October 27, 2024 Specials 2024 Halloween Super Special Part 2: David Gordon Green’s Halloween (2018) Trilogy with JT Santo and Bottom Five Slashers Filmjitsu wraps up its Halloween Season with the most Halloween of Halloween Episodes! If the past two special episodes spent interviewing Filmspotting's Josh Larsen about his new horror genre book… READ MORE
October 13, 2024 Specials 2024 Halloween Super Special Part 1: Skinamarink and Bottom 5 Patience Testers with Brightwood Writer, Director Dane Elcar Happy Spooky Season, Filmjitsu listeners! Following on the heels of the guys interviewing Filmspotting's Josh Larsen about his in-depth look at the horror genre, Mike and Jay again invited filmmaker… READ MORE
October 6, 2024 Interviews Interview 4: Josh Larsen, Author, “Fear Not,” Film Critic – Filmspotting and Think Christian As it's Spooky Season, Mike and Jay recorded this bonus episode: a horror-themed interview with film critic Josh Larsen, best known as the co-host of the stellar film podcast "Filmspotting."… READ MORE
September 29, 2024 Shows Episode 37: Ballistic: Ecks Vs. Sever and Bottom 5 Box-Office Bombs On this week's episode of the podcast that wields films like deadly weapons, Mike and Jay bring a nuclear arsenal of big budget failures, first by tackling "Ballistic: Ecks Vs.… READ MORE
September 15, 2024 Shows Episode 36: Runaway and Botton 5 Mustaches For this episode, things get hairy... (literally?) with Jay hurling Mike into the far-flung future of... 1991? By reviewing the Tom Selleck/Michael Crichton sci-fi team-up that is 1982's "Runaway," the… READ MORE
September 1, 2024 Shows Episode 35: From Justin to Kelly and Bottom 5 Parties As Filmjitsu Summer comes to an end, Mike delivers to Jay the cinematic C-4 explosive that is 2003's "From Justin to Kelly" starring Kelly Clarkson, thankfully in her first -… READ MORE
August 25, 2024 Interviews Interview 3: Virgil Cardamone – Mahoning Drive-in partner, film booker, curator & publicity director In this special interview episode, Mike took a journey to one of his favorite places on Earth: Lehighton, Pennsylvania, home to the much-loved Mahoning Drive-in Theatre. This last-of-its-kind, old-school site… READ MORE
August 18, 2024 Shows Episode 34: Twisters and Bottom 5 Guilty Pleasures In this special episode of Filmjitsu, Jay and Mike record from the parking lot of the cinema after watching Lee Isaac Chung's "Twisters," a sequel of sorts to the much-loved… READ MORE
August 4, 2024 Shows Episode 33: Gunpowder Milkshake and Bottom 5 Gun Scenes Jay tosses Mike an unloaded pistol in a cinematic firefight with 2021's "Gunpowder Milkshake," a CGI-stuffed, Netflix-distributed, fox-force-five-riff that gathers an astonishingly great cast and wastes them on bad fight… READ MORE
July 21, 2024 Shows Episode 32: Jaws The Revenge and Bottom 5 Fourth Installments If Filmjitsu is the podcast that wields movies like deadly weapons, Mike pulls out a cinematic neutron bomb when he forces Jay to watch and review, "Jaws The Revenge," the… READ MORE