Cinematic Breadcrumbs

This week your host Elise Hernke watched Chloe Zhao’s “Hamnet” (2025) starring Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal. Based on the novel of the same name, this follows the famous William Shakespeare up until the writing of his tragedy “Hamlet” but largely from  the perspective of his family who he leaves behind in the countryside in order to pursue his writing career. 

It’s a sweeping, breathtaking and heart wrenching narrative about love, loss and man’s connection to each other through art and their connection to themselves through nature. 

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On this weeks episode of Cinematic Breadcrumbs podcast, your host Elise Hernke reflects on the lessons we learn about love from a very Albert Brooksian afterlife in the movie “Eternity” (2025). Starring Elizabeth Olson, Miles Teller and Callum Turner, with Da’Vine Joy Randolph and John Early, David Freynes new movie is about a woman who gets to the afterlife and has to choose between her first husband who died in the war and her second with whom she built a whole life. 

It’s an a24 comedy with heart. It’s tender but never saccharine and reflects on the meaning of love and the meaning of life in really valid ways. 

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This week your host Elise Hernke talks about the new Yorgos Lanthimos joint “Bugonia” (2025) starring some of his favorites, Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons, about two conspiracy theorists who kidnap a high powered CEO because they believe she’s an alien. Brilliant!

In this episode, we discuss how the Internet and all of its subgroups have given dark radicals a platform to capture the attention of vulnerable people (like incels and groupers). And what finding community online rather than in-person combined with the algorithms generating individual echo chambers for each user has done to us as a human race. What would the aliens think?! 

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Elise Hernke (your host) is back on the internet with a new podcast episode and new format because I am inspired! We will be walking around the neighborhood as I voicenote you my thoughts on a recent watch. 

This week it’s Lynne Ramsey’s “Die, My Love” (2025) starring Jennifer Lawrence alongside Robert Pattinson. It’s a visceral rabbit hole into the world of postpartum psychosis and Lawrence gives a thrilling, animalistic, guttural and intense performance I think we’ve seen yet and SHE WAS “SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK!!!” (If you are my one follower on X, ne Twitter, during the pandemic, you know what that movie means to me). I talk about motherhood, regretting motherhood (a book I recently read) and depicting depression on-screen. 

Also, my chihuahua Vinny gets in multiple tussles on our walk because her normally quiet ass loves to steal the show. 

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This week since your host Elise Hernke spent all of her free time catching up on the highly bingeable dating show Love Island (USA), this weeks episode exchanges movie history for a little pop culture & we are talking about the show. 

In this episode, you can expect a breakdown of why this is the best dating show on television, what has happened so far, speculations and comments about all of the Islanders so far, predictions about what will happen next and general thoughts and ramblings about the show. Listen before tonights episode: ITS CASA AMOUR!!!!! 

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Celine Song's follow-up to her beloved "Past Lives" stars Dakota Johnson, Chris Evans and Pedro Pascal in a rom-com about the commodification of modern love, "Materialists." The film had a lot of promise, especially considering who was cast, but it falls short of packing a real punch. In this weeks episode, your host Elise Hernke breaks down what didn't work, but also dissects some of interesting themes that the film presents. 

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No show notes this week -- just my thoughts :) 

This week your host Elise Hernke makes a case for the movie "Opus" (2025) directed by former GQ editor Mark Anthony Green, starring Ayo Edibiri, John Malcovich, Murray Bartlett and Juliette Lewis. The a24 "horror musical" got buried after receiving less than stellar reviews on the festival circuit. But it's actually pretty good! In this episode, we discuss why you should give it a chance, but speculate as to why people didn't seem to like it. 

Also in this episode, we talk about "Overcompensating" a new show on Amazon Prime and some other media updates. 

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Opus Links:

• "Opus" Trailer
• Dina, Simone - Song by "Alfred Moretti" 
• Tomorrow - Song by "Alfred Moretti" 

This week we talk all things the new Ryan Coogler masterpiece, "Sinners" (2025), starring Michael B. Jordan as both Smoke and Stack. It is a movie about vampires in the Jim Crow South, it is about the transcendent power of the blues and it is an undeniable hit. 

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Further reading/sources:

• https://thesource.com/2025/04/23/fans-call-out-media-for-questionable-coverage-of-sinners-massive-box-office-success/
• https://www.blackenterprise.com/variety-criticized-for-sinners-coverage/ 
• https://www.mensjournal.com/entertainment/ben-stiller-pushes-back-on-sinners-box-office-narrative-in-viral-tweet 
• https://www.salon.com/2025/04/26/the-smash-success-of-sinners-could-shift-hollywoods-power-balance/ 
• https://www.vulture.com/article/to-hollywood-the-scariest-part-of-sinners-is-ryan-coogler.html 

Happy 20th Anniversary to Joe Wright's BEWITCHING film, "Pride and Prejudice" (2005) starring Keira Knightley, Matthew Macfayden, Rosamund Pike, Carey Mulligan, Jena Malone, and Donald Sutherland, who seamlessly take on the iconic roles as Austen wrote them. I just love this movie. 

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"Companion" (2025) is "Barbarian" creator Drew Hancock's latest horror comedy treat. A perfect date night movie, it follows a girl who goes to a cabin weekend with her boyfriends friend group that goes horribly awry. Falling somewhere between 2011's "You're Next" and the masterful 2014 "Ex Machina," "Companion" explores gender politics, the ethics of technology and modern love. 

I also talk Met Gala 2025 & what I've been reading lately. 

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Relevant links:

• First Monday in May documentary
• Rihanna, Laura Harrier, Khabane Lame, Mindy Kaling, Janelle Monae
• Interview with Sophie Thatcher & Jack Quaid
• NBP Episode on Companion
• Pop Culture HH Episode on Companion