Movies imo

In episode twenty of movies imo., Ben, Brandon, and Daniel yell over each other about Ryan Coogler’s groundbreaking superhero film BLACK PANTHER, and how his sensibilities as a director in FRUITVALE STATION and CREED mesh with or against the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Everyone feels wildly different about the film but all can agree on two points: (1) Michael B. Jordan is sad, beautiful, and the first Oscar contender of 2018 and (2) they are the Martin Freemans of this cultural conversation. Ben relates to Adonis Creed’s pre-fight, stress-induced habits, Daniel revels in the very specific world-building in Wakanda, and Brandon hails Coogler’s film as the latest in a new line of high-quality, richly subversive studio franchise films.

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In episode nineteen of movies imo., Ben, Brandon, and Daniel yell over each other about the climactic, free association finale of the greatest comedy franchise of all time: FIFTY SHADES FREED. Afterwards they love-tackle a handful of Hollywood psychosexual thrillers from the 1980s and 90s and explore how they relate (or don’t) to the splashy sex-positive saga of Anastasia Steele and Christian Grey. Ben suffers from Jamie Dornan face blindness, Daniel wonders how Anastasia manages to keep her job as the fiction editor of a Seattle-based book publisher, and Brandon performs a dramatic reading of a popsicle-themed passage from the original E.L. James, P.G.A. novel.

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In episode eighteen of movies imo., Ben, Brandon, and Daniel yell over each other about the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film - this year’s slate of nominees, historical oversights and canon classics in the category, and what all those titles say about the taste of this Academy branch over the years. In what appears to be an agreeable year on the surface, your fav film f*gz dig in to vigorously debate (or shamelessly drag) A FANTASTIC WOMAN, THE INSULT, LOVELESS, ON BODY AND SOUL, & THE SQUARE before moving onto favorite winners from the past. Ben fights to free Fellini’s rightful Oscars from state possession, Daniel exalts the Chilean entry and a rural Chili’s, and Brandon celebrates the chunking of a sacred chair.

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In episode seventeen of movies imo., Ben, Brandon, and Daniel yell over each other about Jordan Peele’s surrealist horror flick (and directorial debut) GET OUT, as well as the films of Luis Buñuel that earlier carved such a surprising space for social critique. Unquestionably the movie of the moment, Peele’s tone-hopping take on American race relations has dominated the cultural conversation since last February, culminating in four Academy Award nominations including Best Picture and Director, so your fav film f*gz take the opportunity to weigh in with their own enthusiasm for his masterful genre exploration and sharp satirical critique. Daniel won’t shut up about the first act, Brandon stands for the twists and turns of the second, and Ben wonders how he could’ve elevated the third.

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In Episode 16 of movies imo, Ben, Brandon, and Daniel yell over each other about the 90th annual Academy Award nominations. Together they get to the bottom of the announcement's most pressing questions: Did Gary Oldman motorboat his way into the Best Actor field? Should the Academy compress Best Sound Editing and Best Sound Mixing into a single category? Even with its surprise Best Picture and Best Director nods, was PHANTOM THREAD still the biggest snub of the year? Ben damns DUNKIRK with faint praise, Daniel breathes a sigh of relief over Meryl's 21st nomination, and Brandon gives a chef's kiss to the Best Original Screenplay category.

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In Episode 15 of movies imo., Ben, Brandon, and Daniel yell over each other but, more importantly, *at* contemporary film culture in regards to their personal picks for the top twenty-five motion pictures of the Year of our Lord Saoirse 2017. Additionally, they reveal the official Moneyball-ed film fagz top ten list.

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In Episode 14 of movies imo., Ben, Brandon, and Daniel yell over each other about the exquisite new picture by wunderkind daddy Paul Thomas Anderson, PHANTOM THREAD, an irresponsibly elegant, impossibly funny romance in the key of breakfast kink. While sniffing the film's intoxicating fumes (sandalwood, lemon juice, not strawberry) and staring deep into Cyril's smize, your fav film fagz leave plenty of shoe polish on the front as they sew the House of Woodcock into the canvas of PTA's greater filmography - as well as Hitchcock's REBECCA and Lean's BRIEF ENCOUNTER. Somewhere within this breathless series of asparagus-induced fainting spells, Ben argues for why this is the director's most crystallized vision to date, Daniel admits to joining the MAGNOLIA cult at an impressionable age, and Brandon gives us the Krieps in his rendition of the ambush dinner scene.

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In Episode 13 of movies imo., Ben, Brandon, and Daniel yell over each other about Steven Spielberg's THE POST, a hot-off-the-free-presses pop history polemic that gives two thumbs up to women in the workplace and a big middle finger to the fascist in the White House. Between impressions of Jennifer Jason Leigh, Barkhad Abdi, and Old Hollywood studio executives, Ben slanders a beloved Best Picture winner covering similar subject matter, Daniel argues against the comparison, and Brandon names it his favorite film of 2015.

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In episode 12 of movies imo., Ben, Brandon, and Daniel yell over each other about Margot Robbie's I, TONYA (technically directed by someone else) and other movies that want to f*** GOODFELLAS

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In Episode XI of movies imo., Ben, Brandon, and Daniel yell over each other about the latest (and greatest?) Star War yet, Rian Johnson's STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI. Handily outgunning the 1978 Star Wars Holiday Special by a half dozen parsecs, we push the Falcon to hyperspeed and track the universe for the faith-shaken gradients of Luke Skywalker's middle age, the unbreakable tenacity of General Leia Organa, and the red-salted reasons why we go to the cinema in the first place. Ben ponders the setting of two suns, Daniel insists upon calling Laura Dern by her space name, and Brandon proves to be the Jane Goodall of porgs.

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