On the 53rd episode of Piecing It Together, Josh Bell joins me again for Vox Lux, Brady Corbet's polarizing look at the life of a pop star (played as a young girl by Raffey Cassidy and as an adult by Natalie Portman) whose life and career is marred by tragedy. A difficult movie, but a fascinating one, Josh and I fall on totally different ends of the spectrum of opinions on the film which makes for a great conversation. Puzzle pieces include A Star Is Born, We Need To Talk About Kevin, mother! and Dogville.

As always, SPOILER ALERT for Vox Lux (and any other movies we discussed)! https://www.voxluxmovie.com/

This episode will be followed up later this week with a second conversation about the movie! So stay tuned for more Vox Lux.

Josh Bell is a film critic whose work has been seen in the Las Vegas Weekly, Film Racket and more. Check out his website at http://joshbellhateseverything.com/Like Him on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/joshbellhateseverything/And Follow him on Twitter @SignalBleed

My new album, A Different Kind Of Dream is available NOW on iTunes and all other digital music stores! Make sure to check it out!Also, my new Virtual Reality Music Video “Palindrone 360” is available now on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26kcl20ESp0And now my new short-film style Music Video “Artificial” is also available on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6wnnMqoEr8

The song at the end of the episode is actually a piece of instrumental pop music I made for a singer. It is not available anywhere except on this episode.

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