Unspooled

For two years, actor Paul Scheer and critic Amy Nicholson worked their way through the American Film Institute’s 100 Greatest Movies List (2007 edition), spending an hour-plus on each film. They described it, contextualized it, pondered it, and even brought in people who worked on it or studied it to discuss it. Then they asked themselves (and their large, vocal fanbase) whether the film should stay on the AFI list, or be booted. In the end, they posted a list of the  Top 40 films of the API , or Amy and Paul Institute. (Don’t worry,  Citizen Kane  is still number one.) For season two, they took a similar approach — wildly entertaining conversations about really great movies — but started building a new list from scratch. Each mini-season — with titles like “Fucked Up Family Films” and “Back to School” — consists of a handful of episodes that explore a certain theme. Now they can revisit older films that didn’t make the cut in 2007 ( Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, Frankenstein ) as well as modern classics like  Dazed and Confused  that weren’t even considered. In the end, they plan to collect their all-time top 100 movies (some from the first season, some from this one) and shoot them into space — if only SpaceX will call them