The guys tour the surprisingly spotty but repeatedly brilliant filmography of David Fincher
We continue to examine the influence and imitations of our anointed directors’ signature styles. In Fincher’s case, this mainly takes the form of reviewing the attempts of his various collaborators to recreate the magic without him.
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Finch Club returns with Michael Fassbender’s OTHER international assassin movie.
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We rank things out and try to figure out what we learned about the elusive Mr. Fincher.
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Joon is back, Al is cranky, Gary Oldman is miscast, and our journey through the David Fincher filmography is complete.
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.
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Brendan Leonard joins us to discuss Fincher’s satirical thriller. We’re talking media satire, marriage as a fraud upon the public, where Fincher and author/screenwriter Gillian Flynn’s real allegiances lie, and the ultimate battle of the sexes as Kim Dickens faces off against Tyler Perry.
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Elisabeth Rappe joins the guys to talk about Fincher’s opening to an aborted trilogy, which somehow operates as a triptych of films unto itself. Rated “S” for Stellan Skarsgaard, Serial Killers, Sexual Assault, and Superfluous Swedish-ness.
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If you are trying to be an asshole, haven’t you already succeeded?
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Joon Kim makes a triumphant return to help try to crack the case of BENJAMIN BUTTON. Who thought this movie needed to be 3 hours long? What drew Fincher to material so spectacularly ill-suited to his talents? Where did the sudden godlike omniscience in Benjamin’s narration come from, or disappear to? Why did Eric Roth
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Fincher hits an artistic high and commercial low with the epic serial killer docudrama ZODIAC. We look at the exacting period detail, the prothean versions of the Avengers and True Crime genre it represents, the murderer’s row of character actors, the squirreliness of Jake Gyllenhall, and whether there is actual closure to be gleaned
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