Two for Space Jam, Please

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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??)

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.

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 ...?

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.

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

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)"

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.

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)"

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.

The Last of Us made us angry. Do with that what you will.

It's 1984 but it's also 2023 and we're afraid of dying and fumbling our way to survival and it's goofy and tender with an airborne toxic event still keeping us up at night.

After a looooong hiatus, we're (finally!) back. And we missed you. We watched Triangle of Sadness, one of the more recent iterations of the increasingly popular eat-the-rich theme, and talked all about representations of class struggle, villianizing billionaires, and the kinds of dismantling capitalism stories we wish were being made. 

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

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??

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!