The Establishing Shot

The Establishing Shot

Not your typical movie review podcast! The Establishing Shot centers around deep dives into the filmographies of directors, covering their films episode by episode. This is not just about reviewing their movies but looking deeper at what influences, themes, and filmmaking techniques are used across a director's body of work. Join me and my array of guest hosts as we give you an establishing shot of these directors and their films along with fun segments like movie news, movie drafts, bad movie of the week, and recommendations of the week!

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Science Gone Wrong Movie Draft (w/ Christiaan Funkhouser)
Oct. 11, 2024

Science Gone Wrong Movie Draft (w/ Christiaan Funkhouser)

Sometimes science goes all wrong, and sometimes that happens in movies! This week we do a draft of our favorite movies where some sort of scientific endeavor goes all wrong, whether technological, biological, or sometimes bo…
Jurassic Park (w/ Christiaan Funkhouser)
Oct. 4, 2024

Jurassic Park (w/ Christiaan Funkhouser)

In 1993, Steven Spielberg once again awed audiences by giving them something they had never seen so real before on the big screen: dinosaurs. With Jurassic Park, he started what would turn out to be one of the greatest movie…
Disney & Pixar Villains Draft (w/ Colby Ewert)
Sept. 27, 2024

Disney & Pixar Villains Draft (w/ Colby Ewert)

We follow up our discussion of Spielberg’s Hook with a semi-related Disney Villains Draft! Disney fan Colby Ewert joins me to go back and forth picking our favorite villains from Disney and Pixar films. We compiled some grea…
Hook (w/ Colby Ewert)
Sept. 20, 2024

Hook (w/ Colby Ewert)

With Hook, Spielberg was beginning a new decade of filmmaking, but this adventure movie that acts as a twist on a classic tale really marks the end of a particular phase in his career. This film was a huge deal at the time, …
Movie Decades Draft (Rerun w/ Jacob Phillips)
Sept. 13, 2024

Movie Decades Draft (Rerun w/ Jacob Phillips)

Which movie decades are the best? We are doing a rerun of our very first movie draft from our first episode this week! In this first movie draft, we took turns taking movie decades, trying to amass the best group of decades.…
A Spielberg Intermission (70s-80s Recap & 90s-00s Preview)
Sept. 6, 2024

A Spielberg Intermission (70s-80s Recap & 90s-00s Preview)

For this intermission in our Spielberg series, we take a look back at his career thus far, analyzing his career of the 1970s and 1980s overall. Then we discuss the transition point Spielberg is in moving out of the 80s and i…
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Recent Blog Posts

Reviews of 2024 Oscar Nominations

Click the images below to see my reviews for these Oscar nominated films! Episode 35: 2024 Oscars Predictions & Best Films of 2023  

Review: Aftersun (2022)

How do we process our memories? How do we wrestle with who our loved ones really are? How do we deal with revelations about our past? This film is an incredible example of this processing, wrestling, engaging with our past and the ones we spent it w…

Review: Columbus (2017)

Asymmetrical, yet perfectly balanced.  This quote about one of the church buildings featured here is a perfect summation of the feel of this film. It is impeccably shot, and I was blown away by the way Kogonada uses the space to both captu…
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About the Host

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Eli Price

The Establishing Shot Creator and Host

I live in Lafayette, LA with my wife and two children where I work at a university college ministry. I have a Masters of Divinity specializing in Christian Apologetics from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. I am an avid cinephile who has a passion for helping others learn more about film, which is why I started The Establishing Shot podcast.