Memento's a perfect example - I found out a ton of stuff about it going through it for the Cinephile Series that I didn't even know. When you sit down and really start to study a film - rather than just seeing a film and walking out of the theater and talking about it over a cup of coffee - you're really going to start to put the pieces in place, because you're spending some time with it.

EB: That DVD was a puzzle and a huge treasure trove in itself, as I remember.

MG: Yeah. In fact, one of the things I tried to do in that [podcast] was to give instructions to get the movie to play in order. And just other things: finally putting the film together to make sure all the scenes make sense: black and white and color and how they all line up.

The neat thing for me - as much as people seem to enjoy what I'm doing - is that I'm the guy that's getting the biggest kick out of this whole thing. I get to really find out more about the films that I'm passionate about.

Sometimes I'm asked by reporters why I never pan a film. Well, we started off calling it Reel Reviews, but it's really more like "Reel Recommendations." And that's why I have the tagline, "Films Worth Watching." Since they're my movies, and I've got to talk about them, why pick something that's no good? I pick the films that I want to see, and that I want to talk about.

EB: Let me ask you a couple of movie-related questions. What kind of era do you think we're in for movies right now, and the sort of related question is: what would you consider to be the best era for films?

MG: Well, I'm 36. My favorite films come out of the early to mid-70s. It's that kind of golden era where you had Robert Evans at Paramount, and some great directors, with [Francis Ford] Coppola coming out, Scorsese's really starting to put some things together. And so those films from maybe even the very late 60s through the mid- to late-70s. There's just a treasure trove of great films in there.

We've actually done a lot of them. The first film I ever did was a Peckinpah film, The Getaway. I just did Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia. We just did Apocalypse Now. We've done Patton, which was around 1970 or so, so we've done a ton of films in there.

I'm answering the end of your question first. Pretty much across the board, there's always some good films here and there. I really think though that Hollywood got in this thing where the studio structure hadn't totally ruined everything yet and there were some fresh voices available. Now, there are so many complicated decisions and so much of an investment involved in film. It's starting to become so calculated, that I usually find a lot of the more interesting films are some of the smaller stuff that bubbles to the top.