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Light Up the Dark — A Movie Podcast
🗓️ New episodes every Sunday!🌟 Filmmakers Andrew and Greg launch into a conversation about a specific film each week, navigating the movie with insight, humor, and a filmmakers’s eye 🎥✨Together, our heroes explore how cinema reflects what makes us human... and how the light on the screen awakens the light within 🌟🌞So press PLAY and join the journey! Because sometimes, to find the light, you have to watch the movie! 🔥🚀🎬🌟✨Email us at LightUpTheDarkPodcast@gmail.com with any comments or questions…
Episodes
Light Up the Dark — A Movie PodcastWhite Water Summer
🌟 Our heroes leave civilization behind with White Water Summer, the wildly underrated ’80s wilderness adventure where a group of boys head into the mountains…
Light Up the Dark — A Movie PodcastRan
🌟 Our heroes ride into chaos of battle with Ran, Akira Kurosawa’s towering masterpiece of war, madness, family, and the terrible consequences of a life built…
Light Up the Dark — A Movie PodcastInterstellar
🌟 Our heroes bravely cross the event horizon with Interstellar, Christopher Nolan’s breathtaking sci-fi epic that asks the biggest questions imaginable about…
Light Up the Dark — A Movie PodcastLet It Ride
🌟 Our heroes bet it all on Let It Ride, the wildly charming racetrack comedy from Joe Pytka, the director who Stanley Kubrick said made the best beer…
Light Up the Dark — A Movie PodcastThe Odyssey
🌟 Our heroes reclaim their kingdom with Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, a sweeping mythic epic that reminds us why stories endure across thousands of years…
Light Up the Dark — A Movie PodcastFriday the 13th Part 4: The Final Chapter
🌟 Our heroes grant Smüth's request and return to Camp Crystal Lake with Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter, the sequel that brings Jason back stronger than…
Light Up the Dark — A Movie PodcastBatman & Robin
🌟 Our heroes chill with Batman & Robin, Joel Schumacher’s neon-soaked, ice-pun-filled spectacle that might just deserve a second look 🦇❄️💎🔥This week closes out…
Light Up the Dark — A Movie PodcastBatman Forever
🌟 Our heroes swoop into the neon dreamscape of Batman Forever, Joel Schumacher’s bold reinvention of the Dark Knight, where Gotham becomes Hollywood…
Light Up the Dark — A Movie PodcastDisclosure Day
🌟 Our heroes reveal the truth with Disclosure Day, Steven Spielberg’s ambitious sci-fi thriller that asks what would happen if we learned we're not alone…
Light Up the Dark — A Movie PodcastBatman Returns
🌟 Our heroes visit Gotham City for the holidays with Batman Returns, Tim Burton’s gloriously strange sequel where Christmas cheer collides with yummy women in…
Light Up the Dark — A Movie PodcastBatman
🌟 You wanna get nuts?! Our heroes get nuts with Batman, Tim Burton’s gothic blockbuster that changed superhero cinema forever and introduced the 80's…
Light Up the Dark — A Movie PodcastTremors
🌟 Our heroes head to Perfection with Tremors, the monster movie classic that somehow turns giant underground worms into one of the most lovable movies ever…
Light Up the Dark — A Movie PodcastIn the Mood for Love
🌟 Our heroes whisper the secret of In the Mood for Love, Wong Kar-wai’s hypnotic masterpiece about longing, memory, and the unbearable weight of love left…
Light Up the Dark — A Movie PodcastPoint Break
🌟 Our heroes catch the ultimate wave with Point Break, Kathryn Bigelow’s adrenaline-fueled action classic where surfing, bank robberies, skydiving, and…
Light Up the Dark — A Movie PodcastHeat
🌟 Our heroes are willing to walk away in 30 seconds flat with Heat, Michael Mann’s towering crime epic where cops and criminals become mirror images of each…
Light Up the Dark — A Movie PodcastFalling Down
🌟 Our heroes snap under the pressure of Falling Down, the darkly explosive cult classic where one man’s bad day spirals into a furious journey through the…
Light Up the Dark — A Movie PodcastBatman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
🌟 Our heroes save Martha with Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Zack Snyder's bold, divisive superhero epic 🦇⚡️🛡️🔥This week’s episode is a big one because…
Light Up the Dark — A Movie PodcastFriday the 13th Part 3
🌟 Our heroes hitch another ride up to Camp Crystal Lake with Friday the 13th Part III, the iconic sequel where Jason finally dons the mask and the legend is…
Light Up the Dark — A Movie PodcastEnchanted April
🌟 Our heroes take a much-needed vacation in Italy with Enchanted April, the romantic classic that reminds us of the quiet power of a change of scenery 🌸🌅✨This…
Light Up the Dark — A Movie PodcastFriday the 13th Part 2
🌟 Our heroes return to Camp Crystal Lake with Friday the 13th Part 2, the film that proves this franchise is just getting started 🔪🌲🌙This episode continues…
Light Up the Dark — A Movie PodcastThe Last Temptation of Christ
🌟 Our heroes step onto sacred ground with The Last Temptation of Christ, Martin Scorsese’s bold and controversial masterpiece, in a record-setting Easter…
Light Up the Dark — A Movie PodcastFriday the 13th
🌟 Our heroes travel to Camp Crystal Lake on Friday the 13th, the iconic horror slasher that launched one of the most enduring and influential franchises in…
Light Up the Dark — A Movie PodcastMailbag Episode #1: Animated, International & Kung Fu Movies + Joker!
🌟 Our heroes open the inbox for the very first time and the mailbag is officially alive! What starts as a single listener email quickly turns into one of the…
Light Up the Dark — A Movie PodcastWonder Woman
🌟 Our heroes march onto the battlefield with Wonder Woman, the superhero epic that blends myth, war, and compassion into a story about what it means to believe…
Light Up the Dark — A Movie PodcastIndiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
🌟 Our heroes descend into the dark heart of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, where danger lurks in every shadow and the stakes plunge straight into the…
Light Up the Dark — A Movie PodcastUnforgiven
🌟 Our heroes gallop into the dust and shadows of Unforgiven, Clint Eastwood’s haunting western that strips away the myth of the gunslinger 🤠⚖️🌅This week…
Light Up the Dark — A Movie PodcastSpeed
🌟 Our heroes race to stay above 50mph with Speed, the high-octane action classic that never lets its foot off the gas and helped define 90's blockbuster…
Light Up the Dark — A Movie PodcastLove Liza
🌟 Our heroes are reborn in the fire of Love Liza, the haunting indie drama starring Philip Seymour Hoffman that turns grief into something raw, uncomfortable…
Light Up the Dark — A Movie PodcastEnter the Dragon
🌟 Our heroes bask in the heavenly glory of Enter the Dragon, the Bruce Lee classic that changed action cinema forever 🐉👊🎬This episode quickly becomes legendary…
Light Up the Dark — A Movie PodcastDawn of the Dead
🌟 Our heroes escape the zombie apocalypse with Dawn of the Dead, George Romero’s legendary cult classic that defined what a zombie movie could be… and what it…
Light Up the Dark — A Movie PodcastThe Matrix
🌟 Our heroes bend space and time inside The Matrix, the sci-fi landmark that asked a generation the ultimate question: What is reality? 🕶️💊💥This week’s episode…
Light Up the Dark — A Movie PodcastTop 20 Movies of the 21st Century
🌟 Our heroes make their lists and check them twice for our Top 20 Movies of the 21st Century! It's a passionate, personal deep dive into the films that have…
Light Up the Dark — A Movie PodcastHome Alone
🌟 Our heroes set the traps and defend the house with Home Alone, Chris Columbus’s pitch-perfect holiday classic that sneaks big ideas about faith, forgiveness…
Light Up the Dark — A Movie PodcastA Christmas Story
🌟 Our heroes aim straight for the heart of A Christmas Story, Bob Clark’s endlessly quotable holiday classic about childhood obsession, family chaos, and the…
Light Up the Dark — A Movie PodcastBoogie Nights
🌟 Our heroes unzip and drop the needle on Boogie Nights, Paul Thomas Anderson’s electric, neon-lit tragicomic epic about fame, family, and the cost of chasing…
Light Up the Dark — A Movie PodcastNational Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
🌟 Our heroes untangle the lights, burn the turkey, and plunge headfirst into National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, the chaotic holiday classic that gave us…
Light Up the Dark — A Movie PodcastThere Will Be Blood
🌟 Our heroes strike oil with There Will Be Blood, Paul Thomas Anderson’s towering American epic of ambition, faith, greed, and one very competitive milkshake…
Light Up the Dark — A Movie PodcastSneakers
🌟 Our heroes crack the code of Sneakers, the 1992 tech-heist classic packed with gadgets, shadows, and one of the coolest casts ever assembled 💻🔐🕶️Greg loves…
Light Up the Dark — A Movie PodcastPride & Prejudice
🌟 Our heroes are bewitched body and soul by Pride & Prejudice, Joe Wright’s lush 2005 adaptation of Jane Austen’s timeless romance 💃🎩🌹Andrew loves this movie…
Light Up the Dark — A Movie PodcastPsycho 2
🌟 Our heroes check back into Psycho II, the daring 1983 sequel that defied all odds... and turned out to be far better than anyone expected 😱🏨🔪🪞Greg proudly…
Light Up the Dark — A Movie PodcastThe Shining
🌟 Our heroes escape the frozen maze of The Shining, Stanley Kubrick’s bone-chilling masterpiece of isolation and madness 🪓❄️👁️This is Greg's all-time favorite…
Light Up the Dark — A Movie PodcastHalloween
🌟 Our heroes outrun the boogeyman with Halloween, John Carpenter’s genre-defining slasher that birthed a thousand nightmares 🎃🔪👻Andrew and Greg rewind to their…
Light Up the Dark — A Movie PodcastTwilight
🌟 Our heroes are bitten by the forbidden love of Twilight, the 2008 cultural phenomenon where vampires shimmer and danger wears great hair 🌧️🌲🧛♂️💋This week’s…
Light Up the Dark — A Movie PodcastOne Battle After Another
🌟 Our heroes try to remember the password of One Battle After Another, and fight a philosophical war unlike anything they’ve faced before 😬💣💥🔥In their most…
Light Up the Dark — A Movie PodcastBatman Begins (with Smüth)
🌟 Our heroes master the art of theatricality and deception with Batman Begins, Christopher Nolan’s gritty reinvention of the Dark Knight that changed superhero…
Light Up the Dark — A Movie PodcastForbidden Planet
🌟 Our heroes rocket into the unknown with Forbidden Planet, the groundbreaking sci-fi classic that paved the way for everything from Star Trek to Star Wars…
Light Up the Dark — A Movie PodcastMy Cousin Vinny
🌟 Our heroes argue their case for My Cousin Vinny, Jonathan Lynn’s razor-sharp courtroom comedy starring Joe Pesci and Marisa Tomei ⚖️🍝Andrew’s opening…
Light Up the Dark — A Movie Podcast2001: A Space Odyssey
🌟 Our heroes journey beyond the infinite with 2001: A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick’s groundbreaking sci-fi masterpiece that forever changed the language of…
Light Up the Dark — A Movie PodcastWeekend at Bernie's
🌟 Our heroes drag a corpse through the chaos of Weekend at Bernie’s, the cult comedy classic about one very lively dead guy 🏖️🕶️💀Greg sheds some light onto why…
Light Up the Dark — A Movie PodcastNo Country for Old Men
🌟 Our heroes ride into the blood-soaked desert of No Country for Old Men, the Coen brothers’ chilling meditation on fate, morality, and unstoppable violence…
Light Up the Dark — A Movie PodcastThe Fugitive
🌟 Our heroes run for their lives with The Fugitive, Andrew Davis’s pulse-pounding thriller starring Harrison Ford as Dr. Richard Kimble and Tommy Lee Jones as…
Light Up the Dark — A Movie PodcastSing Street
🌟 Our heroes drive it like they stole it with Sing Street, John Carney’s heartfelt coming-of-age tale of music, love, and finding your voice 🎤🎸🚗💨Greg shares…
Light Up the Dark — A Movie PodcastClose Encounters of the Third Kind
🌟 Our heroes follow the signs of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Steven Spielberg’s transcendent tale of obsession, contact, and cosmic wonder ✨🛸Andrew and…
Light Up the Dark — A Movie PodcastClerks
🌟 Our heroes assure you they’re open for Clerks, Kevin Smith’s scrappy indie debut that changed the game for DIY filmmakers and inspired a generation of…
Light Up the Dark — A Movie PodcastBeing There
🌟 Our heroes walk on the water of Being There, Hal Ashby’s quietly radical political satire starring Peter Sellers as Chance the Gardener, a man whose…
Light Up the Dark — A Movie PodcastSuperman
🌟 Our heroes escape the pocket dimension of James Gunn’s new Superman! 🦸♂️🪐Andrew and Greg share their immediate reactions to the film and spotlight how it…
Light Up the Dark — A Movie PodcastMan of Steel
🌟 Our heroes reveal their powers to the world with Man of Steel, Zack Snyder’s bold, divisive reboot that crash-landed Superman into a post-9/11 America…
Light Up the Dark — A Movie PodcastThe Incredible Shrinking Man
🌟 Our heroes confront the terrifying vastness of existence with The Incredible Shrinking Man, the groundbreaking sci-fi classic that turns one man’s fading…
Light Up the Dark — A Movie PodcastSuperman 2: The Richard Donner Cut
🌟 Our heroes kneel before Zod with Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut, the alternate version of the 1980 sequel that restores Richard Donner’s original vision…
Light Up the Dark — A Movie PodcastAmerican Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince
🌟 Our heroes descend into the crime-infested streets of 1970s New York City and confront American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince, Martin Scorsese’s…