Frank and Amhara are back to talk about film! In this episode the duo discuss Harry Lighton’s Pillion, a romantic comedy drama which examines a BDSM relationship with an ethically challenging power dynamic.

In this episode Frank and Amhara shed light on their opinions on Benny Safdie’s MMA biopic The Smashing Machine, and, Paul Thomas Anderson’s action thriller One Battle After Another.

Timestamps:
The Smashing Machine review: 00:51 (We DO NOT waste time, nor, beat about the bush!)
One Battle After Another review: 26:35

In this week’s episode, Frank and Amhara discuss Eddington (Ari Aster), and fire-off some mini review for their recent viewings: The Naked Gun (Akiva Schaffer), Caught Stealing (Darren Aronofsky) and Bring Her Back (Danny and Michael Philippou).

2 months after Frank and Amhara reviewed Alex Garland's last film, the pedantic duo return to review 28 Years Later (written by Alex Garland and directed by Danny Boyle). But, does the film live up to the legacy of the legendary original, or is it a grutesque reanimation of a sacred corpse?*

*The 'Rage' virus does not bring about the reanimation of the dead. But its kinda a zombie film...

In this week’s episode of Frank and Amhara discuss and review Bong Joon Ho’s dark comedy science-fiction film Mickey 17 (an adaptation of Edward Ashton’s novel Mickey 7) and Steven Soderbergh spy thriller Black Bag (written by David Koepp).
 
Mickey 17, set in the future, follows Robbert Pattinson’s titular Mickey, who, to escape his debt to a powerful and sadistic loan shark, hastily signs up for a planetary colonisations mission, led by Mark Ruffallo’s Buffoonish ‘Kenneth Marshal’.  Unfortunately, the position he unwittingly signs for is that of an ‘Expendable,’ which involves being ruthlessly experimented on and deployed on suicide missions, only to be indefinitely ‘reprinted’ following death.
 
Black Bag is a conversation focused spy thriller (starring Michael Fassbender, Cate Blanchett and other actors). There’s a mole and a lot of double crossing…the details are boring but it’s short and the passing is fast.
 
Time Stamps:
Mickey 17: 00:32
Black bag: 20:03

In this week’s episode, Amhara and Frank discuss and review Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist, a period drama starring Adrian Brody as a Hungarian born Jewish architect trying to realise the American dream while dealing with anti-semitism and the horrors of the holocaust.