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No Other Choice is a 2025 dark comedy directed by Park Chan-wook, written by     Park Chan-wook, Lee Kyoung-mi, Don McKellar, and Lee Ja-hye. It is adapted from 1997 novel The Axe by Donald Westlake. It stars Lee Byung-hun plays Yoo Man-su, who has lost his longstanding position at a paper mill and must search for work in a shrinking job market. To reduce the competition he enacts a plan to kill the better qualified individuals for a job opening he will create through more murder so that he may once again provide for his family. This family includes his wife Lee Mi-ri (Son Ye-jin), son Si-one (Woo Seung Kim), daughter Ri-one (So Yul Choi), and dogs Si-two and Ri-two. Time Stamps: (01:00) Atlas Shrugged Part I & II (37:34) Full Time (47:48) Z (1:02:30) No Other Choice (1:47:58) Spoilers (2:20:40) Next Time: 2025 wrap up and Hamnet Works Cited: Atlas Shrugged: Part I (Paul Johannson, 2011) Atlas Shrugged: Part II (John Putch, 2012) Atlas Shrugged Part III: Who is John Galt? (J. James Manera, 2014) The Axe (Costa-Gavras, 2005) The Ax (Donald E. Westlake, 1997) Big Sister is Watching You (Whittaker Chambers, 1957) A Brief Look at Texting and the Internet in Film (Tony Szhou, 2014) The Fountainhead (King Vidor, 1949) Full Time (Éric Gravel, 2021) No Other Choice (Park Chan-Wook, 2025) "No Other Choice" Eliminates the Competition with Style (Justin Chang, 2025) Taggart Trainwreck, Part 1 (Ben Verschoor, 2012) Z (Costa-Gavras, 1969) Z movie review & film summary (1969) | Roger Ebert (Roger Ebert, 1969) Z: Sounding the Alarm (Armond White, 2009) Email us at Miseenscreenpodcast@gmail.com! Find us elsewhere! Ben Verschoor https://cinema-purgatorio.ghost.io/ https://letterboxd.com/jamn4sure/ @benverschoor.bsky.social Steven Santana https://breakingarrows.substack.com/ https://letterboxd.com/number8axel/ @number8axel.bsky.social‬ Opening music is "Root Beer Rag" by Billy Joel Closing music is "G-Spot Tornado" by Frank Zappa Subscribe, rate and review us! Apple Podcasts: Mise en Screen - Podcast - Apple Podcasts Spotify Podcasts: Mise en Screen | Podcast on Spotify Player.fm: Mise En Screen podcast Podcast Addict: Mise en Screen - Podcast Addict

Is This Thing On? is a 2025 comedy-drama directed by Bradley Cooper, written by Cooper, Will Arnett, and Mark Chappell, starring Will Arnett and Laura Dern as Alex and Tess Novak, a couple whose marriage is on the rocks, leading Alex to discover stand-up as a way of processing it. They are joined by Bradley Cooper himself as Alex's best friend Balls, Andra Day as Balls' wife Christine, Christine Ebersole and Ciaran Hinds as Alex's parents, Jordan Jensen as Jill, one of the comics Alex befriends; and Blake Kane and Calvin Knegton as Alex and Tess's twin sons Felix and Jude. Time Stamps: (04:45) Top Five (25:32) The King of Comedy (41:29) Is This Thing On? (1:15:15) Spoilers (1:47:04) Next Time: No Other Choice Works Cited: A Star is Born (2018) - Movie Review: Alternate Ending (Tim Brayton, 2018) American Sniper (Clint Eastwood, 2014) Aftersun (Charlotte Wells, 2022) Emancipation (Antoine Fuqua, 2022) Is This Thing On? (Bradley Cooper, 2025) The King of Comedy (Martin Scorsese, 1982) 'The King Of Comedy' At 40: A Terrifying Look At The Early Origins Of "Stan Culture" (Jordan Hoffman, 2023) Lance Reddick | The Eric Andre Show | adult swim Maestro (Bradley Cooper, 2023) Materialists (Celine Song, 2025) Never Just a Movie | Top Five (2014) (Nathaniel Missildine, 2022) No Other Choice (Park Chan-wook, 2025) Orange Is the New Black (Jinji Kohan, 2013) Top Five (Chris Rock, 2014) Why YouTubers Get Weird Will Arnett Reveals the Incredible True Story that Inspired the Film 'Is This Thing On?' Will Smith reveals the real, predictably Will Smithian reason he didn't star in Django Unchained (Sean O'Neal, 2013) [Ben here: the headline I spoke of was actually the top-rated comment of this article, but the A.V. Club's several changes in commenting services over the years have resulted in its legendary reader comments being scattered to the four winds. I don't know who the commenter was, but the exact quote was, "He refused to get djiggy with it."] Email us at Miseenscreenpodcast@gmail.com! Find us elsewhere! Ben Verschoor https://cinema-purgatorio.ghost.io/ https://letterboxd.com/jamn4sure/ @benverschoor.bsky.social Steven Santana https://breakingarrows.substack.com/ https://letterboxd.com/number8axel/ @number8axel.bsky.social‬ Opening music is "Root Beer Rag" by Billy Joel Closing music is "G-Spot Tornado" by Frank Zappa Subscribe, rate and review us! Apple Podcasts: Mise en Screen - Podcast - Apple Podcasts Spotify Podcasts: Mise en Screen | Podcast on Spotify Player.fm: Mise En Screen podcast Podcast Addict: Mise en Screen - Podcast Addict

Song Sung Blue is a biographical film about the married musical artist duo Lightning and Thunder, Mike and Claire Sardina, a Neil Diamond tribute act, though they refer to it as "interpretation," while navigating the ups and downs of their regular lives. It is based on a 2008 documentary of the same name by Greg Kohs. Also starring Michael Imperioli as Mark Shurilla, a Buddy Holly impersonator; Ella Anderson as Rachel Cartwright, Claire's daughter; King Princess as Angelina Sardina, Mike's daughter; Fisher Stevens as Dave Watson, Mike's dentist and manager; Jim Belushi as Tom D'Amato, another manager with connections to the local casinos and night life spots; and Mustafa Shakir as Sex Machine, a James Brown impersonator. Time Stamps: (01:02) Saving Silverman (15:56) Tribute (30:03) Amadeus (44:57) Song Sung Blue (1:19:43) Spoilers (1:28:57) Next Time: Is This Thing On? Works Cited:   Amadeus (1984, Milos Forman) 'An unmistakable stab at the USSR': Could Amadeus be the most misunderstood Oscar winner ever? (2024, Tom Joudrey for the BBC) An Incredible Simulation (Jeff Economy, Darren Hacker, 2000) Don't Stop Believing: "Tribute" Filmmakers, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 (Tim Merrill, 2004) Method acting can go too far – just ask Dustin Hoffman (2016, Michael Simkins for The Guardian)Saving Silverman (2001, Dennis Dugan) Son of 'Song Sung Blue' subject calls Kate Hudson, Hugh Jackman 'monsters' (2025, Lauren Huff for EW) 'Song Sung Blue' fact vs. fiction: Eddie Vedder, leg amputation, heart attacks, more (2025, Gerrad Hall for EW) Song Sung Blue (2025, Craig Brewer) Song Sung Blue - The Original Documentary (The Full, Real Story) available for free to watch on YouTube (2008, Greg Kohs) Steve Zahn & Jack Black Taught Neil Diamond His Lyrics While Making 'Saving Silverman' | PeopleTV Tribute (full documentary) available for free to watch on YouTube (2001, Kris Curry & Rich Fox) Tributary: A Study of an American Pop Culture Subculture (2002, Russ Forster) (trailer) Email us at Miseenscreenpodcast@gmail.com! Find us elsewhere! Ben Verschoor https://cinema-purgatorio.ghost.io/ https://letterboxd.com/jamn4sure/ @benverschoor.bsky.social Steven Santana https://breakingarrows.substack.com/ https://letterboxd.com/number8axel/ @number8axel.bsky.social‬ Opening music is "Root Beer Rag" by Billy Joel Closing music is "G-Spot Tornado" by Frank Zappa Subscribe, rate and review us! Apple Podcasts: Mise en Screen - Podcast - Apple Podcasts Spotify Podcasts: Mise en Screen | Podcast on Spotify Player.fm: Mise En Screen podcast Podcast Addict: Mise en Screen - Podcast Addict

Marty Supreme is a 2025 sports comedy-drama film directed, written, produced, and edited by Josh Safdie, with Ronald Bronstein co-writer, co-producer- and co-editor. In this film we follow Marty Mauser, an aspiring table tennis player who seeks to become the world champion of the sport while simultaneously outrunning the consequences of his various scams, affairs, prideful boasts, and collectors. Co-starring Odessa A'zion as Rachel Mizler, his paramour, Gwyneth Paltrow as Kay Stone, a formerly famous actress who Marty pursues, Kevin O'Leary as Milton Rockwell, a wealthy businessman and Kay's husband, Tyler Okonma (Tyler the Creator) as Marty's friend Wally who also plays table tennis, Abel Ferrara as a shady character with a dog named Moses, Fran Drescher as Marty's mother Rebecca, and Geza Rohrig as Bela Kletzki and Koto Kawaguchi as Koto Endo, two other table tennis champions. Time Stamps: (00:55) Marty Supreme (56:03) Spoilers (1:28:57) Next Time: Song Sung Blue Works Cited: Benny Breaks Out (Ethan Shanfield, 2024) Made in America | Los Angeles Review of Books by Sam Bodrojan Marty Supreme's American Hustler (Armond White, 2025) Marty Supreme review by Conrado Falco Inside Timothée Chalamet's Ping-Pong Training for 'Marty Supreme' A Ping-Pong Specific Review of 'Marty Supreme' (Miles Surrey, 2025) Email us at Miseenscreenpodcast@gmail.com! Find us elsewhere! Ben Verschoor https://cinema-purgatorio.ghost.io/ https://letterboxd.com/jamn4sure/ @benverschoor.bsky.social Steven Santana https://breakingarrows.substack.com/ https://letterboxd.com/number8axel/ @number8axel.bsky.social‬ Opening music is "Root Beer Rag" by Billy Joel Closing music is "G-Spot Tornado" by Frank Zappa Subscribe, rate and review us! Apple Podcasts: Mise en Screen - Podcast - Apple Podcasts Spotify Podcasts: Mise en Screen | Podcast on Spotify Player.fm: Mise En Screen podcast Podcast Addict: Mise en Screen - Podcast Addict

In this episode we discuss a litany of films we watched to fill in the gaps of 2025 releases, full spoilers for all films discussed. Time Stamps: (5:49) Broken Church  (19:36) Star Trek Section 31  (26:07) Avatar: Fire and Ash  (33:21) Black Bag (38:28) Sovereign  (43:31) Eephus (49:58) Train Dreams (56:41) The Phoenician Scheme  (1:01:21) The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar  (1:06:15) Ballad of a Small Player  (1:09:49) The Mastermind (1:13:48) Presence (1:17:37) Weapons (1:22:17) Hag (1:28:24) Novocaine (1:32:42) Flight Risk (1:37:00) One of Them Days (1:42:53) Warfare (1:51:57) Caught by the Tides Works Cited: Avatar (And The Way of Water) Recap (Max Scoville, 2025) The Best of Times (Roger Spottiswoode, 1986) Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets (Turner Ross, Bill Ross IV, 2020) 'Broken Church' review by DoctorLizardBrain The Christmas Campaign (David DeCoteau, 2025) Crank (Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor, 2006) Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick, 1978) Die Hard (John McTiernan, 1988) Elephant (Gus Van Sant, 2003) Goodbye Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-Liang, 2003) 'The Phoenician Scheme' review by Tristan 'Train Dreams' Is Afraid Of Its Own Shadow | Defector Saving Christmas (Darren Doane, 2014) 'Star Trek: Section 31' review by i_z [Brooks Otterlake]' 10 great early digital films | BFI (Sam Wigley, 2022) Email us at Miseenscreenpodcast@gmail.com! Find us elsewhere! Ben Verschoor https://cinema-purgatorio.ghost.io/ https://letterboxd.com/jamn4sure/ @benverschoor.bsky.social Steven Santana https://breakingarrows.substack.com/ https://letterboxd.com/number8axel/ @number8axel.bsky.social‬ Opening music is "Root Beer Rag" by Billy Joel Closing music is "G-Spot Tornado" by Frank Zappa Subscribe, rate and review us! Apple Podcasts: Mise en Screen - Podcast - Apple Podcasts Spotify Podcasts: Mise en Screen | Podcast on Spotify Player.fm: Mise En Screen podcast Podcast Addict: Mise en Screen - Podcast Addict

Wake Up Dead Man is the latest Knives Out mystery film from writer-director Rian Johnson. In this film we find Father Jud Duplenticy (Joh O'Connor) under suspicion of the murder of Monsignor Jefferson Wicks (Joshj Brolin), stabbed in the back in a storage closet during his Good Friday service. The ensemble this time is played by Glenn Close as Martha, a lifelong servant of the church, Jeremy Renner as local physician Dr. Nat, Kerry Washington as attorney Vera, Andrew Scott as author-in-exile Lee, Cailee Spaeny as Simone, a disabled woman and the church's biggest donor, Daryl McCormack as a failed politician heel, Thomas Haden Church as Samson the groundskeeper and Martha's lover, and Mila Kunis as the local police chief. Daniel Craig stars once again as Benoit Blanc, a private detective who takes the case to prove Jud's innocence. Time Stamps: (01:12) Exposed (24:32) The Third Man (40:25) The Gospel According to Saint Matthew (51:57) Wake Up Dead Man (1:25:27) Spoilers (2:04:21) Next Time: Marty Supreme & 2025 catch up Works Cited: Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis: Backlash over support for rapist Danny Masterson (Emma Saunders, 2023) Breaking Bad (Vince Gilligan, 2008) Brick (Rian Johnson, 2005) "Come On Up to the House"(Tom Waits, 1999) Conclave (Edward Berger, 2024) Daughter of God (Gee Malik Linton, 2016) The Elegiac Heart: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Filmmaker (James Quandt, 2023) Exposed (Declan Dale, 2016) First Reformed (Paul Schrader, 2017) FIVE MINUTES, MR. WELLES: THE THIRD MAN inspires an actor's homage | Cinezine Kane (2015) 'Forks Out': A Benoit Blanc Sesame Street Mystery | Wake Up Dead Man | Netflix Glass Onion (Rian Johnson, 2022) The Gospel According to St. Matthew (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1964) The Gospel According to Saint Matthew (1964) - Movie Review: Alternate Ending (Tim Brayton, 2009) Hello Brooklyn #12 - Gee Linton (Malcolm Thomas, 2017) Hi I'm Gee Malik Linton, I directed Keanu Reeves in Daughter of God. Ask me anything. : r/KeanuBeingAwesome Hot Fuzz (Edgar Wright, 2007) Interview: Vincent D'Onofrio - IGN (Jeff Otto, 2012) "It Made Me Angry, But Good Angry": Gee Malik Linton's Restored DAUGHTER OF GOD (James Kenny, 2023) Jeremy Renner denies filmmaker Yi Zhou's misconduct allegations - Los Angeles Times (Mark Olsen, 2025) Knives Out (Rian Johnson, 2019) Knive's Out's Rian Johnson Says He Will Always Be a Youth Group Kid (Tyler Huckabee, 2025) Looper (Rian Johnson, 2012) Sherlock Holmes (Guy Ritchie, 2009) Silence (Martin Scorsese, 2016) Star Wars: The Last Jedi (Rian Johnson, 2017) Twisters (Lee Isaac Chung, 2024) The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949) Wake Up Dead Man (Rian Johnson, 2025) Email us at Miseenscreenpodcast@gmail.com! Find us elsewhere! Ben Verschoor https://cinema-purgatorio.ghost.io/ https://letterboxd.com/jamn4sure/ @benverschoor.bsky.social Steven Santana https://breakingarrows.substack.com/ https://letterboxd.com/number8axel/ @number8axel.bsky.social‬ Opening music is "Root Beer Rag" by Billy Joel Closing music is "G-Spot Tornado" by Frank Zappa Subscribe, rate and review us! Apple Podcasts: Mise en Screen - Podcast - Apple Podcasts Spotify Podcasts: Mise en Screen | Podcast on Spotify Player.fm: Mise En Screen podcast Podcast Addict: Mise en Screen - Podcast Addict

Kill Bill The Whole Bloody Affair is a re-release of Kill Bill Volume 1 & 2 as one four hour thirty-five minute film with one 15 minute intermission. In this film we follow The Bride, played by Uma Thurman, who is pregnant and rehearsing for her wedding when her ex-lover Bill (David Carridine) arrives with the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad (Lucy Liu, Vivica A. Fox, Michael Madsen, Daryl Hannah) and kill her. She inexplicably lives through this, wakes up four years later, and begins taking her revenge on each member. Time Stamps: (00:56) A Karate Christmas Miracle (26:41) Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (45:15) Kiss Daddy Goodnight (57:11) Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair (1:40:18) Is Quentin Tarantino washed? (1:52:46) The Lost Chapter: Yuki's Revenge (2:19:56) Next Time: Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery Works Cited: "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" (Santa Esmeralda, 1977) "Woo Hoo" (The 5.6.7.8s, 1996) A Karate Christmas Miracle (Julie Kimmel, 2019) Cat People (Paul Schrader, 1982) Dangerous Liaisons (Stephen Frears, 1988) David Carradine's death might be accidental (Associated Press, 2009) First Reformed (Paul Schrader, 2017) IndieCollect - Save Indie Film Johnny Be Good (Bud S. Smith, 1988) Joker's Poltergeist (Christopher S. Lind, 2019) Kill Bill (Quentin Tarantino, 2003-2004, 2025) Kill Bill - Interview with Quentin Tarantino (2004) Kill Bill draft script (Quentin Tarantino, 2003) Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair movie review (2025) | Roger Ebert (Matt Zoller Seitz, 2025) Kiss Daddy Goodnight (Peter Ily Huemer, 1987) Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (Paul Schrader, 1985) Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters: Pen and Sword (Kevin Jackson, 2008) Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (Hayao Miyazaki, 1984) Nymphomaniac (Lars von Trier, 2013) Oh, Canada (Paul Schrader, 2024) Opinion | This Is Why Uma Thurman Is Angry - The New York Times (Maureen Dowd, 2018) Pulp Fiction Quentin Tarantino's Top 20 Films of the 21st Century Topped by 'Black Hawk Down' — World of Reel (Jordan Ruimy, 2025) Raw video: Uma Thurman's car crash on set of 'Kill Bill' (The Washington Post, 2018) Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976) The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (Treey Gilliam, 1988) The Lost Chapter: Yuki's Revenge | Fortnite After Dark (Quentin Tarantino, 2025) Uma Thurman forgives Quentin Tarantino—but not Harvey Weinstein—for crash on Kill Bill set - AV Club (Katie Rife, 2018) Wake Up Dead Man (Rian Johnson, 2025) Email us at Miseenscreenpodcast@gmail.com! Find us elsewhere! Ben Verschoor https://cinema-purgatorio.ghost.io/ https://letterboxd.com/jamn4sure/ @benverschoor.bsky.social Steven Santana https://breakingarrows.substack.com/ https://letterboxd.com/number8axel/ @number8axel.bsky.social‬ Opening music is "Root Beer Rag" by Billy Joel Closing music is "G-Spot Tornado" by Frank Zappa Subscribe, rate and review us! Apple Podcasts: Mise en Screen - Podcast - Apple Podcasts Spotify Podcasts: Mise en Screen | Podcast on Spotify Player.fm: Mise En Screen podcast Podcast Addict: Mise en Screen - Podcast Addict

Rental Family is the latest feature film by Hikari, cowritten by herself and Stephen Blahut, starring Brendan Fraser as a struggling American actor living in Japan who stumbles into a job working for a rental family agency who hire out actors to play unconventional roles for clients such as hosting a funeral for a still living individual, staging a wedding, playing a father for a mother-daughter who are trying to get into an elite school, cheerleading for an older live performer, interviewing an aging and forgotten actor, and even just to play Dreamcast games split screen with a hikikomori shut in. Takehiro Hira, Mari Yamamoto, Shannon Mahina Gorman, and Akira Emoto star in supporting roles. Time Stamps: (03:49) 37 Seconds (20:57) Tokyo Pop (33:33) Rental Family (1:13:11) Spoilers (1:37:49) Next Time: Kill Bill The Whole Bloody Affair Works Cited: 37 Seconds (Hikari, 2019) Beef (2023) Family Romance, LLC (Werner Herzog, 2019) Female Filmmakers in Focus: Fran Rubel Kuzui on Tokyo Pop (Marya E. Gates, 2023) Hikari Steps Into the Spotlight: The Visionary Director Behind Rental Family (Callie Beusman, 2025) Her Name Is Hikari and This Is Her Destiny (Chris Nashawaty, 2025) 'Rental Family' Review: Brendan Fraser Sells Happiness in a Gig Economy Drama About the Reality of the Roles We Play (David Ehrlich, 2025) 'Rental Family' skims the surface of Japan's rent-a-family industry (Siddhant Adlakha, 2025) Rent-a-Cat (Naoko Ogigami, 2012) Saving Face (Alice Wu, 2004) Synecdoche, NY (Charlie Kaufman, 2008) Tokyo Pop (Fran Rubel Kuzai, 1988) Tokyo Pop Is A Goofy Indie Slice Of '80s Alienation, Well Ahead Of Its Time (Chris Person, 2023) Tokyo Vice (2022) Email us at Miseenscreenpodcast@gmail.com! Find us elsewhere! Ben Verschoor https://cinema-purgatorio.ghost.io/ https://letterboxd.com/jamn4sure/ @benverschoor.bsky.social Steven Santana https://breakingarrows.substack.com/ https://letterboxd.com/number8axel/ @number8axel.bsky.social‬ Opening music is "Root Beer Rag" by Billy Joel Closing music is "G-Spot Tornado" by Frank Zappa Subscribe, rate and review us! Apple Podcasts: Mise en Screen - Podcast - Apple Podcasts Spotify Podcasts: Mise en Screen | Podcast on Spotify Player.fm: Mise En Screen podcast Podcast Addict: Mise en Screen - Podcast Addict

Angel's Egg is a 1985 Japanese animated OVA film written and directed by Mamoru Oshii, best known for his work directing the animated film Ghost in the Shell in 1995. This film follows two nameless characters, a young girl who carries an egg with her and a young man with a cross-shaped sword who joins her as they travel through a ruined empty city. Because of the abstract nature of the movie's setting and plot and its short runtime, we're going to not bother with a spoiler alert for this episode. We can't really talk about this film without going into detail about what happens in it. So if you want to see it completely fresh you may want to come back to this after you've seen it, either by hunting it down on the internet or getting the eventual Blu Ray or streaming release. But this movie really isn't something that can be spoiled, so for those who don't mind hearing the details, carry on. Time Stamps: (00:59) Final Fantasy: Legend of the Crystals (11:31) Ghost in the Shell (27:56) Evangelion 1.0+3.0 Thrice Upon a Time (44:37) Angel's Egg (1:31:06) Next Time: Rental Family Works Cited: Angel's Egg (Mamoru Oshii, 1985) Angel's Egg | Screen Slate  (Danielle Burgos) Brain Structure #03 - Hideo Kojima x Mamoru Oshii: Part 1 (Hideo Kojima, 2022) Brain Structure #03 - Hideo Kojima x Mamoru Oshii: Part 2 (Hideo Kojima, 2022) Death Stranding 2: On the Beach Pizza Man fight scene Final Fantasy: Legend of the Crystals (Shigeyuki Hayashi, 1994) Final Fantasy Rewind: Cracked Crystals (Ben Verschoor, 2024) Ghost in the Shell (Mamoru Oshii, 1995) In the Aftermath (Carl Colpaert, 1988; Arrow Video Blu Ray release 2019) Interview with Director Mamoru Oshii (Maki Watanabe, 2025) Mamoru Oshii on Why Angel's Egg Could Never Be Made Today (Eli Friedberg, 2025) Metal Gear Solid (Hideo Kojima, 1998) Oshii, Mamoru - Senses of Cinema (Richard Suchenski, 2004) The Resonance of Image and Sound Evokes Fundamental Emotions (Ryusuke Hikawa, 2025) Seraphim: 266613336 Wings (Mamoru Oshii, Satoshi Kon, 1994) Email us at Miseenscreenpodcast@gmail.com! Find us elsewhere! Ben Verschoor https://cinema-purgatorio.ghost.io/ https://letterboxd.com/jamn4sure/ @benverschoor.bsky.social Steven Santana https://breakingarrows.substack.com/ https://letterboxd.com/number8axel/ @number8axel.bsky.social‬ Opening music is "Root Beer Rag" by Billy Joel Closing music is "G-Spot Tornado" by Frank Zappa Subscribe, rate and review us! Apple Podcasts: Mise en Screen - Podcast - Apple Podcasts Spotify Podcasts: Mise en Screen | Podcast on Spotify Player.fm: Mise En Screen podcast Podcast Addict: Mise en Screen - Podcast Addict

Die My Love is the fifth feature film directed by Lynne Ramsay, who, alongside Enda Walsh and Alice Birch, wrote the screenplay which is adapted from the 2012 Argentinian novel written by Ariana Harwicz. Cinematography is by Seamus McGarvey. The film stars Jennifer Lawrence as Grace, a woman transplanted with her lover Jackson, played by Robert Pattinson, from New York to Montana after the death of Jackson's uncle and they inherit his house. Grace soon gets pregnant and gives birth to a son and begins to spiral into a deep depression. The cast also includes Sissy Spacek as Jackson's mother Pam, LaKeith Stanfield as a mysterious stranger, and Nick Nolte as Jackson's father. Time Stamps: (02:35) Nightbitch (18:45) Now, Voyager (33:00) Die My Love (1:26:59) Spoilers (1:52:22) Next Time: Angel's Egg Works Cited: 4.43 Psychosis (Sarah Kane, 1999) 92. Seamus McGarvey: Cinematographer - Part 2  (Fender Jackson, 2025) Angel's Egg (Mamoru Oshii, 1985) 'Die, My Love' Gets D+ CinemaScore (Jordan Ruimy, 2025) Die My Love | Interview with Lynne Ramsay (Picturehouse, 2025) "Die My Love" is awesome, actually (Sam Bodrojan, 2025) "Die My Love" Is Smaller Than Life. (Anthony Lane, 2025) Die My Love movie review & film summary (2025) (Sheila O'Malley, 2025) Die My Love review: a ferocious film from Lynne Ramsay (Jessica Kiang, 2025) How a Martin Scorsese book club favourite inspired Excellent Cadaver to adapt 'Die, My Love' | News (Jeremy Kay, 2025) Jennifer Lawrence Gets to Act Her Age in Die My Love (Allison Willmore, 2025) Jennifer Lawrence Gives Her Best Performance Yet in the Postpartum Fever Dream Die, My Love (Stephanie Zacharek, 2025) Jennifer Lawrence Is Completely Unhinged in 'Die My Love' (David Fear, 2025) "In Spite of Ourselves" (John Prine and Iris Dement, 1999) Lynne Ramsay On Future Projects, Film School (Jessica Kiang, 2025) Lynne Ramsay makes movies like no one else. She promises it won't be 8 years before the next one (Joshua Rothkopf, 2025) The Making of "Die My Love" with Cinematographer Seamus McGarvey ASC BSC (Panavision, 2025) Mother! (Darren Aronofsky, 2017) Nightbitch (novel written by Rachel Yoder, 2021; film directed by Marielle Heller, 2024) Now, Voyager (book written by Olive Higgins Prouty, 1941; film directed by Irving Rapper, 1942) Now, Voyager review - Bette Davis's sublime, sex-free act of sublimation (Peter Bradshaw, 2021) Repulsion (Roman Polanski, 1965)  Rosemary's Baby (Roman Polanski, 1968) We Need to Talk About Kevin (Lynne Ramsay, 2011) Email us at Miseenscreenpodcast@gmail.com! Find us elsewhere! Ben Verschoor https://cinema-purgatorio.ghost.io/ https://letterboxd.com/jamn4sure/ @benverschoor.bsky.social Steven Santana https://breakingarrows.substack.com/ https://letterboxd.com/number8axel/ @number8axel.bsky.social‬ Opening music is "Root Beer Rag" by Billy Joel Closing music is "G-Spot Tornado" by Frank Zappa Subscribe, rate and review us! Apple Podcasts: Mise en Screen - Podcast - Apple Podcasts Spotify Podcasts: Mise en Screen | Podcast on Spotify Player.fm: Mise En Screen podcast Podcast Addict: Mise en Screen - Podcast Addict

Frankenstein is the 992nd adaptation featuring the monster from Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. It is probably the 6th that hews closer to the source novel than the 1931 Universal film adaptation. This 2025 adaptation is directed, produced, and based on a screenplay by Guillermo del Toro, best known for The Shape of Water, Pan's Labyrinth, and Pinocchio (no not the soulless one released the same year from Zemeckis and Disney). In this film we follow Oscar Isaac as Baron Victor Frankenstein who creates life in the form of The Creature, played by Jacob Elordi. Felix Kammerer is William Frankenstein, Victor's younger brother, and Ti West muse Mia Goth plays Lady Elizabeth Harlander, William's fiance. Christoph Waltz supports as Henrich Harlander, Elizabeth's uncle. We also have Lars Mikkelsen as Captain Anderson, David Bradley as the blind man, Charles Dance as Victor's father, Ralph Ineson as Professor Krempe, and Burn Gorman as the executioner. Time Stamps: (01:11) The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Jim Sharman, 1973) (17:19) Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (Kenneth Branagh, 1994) (32:27) Frankenstein (Guillermo del Toro, 2025) (1:15:59) Spoilers (1:49:55) Next Time: Die My Love (Lynne Ramsay, 2025) Works Cited: Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (Charles Barton, 1948) Bloodborne (FromSoftware, 2015) Bram Stoker's Dracula (Francis Ford Coppola, 1992) Crimson Peak (Guillermo del Toro, 2015) Death is the Curator: An Interview with Guillermo del Toro (Lauren Wilford, 2017) Frankenstein (James Whale, 1931) Frankenstein (Guillermo del Toro, 2025) Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (Mary Shelley, 1818) The Hobbit: The Motion Picture Trilogy (Peter Jackson, 2012-2014) Inside ROCKY HORROR by Scott Miller Lisa Frankenstein (Zelda Williams, 2024) Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (Kenneth Branagh, 1994) Peter Pan Live! (NBC, 2014) Pinocchio (Guillermo del Toro, 2025) Poor Things (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2023) "The Rocky Horror Glee Show" (Adam Shankman, 2010) The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Jim Sharman, 1973) The Sound of Music Live! (NBC, 2013) TRHPS Official Fan Site: History: Production Notes (1975) Not I (Samuel Beckett, 1972) Email us at Miseenscreenpodcast@gmail.com! Find us elsewhere! Ben Verschoor https://cinema-purgatorio.ghost.io/ https://letterboxd.com/jamn4sure/ @benverschoor.bsky.social Steven Santana https://breakingarrows.substack.com/ https://letterboxd.com/number8axel/ @number8axel.bsky.social‬ Opening music is Root Beer Rag by Billy Joel Closing music is G-Spot Tornado by Frank Zappa Subscribe, rate and review us! Apple Podcasts: Mise en Screen - Podcast - Apple Podcasts Spotify Podcasts: Mise en Screen | Podcast on Spotify Player.fm: Mise En Screen podcast Podcast Addict: Mise en Screen - Podcast Addict

Bugonia is a 2025 film directed by Yorgos Lanthimos. This is an English remake of a 2003 South Korean film called Save the Green Planet! which was directed by Jang Joon-hwan. In Bugonia Jesse Plemons stars as Teddy Gatz, who together with his cousin Don, played by Aidan Delbis, kidnap and imprison CEO Michelle Fuller, played by Emma Stone, whom Teddy believes to be an alien. Time Stamps: (04:41) Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Philip Kaufman, 1978) (18:26) The Killing of a Sacred Deer (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2017) (28:54) Bugonia (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2025) (57:13) Spoilers (1:18:34) Next Time: Frankenstein (Guillermo del Toro, 2025) Works Cited: The Body Snatchers (Jack Finney, 1955) Body Snatchers (Abel Ferrara, 1993) Bugonia (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2025) Commentary: Friends of this L.A. teen will soon find out his big secret: He's co-starring in 'Bugonia' - Los Angeles Times (Mary McNamara, 2025) The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974) Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Spielberg, 1977) Dogtooth (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2009) The Favourite (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2018) Fire in the Sky (Robert Lieberman, 1993) The Invasion (Oliver Hirschbiegel, 2007) Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegel, 1956) Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Philip Kaufman, 1978) The Killing of a Sacred Deer (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2017) Kinds of Kindness (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2024) Klute (Alan Pakula, 1971) Leo DiCaprio: Alien Seductor? So Says Director Jang Jun-Hwan. - The Village Voice (Chuck Stephens, 2005) The Lobster (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2015) The Parallax View (Alan Pakula, 1974) Poor Things (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2023) Riyadh Comedy Festival criticized by Marc Maron, Human Rights Watch : NPR (Chloe Veltman, 2025) Review: 'Bugonia' is definitely about alienation, if not aliens themselves : NPR (Glen Weldon, 2025) Save the Green Planet! (Jang Joon-hwan, 2003) They Live (John Carpenter, 1988) Email us at Miseenscreenpodcast@gmail.com! Find us elsewhere! Ben Verschoor https://cinema-purgatorio.ghost.io/ https://letterboxd.com/jamn4sure/ @benverschoor.bsky.social Steven Santana https://breakingarrows.substack.com/ https://letterboxd.com/number8axel/ @number8axel.bsky.social‬ Opening music is Root Beer Rag by Billy Joel Closing music is G-Spot Tornado by Frank Zappa Subscribe, rate and review us! Apple Podcasts: Mise en Screen - Podcast - Apple Podcasts Spotify Podcasts: Mise en Screen | Podcast on Spotify Player.fm: Mise En Screen podcast Podcast Addict: Mise en Screen - Podcast Addict

Red Rooms, a 2023 psychological horror film written and directed by Pascal Plante. It follows Kelly-Anne (Juliette Gariépy), a fashion model who takes an interest in the murder trial of Ludovic Chevalier (Maxwell McCabe-Lokos). She becomes acquainted with another observer, Clementine (Laurie Babin), who will tell anyone who will listen that Chevalier is innocent. As time goes on they learn more about the case, and each other, and the things they may or may not have in common. Time Stamps: (01:15) siskelebert.org news (13:40) Red Rooms (42:40) Spoilers (58:11) Next Time: Bugonia Works Cited: BOMB Magazine | Pascal Plante by Astrid Rose DAHMER – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story (2022, Ryan Murphy, Ian Brennan) Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019, Joe Berlinger) I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer (2018, Michelle McNamara) The Jinx (2015, Andrew Jarecki) Memories of Murder (2003, Bong Joon Ho) Monster: The Ed Gein Story (2025, Ian Brennan) Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever (2023, Matt Singer) Red Rooms (2023) - The Goods: Film Reviews (2025, Jonathan Volk) Serial: Season One (2014, Sarah Koenig)  Siskel and Ebert Movie Reviews – Original movie reviews untainted by time! (archive.org) Siskelandebert - Well, nothing lasts forever... | Facebook siskelebert.org (defunct) Who listens to true crime podcasts in the U.S.? | Pew Research Center Zodiac (2007, David Fincher) Zodiac Killer Project (2025, Charlie Shackleton) Email us at Miseenscreenpodcast@gmail.com! Find us elsewhere! Ben Verschoor https://cinema-purgatorio.ghost.io/ https://letterboxd.com/jamn4sure/ @benverschoor.bsky.social Steven Santana https://breakingarrows.substack.com/ https://letterboxd.com/number8axel/ @number8axel.bsky.social‬ Opening music is Root Beer Rag by Billy Joel Closing music is G-Spot Tornado by Frank Zappa Subscribe, rate and review us! Apple Podcasts: Mise en Screen - Podcast - Apple Podcasts Spotify Podcasts: Mise en Screen | Podcast on Spotify Player.fm: Mise En Screen podcast Podcast Addict: Mise en Screen - Podcast Addict

Ben was able to attend the Virginia Film Festival in Charlottesville, VA and saw 12 feature films and one short film collection. He recorded some onsite reactions and introductions to each film and we intercut those with our post-festival conversational Q&A. Red Rooms discussion will follow tomorrow and our regular programming will resume next Thursday with Bugonia! Sound Credit: drumroll2.aif by ddohler -- https://freesound.org/s/34258/ -- License: Attribution 4.0 Works Cited Resurrection (2025, Bi Gan) Kontinental '25 (2025, Radu Jude) The Eyes of Ghana (2025, Ben Proudfoot) SirÂt (2025, Oliver Laxe) The Plague (2025, Charlie Polinger) Ghost Elephants (2025, Werner Herzog) It Was Just an Accident (2025, Jafar Panahi) Arco (2025, Ugo Bienvenu) Train Dreams (2025, Clint Bentley) Late Shift (2025, Petra Volpe) The President's Cake (2025, Hasan Hadi) Zodiac Killer Project (2025, Charlie Shackleton) Zodiac Killer Project: A Wry Critique of the True Crime Genre (2025, David Ehrlich) In Totality (2025, Jesse Rudoy) How She Was (2024, Jeff Luppino-Esposito) Shallow (2025, Luca Huff) Conference of the Moths (2025, Samhita, Sunya) The Lonely Dog (2024, Jacob Seltzer) Leaving the Light (2025, Steven Krueger) Chinese Independent Filmmakers Look to Locarno Festival (2015, Edward Wong) Email us at Miseenscreenpodcast@gmail.com! Find us elsewhere! Ben Verschoor https://cinema-purgatorio.ghost.io/ https://letterboxd.com/jamn4sure/ @benverschoor.bsky.social Steven Santana https://breakingarrows.substack.com/ https://letterboxd.com/number8axel/ @number8axel.bsky.social‬ Opening music is Root Beer Rag by Billy Joel Closing music is G-Spot Tornado by Frank Zappa Subscribe, rate and review us! Apple Podcasts: Mise en Screen - Podcast - Apple Podcasts Spotify Podcasts: Mise en Screen | Podcast on Spotify Player.fm: Mise En Screen podcast Podcast Addict: Mise en Screen - Podcast Addict

After The Hunt is a 2025 film directed by Luca Guadagnino and written by Nora Garrett. It stars Julia Roberts as Alma Imhoff, a philosophy professor at Yale on the verge of tenure. Ayo Edebiri plays Maggie, a star student of Alma's and Andrew Garfield as Hank, a fellow professor also on the verge of tenure. Alma is caught between the two when Maggie confides in Alma that Hank sexually assaulted her after a party one night. Michael Stuhlbarg and Chloe Sevigny star in supporting roles as Alma's husband Frederik and a school doctor/therapist respectively. Timestamps (01:36) Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (17:43) The Devils (31:55) The Piano Teacher (45:57) After the Hunt discussion (1:32:49) After the Hunt Spoilers (1:55:21) Next Time! Works Cited After the Hunt (2025, Luca Guadagnino) "All These Things That I've Done" (The Killers, 2004) Call Me by Your Name (2017, Luca Guadagnino) The Devils (1971, Ken Russell) Elle (2016, Paul Verhoeven) Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (2008, Nathan Frankowski) Freddie deBoer's letterboxd review of After the Hunt Hell on Earth: The Desecration and Resurrection of 'The Devils' (2002, Paul Joyce) Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975, Chantal Akerman) Opus (2025, Mark Anthony Green) The Piano Teacher (2001, Michael Haneke) Possession (1981, Andrzej Żuławski)  Southland Tales (2006, Richard Kelly) Tár (2022, Todd Field) Email us at Miseenscreenpodcast@gmail.com! Find us elsewhere! Ben Verschoor https://cinema-purgatorio.ghost.io/ https://letterboxd.com/jamn4sure/ @benverschoor.bsky.social Steven Santana https://breakingarrows.substack.com/ https://letterboxd.com/number8axel/ @number8axel.bsky.social‬ Opening music is Root Beer Rag by Billy Joel Closing music is G-Spot Tornado by Frank Zappa Subscribe, rate and review us! Apple Podcasts: Mise en Screen - Podcast - Apple Podcasts Spotify Podcasts: Mise en Screen | Podcast on Spotify Player.fm: Mise En Screen podcast Podcast Addict: Mise en Screen - Podcast Addict

Anemone is a 2025 film directed by Ronan Day-Lewis, written by Ronan with his father Daniel Day-Lewis, starring Daniel Day-Lewis as Ray Stoker, and Sean Bean as Jem Stoker, with supporting performances from Samantha Morton as Nessa Stoker, Samuel Bottomley as Brian Stoker, and Safia Oakley-Green as Hattie. In this film Jem seeks out his brother Ray, who has lived in isolation for an extended period of time, in order to bring him back to help aid the young Brian through a tumultous and consequential crossroads of his life. Timestamps (01:14) Artemis Fowl (19:30) Field of Dreams (39:43) The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (51:17) Anemone introduction, skip to next stamp to avoid synopsis spoilers (55:40) Anemone discussion (1:35:10) Anemone Spoilers (1:53:41) Next Time! Works Cited Anemone (2025, Ronan Day-Lewis) Artemis Fowl (2001, Eoin Colfer) Artemis Fowl (2020, Kenneth Branagh) Anemone review by Monica Castillo for RogerEbert.com 'Anemone' Is More Than Just the Return of Daniel Day-Lewis by David Fear for Rolling Stone Fallout: New Vegas: Dead Money (2010, Obsidian) Field of Dreams (1989, Phil Alden Robinson) 'Field of Dreams' Turns 30: Why the Baseball Classic Still Holds a Special Place in America's Hearts (and Heartland) Magnolia (1999, Paul Thomas Anderson) Review: Daniel Day-Lewis returns in 'Anemone,' a flimsy vehicle that can't contain his gale-force intensityReview: Daniel Day-Lewis returns in 'Anemone,' a flimsy vehicle that can't contain his gale-force intensity The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948, John Huston) Email us at Miseenscreenpodcast@gmail.com! Find us elsewhere! Ben Verschoor https://cinema-purgatorio.ghost.io/ https://letterboxd.com/jamn4sure/ @benverschoor.bsky.social Steven Santana https://breakingarrows.substack.com/ https://letterboxd.com/number8axel/ @number8axel.bsky.social‬ Opening music is Root Beer Rag by Billy Joel Closing music is G-Spot Tornado by Frank Zappa Subscribe, rate and review us! Apple Podcasts: Mise en Screen - Podcast - Apple Podcasts Spotify Podcasts: Mise en Screen | Podcast on Spotify Player.fm: Mise En Screen podcast Podcast Addict: Mise en Screen - Podcast Addict

The Smashing Machine is a 2025 film directed, written, produced, and edited by Benny Safdie and starring Dwayne Johnson as Mark Kerr, Emily Blunt as Dawn Staples, Ryan Bader as Mark Coleman, and Bas Rutten as himself. We follow Mark Kerr from 1997-2000 as he wins his first title in a Brazilian tournament before skipping forward to focus on a fight in Tokyo, Kerr's tumultuous relationship with his girlfriend Dawn, his addiction to painkillers, and his participation in the Pride Grand Prix 2000 again in Tokyo where his former coach Mark Coleman might end up being his final opponent if he can win each round. Timestamps (01:54) The Tooth Fairy (21:19) Find Me Guilty (34:35) Southland Tales (50:29) The Smashing Machine (1:26:36) Spoilers (1:53:41 ) Next Time! Works Cited "All These Things That I've Done" (The Killers, 2005) Anarchy in the USA movie review (2007) (Roger Ebert, 2007) Be Cool (F. Gary Gray, 2005) Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (Ang Lee, 2016) The Chronicles of Riddick (David Twohy, 2004) Code Unknown (J. Hoberman, 2006) Doom (Andrzej Bartkowiak, 2005) The Expendables (Sylvester Stallone, 2010) Fast Five (Justin Lin, 2011) The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (Justin Lin, 2006) A Few Good Men (Rob Reiner, 1991) Find Me Guilty (Sidney Lumet, 2006) Gotti (Kevin Connolly, 2018) INLAND EMPIRE (David Lynch, 2006) JFK (Oliver Stone, 1991) Megalopolis (Francis Ford Coppola, 2024) Mr. Nanny (Michael Gottlieb, 1993) Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2000) One Battle After Another (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2025) Pain & Gain (Michael Bay, 2013) Pride and Glory (Jake Rossen, 2010) Race to Witch Mountain (Andy Fickman, 2009) Red Notice (Rawson Marshall Thurber, 2021) Revelation (J. Hoberman, 2007) The Scorpion King (Chuck Russell, 2002) The Smashing Machine (Benny Safdie, 2025) The Smashing Machine: The Life and Times of Extreme Fighter Mark Kerr (John Hyams, 2002) "The Smashing Machine" Pulls Its Punches | The New Yorker (Richard Brody, 2025) The Smashing Machine review: There's a rock stuck in the gears (Jacob Oller, 2025) Southland Tales (Richard Kelly, 2007) 'Southland Tales': A Cannes flop readies for a big-screen rebirth (Dennis Lim, 2007) Southland Tales - The Pinocchio Theory (Steven Shaviro, 2007) Suburban Commando (Burt Kennedy, 1991) "Teen Horniness is Not a Crime" (Krista Now, 2007) Tooth Fairy (Michael Lembeck, 2010) Twelve Angry Men (Sidney Lumet, 1957) Walking Tall (Kevin Bray, 2004) When Movie Stars Become Brands (Patrick H. Willems, 2024) Find us elsewhere! Ben Verschoor https://cinema-purgatorio.ghost.io/ https://letterboxd.com/jamn4sure/ @benverschoor.bsky.social Steven Santana https://breakingarrows.substack.com/ https://letterboxd.com/number8axel/ @number8axel.bsky.social‬ Opening music is Root Beer Rag by Billy Joel Closing music is G-Spot Tornado by Frank Zappa Apple Podcasts: Mise en Screen - Podcast - Apple Podcasts Spotify Podcasts: Mise en Screen | Podcast on Spotify Player.fm: Mise En Screen podcast Podcast Addict: Mise en Screen - Podcast Addict

Leftist guerillas Perfidia Beverly Hills (Teyana Taylor) and her lover "Ghetto" Pat Calhoun (Leonardo DiCaprio) leading their revolutionary group the French 75 in storming and liberating a migrant holding facility operated by race pervert Colonel Steven Lockjaw (Sean Penn). But after a bank robbery turns deadly the group is shattered and scattered, with Perfidia vanishing and Pat going into hiding with their infant daughter Charlene. Sixteen years later Pat is living in a Colorado sanctuary city in a haze of drugs, under the assumed name of Bob Ferguson. His paranoia makes him an overbearing parent to his daughter, raised as Willa and now played by Chase Infiniti. When Colonel Lockjaw learns of their hiding place and leads a series of migrant roundup raids on the city, the remainders of the French 75 spirit Willa away to a safe house. Meanwhile Bob is forced to rely on the support of kung fu sensei and immigration activist Sergio St Carlos (Benicio Del Toro), as well as the protocol and praxis he forgot years before in order to escape capture and reunite with his daughter. Timestamps (01:48) Godzilla (11:20) Out (Deadly Drifter) (23:28) The Battle of Algiers (42:41) Salvador (53:41) One Battle After Another (1:27:16) Spoilers (1:52:01 ) Next Time! Works Cited The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966) Born on the Fourth of July (Oliver Stone, 1989) Children of Men (Alfonso Cuaron, 2006) Disco Elysium (ZA-UM, 2019) Deadly Drifter, a.k.a. Out (Eli Hollander, 1982) Django Unchained (Quentin Tarantino, 2012) Godzilla (Ishirō Honda, 1954) Godzilla (Roland Emmerich, 1998) Godzilla review & film summary (1998) | Roger Ebert (Roger Ebert, 1998) Independence Day (Roland Emmerich, 1996) Inherent Vice (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2014 movie; Thomas Pynchon, 2009 novel) JFK (Oliver Stone, 1991) Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg, 1993) The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2012) Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino, 2019) One Battle After Another (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2025) 'Out' Review (Evan "Raymond Gun-Virus" Pincus, 2019) Platoon (Oliver Stone, 1986) Salvador (Oliver Stone, 1986) A Savage War of Peace: Algeria, 1954–1962 (Alistair Horne,1977) Souvenirs de la Bataille d'Alger (Saadi Yacef, 1956) The Simpsons (Matt Groening, 1989) Siskel & Ebert, Season 12, Episode 37, 'Godzilla/Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas/Bulworth/The Horse Whisperer' (Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert, 1998) Lo Staniero/The Stranger (Luchino Visconti, 1967) There Will Be Blood (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2007) The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese, 2013) Thirty Years Later… (Susan Sontag, 1996) This Is What It's Like Now: On "One Battle After Another" (Sam Bodrojan, 2025) Unclear and Present Patreon, The Battle of Algiers (Jamelle Bouie and John Ganz, 2023) Find us elsewhere! Ben Verschoor https://cinema-purgatorio.ghost.io/ https://letterboxd.com/jamn4sure/ @benverschoor.bsky.social Steven Santana https://breakingarrows.substack.com/ https://letterboxd.com/number8axel/ @number8axel.bsky.social‬ Opening music is Root Beer Rag by Billy Joel Closing music is G-Spot Tornado by Frank Zappa Apple Podcasts: Mise en Screen - Podcast - Apple Podcasts Spotify Podcasts: Mise en Screen | Podcast on Spotify Player.fm: Mise En Screen podcast Podcast Addict: Mise en Screen - Podcast Addict

HIM follows Cameron "Cam" Cade (Tyriq Withers) an up and coming college quarterback star who suffers a serious head injury before the draft combine. Unable to participate, Cam finds himself singled out and selected by his idol, Isaiah White (Marlon Wayans) who invites Cam to his isolated compound to train for a week as a test to see if he is capable of succeeding White as the San Antonio Saviors next quarterback. The training quickly descends into ritualistic violence as Cam discovers a deep secret behind White's superstar career. Timestamps (00:00) The Substitute 3: Winner Takes All (24:06) Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (46:35) Foxcatcher  (1:02:25) HIM (1:41:33) Next week's pick: One Battle After Another Works Cited Atlanta, Season 3 Episode 9 "Rich Wigga, Poor Wigga" (Donald Glover, 2022) The Blind Side (John Lee Hancock, 2009) BASEketball (David Zucker, 1998) Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (Ang Lee, 2016 film; Ben Fountain, 2012 novel) Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee, 2005) Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee, 2000) Foxcatcher (Bennett Miller, 2014) Get Out (Jordan Peele, 2017) Gemini Man (Ang Lee, 2018) HIM (Justin Tipping, 2025) Him director Justin Tipping explains Marlon Wayans' 'terrifying' moment on set (Tasha Robinson, 2025) HIM movie review & film summary (2025) | Roger Ebert (Robert Daniels, 2025)  'Him' Review: Justin Tipping's Football Horror Movie Is One Fumble After Another (David Ehrlich, 2025) 'HIM' Review: Jordan-Peele Produced Football Horror Is a Huge Fumble (David Fear, 2025) The Life of Pi (Ang Lee, 2012) Magic Mike (Steven Soderbergh, 2012) Metal Gear Solid (Hideo Kojima, 1998) NOPE (Jordan Peele, 2022) The Passion of Joan of Arc (Theodor Dreyer, 1928) Silver Linings Playbook (David O. Russell, 2012) The Substitute 3: Winner Takes All (Robert Radler, 1999) Together (Michael Shanks, 2025) Uncut Gems (Josh and Benny Safdie, 2019) Us (Jordan Peele, 2019) The Wrestler (Darren Aronofsky, 2008) Find us elsewhere! Ben Verschoor https://cinema-purgatorio.ghost.io/ https://letterboxd.com/jamn4sure/ @benverschoor.bsky.social Steven Santana https://breakingarrows.substack.com/ https://letterboxd.com/number8axel/ @number8axel.bsky.social‬ Opening music is Root Beer Rag by Billy Joel Closing music is G-Spot Tornado by Frank Zappa Apple Podcasts: Mise en Screen - Podcast - Apple Podcasts Spotify Podcasts: Mise en Screen | Podcast on Spotify Player.fm: Mise En Screen podcast Podcast Addict: Mise en Screen - Podcast Addict

The Long Walk is the latest film adaptation of a Stephen King novel and takes place in an alternate 1970s United States in which a past war has ruined the country economically. The totalitarian regime that now runs the country has devised a new annual event to encourage larger GDP growth: a marathon walk in which one kid from each state is chosen via voluntary raffle. Each individual must walk at least 3mph, should they fail to do so after three warnings they are killed and the walk lasts until only one remains. The film's focus is mainly on Raymond Garraty as #47 (Cooper Hoffman) and Peter McVries as #23 (David Jonsson) who strike up a friendship despite the competition and its lethal end for all but one competitor. Timestamps (00:00) The Cell (22:06) Misery (41:01) Children of Men (53:10) The Long Walk (1:34:32) Next week's episode: Him Works Cited 11.22.63 (Bridget Carpenter, 2016 miniseries; Stephen King, 2011 novel) Carrie (Brian De Palma, 1976 film; Stephen King, 1974 novel) Cell (Tod Williams, 2016 film; Stephen King, 2006 novel) Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón, 2006 film; P.D. James, 1992 novel) Dreamcatcher (Lawrence Kasdan, 2003 film; Stephen King, 2001 novel) Ghostbusters (Paul Feig, 2016) The Green Mile (Frank Darabont, 1999 film; Stephen King, 1996 novel) The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Mockingjay - Part 1, Mockingjay - Part 2, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (Francis Lawrence, 2013-2015, 2023 films; Susanne Collins, 2009-2010, 2020 novels) It (Any Muschietti, 2017/2019 films; Stephen King, 1986 novel) Jurassic World (Colin Trevorrow, 2015) Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (J.A. Bayona, 2018) Jurassic World Dominion (Colin Trevorrow, 2022) Jurassic World Rebirth (Gareth Edwards, 2025) The Long Walk (Francis Lawrence, 2025 film, Stephen King (as Richard Bachman) 1979 novel) The Long Walk - Just King Things (Cameron Kuntzelman and Michael Lutz, 2021) Neon Genesis Evangelion (Hideaki Ano, 1995) Mass Effect 3 (BioWare, 2012) Misery (Rob Reiner, 1990 film; Stephen King, 1987 novel) Needful Things (Fraser Heston, 1993 film; Stephen King, 1991 novel) The Shawshank Redemption (Frank Darabont, 1994 film; Stephen King 1982 novella) The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980 film; Stephen King 1977 novel) The Stand (Stephen King, 1978) Star Wars, Episode VIII - The Last Jedi (Rian Johnson, 2017) Star Wars, Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker (J.J. Abrams, 2019) Thinner (Tom Holland, 1996 film; Stephen King (as Richard Bachman) 1984 novel) Find us elsewhere! Ben Verschoor https://cinema-purgatorio.ghost.io/ https://letterboxd.com/jamn4sure/ @benverschoor.bsky.social Steven Santana https://breakingarrows.substack.com/ https://letterboxd.com/number8axel/ @number8axel.bsky.social‬ Opening music is Root Beer Rag by Billy Joel Closing music is G-Spot Tornado by Frank Zappa Apple Podcasts: Mise en Screen - Podcast - Apple Podcasts Spotify Podcasts: Mise en Screen | Podcast on Spotify Player.fm: Mise En Screen podcast Podcast Addict: Mise en Screen - Podcast Addict