The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm Podcast

"Seven Samurai" (1954, Dir: Akira Kurosawa)

Last episode. Solidarity forever. 

"Safe" (1995, Dir: Todd Haynes)

Are you allergic to the 20th century? Matt and Corbin discuss. Penultimate episode.  Next episode, the last one, is about Seven Samurai. 

"Raiders of the Lost Ark" (1981, Dir: Steven Spielberg)

Raiders of the Lost Ark sits us at the intersection of everything we've been talking about in this show, so we talked about it for our pen-penultimate episode (There are

The Bridge on the River Kawi (1957, Dir: David Lean)

What does the rapid end of an empire feel like? One movie has two answers. Ryder joins us. Features an announcement! Next episode is about Raiders of the Lost Ark! It's

"THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN" (2011, Dir: Steven Spielberg) (w/ Andy Morse)

Tintin, boy reporter. Snowy, his dog. Captain Haddock, his best friend. Matt Ellis and Andy Morse and Steven Spielberg all grew up with these wonnderful comic books, but

HIGH HOPES (1988, Dir: Mike Leigh)

Corbin has been intending on doing an episode about High Hopes since the show started. Why? You'll find out when you listen to the episode!!! Topics: Thatcher, the bitter

"L'Eclisse" (1962, Dir: Michelangelo Antonioni)

Corbin in has never quite understood what is going on in Antonioni's movies. Matt, on the other hand, is an an enthusiast. Can Dr. Movies use his teaching skills to enlig

"Magellan" (2026, Dir: Lav Diaz) w/ Ryder

Slow cinema movie about colonialism shot on a middle grade DSLR? That's like all the topics we're interested in, you know we had to crack this one open!!!! Ryder joins us

Johnny Guitar (1954, Dir: Nicholas Ray)

In 1954, Hollywood legend and almost blacklisted Nicholas Ray and on-the-outs-movie-star Joan Crawford got together to make a bonkers paella western melodrama for a Pover

"The White Ribbon" (2009, Dir: Michael Haneke) w/ Ryder C.

Third chair Ryder Canepa joins us to talk about "The White Ribbon," Michael Haneke's exporation of the world's worst town, the horrible adults who live there, and the way

"Lessons of Darkness" (1992, Dir: Werner Herzog) w/ Dom Sinacola (Portland Mercury)

This week, Matt and Corbin are joined by DOM SINACOLA (Film Critic at The Portland Mercury, The Werner Hertzblog) to talk about LESSONS OF DARKNESS, Werner Herzog's impre

"Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse" (2018, Dir: Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman)

Do you remember that when Jean-Luc Godard took psychedelics and made a Spider-Man Movie? We talk about it! Check out the show on Letterboxd if you're into that thing. M

"J'Accuse!" (1919, Dir: Abel Gance)

Corbin and Matt talk about "J'accuse!," Abel Gance's nearly-three hour long French silent film epic about the horrors of the First World War and the generational crashout

"Weapons" (2025, Dir: Zach Cregger) w/ Madeline Lane-McKinley

Oh hey! Sorry for the delay, Matt was really busy for a few weeks so we had to take a break. But, hey: we've back, talking with Madeline Lane-McKinley, feminist writer, p

"RAN" (1985, Dir: Akira Kurosawa)

The master is here, folks, and this time he wields the themes and some of the particulars of one WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S great work KING LEAR in service of a hypnotic night

'The Secret Agent' (2025, Dir: Kleber Mendonça Filho) w/ Ryder C.

Ryder C. joins Matt and Corbs to discuss "The Secret Agent," a drama film that uses the rythyms of historical research to tell a story about a man getting suqeezed by the

"The Turin Horse" (Dir: Béla Tarr, 2011)

This week, Béla Tarr, a Hungarian art film director of note, passed away at the age of 70. Tarr's stark, highly idiosyncratic dramas about the dread in the heart of every

"The Mastermind" (2025, Dir: Kelly Reichardt)/Top Fives of 2025

A Great American Film Artist made a movie about a liar trying to power through his banal midcentruy existence by grifting. It's not Marty Supreme, though, it's "The Maste

"Hail Mary" (1985, Dir: Jean-Luc Godard)

Merry Christmas. In the mid-80's, Godard made a fascinating high art movie about the Virgin Mary and the Christmas story. It made some people extremely angry. Should they

"Racetrack" (1985, Dir: Frederick Wiseman)

Frederick Wiseman made a movie about a horse racing track in New York State. That's all it is. But then what? We discuss.  Watch the movie here, it rocks. Interview wit