TV Set – WandaVision
Joon Kim drops by to discuss the impressively Lynchian highs and bafflingly doofy lows of the first 7 episodes of WANDAVISION.
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Finch Club – The Game
“You know what is not an appropriate theme for a birthday party? Your Father’s Suicide.”
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Finch Club – Se7en
Fincher’s breakout film still packs a transgressive wallop after 25 years, and the guys are here to dig into its unique blend of theatrical abstraction and sincere humanity, the interplay of banal and baroque evil, how it incepts you it thinking it is much more gory than it is, the Spacey factor, and how completely
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Bioware Prequel – on Dungeons & Dragons
Frame Work branches out into gaming, with a look at the most sneakily influential piece of culture of the last half century, the OG table-top role playing game, Dungeons & Dragons. The original idea was to examine its role in shaping the video game industry, but before that the party finds a great deal to
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Finch Club – Alien 3
The guys begin a look at the filmography of David Fincher by welcoming Bill Heidrich to discuss and defend his divisive debut, a franchise sequel/ender that somehow manages to be completely compromised and utterly uncompromising at the same time.
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Special Report – ALIEN and ALIENS Are Actually Great!
Before kicking off their next David Fincher series with the deeply imperfect ALIEN3, John and Al geek out over Ridley Scott’s perfect creature feature ALIEN and James Cameron’s perfect sequel ALIENS. They gush over the incredible creature design, intricate world-building, forgotten plot twists, and Cameron’s facility at making R-rated movies for kids.
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ADVENTURE, HO!
John embarks on a semantic quest to define the genre of Adventure films, leading Al through a series of puzzles and pursuits that hits all the notes one would expect:. The correct pronunciation of “Cary Elwes”. Historical revisionism. The quality of Charlie Hunnam’s agent. The relationships between The Goonies and Da Vinci Code. And more
QT Question: Rankings and Final Thoughts
“Donnie, got us an internet that loves ranking movies! OBLIGE him.”
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Wonder Woman 1984
The guys discuss the generally amiable mess that is WW84, the definition of nitpicking, and the whole misbegotten affair that is the DC Cinematic Universe.
TV Set – The Mandalorian Season 2
The guys welcome their Kiwi Kompadre Ben Hansen, aka Bucho, to explain the finer points of CLONE WARS and defend the light, crowd-pleasing delights of THE MANDALORIAN from the Dark Side of Al’s incessant negativity. Subtopics include video gamification of TV, justic for Pedro Pascal’s skull, a thirst for villains, and the truly daunting mass
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