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Sunday Dec 15, 2019
Sunday Dec 15, 2019
This week, funnily accented detectives gather everyone in the drawing room to hear who the real killer is in both Knives Out (Rian Johnson, 2019) and Murder on the Orient Express (Sydney Lumet, 1974).
PLUS, we're giving our recommendations about some of the best stuff on Disney+ !
Title music is "Life Story" by Kevin Hairs. Learn more here: https://kevinhairs.bandcamp.com/releases
Monday Dec 02, 2019
Monday Dec 02, 2019
This week, two films that look at the impossibility of human partnership & the inevitability of breakups. Happy holidays! It's Marriage Story (Noah Baumbach, 2019) and Scenes From a Marriage (Ingmar Bergman, 1974).
Tuesday Nov 19, 2019
Tuesday Nov 19, 2019
This week, two movies about love, betrayal, and organized labor: The Irishman (2019) and On The Waterfront (1954).
Sunday Nov 03, 2019
Sunday Nov 03, 2019
This week, we've finally gotten to the part of the year when good movies come out, so we're doing TWO new movies! Crazy, I know. It's Robert Egger's The Lighthouse and Taika Waititi's Jojo Rabbit.
Also discussed on this episode: Asako I & II (2018, Ryusuke Hamaguchi), The Grand Illusion (Jean Renoir, 1937), Stalag 17 (Billy Wilder, 1953), Spider Man: Far From Home, and Shazam
Monday Oct 21, 2019
Monday Oct 21, 2019
This week, we're tackling two great films from Director Bong, South Korean auteur Bong Joon-ho. Parasite (2019), winner of the Palm d'Or and, and Bong's 2006 American breakthrough, The Host.
Title music is "Life Story" by Kevin Hairs. Learn more here: https://kevinhairs.bandcamp.com/releases
Monday Oct 07, 2019
Monday Oct 07, 2019
This week, we're talking about the depressingly successful new Todd Phillips movie Joker and the film it more or less directly copied, Martin Scorsese's brilliant 1983 King of Comedy.
Title music is "Life Story" by Kevin Hairs. Learn more here: https://kevinhairs.bandcamp.com/releases
Monday Sep 23, 2019
Monday Sep 23, 2019
This week, we're talking about One Cut of the Dead (2018), the inventive meta-zombie film that took Japan by storm (and made 1000x its budget), and Dawn of the Dead (1978), the movie that changed our idea of zombies forever.
Title music is "Life Story" by Kevin Hairs. Learn more here: https://kevinhairs.bandcamp.com/releases
Monday Sep 09, 2019
Monday Sep 09, 2019
This week, it's two films about the deadly games rich people play: Ready or Not (2019) and The Game (2017). It's the absolute depth of summer, nothing's out, relax in some A/C with us.
Title music is "Life Story" by Kevin Hairs. Learn more here: https://kevinhairs.bandcamp.com/releases
Monday Aug 26, 2019
Monday Aug 26, 2019
This week, it's two harrowing movies from women writer/directors about sexual violence: The Nightengale, Jennifer Kent's follow-up to The Babadook; and Revenge, the debut feature from French filmmaker Coralie Fargeat. Warning: show contains discussions of these topics.
Title music is "Life Story" by Kevin Hairs. Learn more here: https://kevinhairs.bandcamp.com/releases
Monday Aug 12, 2019
Monday Aug 12, 2019
This week we're talking about Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood (2019) and Once Upon a Time in the West (1969). They've got more in common than their names!
Title music is "Life Story" by Kevin Hairs. Learn more here: https://kevinhairs.bandcamp.com/releases