Initial Thoughts
by Black Bat Productions
Latest episode
Modern Romance x The Time Has Passed - A New Play Tie-In
Modern Romance x The Time Has Passed - A New Play Tie-In
About this podcast
Phoebe thinks she hasn't seen enough movies. People say Nathaniel has seen too many. So together, NBB and PRJ are walking through some of cinema's greatest (or at least, most conversation-worthy) entries, and debating, discussing, and enjoying some Initial Thoughts.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 48 episodes
- Modern Romance x The Time Has Passed - A New Play Tie-In · 11 minBlack Bat Productions' latest play, The Time Has Passed, premieres this week at VAULT's The Glitch - Weds 25th & Thurs 26th, at 8:30pm - so here's a quick ep about it. Directed…
- Initial Thoughts on 2026's Oscar Nominations · 22 minThis is Part 2 of our Top Films of 2025 super-episode return. Here we tackle what Phoebe & Nathaniel make of this past week's Academy Award nominations. To hear them tell it…
- Our Top Films of 2025 · 1 h 53 minWelcome back. As we face fascism and lament a lamentable year for the Oscars, we also return to Initial Thoughts to discuss what the hell we've been up to and what the heck we…
- An Oscars Special (feat. Michael Zwiauer) - Initial Thoughts on The 97th Academy Awards · 1 h 24 minIt's the 97th Oscars! Listen in! Conan made us laugh (mostly). Winners won well (mostly). We were pretty accurate (to a point). Intrepid correspondent Michael Zwiauer even joined…
- Predicting/Improving This Weekend's Oscars · 1 h 37 minToday this could be, the greatest pod of our lives. Phoebe and Nathaniel are back for Oscar Week, predicting (and in their own way, improving) the Academy’s cinematic selections…
- Initial Thoughts on 2025's Oscar Nominations · 1 h 18 minDetermine your nominees and initialize your thoughts, it is once again time for Phoebe and Nathaniel to weigh in on The Academy's choices! Did your favorite film of 2024 get…
- Our Top Films of 2024 · 2 h 0 minAs Phoebe would say, we are so back. Initial Thoughts returns as if our last chat were only yesterday, to discuss a year of high highs, low lows, multiple plays directed, and…
- MaXXXine · 1 h 31 min · Season 1 Episode 37Hollywood is a killer. MAXXXINE is a movie. Initial Thoughts is a podcast. You are a listener. This is an episode. Listen in! Neither Phoebe nor Nathaniel have seen this week's…
- Collateral · 1 h 39 min · Season 1 Episode 36We do this for a living. Does it star Tom Cruise? Who directed it? Do you believe in Santa Claus? Find out all these things and more as Phoebe and Nathaniel rev up their taxicab…
- The Matrix · 1 h 44 min · Season 1 Episode 35There's a difference between knowing the pod, and listening to the pod. So listen to the podcast! This week we're casting our mind back 25 years (or ahead 175?) to the world of…
- Picture Pitcher II: Second Movies · 1 h 19 minRevisiting our second Picture Pitcher game, featuring remarkably... determined judge Richard McIver. As previously featured in our episode on Love Lies Bleeding, this round…
- Set It Off · 1 h 37 min · Season 1 Episode 34Heists! LA! Queen Latifah! Jada Pinkett! Blair Underwood! More heists! It's a wonder F. Gary Gray's 1996 thrill ride isn't more of a household name, so Nathaniel and Phoebe set…
- Saving Private Ryan · 1 h 56 min · Season 1 Episode 3380 years ago today, Allied forces landed on the beaches at Normandy, in an operation we now call D-Day. Perhaps the most famous and respected depiction of that operation takes…
- Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga · 2 h 18 min · Season 1 Episode 32Phoebe and Nathaniel rev their engines and expect an epic as they return to George Miller's Wasteland... but what did they find when they got there? (31:44) With Furiosa making…
- Mad Max: Fury Road · 2 h 11 min · Season 1 Episode 31If we're gonna pod, we're gonna pod historic on the Fury Road. WITNESS! Phoebe and Nathaniel rev their engines and take to the desert for George Miller's 2015 post-apocalyptic…
- 30. Le Samouraï · 1 h 54 min · Season 1 Episode 30Thirty episodes in, time for an all-time classic. One of our hosts is passionately, quite openly an acolyte of this film, so the surprise element wasn't exactly front of our…
- 29. Love Lies Bleeding / Second Movie Game (feat. Richard McIver) · 3 h 6 min · Season 1 Episode 29It's a mega-episode, but worth every minute! First off, our intrepid filmgoers Nathaniel and Phoebe wrap their muscly arms around Rose Glass' new film in cinemas, Love Lies…
- 28. Chinatown · 1 h 41 min · Season 1 Episode 28In Everglade Studio finishes this weekend! Get your tickets if you haven't already. We thank everyone who came to see the show, and look forward to the next Black Bat Productions…
- 27. Nashville · 1 h 47 min · Season 1 Episode 27As In Everglade Studio enters its final week of performances at The Hope Theatre, Nathaniel and Phoebe reconvene for the third in their Everglade series: Robert Altman's revered…
- 26. Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story · 1 h 49 min · Season 1 Episode 26In Everglade Studio is coming to The Hope Theatre, and co-directors Phoebe and Nathaniel are featuring some of the films that inspired it! Second in our series is the moving…
