Weekend Watchlist: Pleasure, On the Count of Three and The Innocents
[Izon by Trent Walton fades in, plays alone, fades out]
MITCHELL Hello and welcome to Weekend Watchlist, a look at what’s the screening and streaming, brought to you by Slim...
SLIM Hi!
MITCHELL And together we’ll dig through what’s dropping this weekend, last weekend, recent trends on Letterboxd and we’ll also take a peek at our own watchlists—all under 30 minutes or Elon Musk will buy Letterboxd and next week Joe Rogan will be hosting Weekend Watchlist. [Slim laughs]
SLIM We don’t want that, okay? So we’re going to get it under 30 minutes.
MITCHELL None of us want that! We’re all in this together.
SLIM We are. And you’ll be pleased to know that Doctor Strange [in the Multiverse of Madness] is in our rear view and directly ahead of us is the adult-film industry. Our prayers have finally been answered. This week, we’ll be covering Pleasure, On the Count of Three, The Innocents and we’ll look back at our own community reviews from the past week, and of course, our own watchlists.
MITCHELL Yes, I have thoughts on enger 57. And I know Slim, you have indeed, it’s true, the rumors are true, you have finally watched The Sacrifice. So we’ll get into those later. But to start off with, let’s talk about our first new film for this week. The film is Pleasure directed by Ninja Thyberg, it’s being released in theaters by NEON. The film is on 37,000 watchlists on Letterboxd. The synopsis: “20-year-old Bella Cherry leaves her small town in Sweden for Los Angeles with the aim to become the world’s next big porn star but the road to her goal turns out to be bumpier than she imagined.” This film premiered at Sundance 2021. It’s been a little bit of a long wait, started off at A24 and then ended up at NEON now, which I honestly personally think is a better home for it. And now people are going to be getting the chance to check it out. We have both been able to see it. I saw it at Sundance. Slim, I know you’ve seen it more recently. What are your thoughts on Pleasure?
SLIM I watched it at home, very fortunate to get a screener. And then as soon as I fired that screener on my TV, I quickly moved it to my laptop because my son was not yet asleep. Because there are some dicey scenes in this. I mean, it’s about the adult-film industry, like legit.
MITCHELL You probably should have thought that through before you started watching it. [Slim & Mitchell laugh]
SLIM “James, you know what, you might actually have to leave the room before I watch this movie about the porn industry, FYI.” [Mitchell laughs] I enjoyed it. It’s very... how do I put this? It’s very explicit, maybe more so than I was anticipating from like a pseudo-mainstream movie about the adult-film industry. I did enjoy it. Sofia Kappel was very good as the lead. So this is my—I didn’t see the short film this was based on but I really enjoyed the direction of this movie and I thought it was pretty realistic for, you know, the kind of care that goes into these movies.
MITCHELL Yeah, I totally agree. I think that it’s an interesting take on the adult-film industry because you’re right, like most of what we see in films that tackle that side of the industry, even something more recent like X, it is doing it in this kind of like mainstream-Hollywood-y kind of way. And Pleasure it feels like the aim of it more than anything is to kind of like demystify the adult-film industry and just get in there and kind of show the day-to-day mechanics of it. And we really get to see, I mean, both in positive and I think negative ways too, we see how it’s an industry and a workspace so much similar to other ones too, where you can have good and bad experiences based on who you’re working with and, you know, what kind of the environment is. I think there’s one scene in particular, that’s my favorite scene in Pleasure, which is this BDSM shoot, which you would think in other movies portraying that would be portrayed in a really like salacious kind of way. It’s obviously dealing with specific kink and everything, but in Pleasure, that’s the scene that feels the most grounded out of anything. It’s the one where we really see on the shoot with a female director as well on that specific shoot in the film. There is this like nurturing this care that’s given to everybody on the set, including and especially Bella Cherry, to make sure like all the actors are super comfortable, and everybody is just really taken care of. And it’s that kind of scene where yeah, in other movies, it would be portrayed in this really like exploitative kind of, you know, salacious way. But in Pleasure, it is just really thought out. And I think that that’s something that you see throughout the film is taking that more clinical, more realistic, authentic look at the industry.
SLIM I was trying to think of the last movie that I’d seen about the porn industry and the first movie that came to mind was Orgazmo. [Mitchell laughs] that movie from the dudes that made South Park? [Slim laughs]
MITCHELL Yeah, yeah, that’s—
SLIM So it’s been a long time since I’ve seen a movie like that.
MITCHELL Yeah, I think that is a perfect counterpoint... [Slim laughs] to what Pleasure is doing and where we’re at now and what people I think are really looking for from a film like this compared to what they were looking for—what, that probably came out like twenty years ago.
SLIM Yeah. Next film on our list: On the Count of Three. Jerrod Carmichael, written by Ari Katcher and Ryan Welch. In theaters and on-demand, I believe. 34,000 watchlists. “Val has reached a new place where he feels the only way out is to end things. But he considers himself a bit of a failure—his effectiveness lacking—so he figures he could use some help. As luck would have it, Val’s best friend, Kevin, is recovering from a failed suicide attempt, so he seems like the perfect partner for executing this double-suicide plan.” And we both have seen this, but I know you have seen this previously at Sundance. What was your vibes?
MITCHELL Yeah, yeah, again, you know, kind of an interesting coincidence that like Pleasure, this is a film that came out, it premiered at Sundance 2021. And it’s just coming out for general release now. I think, I mean, both of these films have, you know, provocative subject matter. And so maybe that, you know, contributed partly to why they’re taking a little bit longer to get released. They want to make sure that they’re releasing them with as much care as possible. And I mean, this... On the Count of Three was my favorite film that I saw at Sundance last year. I absolutely love it. I’m a huge fan of Christopher Abbott, who plays the best friend Kevin in this. I’ve been a huge fan of his for a long time now. His performances in films like Possessor and James White, I really love. But Jerrod Carmichael, I’m, you know, a little bit newer to Jerrod’s work. I’d seen some of The Carmichael Show, but it really wasn’t until [Jerrod Carmichael:] Rothaniel, which is his new stand-up special, which we talked about a couple weeks ago, where I really started appreciating, exactly what he’s bringing to the table. And I think [Jerrod Carmichael:] Rothaniel, along with On the Count of Three shows his desire to talk about these things that aren’t often being talked about. And they’re really difficult subject matter that he gets into. I mean, On the Count of Three dealing with suicidal ideation, like you’re really playing with tricky territory there. And I think that in other films, they could go a way where the film is either just really solemn, really grim the whole time, because obviously, it’s a really bleak kind of idea to be dealing with. But then you could go the other way, which we’ve seen in other films to where—
SLIM Orgazmo? [Mitchell laughs]
MITCHELL Orgazmo... [Slim laughs] Yeah, yeah, yeah. Orgazmo. But yeah, films like, I mean, I think it’s something like Elizabethtown, which I know you don’t—there are people who are Elizabethtown defenders...
SLIM Cameron Crowe.. The king.
MITCH The king, the king, Cameron Crowe. Elizabethtown treats suicide in maybe a way that’s a little bit more glib, a little bit more twee, and I think took some deserved flak for that. Orlando Bloom with his suicide bike, if anybody has seen that movie. It’s... it’s a little tough to watch at times. But On the Count of Three, I think is really smart in the way that Jerrod and the writers, Ari and Ryan, approach the subject matter, where it is, they’re taking it seriously. You know, there’s a lot of respect given to what that struggle with mental health is, but it’s also not relentlessly grim, like something like [Jerrod Carmichael:] Rothaniel. Jerrod is taking this—he takes a really engaging, really accessible approach into this material so that we find ourselves really compelled by what we’re watching and really entertained by what we’re watching. On the Count of Three is so funny as well, but it also uses that as an avenue to get us to think about these, you know, complex subject matters. And I mean, that’s what I’ve responded to the most. But what—I mean, you saw it more recently...
SLIM I didn’t—maybe by the time this episode will post, I’ll finally add my review. But I really enjoyed this. This is probably four stars for me and—
MITCHELL Yeah, same for me.
SLIM We’ll spotlight Claire Curtis’s review: “Jerrod Carmichael is arguably one of the best stand-up comedians in the industry right now and his feature debut has all the best parts of his type of humor and introspection infused with[in] it. His on screen chemistry with Christopher Abbott is absolutely electric.” So make sure you make time to check out On the Count of Three as it releases this weekend.
MITCHELL Yeah, big, big recommendation for that one. Also, coming out this week in theaters and on-demand is The Innocents, written and directed by Eskil Vogt. It’s on 25,000 watchlists. The synopsis: “Four children become friends during the summer holidays, and out of sight of the adults they discover they have hidden powers. While exploring their newfound abilities in the nearby forests and playgrounds, their innocent play takes a dark turn and strange things begin to happen.” I am excited to see this one. I haven’t gotten the chance to watch it yet, but I’m a big fan of Eskil Vogt, who people may know as Joachim Trier’s co-writer. He just received his first Oscar nomination this year for co-writing The Worst Person in the World. I also like his, Eskil’s directorial debut Blind which came out in 2014. That was his first film as a director and The Innocents is actually only his second future as a director. So it’s taken him eight years to get, you know, I mean, you’re busy writing movies like The Worst Person in the World, getting Oscar nominations, it takes you a little bit to get another project off the ground on your own. But so I’m excited to see, you know, this sophomore feature for him as a director. But I know that you’ve seen this film, so what did you think of The Innocents?
SLIM I have seen it. I watched this this week. I gave it three and a half stars and my review, which should maybe give people a pulse on the film, I wrote: “Norwegian New Mutants meets Hereditary.” Which should give you some kind of indication as to what you might be in for. I really enjoyed it. Hereditary gave me—I love Hereditary. Hereditary gave me like extreme anxiousness while watching it. I don’t think I blinked for two hours. So imagine, you know, similar vibes, but with a cast of young child actors. So make of that what you will, what you might be prepared to see. Extremely dark, but it takes place in broad daylight. It’s like a daylight almost, horror movie, really, which are few and far between.
MITCHELL Love a daylight horror movie.
SLIM Yeah, might be added to some popular lists on Letterboxd.
MITCHELL Yeah, true.
SLIM Funnily enough, if you want to watch one of my fave horror movies, you can check out The Innocents from 1961 by Jack Clayton, really love that one. So I’m anxious for, you know, maybe people that love The Worst Person in the World, that maybe want to dip their toe into a darker subject matter, to check out The Innocents. So I’m anxious to see if the Letterboxd community at-large check this one out.
MITCHELL I know Mia is sadly not with us this week. Mia will be back next week but she did want to make sure that we shouted out: cat lovers beware watching The Innocents.
SLIM Yes...
MITCHELL Mia has seen the film, Mia adores cats and it caused maybe some trauma, maybe some trauma for Mia. We’ll see if she can maybe speak to that a little bit more next week. But for anybody watching it this weekend, just a little content warning for you there with the cats.
SLIM Cats meets Hereditary, FYI. [Slim & Mitchell laugh]
MITCHEL Yeah, I think that’s on the poster, right? Cats meets Hereditary?
SLIM There’s a line directly underneath: “be warned cat lovers.” So that’s on video-on-demand and theaters. So check that out. Just real quick too, there was another release hitting Peacock streaming this weekend. It’s the Firestarter reboot. So if maybe you’re looking to sit back at home, and you’re a Peacock subscriber—what a sentence that is. It’s 5,000 watchlists, so keep that in mind as you plot your weekend.
MITCHELL The Zac Efron stans, hitting up that Peacock this week.
SLIM They’re all there. They’re waving. [Slim laughs] So let’s look back at last week. We’ll spotlight maybe some community reviews, what we watched, and some ratings from the releases the previous week. But right off the bat, I do have to put myself on a pedestal. I went into a Philadelphia screening of Alex Garland’s new movie Men last night, I saw it. Just precursor, Annihilation is in my top four right now. Okay?
MITCHELL Big talk there, big, big hype going in for Men for you. How did that pan out?
SLIM Uh... Didn’t pan out so well for me... [Mitchell laughs] So I think as of this release, you know, the embargoes are out and about. And Mia—I’m going to call this out in my review—Mia saw this the week before and she called out that there are some heavy mother! vibes, you know, “mother exclamation point” that had come out that was like—
MITCHELL [yells] Mother!
SLIM Yes, that’s how you have to say it. [Slim & Mitchell laugh] Hugely metaphorical themes in that movie, and Garland is definitely going in that direction with this release. So your mileage may vary, depending on what you thought of mother! that had come out a couple years ago, you might have similar thoughts with this. I liked mother! I was able to vibe with like the biblical themes. But for this one, it was almost like a little too obtuse for me. It looked great, though.
MITCHELL There you go!
SLIM It looked great. So I know you don’t have strong love for mother! so I’m not sure how how soon you will be checking out Men from Alex Garland.
MITCHELL I am very much not a fan of [yells] mother! [Slim laughs] But I do like, I like Alex Garland a lot. So I’m going to be going in with kind of cautious optimism. I’m still going to try and, you know, go in with some optimism, because I am a Garland fan. I love Ex Machina. I love Devs, his miniseries that he did that’s on Hulu. I mean, that’s a great show. But yeah, so, seeing some mixed reactions to Men, which, you know, day-to-day life as well. Very, very mixed reactions to men. I got to finally see The Lost City this week. [Slim gasps] The Sandra Bullock, Channing Tatum blockbuster. Very excited to see this movie. Huge Sandy B fan here. The film is out now on digital platforms. It’s also streaming on Paramount+, get that with your Peacock. And honestly, The Lost City is so much fun.
SLIM Ohhh...
MITCHELL I honestly, you know, I mean we’ve mentioned before that I, because of my health stuff, I’m not going to theaters right now, so I’m not getting into those Men screenings, and in general, I don’t mind so much not being able to see a Doctor Strange [in the Multiverse of Madness] in the theater or like those kinds of films. I don’t mind waiting to see those when they come out on digital or whatever. But this one, watching The Lost City, I really wish that I had been able to see it in theaters, especially with my mom. I feel like my mom and I would have had like such a blast watching this together. It feels like such a big-screen movie. Not to say that I didn’t still really enjoy it. I just really enjoyed it and know that I would have enjoyed it more on the big screen too. Like it’s really great just to see movie stars like Bullock and Tatum and I mean, Brad Pitt, Daniel Radcliffe too, just getting to do movie-star things. And it’s like fun romp that’s not taking yourself too seriously, not trying to tie in any other IP or tease a dozen sequels and TV shows... Doctor Strange... I didn’t, you know, I didn’t think that Bullock and Tatum had the best like romantic chemistry in the world. But even without that, they’re still just such a blast to watch in something like this. They both have such like unbelievable comedic timing. And yeah, it really is—I mean, it just flew by, like the most fun. I don’t know, it’s like two hours long. And I mean, it’s really, I mean it’s such a blast. I really had a good time with it. So I would strongly—if people didn’t catch it in theaters, I mean it’s out there now and I would really strongly recommend people checking out The Lost City.
SLIM That could be a great weekend date movie at home! You know? Fire up—everyone’s got a Paramount+ sub. You know that.
MITCHELL Everybody’s got Paramount+! Everybody’s got Paramount+. We’re all watching it. Survivor… I use Paramount+ for Survivor!
SLIM There you go. Big-time Survivor vibes in the Letterboxd Crew Discord. I know that much. I’m surprised there isn’t a Survivor channel that’s floating around.
MITCHELL There might be, you might just not be in it... [Mitchell & Slim laugh]
SLIM This is how I find out, on Weekend Watchlist! [Mitchell laughs] So let me spotlight some reviews from the previous week. Jeremy’s Happening review—which we talked about last week with Mia, a very timely film. “While it’s set 60 years ago in , in light of the current events here in the US this feels as contemporary as ever. Diwan holds nothing back in showing the tribulations and horror that Anne must go through to keep her life on track when faced with an unwanted pregnancy.”
MITCHELL Yeah, Happening is a really great movie. I also would strongly encourage anybody to check that out who hasn’t seen it yet. Some not, you know, a little bit more mixed reactions on Letterboxd to Doctor Strange [in the Multiverse of Madness]. We’ve got some good and bad reviews coming in here. Andy reviewed the film on Letterboxd and said: “”Nothing Nowhere All at Once. Outside of a few key scenes—and a few ‘oh that’s so Sam Raimi’ moments—I was just profoundly bored by the general plot and absolutely all of the CGI.”
SLIM If I didn’t know Andy Stone, I would think that it’s like a Mitchell burner Letterboxd that was writing that review. [Mitchell & Slim laugh]
MITCHELL You know, there might be some... there might be some... some ones out there. We don’t know.
SLIM Rowan’s Doctor Strange [in the Multiverse of Madness] review: “I normally do not watch horror movies, and this Sam Raimi movie had quite a lot of jump scares for a whimp like me. I was happy to have a boyfriend in the cinema whose arms I could grab everytime I was scared. Apart from that, really liked the movie.”
MITCHELL There we go. We’ll drop one more Doctor Strange [in the Multiverse of Madness] review here from Kingston who says: “I watched this in IMAX on preview day and someone in the front row loudly asked as the movie was beginning, ‘Is this Thor?’ which was followed by the longest booing session I’ve ever witnessed.” [Slim laughs] So jokesters out there at Doctor Strange [in the Multiverse of Madness] screenings, watch out!
SLIM I love spending twenty dollars just to troll the Doctor Strange [in the Multiverse of Madness] audience in theaters. [Slim & Mitchell laugh]
MITCHELL Marvel fans: unforgiving.
SLIM Anything else you want to spotlight the previous week?
MITCHELL Yeah, I did want to mention, you know, Joe Dante, friend of Letterboxd.
SLIM Friend of the show.
MITCHELL Friend of the show, been on The Letterboxd Show with you and Gemma. Somehow, Samm, my partner and I had never seen Gremlins. So the other day, we popped it on Saturday morning in May, a rainy day, you know, perfect time for this Christmas-comedy-horror. And thinking, you know, Gremlins—all this time, all these years, I thought Gremlins was this you know, I mean, I knew, you know, “don’t feed them after midnight.” I figured, you know, there would be this cuddly little creature, it would be getting a little bit cranky having some shenanigans going on. But I thought it was like a very family friendly kind of movie. That was always my interpretation of what Gremlins was. This movie is a messed up. It is... I mean, some of the stuff that goes on in this movie is really, really twisted. That scene with the mom just like massacring these little creetins in the kitchen. It... I mean that’s out of control to me! I mean, it’s a fun movie, but yeah, Gremlins, a lot darker than I was expecting it to be.
SLIM We talked with Joe Dante on a previous Letterboxd Show and I had noticed this with when I rewatched Jaws and then when I watched Gremlins ahead of the chat about their four faves, I brought up like, what is it about these movies of this era that can somehow be for all ages, horror, comedy, drama? And I think he pointed out that it was Amblin. It was like all Amblin films and somehow they were able to do that. Like those movies don’t exist anymore!
MITCHELL Yeah, yeah, exactly. I mean, speaking of Dante too, The ’Burbs is one of my favorite movies. And I mean The ’Burbs is like, it’s a pretty dark movie that gets into some disturbing scenes, but it also just has his overall kind of tone of like, “Anybody can watch this! You can show your kids The ’Burbs. It’s Tom Hanks, you know, fooling around in the suburbs. Why not?”
SLIM Come back, Amblin.
MITCHELL Bring ’em back!
SLIM We need you, now more than ever. Just quick rating spotlights. Doctor Strange [in the Multiverse of Madness] to 3.5 on Letterboxd. Happening, 3.8. The Twin, which we spotlit—spotlit, I don’t even know if that’s a word—that we spotlighted... last week, 2.4 average. That’s streaming on Shudder right now if you wanna check that out.
MITCHELL A little tough on The Twin. Jack, we’ve got some facts from Jack this week, updating the Letterboxd Top 50 of 2022, as he always does. So before we take a look at our own watchlists, let’s check out that Top 50. I know the big new entry for this week is Leonor Will Never Die, another Sundance film, a Filipino comedy-action-fantasy film that won the Special Jury Award for Innovative Spirit at the Sundance prize. Did you want to you want to shout out any takes from Leonor Will Never Die?
SLIM Even though she tried to troll the show last week with her Downton Abbey[: A New Era] reviews, I’ll spotlight Gemma’s review: “If a single Sundance 2022 film encapsulated why we keep waking up and going straight to our narrow screen for more, it’s this one.” And the synopsis is: Fiction and reality blur with Leonor, a retired filmmaker falls into a coma after her television lands on her head, compelling her to become the action hero of her unfinished screenplay. That sounds dynamite.
MITCHELL Yeah, I mean, that sounds like a blast. And Jack did note that the film has been picked up by Music Box Films for release in the US, release date still pending. So I mean, we’ll definitely shout that out again, when it is going to be released for more people in the US to be able to see it. But yeah, I mean, Leonor Will Never Die, definitely want to keep an eye out. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, didn’t quite crack the Top 50, unfortunately for it, but you know.
SLIM Maybe next week, Doctor Strange [in the Multiverse of Madness]. Final segment of the show, we’re rapidly running out of time. We might have to allow the Elon takeover if we don’t get under 30 minutes. But this is where we spotlight our own watchlists. We shuffle our watchlist each week and we watch a random streaming movie that’s in our watchlist. And spotlight some reviews of listeners that do the same thing. So I finally watched The Sacrifice.
MITCHELL Here we go.
SLIM It finally happened. We did it. Tarkovsky: The God. I think people call him The God. It looked fantastic, some of the best cinematography we’ve ever seen out of any era.
MITCHELL Sven Nykvist.
SLIM Sven Nykvist. My god. Out of control cinematography. So this follows a small group of a family and friends in a nice house with the view, finding out that World War III has started and it’s likely that a nuclear holocaust is about to happen. So enjoy the rest of your day. And Alexander is, you know, writer, philosopher coming to grips with that. So about three hours long, coming to grips with his life, regrets and you know, the various characters telling stories in that time and how far Alexander would go to potentially stop what’s about to happen if he could. I liked Solaris a lot. So I have the capability in my heart to like a Tarkovsky philosophical movie. But for some reason, this one just didn’t stick with me as much, but I know this is a very popular film in our community.
MITCHELL Big Tarkovsky fan here. I went a little bit of a different direction with my film...
SLIM Complete opposite end.
MITCHELL enger 57, starring Wesley Snipes. The film, directed by Kevin Hooks is about an infamous terrorist who has evaded capture for a long time by being extremely clever and ruthless. Things get interesting when he hijacks a plane carrying famous security expert John Cutter who isn’t about to stand for this sort of thing. And I think that synopsis pretty accurately sums up the vibe that you’re getting from this movie. It is... it released in 1992. It is exactly the kind of action movie that I think you and I love from the ’90s. It’s just full of quips, Wesley Snipes doing his thing. This outrageous villain played by Bruce Payne, who’s not really an actor that I was super familiar with. I looked at his Letterboxd. I’ve seen him and a few other things like The Keep, the Michael Mann movie. But I wasn’t super familiar with him but he really goes for broke in this in a way that I feel like movie villains don’t often do anymore. It reminded me of the performance of Ron Silver in the Kathryn Bigelow movie Blue Steel if anybody’s seen that. His performance in that is just like, absolutely demented. And I mean Payne’s doing, he’s going for broke the same way here. I mean, it’s a pretty wild ride. So I mean, I would definitely check out enger 57, if people are into that sort of thing. It’s streaming on Showtime. I happen to have the Blu-ray of it, so I watched it that way.
SLIM Oh my god! You just had the Blu-ray laying around, that’s right.
MITCHELL I just... I have, I have Blu-rays. I have so many of ’em. [Slim & Mitchell laugh]
SLIM I definitely want to add this to my watchlist. This does sound like right up my alley, especially since I went through the Seagal filmography last—or early this year. Yeah, I went through the muck so this is right up my alley.
MITCHELL Yeah, you for sure would be a huge fan of this. Let’s spotlight some of the reviews from people who have been shuffling their watchlists along with us, tagging their reviews “Weekend Watchlist”. I want to give a shout out to my pal Ross Bratin and his Blood for Dracula review where Ross says: “The opening credits scene, depicting Udo Kier putting on makeup and getting himself ready while a haunting theme by Claudio Gizzi plays, sets the entire vibe for the film. It may not be a great film, but it’s definitely a mood film that ends in one hell of a bloody finale.”
SLIM Hmm... Mood film. That sounds like a potential Letterboxd list if it doesn’t already exist currently.
MITCHELL Definitely. Mood films on Letterboxd. Get to it.
SLIM Liam left a review for Sorry We Missed You: “Loved it from the minute it started to the minute it ended. So damn emotionally devastating but so damn good. Something that everyone should watch if they need a good cry.” Add that to your list.
MITCHELL And one more from Georgie. George’s review of Mirai: “I honestly thought Mirai would be a wholesome, family-friendly film, but the themes are serious and occasionally unsettling, so it seems directed towards adults who have trouble empathizing with young children. There are some genuinely beautiful and moving moments here, but the movie doesn’t fully come together the way I want it to. Breathtaking animation though!” So you’ve got that going for you, Mirai.
SLIM Hmm, okay. Alright. Let’s head to our watchlist. If you’re listening, you can do the same thing. Head your watchlist on Letterboxd. Filter service by streaming—unless you want to, you know, go out and buy a DVD or rent it. And then sort by shuffle. So let’s see. I got my fingers crossed for a nice, you know, ’80s action movie, 90 minutes. Let’s see. [shuffle sounds plays] Oh my god... Are you ready for this?
MITCHELL Let’s hear it.
SLIM Bloodfist VI: Ground Zero. [Mitchell & Slim laugh]
MITCHELL That sounds about right.
SLIM 1995. Rick Jacobson. Terrorists take over a nuclear weapons launch site, but don’t count on a humble military courier, who happens to be making a visit. This is streaming on Tubi, so I’m back baby!
MITCHELL That is the Slim vibe if I’ve ever heard it... [Mitchell & Slim laugh] [shuffle sound plays] Alright for me, I’ve got one that I’ve been looking forward to watching for quite a while. So I’m pretty stoked to get to see Presumed Innocent, the 1990 Alan J. Pakula film starring Harrison Ford. The synopsis: Rusty Savage is a deputy prosecutor engage in an obsessive affair with a co-worker who was murdered. Soon after he’s accused of the crime—Harrison Ford always gettin’ accused—and his fight to clear his name becomes a whirlpool of allies and hidden ions. I know I’ve got some friends who are very big fans of Presumed Innocent. I’m definitely excited to see this one. It’s streaming on HBO Max. I think I might have a Blu-ray or DVD around here somewhere. [Slim laughs] But if not, I can definitely watch it on HBO Max. [Mitchell laugh]
SLIM Rusty Savage, and his first name is Rozat.
MITCHELL Rusty, you know, everybody’s favorite nickname for Rozat as we all know. [Slim laughs]
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