Clearing The Q
Join Hosts Mike and Zak on a journey through the fabulous, whimsical, and sometimes demented world of Film making. Explore movies that you may or may not have heard of with two opinionated indie filmmakers who have no shortage of opinions about the craft. Clearing the Q is a conversation about movies, with people who live and breath them. A proud new addition to the Nerd Camp Network, brought to you by the DIY gumption of the Clearing the Q Youtube Channel and our friends from the Camp Nightmare Podcast.
Episodes
113 episodes
Episode 113: In Bruges
This month the boys are talking Martin McDonagh so it's only appropriate that we kick things off with In Bruges. When a contract kill goes awry, two Irish hitmen hide out in Bruges to await instruction from the man who hired them. On paper it s...
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Episode 113
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Episode 112: What are we Watching? (Deuce Juice)
This week the boys have a lot to say about some movies they saw in theaters recently! First up we Talk about the much anticipated Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, and try not to gush too hard. Second, Zak talks about an awkward coming age tale Didi. Th...
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Season 4
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Episode 112
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Episode 111: Good Time
When a bank Robbery gone wrong lands his mentally challenged brother in the Slammer, Connie Nikals descends into the depths of desperation and depravity to find a way to make it right. The audience looks on in horror at the increasingly poor de...
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Episode 111
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Episode 110: What are we Watching? (I Don't Need to Feel More)
This Week Mike and Zak share their thoughts on the new Alien Romulus movie, the Neon backed horror movie Cuckoo, and the celebrated Jim Henson: Idea Man Documentary now available for streaming on the Disney Plus. Tune in Next Week for a Much be...
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Episode 109: Midsommar
After Dani loses her entire family in a tragic murder suicide she joins her boyfriend and his classmates on a trip to an isolated community in Sweden where they practice a pagan ritual known as Midsommar. At first things seem to be going very w...
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Season 3
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Episode 109
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Episode 108: What are we Watching? (MataDora the Explora)
This week the Boys are Joined by Elena Muruato to share her thoughts on Twisters, Deadpool and Wolverine, the Boogeyman, 2046, No Country for Old Men, Do the Right Thing, and more possibly because things kinda go all over the place on this one!...
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Episode 108
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Episode 107: A.I.
It's NOT a movie about Steak Sauce! it's the movie that Stanley Kubrick planned to make but unfortunately he passed away before production could begin. So Steven Spielberg stepped in to see that his friend's final vision could come to fruition....
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Episode 106: What are we Watching? (Manic, Satanic, and Full of Panic)
Today we've got some things to get off our chest about some very interesting and decisive movies. We get things off the ground with our thoughts on Longlegs, then shift gears a bit to cover how we felt about Maxxxine. Then Zak gushes a little o...
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Season 3
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Episode 106
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Episode 105: 2001: A Space Odyssey
A Story of how on three separate occasions intelligent alien life had attempted to make contact, or influence man's evolutionary development. The film explores outer space almost as much as it does inner space, casting an introspective eye on h...
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Season 3
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Episode 105
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Episode 104: What are we Watching? (So many Emotions)
Mike and Zak have been talking talkin about movies for SO LONG and they're getting all emotional about it! this episode they cover Inside Out 2, the Bikeriders, and Kinds of Kindness. As Always: tune in next week for a much better episode. ...
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Episode 103: The Holy Mountain
It’s a classic counterculture arthouse tilt-a-whirl of a feature length film, and whether you love it or hate it, you cannot deny its impact on cinema and art of the ensuing decades. What can be said about this movie that hasn’t already been sa...
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Season 3
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Episode 103
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Episode 102: What are we Watching? (Max Attacks)
Recurring guest on the podcast Max Minkowitz fill in for Zak this week for a very fun and tangential edition of the Clearing the Q Podcast. Max gets the ball rolling with his thoughts on Big Trouble, Little China, before Mike expounds upon his ...
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Season 3
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Episode 102
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1:09:43
Episode 101: What are we Watching? (Dry Takes)
Today we start things off with a little chat about Paul Verhoeven's Showgirls, and then Paul Verhoeven's Starship Troopers. Then we talk a little bit about Lisztomania, and we wrap things up with more talk about Mad Max Fury Road. Nothing From ...
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Episode 101
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Episode 100: Highlander
Connor MacLeod discovers that he is an immortal being when he survives a fatal wound during his first battle in the scottish highlands and is outcasted by his clan. He is then confronted and trained by a fellow immortal being in the ways of how...
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Season 3
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Episode 100
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Episode 99: What are we Watching? (Apocalypse Wow)
Mike and Zak have had 99 whole episodes worth of opinions y'all. Today they're gonna talk at you about Furiosa and the Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes. That's it. That's the whole thing folks.
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Season 3
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Episode 99
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Episode 98: Sound & Fury
What happens when a muscle car driving samurai takes on the two war criminals responsible for killing their family in an apocalyptic wasteland? If you said a sexy dance number with robot minions, gassed up topless Geisha, and blindfolded muscle...
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Season 3
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Episode 98
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1:30:22
Episode 97: What are we Watching? (Apes and Angst)
Mike is hung up on the planet of the apes movies, and Zak wants to talk about Zendaya and Detective Pikachu (the actor, not the movie) This one goes hard.
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Season 3
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Episode 97
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1:06:18
Episode 96: Redline
Racing is without a doubt the most popular sport in the galaxy, and it all comes down to one remarkably dangerous circuit called the REDLINE. Join a cast of drivers so eclectic that they Wacky racers of hana-bar-bara a run for their money, as t...
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Episode 96
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Episode 95: What are we Watching? (STFUD)
This Week Mike and Zak are back talking about what they’ve been putting their eyeballs on lately, keeping it loose and playing it fast. We get things going with a little chat about Civil War, and then roll on to Zak’s thoughts on Hundreds of Be...
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Season 3
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Episode 95
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1:11:34
Episode 94: What are we Watching? (Kong gets Fisted)
Mike and Zak are overjoyed to welcome back to the podcast recurring guest Max Minkowitz to talk about stuff he's been putting his eyeballs on. We get things rolling with our thoughts on Late night with the Devil, then move on to Monkey Man, bef...
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Season 3
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Episode 94
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Episode 93: Monkeybone
When Cartoonist Stu Miley ends up in a coma he is transported to nightmarish limbo realm where comes face to face with the embodiment of his own creation, the horny and bombastic Monkeybone. The two embark on a mission to return Stu's trapped...
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Season 3
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Episode 93
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Episode 92: What are we Watching? (Wish I was a Lesbian)
This week's what are we watching Mike and Zak share their feelings about Love Lies Bleeding, the Problemista, Perfect Days, and the American Society of Magical Negros. All these movies are worth a watch, but some more than others, listen to fin...
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Season 3
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Episode 92
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Episode 91: Brazil
Sam Lowry never aspired to anything greater than the simple banality of a job in the records department, until a promotion to the Information requisitions department could put him in touch with the literal woman of his dreams. In the cold and u...
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Season 3
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Episode 91
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1:56:21
Episode 90: What are we Watching? (Only Tepid Takes)
Today the boys Start with a big ol gush over the new Dune Movie, then Zak talks up the Netflix series House of Ninjas before Mike brings us home with a scathing review of Argyle. Nothing but Tepid takes this week folks.
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Season 3
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Episode 90
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56:08
Episode 89: Bringing Out the Dead
Frank Pierce is a man haunted by the Ghosts of his past. Making a living as an EMT in New York during the 90s, Frank struggles to find ways to cope with the highs and the lows of a job that he cannot quit or get fired from. This dark and oddly ...
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Season 3
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Episode 89
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1:56:28