After a short week, Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy double-up on the movie reviews this week with eight titles. They include a documentary about a “ballhawk” (Zack Hample vs. the World) and one about a type of restaurant that does not exist anymore (The Automat). Justin Kurzel’s new film gets to the root of mental illness in a real-life Australian tragedy (Nitram) and a witch learns about life wearing the skins of different people (You Won’t Be Alone). Richard Linklater explores life (notably his) around the space program in 1969 (Apollo 10 ½: A Spade Age Childhood) and Judd Apatow takes a satiric stab at making an action franchise at the height of the pandemic (The Bubble). Finally then there is a Chris Pine thriller that was completed back in 2019 (The Contractor) and the five-time delayed Sony Marvel tale that added at least one more critic to the lambast pile (Morbius).

 

0:00 - Outro

4:54 – Zack Hample vs. the World

14:56 – The Automat

27:01 – Nitram

34:37 – You Won’t Be Alone

43:54 – Apollo 10 ½: A Space Age Childhood

54:11 – The Bubble

1:06:52 – The Contractor

1:16:50 - Morbius

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