Tag: Bleecker Street

  • Hamnet, Left-Handed Girl, Fackham Hall – 618

    Hamnet, Left-Handed Girl, Fackham Hall – 618

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    Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet is one of the most haunting and best films of the year. Left-Handed Girl is a love letter to Taipei. Fackham Hall satirizes the likes of Downton Abbey. Listen on Apple Podcasts More about Hamnet From Academy Award® winning writer/director Chloé Zhao, HAMNET tells the powerful story of love and loss that inspired the…

  • The Long Walk, Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale, Spinal Tap 2 – 596

    The Long Walk, Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale, Spinal Tap 2 – 596

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    Stephen King’s The Long Walk proves as timely a film adaptation as there could be. Also two films made as (perhaps unnecessary) fan service with Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale and Spinal Tap 2: The End Continues Listen on Apple Podcasts More about The Long Walk From the highly anticipated adaptation of master storyteller Stephen…

  • Andrew Ahn for The Wedding Banquet

    Andrew Ahn for The Wedding Banquet

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    Andrew Ahn returns to discuss The Wedding Banquet that wasn’t (and the one that was), sacrifices, and being a great Guncle. More about Andrew Ahn Andrew Ahn is a queer Korean American filmmaker based in Los Angeles. Ahn’s latest film THE WEDDING BANQUET (Bleecker Street) starring Lily Gladstone, Bowen Yang, and Kelly Marie Tran will…

  • The Wedding Banquet – 556

    The Wedding Banquet – 556

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    RSVP yes toThe Wedding Banquet, that oh so rare remake that feels relevant and necessary. Listen on Apple Podcasts More about The Wedding Banquet From Director Andrew Ahn comes a joyful comedy of errors about a chosen family navigating the disasters and delights of family expectations, queerness, and cultural identity. Angela and her partner Lee…

  • I.S.S, Origin – 404

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    We explore the unknown and possibly underpromoted depths of the I.S.S. Ava DuVernay breaks our hearts with Origin. Listen on Apple Podcasts

  • Renfield, Mafia Mamma, Sakra – 306

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    Find out if Nic Cage as Dracula in Renfield sucks (in a good or a bad way). Plus Toni Collette gets a paid trip to Italy in Mafia Mamma. Finally Donnie Yen leaps into the directors chair in the wuxia film, Sakra. Listen on Apple Podcasts

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

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    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…

  • Elvis, Mr. Malcolm’s List, and Minions: The Rise of Gru – 222

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    Baz Lurhman’s Elvis is as bloated as the King himself at times. Mr. Malcolm’s List does it’s best to draw from the greats, but doesn’t necessarily achieve greatness itself. Finally Minons: The Rise of Gru strains our theory that a certain actress can do no wrong. Listen on Apple Podcasts More about Elvis A thoroughly…

  • Top Films of 2021

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    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…

  • Cry Macho, I’m Your Man (Ich bin dein Mensch) – 124

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    It’s impressive that Clint Eastwood is alive and capable enough of making a movie at 91 years old, but at this point who is his audience with Cry Macho? Eastwood may give an unintentionally wooden performance in Cry Macho but at least Dan Stevens delivers an intentionally semi-robotic and fully romantic one in Germany’s Academy…