This week on The Binge Movie Podcast, we take a break from summer blockbusters to focus on three new indies about vulnerable individuals operating within oppressive patriarchal systems, and also ONE OF THEM HAS A BONER IN IT. JASON’S PICK:… Continue Reading
Fourteen years after the first American Idol season and countless other vocal competitions later, it wouldn’t be unreasonable to suggest that American audiences have had our fill of aspiring singers clamoring for our attention, packaged with personal origin stories designed to pull at our heartstrings… Continue Reading
This week on The Binge Movie Podcast, we review three new releases about complicated, difficult men—the Mad Hatter, Anthony Weiner, and Erik “Magneto” Lehnsherr—and the coordinated team efforts required to mollify and contain them. Alice Through the Looking Glass (8:53—25:19)… Continue Reading
This week on The Binge Movie Podcast, we review four new releases about unwanted intruders and defending one’s way of life. PICK OF THE WEEK | The Lobster (6:33—26:51) | cast: Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, John C. Reilly, Ben Whishaw,… Continue Reading
This week on The Binge Movie Podcast, we review two new releases about idealized identities and interpersonal conflict. PICK OF THE WEEK | Captain America: Civil War (7:46—27:28) | cast: Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson, Don Cheadle, Anthony Mackie, Jeremy… Continue Reading
This week on a very special episode of The Binge Movie Podcast, we review three new releases about…deteriorating conditions? I don’t know, this is a hard one. In addition to a fevered circlejerk about Beyoncé‘s Lemonade visual album, Rebecca and I also switch… Continue Reading
There are surface aspects of writer/director Lorene Scafaria‘s superb new comedy The Meddler that almost dare you to underestimate it. The name, for one, is admittedly adorable. Then you watch the trailer and see what appears to be a sitcom-ready scenario: Lori… Continue Reading
This week on The Binge Movie Podcast, we review three new releases about young underdogs in challenging relationships with the elders in their lives. PICK OF THE WEEK: Green Room (8:00—16:56) | cast: Anton Yelchin, Imogen Poots, Patrick Stewart, Alia Shawkat |… Continue Reading
This week on The Binge Movie Podcast, we review three new releases about responsibility and cultural identity. Barbershop: The Next Cut (5:58—31:06) | cast: Ice Cube, Cedric the Entertainer, Common, Regina Hall, Nicki Minaj, Eve | writers: Kenya Barris, Tracy… Continue Reading
The 59th San Francisco International Film Festival will take place in theaters across the city—including, for the first time, the Alamo Drafthouse New Mission—from April 21 to May 5, 2016. The largest and most historic film festival within San Francisco,… Continue Reading
