Episodi

  • starting over
    May 31 2024

    Returning from a hiatus to announce another hiatus. I lost my job and I've been struggling pretty badly mental health wise. I talk about the X-Men '97 finale, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Challengers, Furiosa, other stuff obviously but the first half is pretty raw and personal, so the time stamps allow you to skip it for the "good" stuff.

    If you feel compelled to chip in or help:
    https://paypal.me/domgriff
    https://cash.app/$domgriffin

    Or use my One Bone affiliate link if you need new gear for the summer:
    One Bone, the fashion brand for the hard-to-fit man. To get 15% off your first order with 1B, use code THEARMCHAIRAUTEUR at checkout: onebonebrand.com/thearmchairauteur

    00:00 intro & trigger warning
    03:49 i lost my job
    41:58 what i watched & read
    01:15:05 q&a
    01:39:27 outro

    Check me out on THE WAR REPORT:
    https://www.patreon.com/TheAShowRNC
    https://t.co/lAjRa4NWaq

    Keep up with my print and web reviews:
    https://baltimorebeat.com/author/dominic-griffin/
    https://www.looper.com/author/dominicgriffin

    I made a separate IG page exclusively for the channel, so follow ya boy: https://www.instagram.com/thearmchairauteur

    Keep up on my current watches: https://letterboxd.com/capnmagik/films/diary/

    SUBSCRIBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7llcWZBhR9nvIzquktSzqg?sub_confirmation=1

    The Armchair Auteur is an ongoing video project from film critic Dom Griffin. Every week, there will be new reviews, retrospectives, rants and video essays about film and film-adjacent pop culture.

    Dom Griffin is a freelance film critic, pop cultural polymath and an obsessive lover of storytelling. His work has been published on Looper, SyFy.com, Birth.Movies.Death, DCist, The Baltimore Beat, Spectrum Culture, and VultureHound UK. He's a former member of the Washington Area Film Critics Association (WAFCA) and a current Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer-Approved Critic.

    You can find him online here...
    Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/ArmchairAuteur
    Twitter - http://www.twitter.com/AllNewDom
    Letterboxd - http://www.letterboxd.com/capnmagik
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thearmchairauteur/
    TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@allnewdom

    Mostra di più Mostra meno
    1 ora e 41 min
  • retrograde
    Apr 12 2024

    On the mid-season finale of the pod before a short hiatus, I give my Joker: Folie a Deux trailer reaction, talk about OJ Simpson's death, recount Wrestlemania XL and Cody Rhodes' big hero arc, stroll through memory lane via back issues of Wizard Magazine, and then talk about Brad Meltzer's Identity Crisis, The Legion of Super-Heroes (Meltzer & Johns' Lightning Saga, Mark Waid's Threeboot Legion, and Brian Michael Bendis' recent efforts), as well as unpacking the insanity of Mark Millar's work on the Ultimate line over the years.

    Let's dig in!

    00:00 intro
    04:05 news
    20:03 wrestlemania
    42:18 comics
    01:05:55 q&a
    01:12:06 outro

    Check me out on THE WAR REPORT:
    https://www.patreon.com/TheAShowRNC
    https://t.co/lAjRa4NWaq

    One Bone, the fashion brand for the hard-to-fit man. To get 15% off your first order with 1B, use code THEARMCHAIRAUTEUR at checkout: onebonebrand.com/thearmchairauteur

    Keep up with my print and web reviews:
    https://baltimorebeat.com/author/dominic-griffin/
    https://www.looper.com/author/dominicgriffin

    Music, courtesy of Epidemic Sound:
    "Posy Cut" - Dusty Decks

    I made a separate IG page exclusively for the channel, so follow ya boy: https://www.instagram.com/thearmchairauteur

    Keep up on my current watches: https://letterboxd.com/capnmagik/films/diary/

    SUBSCRIBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7llcWZBhR9nvIzquktSzqg?sub_confirmation=1

    The Armchair Auteur is an ongoing video project from film critic Dom Griffin. Every week, there will be new reviews, retrospectives, rants and video essays about film and film-adjacent pop culture.

    Dom Griffin is a freelance film critic, pop cultural polymath and an obsessive lover of storytelling. His work has been published on Looper, SyFy.com, Birth.Movies.Death, DCist, The Baltimore Beat, Spectrum Culture, and VultureHound UK. He's a former member of the Washington Area Film Critics Association (WAFCA) and a current Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer-Approved Critic.

    You can find him online here...
    Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/ArmchairAuteur
    Twitter - http://www.twitter.com/AllNewDom
    Letterboxd - http://www.letterboxd.com/capnmagik
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thearmchairauteur/
    TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@allnewdom

    Mostra di più Mostra meno
    1 ora e 13 min
  • my first rodeo
    Apr 5 2024

    This week on the pod, I talk about Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter's country controversy, CM Punk's interview with Ariel Helwani, Daniel Clowes' graphic novel Monica, Julia Garner's Silver Surfer casting in the new Fantastic Four movie and probably a lot of other stuff, tbh. Oh! And your questions!!

    Let's dig in!

    00:00 intro
    12:16 some comics talk
    25:52 some rasslin talk
    50:21 some beyoncé talk
    01:06:49 q&a
    01:27:47 outro

    One Bone, the fashion brand for the hard-to-fit man. To get 15% off your first order with 1B, use code THEARMCHAIRAUTEUR at checkout: onebonebrand.com/thearmchairauteur

    Keep up with my print and web reviews:
    https://baltimorebeat.com/author/dominic-griffin/
    https://www.looper.com/author/dominicgriffin

    Music, courtesy of Epidemic Sound:
    "Cue Points" - Dusty Decks

    I made a separate IG page exclusively for the channel, so follow ya boy: https://www.instagram.com/thearmchairauteur

    Keep up on my current watches: https://letterboxd.com/capnmagik/films/diary/

    SUBSCRIBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7llcWZBhR9nvIzquktSzqg?sub_confirmation=1

    The Armchair Auteur is an ongoing video project from film critic Dom Griffin. Every week, there will be new reviews, retrospectives, rants and video essays about film and film-adjacent pop culture.

    Dom Griffin is a freelance film critic, pop cultural polymath and an obsessive lover of storytelling. His work has been published on Looper, SyFy.com, Birth.Movies.Death, DCist, The Baltimore Beat, Spectrum Culture, and VultureHound UK. He's a former member of the Washington Area Film Critics Association (WAFCA) and a current Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer-Approved Critic.

    You can find him online here...
    Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/ArmchairAuteur
    Twitter - http://www.twitter.com/AllNewDom
    Letterboxd - http://www.letterboxd.com/capnmagik
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thearmchairauteur/
    TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@allnewdom

    Mostra di più Mostra meno
    1 ora e 29 min
  • protect this land
    Mar 29 2024

    This week on the pod, we're talking about Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, The Rock making Cody Rhodes bleed ahead of Wrestlemania XL, the new episode of X-Men '97, and digging more into the big comic book catch up, jumping from DC (Phillip Kennedy Johnson's run on Action Comics and Paul Dini and Alan Burnett's Batman: The Adventures Continue) back over to Marvel (finishing Jonathan Hickman's part of the Krakoa X-Men work, Kieron Gillen and Al Ewing's work on Immortal X-Men and X-Men Red, respectively.)

    Let's dig in!

    00:00 intro
    20:02 what i watched
    43:19 what i read
    01:12:48 q&a
    01:17:56 outro

    Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire Review: https://www.looper.com/1550107/godzilla-x-kong-the-new-empire-movie-review/
    Godzilla vs Kong Review: Godzilla vs Kong (Movie Review)

    One X-Cellent Scene: X-Men #7 ("The Crucible"): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z10EdJL1XV8

    TRIPLE BEAM STREAMS REUNION EPISODE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W3EhnnjX70

    One Bone, the fashion brand for the hard-to-fit man. To get 15% off your first order with 1B, use code THEARMCHAIRAUTEUR at checkout: onebonebrand.com/thearmchairauteur

    Keep up with my print and web reviews:
    https://baltimorebeat.com/author/dominic-griffin/
    https://www.looper.com/author/dominicgriffin

    Music, courtesy of Epidemic Sound:
    "New Arrivals" - Dusty Decks

    I made a separate IG page exclusively for the channel, so follow ya boy: https://www.instagram.com/thearmchairauteur

    Keep up on my current watches: https://letterboxd.com/capnmagik/films/diary/

    SUBSCRIBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7llcWZBhR9nvIzquktSzqg?sub_confirmation=1

    The Armchair Auteur is an ongoing video project from film critic Dom Griffin. Every week, there will be new reviews, retrospectives, rants and video essays about film and film-adjacent pop culture.

    Dom Griffin is a freelance film critic, pop cultural polymath and an obsessive lover of storytelling. His work has been published on Looper, SyFy.com, Birth.Movies.Death, DCist, The Baltimore Beat, Spectrum Culture, and VultureHound UK. He's a former member of the Washington Area Film Critics Association (WAFCA) and a current Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer-Approved Critic.

    You can find him online here...
    Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/ArmchairAuteur
    Twitter - http://www.twitter.com/AllNewDom
    Letterboxd - http://www.letterboxd.com/capnmagik
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thearmchairauteur/
    TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@allnewdom

    Mostra di più Mostra meno
    1 ora e 19 min
  • retcon
    Mar 22 2024

    This week on the pod is light on movies (my third watch of Dune: Part Two, revisiting Michael Keaton in The Founder, Aaron Taylor Johnson's alleged Bond casting, the use of AI in Late Night with the Devil), but heavy on all the comics I've been reading, including Mark Waid and Dan Mora's World's finest, basically every comic Tom King has written in the last three years and revisiting the entire Ed Brubaker/Sean Phillips oeuvre, from Criminal to Reckless and beyond. Also, we talk about my thoughts on and reaction to Disney's X-Men '97, and my thoughts on the modern state of superhero comics.

    Let's dig in!

    00:00 intro
    06:18 the news
    23:01 what i watched (and read!)
    01:22:01 q&a
    01:34:17 outro

    TRIPLE BEAM STREAMS REUNION EPISODE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W3EhnnjX70

    One Bone, the fashion brand for the hard-to-fit man. To get 15% off your first order with 1B, use code THEARMCHAIRAUTEUR at checkout: onebonebrand.com/thearmchairauteur

    Keep up with my print and web reviews:
    https://baltimorebeat.com/author/dominic-griffin/
    https://www.looper.com/author/dominicgriffin

    Music, courtesy of Epidemic Sound:
    "Shiny Spinners" - Dusty Decks

    I made a separate IG page exclusively for the channel, so follow ya boy: https://www.instagram.com/thearmchairauteur

    Keep up on my current watches: https://letterboxd.com/capnmagik/films/diary/

    SUBSCRIBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7llcWZBhR9nvIzquktSzqg?sub_confirmation=1

    The Armchair Auteur is an ongoing video project from film critic Dom Griffin. Every week, there will be new reviews, retrospectives, rants and video essays about film and film-adjacent pop culture.

    Dom Griffin is a freelance film critic, pop cultural polymath and an obsessive lover of storytelling. His work has been published on Looper, SyFy.com, Birth.Movies.Death, DCist, The Baltimore Beat, Spectrum Culture, and VultureHound UK. He's a former member of the Washington Area Film Critics Association (WAFCA) and a current Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer-Approved Critic.

    You can find him online here...
    Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/ArmchairAuteur
    Twitter - http://www.twitter.com/AllNewDom
    Letterboxd - http://www.letterboxd.com/capnmagik
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thearmchairauteur/
    TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@allnewdom

    Mostra di più Mostra meno
    1 ora e 35 min
  • ke huy quan is grown
    Mar 15 2024

    This week on the podcast, I talk about the TikTok ban, the fall out from the Academy Awards, The Batman II getting delayed, the J. Lo double feature This is Me...Now & The Greatest Love Story Never Told, my third watch of Oppenheimer, Drive Away Dolls, and as always, your questions!

    00:00 intro
    14:48 the news
    34:45 what i watched
    01:10:18 q&a
    01:15:20 outro

    TRIPLE BEAM STREAMS REUNION EPISODE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W3EhnnjX70

    One Bone, the fashion brand for the hard-to-fit man. To get 15% off your first order with 1B, use code THEARMCHAIRAUTEUR at checkout: onebonebrand.com/thearmchairauteur

    Keep up with my print and web reviews:
    https://baltimorebeat.com/author/dominic-griffin/
    https://www.looper.com/author/dominicgriffin

    Music, courtesy of Epidemic Sound:
    "Dustified" - Dusty Decks

    I made a separate IG page exclusively for the channel, so follow ya boy: https://www.instagram.com/thearmchairauteur

    Keep up on my current watches: https://letterboxd.com/capnmagik/films/diary/

    SUBSCRIBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7llcWZBhR9nvIzquktSzqg?sub_confirmation=1

    The Armchair Auteur is an ongoing video project from film critic Dom Griffin. Every week, there will be new reviews, retrospectives, rants and video essays about film and film-adjacent pop culture.

    Dom Griffin is a freelance film critic, pop cultural polymath and an obsessive lover of storytelling. His work has been published on Looper, SyFy.com, Birth.Movies.Death, DCist, The Baltimore Beat, Spectrum Culture, and VultureHound UK. He's a former member of the Washington Area Film Critics Association (WAFCA) and a current Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer-Approved Critic.

    You can find him online here...
    Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/ArmchairAuteur
    Twitter - http://www.twitter.com/AllNewDom
    Letterboxd - http://www.letterboxd.com/capnmagik
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thearmchairauteur/
    TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@allnewdom

    Mostra di più Mostra meno
    1 ora e 17 min
  • low taper feyd
    Mar 8 2024

    This week on the podcast, I talk about Dune: Part Two, the Dune phenomenon, Dune discourse, Dune, Dune, Dune, and more Dune. But in non-Dune content, I also talk about Aquaman 2, The Beekeeper, Past Lives, the awful Tyler Perry movie Mea Culpa, reviewing Kung Fu Panda 4, Wonka, and as always, your questions!

    00:00 intro
    02:30 the news / tiktok discourse
    29:01 what i watched
    51:04 dune part two spoiler discussion
    01:17:40 q&a
    01:24:30 outro

    TRIPLE BEAM STREAMS REUNION EPISODE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W3EhnnjX70

    Kung Fu Panda 4 review for Looper: https://www.looper.com/1533490/kung-fu-panda-4-movie-review/

    One Bone, the fashion brand for the hard-to-fit man. To get 15% off your first order with 1B, use code THEARMCHAIRAUTEUR at checkout: onebonebrand.com/thearmchairauteur

    Keep up with my print and web reviews:
    https://baltimorebeat.com/author/dominic-griffin/
    https://www.looper.com/author/dominicgriffin

    Music, courtesy of Epidemic Sound:
    "Jazz Bars" - Dusty Decks

    I made a separate IG page exclusively for the channel, so follow ya boy: https://www.instagram.com/thearmchairauteur

    Keep up on my current watches: https://letterboxd.com/capnmagik/films/diary/

    SUBSCRIBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7llcWZBhR9nvIzquktSzqg?sub_confirmation=1

    The Armchair Auteur is an ongoing video project from film critic Dom Griffin. Every week, there will be new reviews, retrospectives, rants and video essays about film and film-adjacent pop culture.

    Dom Griffin is a freelance film critic, pop cultural polymath and an obsessive lover of storytelling. His work has been published on Looper, SyFy.com, Birth.Movies.Death, DCist, The Baltimore Beat, Spectrum Culture, and VultureHound UK. He's a former member of the Washington Area Film Critics Association (WAFCA) and a current Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer-Approved Critic.

    You can find him online here...
    Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/ArmchairAuteur
    Twitter - http://www.twitter.com/AllNewDom
    Letterboxd - http://www.letterboxd.com/capnmagik
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thearmchairauteur/
    TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@allnewdom

    Mostra di più Mostra meno
    1 ora e 26 min
  • power scaling
    Mar 1 2024

    It's Dune 2 week, but we're talking Big Blue on the pod instead! James Gunn dropped the Legacy from his new Superman movie, so we talk about the chest emblem reveal and what the future of the DCU might become, as well as me reviewing True Detective: Night Country, talking about the Rebecca Ferguson workplace harassment whodunit, the trailer for Kevin Costner's 12 hour western Horizon: An American Saga, Metal Gear Solid and your questions!

    00:00 intro
    10:47 the news
    36:44 what i watched
    55:45 q&a
    01:18:37 outro

    One Bone, the fashion brand for the hard-to-fit man. To get 15% off your first order with 1B, use code THEARMCHAIRAUTEUR at checkout: onebonebrand.com/thearmchairauteur

    Keep up with my print and web reviews:
    https://baltimorebeat.com/author/dominic-griffin/
    https://www.looper.com/author/dominicgriffin

    Music, courtesy of Epidemic Sound:
    "Muddy Milk Crates" - Dusty Decks

    I made a separate IG page exclusively for the channel, so follow ya boy: https://www.instagram.com/thearmchairauteur

    Keep up on my current watches: https://letterboxd.com/capnmagik/films/diary/

    SUBSCRIBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7llcWZBhR9nvIzquktSzqg?sub_confirmation=1

    The Armchair Auteur is an ongoing video project from film critic Dom Griffin. Every week, there will be new reviews, retrospectives, rants and video essays about film and film-adjacent pop culture.

    Dom Griffin is a freelance film critic, pop cultural polymath and an obsessive lover of storytelling. His work has been published on Looper, SyFy.com, Birth.Movies.Death, DCist, The Baltimore Beat, Spectrum Culture, and VultureHound UK. He's a former member of the Washington Area Film Critics Association (WAFCA) and a current Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer-Approved Critic.

    You can find him online here...
    Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/ArmchairAuteur
    Twitter - http://www.twitter.com/AllNewDom
    Letterboxd - http://www.letterboxd.com/capnmagik
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thearmchairauteur/
    TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@allnewdom

    Mostra di più Mostra meno
    1 ora e 20 min