
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Apr 23, 2020
Cabaret
Apr 16, 2020
Easy Rider
Apr 09, 2020
Sullivan's Travels
Apr 02, 2020
12 Angry Men
Mar 26, 2020
Rear Window
Mar 19, 2020
Sunrise
Mar 12, 2020
M*A*S*H
Mar 05, 2020
LAPOCALYPSE (Live from Alamo Drafthouse)
Feb 27, 2020
Parasite
Feb 20, 2020
The Sound of Music
Feb 13, 2020
2020 Oscars Preview
Feb 06, 2020
The Apartment
Jan 30, 2020
The Wild Bunch
Jan 23, 2020
The Gold Rush
Jan 16, 2020
Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Jan 09, 2020
Best of the Decade Pt. 4
Jan 02, 2020
Best of the Decade Pt. 3
Dec 26, 2019
Star Wars
Dec 18, 2019
Best of the Decade Pt. 2
Dec 12, 2019
Best of the Decade Pt. 1
Dec 05, 2019
Raging Bull
Nov 28, 2019
BONUS REEL: Rian Johnson
Nov 26, 2019
Annie Hall
Nov 21, 2019
BONUS REEL: Lorene Scafaria
Nov 19, 2019
The Best Years of Our Lives
Nov 14, 2019
Forrest Gump
Nov 07, 2019
The Grapes of Wrath
Oct 31, 2019
The Godfather Pt. II
Oct 24, 2019
The Godfather
Oct 17, 2019
Bonus Reel: Joker & Taxi Driver
Oct 15, 2019
American Graffiti
Oct 10, 2019
Bonus Reel: Shea Serrano
Oct 08, 2019
SOME LIKE IT HOT
Oct 03, 2019
Spartacus
Sep 26, 2019
North by Northwest
Sep 19, 2019
On the Waterfront
Sep 12, 2019
Lawrence Of Arabia
Sep 05, 2019
Network
Aug 29, 2019
The Philadelphia Story
Aug 22, 2019
The Maltese Falcon
Aug 15, 2019
Nashville
Aug 08, 2019
Bringing Up Baby
Aug 01, 2019
Pulp Fiction
Jul 25, 2019
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Jul 18, 2019
Gone with the Wind
Jul 11, 2019
The Deer Hunter
Jul 04, 2019
Do The Right Thing
Jun 27, 2019
Toy Story
Jun 20, 2019
Midnight Cowboy
Jun 13, 2019
Horror & The AFI List: Live from the Overlook Film Festival
Jun 06, 2019
Halfway There Special
May 30, 2019
Vertigo
May 23, 2019
To Kill A Mockingbird
May 16, 2019
The Silence of the Lambs
May 09, 2019
Tootsie
May 02, 2019
Chinatown
Apr 25, 2019
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Apr 18, 2019
All The President's Men
Apr 11, 2019
Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs
Apr 04, 2019
City Lights
Mar 28, 2019
West Side Story
Mar 21, 2019
A Night At The Opera
Mar 14, 2019
Saving Private Ryan
Mar 07, 2019
The Graduate
Feb 28, 2019
BONUS: 2019 Oscars
Feb 25, 2019
Best of 2018: Listener’s Picks
Feb 21, 2019
Best of 2018: Critics’ Picks
Feb 14, 2019
Best Of 2018: Blockbusters
Feb 07, 2019
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
Jan 31, 2019
Sunset Boulevard
Jan 24, 2019
The Last Picture Show
Jan 17, 2019
Unforgiven
Jan 10, 2019
The Searchers
Jan 03, 2019
In The Heat Of The Night
Dec 27, 2018
It’s A Wonderful Life
Dec 20, 2018
Schindler’s List
Dec 13, 2018
Rocky
Dec 06, 2018
A Clockwork Orange
Nov 29, 2018
Sophie’s Choice
Nov 22, 2018
Mr. Smith Goes To Washington
Nov 15, 2018
Listener Questions Special
Nov 08, 2018
Duck Soup
Nov 01, 2018
The African Queen
Oct 25, 2018
Raiders Of The Lost Ark
Oct 17, 2018
Psycho
Oct 11, 2018
The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring
Oct 04, 2018
Apocalypse Now
Sep 27, 2018
High Noon
Sep 20, 2018
E.T. The Extra Terrestrial
Sep 13, 2018
Taxi Driver
Sep 06, 2018
The Sixth Sense
Aug 30, 2018
Singin' In The Rain
Aug 23, 2018
Double Indemnity
Aug 16, 2018
All About Eve
Aug 09, 2018
King Kong
Aug 02, 2018
The Shawshank Redemption
Jul 26, 2018
The General
Jul 19, 2018
Platoon
Jul 12, 2018
Bonnie And Clyde
Jul 05, 2018
2001: A Space Odyssey
Jun 28, 2018
Titanic
Jun 21, 2018
The French Connection
Jun 14, 2018
Swing Time
Jun 07, 2018
The Wizard Of Oz
May 31, 2018
Ben Hur
May 24, 2018
Citizen Kane
May 17, 2018
Preview: What Is Unspooled?
May 07, 2018