Tortellini at Noon

Continuing on with Foreign Film Month we watched our first Indian film for the podcast, 2022’s action drama epic RRR. Directed by S. S. Rajamouli, who co-wrote the film with V. Vijayendra Prasad, it centers around fictional versions of two Indian revolutionaries, Alluri Sitarama Raju and Komaram Bheem, their friendship and their fight against the British Raj. The film stars N. T. Rama Rao Jr., Ram Charan, Ajay Devgn, Alia Bhatt, Shriya Saran, Samuthirakani, Ray Stevenson, Alison Doody, and Olivia Morris. Come jois us!!!

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Continuing on with Foreign Film Month we watched the 1985 epic action drama film Ran. Directed, edited and co-written by Akira Kurosawa, the plot derives from William Shakespeare's King Lear and includes segments based on legends of the daimyō Mōri Motonari. The film stars Tatsuya Nakadai as Hidetora Ichimonji, an aging Sengoku-period warlord who decides to abdicate as ruler in favor of his three sons. Come join us!!!

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This week we’re staring our annual Foreign Film month with the show’s first Italian entry, the 1963 surrealist comedy-drama film 8 ½. Directed and co-written by Federico Fellini, the metafictional narrative centers on Guido Anselmi, played by Marcello Mastroianni, a famous Italian film director who suffers from stifled creativity as he attempts to direct an epic science fiction film. Claudia Cardinale, Anouk Aimée, Sandra Milo, Rossella Falk, Barbara Steele, and Eddra Gale portray the various women in Guido's life. Come join us!!

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This week we watched a film that serves as the end of the unofficial long titles with numbers month and a prelude to Foreign film Month, 2013’s The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared. Directed by Felix Herngren based on the 2009 novel of the same name by Jonas Jonasson the film tells the story of 100 year old Allan Karlsson who after living a long and colorful life, finds himself stuck in a nursing home so he leaps out a window and begins an unexpected journey. Come join us!!!

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This week we watched the 2017 crime drama film Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri. Written, directed, and co-produced by Martin McDonagh the film stars Frances McDormand as a Missouri woman who rents three roadside billboards to draw attention to her daughter's unsolved rape and murder. Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, John Hawkes, Peter Dinklage and  Lucas Hedges appear in supporting roles. Come join us!!!

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For our first review of the year, Zach picked the 2022 George Miller film Three Thousand Years of Longing. Directed and produced by George Miller and written by Miller and Augusta Gore, it is based on the short story "The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye" by A. S. Byatt and stars Idris Elba as a djinn who is unleashed from a bottle by a professor (Tilda Swinton) and tells her stories from his thousands of years-long existence. The film is dedicated to Miller's mother Angela, as well as Rena Mitchell, relative of producer Doug Mitchell.

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Welcome to Season 7!!! This week we’re hosting the now annual Tortellini’s where we will pick the nest of the previous Season. Come listen in to hear who we thought was the best actor, best director and the best and worst pictures that we watched last year. Come join us!!!!

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To finish off the year and Season 6 Zach, Don and Jackie talk about the new Knives Out mystery Glass Onion. Written and directed by Rian Johnson, it is the sequel to the 2019 film Knives Out, with Daniel Craig reprising his role as master detective Benoit Blanc as he takes on a new case. The ensemble cast includes Edward Norton, Janelle Monáe, Kathryn Hahn, Leslie Odom Jr., Jessica Henwick, Madelyn Cline, Kate Hudson, and Dave Bautista. Come join us and have a good holiday season!!

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It’s actually here, after 13 long years of multiple push backs and delays the sequel to the 2009 original has finally been released Avatar: The Way of Water. Directed by James Cameron from a screenplay he co-wrote with Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver, in the film, Jake Sully (Worthington) and his family explore the oceans of Pandora to meet the Metkayina clan. The film stars returning actors Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Stephen Lang and Sigourney Weaver with new cast members including Kate Winslet, Cliff Curtis, Edie Falco and Jemaine Clement. Come join us!!!

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This week after the hype has finally died off we watched the 2021 film Pig. Directed by Michael Sarnoski (in his feature directorial debut), from a story by Vanessa Block and Sarnoski. The film stars Nicolas Cage as a truffle-hunter who lives alone in the Oregon wilderness and must return to his past in Portland in search of his beloved foraging pig after she is kidnapped. It also stars Alex Wolff and Adam Arkin. Come join us!!!

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