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To mark the 20th anniversary of the release of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Emily and Ed talk about their love of the trilogy, its legacy, and whether Aragorn should have ended up with Eowyn.

00:00:00 - 00:12:37 - Intro & News

00:12:38 - 00:50:29 - Emily & Ed talk about The Lord of the Rings films

00:50:30 - 00:55:35 - SRS Recommends & Outro

Links:

- Here's A Spy Movie on YouTube, as recommended by Emily

Given the, er, divided response to Lady Gaga's performance in House of Gucci, now seems like the perfect time to talk about musicians acting in movies. In addition to discussing the ways in which movies play with or against a musician's public persona, Emily and Ed talk about musicians who achieved recognition for their performances, those for whom recognition proved elusive, and those who transcended the need for films to bestow them with acclaim. They also talk about the deaths of Stephen Sondheim and Antony Sher, new details about the split between Will Ferrell and Adam McKay, and the news that The AV Club will soon be forced to move to L.A. from its longtime home of Chicago.

00:00:00 - 00:22:45 - Intro & News

00:22:46 - 00:55:14 - Emily & Ed discuss musicians acting in film

00:55:15 - 01:01:05 - SRS Recommends & Outro

- Link to the FastPass episode of Defunctland, as recommend by Emily

Content Warning: As part of the main topic we discuss the plot of The Last Duel, so there is brief discussion of rape and sexual assault.

Inspired by the shifting viewpoints in Ridley Scott's The Last Duel, Emily and Ed talk about movies that play with ideas of perspective, and the ways in which cinema can uniquely handle the idea of showing a story from the vantage points of multiple characters.

This week Emily and Ed discuss the difference between a gimmick and a premise, as they relate to movies, as well of examples of gimmicks that work so well that they cannot be extricated from a premise. They also talk about the ratification of the IATSE contract, #FreeBritney, and the deaths of Mick Rock and Dean Stockwell.

00:00:00 - 00:19:26 - Intro & News

00:19:27 - 00:50:47 - Emily & Ed discuss Gimmicks vs. Premises

00:50:48 - 00:55:11 - SRS Recommends & Outro

Link to the Bandcamp page for Billy Nomates, as recommended by Emily

On this week's episode Emily sits down with director Arthur Jones to talk about their documentary The Six, which tells the story of the six Chinese survivors of the Titanic, and how their experiences of discrimination in the face of calamity continue to resonate over a century later.

For further information about The Six, including planned screenings, please visit the film's website.

00:00:00 - 00:02:42 - Intro & (extremely brief) news

00:02:43 - 00:50:58 - Emily interviews Arthur Jones about The Six

00:50:59 - 00:54:03 - SRS Recommends & Outro

In this (belated) Halloween episode, Emily and Ed discuss scary moments in movies that aren't strictly speaking horror movies.

00:00:00 - 00:19:06 - Intro & News

00:19:07 - 00:48:34 - Emily & Ed discuss scary moments in non-horror movies

00:48:35 - 00:51:28 - SRS Recommends & Outro

This week, Emily and Ed talk about some of their favourite examples of sprawling (or "bloated" if you want to be a little less charitable) art, running the gamut from the fiction of Paul Auster to the Yakuza series of video games.

00:00:00 - 00:27:27 - Intro & News

00:27:28 - 00:52:54 - Emily & Ed discuss sprawling art

00:52:55 - 01:00:23 - SRS Recommends & Outro

This week's show and tell finds Emily and Ed bringing two distinctive but very different visions: Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross's creative non-fiction film Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets and James Wan's gothic delight Malignant. They also talk about recent film news and the new SNL cast.

00:00:00 - 00:39:02 - Intro & News

00:39:03 - 00:57:13 - Emily & Ed discuss Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets and Malignant

Inspired by Ed's first ever viewing of Event Horizon, Emily and Ed talk about what it takes for a film that rips off another film to overcome that stigma. They also talk about how amazing Sandra Bullock is, Nicholas Sparks movie posters, and the "low-stakes Uncut Gems" week that Ed had.

00:00:00 - 00:27:40 - Intro & News

00:27:41 - 00:58:16 - Emily & Ed discuss good rip-offs

00:58:17 - 01:04:10 - SRS Recommends & Outro

It's been a few weeks since Emily and Ed last recorded, so they catch up on some of the biggest news stories that they missed, as well as the 20th anniversary of 9/11.

Links:

- As recommended by Emily, "At the Turtle Club in the Shadow of 9/11" on Defector