Pick Your Take

Friends and independent filmmakers Chris and Isaac navigate Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland (2020). Does Zhao’s film successfully integrate its non-actor stories with its scripted ones? Or does its vague main character fade away against the landscape of true, textural human stories? Listen to your hosts discuss the real-life issues behind Chloé Zhao’s empathetic filmmaking, share their Top Five most-loved movies, and explore Frances McDormand’s and David Strathairn’s filmographies. Love it, hate it? Let’s debate it. Reach out and pick YOUR take on Twitter (@pickyourtake), Facebook, or by email, at [email protected].

Isaac and Chris take apart Shane Black’s Iron Man Three (2013). Is this the first successful Marvel action-comedy? Or does the film not come together in time to keep itself from falling off the cliff?  Listen as two friends and independent filmmakers traverse the Marvel Cinematic Universe, discuss Shane Black’s career as a writer/director, and get better (we swear!) at the Kevin Bacon Game. Love it, hate it? Let’s debate it. Reach out and pick YOUR take on Twitter (@pickyourtake), Facebook, or by email, at [email protected].

Isaac and Chris dive into Steven Soderbergh’s Ocean’s Twelve (2004). Does this sexy conman story lift the building? Or is it simply the best-dressed bullshit in the Ocean’s franchise? Listen as two friends and independent filmmakers ask how many cons are too many, explore Soderbergh’s career and the star-studded Twelve, and make it out alive from the Kevin Bacon game. Love it, hate it? Let’s debate it. Reach out and pick YOUR take on Twitter (@pickyourtake), Facebook, or by email, at [email protected]. 

Chris and Isaac explore Duncan Jones’ Warcraft (2016). Have orcs learned to act? Or did David Bowie’s son just pay some folks to live with him in a big green box for four months?  
Listen as two independent filmmakers find light in the darkness, examine the careers of Paula Patton, Travis Fimmel, Toby Kebbell, and Clancy Brown, and face the next daunting chapter of the Kevin Bacon Game.  Love it or hate it? Let’s debate it. Reach out and pick YOUR take on Twitter (@pickyourtake), Facebook, or by email, at [email protected]. 

Isaac and Chris debate Robert Eggers' 2019 thriller The Lighthouse. Is the film a metaphorical deep dive into what secrets lie in the hearts of men? Or simply a story about how boring it is to work at a lighthouse? 

Listen as two independent filmmakers discuss mermaids and seagulls, admire the varied careers of Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson, and begin a never-ending chain of The Kevin Bacon Game.

Love it or hate it? Let's debate it. Reach out and pick YOUR take @pickyourtake on Twitter or email us at [email protected].