Two for Space Jam, Please

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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Get in, losers. We’re going to Barbie Land.

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We didn’t expressly set out to do it, but we took a stance on Barbenheimer and watched Oppenheimer first. We had sooooo many things to say about this movie about a war criminal feeling bad for his crimes (bomb-and-cry). It was late but we were jazzed to talk about war movies, anti-war movies, and what it means to think you’re saving the world. Joe edited out a burp from Cheryl. You’re welcome.

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We’re back and we watched The Blackening and had a lot of fun talking about why this horror-comedy / comedy-horror worked. Turns out — you need good writing and good performances to make a good movie. Easy. Also, Joe reveals a secret! As always, spoilers abound.

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We get real loopy talking about the zany Filipino meta-action movie, Leonor Will Never Die, and somehow get on a tangent about our love for Star Trek because, well, the heart wants what it wants.

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Roll for initiative and grab your arcane spells — we watched Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, and we got all chaotic neutral with it.

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The Last of Us made us angry. Do with that what you will.

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It’s 1984 but it’s also 2023 and we’re afraid of dying and fumbling our way to survival and it’s goofy and tender with an airborne toxic event still keeping us up at night.

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