Finch Club – The Game
“You know what is not an appropriate theme for a birthday party? Your Father’s Suicide.”
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Film
All things SEEN-EE-MAH
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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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.
On Artificial Intelligence In Fiction
John and Al attempt to chart the history of rowbuts on film, and how a genre long defined by allegorical significance is beginning to clash with a modern reality where computer intelligence manifests as less Kunta Kinte from ROOTS and more Jerry Lundegaard from FARGO.
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The QT Question – Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
John and Al wrap up the QT catalogue with the surprisingly respectful, oddly wistful but still jarringly and gratuitously violent ONCE UPON A TIME…IN HOLLYWOOD. We talk about what it means to respect or disrespect the memories of Sharon Tate and Bruce Lee in 2020, the eroding differences between film and TV, the oddball structural
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The QT Question – The Hateful Eight
The guys welcome Chris Prentice to parse the underpinnings of the American Western, whether Michael Madsen is actually good, Tarantino’s age-blindness, Netflix’s clumsy editing, and possibly the most provocative and least coherent ending of QT’s career.
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