The Recommendations:

-Titanfall 2 (https://www.amazon.com/Titanfall-2-PlayStation-4/dp/B01GKGVI8U) (no longer on PSN sale, but Amazon has a price match for now?)

-69 Love Songs - The Magnetic Fields (https://open.spotify.com/album/2js3lkzAjWpD656NK7ZaJX)

-Soul Mining - The The (https://open.spotify.com/album/0I7bOh7mYGUEyqCFHU9R0A)

RECOMMENDATIONS:

-Skatetown, U.S.A. (1979) (https://www.amazon.com/Skatetown-USA-Blu-Ray-Blu-ray/dp/B07VZ3QY9S)

-The Shinning (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0701281/)

-...hot apple cider

THE. MUMMY'S. CURSE.

[alex is traveling and working on a project, so forgive the lack of recommendations this episode, which is a good one]

Recommendations:

-DIE by Kieron Gillen (https://imagecomics.com/comics/series/die)

-An Animal Out of Context (http://friendsatthetable.net/counterweight-27-an-animal-out-of-context)

-Walk Through Fire - Yola (https://open.spotify.com/album/3YkPGNQ0ATRPcigTb74F5A)

-[am i mad? did we skip steve's rec? you'll have to find out]

Recommendations:

-The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0362270/)

-Alan Wake (2010) (https://store.steampowered.com/app/108710/Alan_Wake/)

-Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (2016) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3960412/)

-I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning (https://open.spotify.com/album/5msfCyqu8fJYqDDV6OrXTg)

The bracket is finally locked in as the boys whittle their list to 32 candidates. I don't recall any particularly spoiler-y content, so you should be able to go in safe.

Recommendations:

-Giannis - Freddie Gibbs, Madlib ft. Anderson .Paak (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo8Ls80pi0w)

-Hedgehog in the Fog (1975) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oW0jvJC2rvM)

-The Farewell (https://a24films.com/films/the-farewell)  (2019)

-Amour (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7D-Y3T0XFA)  (2012)

-Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden (https://www.mutantyearzero.com/)

-Matt Stonie (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCd1fLoVFooPeWqCEYVUJZqg) (Green Jello (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBi3d7aFL54) )

Well. We watched Fantastic Planet. That lasts us maybe six minutes before we're ready to just start designing the bracket. I'd rather highlight the part that we actually find exciting and that makes up the bulk of the overlong episode, so if you're looking for substantial Fantastic Planet discussion, I suggest going elsewhere (or maybe finding a more substantial movie.)

This week is a nice double-feature focused on more experimental live action/animation hybrids. Austin takes us to Prague with Alice, and Alex puts the boys up against The Wall (along with memories of being an eighteen year old edgelord.) Then we get into some brief discussion of The Math as we realize this preseason is drawing to a close.

Next week, in maybe the last episode of the preseason - Fantastic Planet (https://www.criterion.com/films/28636-fantastic-planet) !

Recommendations:

Big Little Lies

"Big Little Lies Season 2 Turmoil: Inside Andrea Arnold's Loss of Creative Control" (https://www.indiewire.com/2019/07/big-little-lies-season-2-andrea-arnold-lost-creative-control-jean-marc-vallee-1202156884/)

The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck - Don Rosa (https://www.amazon.com/Life-Times-Scrooge-McDuck/dp/0911903968) A$AP Ferg - Floor Seats (https://open.spotify.com/album/0Q3h1Bm5T7QPo8lI1S9mT6)

The Sixth Sense (1999) (https://www.netflix.com/title/26797528)

Take Shelter (2011) (https://www.shudder.com/movies/watch/take-shelter/2604228)

Animals - Pink Floyd (https://open.spotify.com/album/3b4E89rxzZQ9zkhgKpj8N4)

...reading