Tortellini at Noon

Jack Dylan Grazer and Zachary Levi as Freddy Freeman and Billy Batson/Shazam respectively

The wisdom of Solomon, the strength of Hercules, the stamina of Atlas, the power of Zeus, th courage of Achilles and the speed of Mercury, SHAZAM!! We all saw the new DCEU? DC film about the original Captain Marvel, Shazam. Directed by David F. Sandberg from a screenplay by Henry Gayden, the film stars Asher Angel as Billy Batson, a teenage boy who can transform into an adult superhero, played by Zachary Levi. Mark Strong, Jack Dylan Grazer, and Djimon Hounsou also star. This film is a heartwarming story and is funny and entertaining as hell. You’ll be surprised to know that this is the first superhero film that we all have good feelings about. Come join our discussion!

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For the final film in our first annual foreign film month we watch the 2013 South Korean-Czech production, Snowpiercer. The film stars Chris Evans, Song Kang-ho, Tilda Swinton, Jamie Bell, Octavia Spencer, Go Ah-sung, John Hurt, and Ed Harris. The movie takes place aboard the Snowpiercer train, operating on a globe-spanning track, carrying the last remnants of humanity after an attempt at climate engineering in order to stop global warming has unintentionally created a new Snowball Earth. Come join us as we discuss this film and also touch upon the convincing theory that this is some how a sequel to Willy Womka and the Chocolate Factory.

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For our fourth film of Foreign Film Month, we watched Conor’s pick, the 1958 jidaigeki adventure film Hidden Fortress. Directed by Akira Kurosawa, the story takes place in feudal Japan during a war of two clans. General Makabe Rokurōta attempts to smuggle heir to the Akizuki throne, Princess Yuki through enemy territory. All the while two greedy peasants, Tahei and Matashichi, try and get some money out of them.

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We don’t remember who’s pick it is but the next film in foreign film month is 2006’s dark fantasy, Pan’s Labyrinth. Directed by Guillermo del Toro the story takes place in Spain during the summer of 1944, five years after the Spanish Civil War, during the early Francoist period. The narrative intertwines this real world with a mythical world centered on an overgrown, abandoned labyrinth and a mysterious faun creature, with whom the main character, Ofelia, interacts. Come join us as we talk all about this and different fairy tale legends!!

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Bibi Andersson and Liv Ullmannd as Alma and Elizabet respectively

For our second film in foreign film month we tackled what some call the Mount Everest of film analysis, the 1966 psychological drama, Persona. Directed by Ingmar Bergman the story revolves around a young nurse named Alma and her patient, well-known stage actress Elisabet Vogler, who has suddenly stopped speaking. They move to a cottage, where Alma cares for Elisabet, confides in her and begins having trouble distinguishing herself from her patient. Come join us as we wrap our heads around this thought provoking film.

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For the month of March we’ll be watching all foreign films and to kick it off we have Mark’s pick of the 2016 Korean film, Train to Busan. Directed by Yeon Sang-ho and starring Gong Yoo, Jung Yu-mi, and Ma Dong-seok, it takes place on a train to Busan, as a zombie apocalypse suddenly breaks out in the country and compromises the safety of the passengers. We went into this not knowing what to expect so we weren’t ready for the butt cleansing tense action (as Conor called it) that was to come. Come join us for this review!!!

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Sally Hawkins and Doug Jones as Elisa and the “asset”

In honor of the 91st Academy Awards yesterday, we decided to watch last years winner for best picture, The Shape of Water. Directed by Guillermo del Toro, tells the story of a mute cleaner at a high-security government laboratory who falls in love with a captured humanoid amphibian creature. Winner of four Academy Awards a great cast including Sally Hawkins, Doug Jones, Octavia Spencer, Michael Shannon and Richard Jenkins this film tells a very beautiful story. Come join us as we discuss this film!!!

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Jessica Rothe in Happy Death Day 2U

The sequel to the 2017 surprise has finally come out!! Happy Death Day 2U is as fun as the first one was and its not just another slasher film. Taking a more comedic sci-fi approach, the film once again follows Tree Gelbman (Rothe) finding herself reliving the same day repeatedly after being hunted and killed by a masked assailant, only now her friends are also targets, Join us as we discuss the film and its uses of time loops and alternate dimensions.

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This week’s film was one of Don’s picks and he decided to go with the film Turbo Kid. Released in 2015, the film follows the adventures of The Kid, a teenage boy turned superhero in the “Wastelands”, an alternate 1997 Earth where water is scarce. He teams up with a mysterious girl named Apple and an arm-wrestling cowboy named Frederic to stop the tyrannical warlord Zeus. The film has a strikingly similar feeling to another film we just watched, Tank Girl. Come join us!!!

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Jim Carrey as Truman Burbank

Sorry for the week off with no notice it just slipped our minds, but we’re back!!! This weeks film was the 1998 gem The Truman Show. The film stars Jim Carrey as Truman Burbank, adopted and raised by a corporation inside a simulated television show revolving around his life, until he discovers it and decides to escape. Additional roles are performed by Laura Linney, Noah Emmerich, Natascha McElhone, Holland Taylor, Ed Harris, and Brian Delate. We also showed Conor the first episode of Westworld and didn’t realize how similar the two were until after the fact and we discuss the two. Come join our discussion and reach out to us via the links below!!

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