#124: Tenet
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John David Washington tries to bring an end to a war being waged on those in the present by people in the future in Christopher Nolan’s TENET.
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#123: Soul | Over the Moon
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After an accident, a jazz pianist desperately wants his situation to return to normal so he can enjoy the big career break he’s finally received in Pete Docter and Kemp Powers’ animated film SOUL.
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#122: Gremlins
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On this special holiday episode, a teenage boy receives an unusual creature as a Christmas gift. In director Joe Dante’s 1984 horror-comedy GREMLINS, chaos ensues in a small town when the rules for caring for the Mogwai are violated.
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#121: The Truman Show | Real Life
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On this themed episode, Mark Pfeiffer and Paul Markoff look at two movies exploring the nature of filming realism for mass entertainment. Jim Carrey stars as a man unaware that his known reality has been built around and is the subject of a long-running and popular television series in director Peter Weir’s THE TRUMAN SHOW.
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#120: Tesla
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Starring Ethan Hawke as the famous inventor, writer-director Michael Almereyda’s experimental biopic TESLA covers about twenty years of Nikola Tesla’s time in the United States, from working for Thomas Edison in 1884 to his J.P. Morgan-funded experiments in Colorado Springs in the early 1900s.
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#119: The Old Guard
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Charlize Theron leads a team of immortals trying to fight the good fight and find a new, emerging one of their kind without detection by those who might exploit them in director Gina Prince-Bythewood’s THE OLD GUARD.
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#118: Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga
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Will Ferrell and Rachel McAdams are Iceland’s best and most unlikely hope for international musical glory in director David Dobkin's comedy EUROVISION SONG CONTEST: THE STORY OF FIRE SAGA.
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#117: Da 5 Bloods
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Four Vietnam veterans, including Delroy Lindo and Isiah Whitlock Jr., reunite in Ho Chi Minh City in search of the remains of their leader, played by Chadwick Boseman, and the gold bars they hid decades ago in Spike Lee’s DA 5 BLOODS.
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#116: The Lovebirds
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In Michael Showalter’s romantic comedy THE LOVEBIRDS Kumail Nanjiani and Issa Rae star as a longtime couple on the verge of breaking up when they get mixed up in a murder and citywide conspiracy that compels them to run around New Orleans looking for answers and to clear their names.
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#115: The Half of It
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High school senior Ellie accepts payments from second-string football player Paul to write love letters for him to popular girl Aster he has a crush on in THE HALF OF IT. Although their relationship starts out as just business, a friendship forms between them and is threatened when it becomes apparent that both are pining for Aster in writer-director Alice Wu’s twist on CYRANO DE BERGERAC.
info_outlineSTAR WARS: EPISODE IX - THE RISE OF SKYWALKER wraps the third trilogy in the saga with with the resistance, including Daisy Ridley’s Rey, hoping to bring final defeat to the First Order and the reemergence of Emperor Palpatine.
In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer selects Ira Sachs’ FRANKIE starring Isabelle Huppert as a terminally ill actress trying to arrange the future happiness for her family. Paul Markoff picks James L. Brooks’ HOW DO YOU KNOW, a romantic comedy with Reese Witherspoon, Paul Rudd, and Owen Wilson.
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STAR WARS: EPISODE IX - THE RISE OF SKYWALKER clip courtesy Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
FRANKIE clip courtesy Sony Pictures Classics
HOW DO YOU KNOW clip courtesy Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner
Recorded December 23, 2019.