Back Row Seating

Right off the heels of a Cannes Grand Prix win, I was instantly intrigued by a "supernatural romantic drama" film such as this. Add in a dash of foreign film, a bit of cinematography gold, and you have a recipe for this podcast! Let's check out Mati Diop's interesting romp through Senegal, and find out a bit about the Atlantic Ocean, maybe!

Ladies and gentlemen! It's guilty pleasure time! While I'm no stranger to musicals, and quite love the genre in general, Moulin Rouge! just slaps in a magically delirious wave of magnificence that just tugs at my ears as well as my heartstrings. The colors, the music, the cinematography, the oddly questionable editing decisions- I'm here for all of it, and I hope you'll join me on this romp through Montmartre.

Yeah, baby, yeah! We're back, once again, with Fusionfall84 to take our next step through the Austin Powers cinematic universe! This film has long been a staple on my list of favorite comedy films, and given the chilly reception of the first film, perhaps this one will be more to Fusion's liking! I mean, why wouldn't it be? It has mojo, stool samples, kamikaze fembots, Big Boy, product placement, Southern California, and "lasers"!

Few films have left a mark on my child-brain quite like Matilda. Borne from the hallowed halls of the Kelly Bros. children's theater, this film contains more than a couple scenes that terrified me as a kid, so it's time to revisit it and discover what the heck was wrong with me growing up! #BruceLife #ChocolateBoi

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I've been waiting for this film for quite some years, and after catching it in theaters, I have quite a lot to say about it! We've already checked out one of Hosoda's previous film, Summer Wars, but many are calling his latest film his magnum opus. Do I agree? and where does it rank on my all-time list of Hosoda flicks? Spoiler alert: the music is phenomenal, and the visuals are otherworldly. Let's ascend to the world of U, and experience the newest vibrant world from Studio Chizu!

With Moon Knight on the horizon, best to re-acquaint myself with one of my favorite Oscar Isaac roles, and perhaps his first that I ever had the opportunity to see! Not only is the acting good, but this is a Coen Brothers film, so expect plenty of dark humor, wonderful cinematography, and a cat- oh, and plenty of folk music, because this will be a watershed moment in your musical tastes.

Red pandas are wonderful, cute, adorable, fun, hormonal, confusing, and a natural part of growing up. This film seeks to explore that, so we will also explore such things! I've been excited for this movie for a while, not just because of cuteness, but also the representation of an Chinese-Canadian story being told through the lens of Domee Shi, who must be in my peer group because I'm seeing shades of my own childhood and growing up learning how to tame the panda. Hopefully my excitement is well-warranted!

My list of favorite Pixar films is rather short; however, the films that top the list are in heavy contention with one another. Although, WALL-E has a definitive step ahead in that it's just about art in its presentation of an animated film- and it doesn't even have dialogue for nearly half the film! So let's re-watch it and check back in on this childhood classic of mine; I can't imagine I'll think any less of it: I mean, it has clobberin' robots, TLC show premises, baller moves, M-O!, "Feel ya, bro" moments, and Pokemon 'B' button mashing!

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Austin 'Danger' Powers has arrived! and Fusionfall84 is here to meet him for the first time! I've been watching these films since I was a child, when much of the humor resonated with me, but how will a grown man of the Swedish persuasion enjoy it? I mean, why wouldn't he like it? It has random tasks, miniature factories, lucky charms, Burt Bacharach, Carrie Fischer, and Swedish-made enlarger pumps! ...oh wait.

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Yooo! Let's relive one of my childhood favorites! Part action, part adventure, and all alt rock space opera, this film was rather instrumental to my storytelling brain even back when I was eight or nine years old, but does it stand up to modern scrutiny? Known mostly as the film that canned Fox's Animation Studios, it was a commercial failure at its time, but certainly it deserves more, right? I mean, it has badass women, father-son bonding rock numbers between non-father-son dudes, Bob, all the ketchup we want, fantasy science, and kangaroo birds!