Tag: A24

  • Teo Yoo for Past Lives – 331

    Teo Yoo for Past Lives – 331

    Actor Teo Yoo dives into his own history in this chat about Past Lives, life changing connections, and vulnerability. Listen on Apple Podcasts More about Past Lives Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrest apart after Nora’s family emigrates from South Korea. Two decades later, they are reunited in New York…

  • Past Lives, Asteroid City, I’m A Virgo – 328

    Celine Song’s Past Lives is a beautiful contemplative look at identity, expectation, and what could have been. Meanwhile Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City has us more spaced out than over the moon. Finally Boots Riley returns to Oakland in a giant way with I’m a Virgo. Listen on Apple Podcasts

  • Top Films of 2022

    Ready for our top films of 2022? These are a snapshot of some of our favorite films of the year. Important to note that they are representative of what was available in 2022. Does that mean they’ll stand the test of time (or even the test of looking back next December)? That remains to be…

  • Review: Bros, Blonde, Hocus Pocus 2, and God’s Creatures

    Billy Eichner is here with his delightful new rom-com Bros. Ana de Armas steps into the famous white dress in Blonde. The Sanderson Sisters return in Hocus Pocus 2. Finally Emily Watson and Paul Mescal shine in the very dark God’s Creatures. Listen on Apple Podcasts More about Bros: This fall, Universal Pictures proudly presents…

  • Three Thousand Years of Longing, Breaking, Funny Pages – 241

    Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton leave us with more longing than satisfaction in George Miller’s Three Thousand Years of Longing. John Boyega shines in the painful film Breaking. Funny Pages fails to turn our interest. Listen on Apple Podcasts More about Three Thousand Years of Longing Dr Alithea Binnie is an academic – content with…

  • Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, Stephanie Hsu for Everything Everywhere All at Once – 193

    Welcome Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, and Stephanie Hsu to discuss Everything Everywhere All at Once, emotionally challenging scenes, expectations growing up, and AAPI representation on film. You can find our interview with directing duo DANIELS here. Listen on Apple Podcasts More about Everything Everywhere All at Once Directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert,…

  • Directors Daniels (Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert) for Everything Everywhere All at Once – 192

    Welcome DANIELS (aka Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert) to talk about Everything Everywhere All at Once, purpose, parental expectations, unethical attention extraction, and eau de filmmaking.  Recorded before the San Francisco premiere of the film. Listen on Apple Podcasts More about Everything Everywhere All at Once Directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, collectively known…

  • Everything Everywhere All at Once, Pachinko – 189

    Michelle Yeoh’s performance is everything we ever thought we wanted from her and things we didn’t even know we wanted from her in Everything Everywhere All at Once which is ultimately a story of family wrapped in a spectacular maximalist package. Pachinko also covers the story of a family through many branches and generations in…

  • The Batman, After Yang, Our Flag Means Death – 182

    Time to find out if Robert Pattinson sparkles in The Batman (in a spoiler free review). Also After Yang asks us “what it means to be alive?” and “what does it mean to be Asian?” Finally Taika Waititi and Rhys Darby take to the comedy high seas in Our Flag Means Death. Listen on Apple…

  • Top Films of 2021

    It’s time for the top films of 2021! According to Nicole Kidman the movies are back! Yet there’s no denying it was another strange year. We got a flood of films that were delayed from 2020. There was an abundance of Marvel films and a bevy of streaming indies. Yet for all the fanfare about…