Fly By Films

Blake I. Collier & Jamison Barsotti

This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but with two dinguses. This is, simply, good field recording.

  1. FEB 26

    The Banality of the Panopticon

    Blamison are back with a new episode! On this episode we cover the debut feature from John Hillcoat Ghosts…of the Civil Dead (1988). We discuss the experimental nature of the film and how it achieves is commentary about prison life effectively by way of its pacing, its seeming banality and its indifference to temporal setting. It’s a fun discussion about a pretty inaccessible film.  Other items discussed: Shia Labeouf, Montana music festivals, knitting influencers Clip: Matt Berry & Peter Capaldi on Letters Live Sound Engineer: Justin Wiechic

    1h 26m

  2. FEB 12

    The Hauer of Power, Pt. 2

    Blamison are back to discuss Blake’s pick! We dig into the little known (sort of) sci-fi 90s film Wedlock from 1991 starring Rutger Hauer, Joan Chen and Mimi Rogers. We talk about the utter ridiculousness of the setup to this film and the moments it still gets right nonetheless. Plus, we get to see Rutger Hauer in full dad bod mode! Also discussed: getting fat from not running and *not* being vegan. Clip: T-Pain Freakout on Dope-Ass Rappers Sound engineering by Justin Wiechec.

    1h 5m

  3. JAN 29

    Trigger Warning! Linkin Park Contained Within

    Blamison is back with a regular episode! Jamison picked the movie for this episode due to living high on the hog as a teen when he purchased a DVD copy of the 2001 German film Das Experiment from a dying Hollywood Video in Paradise, CA. Blake has to settle for a shiny, ripped and AI-translated German language YouTube version of the movie which he found to be oft confusing. Turns out from our discussion, it was likely just as much the movie as the AI translation. We talk about the Stanford Prison Experiment which the book the movie was based on was loosely based on—yeah, read that sentence and make sense of it!  Other items discussed: life, kids, snowfall and injured legs. Clip: Men in Tights “Welcome…to the Dungeon!” Sound Engineer & Producer: Justin Wiechec

    1h 14m

  4. JAN 15

    The Fourth Annual Fly By Film's Flight of Fantasia Finale

    Jamison and Blake are back with our year-end game and ranking of our podcast film selections! Jamison came up with a most excellent game to achieve our final ranking on the year. It is called Fantasy Celebrity. Here are the rules: We each come with a list of 10 favorite movies from FBF 2025.Flip a coin to see who chooses first.Alternate choosing celebrities untill each person has a team of ten.Active play: Starting with position 10 and moving down to 1...Draw a question at random from the stack. We read it and each choose a person from our team to battle for dominance.Send the question and options to ChatGPT and have it decide which celebrity is more likely. The person who submitted that celebrity wins that round.The winner of the round gets to place the movie of their choice in the position we are fighting forRetire the celebrity chosen and continue the game moving one position down.Movie Makers: Will FerrellKiera KnightleyJaime Lee CurtisMorgan FreemanMel GibsonMartin ScorcesesJim JarmuschJordan PeeleWill PattonBong Joon HoLaKeith StanfieldSinbadDean CainJudi DenchGlenn CloseMichael BayJean Claude Van DammeKiefer SutherlandRichard KellyKelly ReichardtQuestion Bank: Who will be uncanceled in 2026?Who will make a terrible cake in 2026?Who will befriend a bird in 2026?Who will be the first to cry by onion in 2026?Who will knit their underwear in 2026?Who will read their first book in 2026?Who will be the first to eat 25 subway sandwiches in 2026?Who will eat an orange and declare it the best orange they have ever had in their life in 2026?Who will be outed as three kids in a trenchcoat in 2026Who will hold the most potato chips in 2026?AND HERE IS OUR FINAL RANKING FOR FLY BY FILMS 2025: 10. Northwest Mounted Police 9. Joker 2 8. House of Wax 7. The Meteor Man 6. Eureka 5. Horror Express 4. House on Haunted Hill 3. Brute Force 2. Hollywood Shuffle 1. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor among Thieves Clip: "My 3 year old must argue and debate everything!" Sound Engineer & Producer - Justin Wiechec

    1h 28m

  5. 12/25/2025

    The Episode Where We Cratered Under the Weight of Our Own Rhetoric, Pt. II

    Blamison are back just in time to then quit for the year! Jamison did not know it during our last Christmas episode, but he started a trend of subjecting each other to the shittiest films from our past. Blake decided to make him watch the 1995 Disney stunner Man of the House starring Jonathan Taylor Thomas and Chevy Chase. We try to figure out how this film got made and what kind of audience energy it was trying to conjure. Plus, we now have a producer so the episode should sound significantly better with even less effort from your hosts! Other things talked about: Chevy Chase is an a*****e, duck cakes, and Lasik adventures. Clip: "News blooper: Anchors can't stop laughing at play with yourself line" Sound Engineer & Producer - Justin Wiechec

    1h 32m

  6. 11/26/2025

    The One Where We are Taken to Task (w/ Demetrius Sanders)

    Blamison are made to be contrite for our cinematic sins when Demetrius Sanders comes back on the show to talk 1987's Hollywood Shuffle which was the filmic statement by Robert Townsend--who we covered one of his other films, The Meteor Man, earlier in the year. We talk about the anger seething underneath the satire of the film and the various traps of stereotypes in cinema. Don't worry, we also have a lot of fun talking about a true fun movie. Other things talked about: the relativity of forgettability, gaming journalism and anime, but not THAT kind of anime. Clip: Segment of Reel Brothers skit from Hollywood Shuffle.

    2h 19m

  7. 11/14/2025

    Wanna Know How I Got These Songs??

    Blamison are back with a regular episode...sort of! We have a special returning guest--and probably has the award for the shortest turnaround as well!--Luke T. Harrington. On this episode, we talk about Joker: Folie à Deux and why it flubbed at the box office after the hugely successful Joker. We also dig into the controversies and dIsCoUrSe™ surrounding both films when they came out. It's a great episode about a very strange movie! Also discussed: going back to grad school and Luke's six pack. Clip: Werner Herzog telling about how he discovered John Waters was gay.

    1h 10m

  8. 10/31/2025

    Fly By Film's Spooktober Festival of Spooks: Sins Come at a Price: GREED & GLUTTONY

    Blamison have completed their fourth annual Halloween series! On this episode they finish up the final two Vincent Price films, Scream and Scream Again (1970) and The Comedy of Terrors (1963). We talk about the absolute battiness of the former narrative and the enjoyment of watching Price stretch himself in the latter (even though the film itself was not, on the whole enjoyable). Join us for this sPoOkY final installment of the series! Also discussed: HELL Clip: live performance of Vincent Price’s monologue for an Alice Cooper song.

    1h 14m
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This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but with two dinguses. This is, simply, good field recording.

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  • Creator
    Blake I. Collier & Jamison Barsotti
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2026
  • Episodes
    83
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Blake I. Collier & Jamison Barsotti
  • Show Website
    Fly By Films