Episode 279: Back to the Matrix with Pizza

The last movie review edition of the podcast for 2021 is an epic one. Over two-and-a-half hours discussing 11 films including three that were chosen to be a part of this year’s Chicago Critics Film Festival. They include Isabelle Fuhrmann trying to do for rowing what Whiplash did from drumming (The Novice), Olivia Colman having an introspective vacation in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s directorial debut (The Lost Daughter) and the latest from the director of The Florida Project (Red Rocket). Science-fiction is very present this week with Chloe Grace Moretz as a pregnant woman on the run from a robot uprising (Mother/Android) and Mahershala Ali trying to ease his family’s suffering by cloning himself (Swan Song). Not to mention a return in the green coding with Keanu Reeves and Lana Wachowski (The Matrix Resurrections). And if you thought we were done with major directors we have the latest from Paolo Sorrentino (The Hand of God), Joel Coen (The Tragedy of Macbeth, Guillermo Del Toro (Nightmare Alley) and Paul Thomas Anderson (Licorice Pizza). Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy have a lot to say to close out the year.

0:00 - Intro

2:09 - The Hand of God

8:51 – The Novice

19:35 - Mother/Android

30:02 - Swan Song

44:21 – The Lost Daughter

57:36 – The Tragedy of Macbeth

1:07:41 – Licorice Pizza

1:30:17 – Red Rocket

1:43:20 – Nightmare Alley

1:59:41 – The Matrix Resurrections

2:19:01 – Spider-Man: No Way Home