The MovieFilm Podcast has grown a huge audience of cinephiles who love getting besties Brian Hall's and Zaki Hasan's takes on movies and Hollywood since 2012, including their popular commentary tracks. Now, join us for a more up close and personal conversation than you might get on their own show, one filled with laughs and insights! Brian is living his dream as a writer on the Star Wars series Young Jedi Adventures, while Zaki is an esteemed movie critic whose reviews are found at the San Francisco Chronicle and many other places. We talk with them about how they cracked podcasting early, their best episodes, how they fell in love with movies, how they bonded, movies they walked out on, how Zaki introduces his kids to his favorites, their current work and future projects and what they're excited about next from the movies.

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00:01:00 R+R Background on Zaki & Brian 1

00:03:00 R+R Ebert vs Siskel, movies as "empathy machines"

00:05:00 R+R Background on Zaki & Brian 2, writing for Star Wars, living dreams

00:10:00 R+R Our own movie nerdom, introducing Pablo to our faves through our new Movie Night, Indiana Jones Temple of Doom, Goonies, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, Short Circuit, Inside Out, big misses Dennis the Menace & Inspector Gadget

00:22:25 Zaki+Brian being early to podcasting, how it started 2012, why it worked and what fans tell them

00:29:30 Z+B Bringing nerd appreciation for movies, Planet of the Apes, must listen gateway episode reccos for MovieFilm Podcast

00:31:30 Z+B The childhood movies that made them love Film, Ray's love of Back to the Future, the making of Thriller & 1980s 90s NBC TV, Zaki's love of Star Wars, Superman, Tron, Flash Gordon, The Black Hole, classic Universal monster movies, Brian's love of ET, Ruth growing up with Golden Age Mexican cinema, then Gone With the Wind & ET

00:43:00 Z+B How Brian & Zaki met, bonded, first movies they saw together

00:45:45 Z+B Movies that made them walk out, Where the Heart Is, Weekend at Bernies 2, Morbius, Tree of Life, I Heart Huckabees

00:50:00 Z+B If you could be any character in a movie, talking Marty McFly, Ferris Bueller, Superman, Starship Enterprise 00:55:00 Z+B Movies Ray and Zaki always watched together, James Bond

00:56:30 Z+B How Zaki intros his 6 children to his fave movies, West Wing, Ruth's and Ray's new Movie Night with Pablo, Indiana Jones, Terminator 2

00:59:45 Z+B Fave Foreign Films, Run Lola Run and 1990s foreign flicks, Coda, Cinema Paradiso, The Untouchables, Fantastic Planet, new drive toward Saudi film scene

01:03:30 Z+B Movies looking forward to in coming year, Tim Burton's return to form w Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, talk about Spielberg's Fablemans, Super/Man Christopher Reeves documentary, Superman Legacy

01:06:45 Z+B What one and done original movie would Zaki make?

01:07:30 Z+B Brian living childhood dream of working on Star Wars property, naming character after Zaki's daughter

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ZakisCorner.com Watch Brian Hall penned eps of Young Jedi Adventures on Disney+

https://video.disney.com/watch/full-episode-s1-e1-star-wars-young-jedi-adventures-5ffc080161535ebd6b4f2a72

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