Weekend Watchlist: Magic Mike’s Last Dance, Sharper and Baby Ruby
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 go through our own watchlist later in the show—all under 30 minutes or the FBI will release a video of me doing the Channing Tatum Pony dance from Magic Mike.
SLIM Please, everyone remain calm. So this episode is so huge that we needed help from our friends at Focus Features to help bring it to you. So this week is brought to you by Of An Age, set in the summer of 1999, the movie follows Cole, an eighteen-year-old Australian amateur ballroom dancer as he experiences an unexpected and intense 24 hour romance with a friend’s older brother.
MITCHELL I love me a queer romance and Alexie writes: “the more I think about it, the more I am impressed by the inherent understanding of the road movie genre as a means of communicating a deep emotional bond.” Of An Age is in theaters February 17, so get your tickets now at OfAnAgeTickets.com.
SLIM Magic Mike. Ever heard of this guy?
MITCHELL I’ve heard of him. I’ve heard plenty.
SLIM The third movie is going to lead off our discussion this week. And from there we’ll drift into Sharper, Baby Ruby, community reviews tagged Weekend Watchlist, how last week’s movies are doing and the Letterboxd Hot 100—I’m still workshopping that name. We’re gonna figure out a cool name for this but for now it’s the Hot 100.
MITCHELL Well, speaking of hot let’s get right into it. Let’s get hot. Let’s get the rain falling, the waters coming down for Magic Mike’s Last Dance directed by my boy, Steven Soderbergh on 7.5 thousand watchlist, let’s get that number up people. This film is coming out in theaters wide this weekend so everybody can go see it. The synopsis: “Mike Lane takes to the stage again after a lengthy hiatus following a business deal that went bust leaving him broke and taking bartender gigs in Florida. For what he hopes will be one last hurrah, Mike heads to London with a wealthy socialite who lures him with an offer he can’t refuse and an agenda all her own.” So I checked out, I got the sweet screener in, they said you know if we need one person to see Magic Mike’s Last Dance, it’s Mitchell and we’re gonna make it happen however it happens. The review embargo for Magic Mike’s Last Dance, it dropped yesterday. Let’s address the elephant in the room, some of the reviews not great. We got Brian Formo from Letterboxd gave it a very bad review. I will have some words with Brian. I don’t know if he has a job anymore. But the reviews are a little bit mixed. A little bit mixed. I will say for myself, I love this movie. You can check it out on Letterboxd, you know, I wrote a review for it. I’m standing by it. I think that Magic Mike’s Last Dance is the Ocean’s Twelve of the Magic Mike franchise. I think it’s a movie that is already being misunderstood. Because people went in expecting it to just be if you want to see Magic Mike XXL, go watch Magic Mike XXL. This is a different movie people. What are you going in expecting the same thing they’re doing something different? This movie it’s a little shaggy, especially in the middle, but it’s romantic. It’s earnest. It goes to Europe for some reason, just like Ocean’s Twelve. But it’s very funny. It’s very melancholic. It’s beautiful. I think that it is a gorgeous movie that is also, it centers around this gorgeous little romance with Channing Tatum and Salma Hayek—what more could you want than Channing Tatum and Salma Hayek falling in love in London?
SLIM That’s a very good question. Very good question. And you can hear Mitchell going to bat for Mafic Mike’s Last Dance.
MITCHELL I’m going to be doing it all year. All year I’m going to bat for it. I’m ready.
SLIM This is the new Lyle, Lyle Crocodile in of Weekend Watchlist lore. There was some buzz in the Letterboxd Slack: “Is Soderbergh finished?” Someone asked that in Slack.
MITCHELL You asked that!
SLIM The question had to be asked. I got a few emojis that weren’t really happy with that question in Slack, but Brian, we referenced Senior Producer at Letterboxd, co-host of Best in Show, the hit new podcast on this feed. “XXL is one of the best movie sequels ever. I am so disappointed to say that its follow up is a joyless slog.” What a great word, I love the word slog.
MITCHELL It’s a great word that does not apply whatsoever to this film. I do have some backup out there. David Sims friend of the show, co-host of the Blank Check podcast, David Sims wrote on Letterboxd: “Clearly some of you just don’t want to be bossed around by Salma Hayek and I can’t help you with that.” That’s true. That’s true. If you don’t want to be bossed around by Salma Hayek, I don’t know what you’re doing. What kind of movies are you even watching at this point?
SLIM Let me just go back to Brian’s review if I could, “if this same movie had my name on it instead of Steven Soderbergh, no one would be searching for fool’s gold, and it’d be labeled the trash fire it is.”
MITCHELL Well, let’s go back to David Sims, who has declared that Magic Mike’s Last Dance “is a Lubitsch movie about the eternally chill Mike trying to put on a show while gorgeous billionaire yells at him and a snarky butler sasses him. It’s terrific. And don’t listen to anyone saying otherwise.” That’s from David Sims. He says don’t listen to Brian so I don’t know.
SLIM Go see this movie in theaters, tag it Weekend Watchlist. We need to settle the score next week.
MITCHELL We’re gonna settle the score, and Brian will not be—
SLIM It’s currently at a 3.0 on Letterboxd. It’s on the line, it’s nearing the Gemma line, the 3.5.
MITCHELL Let’s get those numbers up, people.
SLIM Next on our list is Sharper from Benjamin Caron on 6.7 thousand watchlists, this is going to be in theaters and Apple TV next week. “A small wealthy family in New York City gets progressively torn apart by secrets lies and the theft that orchestrates all of it.” So this is, most people probably listening will watch this on Apple TV+. What are you hearing? What about this movie Sharper? What’s the buzz Mitchell?
MITCHELL We’ve been getting some Letterboxd reviews dripping and I know our social team, Aaron Yap and Flynn Slicker got to check it out because Flynn did some interviews with some of the cast, crew of the film including Julianne Moore, who gave us her four favorite films where you can check that out soon on our social channels. Ee got a sweet video coming of that A24 produced this one as part of their partnership with Apple. Aaron said that, you know, if you like con movies, this is definitely one to check out and I think you know a lot of people like con movies. I like a con movie. On Letterboxd I saw that it stars Julianne Moore, it also starts Sebastian Stan. I saw this cool review on Letterboxd from Jacob who said: “I'm impressed by how committed Sebastian Stan is, away from Marvel, to playing roles that make you wanna avoid him like the plague in real life. ” Which I think, I think that’s pretty accurate he’s been doing he’s been doing some wacky stuff. I like when these Marvel people get let off the leash and just go out on their own and do some wild thing, so I’m stoked to check out Sebastian Stan in this.
SLIM I watched a video on YouTube earlier about this movie and Sebastian has a haircut that is almost identical to Rider Strong from Boy Meets World.
MITCHELL I mean, what more could you possibly want?
SLIM Just shot up the list I think faster for certain people listening to this episode.
MITCHELL Sebastian Stan in Sean mode? Come on.
SLIM Stay tuned.
MITCHELL Let’s do a quick shout out for this other film that is on VOD and in theaters right now. It’s called Baby Ruby directed by Bess Wohl, it’s on 2.7 thousand watchlists. The synopsis for this one: “After welcoming her baby Ruby...” Like the title? “...home the highly scripted world of lifestyle influencer Joe starts to unravel as increasingly sinister happenings mountain Joe has plunged into a waking fever dream where everyone is a threat and nothing is what it seems.” I know Jo in this one played by Noémie Merlant, who people might know from Portrait of a Lady on Fire and TÁR, if people have heard of the film TÁR. And I know that Slim you you’re a pretty big fan of Noémie Merlant, right, and you got to check out this film? What did you think of it?
SLIM My queen. My queen I thought this was pretty frightening. It’s 90 minutes on the very real dangers of postpartum depression. So I was grimacing for most of the movie. I wrote my review, “in between bites of my Stoffer’s meat lovers family size lasagna” that I had for dinner last night.
MITCHELL You’ve been writing some weird reviews lately.
SLIM I need to change it up. I need to evolve. I can’t just be the same old Slim in my Letterboxd reviews. By the way it was delicious dinner, had leftovers today for lunch.
MITCHELL This episode sponsored by Stouffer’s.
SLIM If you’re listening, if you want an HQ , hit us up. So this one is actually trending a little bit lower than I thought and it’s a really uncomfortable watch. It kind of blends the line, I saw in some reviews the thought like they didn’t like it because it blends line of potential horror, or is it really just a mother going through a really difficult pregnancy and postpartum depression of her life for the first time? And I thought it was extremely vivid interpretation of that. So I think a lot of people are going into this maybe thinking it’s going to be like kind of like a fun horror movie, but it’s almost more like a super realistic interpretation of what can happen when you give birth. So I really enjoyed it. And I think you even pointed out to that we had a little bit of a piece from Bess on our HQ page on Letterboxd.
MITCHELL Yes, if you head over to our Letterboxd HQ page, the director Bess Wohl wrote like an op-ed that we published over there where she discusses how the film was born from her own encounter with the performative aspects of new motherhood that left her kind of grasping for a sense of reality and political urgency. It’s a really moving piece that I definitely recommend people checking out. She also gave us a list of the influences that inspired the film, which maybe speaks to kind of what you were talking about a little bit because there’s some titles you’d expect in there like Rosemary’s Baby for sort of that horror element, but then some more like off-kilter ones like Panic Room, and also the Diane Keaton 80s comedy Baby Boom with James Spader in it. So yeah, I mean definitely feels like a lot of mixture of things going on in this film.
SLIM I love Panic Room. You have a Blu-ray of Panic Room in that shelving of yours?
MITCHELL Listen, buddy. I have a list on my Letterboxd of films that are not available on Blu-ray that I would like to be released on Blu-ray and Panic Room is very high on that list, somehow not how are you not putting David Fincher film on Blu-ray? Let’s make it happen, people. The call is out right now. Panic Room on Blu-ray by the end of, let’s say by, I’ll give you guys until May to get Panic Room on Blu-ray.
SLIM Who’s gonna block you next on Twitter? It’s gonna be David Fincher’s people.
MITCHELL He probably wants this! He probably wants this, he’s on my side I think.
SLIM Alright, so real quick we’ll mention that Titanic is being released in 4k in theaters. So go see that if you so choose, there’s some buzz about how it looks kind of like motion smoothing to achieve HDR. I don’t know anything about that.
MITCHELL That high frame rate. He’s obsessed with it!
SLIM Well, to be frank he’s never missed with the high frame rate and it’s 100% success rate. So let’s talk about movies hitting VOD. Plane is out. You’re excited about this right?
MITCHELL I haven’t had the chance to, I’ve been washed up trying to you know I’ve been watching the Magic Mike of it all. I’ve been really you know, I’ve been I’ve been busy. I’m I’m a busy person. And I haven’t been able to sit down pay my 20 bucks for*Plane* yet. But I’ll tell you what I am going to pay $20 to watch a Plane and on VOD, and I am very excited about it. This is a film that *Patrick Willems on Letterboxd said: “Gerard Butler proves he can do Sully and Captain Phillips in one movie.” In one movie, Slim. He’s doing both!
SLIM It’s never been done in the history of film.
MITCHELL It’s never been done!
SLIM Also this is kind of a busy week. So we were curious if we would find movies that will be released on VOD each week for this segment but Empire of Light hit HBO Max. Lyle, Lyle Crocodile is on Netflix!
MITCHELL Heard of it.
SLIM You’ve heard about it on this show for sure. And when we put the call out, you said that you know we would give out a free year of Pro or Patron to whoever built a website. But Jimmy did the next best thing, Jimmy Martin on IG, he linked me to a Twitter called When’s It Streaming? We’ll have a link in the episode notes that is just a Twitter that just says like, ”this movie is coming to HBO on February 9, etc, etc.” So this might be the closest thing we can get. So Jimmy, hit me back up in my DMs, we’ll hook you up.
MITCHELL Oh shit. Alright. Congratulations Jimmy.
SLIM Alright, so let’s look back. Let’s look back at last week, how the movies are doing that released last week with the Letterboxd community and maybe touch on something that maybe we watched or took part in last week. Mitchell, what about you? Did you do you watch anything interesting last week?
MITCHELL Yeah, I actually I caught up with, so there’s a boutique blu-ray label called Fun City Editions that is like my favorite label right now that’s working. They’ve been putting out cool stuff like they did a rerelease for Married to the Mob, Cutter's Way they’re releasing, Party Girl on Blu-ray for the first time next month, which I’m very excited about. And I’ve just been kind of going through some of their back catalogue and I watched their Blu-ray of a film called Walking the Edge, which is this like nasty little like crime skeeze from the
’80s starring my sweet boy Robert Forster as a cab driver who helps Nancy Kwan enact some revenge after some gangsters murder husband and son. It is dirty it’s grimy. There’s a guy who gets like not murdered like tortured. I mean he does die, but he gets tortured with a power drill in it this this will be cuts like inner cuts a guy getting tortured with a power drill with a beautiful touching sex scene. They’re doing some fun stuff in here. Robert Forster at one point says you need three hugs a day just to survive and I broke down into tears watching that. He also sodomizes a guy with a switchblade. I’m very obsessed with this movie. I want to watch it again right away. I also last night watch Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping for the third time this year. So I’m going through some stuff right now. But how about you? What have you been catching up with recently?
SLIM I mean, speaking of weird movies, I watched Videodrome for the 40th anniversary again. Lots of fun. I still just can’t get over how James Woods talked his way into a date with Deborah Harry and she immediately reveals that she’s into BDSM and wants to just knock boots immediately with James Woods.
MITCHELL I just told a story on Twitter the other day about in honor of Videodrome’s anniversary about the first time that I saw it. I was fifteen years old. I had I went to a sleepover with some friends. We had a lot of bacon pizza, which apparently did not agree. It didn’t agree with me though. It was delicious. But I woke up at like at my friend’s house at like six o’clock in the morning the next day violently sick diarrhea. It’s just you know a lot. A lot going on. I called my sister I said, Hey, can you pick me up? Can you come to my friend’s house and pick me up at six in the morning? She said I don’t like you. But yeah. So she came and got me I went home I got snuggled into bed I put on a DVD of Videodrome that I had recently bought I had never seen it before but was excited about it you know heard people talking about it and it really soothe me it really it made me feel better it made my tummy feel good and so Videodrome has always been an odd comfort movie for me despite the you know, I mean as much as the graphic violence is in there, the James Woods of it all is really the most disturbing thing but it makes me feel better.
SLIM That’s all it takes sometimes. A little Videodrome to soothe the soul and the rest of the body. So Knock at the Cabin came out last week, that’s at a 3.2 average. Dakota left review: “Shyamalan‘s dialogue is how I imagine Mark Zuckerberg probably talks to people when he’s trying to pretend like he’s not a humanoid lizard in disguise.”
MITCHELL That may be true. I wanted to shout out my friend Logan Kenny read a review for Knock at the Cabin, a five star review for Knock at the Cabin that described the film as “finding a second of connection and strength amidst impossible, abhorrent tragedy. cried my eyes out at the last 10 minutes. another masterpiece from one of the greatest living filmmakers.” Big praise there.
SLIM 80 for Brady, the movie that’s sweeping the nation. Not in of box office, but sweeping the hearts of the nation.
MITCHELL Making men retire.
SLIM 3.3 average. Scott: “Laugh out loud funny, tears streaming down into my mask, cheering over a Super Bowl game from 6 years ago. This this is a miracle! Instant classic. Rita Moreno, marry me! Sally Field, marry me! Jane Fonda, marry me! Lily Tomlin, marry me! Gronk, marry me!!”
MITCHELL Gronk is in this movie? I’m gonna check this out. Esther wrote a review of 80 for Brady that just says: “Rita Moreno eats a single tortilla chip with two hands.” As a big chip eater, I gotta say, I’m excited for that.
SLIM I teased the segment at the top of the show. The Letterboxd Hot 100. You know, it’s still early going in the year, Jack usually puts together the Letterboxd Top 50 of the movies that are the highest rate of the year but it maybe it’s just not time yet. So last week, we went and ran the data to see what are the most watchlisted movies last week. And last week, Infinity Pool, Babylon and Tar were the top three watchlisted movies in the last seven days. Infinity Pool at 42,000 watchlists additions. So I crunched the numbers. It took me a few hours. I had my abacus out and Babylon is overtaking the number one spot from Infinity Pool this week. How do you feel about that?
MITCHELL It’s fine. You know, Babylon is a movie that I did not care for. But it is certainly a movie that a lot of people do like, it’s very divisive and I appreciate a divisive movie. I like movies that get people talking and there’s been a lot of talking on Twitter that’s not been very healthy I think about about movies like Babylon but I like movies that get people having very strong opinions you know one way or the other. I don’t like this boring straight down the middle kind of stuff. What about you on Babylon? Have you seen Babylon or do you want to see Babylon?
SLIM It’s like six hours long. I gotta plan out my whole day around a Babylon screening if I’m gonna see it.
MITCHELL I’ll say, I was a little bit exhausted by it. But there’s about two hours and twenty minutes in Tobey Maguire comes in and just as the weirdest stuff you’ve ever seen for like five, ten minutes at that I think it’s worth the price of ission for that alone. He’s a little creepy Goblin it in. I love it.
SLIM I’ve seen images of Toby on Twitter that I assume are from the movie and they’re very haunting. So two other highlights, The Fabelmans has dropped out of the Letterboxd Hot Ten, it’s not really the hot 100. I’m not going through 100 movies. And Everything Everywhere All at Once has moved into the top ten at number seven, so moving and shaking up the list. All Quiet on the Western Front has also left the top ten. The Whale has entered the top ten at number eight so interesting to see what the community is you know looking up or making time for this last seven days, pretty cool.
MITCHELL Keep an eye on it. See what’s happening, start putting stuff in your watchlist if you want to affect change in the Letterboxd Top 100 slash Top Ten Actually. So last week we had Mia, it was a jam packed episode we didn’t have time to do our favorite section the watch list shuffle where we you know shuffle our watchlists, get a film that we have to watch you usually get some Tubi nonsense I get something that I’ve owned on Blu ray for a couple years that I finally get motivated to watch. Let’s check out what the last things that we got, way back in the yesteryear times of 2022. What was the last film that you got in the watchlist shuffle, Slim?
SLIM As we were putting this stuff together, I honestly couldn’t even what I got and shuffled and watched like a month ago and I think I even referenced it in my review that I wouldn’t have no idea anything about this movie when the time came, but I got The Dark Half from 1993 directed by George A Romero with Timothy Hutton and he played like a writer who kept his writing persona secret because it was kind of like, you know, dirty, grimy, maybe sexy books so he kept it a secret. So he had this other half of him that was like writing these books and eventually that Dark Half started to appear, and people were getting murdered around him and it’s essentially like Timothy Hutton with slicked back hair wearing black cowboy boots. It was like the evil version. So in my review, I wondered if James Wan considered this one of his favorites or not. It reminded me of another horror movie that had come out the last few years and other than that, I don’t really a whole lot of it. So I didn’t give it a star rating, it might have been on in the background while I was working. I liked it, I gave it a like, I gave it a heart.
MITCHELL Well James Wan, call us up. Call us up, let us know if The Dark Half is one of your favorites.
SLIM You have until May to call up this podcast or Mitchell will take action.
MITCHELL And James, if you can get Panic Room on Blu-ray...
SLIM What did you watch? What did you shuffle?
MITCHELL My Shuffle was also in the horror realm. I got Dario Argento’s Phenomena from the ’80s, starring a very young Jennifer Connelly. I watched it Tubi, with my partner Samm. Samm clocked out after about twenty, 30 minutes. I can’t even what we watched his said but we we did a hard pivot just sort of watching the White Lotus or something. But I thought it was all right, I mean as expected for Argento it’s got like plenty of slick visuals, a killer score but kind of as expected for Argento working with English speaking actors the dubbing is the dubbing is particularly wonky and this one like I have some issues with like the dubbing the dubbing can throw me a little bit and like his Suspiria but I can get over that with that one This one was tougher to get to get through with like it’s really like there’s I don’t know it’s just have to watch the times with the dubbing quality I guess. Especially with Connolly is like so young and her performance just doesn’t, like the dialogue is very like stilted but I don’t know, I like it better when it’s just about like this odd little kid being able to like psychically communicate with insects and Donald Pleasance is in there, he has a monkey butler so that’s pretty fun. But yeah I struggle with I saw your your review from from a couple years back had similar issues with the audio and also your wife tapped out on this as well.
SLIM She tapped out real quick. I might have even pre-tapped out because I think I thought it was in Italian because I was looking up Prime’s listing, I should never trust Amazon Prime’s listings. But yeah, the audio was just so wonky and this was my first Argento so I kind of like news gonna be weird but then like even when there was no speaking the music was like so loud, I was like grabbing the remote control to like lower the volume when the music was hitting, so yeah not a great time for my first.
MITCHELL Yeah, I have it on Arrow 4k and the 4k quality is definitely better. After Samm tapped out on Tubi I ended up when I came back to it I switched over to the 4k and that’s definitely the audio visual quality of that is obviously a lot better but still some issues. But let’s dive and see what some of the community’s been shuffling tagging their reviews as Weekend Watchlist. You want to call out any reviews that were tagged?
SLIM You know I do. Diego’s Pearl review is just two words: “Mia GOD.”
MITCHELL Jamesy! You little baby!
SLIM I haven’t seen that movie yet but I’m so excited to hear her real voice in full bloom.
MITCHELL You just heard it! You just heard it!
SLIM That was not a clip of the movie Infinity Pool. Emma left a review for a movie we have to spotlight anytime we see it tagged Weekend Watchlist,* Marcel the Shell with Shoes On. “I love this movie.” And that’s the only thing that I’ll include, there’s a great story and her full review which will include in the episode notes.
MITCHELL I wanted to give a quick shout out to Charith’s review of the film A Man Called Otto, Charith says: “It’s heartwarming but surprisingly funny. Telling that I was the only person under 60 in the cinema.” I would like to take a moment to appreciate what A Man Called Otto, a remake of a film? It stars Tom Hanks, it’s directed by Mark Forrester of Quantum of Solace fame, underrated, the underrated James Bond film Quantum of Solace. A Man Called Otto came out around Christmas time, it has made almost $100 million dollars worldwide at the box office and I feel like most people probably aren’t even aware of that. So I just want to give a shout out to A Man Called Otto, the power of Tom Hanks around Christmas, ranking in that dough.
SLIM So when we last talked about this, we thought it might be fun to change it up. And then also force ourselves to watch the oldest movie, the movie that we added. How do I even say it? The movie that has been on our watchlist the longest. You can do this by going to your watchlist. I’m going to navigate to it right now, and then sort by when added and then make it earliest first. So we’ll also do our shuffle in a second, but we’re also going to try to do this. Make some headway a movie that’s been sitting there for eons. I wish I had a date to see when I added this movie, maybe a decade ago, but my oldest movie that I have to watch is Mean Streets from 1973, Martin Scorsese. “You don’t make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets.”
MITCHELL You do it in the mean streets.
SLIM Sheesh, that’s the movie that’s been sitting on my watchlist the longest. What about you, Mitchell?
MITCHELL That’s a good movie. The oldest one on my watchlist is Jim Jarmusch’s Permanent Vacation. His first film I think I’ve mentioned it before, I think we were talking about all the our last episode of 2022 where I do this thing where like, I have some of my favorite directors, I watch all their movies. But then like, I tried to leave like one because I don’t want to fully complete it. And so Jarmusch is a bit ironically, the only one that I haven’t seen of his for like the longest time is his first movie. So now I guess I’m gonna have to watch it. It’s on Criterion Channel. It’s on HBO Max. 75 minutes. Nice and easy.
SLIM All right. So we’ll still do our shuffle. We know that everyone loves to shuffle alongside of us. So head your watchlist. I’m going to filter my service by stream only because I don’t want to go out to my local library or video store to buy anything. And then I’m going to sort by shuffle and the first movie I get is what I have to watch. Here we go. Oh, okay. [shuffle sound] Popcorn, 1991. “A horror film festival held in a theater which was once the scene of a tragic fire turns into a real life horror show.” That’s on Shudder and Tubi right. Okay.
MITCHELL Of course it is. I’m gonna add this to my watchlist, that sounds rad.
SLIM The poster is amazing. It’s a skeleton holding up a fake mask of a woman.
MITCHELL Oh, I’ve seen this poster on Letterboxd.
SLIM I think it was also the sole reason I might have added to my watchlist.
MITCHELL Not great ratings.
SLIM 3.2 average on Letterboxd.
MITCHELL Josh Ruben gave it a review. “Sure it makes no sense, but it’s perfect.”
SLIM There you go. That’s the vintage Josh Ruben review. What about you? What did you shuffle and get? [shuffle sound]
MITCHELL I have gotten a film called The Hero from 1966 directed by Satyajit Ray. The synopsis: “A matinee idol is going by train to collect an acting award on the train. He is confronted by a journalist who’s somewhat unwillingly starts to take his interview.” I’m super stoked for this, this has been on my watchlist forever. I do own it on Blu-ray. it is available on Criterion Channel and HBO Max. Samm, my partner, watched it last year and really loved it and also told me that it like mostly takes place on the train and I love a train movie. I love a movie on a train. So very excited to take a ride with The Hero.
SLIM Got a lot of work to do before next week, gotta buckle up. Actually, you’re not even gonna be on next week. So you got an extra two weeks!
MITCHELL You got a lot of work to do. I’m chilling.
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