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It's our 200th episode! Welcome special guest Charlie Jane Anders to discuss her new book Dreams Bigger Than Heartbreak, how High School Musical: The Musical: The Series is like The Human Centipede 2 (yes, you read that right), pronouns, and pop culture.

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Tina left home to claim her destiny as the rebirth of the galaxy's greatest hero --- but she found something better: a chosen family. This YA series features epic battles, even more epic romance, and always getting people's pronouns right.

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Charlie Jane Anders is the author of Victories Greater Than Death, the first book in a new young-adult trilogy, with the sequel, Dreams Bigger Than Heartbreak, coming April 2022. She's also the author of the short story collection Even Greater Mistakes, and Never Say You Can't Survive (August 2021), a book about how to use creative writing to get through hard times. Her other books include The City in the Middle of the Night and All the Birds in the Sky. She's won the Hugo, Nebula, Sturgeon, Lambda Literary, Crawford and Locus Awards. Her fiction and journalism have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Slate, McSweeney's, Mother Jones, the Boston Review, Tor.com, Tin House, Teen Vogue, Conjunctions, Wired Magazine, and other places. Her TED Talk, "Go Ahead, Dream About the Future" got 700,000 views in its first week. With Annalee Newitz, she co-hosts the podcast Our Opinions Are Correct.

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Robert Eggers brings us his Viking epic The Northman. Nic Cage reaches peak Nic Cage in The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent. Crime doesn't pay in the new animated film The Bad Guys. Speaking of criminal, there's also the new documentary White Hot: The Rise and Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch.

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Himbos abound in the new Thor: Love and Thunder trailer. Plus we're halfway through Moon Knight and not feeling stellar. Finally it's a tour de Nic Cage as we revisit several highlights of his career (depending on who you ask) including Honeymoon in Vegas, Face/Off, and National Treasure. 

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While Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore is a slight improvement over previous entries into the franchise, it's not good enough as a film to overlook the fact that it's supporting She Who Must Not Be Named.

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Only two episodes in and we're already starting to wane on Moon Knight. Plus we can finally discuss Everything Everywhere All at Once - hot dog hands and all. Finally we dive into Apple TV+'s adaptation of Pachinko.

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It's time for Sonic the Hedgehog 2, All the Old Knives, and Cow. 2/3 of this week features films we don't think lives up to their potential. One of these things is not like the others... 

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Lots of green screen this week with: The debut of Marvel's latest show, Moon Knight (and the return of Matt's theories), the Judd Apatow "pandemic comedy" The Bubble, and Jared Leto in Morbius. 

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Welcome Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, and Stephanie Hsu to discuss Everything Everywhere All at Once, emotionally challenging scenes, expectations growing up, and AAPI representation on film. 

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Directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, collectively known as Daniels, the film is a hilarious and big-hearted sci-fi action adventure about an exhausted Chinese American woman (Michelle Yeoh) who can't seem to finish her taxes.

Starring: Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, Stephanie Hsu, James Hong, Jenny Slate, Harry Shum Jr, and Jamie Lee Curtis.

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Michelle Yeoh is recognized as one of the greatest and the most successful actresses from the East. Michelle can recently be seen as 'Emperor Philippa Georgiou' in CBS's Star Trek: Discovery, in Destin Daniel Cretton's Shang-Chi for Marvel and in Navot Papushado's action-thriller Gunpowder Milkshake.

The former Bond girl is best known for her roles in John M. Chu's romantic comedy, Crazy Rich Asians, Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 1 & 2, Rob Marshall's Memoirs of a Geisha, Roger Spottiswoode's Tomorrow Never Dies and Danny Boyle's Sunshine. Other notable performances include starring in Luc Besson's critically acclaimed biographical  lm The Lady and voicing a role in the Dreamworks animated hit, Kung Fu Panda 2.

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Born in Saigon to Chinese immigrants, Ke is the seventh of nine children. He has starred in classics like Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and The Goonies. He has worked as an action choreographer. Ke's love for acting did not wane; however, jobs for Asian Actors in Hollywood remained few and far between. This all changed in 2018 when Crazy Rich Asians, featuring an all-Asian cast took the box of ce by storm, opening new doors for Asian actors. Ke, recognizing Hollywood's acknowledgement of the importance of Asian representation took this as his cue to return to his roots. He decided to step back

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Stephanie recently wrapped on season four of Amazon's hit show, “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” as Mei, the provocative love-interest to Joel Maisel. The cast won a SAG Award in 2020 for best ensemble in a comedy series.

Her past television and  lm credits include a recurring role on “The Path,” “Awkwa na is Nora from Queens,” “Femme,” “Set It Up,” “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” and “Girl Code."

Everything Everywhere All at Once comes out wide April 8, 2022

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Welcome DANIELS (aka Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert) to talk about Everything Everywhere All at Once, purpose, parental expectations, unethical attention extraction, and eau de filmmaking. 

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Directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, collectively known as Daniels, the film is a hilarious and big-hearted sci-fi action adventure about an exhausted Chinese American woman (Michelle Yeoh) who can't seem to finish her taxes.

Starring: Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, Stephanie Hsu, James Hong, Jenny Slate, Harry Shum Jr, and Jamie Lee Curtis.

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Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, collectively known as DANIELS, have been writing and directing together for over a decade, initially with a slew of viral music videos, commercials, and short films, then with feature films and TV directing.

They have directed music videos for Manchester Orchestra, Foster the People, and won a VMA for their video for “Turn Down For What,” which Scheinert bullied Kwan into being the lead actor in. Kwan is a really good dancer.

They wrote and directed the feature film Swiss Army Man starring Paul Dano and Daniel Radcliffe, which went on to win the Directing Award at the Sundance Film Festival, received multiple nominations, and gained a large cult following.

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Yes, Morbius is bad, and its greatest crime is being boring. We had slightly higher hopes for Judd Apatow's latest film, The Bubble, but it lacked heart and consistent humor - in spite of what is usually a very talented cast and crew.

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