To discuss Ben Wheatley's 2015 dystopian drama HIGH-RISE—based on the J.G. Ballard novel of the same name, adapted for the screen by Amy Jump, and starring Tom Hiddleston and Jeremy Irons—we welcome to the show Simon Owens, a past colleague of Bill and Renan's and a journalist based in DC. The film looks and sounds amazing, the source material is first-rate, and the acting is all around superb. So why does this movie actually make less sense than some of the crazier movies we've talked about this season? Debate ensues.

High-Rise links:

• High-Rise on IMDb
• High-Rise on Wikipedia
• Glenn Kenny review
• Mark Kermode review
• Peter Bradshaw review
• Vice on Ballard's High-Rise
• Ballardian on Wheatley's High-Rise
• Spectator UK on J.G. Ballard's politics
• The Paris Review on translating Ballard
• City Lab on High-Rise and luxury architecture
• Wikipedia: List of tallest residential buildings
• New York on "fancy prisons for billionaires"
• Simon Owens at Medium
• Simon Owens on Twitter

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