The CineFix Top 100 is the first podcast from the long standing, movie obsessed YT page, CineFix. Compiled from their personal top 100s by some sort of robot algorithm they don’t really understand, our resident film nerds Clint Gage, Alex Stedman and Michael Calabro plan to discuss one of the top 100 movies each week with one catch: they don't know what movies are on it or where they rank!
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Le Samouraï is The Original ‘Cool’ Hit Man w/ Director Richard Linklater | CineFix Top 100
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Le Samouraï popped up in the French New Wave and gave us the definitive image of the “cool Hit Man” that endures to this day, and so it only made sense that Clint, Cal and Alex welcome special guest and co-writer and director of Hit Man, Richard Linklater! The Academy Award nominated filmmaker chats about why people think retail hitmen actually exi…
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Boogie Nights Is A Perfect Horny Boy Family Movie | CineFix Top 100
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“I am a star. I’m a star. I’m a big, bright shining star. That’s right.” (re-zips his pants) Boogie Nights was only Paul Thomas Anderson’s second film, but the story of an up-and-coming star in the waning days of the porn industry on film is exceedingly confident especially for a director in his 20s. Clint, Cal and Alex talk about the stacked cast …
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Jaws Might Be The Luckiest Mistake In Movie History | CineFix Top 100
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“You’re gonna need a bigger boat.” Jaws was legitimate phenomenon in the 70s, launching both the career of Steven Spielberg and the concept of the summer blockbuster to the forefront of the Hollywood system. For this story about an island being terrorized by a rogue Great White, Clint, Cal and Alex talk about Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss and Robe…
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The Warriors Is Sweaty, Grainy, Dirty and Awesome | CineFix Top 100
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“Warriors… come out and play-ayyyyy…” The Warriors dropped in 1979 during an age of New York City that was about to change. Walter Hill’s film about a gang being hunted across the city as they try to make it home is a portrait of the politics of gang society. Clint, Cal and Alex talk about 70s fight scene choreography, expert camera blocking and ju…
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La Haine Is Tough Guy Posturing At Its Finest | CineFix Top 100
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“So far, so good. So far, so good…” On one hand, La Haine is a grab bag of every filmmaking trick that was cool in the 90s. On the other hand, it’s a scathing look at systemic violence that’s as relevant as ever even 30 year later. The story of three guys outside of Paris grappling with the aftermath of a riot in which police officers put one of th…
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Hot Fuzz Is A Buddy Cop Love Story | CineFix Top 100
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“Have you ever fired two guns whilst jumping through the air?” Hot Fuzz, the second chapter in Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg’s ‘Three Flavors Cornetto Trilogy,’ takes the piss out of buddy cop movies in the most loving way possible. The story of a cop who’s too good for his own good transferring to a small town in the country and uncovering a gruesom…
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Princess Mononoke Is Beautiful, But Does It Have Rizz? | CineFix Top 100
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“You cannot change your fate. However, you can rise to meet it, if you so choose.” Hayao Miyazaki dropped one of his several masterpieces in 1997 with Princess Mononoke. Depicting the battle between Iron Town and ancient Gods of the forest, the film is a gorgeously animated adventure that paints it’s themes vividly front and center. Clint, Cal and …
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Being There Is Cinema’s Greatest Rorschach Test | CineFix Top 100
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The ‘Burbs Taps Into Every Suburban American’s Fear | CineFix Top 100
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“I’ve never seen that. I’ve never seen anybody drive their garbage down to the street and bang the hell out of it with a stick.” Joe Dante’s first collaboration with Tom Hanks started as a send-up of Rear Window before it morphed into a genre-bending, dark comedy in The ‘Burbs. Coming after Joe Dante’s Academy Award winning Innerspace and Tom Hank’…
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Rear Window Is Hitchcock’s Most Technically Impressive Film | CineFix Top 100
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Bring your hot takes somewhere else, Rear Window is S-Tier Hitchcock. Made and released between other Grace Kelly classics Dial M for Murder, and To Catch a Thief, Rear Window’s strength lies in Hitchcock’s ability to make us willing accomplices in Jimmy Stewart’s spying on his neighbors by leaning so hard on his POV and ratcheting up the tension o…
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Monty Python And The Holy Grail Gleefully Skewers The Filmmaking Process | CineFix Top 100
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Our community season continues with one of the funniest movies of all time and our first newly minted Top 100, Monty Python and The Holy Grail. A gleeful skewering of the filmmaking process by first time filmmakers, The Holy Grail crams in a musical number, an animated god, and a record scratch of an ending that breaks the fourth wall in the same w…
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Wait, Did Disney’s Robin Hood Start The Furry Movement? | CineFix Top 100
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Season 2 continues with a bit of a milestone Disney film as both the first movie to be developed after Walt’s death and the first to be released on VHS, Disney’s Robin Hood. How much has nostalgia played into its placement on the list? Clint, Cal, and Alex are here to break it all down, digging into the incredible pedigree behind the film, includin…
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Has Star Wars' Relentless Retconning Hurt Its Legacy? | CineFix Top 100
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We head to a galaxy far far away to discuss a little space opera that changed the way we make movies, talk about movies, and build franchises out of those movies. George Lucas’s Star Wars stormed onto the scene in 1977 and was relentlessly retconned as they moved to franchise the biggest original IP of all time. Star Wars is inescapable now, but Cl…
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Why Three Amigos Still Holds Up Decades Later | CineFix Top 100
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Our community season continues with the movie that added infamous and plethora to our vocabulary, the Steve Martin, Chevy Chase and Martin Short classic, Three Amigos. Directed by John Landis, whose filmography up to this point is littered with hits, Amigos succeeds by continually making its leads the butt of the joke. Clint, Cal and Alex discuss t…
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Seven Samurai: Is There a More Influential Film on Modern Cinema? | CineFix Top 100
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Season 2’s community theme kicks off with the patriarch of modern action cinema, Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai. An epic story of samurai helping a small village community defend itself against raiders, Seven Samurai puts its characters front and center, and is a masterclass on how to earn a three hour runtime. Clint, Cal and Alex break down its pl…
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Does “Really Getting” The Babadook Make Clint A Bad Parent? | CineFix Top 100
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“If you’re so hungry, why don’t you just go eat S#!T!!!” We’re hanging out in the snow at Park City for the 40th edition of the Sundance Film Festival this week and got a chance to see 2014 festival alum The Babadook on the big screen and wouldn’t you know it, it happens to be on the CineFix Top 100! A terrifying entry into the psychological horror…
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Clint, Cal and Alex continue their neverending journey to watch 100 of the greatest movies of all time while Dan's sentient algorithm continues to throw curve balls. This time there is a theme: community! And yes, all the quotes and music in the trailer are clues to the movies that will be featured this season. Be sure to check back on January 28th…
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Jackie Brown Has Aged the Best of All Tarantino’s Films | CineFix Top 100
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“Oh, I hope you felt appropriately guilty afterwards.” In this CineFix Not 100, Alex and Calabro are talking about Jackie Brown, Quentin Tarantino’s 1997 follow-up to Pulp Fiction. In the 25+ years since Tarantino adapted the Elmore Leonard novel, Rum Punch, Jackie Brown has managed to age like Pam Grier herself, which is to say, incredibly. Cal an…
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In Bruges' Script Is Its Greatest Asset | CineFix Top 100
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“Just try not to say anything too loud or crass.” Welcome to another NOT Top 100 in between seasons! This week, Clint’s not around so Cal and Alex are digging into one of their favorites that didn’t quite make the cut. This week they explore In Bruges and discuss its status as a Bro-core movie, its choice to focus on the words of its playwright scr…
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Raiders of the Lost Ark Was Spielberg Shooting From The Hip | CineFix Top 100
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“It’s not the years, honey. It’s the mileage.” Raiders of the Lost Ark is an unimpeachably great movie that gave us the second iconic Harrison Ford role of the era with Indiana Jones. It’s hard to imagine a world without our most famous archeologist, or to understate the franchise’s influence on the adventure genre, but at the time there was a weir…
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The Exorcist Is Still Scary Thanks To Classic Film Trickery
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“Your Mother ***** ***** in hell!” The Exorcist had audiences' heads spinning in 1973 and hasn’t really stopped since. William Friedkin had just won an Oscar for The French Connection and William Peter Blatty’s novel was a best seller, but the filmmakers still had a long way to go to make a classic. Clint, Alex and Cal are chock full of pea soup an…
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RoboCop Features Cinema’s Smartest Shootout in a Cocaine Factory
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"Your move, creep." The year… vaguely near future. The setting… Old Detroit. The hero… a robotic cop resurrected by corporate greed fighting to regain some of his humanity. RoboCop, in a word, is awesome. The Paul Verhoeven masterpiece has everything you’d want from the 80s; goopy squibs, stop motion animated robots and a literal shootout in a coca…
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Orson Welles Created The 'Star Role' in The Third Man
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"They had 500 years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock." Carol Reed’s The Third Man is a gorgeously photographed bit of post-war film noir that gave us one of the greatest grins in the history of cinema. It also gave us a ton of zither! Clint, Cal and Alex dive into the classic detective yarn that’s not really about …
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Making Gravity Was So Much Harder Than You Could Possibly Imagine
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"I hate space." For anyone that got to see Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity in the theater, it’s a breathless, palm-sweating, white-knuckled experience that is hard to describe. Essentially Castaway in space, Sandra Bullock is by herself for most of a tight 90 minute adrenaline rush just trying to survive. This episode of CineFix Top 100, Clint, Cal and Al…
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The Fly is Science Fiction’s Most Accessible Body Horror
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“Be afraid. Be VERY afraid.” David Cronenberg has made some incredible movies that are also incredibly gross. This episode of the CineFix Top 100 dives into one of his best, The Fly. Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis star in the story of inventor Seth Brundle and his attempt to master teleportation only to end up becoming a fly for his trouble! Clint a…
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Midnight Cowboy Is A Time Capsule That Can’t Be Rebooted
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“I’m walkin’ here! I’m walkin here!” The late 60s marked the beginning of a new era in Hollywood and Midnight Cowboy was right in the middle of it. The 1969 film from John Schesinger follows a swaggering small town Texas stud trying to make it as a hustler in Manhattan and the unlikely relationship he discovers with a con-man. Jon Voigt and Dustin …
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Terminator 2: Judgment Day Is The Most Perfect Action Movie of All Time
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“I’ll be back.” There are few who do sequels like James Cameron. In 1991, Terminator 2: Judgment Day blew the socks off everybody on its way to becoming, what we here at CineFix are happy to proclaim, the most perfect action movie of all time. Groundbreaking visual effects mixed with ingenious in-camera tricks and one of the greatest cinema face tu…
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Groundhog Day Doesn’t Need to Explain Itself
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“Phil!? Phil Connors?!?!” In 1993, the late great Harold Ramis teamed with Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell to do the same thing over and over and over again. In the 30 years since, Groundhog Day has become a genre all unto itself. Blending elements of time travel, magical realism, spirituality and good old fashioned romantic comedy, it doesn’t feel…
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City of God is Eloquent Violence | CineFix Top 100
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“Where do you want to take the shot? In the hand or in the foot?” In 2002, City of God came charging out of a Brazillian favela to take over seemingly every critic’s top ten list. The decades-spanning crime drama from Fernando Meirelles and co-director Kátia Lund is a fast paced epic fueled by violence. It’s a great film led by an unlikely cast of …
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit Is An Ageless Miracle
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“I’m not bad. I’m just drawn that way.” Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a movie that never gets older. The live action, animated hybrid was a trailblazing piece of film when it dropped in 1988. The Robert Zemeckis follow up to Back to the Future took an IP wrangling miracle to get made in the first place and a whole other miracle on top of that that the…
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Parasite is Genre-Bending Social Satire At Its Most Metaphorical | CineFix Top 100
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In 2019 Bong Joon-ho dropped an amazing piece of darkly comedic satire on us with Parasite. The film is a twisted, funny thriller that’s impossible to limit to one genre, theme or trope. There is A LOT going on in this film and as a result it not only became the first non English language film to win best picture, but earned a spot on the CineFix T…
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Sunset Boulevard is STILL a Crazy, Meta Middle Finger to Hollywood | CineFix Top 100
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“They took the idols and smashed them! And who’ve we got now? Some nobodies!” Sunset Boulevard is a classic genre blending, film noir, dark comedy that skewered the state of the film industry in 1950. Maybe the most incredible thing about it is that it’s as relevant right now as it was nominated for 11 Academy Awards. But where, oh where, does it e…
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is Impossible To Forget
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Dear Listener, Clint, Cal and Alex, hosts of The CineFix Top 100, have had the ranking of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind erased from their memories. Please never mention where the film fits into the Top 100 again. Thank you. For episode 2, we appreciate your cooperation and continued support while Clint, Cal and Alex muddle through their fee…
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Independence Day Is a Goddamn Masterpiece | CineFix Top 100
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Welcome to the CineFix Top 100! Our biggest list yet! Clint Gage and his co-hosts Michael Calabro and Alex Stedman compiled lists of their own personal top 100’s, which were subsequently smashed together by a nonsense algorithm to create an unwieldy and surprising list of 100 VERY good movies. Every monday we’ll be talking about one of them and fin…
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The CineFix Top 100 is the first podcast from the long standing, movie obsessed YT page, CineFix. Always game for a good Top 10 movie list, the CineFix crew sets their sights on 10x as many movies with their biggest list ever, The CineFix Top 100. Compiled from their personal top 100s by some sort of robot algorithm they don’t really understand, ou…
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