Frame Work

Send us Fan Mail Joon Kim portals in for a rambling discussion about men, spiders, and the sorcerors that cheerfully shred the fabric of all realities to indulge their childish whims.

Send us Fan Mail Denis Villaneuve's extravaganzic DUNE crushes the scope and visuals, but could use a bit more blood in its veins.  It raises the question of whether this adaptation could be fairly imperfect but still impossible to improve upon.  Guest Alex Ricciardi, producer of a documentary about a visionary madman's earlier attempt at adapting the material,  is on hand to talk us thr...

Send us Fan Mail Things heat up as the contestants navigate pirates, golden receivers and black messiahs.

Send us Fan Mail Chris Prentice returns to RAAAAAAACHEL!!!  STAYWITHMEEEEEEEE!!!

Send us Fan Mail John and Al do an MCU check in, offering lukewarm takes on the charming performances and shaky structural decisions of SHANG CHI and cautious optimism about the opening salvo of the HAWKEYE series.

Send us Fan Mail Chris and Al debate the best episodes and worst person from the debut season of the seminal mob drama

Send us Fan Mail In which the Frame Work all-stars go to the hood, the future, jail, family reunions, space and back 2 tha hood.

Send us Fan Mail Brett Blake returns to talk about the most straightforward and most overlooked film, the dirty cop thriller INSOMNIA.

Send us Fan Mail A spoiler-full review of THE MANY SAINTS OF NEWARK leads the guys to feel nostalgic for the original run of THE SOPRANOS, and a lengthy consideration of the legacy of the show, its many imitators in the "peak TV" antihero mold, and whether those shows have anything to offer in the post Me-Too landscape.

Send us Fan Mail The Nolanoscopy gets into the swing of things with Nolan's breakthrough effort, the dazzling feat of reverse chronology MEMENTO.

Send us Fan Mail The Frame Work All-Stars assemble for the ultimate movie trivia challenge FRAME WORK PRESENTS: THE MOVIE SEQUEL TITLE GAME: VOL I.:  NOMENCLATURE RISING. How many DTV American Pie sequels can you name ?  Who could possibly rattle off the entire Hellraiser franchise?  Who has never seen Dirty Harry?  How long will it take Al to explain the rules he made up, or read his own spreadsh...

Send us Fan Mail Educator and artist Sybille Bruun joins the guys to talk about Stephen King's magnum opus (no, the other one) IT.  We dive right in to the essential nature of horror and America, and how the recent adaptation managed to find an entirely different batshit, offensive coda for the material the book's, which was already so batshit and offensive that they  and they knew not t...

Send us Fan Mail A new director series begins with Christopher Nolan's debut, the black-and-white noir exercise FOLLOWING.   Although the guys can't seem to focus for too long on this extended short film, so there is just as much talk about what is to come when the stodgy Brit gets to stretch his wings to make MEMENTO, THE DARK KNIGHT, INCEPTION and others.

Send us Fan Mail I mean, this guy was  a real jerk

Send us Fan Mail We rank things out and try to figure out what we learned about the elusive Mr. Fincher.

Send us Fan Mail James Gunn tries to bring some Troma energy to superhero hijinks, and the guys are sort of here for it, but a little lukewarm?  We try to figure out if that is because vulgar violent superhero excess has become ground too well-trodden to be shocked by, or because Gunn himself has done better versions of similar material, or he is operating within the fundamentally compromised DCEU...

Send us Fan Mail Joon is back, Al is cranky, Gary Oldman is miscast, and our journey through the David Fincher filmography is complete.

Send us Fan Mail In which we talk up our personal favorite entries that fell off the consensus Best list.

Send us Fan Mail Joon Kim drops out of a sky portal to help the guys make a definitive (sure, why not?) ranking of the ongoing megalith that is the MCU.  In this installment, we talk throught our consensus top 5 of this genre-unto-itself, while next week will feature us each stumping for a personal choice that did not make the cut.  

Send us Fan Mail The guys welcome Brett Blake to the podcast in order to finally put to bed all the controversy surrounding the Star Wars sequel trilogy to bed.  It is mostly a reasonable, civil discussion of differing philosophies on the meaning and handling of franchise IP in the streaming era, that may eventually take a hard swerve into all advocating for the genocide of all septuagenarians.  S...

Send us Fan Mail Fincher goes streaming by returning and refining his preoccupation with serial killers into potentially the final word on the subject, the two season wonder MINDHUNTER.  The guys are into this one.

Send us Fan Mail The guys just talk about Tim Robinson's oddball sketch show I THINK YOU SHOULD LEAVE for an hour.  It's fun.

Send us Fan Mail Can a movie set 4 years ago qualify as a period piece?  Is Hawkeye ugly?  How much damage can your hero shrug off before the entire onscreen world falls apart?  What is a Kang?  These questions and more are not-quite answered in today's exciting installment.

Send us Fan Mail Joon Kim returns to yak about the LOKI show on Disney+, the unique challenges it meets with aplomb, its perfunctory action scenes and sublime Owen Wilson presence, how it stacks up against prior Marvel shows and finally a group therapy session to process anxiety at the daunting deluge of Marvel content to come.

Send us Fan Mail We're talking all our favorite snobs, bullies, sex pests, bureaucrats, supervillains and...golfers?