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Two for Space Jam, Please

Cheryl Quimba and Joe Hall

Joe Hall and Cheryl Quimba watch movies then say things about those movies. They have strong feelings about Todd Haynes, Korean horror, class warfare, and how not to make a twenty-first century rom com. They"re basically Siskel and Ebert, but with nothing to lose.

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Episode 116 – Thelma (2024)

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2024/08/26

Join us as we meet Thelma, 93, adorable grandma and certified badass. It's the action comedy we never knew we needed.Also, we have a Patreon! It's fun over there. Check out patreon.com/twoforspacejamplease to see how to access bonus content and get ahold of a thing we made that's real and physical and can be held in your actual hands.

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Episode 115 – How To Blow Up a Pipeline (2022)

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2024/07/29

What counts as justified, rational action in a lethally warming world? Inquiring minds want to know.

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Episode 114 – Janet Planet (2024)

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2024/07/08

A review of Janet Planet calls it "not a movie to be explained," and so this episode is more of the pondering/wandering variety. It's summer. We're here for it.

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Episode 113 – The Running Man (1987)

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2024/06/24

Cheryl's still working on her treatise, "A Unified Theory of Action Movies and Why They're Her Problematic Fave," but we get into some of its broader points after watching this adrenaline-fueled Arnold Schwarzenegger vehicle.

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Episode 112 – Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

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2024/05/27

Cheryl is seriously considering shaving her head. #TheMadMaxCinematicUniverse #ImperatorFuriosa #girlboss

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Episode 111 – The Iron Claw (2023)

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2024/05/20

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

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55:02

Episode 110 – Civil War (2024)

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2024/04/15

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

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58:50

Episode 109 – 3-Iron (2004)

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2024/04/01

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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48:09

Episode 108 – Dune: Part Two (2024)

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2024/03/18

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

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Episode 107 – The Zone of Interest (2023)

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2024/02/26

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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Episode 106 – Anatomy of a Fall (2023)

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2024/01/01

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??)

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43:38

Episode 105 – Please Baby Please (2022)

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2023/12/18

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.

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55:23

Episode 104 – May December

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2023/12/04

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 ...?

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65:38

Episode 103 – Israelism (2023)

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2023/11/24

We returned after a few months of...stuff...to talk about the 2023 documentary Israelism.

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41:34

Episode 102 – Aniara (2018)

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2023/09/04

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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58:14

Episode 101 – Barbie (2023)

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2023/08/07

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

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63:46

Episode 100 – Oppenheimer (2023)

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2023/07/24

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 … Continue reading "Episode 100 – Oppenheimer (2023)"

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Episode 99 – The Blackening (2023)

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2023/06/20

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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Episode 98 – Leonor Will Never Die (2022)

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2023/05/15

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. Thanks to slfhlp for providing us some SICK BEATS for our intro and outro. Get in touch with Joe & Cheryl at … Continue reading "Episode 98 – Leonor Will Never Die (2022)"

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Episode 97 – Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

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2023/04/10

Roll for initiative and grab your arcane spells — we watched Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, and we got all chaotic neutral with it. Thanks to slfhlp for providing us some SICK BEATS for our intro and outro. Get in touch with Joe & Cheryl at twoforspacejamplease @ gmail.com and subscribe on iTunes or Spotify.

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