For this month's second throwback podcast review, I am joined by Nadia Dalimonte and Dan Bayer to discuss Todd Haynes' first collaboration with Academy Award-winner Julianne Moore, "Safe" (1995), also starring Peter Friedman, Xander Berkeley, Susan Norman, Kate McGregor-Stewart & James LeGros. Steeped in ambiguity with many interpretations, the film has inspired a tremendous amount of discussion over the years and has endured as one of the best films of the '90s despite its modest release, which saw it gain very little awards recognition or box office success. What do we think of it nearly thirty years later as we get ready for Haynes' latest film with Moore, "May December?" Tune in as we discuss Moore's performances, the film's themes, the cinematography, the score, and more in our SPOILER-FILLED review. Thank you, and enjoy!

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"Safe"

For this week's main podcast review, I am joined by Nadia Dalimonte, Josh Parham, Sara Clements & Giovanni Lago. Today, we are reviewing the newest film from director Todd Haynes, "May December," starring Natalie Portman, Julianne Moore, and Charles Melton. After premiering at the Cannes Film Festival back in May, the film is now streaming on Netflix this December and has everyone talking about its complex characters and fascinating story of manipulation, duplicity, and seeking the truth in art and in life. Find out what we thought of it as we discuss the story, performances, craftsmanship, writing, and more in our SPOILER-FILLED review. Thank you, and enjoy!

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"May December"

What Is This Episode - Top of Show
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MAY DECEMBER OSCARS PROFILE REVIEW:
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Spoiler-Free Review:
Cast, Background, Release, Reception - 2:30
Expectations - 5:45
Mike1 Isn’t Normal - 8:45
“The Love Guru” Parallel?!?! - 10:31
Script Thoughts - 13:35
The Charles Melton/Young Hollywood Debate - 15:27
Portman/Moore - 22:26
Ensemble/Production Values - 26:07
How Many Noms? - 28:28
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Spoiler-Filled Review:
“Hollywood-ification” of Exploitation - 34:46
Two Sides of a Tight Rope - 39:20
Critics vs Movie Fans - 48:48
Parody vs Satire vs Melodrama - 55:30
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FINAL GRADES - 1:05:34
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Your Homework/LEAVE US 5 STARS! - 1:06:22
Words of Wisdom/What’s Coming Next - 1:07:05

May December Oscars Profile Review - POVs As Opposite as the Weather in...Well, You Get It - Ep 450

For our final Rough Cut of 2023, we watched May December (2023), directed by Todd Haynes and starring Natalie Portman, Julianne Moore, and Charles Melton. 

In this episode, we discuss actors making the leap from tv to film, power dynamics in relationships and the audience perception of these relationships, and the real-life case that inspired the movie. May December is streaming now on Netflix.

This week's recommendations: Safe (1995), Persona (1966), 3 Women (1977)

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Rough Cut 20: May December (2023)

Mike Burdge and Reeya Banerjee chat their way through Todd Haynes' latest, provocative dark-comedy, May December, which is equal parts sickeningly uncomfortable and laugh-out loud funny. Topics include Haynes' previous works with Julianne Moore, the powerhouse performance of Charles Melton, that score, the hot dogs and how the predators in this movie hide in plain sight.

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Here We Go

Ep 374: Hot Takes - May December

¿Qué puedes hacer en la vida para que la gente te mande por correo cajas llenas de caca? Hoy hablamos de MAY DECEMBER dirigida por Todd Haynes.

00:00:00 Intro
00:14:19 Hablemos de MAY DECEMBER
01:07:30 Recomendaciones de la semana

Episodio 124. MAY DECEMBER de Todd Haynes

This show is back!

TV's Kevin takes the time to explain to you last year's ~controversial~ film May December, whether or not it's a boring Carol rip-off, the films of Todd Haynes, and more!

May December (2023), Here's Something!

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Our 2010 retrospective continues with Lisa Cholodenko's Best Picture nominee "The Kids Are All Right," starring Annette Bening, Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Mia Wasikowska & Josh Hutcherson. At the time of its release, this was considered a progressive LBGT film that went mainstream with not just critics but with the Academy (and was a box office hit relative to its budget); how does the film hold up today fourteen years later? Tune in as I, Josh Parham, Dan Bayer & Patreon guest Jack Greenwood discuss our thoughts on the writing, performances, its awards season run, and more in our SPOILER-FILLED review. Thank you for all your support, and enjoy!

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"The Kids Are All Right"

This week, people always tell us we look like Han Solo as we're closing out P.T.August with one of Anderson's many five-star masterpieces, this time a classic rise-and-fall Hollywood story set in California's other film industry. It's 1997's Boogie Nights, written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, and starring Mark Wahlberg, Burt Reynolds, Julianne Moore, John C. Reilly, Heather Graham, Don Cheadle, Philip Seymour Hoffman, William H. Macy, Thomas Jane, Luis Guzmán, Ricky Jay, Philip Baker Hall, Nina Hartley, Robert Downey Sr., and Alfred Molina. Despite a pervasive undercurrent of darkness and dread, this is an often very funny comedy about the magic of The Movies and the pursuit of a dream, loaded with richly written characters and delightful performances. As our August canon consideration, it made for an enormously easy KA-CHUNK as a movie we both greatly enjoy. And to put a button on our month-long celebration, both hosts weigh in with a full PTA Power Ranking. Plus: Justin's back from the IMAX with a theatrical field report on Alien: Romulus!

If you'd like to watch the film before listening to our discussion, Boogie Nights is currently streaming in Canada on Crave and Starz at the time of publication.

Other works referenced on this episode include Edge of Tomorrow, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Don't Breathe, Alien, Aliens, Prometheus, The Mole, Derailed, Saw, Domino, Evil, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Lost, This Is 40, Twisters, Summer of Sam, 54, Normal People, and the entire P.T.A. catalog.

We'll be back next week to kick off SepTIMEber with 2002's The Time Machine, starring Guy Pearce and Jeremy Irons, and directed by H.G. Wells' grandson! It is... not streaming anywhere, and not even rentable north of the border, so good luck with that one. Until then, we'll see you at the movies!

ADHD-DVD - 77 - Boogie Nights

Vienna Calling! Alles hat ein Ende - auch die alljährige Viennale. Dennis hat sich die Highlights des Festivals rausgepickt und Tobit hat vermutlich alles im Kino gesehen, was einen Vor- und Abspann hat. Was exzessiver Alkoholkonsum, lila glühende Fernseher, singenden Anwältinnen und verheiratete Stripperinnen miteinander zu tun haben, wissen wir auch nicht. Darüber reden tun wir trotzdem! 

187: Viennale 2024

Hosts Josh and Jamie and special guests Walker McDonald and Phillip Homburg (of the new upcoming independent Tivoli Cinema in Charlottetown, PEI) help us bring Spooktober to an end and kick off Noirvember at the same time with a double feature of  40s-noir-meets-90s-supernatural-horror paranormal detectives in Martin Cambell's Lovecraftian LA Noir HBO movie CAST A DEADLY SPELL (1991) and Clive Barker's attempt to merge his sadomasochistic body horror with hard-boiled private eye neo-noir aesthetics LORD OF ILLUSIONS (1995).

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‘SUBLIME’ A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024

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From the winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize, an extraordinary story of the meteoric rise and fall of George Villiers, the first Duke of Buckingham.  

 ‘A delicious, grippingly paced tale of rogues, riotous sex, regicide and realpolitik’ INDEPENDENT BEST BOOKS FOR CHRISTMAS

‘This is the page-turner that Buckingham’s short, racy life deserves’ DAILY TELEGRAPH

‘Vivid, erudite and sympathetic … The Scapegoat shows that [Hughes-Hallett’s] eye for the seamy realities of an extraordinary life is as sharp as ever’ THE TIMES

‘Lord Buckingham rockets off the page of this gloriously epic, seductively detailed biography’ OLIVIA LAING

As King James I’s favourite, Buckingham was also his confidant, gatekeeper, right-hand man and lover. When Charles I succeeded his father, he was similarly enthralled and made Buckingham his best friend and mentor. A dazzling figure on horseback and a skilful player of the political game, Buckingham rapidly transformed the influence his beauty gave him into immense wealth and power. He became one of the most flamboyant and enigmatic Englishmen at the heart of seventeenth-century royal and political life.

With a novelist’s touch, Lucy Hughes-Hallett transports us into a courtly world of masques and dancing, exquisite clothes, the art of Rubens and Van Dyck, gender-fluidity, same-sex desire and appallingly rudimentary medicine. Witch hunts coexisted with Francis Bacon’s empiricism and public opinion was becoming a political force. Falling from grace spectacularly, Buckingham came to represent everything that was wrong with the country.

From kidnappings and murder plots to men weeping in Parliament over civil liberties, The Scapegoat navigates love, war-fever and pacifism in a society on the brink of cataclysmic change. In this immersive and authoritative account, Hughes-Hallett summons an era that still resonates today.

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‘Written with such verve and invention … Fascinating book’ TOM SUTCLIFFE, BBC RADIO 4's FRONT ROW

'The Scapegoat brilliantly dramatises the complex and glittering Duke of Buckingham and the political and sexual intrigue of the court of James I. Hughes-Hallett combines the instincts and talents of a novelist with a historian's vivid sense of period and social change’ COLM TÓIBÍN

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‘Buckingham’s rise and fall is as old as Tiberius’ love for Sejanus and as contemporary as a celeb crash-and-burn. Hughes-Hallett is a matchless historian with an unfailing eye for the revealing detail’ SUE PRIDEAUX

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‘Compulsively readable and elegantly written … [Lucy Hughes-Hallett] has brought Buckingham gloriously alive’ FINANCIAL TIMES

‘Crisp and vivid … The story is a tragic one, no less so for being told here with verve, erudition and empathy’ NEW STATESMAN

‘Richly multilayered … Hughes-Hallett proves herself alive to the nuances of gender and sexuality in the early seventeenth century…refreshingly light and contemporary, while at the same time suited to the seventeenth century’ TLS

‘This is an absorbing, even thrilling journey through the dark and tangled networks of Stuart England … outstanding’ DIANE PURKISS

The Scapegoat: The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham, By Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Read by Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Siobhan and Marcelo welcome guest Zephyr to discuss and talk over Todd Haynes’ 1995 film Safe, starring Julianne Moore, for Pride Month!

TFS Commentaries: Safe with Zephyr

We talk about the most talked about movie that we haven't talked about yet.

The Big Lebowski 1998 - Chain Reaction Mysteries

Part 2 of Boogie Mikes is here as we review Paul Thomas Anderson’s second film, Boogie Nights. 

INTRO - Mike1 demands we leave our pre-show conversation in as a cold open. Mike2 edits it into the episode another way. It’s absurd. - Top of the Show

Production History and Reception for Boogie Nights -  6:08 
Our Watch Stories - 15:27 
Non-Spoiler Story Thoughts + Summary of its Awards Profile - 17:23
Quentin Tarantino’s lone beef with this movie - 23:42 
Review of the Performances - 28:37 
Review of the Production Values - 43:34 
Our Final Non-Spoiler Sales Pitch on why you should watch Boogie Nights - 50:27 

SPOILER WARNING - 52:30 

Why This Plot Is So PTA - 52:33 
Discussing The Themes - 57:24 
Let’s Talk About That Ending - 1:05:38 
Worst Scenes (Though there really are no worst scenes in this one) - 1:12:13 
Other Best Scenes - 1:17:20 
Final Grades & Final Thoughts - 1:23:21 

OUTRO: We hope you continue to watch PTA’s filmography with us. It is wise for us to disagree on the words of wisdom in this episode to continue the banter throughout this Outro, and if you like our asinine silliness, we hope you like, follow, subscribe, rate & review us. Thank you. Also, we’re sorry. Here’s a link to all our stuff. https://linktr.ee/mikemikeandoscar


Boogie Nights: A Literal Banger & PTA's Career Maker - Boogie Mikes Part 2 - Ep 485

Part 3 of Boogie Mikes tackles Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia, his 3 hour epic drama starring Tom Cruise, Julianne Moore, Philip Seymour Hoffman, John C. Reilly, William H. Macy, Jason Robards, Melora Walters, Philip Baker Hall, and Jeremy Blackman. 

NON-SPOILER REVIEW OF MAGNOLIA:
Production Stories, Reception, Awards & The Tom Cruise Career Checkpoint - 2:01 
Roger Ebert’s Take + Non-Spoiler Script Thoughts - 11:07 
Review of the Performances - 15:45 
Review of the Production Values - 20:51 
Final Non-Spoiler Sales Pitch - 26:26 

SPOILER FILLED REVIEW OF MAGNOLIA: 28:52 
Why this movie is so PTA: and yet, why does he use so many narrative devices? - 30:36 
Asking some major questions - 36:39 
The Big Themes - 40:10 
That Ending: and what a mess we are trying to reckon with it - 44:31 
More Bests & Worsts - 1:03:20 

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Magnolia and the Deus Ex Frogima - Boogie Mikes Part 3 - Ep 487

Part 11 and the finale of Boogie Mikes, our Paul Thomas Anderson rewatch series leading up to and reviewing One Battle After Another is here. And like we do with all our series, we wanted to celebrate it with one of our Homemade Awards shows, where we enjoy a slew of fun categories. 

NON-SPOILER SECTION: Though to be fair, we do allude to some often memed about scenes that are fully in the zeitgeist these days. So… it’s light spoilers and we do suggest watching ALL of these films regardless. 

Wildest Anecdote from a PTA Production - 3:05 
Match the unofficial premise to the PTA film - 6:52 
Most / Least Californian Stories - 9:08 
Characters You’d Most Like To Hangout With - 11:30 
Performance by a Non-Actor - 14:05 
Cameo Sized Actress Performance - 15:22 
Cameo Sized Actor Performance - 17:00 
The Overacting Oscar - 18:16 
Mr. Congeniality - 18:55 
Miss. Congeniality - 20:29 
Supporting Actor - 21:50 
Supporting Actress - 25:03 
Best Duo - 26:44 
Lead Actor Categories - 28:08 
Lead Actress - 29:50 
Best Costumes, Editing, VFX, Sound Design & Best Cinemagraphy- 31:19 - 
Production Design + Best Makeup and Hairstyling - 33:36 
Best Soundtrack & Original Score - 35:05 
Our Top 10 Rankings of PTA Films - 38:42 

SPOILER WARNING - 46:42 

SPOILER SECTION: all 10 movies including One Battle After Another are fair game.

Some Informal Processing - 47:27 
Best & Worst Parent Character Awards - 51:26 
Theme Declarations Sections - 53:58 
PTA Characters You’d Least Like To Party With - 55:25 
Best / Worst PTA Movie Scene At A Restaurant - 59:26 
Most Evil AND Funny Scene - 1:03:15 
Hardest We’ve Laughed At a PTA Movie - 1:06:15 
Most Badass Scene - 1:09:24 
Most Thrilling Sequence - 1:12:11 
Craziest and 2nd Craziest Final Acts - 1:15:22 
Wildest Final Shots and Weirdest Epilogues - 1:17:31 
What are PTA’s Trademark Scenes? And what is our PTA Movie cinematic bliss?? - 1:19:10 

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The Boogie Mikes Award Show - One Great PTA Movie After Another - Ep 497

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