The Longlist
Here at The Longlist, we celebrate movies and other pop culture through the storied art of rankings. There are no wrong answers. There are no bad opinions. And hot takes are always encouraged. We love movies and we love talking about them even more. Throughout each episode we’ll dissect a given topic, be it a director, actor, genre, studio, or even just a single movie that we really want to deep dive. And the way we really break down each topic is through a series of rankings, usually in the form of a ”top five,” ranging from serious film criticism to whimsical anecdotes. And finally at the end of each episode, we have our main top five list, which we have deemed the short list. Come for the short list and stay for the long list. Nothing we say will ever be the end all be all. On the contrary, we hope it will encourage similar conversations with you and your friends. We have a lot of fun and we hope you will too.
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Episodes
Tuesday Nov 25, 2025
Tuesday Nov 25, 2025
This week Josh's wife, Rebecca joins Jack and Josh to talk about one of the most beloved and endearing movies of all time, Casablanca. We ranked a bunch of lists pertaining to the movie but we also use the movie as inspiration for other lists to highlight some other movies. We love talking old Hollywood and this film is possibly the best representation of that time. It's a timeless classic and we had a blast breaking it down.
Music credit: Happy and Fun Kids Jazz by Alex Productions- (Free Music Archive), (cc by-nd)
Tuesday Nov 18, 2025
Tuesday Nov 18, 2025
We're getting into our feels this week as Jack and Josh discuss ten films that make them tear up. And they might not be all of the movies you would expect. It was fun to record and we hope that it's fun to listen to. Enjoy.
Music credit: Happy and Fun Kids Jazz by Alex Productions- (Free Music Archive), (cc by-nd)
Tuesday Nov 11, 2025
Tuesday Nov 11, 2025
In this episode we are celebrating supporting actor performances. We're sticking to the performances pertaining to the Oscars, and highlight some of our favorite wins, as well as some of the nominees that we love that didn't bring home the hardware. We also give a little check in for the best picture race as it's just starting to heat up. Thanks so much for listening and enjoy.
Music credit: Happy and Fun Kids Jazz by Alex Productions- (Free Music Archive), (cc by-nd)
Tuesday Nov 04, 2025
Tuesday Nov 04, 2025
In this week's episode The Longlist crew tackles movies that take place all in one day. Adam Murray is back on the pod, and each of us brought some interesting choices to represent what we thing is a cool mechanism for telling a story. And we all get some solid jabs in against each other as well. It was a lot of fun and we hope you have fun listening.
Music credit: Happy and Fun Kids Jazz by Alex Productions- (Free Music Archive), (cc by-nd)
Tuesday Oct 28, 2025
Tuesday Oct 28, 2025
It's spooky season so we had to break down a spooky movie. Jack's hosting today and we're talking about the Stanley Kubrick classic, The Shining, one of Jack's all time favorite movies. We're also joined by our good friend Tommy, who offers some great insight on the film and the horror genre writ large. Enjoy!
Music credit: Happy and Fun Kids Jazz by Alex Productions- (Free Music Archive), (cc by-nd)
Tuesday Oct 21, 2025
Tuesday Oct 21, 2025
We're taking a stab at our first draft here at The Longlist. The topic of the draft is crime movies and or goal is to create our ideal crime movie by selecting other elements from films in the genre. The eight categories we selected were: Cop/detective, Criminal, Crew, Set Piece, MacGuffin, Love interest/Femme Fatale, Twist, and Setting/Vibe. Adam Murray joined Josh and Jack again. We had a blast and hope you have fun listening.
Music credit: Happy and Fun Kids Jazz by Alex Productions- (Free Music Archive), (cc by-nd)
Tuesday Oct 14, 2025
Tuesday Oct 14, 2025
We're doing something special for our 25th episode! Jack and I have always liked ranking movies, hence the structure of the podcast, and we decided to put it all out there and give our top 25 favorite movies of all time. It was a long and arduous journey, but we made it and we're happy with our lists. If you ask us next week, the list might change, but at some point we just need to make some decisions. We had a blast and we hope you enjoy.
Music credit: Happy and Fun Kids Jazz by Alex Productions- (Free Music Archive), (cc by-nd)
Tuesday Oct 07, 2025
Tuesday Oct 07, 2025
This is part 2 of our Paul Thomas Anderson conversation. In honor of his new film, One Battle After Another, Jack and Josh invited their buddy Graham Patzner to talk all things PTA. In this episode, the three talk about his impact on their film appreciation and do lists on director flexes, acting performances, and and we rank PTA's filmography. We had a blast, hope you enjoy.
Music credit: Happy and Fun Kids Jazz by Alex Productions- (Free Music Archive), (cc by-nd)
Tuesday Sep 30, 2025
Tuesday Sep 30, 2025
Another two part episode incoming. In honor of his new film, One Battle After Another, Jack and Josh invited their buddy Graham Patzner to talk all thinks PTA. In this episode, part one of two, the three talk about his impact on their film appreciation and do lists on dialogue, camera work, and which characters they'd least like to spend some time with. We had a blast, hope you enjoy.
Music credit: Happy and Fun Kids Jazz by Alex Productions- (Free Music Archive), (cc by-nd)
Tuesday Sep 23, 2025
Tuesday Sep 23, 2025
In this episode, we are taking stock of the year so far. We do our first Oscar race check in, we cover some of the movies that are getting buzz from various film festivals and put our finger on the pulse that is the movie year of 2025, at least to this point. The bulk of the episode is us discussing our favorite five movies of 2025 to this point. We HIGHLY expect our end of the year list to look very differently as there are a TON of movies yet to come out. But this is our near halfway point check in. We had a lot of fun, got into some arguments and got a little serious at times too. Enjoy.
Music credit: Happy and Fun Kids Jazz by Alex Productions- (Free Music Archive), (cc by-nd)