The Rough Cut Cinema Podcast Rough Cut Cinema

On a jam-packed episode, your hosts review the current state of their Fall 2023 Movie Draft slates and report back from the Toronto International Film Festival, before discussing buzzy comedy Bottoms and building out a High School Comedy Syllabus with 10 films from 1980 through the present.

In part two of our conversation about intellectual property, Zach and Carson discuss the initial successes and recent failures of Marvel and DC films, and what it would take to turn the ship around.

In part one of a two-part conversation about the obsession with intellectual property in cinema, Zach and Carson discuss The Last Voyage of the Demeter and use Universal Pictures as a case study for the question of how to use IP to give audiences what they actually want.

While many of the rest of the year's most anticipated movies have played at various festivals already, many more have yet to be screened publicly. Will they be masterpieces? Or disasters? Zach and Carson make their predictions as they preview everything from Maestro to Saw X the best way they know how: a competitive draft.

Zach and Carson discuss Australian horror debut Talk to Me, before working together to construct a modern horror syllabus spanning the last 10 years.

The day we'd all been waiting for has come and gone: the Barbie and Oppenheimer combo was a wild critical and commercial success, and Zach and Carson are here to break down the phenomenon and discuss their thoughts on two of the year's most exciting films.