Episode 41: The Christophers
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The Christophers is an art world comedy from director Steven Soderbergh and writer Ed Solomon. In it Michaela Coel plays Lori Butler, an art restorer who makes her money running a food truck in London. She is called with a job by Sallie and Barnaby Sklar (Jessica Gunning and James Corden), the children of famous artist-turned-talent show judge Julian Sklar (Ian McKellen) who has not painted in decades, and whose home contains a series of unfinished portraits they hope to sell for millions after Lori “completes” them. Timestamps: (0:06:56) To Live and Die in LA (0:25:22) Kimi (0:42:37) The...
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Episode 40: Faces of Death (2026)
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Faces of Death is a horror film in which our killer Arthur, played by Dacre Montgomery, has begun reenacting the killings portrayed in the 1978 shockumentary Faces of Death but for real, and uploading them onto a tiktok knockoff named Kino. Our heroine is Margot, played by Barbie Ferreira, a moderator for Kino determining which flagged content gets removed or remains on the platform. When she begins seeing Arthur’s uploads she suspects them to be real and has to fight against a company that cares only about giving the audience what they want, her own tragic viral fame, and the...
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Episode 39: The Drama
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The Drama is a dark rom com drama written and directed by Kristoffer Borgli, starring Zendaya as Emma Harwood and Robert Pattinson as Charlie Thompson, a couple who are soon to be married but whose relationship is tested by the revelation of a dark secret. Drama ensues, no, The drama ensues, as the two attempt to grapple with how they see each other. The supporting cast includes Alana Haim as Rachel and Mamoudou Athie as Mike, a married couple and the couple’s maid of honor and best man. Timestamps: (0:01:12) The Love Guru (0:21:08) We Live in Time (0:33:47) High Life (0:49:13) The Drama...
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Episode 38: Forbidden Fruits
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Forbidden Fruits tells the story of Pumpkin, Lola Tung, who ingratiates herself into becoming an employee at Free Eden, a mall clothing store for women and currently staffed by Lili Reinhardt as Apple, Victoria Pedretti as Cherry, and Alexandra Shipp as Fig. She is inducted into Paradise, a witch femme cult led by Apple. Over the course of the various fashion seasons, Pumpkin learns more about Apple, about a former employee Pickle, played by Emma Chamberlain, and discovers Apple’s talk about being all about women supporting women may be one big lie. Timestamps: (0:00:39) Book of Shadows:...
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Episode 37: Project Hail Mary
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Project Hail Mary is the latest film adaptation of a novel by Andy Weir, coming eleven years after The Martian in 2015. Project Hail Mary sees Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling) awaken from a medically induced coma far from Earth on a course for the star Tau Ceti. As he slowly regains his memory we learn of his recruitment by Eva Stratt (Sand Hueller) of the titular project to study a microorganism known as the Astrophage whose reproduction on the surface of the sun is causing a dimming effect and subsequently will lead to global cooling on Earth and eventually extinction. Grace quickly comes into...
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Episode 36: The 98th Academy Awards Special
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This week is our 98th Academy Awards Special Episode! We both recorded our commentary while watching the show and cut it down to just the best or most pertinent bits and we have also inserted clips from our post-Oscars conversation a couple of days afterwards. Next week we will return to our regularly scheduled programming with an episode on Project Hail Mary. Works Cited: “Misty Copeland comes out of retirement to put Timothée Chalamet in his place during a live ‘Sinners’ performance at the #Oscars.” (Scott Stump, Today) (Jacob Bernstein, The New York Times) (David Chen,...
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Episode 35: The Bride!
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The Bride! is a 2026 gothic romance film written and directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal adapting the 1935 film Bride of Frankenstein directed by James Whale and written by William Hurlbut. The Bride! stars Jessie Buckley as the titular bride: the reanimated corpse of Ida, a woman in 1936 Chicago who was killed after becoming possessed by the author Mary Shelley, who desires to share the second half of the story that began with Frankenstein and that she wasn’t able to finish due to brain cancer killing her. Christian Bale stars as Frankenstein’s monster, who shows up to Chicago to plead with Dr....
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Episode 34: EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert
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EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert is a 2026 concert film from director Baz Luhrmann that is sourced from previous Elvis film That’s the Way It Is and Elvis on Tour, as well as film reels discovered during Luhrmann’s production of 2022’s Elvis with new footage of Elvis’ residency in Vegas and rare interview audio of Elvis reflecting on his career. Time Stamps: (03:40) Bubba Ho-Tep (19:45) Gimme Shelter (43:26) EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert (1:39:52) Next Time: The Bride! Works Cited: Australia (Baz Luhrmann, 2008) (Today Show, 2026) (Pauline Kael, 1970) (Monika...
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Episode 33: "Wuthering Heights"
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“Wuthering Heights” is a 2026 period romance written and directed by Emerald Fennell, adapted from the 1847 novel by Emily Bronte. Stars Margot Robbie as Catherine Earnshaw, who develops a tempestuous relationship with her foundling childhood friend and adopted brother Heathcliff, played by Jacob Elordi. When she marries into the higher society family of Edgar Linton (Shazad Latif), Heathcliff leaves and returns years later to marry Edgar’s ward Isabella (Alison Oliver) to torment Catherine, while both of them are manipulated by Catherine’s paid companion Nelly, played by Hong Chau....
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Episode 32: The Secret Agent
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The Secret Agent is a 2025 thriller written and directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho, with Cinematography by Evgenia Alexandrova and music by Tomaz Alves Souza and Mateus Alves. Stars Wagner Moura as Marcelo, who arrives at and hides out in the coastal city of Recife to see his young son Fernando (Enzo Nunes), who is in the care of his maternal grandparents, with grandfather Sr. Alexandre played by Carlos Francisco. While laying low he tries to avoid raising the suspicion of local police chief Euclides (Robério Diógenes), while unbeknownst to him he is pursued by two hitmen, played by Rodney...
info_outlineMarty Supreme is a 2025 sports comedy-drama film directed, written, produced, and edited by Josh Safdie, with Ronald Bronstein co-writer, co-producer- and co-editor. In this film we follow Marty Mauser, an aspiring table tennis player who seeks to become the world champion of the sport while simultaneously outrunning the consequences of his various scams, affairs, prideful boasts, and collectors. Co-starring Odessa A’zion as Rachel Mizler, his paramour, Gwyneth Paltrow as Kay Stone, a formerly famous actress who Marty pursues, Kevin O’Leary as Milton Rockwell, a wealthy businessman and Kay’s husband, Tyler Okonma (Tyler the Creator) as Marty’s friend Wally who also plays table tennis, Abel Ferrara as a shady character with a dog named Moses, Fran Drescher as Marty’s mother Rebecca, and Geza Rohrig as Bela Kletzki and Koto Kawaguchi as Koto Endo, two other table tennis champions.
Time Stamps:
- (00:55) Marty Supreme
- (56:03) Spoilers
- (1:28:57) Next Time: Song Sung Blue
Works Cited:
- Benny Breaks Out (Ethan Shanfield, 2024)
- Made in America | Los Angeles Review of Books by Sam Bodrojan
- Marty Supreme’s American Hustler (Armond White, 2025)
- Marty Supreme review by Conrado Falco
- Inside Timothée Chalamet’s Ping-Pong Training for ‘Marty Supreme’
- A Ping-Pong Specific Review of ‘Marty Supreme’ (Miles Surrey, 2025)
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