Secret Satan 3

     This week- we spread peace on Earth and good will towards all humanity through painful cinematic suppositories specially chosen to mentally and emotionally break each other.

     Jack is an aging football hooligan. After a fight, Jack is arrested for possession of cocaine and gets sentenced to six weeks of couples' therapy. Jack's wife, Dani, is emotionally isolated, spending all her time just caring for Jack's son and home, long ago forced to give up on her artistic dreams so Jack wouldn't feel lesser. If you think that sounds like an interesting set up to a solid kitchen sink drama... it isn't. How far can Danny Dyer's charisma and attitude carry a feature? Why doesn't Stephanie Leonidas not have a good enough career to turn this down? Marching Powder.
     A dissection leads to an unsettling physiological anomaly. A young male narrator is obsessed with his sister. When she is revealed to be pregnant, the young man begins to farther detached, eventually choosing to commit the most vicious act he can imagine. An orgy with the planet. A man suffering from religious psychosis is a compulsively masturbating pornography addict. His guilt drives horrific sexual  nightmares. An experimental art horror anthology, filmed over a period of nearly 6 years, Subconscious Cruelty.
     In 2045, the population of the world take refuge from reality in a huge virtual reality sandbox created by the late James Halliday. When Halliday died, an Easter Egg hunt for three keys was kicked off with the ultimate prize being total control of the game. When Wade Watts finds the first key, he and his friends find themselves in the crosshairs of Nolan Sorrento, who will stop at nothing to win. Based on a once wildly popular novel and directed by a living legend who should be perfect for it, Ready Player One.
     A fantasy though an inflatable land of wonder and the 1964 Philadelphia Gimbles Thanksgiving Day Parade. Fun in Balloon Land.

     All that and Dave Yippie Ki-Yays, Kevin can't keep track of it all, and Tyler plots to throw a spanner in the works. Join us, won't you?
   Episode 445- Secret Satan 3

A Guy for All Seasons

     This week- a trio of films with a brilliant Aussie actor.

     Edie Sedgwick is a young heiress who studied art and makes the move to New York City. Before long she finds herself a rising model in youthquake fashion and the muse of one of pop art's most enduring figures before addiction and socially ostracized lead to tragic results. The penultimate feature by George Hickenlooper with a stunning lead performance, Factory Girl.
     After his mother's death, J has to go live with his estranged grandmother. A woman his mother kept him far away from because she is the matriarch of a violent criminal family. When the gang's leader, Baz, is killed by police a chain of events is set off that will have long lasting and devastating consequences to J's new world. The first feature from writer-director David Michôd, Animal Kingdom. 
     At the end of World War II a lost work by Vermeer is discovered in a Hermann Goering's hidden treasure trove. Captain Joseph Piller, who works for the Canadian military administration of the Netherlands and former resistance fighter, is tasked with tracking down whoever sold the painting. Soon he discovers Han van Meegrene and arrests him for collaboration and using the sale proceeds to fund a Nazi espionage network. van Meegrene's defense will be not just unexpected but shake up the art world for generations. The only feature directed by producer/conservationist/potential owner of a Houston Texas NHL team Dan Friedkin, The Last Vermeer.
     All that and Dave knows where his towel is, Craig plays puppy nurse, Tyler sees death coming, and Kevin is in the wind on the run from charity. Oh, I mean, FOR charity. Join us, won't you?

   Episode 414- A Guy for All Seasons

S'all About the Bass

     This week an expedition through the ant infested desert of Kenya, Arizona and a tour through the crime ridden streets of Baltimore, Quebec. 

     In the aftermath of a strange cosmic event, ants begin acting strangely and rapidly changing. A pair of scientists and a 16-year old girl investigate this phenomena. The only feature directed by a legendary graphic artist and an absolute spectacle of macrophotography, Phase IV.

     On New Years Eve, a sniper begins to shoot random targets. After making an impression at the crime scene, Patrol Officer Falco is assigned to a special taskforce led by FBI Special Agent Lammark. Together they launch a desperate search for the killer before he can strike again. The first English-language feature from Argentinian writer-director Damián Szifron, To Catch a Killer.
     All that and Craig mourns his abandoned partner Mr Beepy, Tyler has dreams of skateboarders in Texas, Dave isn't sure if he still likes to watch, and Kevin plots his terrible revenge with an army of squirrels. Join us, won't you?
   Episode 351- S'all About the Bass