This week: Chris and Josh plunge headlong into the busiest time of any cinephile’s year, touching on Gravity, Captain Phillips, Short Term 12 and Leviathan before going longer on Ridley Scott and Cormac McCarthy’s too-weird-for-mass-consumption The Counsellor and Alexander Payne’s triumphant return to the American Midwest, Nebraska. Elsewhere, this month’s classic is Robert Altman’s seasonally appropriate masterpiece McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Josh finds common ground between three French films about teenagers coming of age and Chris assures you Spike Lee’s Oldboy isn’t as bad as you’ve heard.
00:00 – Intro
01:12 – A hop skip and jump through some of the month’s major releases, touching on Gravity, Captain Phillips, Short Term 12 and Leviathan
12:53 – The Counsellor
(Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Tupelo)
27:16 – Nebraska
(Bruce Springsteen – My Father’s House)
41:04 – McCabe & Mrs. Miller
(Leonard Cohen – The Stranger Song)
54:30 – Josh on the parallels between Blue is the Warmest Colour, À nos amours and Goodbye First Love, Chris on Spike Lee’s Oldboy
(The Replacements – Sixteen Blue)
