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Filmdemic

What a dumb title.

Here we are again. And by we, I mean me, because I’m the only one who ever comes to this site, and I’m really fine with that.

It’s ironic that I’ve never had more free time, and not only have we only managed to churn out one episode of the podcast since the Beginning of the End began, but it wasn’t even about movies. You have my sincerest apologies for that, by the way.

I have very loose plans to do an episode on Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049, and Dustin has supplied me with a long list of potential films which could serve as his inaugural episode. In the meantime, however, the thought only just occurred to me that I can still write reviews of movies I watch. That’s just something I forgot about.

I like writing film reviews because even though I know no one is reading them, it is still an exercise in creative writing, as well as trying to cobble together something that resembles, if only loosely, professional writing.

Anyhow, none of them are fresh in my mind anymore, but I have watched a few films, so maybe I’ll put some write-ups on here soon.

Or maybe I’ll forget and I won’t put any content up for the rest of the year.

GBU Season 3, Episode 1: Ride Your Wave, and Sonic the Hedgehog

This week we look at Masaaki Yuasa’s Ride Your Wave, and touch on his Night is Short, Walk On Girl, and Sonic the Hedgehog, starring James Marsden and Jim Carrey.

That is all.

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Early 2020 Catch-Up Post

Hello, there. The charge on my credit card for the continued ownership of this domain tells me that we’re still in business here at the Dayton Upstairs Recording Studio, although things have been quiet lately.

Over my Winter Break I spent the first half doing family stuff and the second half working on my house, including reworking my bedroom. Since then I’ve started another term of college, and it’s one which is very reading-intensive, so it has been difficult to find time to record. Besides that, the groups with which I’ve seen movies these past months have been all over the place, and I have wanted to do group shows rather than just sitting down with one other person. I don’t know why, Adam and I used to record two-man shows all the time. I guess it’s because most of these movies are seen, sooner or later, or expected to be seen, by more than just one of my potential co-hosts, and so I’m always holding out for someone else to see it and make the potential recording pool bigger.

At any rate, I will try to have something recorded soon, and in the meantime, after the break are are some scattered thoughts about the following movies:

  • Parasite
  • Mobile Suit Gundam: Char’s Counterattack
  • Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
  • Ninja Scroll
  • Knives Out
  • Marriage Story
  • Uncut Gems
  • 1917
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Brian’s Exploratory Christmas Endeavor ’19: It’s a Wonderful Life

I spoke about this movie on, I believe, the first Christmas special episode of the podcast we ever did, and I was enthusiastic about it at the time. I’ve only become more fond of it since then. Why bring it up now?

There’s a 4K release now.

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Season 2 Bonus Episode 2: High School Was Horrible

In this, which I consider to be an absolutely delightful bonus episode, I agreed to share this awful picture from my high school art class portfolio, where we were asked to draw self-portraits and to have them introduce us. So. Here it fucking is.

And here’s the photo I was alluding to, which was taken around the same year or perhaps the year after, when I was on an Art Club field trip out of state. I hope you’re happy, you bastards.

GBU Season 2, Episode 17: Jojo Rabbit

Finally! A proper unmitigated disaster of a recording! Finally! Something to struggle against! Something to win! This was the episode…that almost wasn’t!

I went to see Taika Waititi’s Jojo Rabbit with Jon and Brooke, and a couple of Brooke’s friends, and we were all excited to record, but couldn’t get it done that evening. We converged in the Dayton Upstairs Recording Studio a few days later and set up to record with a template that I’d made so I wouldn’t have to set the project up fresh every time. And I firmly believe that’s where things went to shit.

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GBU Season 2, Episode 16: The Lighthouse

This time around we look at Robert Eggers’ sophomore picture, The Lighthouse, starring Willem Defoe and Robert Pattinson. It’s an absolutely crazy picture. Some are calling it the best film of the year. What did we think? Actually, our opinions were pretty divided!

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GBU Season 2, Episode 15: Lake Mungo

I forgot to post this before. Whoops. We talk about the scariest movie I’ve seen since It Follows, the enigmatic and deeply sad Lake Mungo, directed by a man no one seems to know how to find, and starring a bunch of wonderful actors you’ve never heard of, which is what makes them such great fits for this sort of film.

Thanks for stopping over to the blog. We’d love it if you shared the show with your friends if you like what we do. You can follow us on Twitter @GBUpodcast, and you can get in touch with us there, or by e-mailing me at Brian@candidpodcast.com. Don’t forget to rate and review the podcast on your podcatcher of choice if you can, like Apple Podcasts, but don’t forget you can find the show all over the place, including Spotify and Stitcher. We’re supposed to be listed on Google Play, but who the hell even knows, you know? Apple and Spotify are your safest bets.