This week's Rick's Pick was Wicked City...(1987)....directed by Yoshiaki Kawajiri...............................

Trigger warning in this movie and episode for all manner of sexual violence and general hentai bullshit.

McDonald's again?! This week's Rick's Pick is Yi Yi (2000) directed by Edward Yang. After our usual argument about RogueLike DeckBuilders (TM), we discuss this movie's understated performances, gorgeous long takes, and the idea of a movie allowing people to see the perspectives of others. Digressions include how we hate the word "panties" and OH MY GOD A CENTIPEDE IS ATTACKING ME HELP ME PLEASE

This week's Lane's Frame is Battleship Potemkin (1925) directed by Sergei Eisenstein. Hard for two idiots to talk about a one hundred year old movie, but we managed to do it for a whole hour! Just ignore all the digressions about what constitutes a modern movie, Palworld, and Twilight. Also, Ricky's friendship with the KGB ended, Mormonism is Ricky's friend now.

This week's Rick's Pick is The Thief and the Cobbler (1993) directed by Richard Williams. As the movie with the longest-ever time spent in production, we go long talking about the different versions of the film, its gorgeous animation, and completely incomprehensible story. Digressions include bottled water, creative "geniuses", and Aladdin's racism. Warning! We talk about puking a lot in the first twenty minutes of this episode lol.

This week's Lane's Frame is Pride & Prejudice (2005) directed by Joe Wright! A canonical Lane's Frame, this movie charms the pants off of us both, even though I was sick and Ricky was tired during this record so we sound a lot more muted than normal. A shockingly short episode. I can't believe we forgot to talk about the sounds of birds chirping!

This week's Rick's Pick is In the Mood for Love (2000) directed by Wong Kar-wai! Part movie discussion, part ethical argument about romance and fate, this episode gets into the psychology of the two leads, the sumptuous colors and cinematography, and whether roleplaying as your spouse's affair partner with your spouse's affair partner's spouse counts as cheating. Plus: fuck Blue Prince and the house it built, and rebuilt, and rebuilt.

This week's new release episode is A Minecraft Movie (2025) directed by Jared Hess. With friend of the show and special guest Sy, we go long on the Minecraft of it all and talk very little about the movie, which is deeply fine and not really remarkable in any way. Plus, a continued conversation about what "cis" means.

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Who picked this dogshit movie? Unfortunately, this week's Lane's Frame is Super Size me (2004) directed by Morgan Spurlock. Pizza Hut! Pizza Hut! Kentucky Fried Chicken and a Pizza Hut!

Content warning: We talk pretty explicitly throughout this episode about eating disorders, fatphobia, calories and calorie counting, weight measurement and loss, body image, and basically everything to do with those subjects. Watchers beware!

This week's Rick's Pick is Escape from New York (1981) directed by John Carpenter! This episode is basically unlistenable by the end because we're both drunk.

We're idiots after all! This week's Lane's Frame is Tokyo Story (1953) directed by Yasujirō Ozu. We discuss this movie's impressive cinematography, our difficulty connecting to its plot, and just how they managed to pull off those neat background shots almost seventy years ago. Plus: a debrief about Lane's trip to NYC to see the new Glengarry Glen Ross revival.