THE WRITING

Muscles, muscles everywhere. In The Iron Claw, pro wrestling is the stuff of melodrama and inconceivable tragedy. Join us in the ring.

Wooboy. Buckle up, folks. This ain’t going to be pretty.

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It started with a student story about phrogging. It ended with us watching a 20-year-old Korean movie that had us reflecting on class, small appliance repair, and the utter beauty of not talking.

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We think Dune: Part Two was a Dud: Part Two. We have our reasons.

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This was (obviously) a heavy conversation. We covered the banality of evil, the ways we remember atrocity, familial protectionism, gradations of complicity, small acts of resistance, and the practice of viewing present-day horrors through the lens of future generations. It’s a lot. We muddle through, together.

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WE DID NOT ADEQUATELY DISCUSS FRENCH COURT CAPES

The chilly, cerebral courtroom thriller Anatomy of a Fall dares to ask — Is marriage itself a complex exercise in litigation? (Follow-up question: Does blasting a 50 Cent song at eardrum-blasting volumes justify murder??)

Are kitchen appliances sexy? What does bisexual lighting mean in 2023? We’re asking the tough questions, folks. Our instigator – Please Baby Please, a movie so campy it should come with its own three-person tent.

In the first minute of this episode, Joe called May December “a banger.” Let me be clear – this movie is not “a banger.” But it made us feel weird and unsettled and disturbed and maybe that’s … good …?

We returned after a few months of…stuff…to talk about the 2023 documentary Israelism. If you’d like to learn more about the occupation, we also recommend the now classic documentary Five Broken Cameras. For visual narratives of Palestine from a Palestinian perspective, browse the Palestine Film Institute’s archives. If you’re ready for the some background reading, The Palestine-Israel Conflict: A Basic Introduction is a great place to start if you need…a basic introduction. To learn more about the 1948 Nakba, check out the Israeli historian Ilan Pappe’s deeply researched The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. Ready to understand the current moment in the context of the Palestinian liberation struggle? Check out All the Walls Will Fall: 2023 Palestine Liberation Resources List.  

It’s time for a movie adapted from a long sci-fi poem written as a critical response to the United States’ bombing of Hiroshima. Aniara means despair.

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