With the newest announcement of Tom Holland as Spider-man and an article for The Atlantic, Spagettit and I debate whether the British have actually taken over, the pros and cons of acting training, and give you a brief detour to Colton Haynes.
With much of the news and discourse these past few weeks surrounding white people attempting to be black and do black things, On the Floor tackles what happens when white directors decide they want to tell black stories. We argue quite a bit about whether it works, who did it best, and where we are
This week’s On the Floor tackles one of the biggest issues currently facing the film industry, the star system. With Jurassic World making a gazillion dollars and everyone cementing Chris Pratt as a new star, we take a look at the history of the star system, how we do and should determine what a star is and where we go from here. We also take ample time to shade Will Smith for his career choices. Enjoy!
On the Floor is back and more unorganized, jumbled, and scatterbrained as ever as we talk about new Netflix show Sense8. It’s appropriate that we have a wide ranging discussion given that the show is about 8 lives in 8 different places and mind melds and the such. We give our overall thoughts on the show, what worked and what didn’t, our fave characters, and who makes our sense8 workout list. We also talk about orgies and Spagettit tries to come for my wig over Lito. Enjoy!
There might not been a more critical episode of this podcast recorded than this one in which we discuss the pilot for the Netflix series Between. We discuss what we liked (not much), what we didn’t (a ton), and what this show’s week to week strategy means for Netflix going forward. Le Noir Auteur also
Sometimes you hit on a podcast topic that happens to be pretty topical which is what happened when On the Floor decided to talk about Hollywood’s sequel and remake obsessed culture right after Pitch Perfect 2 made $70 million and Poltergiest is about to open. We get into a pretty animated discussion about what this