A review of Janet Planet calls it "not a movie to be explained," and so this episode is more of the pondering/wandering variety. It's summer. We're here for it.
Cheryl's still working on her treatise, "A Unified Theory of Action Movies and Why They're Her Problematic Fave," but we get into some of its broader points after watching this adrenaline-fueled Arnold Schwarzenegger vehicle.
It started with a student story about phrogging. It ended with us watching a 20-year-old Korean movie that had us reflecting on class, small appliance repair, and the utter beauty of not talking.
This was (obviously) a heavy conversation. We covered the banality of evil, the ways we remember atrocity, familial protectionism, gradations of complicity, small acts of resistance, and the practice of viewing present-day horrors through the l
The chilly, cerebral courtroom thriller Anatomy of a Fall dares to ask -- Is marriage itself a complex exercise in litigation? (Follow-up question: Does blasting a 50 Cent song at eardrum-blasting volumes justify murder??)
Are kitchen appliances sexy? What does bisexual lighting mean in 2023? We're asking the tough questions, folks. Our instigator - Please Baby Please, a movie so campy it should come with its own three-person tent.
In the first minute of this episode, Joe called May December "a banger." Let me be clear - this movie is not "a banger." But it made us feel weird and unsettled and disturbed and maybe that's ... good ...?
We didn’t expressly set out to do it, but we took a stance on Barbenheimer and watched Oppenheimer first. We had sooooo many things to say about this movie about a war criminal feeling bad for his crimes (bomb-and-cry). It was late but we were
We're back and we watched The Blackening and had a lot of fun talking about why this horror-comedy / comedy-horror worked. Turns out -- you need good writing and good performances to make a good movie. Easy. Also, Joe reveals a secret! As alway
We get real loopy talking about the zany Filipino meta-action movie, Leonor Will Never Die, and somehow get on a tangent about our love for Star Trek because, well, the heart wants what it wants. Thanks to slfhlp for providing us some SICK BEAT
Roll for initiative and grab your arcane spells — we watched Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, and we got all chaotic neutral with it. Thanks to slfhlp for providing us some SICK BEATS for our intro and outro. Get in touch with Joe & Che
It's 1984 but it's also 2023 and we're afraid of dying and fumbling our way to survival and it's goofy and tender with an airborne toxic event still keeping us up at night.
After a looooong hiatus, we're (finally!) back. And we missed you. We watched Triangle of Sadness, one of the more recent iterations of the increasingly popular eat-the-rich theme, and talked all about representations of class struggle, villian
Vesper is viscous, gooey, slipshod, and visceral. Ferny plants shoot lethal, glowing pink darts that burrow into you and turn into insects. Scavenging pilgrims build rubbish towers high into the sky. A floating orb holds the consciousness of a