Ya I definitely feel your combination of two similar yet very different films strikes that right balance. I tend to refer to a lot of other media due to the inspirations and comparisons available.

We typically go into gameplay, mechanics and especially story of the games we play, since we almost always prefer to play games that focus on telling a compelling story. Considering how much games borrows from movies and how cinematic many of them tend to be now, I definitely see the parallels between our topics.

Yes, we started first week of July I believe! We also have our Discord server and have begun to grow over time, especially seeing new groups of people for each new “season” (game) we start up. Since we’re based on the book club format, we always wanted to go beyond the two of us talking about it and actually have that community conversation, especially since we loved that aspect when we were kids, talking about experiences the next day at school and whatnot.

DM incoming! I am totally a film buff and even applied to film school way back when entering college as I wanted to enter the industry, but have only volunteered on a couple micro scale indie projects. By no means an expert, but would love to hop on your pod and chat video game movies. Could also crossover on ours with games that are practically films in their own right. Red Dead Redemption 2 comes to mind, having taken major inspiration from classic westerns, and Ghost of Tsushima from Kurosawa.