#69: COLUMBUS

Columbus.

Elgin and Paul review #ColumbusMovie:

The debut movie by Korean-American director Kogonada, Columbus stars John Cho and Haley Lu Richardson (who also appeared in another recent film with an Asian-American male lead, The Edge of Seventeen).

With a Korean-American lead and with Sundance cred, the film, set in Columbus, Indiana, which has a rich architectural heritage, should be one we both can relate to and get behind, right? Find out.

For an in-depth interview with the director, Kogonada, check out this past week’s episode of Filmspotting (No. 650).
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#68: MOTHER!

mother!, plus quicker takes on other screen-related stuff, including pilots for the Deuce and Mr. Mercedes, revisiting The Good Place, Bill Simmons’s The Rewatchables podcast, and season 2 of Insecure.

Paul and Elgin review #mother!:

mother! (31:25), written and directed by Darren Aronofsky and starring Jennifer Lawrence and Javier Bardem. Not a chamber piece, not just an allegory, the latest from the atheist auteur–drawing heavily again from the Bible–is not resonating with much with the public (an initial Cinemascore of F). But despite popular opinion, is this visually arresting (sometimes exhausting) film worth your time and money?
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#67: COMRADE DETECTIVE, WHAT WOULD DIPLO DO?, AND SCREENIES AWARDS

Comrade Detective, What Would Diplo Do?, and the annual Screenies awards (for best scene, performance, and overall work in the past 12 months).

Elgin and Paul review #ComradeDetective and #WhatWouldDiploDo:

A tongue-in-cheek Cold War satire from a communist perspective, Comrade Detective from Amazon Prime stars the voice talents of Channing Tatum and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, but not their faces.

What Would Diplo Do? from VICELAND, stars James Van Der Beek as the EDM star. The former Dawson’s Creek lead also has several writing credits for the episodes.

What do we make of these shows, which probably wouldn’t get made pre-Peak TV?

 

Elgin and Paul share their choices for the annual Screenies awards (27:20): Picks for best scene, best performance (by anyone), and best work on any screen over the past 12 months.
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