The Great Comedy Villains
We’re talking all our favorite snobs, bullies, sex pests, bureaucrats, supervillains and…golfers?
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Film
All things SEEN-EE-MAH
Finch Club: Gone Girl
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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On Arnold Schwarzenneger
Chris Prentice returns to discuss the meteoric rise of possibly the biggest, most unlikely and unique star in the history of Hollywood: Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger. No one did it like him. Is that because he is a one-of-a-kind talent, or because he is just an inhuman brick that can only play cyborgs believably?
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Finch Club – The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
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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What If The Oscars Took Comedy Seriously?
In this episode, the guys contemplate an alternate reality where the Oscars are biased toward broad, capital-C Comedies rather than stately costume dramas and respectful biopics. Which is very important cultural commentary, and definitely not just an excuse to talk about how incredible Bill Murray is in KINGPIN.
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Finch Club – The Social Network
If you are trying to be an asshole, haven’t you already succeeded?
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Finch Club: The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
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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Stephen King’s The Dark Tower
As a sort of counterpoint to all the fawning over Peter Jackson’s LOTR trilogy, John and Al look at another adaptation of an epic fantasy series that fell flat on its face. Both have intense love for Stephen King’s magnum opus, despite wildly different views of the ending stretch.
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Finch Club – Zodiac
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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The Falcon, The Winter Soldier, the Snydercut, the Cook and His Lover
It’s dancing barons versus singing fishwives as Joon Kim drops in once more to compare the world building of the MCU and DCEU.
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