"I'm here to reap souls and eat peanut butter, and I'm all out of peanut butter!" says Brad Pitt as Death as he shows up at Anthony Hopkins's door, shortly before macking on his vacant-eyed daughter and mocking old Jamaican ladies. Or something like that. Leigh, Brendan, and Chris pour some classy cocktails and sit through all three hours of this ponderous meditative slog, then discuss the source material, what exactly the movie is trying to say, and why the hell it's so damned long. At the end of it all, the most important thing to remember is that this podcast is still only about 40% as long as the movie it discusses, and you can't beat a bargain like that. Continue reading →