Show Notes
Nathan Fielder spends 174 minutes trying to figure out what actually makes Elizabeth Holmes tick, and then the documentary pulls a move nobody saw coming: it brings in Amanda Seyfried to sit and watch herself play Holmes on screen. We get into the pinprick fantasy, the Abbott and Costello test, and why this might be the strangest, most fascinating true crime documentary of the year.
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Peter Berg’s Netflix WWII drama follows four star college football players who enlist in the Marines after Pearl Harbor and end up in the bloody Battle of Okinawa. It premiered at AFI Fest, and it hits harder than you’d expect. We talk the brutal, immersive combat, the brief game that gives these guys one last taste of boyhood, and why this might be one of the most effective antiwar films in years.
A24’s surprise documentary “You Can See Everything” just posted a record-setting Metacritic score and a $15 million opening weekend, and suddenly the Best Picture race looks wide open. We talk about whether a documentary can finally land a nomination, whether it can topple Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey,” and which contenders could still shake up the field.
Three movies into the DC Universe, the weirdest one might also be the best. James Watkins turns a shapeshifting actor with a ruined face into an R-rated body horror throwback that needs zero franchise homework. We talk the practical effects, Naomi Ackie’s scientist with a conscience, the plane turbulence scene that will haunt us, and why this one actually feels like its own thing.
Taika Waititi tackles Kazuo Ishiguro’s AI novel with Jenna Ortega as a robot companion praying to the sun to be chosen, and it should have been a perfect match. It wasn’t. We talk the candy colored Friend Store, Natasha Lyonne’s den mother energy, the “Jojo Rabbit” comparison, and why a film about mortality and obsolescence ends up so obvious and tonally confused.
Ti West’s A24 horror comedy drops a crew of scrappy adult filmmakers onto a Texas farm owned by a very unhappy elderly couple, and it’s as wicked as it sounds. We talk Mia Goth in two roles, the 1970s grindhouse spirit, the slow burn tension that West does better than almost anyone, and what the film has to say about youth, sex and getting old.