This week we talk about the loud and powerful performances by Riz Ahmed, Olivia Cooke and Paul Raci in this quiet film about a heavy metal drummer who loses his hearing and has to figure out how to move forward. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts: https://itun.es/i6gB67Y Check out our Facebook page: www.facebook.com/actorandengineer and follow us on twitter @actorengineer

We talk about the Denzel Washington produced adaptation of August Wilson's play which features Viola Davis and Chadwick Bozeman in his last on-screen performance. We get into the performances, underlying themes, how this differs from the play and Oscar prognostications. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts: https://itun.es/i6gB67Y Check out our Facebook page: www.facebook.com/actorandengineer and follow us on twitter @actorengineer

Armed with not enough time and way too many questions, we discuss Christopher Nolan's newest movie Tenet, how it's release may have affected movie-going in the future, what he expects out of his audiences, the mechanics of inversion and John David Washington's spin on a confident spy who is just trying to figure it all out. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts: https://itun.es/i6gB67Y Check out our Facebook page: www.facebook.com/actorandengineer and follow us on twitter @actorengineer

We are looking back a couple of years to a time before Jessie Buckley was in everything (I'm Thinking of Ending Things, Fargo, Judy, Chernobyl). Wild Rose puts her center-stage, literally, as a young mother struggling with family who has singing aspirations half a world away. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts: https://itun.es/i6gB67Y Check out our Facebook page: www.facebook.com/actorandengineer and follow us on twitter @actorengineer

It's time to dive deep into David Fincher's long-gestating passion project, Mank. He get's Gary Oldman, Amanda Seyfried and a great cast of supporting characters to bring his father's incisive screenplay centering on the downward-spiralling screenwriter of Citizen Kane to reality. 2020 just got a little better. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts: https://itun.es/i6gB67Y Check out our Facebook page: www.facebook.com/actorandengineer and follow us on twitter @actorengineer

Ron Howard, Glenn Close, Amy Adams. Hillbilly Elegy has most of the ingredients of a good movie, but we try to figure out why it didn't land for either one of us. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts: https://itun.es/i6gB67Y Check out our Facebook page: www.facebook.com/actorandengineer and follow us on twitter @actorengineer

This week we wade into the ocean that is Stanley Kubrick. We talk about Kubrick's use of music, lighting and camera moves in this film to create a sense of dread that is more haunting than any gore-filled horror movie. All of this tied with the masterful performance of Malcolm McDowell create a piece of art that forces the viewer to engage with it. Viddy well... Subscribe on Apple Podcasts: https://itun.es/i6gB67Y Check out our Facebook page: www.facebook.com/actorandengineer and follow us on twitter @actorengineer

Henri-Georges Clouzot's 1955 film Diabolique (or Les Diaboliques) may be seen as a proto-Psycho, but it is worth evaluating on its own merits. We extend Halloween out a bit to talk about a creepy and tense film that inspired many suspense films that came after. Oh, and one last thing, keep an eye peeled for the inspiration for Columbo! Subscribe on Apple Podcasts: https://itun.es/i6gB67Y Check out our Facebook page: www.facebook.com/actorandengineer and follow us on twitter @actorengineer

The Wicker Man is a classic horror movie that neither one of us has seen or knew much about. Needless to say, this early 70's cult (in more ways than one) horror film was shocking, trippy and just plain creepy in some places. Who knew that folk music could be so menacing? Subscribe on Apple Podcasts: https://itun.es/i6gB67Y Check out our Facebook page: www.facebook.com/actorandengineer and follow us on twitter @actorengineer

This week we talk about Aaron Sorkin's new film based on the real case against a group of activists charged with inciting a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in 1968. We discuss how much truth is necessary for a narrative film like this and break down some of the actor's portrayals of real people. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts: https://itun.es/i6gB67Y Check out our Facebook page: www.facebook.com/actorandengineer and follow us on twitter @actorengineer