We're looking back at the best of 2021 -- shows we talked about on the podcast, and those we didn't (one guess which one of us saw more movies lol). Happy New Year! 

This time, it's two loose semi-sprawling good-time movies -- Licorice Pizza (2021) and After Hours (1985). 

This week, we're talking about Jane Campion's new film, the taught revisionist western The Power of the Dog (2021), and another film about dark psychosexual obsession in the Old West, The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford. 

This week, it's two sides of the same coin: Spener (2021) and The Queen (2006). 

How many inequality cannibal survival horror movies starring a 13-year-old have you seen? I'm at ... one. This week, it's Wes Craven's The People Under the Stairs.  

This week, it's two (spoiler alert!) very succesful adaptations of supposedly unfilmable nerd-classic books: Dune (2021) and The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001). 

This week, we're looking at the most recent movies by what I'm going to say without doing any research is the oldest living actor-director in the world: Clint Eastwood. It's Cry Macho (2021) and Richard Jewell (2019). 

This week, we're talking about two movies that get at the nature of what it means to share your life with another person, when that person might not really be a person at all -- I'm Your Man (2021) and Her (2013). 

This week, it's two strikingly similar movies from strikingly talented directors: The Card Counter (2021, Paul Schrader) and Hard Eight (1996, Paul Thomas Anderson). 

This week, we're doing the record-setting Sundance feel-good movie Coda (2021) and the Amazon feel-bad movie The Sound of Metal (2020). Two movies about music and hearing, this week!