Hey, Check It Out

Anna invites us to check inside every drawer in Jan Švankmajer’s Alice aka Něco z Alenky. It’s about a stoic living girl on a non-stop stop motion taxidermy adventure with all our familiar friends! The White Rabbit! The Mad Hatter! Bill!

Josh introduces everyone to Closed Circuit. A 1978 Italian tv movie about going to the theatre in Italy in 1978. And also it’s about tv. And commercials. It’s excellent and we suggest watching it with little to no information and then maybe giving our show a listen.

Anna, Josh, and Cori are joined by VFX veteran Chad “Wedge” Collier as we cross state lines to escape dirty cops. Convoy is a movie based on a song but they made a new version of the song for the movie. Then they made the movie too long and it’s a good thing we all love CB radios!

The Year 2024 in review with Canada’s Sweetheart Anna Wasserman, Coriander “Content Creator” Dickinson, and movie enthusiast Josh A. Cagan.

We never get to the book section.

Please consume in comfy clothes and a beverage of your choosing. Thanks for listening.

Anna introduces us to the surreal contemplation of computer intelligence that is Computer Chess. It’s 1980 and there’s a chess tournament where the winning computer shall face off against the human mind! Also human minds will face off against human minds! Maybe humans and computers aren’t so different after all?

content warning for the movie: loud noises, eyeball trauma, suicide

Cori brings us more memories of childhood nightmares with Event Horizon. It’s a dark and stormy night in the extreme 1990s and we’re all aboard a haunted ship in space.

Josh brings Anna and Cori to the London Underground for Quatermass and the Pit aka Five Million Miles to Earth. We mostly do not talk about the war.

cw: suicide, flashing lights, clusters(trypophobia)

Anna from the top rope with Hideaki Anno’s rewritten ending of the animated series Neon Genesis Evangelion. The End of Evangelion takes Josh and Cori back to the final episodes of a series that neither of them have seen and we all have a good time wrapping our heads around the lingo and breathtaking animation. We also discuss a bit of the discourse.

cw: child abuse, fatphobia, disordered eating

Cori brings us Matilda from 1996, directed by Danny Devito and adapted from a Roald Dahl book about a girl with telekenesis. It’s classified as a Family/Comedy but maybe it belongs in the Horror section?

cw: stalking, suicide

Anna brings us Atom Egoyan’s 1989 Speaking Parts and we fight tooth and nail with it to extract some meaning while immersed in our own nostalgia for ye olde media. It’s neat. Happy Canada Day!