Tag: Sundance

  • Lightyear, Spiderhead, Good Luck to You Leo Grande, Cha Cha Real Smooth, Brian and Charles – 218

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    Lightyear heads to infinity but doesn’t push beyond a very basic story. Spiderhead is a web of hot mess. Emma Thompson gives her Emma Thompson best in Good Luck to You, Leo Grande. Cha Cha Real Smooth is a smooth and safe choice. Finally there’s the eccentric genuineness of Brian and Charles. Listen on Apple…

  • Turning Red, The Adam Project, Fresh – 184

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    Pixar’s latest film Turning Red is a spectacularly specific delight about young adulthood. However The Adam Project from Ryan Reynolds seems unsure if it wants to grow up, and Fresh explores the horrors of modern dating for women. Listen on Apple Podcasts More about Turning Red Young actress Rosalie Chiang lends her voice to Mei…

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

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    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

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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…

  • Director Debbie Lum for Try Harder! – 151

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    Welcome documentarian Debbie Lum to chat about her new film Try Harder!, college admissions, high school superlatives, and the ongoing process of Asian-American Pacific Islander representation on screen. Listen on Apple Podcasts More about Try Harder! San Francisco’s Lowell High, one of the best public schools in the country, draws high achievers–nearly 70% Asian Americans–from…

  • Red Notice, Passing – 143

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    Three of the biggest stars in the world (The Rock, Ryan Reynolds, and Gal Gadot) feature in Red Notice so what could go wrong…?! Also Ruth Negga and Tessa Thompson give us two different sides of the Black experience in Passing.  Listen on Apple Podcasts More about Red Notice When an Interpol-issued Red Notice —…

  • Free Guy, CODA, The Green Knight, John and the Hole, Nine Days – 114

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    It’s a summer movie / independent film bonanza with Free Guy, CODA, The Green Knight, John and the Hole, and Nine Days. Listen on Apple Podcasts More about Free Guy When a bank teller discovers he’s actually a background player in an open-world video game, he decides to become the hero of his own story…

  • Luca, Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard, The Sparks Brothers – 96

    Luca, Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard, The Sparks Brothers – 96

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    Pixar’s latest, Luca, is an Italian charmer. Ryan Reynolds, Samuel L. Jackson, and Salma Hayek return in Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard but perhaps some franchises should stay dead. Finally, Edgar Wright’s The Sparks Brothers will bring you into a club of cool kids music that you wish you’d been a member of long before. Listen on…

  • Wrath of Man, Together Together – 82

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    Is toxic masculinity ruining all the stakes in action movies? Jason Statham seems dead set on proving that in Wrath of Man. Meanwhile, Together Together explores single-dom in an unexpected and refreshing way. Listen on Apple Podcasts More about Wrath of Man A mysterious and wild-eyed new cash truck security guard (Jason Statham) surprises his…

  • In the Earth, The Circle Season 2 – 74

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    Out of your Sundance nightmares comes In the Earth from Ben Wheatley. Also the reality competition show The Circle returns – except we’re all in the Circle now [Send Message]. Listen on Apple Podcasts More about In the Earth As the world searches for a cure to a disastrous virus, a scientist and park scout…