Frame Work

By Al Schwartz, John BernhardTV & Film

Frame Work episodes

September 08, 2021 The Suicide Squad
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James Gunn tries to bring some Troma energy to superhero hijinks, and the guys are sort of here for it, but a little lukewarm? We try to figure out if that is because vulgar violent superhero excess has become ground too well-trodden to be shocked by, or because Gunn himself has done better versions of similar material, or he is operating within the fundamentally compromised DCEU, or it's just part of Getting Old.

43 min
September 01, 2021 Finch Club - MANK
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Joon is back, Al is cranky, Gary Oldman is miscast, and our journey through the David Fincher filmography is complete.
51 min
August 25, 2021 BEST OF THE MCU pt 2
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In which we talk up our personal favorite entries that fell off the consensus Best list.
1 hr 4 min
August 18, 2021 BEST OF THE MCU
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Joon Kim drops out of a sky portal to help the guys make a definitive (sure, why not?) ranking of the ongoing megalith that is the MCU. In this installment, we talk throught our consensus top 5 of this genre-unto-itself, while next week will feature us each stumping for a personal choice that did not make the cut.
1 hr 19 min
August 11, 2021 THE LAST JEDI
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The guys welcome Brett Blake to the podcast in order to finally put to bed all the controversy surrounding the Star Wars sequel trilogy to bed. It is mostly a reasonable, civil discussion of differing philosophies on the meaning and handling of franchise IP in the streaming era, that may eventually take a hard swerve into all advocating for the genocide of all septuagenarians. So business as usual?
1 hr 39 min
August 04, 2021 Finch Club - Mindhunter
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Fincher goes streaming by returning and refining his preoccupation with serial killers into potentially the final word on the subject, the two season wonder MINDHUNTER. The guys are into this one.
1 hr 22 min
July 28, 2021 TV SET - I Think You Should Leave
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The guys just talk about Tim Robinson's oddball sketch show I THINK YOU SHOULD LEAVE for an hour. It's fun.
53 min
July 21, 2021 Black Widow and the Loki finale
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Can a movie set 4 years ago qualify as a period piece? Is Hawkeye ugly? How much damage can your hero shrug off before the entire onscreen world falls apart? What is a Kang? These questions and more are not-quite answered in today's exciting installment.
1 hr 35 min
July 06, 2021 TV SET- Marvel's LOKI
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Joon Kim returns to yak about the LOKI show on Disney+, the unique challenges it meets with aplomb, its perfunctory action scenes and sublime Owen Wilson presence, how it stacks up against prior Marvel shows and finally a group therapy session to process anxiety at the daunting deluge of Marvel content to come.
1 hr 17 min
June 30, 2021 Favorite Comedy Villains
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We're talking all our favorite snobs, bullies, sex pests, bureaucrats, supervillains and...golfers?

1 hr 20 min