Filmmaker Ari Aster trades haunted houses for the high desert in Eddington, his darkly comic modern Western starring Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Emma Stone and Austin Butler. Saddle up for Popcorn Podcast's no-spoiler ride through the film’s absurd paranoia, pandemic politics and small-town power plays. From Phoenix’s quietly explosive sheriff to Pascal’s scene-stealing mayor, to Aster’s sharp satire on a world obsessed with optics (and toilet paper), we're spilling laughs and hot takes.

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