Spineless: The Future Films of 4K

Nicholas Kinney and Brennan Saur

The niche of physical media is growing. More and more movies are getting quality releases on the newest and best format, making any film not yet available on 4K disc...SPINELESS. Join Nick and Brennan (your very-favorite SPINELESS BOYS) as they cover the classic and contemporary films they feel are most deserving of the 4K treatment.

  1. 22h ago

    A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)

    Computer, show me a gigolo named Joe. Beep boop beep boop! BrennanBot-9000 is here to bring you the show description for this episode on Steven Spielberg’s philosophical sci-fi epic A.I. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (2001). Nick and Brennan talk about the long development of this collaboration between Spielberg and Stanley Kubrick, the ethical concerns of AI, and Jude Law's iconic performance as Gigolo Joe (whaddya know). What is it like to watch this film in the AI-ridden world we now live in? How did Haley Joel Osment pull off such a nuanced performance as the robotic David? Plus, is Martin The Most Justified Villain in Film History, or is he A Little Shit Who Should Have Left David Alone? You don't need to ask AI the answer to these questions (please don't)--all you need to do is listen to this episode of Spineless. BrennanBot-9000 shutting down forever beep booooooop 💤 Read SuperToys Last All Summer Long, the basis for the film What do you know, Gigolo Joe? The niche of physical media is growing. More and more movies are getting quality releases on the newest and best format, making any film not yet available on 4K disc...SPINELESS. Join Nick and Brennan (your very-favorite SPINELESS BOYS) as they cover the classic and contemporary films they feel are most deserving of the 4K treatment. REACH OUT TO THE SPINELESS BOYS: Email: spinelessboys@gmail.com Instagram: @spinelessfilms Letterboxd: @SpinelessFilms As always, thank you to Joey Johnson for our music and to Sparrow Potter for our artwork.

    2h 4m

  2. May 26

    The Spineless Grab Bag with Will Morris!

    Reach into the grab bag on this special episode of Spineless! Nick and Brennan are joined by film programmer Will Morris (co-founder of Oscarbate Film Collective, print traffic manager at Music Box Theatre, programmer of Music Box of Horrors, executive producer of Castration Movie, I could go on) to talk about not just one, not two, but FOUR movies you've probably never heard of that are ripe for rediscovery and restoration: The Granny (1995, dir. Luca Bercovici), a direct-to-VHS horror romp; Mondomanila (2012, dir. Khavn), an irreverent Filipino movie with electric editing and no holds barred; Tomorrow We Move (2004, dir. Chantal Akerman), a charming seriocomedy from a French auteur; and The Talisman (1987, dir. Mohamed Shebl), an Egyptian supernatural horror movie that has never been released on any physical media format. It's a jam-packed episode about the vast spectrum of cinema and why film preservation is more important than ever! It's an investigation into the limitations of a 4K upgrade! It's a cautionary tale about being kind to your Granny so she doesn't do a The Granny (1995) to you! It's the Spineless Grab Bag with Will Morris! Check out Will's wonderful work at Chicago's Music Box Theatre, including Bleak Week! Oscarbate Film Collective's next secret screening in their Trust Fall series is on 6/2! The niche of physical media is growing. More and more movies are getting quality releases on the newest and best format, making any film not yet available on 4K disc...SPINELESS. Join Nick and Brennan (your very-favorite SPINELESS BOYS) as they cover the classic and contemporary films they feel are most deserving of the 4K treatment. REACH OUT TO THE SPINELESS BOYS: Email: spinelessboys@gmail.com Instagram: @spinelessfilms Letterboxd: @SpinelessFilms As always, thank you to Joey Johnson for our music and to Sparrow Potter for our artwork.

    2h 5m

  3. May 12

    Porco Rosso (1992)

    Set sail with Nick and Brennan as they travel to that wonderful anime world of Hayao Miyazaki, where’s there’s SpongeBob voice actors around every corner! No snakes on this plane but there is a dang PIG named Porco which is honestly a little bit rude! Things get a little bumpy on the ride as we sidebar about the Pantheon of Pig Cinema, the science of Fiona Shrek’s Curse and how it relates to Porco's pigness, oh and of course the entire Ghibli filmography. Stay tuned til the end for a very very long and fun Animal Farm sidebar that Nick refused to place within the main episode. This is the sound of freedom 🐖💨. Certified Calm Cloud Cinema: "Quiet" from Matilda the Musical (2022) Bozo did the dub The niche of physical media is growing. More and more movies are getting quality releases on the newest and best format, making any film not yet available on 4K disc...SPINELESS. Join Nick and Brennan (your very-favorite SPINELESS BOYS) as they cover the classic and contemporary films they feel are most deserving of the 4K treatment. REACH OUT TO THE SPINELESS BOYS: Email: spinelessboys@gmail.com Instagram: @spinelessfilms Letterboxd: @SpinelessFilms As always, thank you to Joey Johnson for our music and to Sparrow Potter for our artwork.

    1h 38m

  4. Apr 28

    The Namesake (2006) with Sophia Talwalkar

    On this episode of Spineless, Nick and Brennan are joined by actress Sophia Talwalkar (Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classess, now playing at Brennan's former workplace Audible's Minetta Lane Theatre) to discuss the lyrical family drama The Namesake. Sophia shares her personal connection to the 2006 film by Mira Nair as well as the source novel by Jhumpa Lahiri, a moving depiction of an Indian family settling in America. Kal Penn stars in a dramatic turn as Gogol, the first-generation American son of Ashima (Tabu) and Ashoke (a heart-breaking performance by the late great Irrfan Khan). Nick and Brennan discuss Nair's gentle style, the coveted Taj Mahal LEGO set, and the important role a young Zohran Mamdani played in the production of the film, two decades before he became the Mayor of New York. Plus, Nick dares to ask the important questions about Sophia's castmate Hugh Jackman and his close personal friends the Sheep Detectives. NYC: Only three more performances of Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes! Chicago: See Nick perform in moonwatchers on Thursday, May 7th at 8pm! Buy or check out from the library Cinema Her Way by friend of the show Marya E. Gates--her interview with director Mira Nair was a great resource for this episode! Kal Penn interview The niche of physical media is growing. More and more movies are getting quality releases on the newest and best format, making any film not yet available on 4K disc...SPINELESS. Join Nick and Brennan (your very-favorite SPINELESS BOYS) as they cover the classic and contemporary films they feel are most deserving of the 4K treatment. REACH OUT TO THE SPINELESS BOYS: Email: spinelessboys@gmail.com Instagram: @spinelessfilms Letterboxd: @SpinelessFilms As always, thank you to Joey Johnson for our music and to Sparrow Potter for our artwork.

    2h 8m

  5. Apr 14

    There Will Be Blood (2007)

    Ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, thank you so much for visiting with us this evening. Now, we’ve traveled across half your podcast streaming service to be here and to see about these discs. We’re podcasters, ladies and gentlemen. We have numerous episodes streaming now throughout your podcast platforms. We have podcasts with as many as twenty streams per day. And as podcasters, I hope that you'll forgive just good old-fashioned plain speaking. Now this work that we do is very much a family enterprise. I work side by side with my wonderful son Nick Kinney. Were the past two paragraphs of Daniel Plainview impressions too much for you? Well buckle up, because you'll find even more Daniel Plainview impressions on today’s episode of SPINELESS, where we discuss the criminally un-4k’d THERE WILL BE BLOOD (2007). In the wake of Paul Thomas Anderson's big Oscar wins, revisit the movie that got him his first nominations for Best Picture and Best Director as Nick and Brennan break down Daniel Day-Lewis' towering performance, the crowded production town of Marfa, Texas, and the devilish liquid that is OIL! Daniel Plainview's 'I Drink Your Milkshake' SNL Sketch The Making of the Oil Fire Scene The niche of physical media is growing. More and more movies are getting quality releases on the newest and best format, making any film not yet available on 4K disc...SPINELESS. Join Nick and Brennan (your very-favorite SPINELESS BOYS) as they cover the classic and contemporary films they feel are most deserving of the 4K treatment. REACH OUT TO THE SPINELESS BOYS: Email: spinelessboys@gmail.com Instagram: @spinelessfilms Letterboxd: @SpinelessFilms As always, thank you to Joey Johnson for our music and to Sparrow Potter for our artwork.

    1h 36m

  6. Mar 31

    Bright Star (2009) with Marya E. Gates

    4K distributors have failed John Keats. On this week's episode of Spineless, Nick and Brennan are joined by Chicago-based critic Marya E. Gates, author of Cinema Her Way, for a discussion of Jane Campion's 2009 film BRIGHT STAR. Your beloved TWO FRIENDS (plus Marya) are absolute SWEETIEs as they discuss THE POWER OF THE DOGgone film, a moving PORTRAIT OF A LADY and her relationship with famed poet John Keats IN THE CUTthroat world of early-nineteenth-century gentility that will make you say HOLY SMOKE! with how good it is. Plus, the debut of a brand-spanking new version of the Spineless theme in tribute to the film's Human Orchestra, which is right for humans and not for THE PIANO. Okay I'm gonna be honest I think I've run out of ways to work Jane Campion movies into the description. There's AN ANGEL AT MY TABLE I guess and that's my beloved laptop from which I record Spineless? Support Marya and her cat Miss Fanny Brawne as they recover from ringworm!! Buy Marya's book Cinema Her Way: Visionary Female Directors in Their Own Words Subscribe to Marya's Substack Cool People Have Feelings, Too 2007 poisoned pet food scandal Behind the scenes of Bright Star Marya's Tilda Swinton costume: The Maybe Yearning: A Seinfeld/Twin Peaks Mashup The niche of physical media is growing. More and more movies are getting quality releases on the newest and best format, making any film not yet available on 4K disc...SPINELESS. Join Nick and Brennan (your very-favorite SPINELESS BOYS) as they cover the classic and contemporary films they feel are most deserving of the 4K treatment. REACH OUT TO THE SPINELESS BOYS: Email: spinelessboys@gmail.com Instagram: @spinelessfilms Letterboxd: @SpinelessFilms As always, thank you to Joey Johnson for our music and to Sparrow Potter for our artwork.

    1h 59m
  7. The 2nd Annual Golden Spine Awards! with Andy Germuga

    Mar 13

    The 2nd Annual Golden Spine Awards! with Andy Germuga

    Oscar Sunday is soon upon us, and we couldn't let awards season end without giving out our own! Welcome to the 2nd Annual Golden Spine Awards, honoring the best of 2025 in film according to your hosts, Nick and Brennan. Joining us with his own personal picks is Andy Germuga, co-host of Cannes I Kick It, who last year nominated Dakota Johnson in Best Actress for Madame Web so honestly who knows what he'll say this time. The trio present their five nominees each in nine categories including Best Picture, Best Director, and the coveted Most Spineless, honoring the films from 2025 we most want to see get a 4K release. It's an opportunity to talk about our favorite films of the year, it's a celebration of cinema of all sorts, it's...the Golden Spine Awards! What would your picks be? Read Nick's review of The Bride! here The niche of physical media is growing. More and more movies are getting quality releases on the newest and best format, making any film not yet available on 4K disc...SPINELESS. Join Nick and Brennan (your very-favorite SPINELESS BOYS) as they cover the classic and contemporary films they feel are most deserving of the 4K treatment. REACH OUT TO THE SPINELESS BOYS: Email: spinelessboys@gmail.com Instagram: @spinelessfilms Letterboxd: @SpinelessFilms As always, thank you to Joey Johnson for our music and to Sparrow Potter for our artwork.

    2h 48m

  8. Mar 3

    Deliverance (1972)

    Pack your banjo, grab a paddle, and hop in the canoe: we're going downriver! On this episode of Spineless, Nick and Brennan revisit Brennan's favorite decade in film as they break down the taut 1972 thriller Deliverance, directed by John Boorman. It's somehow the second Jon Voight film we've covered in two months, and it's the film that introduced the world to the legendary Ned Beatty. We talk about the chart-topping "Duelling Banjos," the environmentalist subtext of the movie, and the harrowing centerpiece scene that makes it a bit of a tough hang. But don't worry, we keep the episode light with talk of Willard's rat Ben, which was relevant at the time, we promise. Content Warning: The film Deliverance contains a graphic depiction of sexual assault. As such, our episode on the film contains discussion of sexual assault. Behind the Scenes: Deliverance, featuring interviews with Boorman, Voight, et al. The niche of physical media is growing. More and more movies are getting quality releases on the newest and best format, making any film not yet available on 4K disc...SPINELESS. Join Nick and Brennan (your very-favorite SPINELESS BOYS) as they cover the classic and contemporary films they feel are most deserving of the 4K treatment. REACH OUT TO THE SPINELESS BOYS: Email: spinelessboys@gmail.com Instagram: @spinelessfilms Letterboxd: @SpinelessFilms As always, thank you to Joey Johnson for our music and to Sparrow Potter for our artwork.

    1h 23m
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The niche of physical media is growing. More and more movies are getting quality releases on the newest and best format, making any film not yet available on 4K disc...SPINELESS. Join Nick and Brennan (your very-favorite SPINELESS BOYS) as they cover the classic and contemporary films they feel are most deserving of the 4K treatment.

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  • Creator
    Nicholas Kinney and Brennan Saur
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    45
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Copyright 2026 Nicholas Kinney and Brennan Saur
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    Spineless: The Future Films of 4K

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