After Green Book won an Oscar, we toyed w/hate-watching it since Feb cinema is a dumping ground for lame movies. We decided instead to return to Boots Riley’s powerhouse directorial debut Sorry to Bother You. We talk it over in an end-of-work-week fugue state, get wildly off topic, and work our way back to the … Continue reading "Episode 9: Sorry to Bother You (2018)"

It's back to the archives with a 2013 discussion of Cuarón's movie about what's keeping us down.

It's back to the archives with a 2013 discussion of Cuarón's movie about what's keeping us down.

We watched 20,000 hours of GBBO material and definitely covered it all in under an hour.

We talked about this movie shortly after its release in 2012. 2019 internet tells me history hasn’t treated this one well, and I don’t think we would either. And we shouldn’t! Fortunately, there have been no shoot-and-cry flicks by American directors since. Right? –J

Roma led us back to Alfonso Cuarón’s 2006 Children of Men. Will we keep going w/Cuarón? Maybe!