Frame Work

By Al Schwartz, John BernhardTV & Film

Frame Work episodes

June 24 DISCLOSURE DAY
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In which, get this, there are aliens in a Spielberg movie!
1 hr 13 min
June 17 And Now For Something Completely Gilliam: THE MAN WHO KILLED DON QUIXOTE
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Gilliam's career comes to its likely close with a film with a film that somehow managed to be one of the hardest-fought triumphs in the history of film, and appropriately doomed to immediate obscurity.
1 hr
June 10 TV SET - THE WIRE SEASON FOUR
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School is back in session in Baltimore, as The Wire somehow completely reinvents itself without changing its stripes.
1 hr 14 min
June 03 And Now For Something Completely Gilliam: ZERO THEOREM
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In which Gilliam gets back to form, sorta, with this basically functional dystopian satire.
42 min
May 27 TV SET - THE WIRE SEASON THREE
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In which we have notes on a criminal f****ing conspiracy
1 hr 25 min
May 20 And Now For Something Completely Gilliam: THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS
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Look, it's really very simple. Heath Ledger is a suicidal fraud with amnesia and a magic pipe, who is also sometimes 3 other actors, and falls in with a medieval theater troupe in present-day London, where they operate as a front for an immortal, alcoholic monk with a post-graduate degree who uses a magical portal to Candyland to weigh human souls as a way to compulsively gamble his mortal dauther's life against the Christian Devil. You know, that old chestnut.
54 min
May 13 DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN, and How Trump Ruined Movies
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We reflect on Wilson Fisk's tenure as mayor of New York, and the ever-escalating difficulty of making genre stories that don't acknowledge the last ten years of politics.
1 hr 15 min
May 06 And Now For Something Completely Gilliam: TIDELAND
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Gwen Sisco returns to offer measured defense of possibly Gilliam's least-loved film.
51 min
April 29 The Bioware Omnibus - MASS EFFECT ANDROMEDA (pt one)
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In which we wake up from a long Bioware hypersleep to roll up our sleeves and get down to some busywork.
1 hr 23 min
April 22 And Now For Something Completely Gilliam: THE BROTHERS GRIMM
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Chris Prentice returns to chart Gilliam's precipitous decline with this overcast, fantasy snoozer
55 min