Charlene and Jackie kick off 2026 with No Other Choice, perennial festival darling Park Chan-wook’s latest meditation on capitalism, violence, paper, and snakes. 

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Time Stamped Show Notes: 

5:55 Incredible Stoker hair to grass transition 

7:05 The Alamo transitioning into QR Code ordering

12:00 The Landfill History of The Battery

17:00 “No Other Choice” and Bong Joon Ho’s “Parasite” comparisons

21:00 Alison Stewart interviews Park Chan-wook 

23:23 Mark Fisher’s Capitalist Realism

25:53 How to Make a Killing

26:17 Best Offer Wins

27:10 Jenny Odell on what No Other Choice reveals about the humiliation of work 

38:49 China’s Dark Factories: So Automated, They Don’t Need Lights

39:15 The house and greenhouse in No Other Choice

42:22 Ryan Coogler on why the vampires in Sinners are Irish

44:18 The Ax by Donald Westlake: written in 1997!

49:18 EFT Tapping Affirmations

52:48 No Other Choice: Snakes, Shoes, Wood details

55:30 Elizabethtown’s Opening Scene

1:03:38 They Will Kill You trailer

1:05:35 Ronald Bronstein’s ‘Cinema of Anxiety’

1:09:07 The Soundtrack of Aftersun  

1:10:54 Vine of girl dancing with a live chicken to Two of Hearts’

1:14:05 The Tilda Swinton genie movie: Three Thousand Years of Longing

1:16:45 The cardboard chaise for Wuthering Heights promos

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