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Jett and Gareth disagree sharply about one performance in Superman. On the larger point they are united: this is a movie willing to treat empathy and kindness not as weakness, sentimentality, or branding, but as genuine forms of power in a world very good at rewarding cruelty. Sometimes decency really does need a cape.

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"It made me care about strangers." That may be the most important thing Gareth says about 28 Years Later. Jett and Gareth explore a startlingly beautiful horror film whose cinematic ancestry reaches toward Boorman, Powell and Pressburger, Mike Leigh, and Lynne Ramsay, and whose real subject may be the persistence of human care.

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Has Jett finally become a Wes Anderson person? Civilization awaits the verdict. Jett and Gareth discuss why The Phoenician Scheme works for both of them and make room to remember Harris Yulin, one of those extraordinary actors capable of making a few minutes of screen time feel like an entire life.

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Can men actually be friends? Jett puts the question to Gareth, his co-host and possible friend, on TFT's 300th episode. Mountainhead and Tim Robinson's Friendship become entry points into masculinity, status, loneliness, Emerson, Joseph Beuys, RoboCop, Starship Troopers, and whatever friendship is when nobody is trying to win.

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Surprise: Jett and Gareth love it. The Final Reckoning somehow evokes Lawrence of Arabia, The Abyss, and Sidney Lumet's Fail Safe while remaining very much a Mission: Impossible movie. The conversation considers spectacle, sacrifice, the series as a whole, and why some gigantic movies still feel unexpectedly personal.

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Spoiler alert: your neighbors are terrible. In a culture offering an infinite amount of "content," Gareth proposes something better: watch Jean de Florette and Manon des Sources. Jett and Gareth explore two enduring films about cruelty, inheritance, consequence, hope, and atonement. Please watch them first. Some spoilers deserve to remain spoilers.

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Friends, lovers, sinners all: see this movie. Jett and Gareth take on Ryan Coogler's sprawling, multifaceted Sinners and the reasons it feels bigger than a single successful film. What does it reveal about genre, popular cinema, authorship, and the kinds of ambitious movies audiences might still demand?

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Steven Soderbergh's Black Bag arrives as a sleek spy film and becomes something much more useful: a story about trust, loyalty, intimacy, and what people owe one another when institutions become unstable. Jett and Gareth consider why this deceptively elegant entertainment feels unusually alive to its political moment.

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The episode goes off the rails. This is acknowledged early. Jett and Gareth remember their favorite Gene Hackman performances and what made him irreplaceable, examine what the 2025 Oscars did—and did not—say about the surrounding world, and ask the harder question underneath both subjects: when circumstances demand something of us, what are our responsibilities?

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Emilia Pérez, I'm Still Here, Nickel Boys, The Substance and Wicked - these are the films we're discussing today Dear Listener. As always Gareth Higgins and Jett Loe agree to disagree, especially about Gareth's shocking pick for best film out of the nominees. Enjoy.

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