This week, funnily accented detectives gather everyone in the drawing room to hear who the real killer is in both Knives Out (Rian Johnson, 2019) and Murder on the Orient Express (Sydney Lumet, 1974). PLUS, we're giving our recommendations about some of the best stuff on Disney+ ! Title music is "Life Story" by Kevin Hairs. Learn more here: https://kevinhairs.bandcamp.com/releases
This week, two films that look at the impossibility of human partnership & the inevitability of breakups. Happy holidays! It's Marriage Story (Noah Baumbach, 2019) and Scenes From a Marriage (Ingmar Bergman, 1974).
This week, two movies about love, betrayal, and organized labor: The Irishman (2019) and On The Waterfront (1954).
This week, we've finally gotten to the part of the year when good movies come out, so we're doing TWO new movies! Crazy, I know. It's Robert Egger's The Lighthouse and Taika Waititi's Jojo Rabbit. Also discussed on this episode: Asako I & II (2018, Ryusuke Hamaguchi), The Grand Illusion (Jean Renoir, 1937), Stalag 17 (Billy Wilder, 1953), Spider Man: Far From Home, and Shazam Title music is "Life Story" by Kevin Hairs. Learn more here: https://kevinhairs.bandcamp.com/releases...
This week, we're tackling two great films from Director Bong, South Korean auteur Bong Joon-ho. Parasite (2019), winner of the Palm d'Or and, and Bong's 2006 American breakthrough, The Host. Title music is "Life Story" by Kevin Hairs. Learn more here: https://kevinhairs.bandcamp.com/releases
This week, we're talking about the depressingly successful new Todd Phillips movie Joker and the film it more or less directly copied, Martin Scorsese's brilliant 1983 King of Comedy. Title music is "Life Story" by Kevin Hairs. Learn more here: https://kevinhairs.bandcamp.com/releases
This week, we're talking about One Cut of the Dead (2018), the inventive meta-zombie film that took Japan by storm (and made 1000x its budget), and Dawn of the Dead (1978), the movie that changed our idea of zombies forever. Title music is "Life Story" by Kevin Hairs. Learn more here: https://kevinhairs.bandcamp.com/releases
This week, it's two films about the deadly games rich people play: Ready or Not (2019) and The Game (2017). It's the absolute depth of summer, nothing's out, relax in some A/C with us. Title music is "Life Story" by Kevin Hairs. Learn more here: https://kevinhairs.bandcamp.com/releases
This week, it's two harrowing movies from women writer/directors about sexual violence: The Nightengale, Jennifer Kent's follow-up to The Babadook; and Revenge, the debut feature from French filmmaker Coralie Fargeat. Warning: show contains discussions of these topics. Title music is "Life Story" by Kevin Hairs. Learn more here: https://kevinhairs.bandcamp.com/releases
This week we're talking about Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood (2019) and Once Upon a Time in the West (1969). They've got more in common than their names! Title music is "Life Story" by Kevin Hairs. Learn more here: https://kevinhairs.bandcamp.com/releases
This week, we're talking about two movies featuring character actor Alessandro Nivola. In 2019's The Art of Self Defense, he's a friendly and possibly sinister martial arts sensei; in 2005's Junebug, he's a charming and blank guy who connects his beautiful wife with his mildly provincial family. These are both good movies, guys! Title music is "Life Story" by Kevin Hairs. Learn more here: https://kevinhairs.bandcamp.com/releases
This week, two sorta-Swedish films looking at the dark terror of sharing your life with a loved one. Starting at 30 minutes, you can hear all about the new flower crown relationship horror Midsommar, broken up into special spoiler-free and spoiler-y sections. Before that, the guys talk about 2014's Force Majeure, and get into an extremely spirited disagreement about whether or not it's a comedy. Stop fighting, dads! Title music is "Life Story" by Kevin Hairs. Learn more here: https://kevinhairs....
This week, we look at two films about alienation, trust, and growing up in Asia. First is Lulu Wang's The Farewell (2019), a buzzy new movie about truth, lies, and family starring Awkwafina in her first dramatic acting role. Next is Shirkers, a 2018 auto-documentary from Sandi Tan about her life as a teenage rebel filmmaker in Singapore. Title music is "Life Story" by Kevin Hairs. Learn more here: https://kevinhairs.bandcamp.com/releases
This week, we look at two 3s: John Wick 3 and Toy Story 3. Are they good? What makes a good 3? Title music is "Life Story" by Kevin Hairs. Learn more here: https://kevinhairs.bandcamp.com/releases
This month, we're looking at two films starring parents & their children: The Souvenir (2019), starring Honor Swinton Byrne and featuring her mother Tilda; and Tucker: The Man and His Dreams starring Jeff Bridges and featuring his dad Lloyd. Title music is "Life Story" by Kevin Hairs. Learn more here: https://kevinhairs.bandcamp.com/releases
This week in a special Cannes episode we're talking two great movies from Cannes. First up is Burning (2018), Lee Chang-dong's moody inequality mystery based on the Haruki Murakami short story "Barn Burning" (not "barnburner" as Chris repeatedly says, incorrectly). Also is Barton Fink (1991), the Cohen Brothers metaphysical Hollywood parable that won so many awards at Cannes they changed the rules!
This week, we're talking about two music movies! There's the new Alex Ross Perry film, Her Smell (2019), a claustrophobic ode to 1990s alterna rock, with an absolutely mindblowing performance from Elizabeth Moss. Also talking Babylon (1980), a film about a reggae soundsystem in London beset by racism, deemed too controversial to release in North America ... until now! Title music is "Life Story" by Kevin Hairs. Learn more here: https://kevinhairs.bandcamp.com/releases
In this 420-adjacent show, we talk about two modern stoner classics: The Beach Bum (2019), Harmonie Korine's ode to wasting away again in margaritaville, and Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (2016), a joke-packed Lonely Island pop parody finally starting to get the recognition it deserves.
Hey, guys, just a short note that we're moving to every two weeks and we'll be back the week of the 21st with a new full episode, talking about two high-brow stoner movies: The Beach Bum and Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping. See you then! Title music is "Life Story" by Kevin Hairs. Learn more here: https://kevinhairs.bandcamp.com/releases
It's perfect plane movie Juliet, Naked (2018), the career of Rose Byrne, the films of Agnès Varda, and what we're looking forward to in the rest of the year (Uncut Gems to Avengers: Endgame) on this week's show inbetween big proper review shows. Title music is Life Story by Kevin Hairs. Learn more here: https://kevinhairs.bandcamp.com/releases
This week, there's a TWIST! Instead of talking about two movies, we're talking about one movie two ways: Jordan Peele's Us (2019). In the first half of the show, we're be having a totally spoiler-free discussion of the film, totally safe to listen to if you haven't seen the movie but still maybe will eventually (we promise!). The second half (starting at 30 minutes) it's a totally spoilery discussion only for cool kids who've seen the movie. This was a fun one!!
We're talking about two movies starring America's Sweetheart (???) Brie Larson: Captain Marvel (2019) and Short Term 12 (2013). It's a real soft cheese fest! One's a huge blockbuster, the other's a tiny indie about a care home for troubled teens: but which is actually best choice for a little Larson charm? PLUS, because Caleb is now living a climbing lifestyle, we talk about Free Solo (2018), and because Chris continues to live a nerd lifestyle, we talk about The Expanse. And because we're trapp...
THIS WEEK we're talking about two movies that take on situations you might actually find yourself in in real life and makes them frankly terrifying. Climax (2018) finds you locked in a warehouse party after taking too many drugs; Krisha (2015) is about going to a family party where you feel on the outs. And they're both genuinely scary!! Title music is Life Story by Kevin Hairs. Learn more here: https://kevinhairs.bandcamp.com/releases
Chris and Caleb slow it down a bit and talk about some overlooked movies from this year, popstar tragedy Vox Lux (starring Natalie Portman) and competitive actor punishment camp Sisters Brothers (starring John C. Reilly and Joaquin Phoenix). Also, who had a good year last year? FIND OUT WHY DON'T YOU!!! Title music is Life Story by Kevin Hairs. Learn more here: https://kevinhairs.bandcamp.com/releases
This week, we're talking about two movies from cinematographer Caleb "Zooey's Dad" Deschanel: Never Look Away (2018) and Killer Joe (2011). One's a high point of the McConaissance, the other's a just-fine three hour German melodrama that was somehow nominated for three Oscars this year. SPEAKING OF OSCARS, we also talk about the one time Deschanel got an Oscar nom for Fly Away Home, the movie where Jeff Daniels and Anna Paquin teach a goose how to fly. Life is wild! lfDE8OZOgIzrYRR5zDPp Title mu...
In this episode, Chris and Caleb talk all about the Oscars, though it's a little confusing because they recorded it before they actually aired, though it's coming out after! Extremely timey-wimey stuff. Also, this week they look at two movies you can stream now: Columbus (2017) and The World is Yours (2018). One is a talky look at discovering yourself through architecture, and the other is a supposedly good French gangster comedy. But which is actually best choice? Find out!
The Oscars are this weekend, which is frankly wild. It's been the craziest Oscar season since everyone had a collective delusion that Crash was a good movie, so instead of making predictions exactly Caleb & Chris talk about their favorite movies nominated this year: The Favourite and Can You Ever Forgive Me. Also the animated shorts! Also Caleb talks about his big crush on Lucas Hedges! Title music is Life Story by Kevin Hairs. Learn more here: https://kevinhairs.bandcamp.com/releases...
This week on Actually Best Choice Movies, Chris and Caleb talk about dueling documentaries released just days apart on the Fyre Festival from competing streaming services Netflix and Hulu. We all know Fyre was a hilariously outlandish scam -- but how are the movies? What's most important in a documentary, emotion, character, presentation of information, or the moral/immoral actions of the filmmakers? Which of these two films on exactly the same topic, released at the same time, is Armageddon, an...
In this episode, it's Amazon vs. Netflix, Mexico vs. Poland, and dog poop vs folk dancing. Chris and Caleb talk about Roma and Cold War, two moody black and white films both nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2019 Academy Awards. Can Caleb understand Donald Duck? Which Oscar is about the part of filmmaking that "helps you digest lumpy movies" (a totally gross thing Caleb says), and are Polish folk songs actually dope? All this and more revealed on this episode of Actually Best Choic...
