Auguste brings back Senior Editor and film critic Tony Juarez to discuss a few recent movies and a few not-so-recent ones. They begin with an extended conversation of The Running Man with Glen Powell, a reboot of the sci-fi action flick in the 80s with Arnold Schwarzenegger. Even the proud Gen Xer Tony had some reservations about this movie, though he acknowledges the admirable attempt to stay true to the source material. For his part, Auguste has finally given up on Glen Powell and thinks he just can’t hack it as a leading man. They also talk about Good Boy, a horror film told from a dog’s perspective, and Sketch, a indie film that is well-done, family-friendly, and actually watchable. Finally, Auguste rants about the horrific AI-slop that is A Minecraft Movie yet gives praise to the progressively smug but surprisingly good American Fiction. Altogether this has been a weird, mostly bad year for movies, but neither man is ready to declare that the art form altogether dead. The last of the woke just needs to be cycled out.

Articles referenced in this episode:

- “A Dystopian Tale Comes of Age: A Review of ‘The Running Man’” by Tony Juarez

- “A Dog’s Tale of Terror: A (Spoiler Free) Review of ‘Good Boy’” by Tony Juarez

- “Healing the Monsters of the Id: A Review of the Film ‘Sketch’” by Tony Juarez

- “How ‘Frankenstein’ was turned into a woke parable — and missed the real horror” by Auguste Meyrat

- “The Cynical In-Joke of ‘American Fiction’” by Alex Perez

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