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Michael Felder hates your football team. Now that we have that out of the way, who better to break down a weekend of College Football madness. Including, but not limited to, Georgia's return to form, Texas is back to being entertaining at least, Notre Dame getting punched a bunch and the worst last in college football history in Miami. No, seriously, Mario was still employed when I scheduled this post, and I don't know how.

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I take it back: September Auburn is also annoying. You know when Nata from CBS' Eye On College Basketball is here, then the podcast is headed in a very old black man direction. We talk Jeezy mixtapes, Tupac's murderer being "found", and another crazy weekend in college football. Plus, we expand my Taylor Swift conspiracy theory. The truth is out there.

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Director: Justine Triet

Writers: Justine Triet, Arthur Harari

Starring: Sandra Hüller, Samuel Theis, Swann Arlaud, Milo Machado Graner

Runtime:  2 Hour 31 Minutes

Synopsis: 

The much-lauded winner of this year’s Palme d’Or, Justine Triet’s fourth feature has cemented her status as one of today’s great filmmaking talents. Unfolding over two-and-a-half hours like a compulsively readable novel, the riveting Anatomy of a Fall is both a dissection of an intimate relationship and of the judiciary process.

Sandra (a ferocious, magnetic, and edgy Sandra Hüller, also at the Festival in Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest) is a successful German writer who lives in the French Alps with her husband Samuel (Samuel Theis) and their visually impaired son Daniel (Milo Machado Graner). A brilliant, decibel-bursting opening scene suggests tensions in their isolated chalet, so when Samuel is discovered dead in the snow beneath one of their windows, suspicion is quickly aroused. Did he take his own life, or was he pushed to his death? When the investigation proves to be inconclusive — its varying angles hinting at the microscopic examination to come — Sandra is ultimately indicted and put on trial.

A captivating and sharply directed, written, and acted courtroom procedural, Anatomy of a Fall also functions like a trenchant autopsy of confirmation bias and ambiguity itself, with the court an operatic arena in which every gesture, word, and past interaction are ripe for judgment. As scrutiny turns to Sandra’s complex character and her tumultuous relationship with Samuel — their artistic rivalries, romantic jealousies, and contempt — the couple’s young son becomes the key witness.

Taut, suspenseful, and thrilling until the final moment, Anatomy of a Fall progresses like a heady puzzle that tackles the messiness of existence and the often-elusive nature of truth itself.

Anatomy of a Fall is one of those International films that actually feels even better if you watch it  as a foreigner. There's something about watching a court room drama from another country from the perspective of a foreigner with no sense of the criminal justice system in that country. In this film in particular, its jarring to see how the prosecutors and judge hound Sandra (Sandra Hüller) as the accused. What makes a good court room dramas work is its ability to pull the audience into the situation. Anatomy of a Fall takes it a step further and even adds in whodunit elements to have the audience completely guessing as to if Sandra is guilty or not. It's as if the film treats the audience as the traditional jury and each scene is laid out as a way for either the defense or prosecution to present their case in order to sway the jury. Where Anatomy of a Fall succeeds where other films fail is that at no point does it take the audience for granted and what's presented never feels like an empty red heron. Witnesses make mistakes. Scenarios seem implausible but not impossible, leaving room for doubt.

Director Justine Triet does a brilliant job of pulling the audience into the situation of this movie and making them FEEL the tension and environment. If you already didn't have strong negative feelings about rapper 50 Cent's song P.I.M.P, then you will probably dread/hate the song after. The obnoxious use of the song by the victim (Sandra's husband) is enough to drive the audience crazy. It's not really a downside though as it's clearly done on purpose. The whole point is to pull the audience into the moment and start thinking things like "Maybe Sandra did it because of how annoying he is" and "She has to be lying when she says the song didn't annoy her because it's annoying me". 

Anatomy of a Fall is definitely well worth the watch. The drama and tension leads right up through the end of the film and will leave audiences engaged the entire time.

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Director: Gareth Edwards

Writers: Gareth Edwards, Chris Weitz

Starring: John David Washington, Gemma Chan, Madeleine Yuna Voyles, Ken Watanabe, Sturgill Simpson

Runtime:  2 Hour 13 Minutes

Synopsis: Against the backdrop of a war between humans and robots with artificial intelligence, a former soldier finds the secret weapon, a robot in the form of a young child.

The crew talks about Gareth Edwards' The Creator. Looking past the AI propaganda that this film is (have we learned nothing?), this is a decent enough film that approaches the cusp of greatness. There is the story that Edwards told and then there's the story that's right below the surface that would have made this film great. It's still a beautiful film with an engaging enough story. It's just a bit disappointing it didn't go all the way. 

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Look, if Amazon and the NFL can use a pop star's clout for clicks, who am I to be above that? Good for her to help out the Q rating of the little league that could - but could there be other motives? I break out the tin foil hat for a little conspiracy theory, unlike the conspiracy FACTS that landed Dame with the Bucks. Plus, your week 5 NFL picks!

 

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God bless college football, the most chaotic sport known to man. MTR Network's EIC Kriss is on hand to talk about the UFC/WWE merger, Deshaun Watson doing us all a favor and college football's culture is built on hate. And that hate sustains the entire enterprise.

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We're talking a super weird weekend in CFB and the Deion of it all. We talk LeBron throwing up the NBA-vengers signal ahead of Paris. We talk Brandon Staley showing you what happens when a person drowns in a press conference. All this and more with Justin from the Three Fifs Podcast this week on UDPod.

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Director: Craig Gillespie

Writers: Lauren Schuker Blum, Rebecca Angelo, Ben Mezrich

Starring: Paul Dano, Pete Davidson, Vincent D'Onofrio, America Ferrera, Nick Offerman, Anthony Ramos, Seth Rogen, Sebastian Stan

Runtime: 1 Hour 44 Minutes

Synopsis: Dumb Money is the ultimate David vs. Goliath tale, based on the insane true story of everyday people who flipped the script on Wall Street and got rich by turning GameStop (yes, the mall videogame store) into the world's hottest company.

Craig Gillespie's Dumb Money, is an entertaining yet hollow look at the events that unfolded when GameStop became the stock of Wall Street. On the surface, all of the pieces are there. The cast is extremely solid. Paul Dano plays a very engaging Keith Gill who can draw the audience into this "David vs Goliath" tale. He plays the underdog well, particularly against Offerman, Rogen and Stan who all play the stereotypical Wall Street asshole perfectly. This is what makes this film work as an entertainment piece. If the purpose is to just view this as a dumbed down, simple, David vs Goliath style tale then it does it's job. The problem is that the real story behind GameStop, meme stocks & Reddit is a far more complex and complicated tale that just doesn't get told here.

Since this film is more interested in being a black & white, good versus evil type of tale, it doesn't reveal just how many people (non-wall street people) also ended up losing a lot of money because of this. On the flip side, it made it seem like the hedge funds lost but in reality, they didn't and most of those rich people stayed rich. It also skips over the toxic nature of the Wallstreet Bets subreddit and how Gill might not have been the perfect, guy with clean hands in all of this. There's also no connection into other memestocks, the move into NFTs and other things that also started to trend after. Now to be fair, there's probably no way this film could have gone into all of that. But on the other hand, an Adam McKay film probably would have or at least attempted to.

Judging this film as a singular entertainment piece with no larger purpose, the film will work for audiences enough to be entertaining. But there won't be any larger discussions or even lasting memories from it. Which is unfortunate because it definitely has the cast to be a more memorable film.

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Director: Kenneth Branagh

Writers: Michael Green, Agatha Christie

Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Michelle Yeoh, Jamie Dornan, Tina  Fey

Runtime:  1 Hour 43 Minutes

Synopsis: In post-World War II Venice, Poirot, now retired and living in his own exile, reluctantly attends a seance. But when one of the guests is murdered, it is up to the former detective to once again uncover the killer.

The crew review the latest in Hercule Piorot series both starring and directing Kenneth Branagh, A Haunting in Venice. This film is better than the last (Death on the Nile) and is on par with Murder on the Orient Express. But it has a few flaws. The horror elements work on their own but when paired with the detective elements, something just seemed a bit off. Listen as we discuss in more details.

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The Colorado State coach decided to pop off on the biggest stage possible, so I decided to reprimand him on the smallest stage possible. The entire world is coming to Boulder, so why be a child about it? All this, SEC picks and a quick preview of the entire NFL weekend.

 

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