A 3 hour UMP! Grab the popcorn 🍿

Cannot wait to see Majors' performance in this. By far my most anticipated of 2025

Thank you, Mr. Rasoulof, for your extraordinary courage and passion in providing the world with this compelling drama exposing Iran's totalitarian regime. The film is a powerful statement of oppressive rule within Iranian society at the cost of your own personal safety. Many blessings upon you and prayers for your own safety, as well as, your family, the cast and crew. Thank you to all parties involved in the making of the film and to those who helped with getting the film to the festivals.

Really enjoyed your review! And I LOVED this movie. Didn't see it until this month, and am catching up on reviews. You hit all the major bright spots in this, which I really appreciate. I, too, felt so invigorated at the end. Just a masterpiece.

This was a really great conversation. Great work, Eric!

She has at least 2 mins to shoot the guy in the leg to incapacitate him while holding him at gunpoint and doesn't do it.

And he got the actor who was going to be Reinfield instead of Tom Waits in Coppola's Dracula 😀

That was a fun listen. I enjoyed the discussion. I hope I enjoy this movie when I see it at the end of the month.

Just want to say, keep on going with these. Love em"

How dare you watch a movie when you are tired ! Fucking asshole !! Fuck your review

Don't eat and talk.👎

Great Interview! Baltasar telling the story of his dad's old home and how things change and how that can hurt makes me think of nippon becoming a tattoo parlor. Seems to be a deeply personal film

thank u for being honest of this movie because reviewers are overrate too much

the assessment review plz

Thanks for the TIFF coverage guys

It sounds like Damien Chazelle would have killed it directing this movie. Babylon didn’t allow you a second to breathe

AMAZING piece of entertainment! So many subtle subplots. Such a great acting and subdued editing!

The famous line Andy repeated was set up multiple times before he says it. Bjorne calls him a bitch several times and specifically one time where it's obvious Andy hasn't heard this word and is confused as to how to use it but then he hears it at least once more...fast forward to that moment and "get away from her" is a very natural line to use and when he says "bitch" after a pause it worked for the characters lack of understanding of the word plus her glitchy way of speaking. It was a great character moment in my opinion.

This movie retreads some of Resurrection but i appreciate how the atmosphere and pacing fit closer to the first two films than Resurrection did.

The movie totally mimicked Resurrection. Crew embarks military base doing tests on the “Alien”. The crew, one by one starts getting offed. Finally make it to the escape ship and humanoid alien appears, they both get blasted out of the ship and happy ending. FFS this was a total ripoff

I didn't roll my eyes until Andy followed up with "you bitch," there was nothing previously setup to motivate him saying anything like that. People still cheered in my screening, which I get, but it came out of nowhere

This movie rocks and idk WHAT PEOPLE SAY

I hope I enjoy the movie more than they did 😂

You made a video about cereal

Finally catching back up on the podcast! God this show was so good, I couldn't believe it. How much it stuck with the crazy story lines, pushing it even further with the "you actually had a kid with my clone", but still felt modern and grew up with its fans. And the flight scenes were INSANE just that first episode with Storm glassing a desert was like yes, they have powers and they're going to USE them really felt like a comic finally coming to life on screen.

I've become so weary of Pixar sequels. Incredibles 2 was enjoyable but never lived up to the highs of the first movie. I'm hoping to enjoy Inside Out 2 but I cant help but enter these sequels with some trepidation.

That Cincinnati Applebee's is an actual important spot for pro tennis players since there are few restaurants that are open late there

I enjoyed those first two episodes but those credits came in so abruptly.

I LOVED every messy, toxic, complex, co-dependent minute of this movie! Best film I've seen in the last few YEARS!

Great review guys!

Alex Garland story’s typically fall apart in the 3rd act. Can’t fault him for premise though!

as much as im excited to see this film-very big on the entire Ape franchise-i REALLY want to see that non-VFX version seeing the actors in their mo cap suits. It will be really interesting to see

Oh that's funny, my brain just went "maybe he was a stunt guy for the 2006 remake of Miami Vice and they had cool retro jackets" and moved on 😂 This movie is the definition of one of my favorite Kinda Funnyisms, "forget everything you know." I didn't think it's a perfect movie by a long shot. Most of your valid criticisms popped in my mind while watching, but it does feel like some things lingered for y'all in a way that I totally disregarded - and that's fascinating.

Get outta here The Incredible Hulk is bad, that is like a top 5 MCU movie. No wonder Eric is the more sensible one

I did not like the movie. There should have been a Kraken at the end of the movie. It was too boring without the Kraken. One star.

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Thank you for the interview. I saw IRENA'S VOW on opening night and was so impressed and moved by the story and by Sophie Nelisse's performance. An inspiring film where Director Louise Archambault caught the drama of Irena's personal and almost unimaginable challenges and also captured the look of the time & location.

Film crimes have been committed all over the place. I demand a Devs review and a Euphoria season 1 review immediately

I've typed so much ab Civil War and my issues w it on other forms but I really think the films suffers from limitations regarding its vagueness. There is a KZbin channel where someone who self identified as a "Boogaloo Boy" (an alt right militia group) watching the trailer who is excited at the movie. While I understand you can't control what audience you cultivate, I do think Garland unfortunately is winning over some of the militia type crowd to this movie, and having them leave the theater more emboldened on their beliefs rather than questioning them. I feel, unfortunately, DESPITE the Jesse Plemons scene, that the aspect that Matt mentioned on how "anyone can place their own politics in this movie" works against it. I think if you're a super right wing person you can easily watch this as a pro Jan 6 movie and Nick Offerman is a stand in for Joe Biden. The "fascist" president doesn't actually have his politics described. Many far right people have come to describe Biden and Dems as authorian due to their position on gun control and vaccinations. And the vagueness of Offermans president can easily be a stand in for Biden OR Trump. However, if you're a liberal this could easily be a anti Trump movie, but even then there is little much to actually shed a light on the dark aspects of liberalism within the US. Such as YES Obama did end up using drone strikes on American Citizens in the middle east, and yes Liberal politicians such as Eric Adams in NY, or Laurie Lightfoot in Chicago, or even Gavin Newsome in California, have shown to bulster police funding. Not to mention both parties support of the genocide in Gaza. This film could've really done a lot to simultaneously bring "both sides together" while also showing how "both sides" are authoritarian and limit democracy in their own way. (Without divulging in centrism that thinks that people on twitter who are upset at a celebrity being transphobic are on the same level as white supremacist terrorists) But instead I think it fails to say anything meaningful bc of its hesitancy to even passively get into politics. I'm not even asking like for exposition but like not even world building through visuals is done much in the film as all of the "sides" sort of look the same and the set pieces are more or less visually monotonous as well. This void of meaningful deeper commentary, kinda also negatively affects his more overt commentary about journalism. In Garland's criticism about the cold distant neutrality of journalism and how it is an industry built upon the capturing of human suffering for consumption, Garland basically does this same thing with invoking images of the Holocaust and the Bosnian genocide in a major Blockbuster movie, devoided of any explanation to contextualize these images, but rather just placing them there for the audience to go "ooh that's bad." Not questioning how humanity gets to these points.

Although I liked the movie quite a bit, I found that I didn't care about the titular civil war. Maybe because the war was approached with too much neutrality? It feels like the war was mainly used to support the photographers' story, which I liked overall, but calling the movie Civil War (and advertising it more of a war movie with all the toy soldiers) feels incorrect.

So happy to hear you mention Devs! Alex is great, as well as the interview.

*PromoSM*

spoiler free you say 👀

Seeing it on the biggest IMAX screen in the world on Sunday in Leonberg, Germany. Cannot wait.

great episode guys!

that one guy is a hottie

Jumping over here from Spotify, just wanted to say appreciate the review! I like knowing what I'm walking into

the show is genius and original. I love it.

Yo Eric the moustache bangs, I hope it’s here to stay

I'm in agreement that this film is more 'psychological' than 'erotic' thriller.