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The Arrival had the misfortune of debuting a few weeks before Independence Day, but at least one member of the SMTF crew thinks its the better of those two movies! Justice for The Arrival!
Pierce Brosnan is a sexy scientist and Jeff Fahey is a sexy, uh, well, you'll see. Fortunately, this movie has no pertinent parallels to our current moment and the episode doesn't get derailed at all.
Blow me, Oscars! Lick my balls, BAFTAs! Eat my ass, Golden Globes! We're bringing you the only award that matters: TOM CRUISE OF THE YEAR. And we also talk about like a hundred movies.
We were budding cinephiles when Amelie came out in 2001, and we've been kind of scared to watch it since then. Does it hold up? Or is it unbearably quirky? Listen to find out!
This film is distressingly difficult to find, which makes it even more disappointing that the low-rent streaming services on which it is available advertise it wholly on the back of Fifty Shades of Grey. Secretary and Fifty Shades share a few superficial traits—most strikingly the name "Mr. Grey"—but spiritually you could scarcely find two more different works. For one, Secretary is really good.
Why is the movie called Good Will Hunting? Did they come up with the title and then name the character to give it a double meaning? It's not like "goodwill hunting" is a colloquialism, right? And Hunting isn't even a common last name—it's like one hundred times less popular than Hunt or Hunter. And I wouldn't even say Will was out in these streets hunting for kindness or connection. He was kind of forced into it. So what's the deal?
In this ep we answer the perennial yuletide question: Is it a Christmas movie or not? We're tackling the late-80s, LA-set action-comedy film that launched a slew of sequels, an entire genre, and one of the biggest box-office draws of the 90s, who plays a down-on-his-luck cop—that's right, it's Lethal Weapon!
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