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Two smart guys talk dumb about today's great films
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Dec 15, 2019
Dec 15, 2019
55 min
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
Dec 2, 2019
Dec 2, 2019
1hr 2 min
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).
Nov 19, 2019
Nov 19, 2019
57 min
This week, two movies about love, betrayal, and organized labor: The Irishman (2019) and On The Waterfront (1954).
Nov 3, 2019
Nov 3, 2019
52 min
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
Oct 21, 2019
Oct 21, 2019
56 min
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
Oct 7, 2019
Oct 7, 2019
1hr 4 min
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
Sep 23, 2019
Sep 23, 2019
51 min
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
Sep 9, 2019
Sep 9, 2019
51 min
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
Aug 26, 2019
Aug 26, 2019
55 min
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
Aug 12, 2019
Aug 12, 2019
1hr 2 min
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