Best Oscar Armendariz Podcasts (2024)

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#197 Civil War, River, The Guest 2:42:51

8d ago2:42:51

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#197 Civil War, River, The Guest We begin this week by reviewing a film that is set on an American civil war with no context and focusing instead on the value of journalism and the nature of history and POV. We then arrive to a secluded town in Japan where the people are suffering from an endless time loop of the same 2-minutes with laughter and hu…

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#196 Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, The Promised Land, Past Lives 2:48:17

22d ago2:48:17

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#196 Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, The Promised Land, Past Lives We may say goodbye to winter but Frozen Empire says otherwise. Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire brings back the fun and funny from the original films but still falters from modern plot contrivances and boring villains. The Promised Land brings genuine intrigue into a man as he struggles to …

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#195 The (belated) 96th Academy Awards Review 2:08:59

1M ago2:08:59

2:08:59

#195 The (belated) 06th Academy Awards Review Better late than never to come back from break with our thoughts on the Oscars this year by discussing the winners and the ceremony details. We also showcase out thoughts on what we think would’ve won as a segment pre-recorded before the event. Additionally, we have a lengthy segment of the films we’ve …

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#194 The Best Discoveries In 2023 2:27:53

3M ago2:27:53

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#194 The Best Discoveries In 2023 This is the third and final countdown show before the break and to cap off 2023. Discoveries are anything (song, book, game, film, etc.) that we discovered in 2023 but from different years. It is our way to paint a personal top 10 as well as highlight different works that are new to us but worth talking about. We w…

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#193 The Best TV Shows of 2023 3:20:32

3M ago3:20:32

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#193 The Best TV Shows of 2023 Welcome to the second top ten show of the year. Japanese animation does make our lists a few times as well as risky adaptations that ended up doing well. Expect some surprise late-season work and a few freshman efforts. Many shows have ended and many more have begun. This is the one time of the year we get to talk abo…

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#192 The Best Films of 2023 3:25:50

4M ago3:25:50

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#192 The Best Films of 2023 It’s that wonderful time of the year where we arbitrarily rank the very best films 2023 has to offer. You may or not be surprised by the number of films that show up multiple times, including one that shows up on all three lists. It’s been a great year in films, despite the strikes, for international stories, high-concep…

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#191 The Boy and the Heron, Godzilla Minus One, May December 3:37:43

4M ago3:37:43

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#191 The Boy and the Heron, Godzilla Minus One, May December Welcome to the final show of the calendar year! This time, each of the three co-host chose one of the three films up for review. We begin with animation master Hayao Miyazaki’s latest film, The Boy and the Heron. This film may be hard to navigate to explain why it’s great but the feeling …

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#190 Napoleon, Next Goal Wins, Leo 3:02:40

5M ago3:02:40

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#190 Napoleon, Next Goal Wins, Leo Normally, tis the season for holiday or Christmas-filled plot contrivances but instead we make do with feel-good movies currently in theaters and streaming. On Netflix, we have Leo, the latest project by Adam Sandler about curmudgeon school pets breaking their cardinal rule of speaking to humans is semi-musical, s…

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#189 The Marvels, The Killer, When Evil Lurks 3:08:37

5M ago3:08:37

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#189 The Marvels, The Killer, When Evil Lurks What would happen to society if the very essence of Evil became contagious? When Evil Lurks hunts down this notion in small but important areas of the Argentinian landscape, where no one is safe. Especially children and animals. What happens when an assassin botches a hit? The Killer explores this quest…

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#188 Killers of the Flower Moon, Five Nights at Freddy’s, Night of the Hunted 2:42:44

6M ago2:42:44

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#188 Killers of the Flower Moon, Five Nights At Freddy’s, Night of the Hunted It takes a while to get passed the horrific vibes of Halloween. Which brings us to Night of the Hunted; a sniping horror indie film that unfortunately doesn’t get passed its concept of a one-location thriller. Five Nights At Freddy’s is one of several new horror films gea…

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#187 Totally Killer, Cassandro, Spaceballs 2:13:30

6M ago2:13:30

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#187 Totally Killer, Cassandro, Spaceballs Tonally-speaking, we are all over the map this week. There’s a killer on the loose and only an 80’s-style time machine can help solve this whodunit by going back to the source in Totally Killer. Mexican wrestling has many heroes but none so glamorous as the biopic into the boundary-pushing Cassandro, an ex…

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#186 The Creator, It Lives Inside, They Came Together 2:33:43

7M ago2:33:43

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#186 The Creator, It Lives Inside, They Came Together Welcome to spooky season! While the films reviewed this week only have one horror flick, they all have something horrifying to demonstrate. It Lives Inside is a horror film that reckons with a different culture and demons in America. They Came Together displays and spoofs on the horrors on trope…

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#185 El Conde, Huesera, This Is Spinal Tap 2:30:16

7M ago2:30:16

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#185 El Conde, Huesera, This Is Spinal Tap This week, we go full Latino. We travel to Chile in a blend of fantasy horror, Machiavellian family plotting and historical figures to tell the story of an undead dictator coming to terms with finally dying, maybe? Heading up to Mexico, Huesera is a modern tale of the same old panics and horrors a mother-t…

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#184, Gran Turismo, Extraction 2, Galaxy Quest 2:24:23

8M ago2:24:23

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#184 Gran Turismo, Extraction 2, Galaxy Quest Welcome to the week of high high speed. While the three films share no genres or plot points, they all have some desire for high velocity. We start with Gran Turismo; a true-ish story of a gamer-turned-real-racer, complete with training and traveling the world with rocket-like vehicles. Extraction 2 con…

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#183 Talk To Me, Barbie, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls 2:59:57

8M ago2:59:57

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#183 Talk To Me, Barbie, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls There are world beyond the one we know and this slate of three reviews show us different worlds. Beyond the Valley of the Dolls is a pseudo(?) parody that flaunts its style for sexual awakening and harsh comedowns. Barbie shows us a land of the enigmatic toy that has grander and shadier signif…

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#182 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, Pinball: The Man Who Saved the Game, Don’t Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood 2:23:45

8M ago2:23:45

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Game, Don’t Be A Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice In the Hood Welcome to the longest titled episode of all time. We kick off our latest marathon with a series of parodies; beginning with the Wayans’ humorous take on such 90’s films like Boyz N the Hood and Menace II Society. If you’ve ever wondered if the classic game pinball ever …

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#181 Oppenheimer, They Cloned Tyrone, Falling Down 2:55:40

9M ago2:55:40

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#181 Oppenheimer, They Cloned Tyrone, Falling Down This week, we offer a trio of existential crises. Oppenheimer is humankind making it possible to destroy itself with a central public figure coming to terms with everything. They Cloned Tyrone isn’t exactly killing the lesser cloned version of yourself and the institution that made them, but it’s a…

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#180 Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One, Joy Ride, Tombstone 2:38:49

9M ago2:38:49

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#180 Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One, Joy Ride, Tombstone This week, we travel all across the world; from tired Rome, to China, and to the old American West. Despite the rocky production, the new Mission Impossible is chock full of action spectacle. Joy Ride is the raunch comedy of the season, working well within the formula and over-th…

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#179 Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, Asteroid City, A Bronx Tale 2:32:17

10M ago2:32:17

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#179 Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, Asteroid City, A Bronx Tale We go from traveling the world, to a small town in the desert, to ending up in a city neighborhood.Despite the harsh reviews and low bock office numbers, we feel that the fifth Indiana Jones installment was a hit. A stirring adventure with some heart. Asteroid City is probably …

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#178 The Flash, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-verse, Oldboy 2:47:18

10M ago2:47:18

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#178 The Flash, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-verse, Oldboy We go superhero nuts this week. Nuts enough for Michael Keaton who co-stars as Batman once more in The Flash for a fun action romp involving the multiverse and time traveling. Speaking of multiverses, the new Spider-Man animated wonder returns with Across the Spider-verse. A film that grac…

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The Evolution of the Future of Work | Oscar Mattsson (allwhere) 44:33

11M ago44:33

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Today we’re joined by our very own Oscar Mattsson, founder and CEO of allwhere. Prior to founding allwhere, Oscar was an early member of WeWork’s enterprise business, where he fostered his lifelong fascination with how the way we work impacts society at scale. In today’s conversation, we chat about the most common problems he hears from HR and IT l…

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#177 Still, Fast X, Better Luck Tomorrow 2:05:05

11M ago2:05:05

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#177 Still, Fast X, Better Luck Tomorrow This week, we are fortunate to have another crop of good films. Beginning with a documentary called Still; about famed 80’s and 90’s actor Michael J. Fox’s struggle with Parkinson’s and his life overall. A surprisingly tender documentary with seamless editing and match cuts. Fast X, everybody’s fave soap ope…

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Driving Innovation Through People Data & Analytics | Joseph Ifiegbu (eqtble) 45:17

11M ago45:17

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In this episode, we’re joined by Joseph Ifiegbu, co-founder and CEO of eqtble, the one-stop-shop analytics platform HR and People teams. Prior to starting his own company, Joseph’s entrepreneurial spirit helped him excel in data science and people analytics roles at Snap and WeWork — and eventually landed him and his eqtble co-founders in Y Combina…

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How to Communicate with your Distributed Team | TyAnn Osborn 58:17

11M ago58:17

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Today’s guest is TyAnn Osborn, a former HR executive and current executive coach, trainer, and speaker whose 25-plus years of experience includes leading teams in the US, India, and South Africa at companies like Pepsi, Dell, and the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation. Presently, TyAnn specializes in Gallup Certified Strengths training, and works with…

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#176 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, How To Blow Up A Pipeline, The Good Thief 2:04:17

11M ago2:04:17

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#176 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, How To Blow Up A Pipeline, The Good Thief Welcome to the week of entirely fun movies. James Gunn’s final Marvel film also marks as the finale of a fun-filled and exciting trilogy of misfits in space. A wholly unique in visuals-and-style movie, Volume 3 provides a hardcore PG-13 rating and emotional payload. How …

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Building a Company While Parenting | Joan Nguyen (BumoCare) 41:58

11M ago41:58

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Working parents are arguably the group most highly impacted by their teams going from in-office to remote, to hybrid and back again. So why do their needs so often fall by the wayside of their companies? Today’s guest, Joan Nguyen, is the CEO of BumoCare, a tech-enabled on-demand childcare solution for families and employers that’s working to chang…

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A New Era of Job-Seeking | David Fano (Teal) 56:39

12M ago56:39

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Today we’re joined by Dave Fano, who throughout his career has held positions as an architect, professor at Columbia, and the Chief Growth Officer at WeWork. Today, Dave is the CEO of Teal, a tool that helps job-seekers drive their careers with purpose — something that can only have positive effects for companies and team members alike. In this epi…

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#175 Beau Is Afraid, Judy Blume Forever, Her 2:04:09

12M ago2:04:09

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#175 Beau Is Afraid, Judy Blume Forever, Her This week, we go on three wildly different journeys. We start with Beau Is Afraid, a film that we felt lacked direction and heft to an uncompromising and well-visioned tale of anxiety and terror. Judy Blume Forever is a documentary that marks the several ways Judy Blume’s literary works has inspired a ge…

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What People Teams are Getting Wrong | Daniel Space (Dan From HR) 45:27

12M ago45:27

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Today we’re joined by Daniel Space, an HR consultant and strategist who has held HR leadership roles at companies like Spotify, Electronic Arts, and WebMD. You may also know him from his TikTok presence as Dan From HR, where he has an audience of almost 160k followers. In this episode, we chat through what HR and People teams are getting wrong in t…

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Offboarding with Integrity | Tori Armendariz (ReadMe) 48:56

12M ago48:56

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The recent spike in layoffs has left the tech industry to contend with some painful realizations. While layoffs are difficult and, unfortunately, more frequent than ever, is there a right way to approach offboarding? In this episode, we’re joined by Tori Armendariz, Head of People Operations at ReadMe, to discuss human-centered offboarding, and how…

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$174 The Super Mario Bros. Movie, Renfield, Upstream Color 1:54:56

1y ago1:54:56

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#174 The Super Mario Bros. Movie, Renfield, Upstream Color This week, we dip into two theatrical releases. The first is The Super Mario Bros. Movie, which proves to be a vanilla-safe children’s movie with little interests to adults. On quite the opposite spectrum, Renfield’s splatter gore-fest is geared solely for adults. Though Nicholas Cage’s Dra…

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#173 John Wick: Chapter 4, Tetris, The Grandmaster 2:00:33

1y ago2:00:33

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#173 John Wick: Chapter 4, Tetris, The Grandmaster This week, we begin volume 3 of our Anniversaries Marathon! Our first review will be the poetically stylized life story of Ip Man in The Grandmaster; a tale of love and skill in turbulent times. We also delve into Apple’s latest film Tetris, a sensationalized version of how Tetris became acclaimed …

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Introducing Work Everywhere 1:17

1y ago1:17

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Coming May 1, 2023! We’ve spent the past few years embracing a new way of working. Whether your team is local, or distributed across global time zones; whether you work remote, hybrid, or in-office; we’ve all had to adapt to working in a new way. So what’s the best way to work? And how do companies enable their teams to do their best work? Welcome …

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#172 65, Luther: Fallen Sun, Boston Strangler 1:37:00

1y ago1:37:00

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#172 65, Luther: Fallen Sun, Boston Strangler This week, and as Luke puts it, mid-March films feel more than a little mid. 65 has a nifty sci-fi concept shrouded in a poorly-made attempt of a man and child growing in the harsh lands of a survival tale. Luther is the latest show that’s been developed into a film and in Fallen Sun, it overall fails t…

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#171 Recent Discoveries, Academy Awards 1:43:17

1y ago1:43:17

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#171 Recent Discoveries, Academy Awards Welcome back folks. During our vacation from the epic Top 10 shows, we didn’t stop watching movies. With that in mind, we bring you a hefty-sized bag of titles we’ve been watching as 2023 settles in. Additionally, we have a nice convo on the list of Oscar-nominated movies that airs Sunday. We’ll touch back on…

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#170 The Best Discoveries In 2022 1:53:15

1+ y ago1:53:15

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#170 The Best Discoveries In 2022 Welcome to the final top ten show of our season; marking the end of 2022 officially with a strange list. This show, we rank our favorite things we experienced over the year, but that didn’t come out as a new release in 2022. It is what we discovered. With that, the lists can be anything like movies, TV shows, books…

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#169 The Best TV Shows of 2022 2:48:42

1+ y ago2:48:42

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#169 The Best TV Shows of 2022 Regular co-host Luke could not make it for this illustrious top 10, of he didn’t watch enough to make one. That means that with our annual co-host Matt, we can still retain the three-party show with less fat and more space to adequately share the best television had to offer. Animes and plenty of prestige and entertai…

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#168 The Best Films of 2022 1:53:27

1+ y ago1:53:27

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#168 The Best Films of 2022 Tis the season to explore and rank the very best 2022 had to offer. As movies are finally coming back from COVID, we are heartened to say that this year was hard to make a top 10 without hard cuts. There are a few surprises from all of us. One superhero film, several feel-good titles and more than a few hard-hitting and …

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#167 Avatar: The Way of Water, The Banshees of Inisherin, Decision To Leave 2:36:28

1+ y ago2:36:28

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#167 Avatar: The Way of Water, The Banshees of Inisherin, Decision To Leave This weeks’ triple feature review are stories told by three distinct visionaries. With Avatar: The Way of Water, we see James Cameron double down what he began in 2009 with big spectacle, familial strife, a new way of thinking and an old villain return. The Banshees of Inis…

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#166 The Menu, The Fabelmans, The Glass Onion 1:52:40

1+ y ago1:52:40

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#166 The Menu, The Fabelmans, The Glass Onion This weeks’ triple feature are or were in theaters simultaneously. The Menu aims to wreck the lives of the unappreciative elite with expensive and vacuous meal courses. Yes, it’s delicious. The Fabelmans is Spielberg’s near-autobiographical picture; a roller coaster of family and school dilemmas that sh…

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#165 Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Clerks III, Gangs of New York 2:18:19

1+ y ago2:18:19

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#165 Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Clerks III, Gangs of New York Today’s show hits some nostalgic notes. Clerks III is the culmination of Kevin Smith’s work since the 1990’s, ending his convenience store saga with a story that’s referential and odd. Gangs of New York is nostalgic for the three of us, loving the film 20 years ago and still to this…

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#164 Armageddon Time, Athena, About A Boy 1:29:24

1+ y ago1:29:24

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#164 Armageddon Time, Athena, About A Boy This weeks’ show is brought to you by the letter ‘A.’ A is for Armageddon Time, the latest film by James Gray; a coming-of-age tale set in NY in 1980. A is also for Athena; a story of three brothers entrenched in a modern politically violent setting that is fueled by small logic and big passion. Lastly, A a…

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#163 Triangle of Sadness, Watcher, The Bourne Identity 2:15:10

1+ y ago2:15:10

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#163 Triangle of Sadness, Watcher, The Bourne Identity Halloween winds down with a hefty dose of horror flicks in Recent Discoveries and our review of a thriller. Watcher is about the unnerving feeling of being watched and becoming a watcher yourself as an American tourist; as a serial killer is on the loose, beheading women. Triangle of Sadness is…

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#162 Amsterdam, Blonde, Silver Linings Playbook 2:27:38

1+ y ago2:27:38

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#162 Amsterdam, Blonde, Silver Linings Playbook This week, we tackle the loud and opinionated Blonde; a films about the late star Marilyn Monroe/Norma Jean. We also look into the films’ controversy, bombastic style and how and what it chooses to fictionalize a real person. We also dig into a double feature of David O Russell’s films. The first is h…

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#161 Don’t Worry Darling, Samaritan, Beasts of the Southern Wild 2:11:50

1+ y ago2:11:50

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#161 Don’t Worry Darling, Samaritan, Beasts of the Southern Wild This week, we follow the POV’s of a 1950’s housewife, an inner city boy and the queen of The Bathtub. Don’t Worry Darling provides some controversy but overall has a cool concept, good acting and a lackluster finale. Samaritan, the script stuck in the 90’s, has a 70-something year old…

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#160 Barbarian, Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank, Django Unchained 1:54:42

1+ y ago1:54:42

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#160 Barbarian, Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank, Django Unchained This week, we begin volume two of the Anniversaries. Going back ten years three times, each of the hosts will get a chance at choosing one film to highlight a 10, 20 and 30th year anniversary. Django Unchained draws first blood, with large squibs included. Barbarian is a sleeper hor…

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#159 Seoul Vibe, We Met In Virtual Reality, The Batman 2:01:22

1+ y ago2:01:22

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#159 Seoul Vibe, We Met In Virtual Reality, The Batman We begin this week with what feels like Korea’s answer to the Fast and Furious franchise. Seoul Vibe is a period piece set in the 1980’s about stylish criminals involved in way over their heads with police inspectors and drug lords and several car chases. We Met In Virtual Reality is a new type…

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#158 Bullet Train, The Sea Beast, The Lego Batman Movie 2:07:56

1+ y ago2:07:56

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#158 Bullet Train, The Sea Beast, The Lego Batman Movie This week, we travel to Japan, to Gotham City and the open sea. The Sea Beast brings heavy How to Train Your Dragon vibes with a more pronounced focus on history and equal in friendship-bonding. As part of the almost-over Batman marathon, The Lego Batman Movie is a force of comedic nature that…

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#157 Nope, Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, Batman: The Killing Joke 2:11:57

1+ y ago2:11:57

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#157 Nope, Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, Batman: The Killing Joke As late show due to a much needed vacation. This week’s show catches up on July with an in-depth review of Nope, heralding the latest in a very short list of great alien-horror films. Marcel the Shell is the character we may have wanted but needed. A mockumentary of the highest and…

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#156 Thor: Love and Thunder, The Princess, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice 1:52:35

2y ago1:52:35

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#156 Thor: Love and Thunder, The Princess, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice The final dreaded hump of the bloated Snyder-era Batman films comes to an end. While we did enjoy Ben Affleck’s rendition of both the caped crusader and Wayne, the severe over-plotting makes watching the film difficult. The Princess was a fun action romp that takes place …

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