Frame Work

By Al Schwartz, John BernhardTV & Film

Frame Work episodes

September 17, 2025 The Nolan-oscopy: On Nolan Imitators
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We continue looking at the people and projects that have offered our auteurs the most sincere flattery. What makes a movie "Nolanesque"? Does he have an heir apparanent, and why did that not become Duncan Jones? Let's find out!
1 hr 17 min
September 10, 2025 The Bioware Omnibus - DRAGON AGE: INQUISITION (Part Four)
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We finally reach the (fairly abrupt) end of INQUISITION, and the extensive DLC expansions.
1 hr 12 min
September 03, 2025 Finch Club - On Fincher Imitators
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We continue to examine the influence and imitations of our anointed directors' signature styles. In Fincher's case, this mainly takes the form of reviewing the attempts of his various collaborators to recreate the magic without him.
1 hr 19 min
August 27, 2025 The Coen-Oscopy: HONEY DON'T!
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In which we offer very tepid defenses of Ethan Coen's tepid new lesbian detective yarn
34 min
August 20, 2025 The QT Question - On Tarantino Imitators
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Chris Prentice drops in to talk about the cottage industry of Tarantino knock-offs that arose in the 1990s (and beyond). Why do they have long, tortured titles full of numbers and locations? Why do they all end on the same boat? These questions and more will be answered in digressive, non-linear fashion on this week's Frame Work.
1 hr 42 min
August 13, 2025 Zach Cregger's WEAPONS
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Brett Blake returns to dig into Zach Cregger's ambitious sophomore effort.
1 hr 15 min
August 06, 2025 The Bioware Omnibus - DRAGON AGE: INQUISITION (Part Three)
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In which oh my god this game never ends
1 hr 44 min
July 30, 2025 FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS
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Is the fifth time the charm for the famous foursome?
56 min
July 23, 2025 The Oscar Snub Draft - Best Screenplays and Scores
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In which we finally, definitively fix all the Academy's mistakes.
2 hr 3 min
July 16, 2025 SUPERMAN (2025)
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Alex Fletcher returns to talk over James Gunn's re-re-re-envisioning of the grandaddy of superheroes
1 hr 27 min