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Dan Brierly joins us to chat about Destin Daniel Cretton's achingly beautiful, Short Term 12. With topics including the career of Bri Larson, the decades most overlooked ensemble and nearly avoiding genre conventions
Michael Snydel (the film stage) joins us to unpack smoke-filled 70s neo-noir. Together trying to figure out why we don't see Joaquin Pheonix do more comedy, novelist Thomas Pynchon's absurdity and auteur diversity issues
In the penultimate episode of the best picture winners series, jack and clay talk about Peter Farrelly's road trip buddy comedy. With topics including the white savior movie, if Mahershala Ali is on autopilot here and James Gandolfini would work better in the role of Tony Vallelonga
Wes Muszynski (Film Daze, Simple Cinephile) returns to discuss Guillermo Del Toro's cold war fairytale. Topics including Michael Shannons villain type, Me Too's involvement with the 2018 race and the scores of Alexandre Desplat
Josh Bradley joins us for Barry Jenkins coming of age masterpiece. We chat about Florida movies, A24, 2017 Oscars and the serious contender of this being the cinematic achievement of the 2010s
Megan Brady (The Simple Cinephile) returns to talk Tom McCarthy's Spotlight and the real-life journalists that broke the church's pedophilia scandal. Together breaking down unexciting directing, avoiding self-parody and Mark Ruffalo's continuous streak of bad haircuts
Shea Vassar (Filmdaze, Zora) returns to talk about Alejandro González Iñárritu's meta deconstruction of an aging actor in Birdman. Together, breaking down Michael Keaton's versatility and long takes
Kyle Amato (Hawke Cast, Boston Hassle) joins us to unpack Steve McQueen's harrowing depiction of slavery and the overwhelming true story of Solomon Northup. Exploring the idea of if reachability hurts a movie, the career arc of Lupita Nyong'o and Oscar prejudice
Luke Larson (host of L-Squared podcast) returns to discuss Ben Affleck's foray into awards season, Argo. Is Affleck belong in directors jail? Was the good will hunting screenplay actually written by Damon and Affleck? Do we redeem Chris Terrio after viewing Rise of Skywalker?
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