Please reboot review To live and die in LA

Gonna try to game the algorithm by hitting a bunch of random buzz words in my review: Great podcast! So sexy! Grierson and Leitch SLAM problematic discourse around Timothée Chalamet and Blake Lively. Five stars, so hot! (But seriously, this podcast is fantastic, and I’d love for them to reboot Bob Fosse’s All That Jazz)

The Grierson and Leitch backstory is really great—childhood friends share an interest in the arts, each embarks on a career in the arts and succeeds—and it strengthens the podcast. These are two people who enjoy movies, want to talk about movies, understand movies on a deep level, and know how to discuss movies in a way that audiences will understand. The criticism is meaningful and enjoyable; while there aren’t many significant disagreements, each critic is respectful of the other’s opinion. For the Reboot segment, I suggest the 2023 film ‘Perfect Days’, directed by Wim Wenders and starring Koji Yakusho. The film examines two weeks in the life of a janitor in Tokyo and the people he encounters; it was nominated for Best International Feature Film at the Academy Awards. I noticed that Tim ranked it low on his 2023 Cannes list and I’m curious how he and Will will evaluate this film.

I’ve mentioned how much I love your podcast in previous reviews, but am updating to say thank you for the thoughtful election conversation. I’ve been living with a knot in the pit of my stomach for months (honestly, since 2016), but listening to you loosened it up a little. It was cathartic to hear you talk through the same types of worries I’ve been sitting with.

Fantastic podcast, been listening since the beginning, yada yada yada, John Woo’s The Killer (1989). Thanks!

I don’t get out to many movies, anymore, so I enjoy listening to these two both for help in deciding what to see but also for context on what’s going on with movies/actors/studios more generally. One of the few feeds where I’m always caught-up. I’d be curious to hear what they think of 1984’s The Ice Pirates.

I look forward to listening each week - these two guys make the movies fun again. Tim and Will are both talented writers who are pretty good with the spoken word, as well. It’s fun when they agree on a movie, even more fun when they don’t. I especially like the mix of new movies with reboots of older classics. Speaking of which, I’d like to suggest a reboot featuring “The Dead.” John Huston’s last movie - the film version of a James Joyce short story from “The Dubliners.”

I've been listening to Grierson & Leitch for about 3 years now, but hesitated to post a review because how does one go about picking only one movie as their reboot request? My inability to make a decision worked to my benefit because it allowed me the chance to go back through the entire archive and form a ranking of my favorite reviews/moments from the show. Spoiler: Most of them involve at least one of Grierson and/or Leitch being angry about a movie they are reviewing. Here are my top 3 in ascending order: 3. The entire review of Batman Very Superman 2. The reboot review of Cobra. Specifically, Grierson describing it as being "set in Los Angeles, and....uh, that's something." 1. The review of the Dexter Fletcher-directed Apple movie Ghosted in which Grierson says he's waiting for an apology from people who tried to tell him Rocketman was good, even though Grierson was one of very few critics I know who actually thought Bohemian Rhapsody was good. (I know Fletcher isn't the credited director of Bohemian Rhapsody, but we all know he did come on at some point to complete it.) I would also single out the reviews of JFK and Testament. The former encouraged me to revisit a movie I had only seen once many years ago and thought it was wild but never compelled me to go back. The latter because I'd never heard of the movie before. Watched both and loved them. So thanks for the many hours of entertainment over the years, and here is to many more. For my reboot request, I finally settled on Akira Kurosawa's 1954 masterpiece Seven Samurai. I got the chance to see it on the big screen for the first time in a 4K remastered version that's been playing around the country. I had seen it a few times before and loved it, but it only grew in my estimation when seeing it in a theater because the scope of it comes across so much better. It's a miracle Kurosawa and his crew made a movie this big 70 years ago. So could you please give it a look and discuss it on the show.

Grierson and Lietch podcat fills that bottomless hole left by the absence of Siskel and Ebert from back in the day (except that they seem to like each other more than Gene and Roger did). I'd like to hear your assessment of the 1981 movie Cutter's Way. I see this movie as an underappreciated masterpiece on the theme of futile resistance to corruption in high places (like Chinatown and The Limey, two other favorites of mine). I love movies that seem as if they're about to spin out of control but which nevertheless seem to work, and Cutter's Way seems to fit that bill.

I started listening to G&L when my original favorite two-guys-talkin’-about-movies podcast went off the air. I appreciate that they are thorough in their discussions and allow each other long periods of uninterrupted time to render their analysis. If you are tired of YouTube critics who think endless plot summary is the same thing as a review, this podcast is for you. I would like them to review 2005’s “The World’s Fastest Indian,” which solidified my weakness for movies about adorable old people doing young-people things when I was in high school. It features what I believe to be an all-time great performance from Anthony Hopkins, and I’m curious to see if anything else about it holds up in the four eyes of these two discerning viewers.