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Josh & Othneil brave the wilderness (and a heated disagreement about the central character's motivations!) in one of the best films of 2024 - Danish director Nikolaj Arcel's masterful frontier tale The Promised Land.

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Season 2 is here! Josh and Othneil explore a Bhutanese film about the advent of Democracy in the country, through the eyes of a rural community, the government agents attempting to hold a mock election, and a local monk who believes that sending his apprentice to find guns will "make things right". 

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Josh (in SC) and Othneil (in OH) continue the podcast from afar as they discuss Kelly Reichardt's new film Showing Up, a quiet character study about the social, familial, and mental struggles of a Portland sculpture artist.

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Othneil and Josh break the hiatus with one of the year's most fascinating indie films - a speculative, intimate, micro-budget sci-fi tale about the (possible) future of crime and consciousness. 

(TW: Film contains intense discussions of child abuse, and we mention this in the episode.)

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Josh and Othneil discuss bar mitzvahs, murder, homesteading,  Spielberg, aliens, orchestras, and Everything else.

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Othneil and Josh share their honorable mentions and their #10 through #6 films of the past film year - plus, a few bonus questions!

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It's a COVID episode! Over Zoom, Othneil (sick) and Josh (not sick) chat about this new and surprisingly introspective Dreamworks adventure!

Audio quality is not the best on this one due to recording at different locations etc., but we hope you enjoy anyway!

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Brazil is at it again (creating great films)! Josh and Othneil discuss a (non-science-fiction!) film about the everyday struggles of a working-class family navigating an entire planet's worth of relational, social, and economic shock waves. 

NOTE: We recorded this before Brazil's "January 6th", which is why we don't reference it. Also, as we record right after the film and speak off the cuff, some of the dates during the discussion about the political state of Brazil are inaccurate. Additionally, Othneil's statement about Bolsonaro's election being potentially fraudulent is mistaken. In fact, Bolsonaro himself spent years undermining democratic elections in Brazil and preparing his base to make claims of fraud (sound familiar?).  Apologies!

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Othneil & Josh react to one of the most surprising films of the year - an ostensibly family-aimed film that covers a massive range of social and philosophical territory. But of course, we'd expect nothing less from Guillermo Del Toro.

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Josh and Othneil discover the keys to friendship, civil resistance,  and possibly even parenting, as they discuss this delightful indie comedy from British comedians David Earl and Chris Hayward.