First up host Blake Howard joins Bostonian film critic Sean Burns live from Park City, Utah at the Sundance Film Festival. Sean discusses his festival highlights including Josephine Decker's Shirley, Eliza Hittman's Never Rarely Sometimes Always and Kirsten Johnson's Dick Johnson is Dead. Finally, Sean puts the boot into Dee Rees's disappointing Mudbound follow-up, The Last Thing He Wanted.

In this week's DUEL OF TAKES (16:00) Blake hands over the Judge's gavel to the editor of DarkHorizons.com Garth Franklin to adjudicate. This duel pits an Oscar-nominated Joker performance (Joaquin Phoenix in Joker), against an Oscar-winning Joker performance (Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight). Arguing for Ledger is prosecutor Blake Howard. Defending Joaquin is The Take's Laura Dern from Marriage Story, co-host of The Sinner Files podcast, Stu Coote. Each master-debater has five minutes to state their case, and the judgement is final. Who will have the last laugh?

This podcast stars

Blake Howard (follow Blake on Twitter)

Sean Burns (follow Sean on Twitter)

Garth Franklin (follow Garth on Twitter)

Stu Coote (follow Stu on Twitter)

Further reading

Joker (2019) Review - CONTAINS SPOILERS by Blake Howard

Review: "The Dark Knight" by Garth Franklin

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