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Writer-director Bo Burnham's EIGHTH GRADE explores the middle school experience through the eyes of Elsie Fisher's introverted teen, who worries that the disappointments of junior high will continue the next fall in high school.

Also, Mark Pfeiffer and Paul Markoff add to the Filmbound Canon, which are their personal collections of all-time great films released beginning in 1995. Mark selects Whit Stillman's 1998 comedy THE LAST DAYS OF DISCO starring Chloë Sevigny and Kate Beckinsale. Paul admires the silliness and weirdness of Gore Verbinski's RANGO.

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EIGHTH GRADE clip courtesy A24

THE LAST DAYS OF DISCO clip courtesy The Criterion Collection

RANGO clip courtesy Paramount Pictures

Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner

Recorded August 18, 2018.

Co-written by its two lead actors and directed by Carlos López Estrada, BLINDSPOTTING features Daveed Diggs trying to get through his last days of probation without Rafael Casal, as his best friend, getting him into additional trouble.

In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer enjoys the humor, drama, and romance in director Jon M. Chu's CRAZY RICH ASIANS, and Paul Markoff admires director John Lee Hancock's THE FOUNDER with Michael Keaton as the highly ambitious and ruthless businessman who transformed McDonald's into a dominant fast food chain.

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BLINDSPOTTING clip courtesy Lionsgate

CRAZY RICH ASIANS clip courtesy Warner Bros.

THE FOUNDER clip courtesy The Weinstein Company

Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner

Recorded August 18, 2018.

Tom Cruise's Ethan Hunt and his IMF team must recover three stolen plutonium cores before they are installed in portable nuclear weapons in writer-director Christopher McQuarrie's MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - FALLOUT.

Also, Jason Statham attempts to protect an ocean research team from a megalodon, a 70-foot shark thought to have been extinct for millions of years, in director Jon Turteltaub's THE MEG.

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MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - FALLOUT clip courtesy Paramount Pictures

THE MEG clip courtesy Warner Bros.

Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner

Recorded August 18, 2018.

Lakeith Stanfield is a telemarketer whose professional success comes at a price neither he nor his girlfriend, played by Tessa Thompson, could have ever imagined in the dystopian comedy SORRY TO BOTHER YOU from writer-director Boots Riley.

In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer enjoys The Beatles' animated trip to Pepperland in director George Dunning's YELLOW SUBMARINE, and Paul Markoff is intrigued by Jake Gyllenhaal meeting his doppelgänger in director Denis Villeneuve's ENEMY.

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SORRY TO BOTHER YOU clip courtesy Annapurna Pictures

YELLOW SUBMARINE clip courtesy Abramorama

ENEMY clip courtesy A24

Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner

Recorded July 21, 2018.

Dwayne Johnson plays a security expert who goes to extraordinary lengths to get into a burning Hong Kong building so he can save his family in writer-director Rawson Marshall Thurber's SKYSCRAPER.

Mark Pfeiffer and Paul Markoff also discuss movie ticket subscription services. (Note: this episode was recorded before recent developments regarding MoviePass.)

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SKYSCRAPER clip courtesy Universal Pictures

Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner

Recorded July 21, 2018.

Ben Foster and Thomasin McKenzie are a father and daughter living by choice in a Portland, Oregon park and trying to avoid detection in director and co-writer Debra Granik's LEAVE NO TRACE.

In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer finds an unlikely escape in Ol Parker's ABBA jukebox musical sequel MAMMA MIA! HERE WE GO AGAIN, and Paul Markoff has his heart warmed by director Morgan Neville's Fred Rogers documentary WON'T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR?

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LEAVE NO TRACE clips courtesy Bleecker Street Media

MAMMA MIA! HERE WE GO AGAIN courtesy Universal Pictures

WON'T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR? clip courtesy Focus Features

Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner

Recorded July 21, 2018.

Scott Lang's connection with Hope van Dyne's long-missing mother brings Paul Rudd and Evangeline Lilly together again in director Peyton Reed's ANT-MAN AND THE WASP as they work to rescue Janet van Dyne from the quantum realm.

Although they're not superheroes, Mark Pfeiffer and Paul Markoff also discuss their origin stories as movie lovers.

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ANT-MAN AND THE WASP clip courtesy Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner

Recorded July 21, 2018.

In director J.A. Bayona's JURASSIC WORLD: FALLEN KINGDOM Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, and their team work to save the dinosaurs from an imminent volcanic eruption and relocate the magnificent beasts to an island sanctuary, but others have more profitable destinations in mind for the creatures.

In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer selects FILMWORKER, director Tony Zierra's documentary about Stanley Kubrick's longtime assistant Leon Vitali. Paul Markoff picks DETROIT, director Kathryn Bigelow's intense drama depicting that city's 1967 riots.

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JURASSIC WORLD: FALLEN KINGDOM clip courtesy Universal Pictures

FILMWORKER clip courtesy Kino Lorber

DETROIT clip courtesy Annapurna Pictures

Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner

Recorded June 23, 2018.

A superhero family undergoes big changes when Elastigirl is recruited to restore the public's faith in those with special powers while Mr. Incredible stays home to tend to the kids in writer-director Brad Bird's INCREDIBLES 2.

Also, Zoey Deutch and Glen Powell are overworked corporate executive assistants who conspire to get their bosses, played by Lucy Liu and Taye Diggs, to fall in love so they can acquire some much-needed free time in director Claire Scanlon's romantic comedy SET IT UP.

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INCREDIBLES 2 clip courtesy Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

SET IT UP clip courtesy Netflix

Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner

Recorded June 23, 2018.

In writer-director Ari Aster's horror film HEREDITARY, Toni Collette stars as an artist struggling to cope with the death of her mother, with whom she had a fraught relationship, as well as the tension at home with Gabriel Byrne as her husband and Alex Wolff and Milly Shapiro as her two children.

In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer selects the unrestored 70mm print of Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY that is currently on tour. Paul Markoff chooses a journey of earthly indulgences with director Malcolm D. Lee's comedy GIRLS TRIP starring Regina Hall, Queen Latifah, Jada Pinkett Smith, and Tiffany Haddish.

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HEREDITARY clip courtesy A24

2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY clip courtesy Warner Bros.

GIRLS TRIP clip courtesy Universal Pictures

Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner

Recorded June 23, 2018.