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Kelsi and Trey discuss Wes Ball’s Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes as a successful adventure epic that thrills with its digital world-building and provokes with its subversive interrogations of the audience's relationship to Caesar. This is the 10th Apes installment and arguably one of the most ambitious of the 21st century; a compelling evolution conceptually and visually from its recent predecessors while also introducing audiences to a new set of characters with mysterious motivations–a true Apes movie that is in conversation with the radical 1968-73 films as Ball’s reinvention is unafraid to be a bit scathing in its commentary on fundamentalism and the white savior archetype.
(3:30) Non-Spoiler Reaction
(26:13) Timeline of the Apes Universe
(33:44) Spoilers Start (Prologue)
(34:30) World-building and Eagle Clan
(01:01:30) Adventure Epic and Raka
(01:10:00) Caesar Mythology
(01:30:08) White Savior Subversion
(01:46:15) Proximus and his Kingdom
(02:07:00) The Epilogue
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Kelsi and Trey explore the career of Ryan Gosling through his newest semi-successful film The Fall Guy and then arguably his best performance in The Nice Guys. Gosling's career has taken many turns; from an indie darling in Half Nelson, to a stoic angry stunt driver in Drive, to the dreams of stardom in La La Land, and maybe no better than last year with his satirical depiction of Ken. Gosling has worn many hats of different men and his depiction of a fragile man lying to himself about being a nice guy is certainly never better than in Shane Black's dark comedy.
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Kelsi and Trey finish off their anti-war series and begin their Emily Blunt discussion with the very thrilling and politically complicated Denis Villeneuve's Sicario. This is a technical masterclass on several fronts; with an imposing performance from Benicio Del Toro, stunning photography from Roger Deakins, and a brutal soundtrack from the late-great Jóhann Jóhannsson. However, while Sicario is a cinematic powerhouse, this episode explores the movie's challenge of paralleling a military state with drug cartels and how the film may have a difficult legacy because of underdeveloped subversions.
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Kelsi and Trey explore the convincing cinematic power of Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers. We also question the narrative’s internal logic with its character studies led by dynamic performances from Zendaya, Mike Faist, and (especially) Josh O’Connor. Then we discuss what makes Guadagnino’s films so compelling, from the bizarre technical motifs, the psychosexual tensions, the backdrop of historical significance, to the underdog qualities of his flawed characters. Most of his successful films blend cinematic thrills with alluring stories, and while Challengers is certainly thrilling (even hilarious in moments), we attempt to identify the unevenness of the film’s narrative that held us back from loving the movie.
Spoiler Deep Dive (44:05)
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We discuss one of the greatest cinematic representations of apocalyptic realism in Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men. This anti-war parable is covered in historical imagery and dystopian symbolism; a film subverting cautionary tale tropes with one of the most disturbing call-to-action movies ever made. Cuarón provokes contemporary conversations about late capitalism, refugee crisis’, the global rise of authoritarianism, the loss of spirituality, all to help inform and develop the world of Children of Men that scarily resembles our reality.
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Kelsi and Trey react and deep dive Alex Garland’s Civil War. While a technical feat, Civil War is politically unchallenging and lacks a nuanced confrontation as an anti-war movie. Thankfully, Kirsten Dunst as a hollowed photojournalist on this road trip to D.C. with her dynamic co-stars Wagner Moura, Cailee Spaeny, and Stephen McKinley Henderson keep you invested in an otherwise disappointing showing from one of our great science fiction filmmakers.
Spoiler Deep Dive (45:20)
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Kelsi and Trey discuss the divisive and widely misinterpreted Alex Garland's Men. This surrealist folk horror film uses conventions of the genre to explore the perpetual exploitation of women; depicting an absurd-level of imagery and symbolism specific to patriarchal mythology and the horror genre born out of it. Garland's Men, much like Jordan Peele's Get Out, self-examines its storytelling and provokes the audience to question how it historically accepts tropes and cliches that perpetuate and exploit stereotypes.
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Kelsi and Trey discuss the maze of Alex Garland's Ex Machina. We explore how this sci-fi puzzle tests the audience by provoking questions about constructs, consciousness, selective empathy, and who is guilty of exploiting the power of artificial intelligence. We also talk about Oscar Isaac's dance moves, Domhnall Gleeson's weirdo enegy, and Alicia Vikander's subversive performance.
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Kelsi and Trey explore the most emotionally compelling and gripping movie of 2023 in Anatomy of a Fall. The film is being interpreted as a courtroom thriller and a whodunit, but its subversive focus is on the societal pressures and expectations of women, mothers, monogamy—a brilliant interrogation of genre and constructs. Triet imposes imagination on the viewer, much like her lead character with autofiction; a twisty metacinematic commentary about pop-psychological thrillers that have used women as narrative tools. 4 hours of conversation on Patreon below!
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Kelsi and Trey explore the movie landscape of 2023 by ranking our 20 favorite movies! This episode doesn't have any major-spoilers and there are tons of recommendations from the year. Time stamps for part 2 of our ranking are below.
#10 (09:09)
#9 (21:09)
#8 (36:55)
#7 (44:35)
#6 (01:05:00)
#5 (01:14:15)
#4 (01:29:30)
#3 (01:41:37)
#2 (01:59:12)
#1 (02:08:32)
Recap of #20-1 (02:21:11)
Honorable Mentions (02:25:25)
The Holdovers (03:03:05)
American Fiction (03:15:00)
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Kelsi and Trey explore the movie landscape of 2023 by ranking our 20 favorite movies! This episode doesn't have any major-spoilers and there are tons of recommendations from the year. Time stamps for part 1 of our ranking are below.
#20 (22:00)
#19 (34:40)
#18 (42:00)
#17 (50:27)
#16 (59:45)
#15 (01:04:30)
#14 (01:09:45)
#13 (01:19:47)
#12 (01:32:30)
#11 (01:42:54)
Recap of Part 1 (01:59:50)
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Kelsi and Trey give their immediate reactions to the 96th Academy Awards! We discuss the highlights of the Oscars, the nuance of Oppenheimer and Poor Things being praised, the complexities of Killers of the Flower Moon and Lily Gladstone being overlooked, the GOAT status of Justine Triet (insert P.I.M.P.), Cord Jefferson taking a shot at the industry, Jonathan Glazer's essential speech about complicity and dissonance, and of course...the power of Ryan Gosling.
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Kelsi and Trey discover a throughline of Denis Villeneuve’s ambitious filmography while exploring the radical epic of ‘Dune: Part Two’. This subversive follow up to ‘Part One’ continues its indictment of fundamentalist empires through a grand scale chess game of intergalactic power. Villeneuve’s tonally ambiguous and mysterious adaptation of Frank Herbet’s iconic novel is led by performances from Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Austin Butler, and more!
Adam Nayman Review
David Ehrlich Review
We explore Villeneuve's career and then our spoiler deep dive starts @ (01:00:45)
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Kelsi and Trey explore the universe of 'Dune' and what makes Denis Villeneuve’s ambitious past decade of blockbuster filmmaking legendary. We discuss what makes 'Dune: Part Two' an epic in scope and scale, but how it might lack the intimacy and political caution of 'Part One'. After our reaction to 'Part Two' we deep dive 'Dune: Part One' for over 3 hours on Patreon! Among thoughts on the movie's multifaceted political commentary on religion, white savior deconstructions, and the semi-successful subversive use of stereotypes, we ask essential questions like: Is Austin Butler into Timothée Chalamet more than Zendaya?
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Kelsi and Trey discuss for almost 4 HOURS how 'Portrait of a Lady on Fire' is Céline Sciamma's highly successful attempt at subverting conventions across cinema, storytelling, and history at large. Noémie Merlant and Adèle Haenel invent this echo of a romance to give us one of the great masterpieces of the 21st century.
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Kelsi and Trey discuss the informal universe of Ridley Scott and Denis Villeneuve's project of Blade Runner set in a postmodern society where a few humans play god, consumerism is religion, and all of the human condition has been reduced to constructs and commodities. A lot to explore thematically with class and gender, as well as stylistically with the scope and scale of Roger Deakins, and then the iconic Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford throwing punches while Sylvia Hoeks and Jared Leto stealing the show by the end!
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Kelsi and Trey discuss Jonathan Demme's masterwork 'The Silence of the Lambs' starring Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins. We explore the psychological thriller/serial killer genre, the parallel of law and criminal, Clarice navigating a world of men, and the film's complicated legacy of otherness. Lots to explore, 3+ hour deep dive on Patreon!
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Kelsi and Trey discuss Martin Scorsese's best picture winner The Departed; a pretty extreme movie about identity and best enjoyed as an anxiety-inducing bleak comedy. We explore how its both Scorsese's messiest and possibly most rewatchable project. A cat-and-mouse thriller that devolves into a thematically complicated movie about assimilation; when the cops and the criminals realize they are only nominally a family and are actually just competition to one another is when its theme of economic assimilation is most successful. Also, it's not a half bad movie when Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Mark Wahlberg, Jack Nicholson, and Alec Baldwin are searching for microprahcesssors!
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Kelsi and Trey discuss the Oscar nominations for the 96th Academy Awards, led by Christopher Nolan's 'Oppenheimer', Yorgos Lanthimos' 'Poor Things', Martin Scorsese's 'Killers of the Flower Moon', and Greta Gerwig's 'Barbie'. We explore all the surprises and talk about what the greatest snubs were!
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Kelsi and Trey discuss how Tina Fey's newest iteration of 'Mean Girls' starring Reneé Rapp as the complex Regina George isn't as fetch as her original 2004 film starring Lindsey Lohan, Rachel McAdams, and Amanda Seyfried. After a short review of the 2024 musical Mean Girls, we deep dive the original cult classic and explore the movie's mostly-successful satire, its cultural legacy, the rules of feminism, and whether or not McAdams should've received the Margot Robbie treatment--get in loser, we're going shopping!
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