Cinema Shrinks

Join us this summer blockbuster season as we discuss the career of Steven Spielberg and the complicated family drama that informed it, culminating in the autobiographical film The Fabelmans. We also talk about the convoluted plots of Hook and The Terminal, and learn how Jim almost got into a fight at a movie theater during Lincoln.

Music credits: Royalty Free Music - Old Hollywood - No Copyright Music - Audio Bazar

Get full on with Jim and Paige in their 25th(!) episode, discussing weird bikes and midwestern love triangles in the HBO limited series, DTF St. Louis

Warning: This episode includes discussions about self harm.

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Become whole with Jim and Paige as they discuss all the things avoidant attached people will do besides therapy in the 2025 Dave Franco/Alison Brie body horror film, Together.

WARNING: FULL SPOILER DISCUSSION

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Happy Holidays! Join Jim and Paige as they discuss the true holiday classic, Eyes Wide Shut. Topics include: high society sex cults (obviously), what "hot wife" means (according to Paige), and what really is at the end of the rainbow.

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Join Jim & Paige as they explore love triangles in the afterlife in the new A24 romantic(ish) comedy(?) Eternity.

Disclaimer: We mention it pretty late in the episode, but this is a spoiler filled discussion, as usual.

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Play hide n' seek with Jim and Paige as they try to find meaning in crazy nepo families and questionable traditions in the 2019 horror comedy, Ready or Not.

Music by ⁠⁠⁠⁠Kyrylo Momot⁠⁠⁠⁠ from ⁠⁠⁠⁠Pixabay⁠⁠⁠⁠ No Copyright Music.

Join Jim and Paige as they discuss small town drama,1800's love triangles, and the live action Super Mario Bros. movie for some reason,  as they cover the 2004 M. Night Shyamalan MASTERPIECE (fight me), The Village.

Music by ⁠⁠Kyrylo Momot⁠⁠ from ⁠⁠Pixabay⁠⁠ No Copyright Music.

Join Jim and Paige as they discuss the murky waters of testosterone fueled relationships and try to juggle Paul Rudds  in Friendship (2024) and I love you, man.

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Jim and Paige are back to discuss heights, hairlines, and satin sheets in the 2025 romantic drama, Materialists.

Listener warning: This episode contains brief discussions of sexual assault

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Join Jim and Paige as they talk sex work, Russians, and the difference between documentaries and fiction while examining the 2024 Oscar Darling, Anora (and a rant or two about The Florida Project).

Warning: the episode contains discussions of sexual assault.

Music credits: Royalty Free Music - Old Hollywood - No Copyright Music - Audio Bazar