The Picture Show with Austin and Phil Rood

In search of a quiet place to record podcasts, Austin and Phil have taken jobs as winter caretakers at a haunted ski lodge where they also have access to some kick ass DVDs, so they decided to watch Stanley Kubrick's horror masterpiece The Shining. The guys discuss abuse, ghost time travel, non-erotic sexuality, moon landing conspiracies, and Scatman Crothers... also, Phil gets insanely personal

This week, Aus and Phil walk into war with nothing but their podcast mic to protect them, but they take a break to watch Mel Gibson's 2016 return to the director's chair: Hacksaw Ridge. The guys talk about glorifying war in film, the myth of Christian persecution in America, and what would have made this movie better.

This week the guys broke out of podcast jail and decided to lay low in scenic Detroit. While waiting for their last big score, they watched the 1998 film Out of Sight. Phil fanboys over Elmore Leonard and spiritual metaphors while Austin tries to figure out the mindset of a career criminal and place himself in the 1990s to imagine a time when time when this comedy was en vogue.

Also, our producer (Phil) dropped the ball and the audio quality is not what we would like it to be. Disciplinary action against Phil is pending.

This week Aus and Phil are telling terrible bossess to f@$k right off while swiping other people's credit cards and tasing the crap out of craigslist buyers... also, they watched Emily the Criminal.

The guys take hard stances against typecasting Aubrey Plaza, predatory corporate internships, art schools, and using guns to commit crimes. Also, Phil can't stop talking about The Illusionist.

This week Aus and Phil travel to faraway lands in hopes of reviving their podcast careers with the help of their young optimistic (and kind of naive) new producer. They also watched the film The Illusionist... no, not that one. They watched the 2010 animated French film and discussed its themes of odd but sweet relationship dynamics, changing trends in entertainment, and Jacques Tati who wrote the original script.

This week Austin and Phil go fishing on a boat that, in all honesty, could probably stand to be a little bigger... they also watch Steven Spielberg's 1975 feature debut Jaws. The guys talk about their rich histories with this classic, the look and vibe of 70s movies, PTSD, and differences from the novel.

Austin and Phil uncover the evils of the fur industry and puppy mills by watching the Disney animated classic One Hundred and One Dalmations. They talk about eras of Disney movies, pioneering art techniques, classic design, and the Simpsons... because we love the Simpsons.

The guys kick off their 7th season of the show with a milestone episode, Number 100! To celebrate, they go back to their roots to re-examine their very first movie 1999's Fight Club. They talk about angry incels, media literacy, satire, Jared Leto, and how their opinions may have shifted on this and other movies they've covered on the show.

Plus, Phil puts Austin on the spot with a quick game.

Aus and Phil are on summer vacation between seasons, but they jumped on the mic to recognize their 3rd Anniversary as a podcast! They discuss some of the highlights of what they've been watching this summer, culminating with a discussion of "Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse", it's influence on the animation landscape, legacy characters reimagined, terrible fans, comic books, and writer/directors who care about the properties they work on.

This week, Phil and Austin look back on the individual movies and double features they watched over Season 6. They talk about their favorites, what didn't hit home with them as much, what kept resonating with them after they'd watched them, and some themes and topics that unintentionally ran through most of the season.

This week the Austin and Phil have no show notes due to the writers' strike (on which we are fully in support of the WGA)

This week, the guys bring the cats into the studio and learn the hard lessons about show business animals that they should have taken from Jordan Peele's 2022 film Nope. The guys and cats break down the movie by discussing trauma, ethics of working with animals, monster design, brilliant cinematography, and the brilliance that is Keke Palmer.

This week the guys hired stunt doubles to give their hot takes on the podcast then sat down to watch 2019's Once Upon A Time In Hollywood. Phil and Aus break down the movie by discussing dirty hippie cults, Tarantino self-indulgence, bad takes, racism in Hollywood, Spaghetti Westerns, historical context, and feet.

TRIGGER WARNING- this week's conversation contains discussion of suicide as depicted in the film Babylon

This week Aus and Phil return from their hiatus to explore the wild world of early Hollywood by breaking down 2022's Babylon. The guys talk about changing industries, depravity and the subcultures that make room for it, art for the masses, and elephant shit. It's truly a wild conversation that goes as many odd places as the movie it covers.

book adaptations, and how casting the right actors makes all the difference in conveying a film's meaning.

This week, Aus and Phil steal wi-fi from the Man so they can get their podcast uploaded in the name of fighting fascists and censorship... also they watched The Book Thief. The guys talk about the power of art, being the best version of oneself, book adaptations, and how casting the right actors makes all the difference in conveying a film's meaning.

This week, Austin and Phil fight fascism with art and brutality by calling out incels, trolls, and hatemongers as the petulant man babies that they are... but aside from what they do in their everyday lives, they also took time to review Quentin Tarantino's 2009 masterpiece Inglourious Basterds. The guys discuss the film's multiple points of view of Nazi occupation, art as a weapon against fascism, and great subtle performances holding their own against much bigger ones.

Plus, we review some feedback we got about recent episodes

Phil traded his car for a microphone so that he could record a podcast with Austin as soon as Aus was released from jail, so they got to work recording an episode whose monetization could save their local orphanage... naturally they landed on 1980's musical comedy The Blues Brothers as a subject. The guys discuss the movie as a musical gateway drug for Phil, Austin's confusion over the movie's tone early on, the state of SNL and its movie spinoffs, and Chicago as a movie setting.

This week Austin and Phil hit the airwaves with a podcast hosting bill they can't afford and a show doc they don't have and they're looking for adventure... to talk about. Luckily they have just the thing with Edgar Wright's 2017 action film Baby Driver. The guys briefly discuss the cancelled cast members of this production before getting into a conversation about choices and consequences, gross Oedipus complexes, Phil's undying love for Jon Hamm, music driving everything, and the Venn diagram overlap between Edgar Wright, Rian Johnson, and Wes Anderson.

This week Austin and Phil do some serious day drinking and hatch a plot to pay their hosting fees by selling podcasts with forged signatures of their hosts, but run into a roadblock when they can't find a crayon to sign Joe Rogan's name with... They give up on their plan and watch Can You Ever Forgive Me as the second half of their double-feature with last week's I, Tonya. The guys talk about choices and consequences, vulnerability and hiding, friends who are bad for you, and taking shots at Tom Clancy.

The guys try a sport above their station in life this week as they take on discussions of cycles of abuse, class, and figure skating when they break down the 2017 sports biopic/crime story I, Tonya. All these issues dealt with in the movie get even more complicated when Aus and Phil discuss the humanizing of terrible people and the complications brought on by unreliable narrators. 

Aus and Phil try to work their way into a better class of podcasters by fighting their way to the top of the rankings and be among the podcasts full of greenhouses and sushi bars and raves... every time they've tried this before, they've failed because they couldn't take control of the search engine... this time will be different.

Ok, now that that joke has been run into the ground, the guys watched Snowpiercer this week and talk about classism.  Also, they discuss how this film complements last week's movie Bullet Train and how they go together as a double feature.

This week, Aus and Phil are very groggy after waking from long naps. They poured some coffee and tried to wake up while watching a movie, 2009's Pandorum. The guys talk about the visuals that plant this movie firmly in the '00s, the "Noah's Ark" trope, and the career of the great Ben Foster.

This week, Aus and Phil break out their best Jeff Goldblum impressions and brace themselves for some good old fashioned Cronenberg body horror... they also watched the 1986 sci fi horror movie The Fly. The guys talk about toxic self-improvement, the themes of women having agency (or not), Chekov's Vomit, and the incredible practical effects of this film

This week, Austin and Phil are coming to you from the new podcast studio they built in an old German windmill, where they watched the 1931 classic(?) Frankenstein. The guys talk about adapting plays, why the Universal Monsters are so iconic, and Boris Karloff's performance.

This week, Austin and Phil's party to celebrate their 78th episode was interrupted by a monster from space who hurled the head of the Big John statue (local reference, sorry/ not sorry) at them and began attacking the city. The guys grabbed their shaky microphone and set out to document the entire situation... but eventually they got sidetracked by a movie. They watched the modern kaiju classic  Cloverfield as a way to kick off their sci-fi Halloween. They talk about Matt Reeves, Drew Goddard, movies as a reaction to tragedy, and emotional weight in genre movies.

This week Austin and Phil are on a suicide mission to reboot the energy source that keeps them going... they're just making a pot of coffee... In the meantime, they're also finding time to watch Danny Boyle's 2007 trip through space Sunshine. The guys talk about Alex Garland, non-duality, the stellar cast, nature and humanity, the trolley problem, and how every character matters... then the guys go off the deep end in a discussion about recent movie backlash, social justice in cinema, media literacy, artistic license, all wrapped up in discussion about The Woman King, Elvis, The Whale, Braveheart, and Django Unchained.

Austin and Phil spent most of this week chasing drones through cornfields in an effort to... get a free drone.  Anyway, when they were done with that, they sat down to watch this week's movie, 2014's Interstellar. Phil voices his complaints about Jonathan Nolan while Austin nitpicks the science, then they both talk about what this movie does well, and that's the long list. The guys break down the film's portrayal of humanity, the mind blowing time loops, and the beautifully utilitarian robot designs, and a whole lot more.

Austin and Phil discovered that they have space insomnia that makes them be awake while everyone else sleeps, so this week, they used that time to watch 2016's Passengers. The guys talk about moral ambiguity, The Shining in space, planetary colonies and the corporate wealth that owns them, and the themes that this movie never quite manages to explore... plus Bacon.

This week, Austin and Phil crashed their homemade spaceship in the woods and had to hijack the DNA of a neighborhood dead guy in order to watch their movie, which was 1984's Starman. The guys talk about Tron-era Jeff Bridges, John Carpenter, Jesus metaphors, and scrawny deer. Also, Austin gives a science history lesson about Voyager

This week Austin and Phil head to Montana to try to communicate with some strange visitors from a faraway land... Canadians. The guys take on Canadian director Denis Villeneuve's 2016 film Arrival and talk about its themes of fate and choosing to live, the realities of life, shapes, and the spectrum of responses to a world event like UFO landings.

Austin and Phil go into space as rivals, but quickly learn respect and comradery as they work together to find out what happened to HAL-9000, the Discovery, and the weird Space Baby from the end of a previous movie they watched... on the flight into space, they had time to kill, so they watched the 1984 film 2010: The Year We Make Contact. The guys discuss how this movie works on its own and as a sequel, the Cold War context, Pan Am, and Ghost Dave.

Aus and Phil kick off Season 5 by taking a road trip into deep space. Luckily, they found a podcast studio on Mars that they were able to utilize to share their thoughts about 2019's Ad Astra. The guys discuss the film's themes of finding divinity and humanity, nihilist characters, voiceover, and seeing what's right in front of you.

Writer, podcaster, and genuinely great dude Corey Scott sits down with Phil to talk about their newly released collaboration Nictitate... but if you know these 2, you can already guess that they get off track almost immediately. They talk about writing, art, insecurities, motivations, algorithms vs LiveJournal and Space Camp.

This week Phil and David break down the Season 3 finale of HBO's Barry: starting now. We talk about the tragic ending to several character arcs as well as the tone of the entire season, the direction of Bill Hader, and where we think the show may go in its final season.

David and Phil break down the 7th episode of the 3rd season of HBO's Barry. This week, we discuss the aftermath of Barry's dinner, Sally's downward spiral, Gene and Annie, and how the plans of "Kenneth Goulet" are starting to come together... plus a lot more!

This week David and Phil talk about 710n the 6th episode of the 3rd season of HBO's Barry.  We talk about the great balance between absurdity and darkness that this episode strikes,  amazing character actors, side characters, and of course, the freeway chase.  

David and Phil get together again to talk about Barry.  This week they cover episodes 4 & 5 of Season 3 and discuss the balance of darkness and comedy, the themes for forgiveness and consequence, great character actors, and subreddits.

Austin and Phil were looking forward to some vacation time now that the season is coming to an end, but wouldn't you know it, someone ended up getting murdered... in a movie they watched.  The guys grow some crazy moustaches, climb on a riverboat cruise and try to solve the mystery of why no one likes these very fun Hercule Poirot movies by watching 2022's Death on the Nile.  The guys discuss the long lost whodunit style mystery film, cast diversity, cancel culture, and a whole lot more.