We discuss our favourite (and least favourite) movies of 2022

In part 2 of our Christmas mega-sode, we discuss the murderer's row of blacklisted screenwriters that worked on early drafts of the film's script, its second life as tv holiday staple, and its inclusion in a 1947 FBI file on communist influences in Hollywood.

We discuss Frank Capra's deceptively complex 1946 Christmas classic It's a Wonderful Life and its relationship to both left and right-wing poltiics.

For the first time, we discuss multiple works of a director rather than a single movie itself. In episode five, Jackson and Tyler dive into the films of Bong Joon-ho, specifically The Host (2007), Snowpiercer (2013), Okja (2017), and Parasite (2019). They also have their first major disagreement of the show, with Jackson expressing a dissenting opinion on Parasite that is sure to elicit a clam and rational response from fans of the film. 

We discuss Shaka King's Judas and the Black Messiah (2021). Fred Hampton, The Panthers, and how desperately we lack figures and organizations like them on the modern left. We also talk a little bit about the 1971 documentary The Murder of Fred Hampton, and read some excerpts from a wide-ranging array of reviews and press clippings related to the movie.

It's Halloween, so we're bringing you all a new episode a few days early. We talk about the satirical horror film Ready Or Not, which features the spookiest monster of all... fuckin' rich people!

In episode 2, we discuss Troy Duffy's The Boondock Saints (1999), which is quite possibly the worst movie we've ever seen. We also inevitably talk a lot about Pulp Fiction, and a little about Overnight, the fantastic documentary that chronicles Duffy falling ass-backwards into directing a successful movie.

In our debut episode, we discuss Steven Soderbergh's 2008 war epic "Che", which chronicles Che Guevara's role in the Cuban Revolution as well as his subsequent capture and death in Bolivia in 1967.