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Jojo Rabbit has been dividing critics. Although it won the audience choice at TIFF, some feel the lighthearted portrayal of Hitler is in bad taste. Others just find it funny.    IMDB

They both loved the Lighthouse, but Michael could have used a little more guidance into port.

This week we are off to Korea to discuss the failures of capitalism with Bong Joon Ho's Parasite.

Dave and Mike tried to avoid the controversy, but it couldn't be avoided. Oh yeah, we liked it. Art house cool badges will be turned in at the end of the week.

Description Mike and Dave reconsider Apocalypse Now during its 40th anniversary year.  IMDB Notes

Michael and Dave talk about Once upon a time ...in Hollywood. The predictable critic hacks they are, they loved it, but did discuss possible misogyny and Tarantino's middle school crush on Old Hollywood. IMDB 70mm Screenings Music Box Theatre, Chicago, IL Alamo Drafthouse New Mission, San Francisco, CA Arclight Cinemas Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA Cineplex Varsity, Toronto, Canada City Cinemas Villa...

Michael and Dave start out the the summer by talking about some classics turning forty. Today it is ALIEN's turn.

We took a (very short) trip to the Chicago Critics Film Festival. We saw....almost everything. Michael swoons over OUR TIME MACHINE and goes against the grain on THE NIGHTINGALE, while Dave rubs salt in his wound for missing LUCE. In Five Minute Bergman WINTER LIGHT is discussed.

  On this weeks episode Michael and Dave talk about the fun new documentary HAIL SATAN? which opens 5/3 in Chicago.   https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9358044/ https://www.hailsatanfilm.com/  

A father and his daughter struggle to survive in deep space where they live in isolation.   David and Michael have a fight over how successful the new Claire Denis movie is. Contents Spolier free review 00:00 - 05:15 Spoilers 5:15 - End FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT 48:00 - 52:00

Mike and Dave discuss Jordan Peele's highly anticipated second film. No rabbits were harmed in the making of this podcast. Needless to say, we were both big fans.   00 - 3:40 Spoiler-free review 3:40 - 13:30 Spoiler recap 13:30 - 28:30 Performance, music, and Peele love 28:00 Influences roundup 40:30 - end  Speculation on the big ideas in US  

Free Solo https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7775622/ We get judgy, and although we loved this visually stunning Oscar nominee, we wonder if some more uncomfortable questions should have been asked.

  Our movie for discussion this episode is the new World War I documentary  They Shall Not Grow Old.  We discuss whether Peter Jackson's efforts to use modern technology brought the Great War back to life, or if it left us feeling somewhere between 1914 and Middle Earth. Also Dave and Michael want to hand out some more Oscar nominations, and maybe take some away in our 2018 snubs and anti-snubs li...

Dave and Mike review M. Night Shyamalan's latest in the Unbreakable trilogy, Glass . Also in this episode, our hosts discuss some personal favorites from 2018 that are  not Roma . Glass   review 6:29 Glass  spoiler discussion 17:25 The top 10 of 2018 that are not  Roma

Happy Holidays! Michael and Dave go a little off script and talk about a the delightful and fun teen zombie musical!

  Dave and Michael talk about Yorgos Lanthimos's latest movie The Favourite . The name is appropriate because it is winning awards left and right. Dave and Michael tried to do more than gush, but this script is so delightful, and the three main actors so divine, it's hard not to love it.   We also discussed whether we reccomend other Lanthimos films to a lover of The Favourite .

This movie was adored by Dave and Michael. In a dystopian version of present-day Oakland, Calif., Cassius Green finds himself in desperate need of a job and becomes a telemarketer at RegalView. But what looks like just another dead-end gig leads Cassius down a bizarre rabbit hole where success depends on sounding white, selling out his friends and co-workers and helping insane CEO Steve Lift ensla...

Michael and Dave review Eighth Grade, the directorial debut from stand-up comic Bo Burnham and likely oscar contender.   Eighth Grade is the story of Kayla Day, an awkward Eighth Grader who is about to finish middle school and enter high school. The year has been a pretty rough one for Kayla, and despite the faux confidence she shows via videos she posts on the internet (to presumably no one), she...

Dave and Michael both enjoyed the insane antics and motif of what's been called "Nick Cage at his most Nick Cage." This analysis of Panos Cosmato's Mandy contains both a spoiler and non-spoiler discussion.

Dave and Michael go through the shocking history and impact of THE EXORCIST