Weekend Watchlist: Bones and All, The Menu and She Said

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MITCHELL Hello and welcome to Weekend Watchlist, a look at what’s screening and streaming brought to you by The Letterboxd Show. I’m Mitchell, he’s Slim…

SLIM Hello.

MITCHELL And together we’ll dig through what’s dropping this weekend last weekend, recent trends on Letterboxd, and we’ll also take a peek at our own watch list all under thiry minutes or Slim is going to do hour long special episode all on Halloween Ends.

SLIM Maybe we should, maybe we should go to thirty-one minutes this week, if that’s what the people want. I’m just saying.

MITCHELL Put it into your reviews if you want an extra minute on Halloween Ends at the end of every episode.

SLIM Tag your reviews “Slim thirty-one minutes, our long Halloween Ends episode” and we’ll track that hashtag.

MITCHELL We’re checking the hashtag.

SLIM So this week, Luca and Timmy are back together again. Is the world ready for Bones and All, Mitchell? Are they ready for this?

MITCHELL We’ll find out.

SLIM We’ll find out this episode. Not only that, but we’ll also go through Anya Taylor-Joy’s The Menu, Maria Schrader’s look at the MeToo movement, She Said, and we’ll also look back to see what everyone thought of last week’s releases. There was a ton out. Your community reviews tagged “Weekend Watchlist” and of course our own shuffled watchlists, later in the show, and maybe, maybe just maybe, if we make it under thirty minutes we’ll hear from Timothée Chalamet himself this episode.

MITCHELL Maybe. Well Chalamet he is in... Bones and All?

SLIM Bones and All.

MITCHELL Coming out this week directed as you said by Luca Guadagnino, on 97,000 watchlists.

SLIM My god!

MITCHELL The people are hungry. It is coming out in limited release in theaters this weekend. The synopsis: “Abandoned by her father, a young woman named Maren embarks on a 1000 mile Odyssey through the backroads of America where she meets Lee, a disenfranchised drifter. But despite their best efforts, all roads lead back to their terrifying paths and to a final stand that will determine whether their love can survive their otherness. Slim, a lot of people talking about Bones and All on Letterboxd. What are you? Are you craving some cannibal romance?

SLIM How many eating double-entendres can you weasel into this segment before somebody has enough? I was late to the Call Me By Your Name party, ittedly. I did see Suspiria, so folks may recognize those movie titles and now they’re back together again. So I mean, 97,000 watchlists, I feel like that’s near whatever we had for The Batman when that came out.

MITCHELL Yeah, it’s pretty high.

LSIM This is one of those big time releases. So it’s just limited this week, but I’m excited. I think Timothée’s hair looks amazing this movie to be perfectly frank with you.

MITCHELL Very good hair in this movie. A lot of good looks. I know you know our lovely co-host Mia Vicino did dress as Chalamet in this as Halloween, had some complaints that maybe a lot of people didn’t get it because the movie didn’t come out for a month after Halloween but, around you know, a couple of weeks from now people will be like, “Oh, I —Mia was this guy for Halloween!”

SLIM Yeah, they’re gonna get it.

MITCHELL They’re gonna get it!

SLIM They’ll get it eventually. What about you? Are you excited for this when this finally hits theaters and maybe streaming?

MITCHELL Yeah, so I wasn’t super amped about this when I first heard about it. I was like, ‘cannibal romance? I don’t know.’ But all the more that word has been coming in on it, the more I’ve been getting excited about it. Especially seeing a lot of people comparing it to Badlands, which is one of my like all time favorite movies. It’s got like, Chalamet and his co-leads Taylor Russell, who I really love. She was great in Waves a few years back and I’m excited for her to get more of a spotlight now. But looking at the rest of the cast list is just stacked. It’s got Chloë Sevigny, Michael Stuhlbarg, who was also one of my favorite people in Call Me By Your Name. Martin Scorsese’s daughter sca Scorsese is in this. She was in Luca Guadagnino’s HBO series We Are Who We Are, which I thought was like a masterpiece. I mean, Luca, let’s get Season Two going for that, please. But also Phoenix herself from Phantom of the Paradise, Jessica Harper is in this!

SLIM What!

MITCHELL I’m very curious about what’s going on with her. And your boy, *Halloween Ends*director, David Gordon Green, in this movie, acting in this movie. So I mean, that’s five stars for you. It’s gotta be. Right?

SLIM I had not even heard of We Are Who We Are until you mentioned it, that HBO series.

MITCHELL It was barely marketed by HBO, but it is so good. Everybody’s got to check that out.

SLIM It’s actually on Letterboxd, just FYI, people listening. So I’m gonna add that to my watchlist. Maybe take a peek at the old HBO Max.

MITCHELL Four and a half stars for Mitchell.

SLIM But our own Flynn Slicker, one of our talented social media s—I love how people just call the social, whoever is a social media manager, the Twitter .

MITCHELL Or it’s either or intern, which is based on the replies that we get. It’s very, it’s very, like, diverse scale there. You are either an intern or you are literally istrating this whole thing.

SLIM Let’s retire the intern phrasing, anyone listening, and we’ll stick to or manager, that works too. But Flynn had a chat with Luca and Timothée, believe it or not. She asked about the horror elements of it, you know, some of the gross out scenes and the reactions that some people were having while watching those moments and what they hoped people would connect with as they watch it and Timothé had an answer. Let’s hear what Timothée had to say.

TIMOTHEE CHALAMET The sort of horror elements of the movie and the fact that there’s a cannibalistic element to it also, I guess when I saw Luca’s movie Suspiria, there were scenes that made me jump out of my seat. But in the filming of it, which I’m most proud of and, and how the movie came together, it’s really a love story at its heart. It’s about two people that are other by society and a time period where phones are recourse to understanding who you are was not beholden to these people and the part of the country that was totally disenfranchised in the ’80s and these two young people by some miracle find each other and fall in love and and and make each other feel that they’re worthy of love in a setting that otherwise they might just be alone forever. And that’s what I hope people take away the most from seeing it. But I agree with you there’s many parts in it that freaked me out.

SLIM Love that Timothée snicker at the end.

MITCHELL Yeah, I’ve definitely seen people getting grossed out by it. I have a friend, my friend Charlie Nash who works at the Coolidge theater in Boston, and they did an advanced screening of it a few days back and they had catering bring in a buffet of ribs for people to eat while watching the movie. I don’t know how that went. I’ll check in with Charlie but sounds like a choice. I want to quickly spotlight some Letterboxd reviews for it before we move on. Cory Everett from Cinephile the Card Game, saw the film and said: “As someone who watches a lot of horror, cannibal movies still manage to make me squirm. Beautiful, brutal and probably my favorite Guadagnino film to date, this one already feels like a cult classic.”

SLIM Okay, okay, speaking of eating, let’s eat the rich next with The Menu directed by Mark Mylod. 84,000 watchlists, so this is another real one that’s really up there. This is a limited release. Synopsis: “A couple travels to a coastal Island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef has prepared a lavish menu with some shocking surprises.” So when I saw the poster for this and I think you probably maybe share the same opinion that I have that this just looked like a chef drama, you know, with Anya Taylor Joy, Ralph Fiennes. But the more and more I see it, there’s some maybe scary horror elements but also comedy? Like what’s the story with this movie?

MITCHELL Yeah, exactly the same as you. I saw the poster, the images for it and was like ‘oh, I assume this is probably like the movie Burnt from 2015 that we all , you know, the hit Bradley Cooper movie Burnt.

SLIM Tell me you have a steel book Burnt on your shelf right now.

MITCHELL I would buy one—Burnt, honestly, low-key kind of an underrated movie. Burnt, pretty good. We’re getting the word out. We’re getting the word out on Burnt. It’s a little bit late but the resurgence is coming in for Burnt. But yeah, I thought that it was just like yeah, like a chef, you know, a restaurant drama and then it showed up on Letterboxd Top 50 Horror films of 2022 ranked number 6 on average rating of all the horror movies this year, Bones and All vnumber three by the way. So when I saw The Menu on that list of the horror movies, I being in the Slack, I think I said to Jack who does all like the stats and everything for us. On the Slack, I was like, “Is The Menu a horror movie?” I was not prepared for that at all. Which I mean, it definitely got me more intrigued than I was before. For sure.

SLIM I wouldn’t want to tell people it’s just a straight up horror movie, because I don’t really know, because I haven’t seen it. But I definitely am more interested to see it just like you based on that alone. Movieenjoyer left a review: “if succession was set at a giant saw trap.” Okay.

MITCHELL Mark Mylod, yeah, he’s known more of like a TV guy from Game of Thrones but also Succession. He’s big on directing that, so it makes sense if the visual kind of aesthetic style of The Menu is Succession, then I’m very in for that. But it’s also Anya Taylor-Joy, of course. I feel like a lot of those 84,000 watchlists are Anya Taylor-Joy heads out there. Shoji left a review that said: “you know it's aboutta be fire when anya taylor-joy plays a ginger.” All The Queen’s Gambit fans out there, we’re back in for a treat there. Flynn who you mentioned with *Bones and All*l, Flynn said: “Anya Taylor-Joy punching someone? Sign me up.”

SLIM Wow. Flynn left a star rating for that? Arare Flynn star rating.”

MITCHELL Three and a half stars from Flynn.

SLIM This is back in September, that might have been before she made a switch, maybe just no rating and only five stars. We’ll have to get some answers from Flynn on that.

MITCHELL Flynn’s oming on next week.

SLIM And we might hear from Flynn later in the show about her star rating changes.

MITCHELL So let’s head into, we’ve got a packed, packed week, lots of new releases. So let’s dive into our next one. She Said directed by Maria Schrader, on 16,000 watchlists. This is opening wide in theaters. The synopsis for this one: “New York Times reporters Megan Toohey and Jodi Kantor break one of the most important stories in a generation, a story that helped launch the MeToo movement and shattered decades of silence around the subject of sexual assault in Hollywood.” We’ve got a journalism movie here. Very important story. Slim, how are you feeling about her? Are you excited to see this?

SLIM Boy, you know, I think this is one of those movies where it’s okay to not be excited about it. But you can be excited in a way that this is an important movie for people to see. Because it does follow a very important topic over the last few years. I think they ended up, these reporters turning it into a book and now the book is now this movie. Gemma: “Soundtrack doing a lot of emotional work for an audience that needs absolutely no help whatsoever feeling things about this piece of shit and the pieces of shit who enabled him.” So I think the Gemma hits the nail on the head at least with that review.

MITCHELL Fran Hoepfner, recent guest on The Letterboxd Four Faves show with Gemma and Mia, Fran left a review saying: “totally fine if not a little didactic, which is sort of the thing about journalism movies in general. like Janet Malcolm would hate this but also RIP. I suspect folks who have kept up with this story since 2017, if not prior, will feel like they’re being smacked over the head with a rolled up newspaper, but the intended audience is likely people for whom this story is unknown or held little water, making the case that this type of “inside baseball” reporting matters in a bigger sense. does it pull that off? I dunno.” Which I think is an interesting perspective to have on it because I know that there are some people who are like this maybe feels a little bit too soon, we know like this story, but I think historically it, there are so many people outside of people like us who follow everything that’s going on in the movie business who like know this story, there are people who maybe don’t know it that well and people fifty years from now, who maybe won’t be as tuned into the wine scene of it all and everything I know all the minute details of it, who could get a lot of education from this story and seeing how it all kind of came about.

SLIM Yeah, I was thinking about that recently too, with the Twitter stuff happening. I feel like we’re very online with a capital O and I wonder like, does the world at large, does our aunt and uncle’s know what’s happening currently with Twitter, like will Twitter be around? And it’s just interesting to look at some of these current events that we’re so glued into in certain communities, but outside of those bubbles, you know, movies like this are necessary. We have some movies in our lightning round before we get rolling. This is the biggest show we’ve ever done, I think.

MITCHELL Biggest.

SLIM I’ve been looking at the numbers and this is the biggest.

MITCHELL And five extra minutes about Halloween Ends at the end of it.

SLIM EO directed by Jerzy Skolimowski, 13,000 watchlists from Janus Films and sideshow. ”The world is a mysterious place when seen through the eyes of an animal. EO, a gray donkey with melancholic eyes meets good and bad people in his life’s path, experiences joy and pain, endures the wheel of fortune randomly turned his luck into disaster and his despair into unexpected bliss, but not even for a moment does he lose his innocence.” I watched the trailer for this and I almost started crying right away. I’ll be totally honest with you.

MITCHELL The reviews are popping about love for EO. I’m excited for this movie because I it’s sort of loosely inspired by Robert Bresson’s film Au Hasard Balthazar which is a movie that I adore, so I’m pumped for it for that but the reviews are just all about this donkey. Ella Kemp left a review that just says: “I would protect EO, listen to EO, cherish EO, EO, pray to EO, love this here donkey named EO.” And if you look at the Letterboxd reviews, you’re pretty much getting a lot of that.

SLIM The Inspection, the last thing we’ll spotlight, directed by Elegance Bratton, on 6,000 watchlists, this is distributed by A24. “Ellis French as a young gay black man rejected by his mother and with few options for his future decides to the Marines doing whatever it takes to succeed in a system that would cast him aside but even as he battles deep-seeded prejudice in the grueling routines of basic training, he finds unexpected camaraderie, strength and in this new community giving him a hard-earned sense of belonging that will shape his identity and forever change his life.” This is another trailer that I saw in theaters that I really wanted to see as soon as I saw it.

MITCHELL Yeah, this one’s coming out in a limited release this weekend and it comes out wide on December 2, so more people will definitely be able to see it. So we’ve got some reviews from festival screenings and everything. Joe Reid left a review that said: “tbh I’d have been maybe even more into a movie about French’s pre-Marines life, but this is good and Jeremy Pope is GREAT. Here’s hoping Gabrielle Union follows the “Bring It On alum playing mom on a queer kid” train to a ing actress nomination.” Following in the footsteps of Kirsten Dunst slash The Power of the Dog. Let’s get all those Bring it On alums. Eliza Dushku, where is her Oscar nomination? That’s what we’re really asking for.

SLIM Eliza, come home, we need you. Please come home.

MITCHELL Jesse Bradford, my Swimfan boy. The Bring it On cast needs some more buzz just in every movie these days, I think.

SLIM “What’s the letter for Ben Cronin? Swimming. You any good?”

MITCHELL Wow. Wow. Welcome to the Swimfan episode of Weekend Watchlist.

SLIM Should we start a Swimfan retrospective podcast? Every week we watch Swimfan and we discuss it.

MITCHELL The Patreon is just us doing Swimfan, we just bring on a guest every week to talk about Swimfan.

SLIM And its impact on their life.

MITCHELL Let’s take a quick—before we get into our own, shuffling of our own watchlist and what we got going, let’s take a quick look back at some of the big films that you and Mia talked about last week. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, 3.8 average on Letterboxd after its first week in release. It’s obviously blowing up the box office. We’ve got plenty of reviews on the Letterboxd. I wanted to shout out the Kev’s review which I really loved that said: “A lot of this movie really worked for me. But when the guy with SOUTHLAND TALES in his top 4 thinks your movie is too busy, you've got a serious problem.”

SLIM Old Kev up to his old tricks in that Wakana Forever review. 3.8 average, so. I saw it last week, gave it three and a half stars, some really beautiful shots in the movie that I love. Falling for Christmas came out last week, 2.5 average on Netflix. So a little lower than anticipated but maybe right around the sweet spot for direct-to-streaming Christmas romcom movies. I don’t know what you think, Mitchell..

MITCHELL Yeah, so I did watch, my partner Samm who works with us here and I watched Falling for Christmas, we were very excited about Falling for Christmas, watched it the moment that we could. It’s fine. I feel like, so I mean neither of us are people who really get into the likes of Netflix and the Hallmark-like kind of Christmas movies. So we’re coming into this with the neophyte you know, understanding what these movies are. And it threw me off a little bit with just how flagrantly phony it kind of is. You can have a shot of your boy Chord Overstreet. It’s just like a close up of him and it’sclearly green screen on just a close up of him and it’s like a little bit like this concerning. But I think that people who are into this kind of thing would really like it and definitely, I mean, the main reason that we watch this as opposed to all the 50,000 other movies like this that come out every year is because we’re big Lindsay Lohan fans, exciting for her to be back and I feel like a lot of people in the reviews you see are getting a lot of that, Lindsay definitely being the thing to sell this. Aeon left a review that said: “All the formula you'd expect from a holiday movie, with extra added charm. Welcome back, Linds.” could not agree with that more. Welcome back.

SLIM I meant to say this in our company Slack, but I was in I think it was Peacock or Paramount has like, quote unquote, live channels. It’s like Hallmark has a channel, whatever. So I was just poking around and it came on to a Christmas movie starring Luke MacFarlane Bros. And it was an ice skating scene! I couldn’t believe, I couldn’t believe it. What are the chances? I mean, he’s maybe done a ton of them so the chances are pretty high.

MITCHELL Yeah, he has said that he’s done a lot of those. I mean, the way that that man looks it makes sense that he gets cast in a lot of those things. He is exactly the Chord Overstreet type.

SLIM I was vilified on Twitter for my pronunciation of Chord Overstreet, by the way, thanks to Mitchell. But The Fabelmans, limited release last week. 4.2 average, there’s a lot Oscar buzz, lot of Oscar buzz. Maybe it’s in the bag. Who knows? But Scott left a review: “Men will literally make a forty million movie instead of going to therapy.”

MITCHELL I’m very excited, very excited for the The Fabelmans. Although Mia said it’s his best movie in—

SLIM I think she said twenty years.

MITCHELL The Adventures of Tintin shaming on that statement. I don’t know how I feel about that.

SLIM Mia probably didn’t see [The Adventures of Tintin], she’s playing L.A. Noir. She’s too busy to watch The Adventures of Tintin, I feel like.

MITCHELL Fair, fair. It’s reasonable. It’s a good game.

SLIM Should we go into our watchlist now? Every week we look at our own watchlists, our ever growing watchlists, we shuffle them. So it kind of helps us get that number down. We have to watch it before we meet next week. And last week, I shuffled and I got The Ritual from David Bruckner, who did The Night House and more recently, the new Hellraiser and this had been on my watchlist for a while. It looked like a bunch of dudes going camping and it’s a horror movie. So I was like, oh, okay, let’s see that. And that’s essentially the plot. It starts out with a bunch of dudes talking about going camping one night at the bar, and two of those friends eventually go to a convenience store and they walk in on it getting held up, one of them gets killed. Fast forward, down the line, they finally do go on that camping trip, after that happens eventually down the line. But one of them gets injured. They have to find this like, you know, rundown house to try to just stay the night as they’re trying to get back home. And it’s like a ritualistic house, like the trees outside of the house all have like insignias on it. There’s almost like an altar inside of the house. But they’re so cold, they’re like, we have to stay here. We have to just leave in the morning. Let’s just get through the night. There’s a really eerie scene that happens the next morning in that house, and they eventually just stumble upon something creepy, like the title suggests, ritual. I liked it a lot. I liked it. It’s probably my favorite David Bruckner. I thought his other stuff was okay, visually some really cool stuff, creature design is off the charts. So I was pretty happy with this shuffle last week.

MITCHELL Yeah, I really dig The Ritual. It’s one of those movies, it’s like very folk horror and I think it’s similar to a lot of movies that are about guys going camping in the woods or like a setup similar to that. I feel like it gets less interesting and less creepy the more stuff is actually revealed and you understand. The third act didn’t work for me as well as the setup kind of stuff. The scene that you mentioned is definitely my favorite scene in the movie. And yeah, super chilling. I love The Night House.

SLIM The Night House also another movie where it gets really crazy in the third act, like there’s a lot happening in that third act of The Night House as well.

MITCHELL And it’s more, yeah, The Ritual, the stuff that really sinks under my skin and keeps me up at night is more like suggestive stuff rather than them revealing things.

SLIM What did you shuffle and get?

MITCHELL Yeah, my last time I got, I shuffled that I got Breaking Away, the Peter Yates movie from the ’70s about a bunch of boys in high school riding bikes. It was, I mean, pretty good. One of the main boys who get really obsessed with Italy and like Italians, like he wants to race the Italians because they’re like the most elite cyclists in the world, and they’re coming to their town. And it’s like, all based on a true story and stuff. But I was just a little bit like, like, why are we—he’s like, he starts pretending to be Italian. He starts wooing a girl by like, pretending that he’s Italian and he has a different name. And he talks with an Italian accent and he just speaks Italian and I’m like, what are we doing with this part of it? But the stuff about like, these boys kind of coming into their own, especially the man boys relationship with his father, I thought it was really like well done. And there’s like a scene towards the end where the boy kind of gets his heart broken in a way and realizes that people are just kind of messed up and evil in the world. And it’s like a moment, a loss of innocence kind of moment. And he goes home to his father. And he’s like, I didn’t realize that people could lie. I just didn’t know what his father was like, well, now you do. And it’s really like that that got me and I like it made me tear up in a way that I was like, oh, I did not realize how invested I was in this movie until now. But yeah, it’s pretty good. Jackie Earle Haley, as you and I talked about when I shoveled it, he weirdly looks exactly the same as he does now he just looks like he put a wig on, which is kind of disconcerting.

SLIM Imagine him and young Matt Dillon in the same place at the same time, would the universe collapse on itself?

MITCHELL Dennis Quaid is also in this. A really early Dennis Quaid. I’m like, I’m just seeing all of these young versions of these guys that I’m used to seeing old versions of themselves, but they look very similar.

SLIM Dennis Quaid has a six pack in this backdrop. Are you seeing this? My god!

MITCHELL Dennis Quaid is topless for like most of the movie and it’s like, yeah, it’s creepy.

SLIM The opposite effect of Jack Earle Haley in a wig.

MITCHELL Let’s check out what some other people are shuffling their own watchlist with us, tagging them “Weekend Watchlist”. Keep doing that please. I wanted to shout out Ian’s review of The Game who referenced something that maybe people can hear a little bit more about when you and Gemma talk with Ryan Connolly on the next episode of Four Faves next week. Ian says: “Maybe it’s the slimfluence talking but… best Fincher ever (?).”

SLIM That’s a very, very good question. Is it the best Fincher ever? I might agree with you. It’s my favorite Finch. When was last time you watched The Game?

MITCHELL Yeah, I haven’t seen The Game since I was like a teenager which was right off of the back of like watching, I was like fifteen and saw Se7en for the first time and Fight Club or whatever so I was like super obsessed with them and then I watched The Game and it’s a very different kind of movie but you kind of go into it expecting it to be like Fincher’s other movies, so I thought it was fine but wasn’t crazy about it but it’s one of those ones that I feel like has gotten more and more love as the years go on and I picked up the Criterion a few months back and definitely want to give it a rewatch because I feel like it’s one of those ones that these days, I don’t really like Fight Club as much as I used to when I was a teenager but I feel like I would like The Game a lot more than I used to like it.

SLIM I’m eagerly awaiting that review. Angel left a review for Smile, which is now on Paramount+, Paramount army rise up. “Very pleasantly surprised by how good this was! I get that it's not the most original concept, but I thought it had something interesting to say, which is more than I usually feel about a lot of horror flicks. All the jump scares made this a really fun theater experience!” Amanda and I actually watched Smile last night. I liked it too, I gave it three stars. Visually some really eerie stuff. I also loved the sound design too for Smile.

MITCHELL I’m excited to check it out for sure. It’s one of those ones that when the first ads for it were dropping, I was like, ‘what is this?’ But then the more people were talking about it, where I was like, ‘oh, I guess I should see this.’ I wanted to awesomely shout out Amanda Wheeler’s review of My Cousin Vinny. Amanda said: “I’m so glad I got this film when I shuffled!! I love it! (I especially love my queen Marisa Tomei)” which My Cousin Vinny, Marisa Tomei, all-timers. I also just love that Amanda tagged it as watching it with her mom, which I feel like My Cousin Vinny is such a perfect mom movie. And I just love when people tag who they watched their movies with, especially if it’s your mom or your dad or whatever. I just think that’s really cool and nice to see.

SLIM Yeah, I gotta to do that with when I watched it with Amanda. I think I started—

MITCHELL I started doing it when I watched movies with Samm. And it’s really cool just to see the full, like you look in your diary and see every movie you watch with the person.

SLIM Use the tags. But now let’s use our watchlist. Let’s head back over there and shuffle it again. I’m going to filter by stream-only to make it easy for me. And then I’m going to sort by shuffle and the first movie that appears, I have to watch. Oh god... [shuffle sound plays] 2.0 average, streaming on Tubi, Pluto, Crackle and Roku... Black Eagle starring Jean-Claude Van Damme. “There are no armies, there is no glory, this fight is one on one.” Oh my god, what a poster. I don’t even think there’s anything more to say about it. But I’m excited to watch. Eric Karson directed, 1988.

MITCHELL Oh, wow, that is a hard flex. That is just like, his flex looks like a whole separate part of the movie. [shuffle sound plays] All right, I shuffled and I got a Clearcut from 1991. Synopsis: “When a lawyer loses an appeal to stop a logging company from clear cutting Native American land, Arthur, an Indian militant drag him and the kidnapped logging mill manager into the forest. The lawyers empty talk about how the company’s greed should be punished is put into brutal action by Arthur who tortures the manager in allegorical ways mimicking what loggers do to the forest.” That is an interesting synopsis.

SLIM This is actually on my watchlist too. I think I added it when there was some buzz in a Discord for a podcast that I listen to, Bat & Spider. This was only available on YouTube for a while but it’s on Shudder and Tubi now.

MITCHELL Kier-La Janisse, who we talked to on this week’s episode of the Four Faves show, she put it in Severin Films folk-horror box-set that came out last year, so when I picked that up, this was like one of the ones that I was most interested in seeing because yeah, it’s got great reviews on Letterboxd. Graham Greene plays the lead in it. I’m really excited to check this out.

SLIM I love this poster. This is one of the most VHS looking posters that I can think of right now.

MITCHELL Oh hell yeah.

SLIM Saran-wrapped in the bin, ready to be taken home.

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