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The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm Podcast

by Corbin Smith and Matt Ellis
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  • HIGH HOPES (1988, Dir: Mike Leigh)

    June 15, 2026 · 1 hr 47 min

    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 bitterness of leftists living in capital, some suprising facts about the…

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

    May 28, 2026 · 1 hr 58 min

    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 enlighten his ignorant friend? Listen and learn!  Check out the show on…

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

    May 7, 2026 · 1 hr 55 min

    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. Watch it here, it's great. Check out the show on Letterboxd if…

  • Johnny Guitar (1954, Dir: Nicholas Ray)

    April 23, 2026 · 1 hr 42 min

    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 Poverty Row studio about the terror of desire and American reaction with…

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

    April 9, 2026 · 1 hr 25 min

    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 ways their misery warps their children. Nazi origin story…

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

    March 27, 2026 · 2 hr 17 min

    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 impressionistic non fiction essay movie about the burning oilfields of…

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

    March 13, 2026 · 1 hr 35 min

    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. Matt is also on there. And we got a Bluesky going. Next episode is…

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About the show

A Podcast about movies from the fine folks at the Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation, with Corbin Smith (The Famous Writer) and Dr. Movies, Matt Ellis (A Professor of Movies)