Read it and Weep

We're back in session talking about all 9 movies up for the Best Picture award at the 92 Oscars. Who will win? Who deserves to win? Why is Joker nominated at all? We've got the hottest takes of any classroom.

• 1917
• Ford V Ferrari
• The Irishman
• Jojo Rabbit
• Joker
• Little Women
• Marriage Story
• Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
• Parasite

Condescending Class is back in session as the boys learn about Ang Lee, Wuxia epics, and whether or not it's physically possible to die.

Join us next week to talk about whether or not the Oscars matter (they don't.)

Hunter recommends the Wuxia Ashes of Time

Ezra suggest Shaolin Soccer and Kung Fu Hustle

Slightly Condescending Film School returns with a brief lesson on the French New Wave. It's confusing enough that we have to constantly ask, is this the style or just a French thing?

We're back! Kicking off a brand new season of Read it and Weep. We're calling the 3rd season "Back To School". Trying to understand pop culture has always been a mission of the show but now we're making it more explicit.

And our first theme of Back To School is learning a bit more about film. I know, it's overdue. For the next couple of months, professor Anthony Lopez and associate professor Hunter Donaldson are going to give Alex the education he really already should have had.

Happy Holidays, everybody. We're wrapping up #Alexit and season 2 of the show with an action movie that's also loosely set at Christmas, just like Diehard. But is it as good as Diehard? Find out!

And we'll see you in the new year for Season 3: RiaW Back To School

Anthony highly recommends the documentary 20 Feet From Stardom on Netflix

Warner Brothers vs Disney+ different styles of apology for old timey racism

Sorry for the weeks off, but that's because the move I've been talking about for a month actually happened. And it was hard! But now that I'm starting to settle in I talked to Ezra and Anthony about the universally annoying act of moving.

Ezra's playlist for changing diapers

When I'm in LA, there's a chance I'll feel like a fish out of water. EXACTLY like Axel Foley in Beverly Hills Cop. I'm going to feel just like him. Avenging a friends murder / doing comedy. Same same. Hopefully I'll also be able to talk my way into secured warehouses and have buddies who are good at shootin'!

For the next step of my LA preperation I decided to see what the future of the city might hold. Specifically, the future imagined by Blade Runner in the far off time November 2019. That's right, not only is it a perfect pick for our LA month it's actually set RIGHT NOW. And boy were they 50/50 on predicting the present.

Big news! I'm moving to Los Angeles in December. To celebrate / scare myself, I'm going to spend the next little bit watching movies about Los Angeles. And since that wasn't specific enough, I'm only doing movies that specifically have LA in the title.

Starting out with the 90s comedy starring a roller skating Steve Martin, an extremely fun Sarah Jessica Parker, and of course, the city of angels.

To close out The Rocktober, we could have watched the Elton John biopick Rocketman. But we dug deeper than that, we went back to the 1997 family comedy about farting on Mars, Rocketman. And just like the movie, we had to call in a sub at the last moment.