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March 12, 2025Live Commentary: Okja (2017)
Alongside our review of Bong Joon Ho's latest film, Mickey 17, we take a look back to his last English-language film, Okja, and discuss a live commentary of the film. A young girl risks everything to prevent a powerful, multinational company from kidnapping her best friend - a fascinating beast named Okja.
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Credits:
Theme music by Eugene Rocco Utley
Artwork by Danny Jarabek
Edited by Danny Jarabek

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Credits:
Theme music: Eugene Rocco Utley & Karl Vincent
Artwork: Danny Jarabek
Editor: Danny Jarabek
Assistant Producer: Evan Miller
2 hr 18 min
March 10, 2025EP 128: Mickey 17 (2025)
In Bong Joon-ho’s first film since the Best Picture-winning Parasite, he returns to science fiction by adapting the novel Mickey7 by Edward Ashton. Robert Pattinson stars as an "expendable" - a disposable crew member on a space mission, selected for dangerous tasks because he can be renewed if his body dies, with his memories largely intact. With one regeneration, though, things go very wrong. The movie also stars Steven Yeun, Naomi Ackie, and Mark Ruffalo.
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Chapter Timestamps:
0:00:00 Intro & Initial Thoughts
0:21:55 Spoiler Review
1:31:02 Oscars Assessment
1:34:25 Final Ratings
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Paul Rai on Letterboxd, Instagram, and X
Bryan Sudfield on Letterboxd, Instagram, X, and Life Moves Pretty Fast
Cameron Ritter on Letterboxd, Instagram, X, and TikTok
Ethan Dayton on Letterboxd, Bluesky, and X
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Credits:
Theme music by Eugene Rocco Utley
Artwork by Danny Jarabek
Edited by Danny Jarabek

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Credits:
Theme music: Eugene Rocco Utley & Karl Vincent
Artwork: Danny Jarabek
Editor: Danny Jarabek
Assistant Producer: Evan Miller
2 hr
March 07, 2025The Awards Tape: Oscars Recap 2025 ft. Ethan Simmie
In the final Awards Tape of the season, we recap the Oscars ceremony debriefing everything from our reactions to this year’s winners to Conan’s performance as the host to 5-minute 40-second speeches in the finale of a tumultuous awards season.
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Bryan Sudfield on Letterboxd, Instagram, X, and Life Moves Pretty Fast
Kam Ryan on Letterboxd, Instagram, X, and Empty Theater Podcast
Paul Rai on Letterboxd, Instagram, and X
Sara Ciplickas on Letterboxd, Instagram, and X
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Credits:
Theme music by Eugene Rocco Utley
Artwork by Danny Jarabek
Edited by Danny Jarabek

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Credits:
Theme music: Eugene Rocco Utley & Karl Vincent
Artwork: Danny Jarabek
Editor: Danny Jarabek
Assistant Producer: Evan Miller
1 hr 23 min
March 05, 2025NEWS 036: Slamdance 2025 Recap
Established by filmmakers who wanted to showcase the unfiltered voice of independent artists, Slamdance is an ongoing experiment that features emerging artists in a week-long Oscars qualifying festival now held in Los Angeles. Our team had the opportunity to cover the festival and see many of the films hosted in this year’s selection.
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Adam Patla on Letterboxd, Instagram, Bluesky, X, TikTok, and YouTube
Ethan Dayton on Letterboxd, Bluesky, and X
Landon Defever on Letterboxd, Instagram, X, Films for the Void
Red Broadwell on Letterboxd, X, and Instagram
Sara Ciplickas on Letterboxd, Instagram, and X
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Credits:
Theme music by Eugene Rocco Utley
Artwork by Danny Jarabek
Edited by Danny Jarabek

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Credits:
Theme music: Eugene Rocco Utley & Karl Vincent
Artwork: Danny Jarabek
Editor: Danny Jarabek
Assistant Producer: Evan Miller
1 hr 11 min
March 05, 2025RETROSPECTIVE 018: Bong Joon-Ho
Before our review of Mickey 17, we’re looking back through the filmography of Bong Joon Ho, a South Korean filmmaker who has defined his career by blending genres and inciting sharp social commentary. From his earlier Korean works such as the mystery procedural of Memories of Murder to the monster spectacle of The Host, all the way through his Best Picture phenomenon in Parasite, we unpack his full career leading up to his newest release in Mickey 17.
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Gabe Lillianthal on Letterboxd, Bluesky, X, and TikTok
Red Broadwell on Letterboxd, X, and Instagram
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Credits:
Theme music by Eugene Rocco Utley
Artwork by Danny Jarabek
Edited by Nate Hayden

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Credits:
Theme music: Eugene Rocco Utley & Karl Vincent
Artwork: Danny Jarabek
Editor: Danny Jarabek
Assistant Producer: Evan Miller
1 hr 36 min
March 03, 2025EP 127: Ne Zha 2 ft. Larry Fried
After shattering global box office records including the highest-grossing animated film of all time and top 10 grossing films of all time, we’re taking a look at Chinese blockbuster, Ne Zha 2. The sequel is described as follows, after the catastrophe, although the souls of Nezha and Aobing were saved, their bodies would soon be shattered. Taiyi Zhenren planned to use the seven-colored lotus to rebuild their bodies.
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Chapter Timestamps:
0:00:00 Intro & Initial Thoughts
0:24:34 Spoiler Review
1:33:25 Oscars Assessment
1:46:44 Final Ratings
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Paul Rai on Letterboxd, Instagram, and X
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Credits:
Theme music by Eugene Rocco Utley
Artwork by Danny Jarabek
Edited by Danny Jarabek

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Credits:
Theme music: Eugene Rocco Utley & Karl Vincent
Artwork: Danny Jarabek
Editor: Danny Jarabek
Assistant Producer: Evan Miller
1 hr 55 min
March 01, 2025*SLAMDANCE 2025* Interview With 'Memories of Love Returned' (2025) Writer/Director, Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine
At Slamdance Film Festival, Red Broadwell interviews writer/director, Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, of Memories of Love Returned.
On April 24th, 2002, Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine’s car broke down in the small town of Mbirizi, Uganda. While waiting for the car's repair he stumbled upon a photo studio and met photographer Kibaate Aloysius Ssalongo, whose work spanned from the late 1950’s up till 2006 when he passed away.
This chance encounter turned into a 22 year journey documenting and exploring Kibaate’s life and photography and the profound impact it had on Ntare’s life and the lives of the entire community he documented.
The film is centered on a large-scale outdoor exhibit in Kibaate’s hometown, which led to the community's discovery of long lost photos, family secrets and never before seen family members all being brought to life through Kibaate’s work.
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Credits:
Theme music by Eugene Rocco Utley
Artwork by Danny Jarabek
Edited by Danny Jarabek & Landon Defever
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Credits:
Theme music: Eugene Rocco Utley & Karl Vincent
Artwork: Danny Jarabek
Editor: Danny Jarabek
Assistant Producer: Evan Miller
22 min
February 27, 2025The Awards Tape: Oscars Model ft. Cole Curtiss-Fuentes & Mitchell Curtiss
In an appendix to our final Oscar predictions episode, we simply can’t stay away from awards season conversations, and as such, are adding one more conversation before the ceremony on March 2. We are bringing back a pair of guests to discuss the Oscars Model, an algorithmic mathematical model that attempts to predict the Oscars. We will discuss the background behind making the model, its final mathematical winners, and how that differs from our personal predictions.
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Cole Curtiss-Fuentes on X
Mitchell Curtiss on X
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Credits:
Theme music by Eugene Rocco Utley
Artwork by Danny Jarabek
Edited by Danny Jarabek

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Credits:
Theme music: Eugene Rocco Utley & Karl Vincent
Artwork: Danny Jarabek
Editor: Danny Jarabek
Assistant Producer: Evan Miller
1 hr 16 min
February 26, 2025EP 126: The Monkey (2025)
Following up last years viral sensation with Longlegs, Osgood Perkins is back with The Monkey, a horror comedy based on a short story by Stephen King. When twin brothers Bill and Hal find their father's old monkey toy in the attic, a series of gruesome deaths start. The siblings decide to throw the toy away and move on with their lives, growing apart over the years. The film stars Theo James, Tatiana Maslany, and Colin O’Brien
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Chapter Timestamps:
0:00:00 Intro & Initial Thoughts
0:19:52 Spoiler Review
1:23:53 Oscars Assessment
1:24:27 Final Ratings
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Danny Jarabek Website, Letterboxd, Instagram, Bluesky, X, TikTok, and Linktree
Paul Rai on Letterboxd, Instagram, and X
Cameron Ritter on Letterboxd, Instagram, X, and TikTok
Red Broadwell on Letterboxd, X, and Instagram
Adam Patla on Letterboxd, Instagram, Bluesky, X, TikTok, and YouTube
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Credits:
Theme music by Eugene Rocco Utley
Artwork by Danny Jarabek
Edited by Nate Hayden

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Credits:
Theme music: Eugene Rocco Utley & Karl Vincent
Artwork: Danny Jarabek
Editor: Danny Jarabek
Assistant Producer: Evan Miller
1 hr 37 min
February 24, 2025Live Commentary: 31st Screen Actors Guild Awards (2025)
We react live to the 2025 SAG Awards just hours after our final Oscar predictions episode where many of our predictions were dependent on the results we received in this ceremony. One of the last major steps before the Oscars, we now have our SAG winners!
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Adam Patla on Letterboxd, Instagram, Bluesky, X, TikTok
Tate Fowler on Letterboxd and Instagram
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SAG Award Winners

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Credits:
Theme music by Eugene Rocco Utley
Artwork by Danny Jarabek
Edited by Danny Jarabek

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Credits:
Theme music: Eugene Rocco Utley & Karl Vincent
Artwork: Danny Jarabek
Editor: Danny Jarabek
Assistant Producer: Evan Miller
2 hr 28 min