Frame Work

By Al Schwartz, John BernhardTV & Film

Frame Work episodes

April 13, 2021 Superhero Stuff - The Falcon, The Winter Soldier, The Snydercut, The Cook, And His Lover
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It's dancing barons versus singing fishwives as Joon Kim drops in once more to compare the world building of the MCU and DCEU.
1 hr 2 min
April 07, 2021 THE LORD OF THE RINGS, pt. 3
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The giant-sized LOTR conversation concludes with a lot of gushing over the performances, spurred by Al's contention that the trilogy has a dozen Alec Guinness-es littering its sprawling cast. Other topics include (of course) the multiple ending meme and enduring influence over blockbuster filmmaking.
1 hr 17 min
March 31, 2021 THE LORD OF THE RINGS, pt. 2
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The guys continue to rain praises on the production design, unique humanism, special features, location work, and wizard fights of the LOTR trilogy.
1 hr 5 min
March 22, 2021 The SnyderCut and The Winter Soldier
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The long-prophesied SnyderCut of JUSTICE LEAGUE is upon us, and the guys are not impressed. After an hour of pondering the merits of "mature" superhero stories, unfiltered artistic visions, Steppenwolf's makeover, and the ambiguous mourning of musical Finnish fishwives, we switch to a quick recap of the WANDAVISION finale (1:04:00) and the premiere of FALCON AND THE WINTER SOLDIER (1:21:00).
1 hr 33 min
March 17, 2021 THE LORD OF THE RINGS, Part 1
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The guys decamp to Middle Earth/New Zealand to talk over the crowning achievement of blockbuster filmmaking in the 2000s, Peter Jackson's epic, maximalist adaptation of LORD OF THE RINGS. In part one, we look at the miraculous realization of Gollum, the cascading successes the production pulled off in each area of the story's world, and a few dozen other things.

This will be a trilogy, because of course.
1 hr 1 min
March 10, 2021 Finch Club - Panic Room
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Joon Kim returns to talk about Fincher's most overlooked film, the Hitchcockian (if you're feeling generous) potboiler PANIC ROOM.
1 hr 11 min
March 03, 2021 Finch Club talks about Fight Club
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The boys welcome Gwen Sisco to the program to break somewhere between 2 and 5 rules of Fight Club, depending on how strict you get about the "two men at a time" and "no shirts" policies.
1 hr 42 min
February 22, 2021 TV SET - WANDAVISION Check-In
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Joon Kim drops by to discuss the impressively Lynchian highs and bafflingly doofy lows of the first 7 episodes of WANDAVISION.
47 min
February 17, 2021 Finch Club - The Game
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"You know what is not an appropriate theme for a birthday party? Your Father's Suicide."
1 hr 19 min
February 10, 2021 Finch Club - Se7en
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Fincher's breakout film still packs a transgressive wallop after 25 years, and the guys are here to dig into its unique blend of theatrical abstraction and sincere humanity, the interplay of banal and baroque evil, how it incepts you it thinking it is much more gory than it is the Spacey factor, and how completely the best Batman movie was ripping it off.
1 hr 37 min