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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 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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44:17

Episode 73 – Don’t Look Up (2021)

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2022/01/03

Years 2020-2021 must have really done a number on us because we found Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up kinda sweet (and dark and funny and incisive and tragic too). May 2022 bring us the opposite of a comet hurtling towards the Earth. Thanks to slfhlp for providing us some SICK BEATS for our intro and outro. As … Continue reading "Episode 73 – Don’t Look Up (2021)"

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HOLIDAY BONUS CONTENT

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2021/12/25

Happy holidays!! Here's a li'l treat.

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Episode 72 – Succession Season 3 (2021)

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2021/12/14

's a race to the bottom! After the season 3 finale of Succession, we talk psychosexual drama, morality mental exercises, critiques of the ruling class, assistant labor, Cousin Greg's ethical collapse, tragedy, comedy, squishy sympathies, and which Roy family member we'd be (Joe = Kendall/Shiv; Cheryl = Marcia).

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36:45

Episode 71 – The Power of the Dog (2021)

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2021/12/07

played by Benedict Cumberbatch, roughly castrates a bull with a knife, then with his bare hands. This is maybe a representative scene for much of the tense hypermasculinity/repressed sexuality at play in the movie, or maybe it's a way of showing the violence that Phil is capable of. It's a taut, tight, suspenseful Western -- with a twist ending (that we very helpfully spoil!).

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Episode 70 – The Pizzagate Massacre (2020)

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2021/11/29

Is The Pizzagate Massacre the best movie about the Trump era, as this Vice News article contends? We say....possibly?

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58:30

Episode 69 – Squid Game (2021)

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2021/11/15

Squid game, it turns out, is not a show about having a good time eating calamari, but a murderous series of increasingly violent competitions that serves as an allegory about global capitalism and the bone-crushing misery it inflicts on the 99%.

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Episode 68 – The French Dispatch (2021)

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2021/11/08

es Anderson's newest quirky romp, The French Dispatch. We were not fans at all.

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45:17

Episode 67 – Dune (2021)

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2021/10/19

Dune. DUNE!! We've been waiting to watch this one and whoo boy, do we have things to say. We get deep into Denis Villeneuve's top-notch world-building, the ecstatic experience of surrendering to beauty, the huge problem of the chosen one savior narrative, space witches, sandworms, climate disaster, and Timothee Chalamet's jawline. One of our big takeaways - there are no good imperialists!

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Episode 66 – The Last Duel (2021)

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2021/10/18

There are very many bad hairstyles in Ridley Scott's The Last Duel. Our preliminary judgement puts Ben Affleck's bleached blonde number (in his role as Pierre d'Alencon) as the worst, but Matt Damon's mullet is a close second.

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Episode 65 – The Guilty (2021)

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2021/10/04

The 2021 Jake Gyllenhaal vehicle The Guilty, about an LAPD officer demoted to 911 operator who attempts — entirely over the phone — to save an abducted woman, is a no-good, very bad, dangerously pernicious movie, in the opinion of these two amateur movie critics right here. We found a lot (a lot) of it to … Continue reading "Episode 65 – The Guilty (2021)"

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Episode 64 – Inside (2021)

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2021/09/20

Inside is a discomforting and very funny field trip into the head of the comedian over the course of the pandemic. It's a musical comedy special (emphasis on musical) and the songs actually had us LOLing. The serious moments are very, very serious -- even grave -- and the wild tonal swings from hilarity to despair to absurdity to hope really reflect the emotional roller coaster that was 2020. Highlights: "Face Time with My Mom (Tonight)," "Welcome to the Internet," the sketch where he's a Twitch

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Episode 63 – Long Day’s Journey Into Night (2018)

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2021/09/14

an we leave it at that? [Editor: No.] Ok, well...the movie is a visually arresting, moody, evocative, quietly exhilarating, poetic-but-not-surreal dreamscape in which a man searches for his long-lost lover through rubble, rain, and ruin. It's what happens when time collapses into the life of one lit sparkler. And its climax is an hour-long continuous shot!!

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Episode 62 – The Lighthouse (2019)

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2021/09/06

Black waves teeming with salt foam to smother this young mouth with pungent slime, to choke ye, engorging your organs til ye turn blue and bloated with bilge and brine and can scream no more - only when he, crowned in cockle shells with slitherin' tentacle tail and steaming beard take up his fell be-finned arm, his coral-tine trident screeches banshee-like in the tempest and plunges right through yer gullet, bursting ye

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Episode 61 – The Chair (2021)

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2021/08/30

iven Joe's own experiences of late in English departments of higher education institutions. We found a lot to like and a lot to completely shit on. (PS - there's a little something special if you keep listening past the end.....).

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Episode 60 – Bong Joon-ho’s Barking Dogs Never Bite...

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2021/08/23

box, and in between includes sun-dried radishes, a shadow man in a basement, a high-speed chase through an apartment complex, and two murdered dogs. It's funny and tragic and surprising and stirring. We watched it on a DVD that came in the mail. O, those year 2000 days.

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Summer Break! / Culture Mixtape

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2021/08/16

we wanted to post a mini-episode to talk about a few cultural products we've been really into lately. Let us know about the things you've been enjoying (or, alternatively, hating). We'll be back next week!

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Episode 59 – Old (2021)

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2021/08/09

We did something we haven't done in about fifteen years and watched an M. Night Shyamalan movie. Old follows a family on vacation at a posh tropical resort where things take a nightmarish turn after they're taken to a secluded beach reserved for "special" guests and discover that they're aging extremely rapidly. Spoiler alert: Joe is an M. Night Shyamalan apologist!!

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