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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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All Episodes

69:28

Episode 93 – The Menu (2022)

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2022/11/28

We brought our appetites for the absurdist dark comedy that is The Menu - and we left satisfied!

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52:47

Episode 92 – The Banshees of Inisherin

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2022/11/14

The Banshees of Inisherin asks of its audience - how many fingers would you cut off to get your former best friend to leave you alone??

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50:06

Episode 91 – Barbarian (2022)

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2022/10/31

Join us for a brief stay at probably the worst Airbnb experience of all time. We grit our teeth (and sometimes closed our eyes) and watched Barbarian!

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34:40

Episode 90 – Vesper (2022)

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2022/10/03

Vesper is viscous, gooey, slipshod, and visceral. Ferny plants shoot lethal, glowing pink darts that burrow into you and turn into insects. Scavenging pilgrims build rubbish towers high into the sky. A floating orb holds the consciousness of a bedridden man, and a 13-year-old girl plays with plants to have some shot at survival. Yes, we enjoyed this one

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32:19

Episode 89 – Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022)

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2022/09/12

Our biggest piece of advice if you're planning a hurricane party with your friends in a mansion for the weekend - Put. Away. The swords. We watched Bodies Bodies Bodies and talked about funny horror and killer parlor games. And also - what are people in their twenties like again??

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50:30

Episode 88 – The Rehearsal (2022)

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2022/09/05

Nathan Fielder's The Rehearsal is bizarre, uncomfortable, emotional, surprising, and deeply, deeply weird. This show was HBO being cool with spending millions to let a guy confront his anxiety through helping others confront their own anxieties - which is ok by us!

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38:44

Episode 87 – The Gray Man (2022)

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2022/07/25

This week we're coming at you from our neighbor to the north - Canada! We watched The Gray Man, starring Ryan Gosling (a Canadian!) as a CIA assassin named Six who learned a little too much about his employer and so is on the run in a cat and mouse chase across Europe. The movie was wildly expensive to produce and is wildly mediocre. Do better, Netflix.

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64:00

Episode 86 – Elvis (2022)

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2022/07/05

Special episode alert! We've got two guests joining us -- New York State Assemblymember Jon Rivera, and Ethan Powers -- to review Baz Luhrmann's Elvis. We laugh, we cry, we disagree, we spend an inordinate amount of time trying to figure out what's going on with Tom Hanks. Are you lonesome tonight?? Well, come join us! sorry :(

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54:40

Episode 85 – Clockwatchers (1997)

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2022/06/20

It's 1997 and our queens Parker Posey, Toni Collete, and Lisa Kudrow are at the height of their powers playing temps trying to survive in a mind-numbing cubicle hellscape. Clockwatchers, another entry in our ongoing series on labor movies, feels prescient in its representation of disposable workers that sadly still holds true today. Bonus: we reminisce about a few of our own past jobs! There's some, uh, pallet smashing.

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32:01

Episode 84 – The Bob’s Burgers Movie (is Not...

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2022/06/06

For this episode we joined the Bob's Burgers crew in their quest to pay one month of their business loan payment and solve a grisly murder. It's sweet and gross and comforting and touching. The Belchers - they're just like us!

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38:19

Episode 83 – The Sleep Dealer (2008)

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2022/05/30

In Alex Rivera's 2008 sci-fi drama Sleep Dealer, people are plugged into a global computer network via nodes on their bodies, work involves controlling your robot avatar in another country, and memories are sold to pay back student loans. It's the near future!!

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39:03

Episode 82 – The Humans (2021)

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2022/05/18

Hey, it's Joe. I'm not used to writing these episode recaps and, well, we watched the 2021 movie The Humans (based on the 2015 play) and it was, uh, full of sad but also enduring humans.

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57:10

Episode 81 – Severance (2022)

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2022/04/25

Once you get us started, we can talk about work until the cows come home, or until it's 5 o'clock and time to ride the brain-blending elevator down to the floor where you get to be a human again. We talk Kafka, fluorescent lighting, bad design, worker solidarity, personal sh*t, and waffle parties. It's Severance time, baby.

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37:46

Episode 80 – Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022)

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2022/04/11

In Everything Everywhere All at Once, we get a bedraggled, fed up, middle aged, Chinese immigrant wife and mom as our protagonist (played by the incomparable Michelle Yeoh), and she gets to kick actual ass as she tears through an IRS building while being audited. So yeah, we liked it.

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51:28

Episode 79 – Drive My Car (2021)

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2022/03/21

Ryusuke Hamaguchi's Drive My Car is a quiet, slow moving, tender movie that rewards patience and an attentive regard for the smallest moments. We digress at times during our conversation (as always), so get ready to hear our thoughts on the craft of fiction, finite friendships, and suffering, oh, suffering.

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38:08

Episode 78 – The Batman (2022)

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2022/03/14

In this house, we stan Robert Pattinson. Even when (especially when) he plays an angsty, brooding, eyeliner-wearing, journal-writing Bruce Wayne who probably listens to The Cure.

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35:00

Episode 77 – Kimi (2022)

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2022/02/28

Sometimes you're in the mood for a movie that's good-bad. Kimi is good-bad, with a shockingly simple storyline that has three bad guys killed by a nail gun at the end. What more could you want?

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37:11

Episode 76 – Bigbug (2022)

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2022/02/14

We were a wee bit disappointed in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's newest film, Big Bug, which is maybe why we spent most of this conversation talking about the end of empire and fabulist futures. But we connect it all back to the movie somehow, we do!

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53:09

Episode 75 – Nightmare Alley (2021)

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2022/02/01

t the U.S. is a carnival, everyone wants to be lied to, and Bradley Cooper is the perfect creep. Step right up!!

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30:35

Episode 74 – Licorice Pizza (2020)

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2022/01/04

Mr. Paul Thomas Anderson is back, this time with an oddball love story that’s soaked in nostalgia, the 70s, and the screwy exuberance of being young and confused. The pants are tight. The music is excellent. And waterbeds abound. Thanks to slfhlp for providing SICK BEATS for our intro and outro. As always send your comments, questions, … Continue reading "Episode 74 – Licorice Pizza (2020)"

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