I Love This, You Should Too

In our discussion of the Film Noir Classic Double Indemnity we talk Nazis, German Expressionism, women in the workplace, censorship, femme fatales, anti-heroes, wigs, a turning point of American culture, and drive through bars. Y'know, the regular stuff.

This episode was originally released on July 12, 2021

I Love This You Should Too is hosted by Samantha & Indy Randhawa

Double Indemnity is a 1944 American psychological thriller film noir directed by Billy Wilder, co-written by Wilder and Raymond Chandler, and produced by Buddy DeSylva and Joseph Sistrom. The screenplay was based on James M. Cain's 1943 novel of the same name, which originally appeared as an eight-part serial in Liberty magazine, beginning in February 1936.

After years of talking about it, we are finally discussing perhaps the most influential film of all time: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari! We talk about the historical context of the Weimar Republic, the aspects of expressionism seen on screen, whether this movie trusts authority, face acting, action figures, and more!

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is a 1920 German silent horror film directed by Robert Wiene and written by Hans Janowitz and Carl Mayer. The quintessential work of early German Expressionist cinema, it tells the story of a hypnotist (Werner Krauss) who uses a somnambulist Cesare (Conrad Veidt) to commit murders. The film features a dark, twisted visual style, with sharp-pointed forms; oblique, curving lines; structures and landscapes that lean and twist in unusual angles; and shadows and streaks of light painted directly onto the sets. The set design is "anti-realistic, claustrophobic" and "harsh" which is "coupled with feverish anxiety [that] entered the vocabulary of filmmakers and film viewers" particularly during the Weimar Republic, when this film was made.

Indy runs down the winners of 2026 YRCA (Young Readers Choice Awards), Samantha suggests Remain: A Novel, a supernatural book by the unlikely pair of Nicholas Sparks and M. Night Shyamalan and we prepare for some sweet sweet expressionism with our next big watches: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari & The Night of the Hunter!

I Love This You Should Too is hosted by Samantha & Indy Randhawa

After a bit too much time spent on our potential elderly drug use and cookie consumption, we discuss the Keanu Reeves action blockbuster John Wick! We talk about Keanu’s acting, the film’s style, efficient storytelling, action sequences, world building, and more!

This episode was originally released on May 15, 2023.

John Wick is a 2014 American action thriller film directed by Chad Stahelski and written by Derek Kolstad. The film follows John Wick (Keanu Reeves), a legendary hitman who is forced out of retirement to seek revenge against the men who killed his puppy, a final gift from his recently deceased wife. John Wick also stars Michael Nyqvist, Alfie Allen, Adrianne Palicki, Bridget Moynahan, Dean Winters, Ian McShane, John Leguizamo, and Willem Dafoe.

This week we finally wrap up our series on The Matrix with a discussion on every segment of the animated anthology The Animatrix!

I Love This You Should Too is hosted by Samantha and Indy Randhawa

We’re on to The Matrix Resurrections! You know what that means: all your favourite characters are back! Well, a few of them. Some were recast. Some died. Some died and were recast…

The Matrix Resurrections is a 2021 American science fiction action film co-produced and directed by Lana Wachowski, who co-wrote the screenplay with David Mitchell and Aleksandar Hemon. It is the sequel to The Matrix Revolutions (2003) and the fourth installment in The Matrix film series. The film stars an ensemble cast including Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Jessica Henwick, Jonathan Groff, Neil Patrick Harris, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Lambert Wilson, Christina Ricci, Freema Agyeman, and Jada Pinkett Smith. Set sixty years after Revolutions, the film follows Neo, who lives a seemingly ordinary life as a video game developer having trouble distinguishing fantasy from reality. A group of rebels, with the help of a programmed

We’re on to part 3: The Matrix Revolutions! If you were hoping for answers to some of the questions left over from the previous installments, you may be disappointed. But, if you’re looking for a film that contradicts and undermines the previous works plus an episode where we slowly go mad trying to keep the rules straight, we have just the thing for you!

The Matrix Revolutions is a 2003 American science fiction action film written and directed by the Wachowskis. It is the third film in The Matrix film series, shot back-to-back with The Matrix Reloaded (2003). It stars Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving and Jada Pinkett Smith. The film follows Neo and his allies as they fight to end the war between humanity and the machines permanently while opposing the rogue Agent Smith.

We continue our Matrix journey with The Matrix Reloaded. Will it live up to the hype of the classic first movie? Will we find out what The Matrix really is? Is Neo the One? What happened to all the Indian people? Can robots be smug and jealous? All these questions and more will be answered in this episode! Probably.

I Love This You Should Too is hosted by Samantha and Indy Randhawa

The Matrix Reloaded is a 2003 American science fiction action film written and directed by the Wachowskis. It is the sequel to The Matrix (1999) and the second installment in the Matrix film series. The film stars Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, and Gloria Foster who reprise their roles from the previous film, with Jada Pinkett Smith joining the cast. In the film, Neo, Morpheus, and Trinity attempt to reach the Source of the Matrix to end the war as Zion prepares for an invasion from the machines.

We’ve decided to follow the white rabbit and delve into the world of The Matrix! We kick it off this week with the first installment from 1999 and discuss shiny clothes, if we exist, office jobs, 1999 in cinema, bullet time, Keanu Reeves, saviours, philosophy, and more!

I Love This You Should Too is hosted by Samantha and Indy Randhawa

We cook for a bit, then Samantha recommends some fanciness and light murder with the book The Midnight Feast by Lucy Foley, Indy has a heartwarming underdog story with the Japanese teen comedy Swing Girls (スウィングガールズ), and we take the red pill, or is it the blue one… either way, we’re doing The Matrix movies!