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John David Washington tries to bring an end to a war being waged on those in the present by people in the future in Christopher Nolan's TENET. In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer selects Palestinian filmmaker Elia Suleiman's four features (CHRONICLE OF A DISAPPEARANCE, DIVINE INTERVENTION, THE TIME THAT REMAINS, and IT MUST BE HEAVEN) and Columbus, Indiana's architecture and tours, as seen in Kogonada's drama COLUMBUS. Paul Markoff picks director Michael Showalter's romantic comedy THE BIG SICK starring and co-written by Kumail Nanjiani. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ TENET clip courtesy Warner Bros. THE BIG SICK clip courtesy Lionsgate Home Entertainment Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded October 11, 2021.

After an accident, a jazz pianist desperately wants his situation to return to normal so he can enjoy the big career break he's finally received in Pete Docter and Kemp Powers' animated film SOUL. Also, a girl builds her own rocket ship and sets sail for a lunar landing in Glen Keane and John Kahrs' animated musical OVER THE MOON. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ SOUL clip courtesy Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures OVER THE MOON clip courtesy Netflix Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded December 14, 2020.

On this special holiday episode, a teenage boy receives an unusual creature as a Christmas gift. In director Joe Dante's 1984 horror-comedy GREMLINS, chaos ensues in a small town when the rules for caring for the Mogwai are violated.   Also, Mark Pfeiffer and Paul Markoff look back at their film-related wishes for 2020 and share those they hope might be granted this season and in 2021. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ GREMLINS clip courtesy Warner Home Video Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded December 14, 2020.

On this themed episode, Mark Pfeiffer and Paul Markoff look at two movies exploring the nature of filming realism for mass entertainment. Jim Carrey stars as a man unaware that his known reality has been built around and is the subject of a long-running and popular television series in director Peter Weir’s THE TRUMAN SHOW.  Also, Albert Brooks plays himself as an acclaim-seeking filmmaker trying to document the day-to-day ins and outs of a regular American family in his 1979 comedy REAL LIFE. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ THE TRUMAN SHOW and REAL LIFE clips courtesy Paramount Pictures Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded August 31, 2020.

Starring Ethan Hawke as the famous inventor, writer-director Michael Almereyda’s experimental biopic TESLA covers about twenty years of Nikola Tesla’s time in the United States, from working for Thomas Edison in 1884 to his J.P. Morgan-funded experiments in Colorado Springs in the early 1900s.  In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer selects the Martin Scorsese short film compilation Blu-ray set SCORSESE SHORTS. Paul Markoff picks Cameron Crowe’s family drama WE BOUGHT A ZOO. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ TESLA clip courtesy IFC Films WE BOUGHT A ZOO clip courtesy Twentieth Century Fox Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded August 31, 2020.

Charlize Theron leads a team of immortals trying to fight the good fight and find a new, emerging one of their kind without detection by those who might exploit them in director Gina Prince-Bythewood’s THE OLD GUARD. Mark Pfeiffer and Paul Markoff also discuss how they they’re feeling about not going to movie theaters during the pandemic and what the future may hold for the theatrical experience. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ THE OLD GUARD clip courtesy Netflix Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded July 20, 2020.

Will Ferrell and Rachel McAdams are Iceland’s best and most unlikely hope for international musical glory in director David Dobkin’s comedy EUROVISION SONG CONTEST: THE STORY OF FIRE SAGA. In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer selects Errol Morris’ documentary about Sunshine State eccentrics in VERNON, FLORIDA. Paul Markoff picks 10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU, a teen romantic comedy twist on Shakespeare’s THE TAMING OF THE SHREW. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ EUROVISION SONG CONTEST: THE STORY OF FIRE SAGA clips courtesy Netflix VERNON, FLORIDA clip courtesy The Criterion Collection 10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU clip courtesy Buena Vista Home Entertainment Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded July 20, 2020.

Four Vietnam veterans, including Delroy Lindo and Isiah Whitlock Jr., reunite in Ho Chi Minh City in search of the remains of their leader, played by Chadwick Boseman, and the gold bars they hid decades ago in Spike Lee’s DA 5 BLOODS. Also, Mark Pfeiffer and Paul Markoff speculate on the actors and actresses from the 1980s to present day who future generations may come to view as defining stars of their times. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ DA 5 BLOODS clip courtesy Netflix Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded June 15, 2020.

In Michael Showalter’s romantic comedy THE LOVEBIRDS Kumail Nanjiani and Issa Rae star as a longtime couple on the verge of breaking up when they get mixed up in a murder and citywide conspiracy that compels them to run around New Orleans looking for answers and to clear their names. In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer highlights the second season of the film-adapted TV series WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS. Paul Markoff picks the French romantic comedy PRICELESS (HORS DE PRIX) starring Audrey Tautou. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ THE LOVEBIRDS clip courtesy Netflix WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS clip courtesy FX Network Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded June 15, 2020.

High school senior Ellie accepts payments from second-string football player Paul to write love letters for him to popular girl Aster he has a crush on in THE HALF OF IT. Although their relationship starts out as just business, a friendship forms between them and is threatened when it becomes apparent that both are pining for Aster in writer-director Alice Wu’s twist on CYRANO DE BERGERAC. Mark Pfeiffer and Paul Markoff also discuss their histories with drive-in movie theaters, which have been rare places to see films in public during the pandemic. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ THE HALF OF IT clip courtesy Netflix Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded May 18, 2020.

In Andrew Patterson’s THE VAST OF NIGHT a 16-year-old switchboard operator and a young radio announcer in small-town New Mexico in the 1950s search for answers about the unidentified sound transmission she hears interrupting his broadcast. In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer picks David Wain’s romantic comedy spoof THEY CAME TOGETHER starring Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler. Paul Markoff chooses Nanette Burstein’s AMERICAN TEEN, a documentary about high school seniors in small-town Indiana. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ THE VAST OF NIGHT clip courtesy Amazon Studios THEY CAME TOGETHER clip courtesy Lionsgate  AMERICAN TEEN clip courtesy Paramount Vantage Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded May 18, 2020.

While director Jafar Panahi appeals his 20-year filmmaking ban and potential incarceration by the Iranian government, he uses the time under house arrest to begin staging what his most recent film would have been in THIS IS NOT A FILM (IN FILM NIST). Co-directed by Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, the 2011 non-fiction work expounds on the nature of a film and the life of an artist when continuing to create involves great personal risk. Also, Mark Pfeiffer and Paul Markoff discuss how the coronavirus pandemic is affecting their movie watching, what changes may be coming to movie theaters when they reopen, and how this could affect what we see and how we see it. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded April 27, 2020.

In John Lee Hancock’s fact-based, inspirational sports drama THE ROOKIE, Dennis Quaid stars as a high school science teacher and former pitching prospect who gets one last unexpected chance to become a Major League Baseball player. In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer selects Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck’s SUGAR, which observes the professional and personal challenges for a pitcher from the Dominican Republic as a minor leaguer in middle America. Paul Markoff picks Robert Zemeckis’ CAST AWAY featuring Tom Hanks stranded alone on an island. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ THE ROOKIE clip courtesy Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment SUGAR clip courtesy Sony Pictures Home Entertainment CAST AWAY clip courtesy 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded April 27, 2020.

It’s a 1984 double feature as Mark Pfeiffer and Paul Markoff look back at another adventure featuring Harrison Ford’s whip-wielding archaeologist in Steven Spielberg’s INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM and the story of a teenager whose arcade game skills get him recruited to be an elite interstellar war pilot in THE LAST STARFIGHTER. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM clip courtesy Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment THE LAST STARFIGHTER clip courtesy Universal Pictures Home Entertainment Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded April 13, 2020.

Elfin brothers voiced by Tom Holland and Chris Pratt embark on a quest to find a stone that will help them bring their deceased father back for a day in ONWARD.  In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer reports on the best films he saw at this year’s True/False Film Festival, including CITY SO REAL, DICK JOHNSON IS DEAD, MAYOR, and COLLECTIVE. Paul Markoff picks PITCH PERFECT, the a cappella competition comedy starring Anna Kendrick. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ ONWARD clips courtesy Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures PITCH PERFECT clip courtesy Universal Pictures Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded April 13, 2020.

In the stop-motion animated comedy A SHAUN THE SHEEP MOVIE: FARMAGEDDON, the woolly protagonist tries to help an alien return home while Farmer John turns his property into a extraterrestrial-themed tourist attraction for those fascinated by local rumors of outer space creatures being in the area. Also, Mark Pfeiffer and Paul Markoff discuss actors playing themselves on screen and what to make of such meta performances. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded February 22, 2020.

Lara Jean is now in a real relationship with Peter in TO ALL THE BOYS: P.S. I STILL LOVE YOU, but another boy who received one of her love letters responds positively and complicates matters. Michael Fimognari directs and Lana Condor and Noah Centineo star in the sequel to the teen romantic comedy TO ALL THE BOYS I’VE LOVED BEFORE. In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer picks Gus Van Sant’s meditative drama GERRY, in which Matt Damon and Casey Affleck get lost in the wilderness. Paul Markoff chooses Joe Wright’s HANNA starring Saoirse Ronan as a highly trained teenage assassin pursued by Cate Blanchett. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ TO ALL THE BOYS: P.S. I STILL LOVE YOU clip courtesy Netflix GERRY clip courtesy Shout! Factory HANNA clip courtesy Focus Features Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded February 22, 2020.

In Céline Sciamma’s PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE (PORTRAIT DE LA JEUNE FILLE EN FEU), Noémie Merlant is brought to an island in the late 1800s under the guise of being a companion for Adèle Haenel when she has really been hired to paint the young woman’s wedding portrait for which she refuses to sit. Also, Will Ferrell makes a split-second decision during a family ski vacation that exposes the fault lines in his marriage to Julia Louis-Dreyfus in DOWNHILL, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash’s FORCE MAJEURE remake. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ DOWNHILL clip courtesy Searchlight Pictures Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded February 22, 2020.

Mark Pfeiffer and Paul Markoff reveal the titles making their lists of the Best Films of 2019 in this special edition episode. They also discuss their favorite performances in last year’s films. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded January 18, 2020.

Two British soldiers in World War I are instructed to make a treacherous journey on foot to deliver a vital message to the 2nd Battalion in Sam Mendes' 1917, which is constructed to appear as though it unfolds in a single unbroken take. In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer picks Josh and Benny Safide’s short GOLDMAN V SILVERMAN featuring Adam Sandler. Paul Markoff selects the the stop-motion animated PARANORMAN about a boy who can speak with the dead. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ 1917 clip courtesy Universal Pictures PARANORMAN clip courtesy Focus Features Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded January 18, 2020.

LITTLE WOMEN writer-director Greta Gerwig brings a new version of Louisa May Alcott’s story about the March sisters to the screen with a cast including Saoirse Ronan, Florence Pugh, Emma Watson, Laura Dern, Meryl Streep, and Timothée Chalamet. Also, Mark Pfeiffer and Paul Markoff discuss the 92nd annual Academy Award nominees in the major categories.  Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ LITTLE WOMEN clip courtesy Columbia Pictures Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded January 18, 2020.

STAR WARS: EPISODE IX - THE RISE OF SKYWALKER wraps the third trilogy in the saga with with the resistance, including Daisy Ridley’s Rey, hoping to bring final defeat to the First Order and the reemergence of Emperor Palpatine. In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer selects Ira Sachs’ FRANKIE starring Isabelle Huppert as a terminally ill actress trying to arrange the future happiness for her family. Paul Markoff picks James L. Brooks’ HOW DO YOU KNOW, a romantic comedy with Reese Witherspoon, Paul Rudd, and Owen Wilson. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ STAR WARS: EPISODE IX - THE RISE OF SKYWALKER clip courtesy Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures FRANKIE clip courtesy Sony Pictures Classics HOW DO YOU KNOW clip courtesy Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded December 23, 2019.

Adam Sandler is a New York City jeweler who obtains a rare black opal that could be the score of his life in Josh and Benny Safdie’s UNCUT GEMS. Ever the risk-lover, he places big bets on the stone and the NBA playoffs that could cost him everything. After the bombing at the 1996 Olympics, the security guard who saved lives by bringing the suspicious package to attention goes from hero to suspect in director Clint Eastwood’s RICHARD JEWELL. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ UNCUT GEMS clip courtesy A24 RICHARD JEWELL clip courtesy Warner Bros. Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded December 23, 2019.

Writer-director Noah Baumbach’s MARRIAGE STORY tracks Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson as a couple trying to end their relationship amicably but finding that goal much harder to achieve. In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer picks Todd Haynes’ legal thriller DARK WATERS with Mark Ruffalo taking on a chemical company. Paul Markoff chooses Glenn Ficarra and Jon Requa’s fact-based comedy I LOVE YOU PHILLIP MORRIS with Jim Carrey as a con man who finds the love of his life among his fellow inmates. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ MARRIAGE STORY clip courtesy Netflix DARK WATERS clip courtesy Focus Features I LOVE YOU PHILLIP MORRIS clip courtesy Lionsgate Home Entertainment Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded December 23, 2019.

The future of Arendelle is at risk, and the secret to saving it may require discovering the origin of Elsa’s powers in the Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee-directed FROZEN II. Also, Daniel Craig is a private investigator hired to solve who, if anyone, killed a wealthy mystery novelist when several family members and a caregiver stand to gain from his death in Rian Johnson’s KNIVES OUT. The star-studded cast include Jamie Lee Curtis, Don Johnson, Chris Evans, Michael Shannon, Toni Collette, Christopher Plummer, and Ana de Armas. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ FROZEN II clip courtesy Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures KNIVES OUT clip courtesy Lionsgate Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded December 23, 2019.

On this special holiday episode, Macaulay Culkin is an eight-year-old who is accidentally left behind when his family goes on a Christmas trip to Paris and must defend himself and the house from burglars played by Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern in HOME ALONE. Chris Columbus directed and John Hughes wrote this 1990 blockbuster family film. Also, Mark Pfeiffer and Paul Markoff share the film-related wishes they hope might be granted this season and in the new year. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ HOME ALONE clips courtesy Twentieth Century Fox Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded December 23, 2019.

Robert De Niro looks back on a life working for the mob in Martin Scorsese’s decades-spanning crime drama THE IRISHMAN. Joe Pesci and Al Pacino also star in a film that reflects on the actors’ and director’s representations of gangsters in their work. Also, Mark Pfeiffer and Paul Markoff discuss Scorsese’s recent remarks about franchise films and what he considers cinema. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ THE IRISHMAN clip courtesy Netflix Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded November 8, 2019.

Eddie Murphy stars as the comedian Rudy Ray Moore, who polishes the filthy jokes the neighborhood derelicts tell into an act as a kung-fu fighting pimp character he wants to bring to the movies in director Craig Brewer’s DOLEMITE IS MY NAME  In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer makes a special selection. Paul Markoff picks Mike Leigh’s HAPPY-GO-LUCKY featuring a breakthrough Sally Hawkins performance. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ DOLEMITE IS MY NAME clip courtesy Netflix HAPPY-GO-LUCKY clip courtesy Miramax Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded November 8, 2019.

The unemployed Kims scheme for every family member to get lucrative jobs in the home of the wealthy Parks, but holding onto their cushy positions is tougher than expected in director/co-writer Bong Joon-Ho’s PARASITE (GISAENGCHUNG). Also, Mark Pfeiffer and Paul Markoff discuss the idea of filmmakers using actors’ likenesses to create new digital performances and what effects this technology may have in the future. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded November 8, 2019.

Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson occupy a lonely island in 1890s New England where they must keep the lantern lit for the ships at sea while wrestling to maintain their sanity in director and co-writer Robert Eggers’ THE LIGHTHOUSE. In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer picks SOUND & FURY, the short anime film accompanying the Sturgill Simpson album of the same name. Paul Markoff selects his favorite film of 2010, Christopher Nolan’s INCEPTION. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ THE LIGHTHOUSE clips courtesy A24 Sturgill Simpson's "Remember to Breathe" from SOUND & FURY courtesy Netflix and Elektra INCEPTION clip courtesy Warner Bros. Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded November 8, 2019.

Jennifer Connelly’s psychic ability to communicate with insects may help her find the serial killer claiming victims at and near her Swiss boarding school in Dario Argento’s 1985 horror mystery PHENOMENA.  Also, Mark Pfeiffer and Paul Markoff discuss the state of mainstream film comedies and if there are obstacles to them being made today.  Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ PHENOMENA clip courtesy Synapse Films Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded October 10, 2019.

The origin of one of Batman’s primary antagonists is dramatized in director Todd Phillips’ JOKER. Joaquin Phoenix stars as a mentally troubled clown and aspiring comedian who finds his identity by turning to nihilism and violent crime. In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer picks Mystery Science Theater 3000’s The Great Cheesy Movie Circus tour. Paul Markoff selects Henry Selick’s stop-motion animated CORALINE, which tells a story about a girl who discovers an alternate world behind the door in her new home. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ JOKER clip courtesy Warner Bros. CORALINE clip courtesy Focus Features Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded October 10, 2019.

U.S. Space Command believes catastrophic power surges are being sent to Earth by Tommy Lee Jones, who led a deep space mission that has gone silent for more than a decade, and Brad Pitt is his son, an unflappable astronaut who is asked to travel to the moon and then to Mars to try and establish communication with his long-absent father in director James Gray’s AD ASTRA. Also, Mark Pfeiffer and Paul Markoff discuss some of this decade’s defining movie-related moments. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ AD ASTRA clip courtesy 20th Century Fox Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded October 10, 2019.

Jillian Bell commits to get fit in more ways than one in Paul Downs Colaizzo’s comedy BRITTANY RUNS A MARATHON. Michaela Watkins, Lil Rel Howery, Micah Stock, and Utkarsh Ambudkar co-star. In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer enjoys DOWNTON ABBEY's transition from TV to the cinema. Paul Markoff hunkers down with Drew Goddard’s satirical horror film THE CABIN IN THE WOODS. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ BRITTANY RUNS A MARATHON clips courtesy Amazon Studios DOWNTON ABBEY clip courtesy Focus Features THE CABIN IN THE WOODS clip courtesy Lionsgate Home Entertainment Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded September 22, 2019.

In writer-director Lorene Scafaria’s HUSTLERS Jennifer Lopez and Constance Wu lead a team of strippers who weather the 2008 financial crisis by scamming money from Wall Street men with high credit limits and desires to party. Julia Stiles, Keke Palmer, and Lili Reinhart also star. Also, Mark Pfeiffer and Paul Markoff discuss whether being scary is an essential quality for a horror movie. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ HUSTLERS clip courtesy STX Entertainment Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded September 22, 2019.

27 years after fighting something evil in their small Maine town, a group of friends reunite with the goal of eliminating it in director Andy Muschietti’s IT CHAPTER TWO. Jessica Chastain, Bill Hader, and James McAvoy play some of the now-grown Losers Club members. Bill Skarsgård stars as the terrifying clown Pennywise. In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer reports on his favorite films at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival. Paul Markoff chooses Peter Lord and Jeff Newitt’s stop-motion animated comedy THE PIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ IT CHAPTER TWO clip courtesy Warner Bros. KNIVES OUT clip courtesy Lionsgate A HIDDEN LIFE clip courtesy Fox Searchlight Pictures THE PIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS clip courtesy Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded September 22, 2019.

A young man with Down Syndrome runs away from a care facility to fulfill his dream of becoming a wrestler in THE PEANUT BUTTER FALCON. Zack Gottsagen, Shia LaBeouf, and Dakota Johnson star in the heartwarming adventure from co-writers and directors Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz. Also, Dayton-area filmmakers Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert capture what happens when a Chinese company directly invests in United States manufacturing in the documentary AMERICAN FACTORY. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ THE PEANUT BUTTER FALCON clips courtesy Roadside Attractions AMERICAN FACTORY clip courtesy Netflix Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded August 31, 2019.

Director and co-writer Gurinder Chadha’s BLINDED BY THE LIGHT features a Pakistani-British teenager falling in love with Bruce Springsteen’s music while feeling misunderstood in a working class English town in 1987.   In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer highlights Jennifer Kent’s revenge film THE NIGHTINGALE about a young woman convict who goes into the 1820s Tasmanian wilderness in search of the men who killed her family. Paul Markoff picks Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland’s STILL ALICE with Julianne Moore as a woman with an early onset diagnosis of Alzerheimer’s Disease. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ BLINDED BY THE LIGHT clip courtesy New Line Cinema THE NIGHTINGALE clip courtesy IFC Films STILL ALICE clip courtesy Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded August 31, 2019.

It’s an ‘80s double feature on this episode as a bullied teenage boy new to California finds help from a kindly maintenance man who teaches him a martial art in John G. Avildsen’s THE KARATE KID. Ralph Macchio, Pat Morita, Elisabeth Shue, and William Zabka star. Also, Joyce Hyser believes being a girl is why her story isn’t entered in a high school competition for a summer job at a newspaper, so she poses as a boy to get what she thinks she deserves in Lisa Gottlieb’s comedy JUST ONE OF THE GUYS. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ THE KARATE KID and JUST ONE OF THE GUYS clips courtesy Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded August 31, 2019.

Gugu Mbatha-Raw’s Ruth comes from a family of women with superhuman powers in director and co-writer Julia Hart’s FAST COLOR. Ruth fled home years ago, but while being chased by government officials in a rain-deprived dystopia, she seeks safety with the mother and daughter she left behind. In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer picks Mike Mitchell’s superhero comedy SKY HIGH. Paul Markoff selects BEYOND THE LIGHTS, Gina Prince-Bythewood’s romance about Mbatha-Raw’s pop star and Nate Parker's police officer. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ FAST COLOR clips courtesy Lionsgate SKY HIGH clip courtesy Buena Vista Home Entertainment BEYOND THE LIGHTS clip courtesy 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded August 10, 2019.

Quentin Tarantino recreates a changing movie industry and culture in 1969 with ONCE UPON A TIME … IN HOLLYWOOD. Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt star as an actor on the decline and his stunt double/personal assistant while next door neighbor Sharon Tate, played by Margot Robbie, is a rising star married to one of the hottest directors at the time. Also, in Lulu Wang’s THE FAREWELL a Chinese family chooses to hide an elderly family member’s terminal diagnosis from her and plans a wedding as a cover story for bringing everyone together to see her for the final time. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ ONCE UPON A TIME … IN HOLLYWOOD clip courtesy Columbia Pictures THE FAREWELL clip courtesy A24 Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded August 10, 2019.

Director Jon Favreau’s THE LION KING uses photorealistic animation to remake the 1994 Disney animated film about a young lion who is tricked out of his rightful position as ruler of the pride. In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer chooses James Bobin’s children’s adventure film DORA AND THE LOST CITY OF GOLD and Eric Mahoney’s rock documentary BRAINIAC: TRANSMISSIONS AFTER ZERO. Paul Markoff picks Bennett Miller’s true crime sports drama FOXCATCHER with Steve Carell, Channing Tatum, and Mark Ruffalo. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ THE LION KING clips courtesy Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures DORA AND THE LOST CITY OF GOLD clip courtesy Paramount Pictures BRAINIAC: TRANSMISSIONS AFTER ZERO clip courtesy Hotshot Robot FOXCATCHER clip courtesy Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded August 10, 2019.

Kumail Nanjiani is a rideshare driver who picks up a police detective played by Dave Bautista and winds up ensnared in the cop’s search for a drug lord in Michael Dowse’s action-comedy STUBER. Also, Mark Pfeiffer and Paul Markoff discuss some of the most memorable film screenings they’ve experienced. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ STUBER clip courtesy Twentieth Century Fox Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded July 13, 2019.

Peter Parker has his European vacation interrupted when Nick Fury and Quentin Beck, a superhero from another universe, need his help to stop the latest threat in Jon Watts’ SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME. Tom Holland, Samuel L. Jackson, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Zendaya star. In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer picks the streaming video search engine JustWatch and end credits extra scenes database MediaStinger. Paul Markoff selects Rob Minkoff’s animated comedy MR. PEABODY & SHERMAN.  Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME clips courtesy Columbia Pictures MR. PEABODY & SHERMAN clip courtesy Twentieth Century Fox Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded July 13, 2019.

Florence Pugh and Jack Reynor go with their friends on a trip to a remote Swedish commune for a solstice celebration and gradually discover they are among a pagan cult in Ari Aster’s MIDSOMMAR. Also, after an extinction event a robot known as Mother initiates a human repopulation program in a bunker. In Grant Sputore’s I AM MOTHER, her teenage daughter begins to question the artificial intelligence’s honesty when a woman played by Hilary Swank arrives and tells her a different story. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ MIDSOMMAR clip courtesy A24 I AM MOTHER clip courtesy Netflix. Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded July 13, 2019.

Woody, voiced by Tom Hanks, frets about his role in the life of the child he entertains in director Josh Cooley’s TOY STORY 4. Woody must also keep a close eye on Forky, a new toy who becomes a fast favorite but rejects his role as a plaything. In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer chooses ANIMA, Paul Thomas Anderson’s short film starring Thom Yorke and featuring three songs from the Radiohead singer’s solo album of the same name. Paul Markoff picks Stephen Herek’s 1991 teen comedy DON’T TELL MOM THE BABYSITTER’S DEAD starring Christina Applegate. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ TOY STORY 4 clips courtesy Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Thom Yorke’s “Not the News” clip courtesy XL Recordings DON’T TELL MOM THE BABYSITTER’S DEAD clip courtesy Warner Bros. Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded July 13, 2019.

In Richard Shepard’s horror-thriller mix THE PERFECTION, Allison Williams is a former cello prodigy whose return to the arts world and new friendship with her successor, played by Logan Browning, yield surprising twists. Also, Mark Pfeiffer and Paul Markoff discuss if summer 2019 movies have been underwhelming so far and if box office returns for these films indicate that franchise filmmaking may be near a tipping point. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ THE PERFECTION clip courtesy Netflix Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded June 15, 2019.

Kaitlyn Dever and Beanie Feldstein are best friends and scholastic overachievers who aim to prove how fun they can be at a party the night before high school graduation in director Olivia Wilde’s debut feature BOOKSMART. In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer picks Jim Jarmusch’s zombie comedy THE DEAD DON’T DIE with Bill Murray and Adam Driver. Paul Markoff selects J.J. Abrams’ Spielberg-esque adventure SUPER 8. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ BOOKSMART clip courtesy Annapurna Pictures THE DEAD DON’T DIE clip courtesy Focus Features SUPER 8 clip courtesy Paramount Home Entertainment Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded June 15, 2019.

A German man fleeing fascists attempts to secure passage from France by assuming a dead author’s identity in director Christian Petzold’s TRANSIT. Franz Rogowski and Paula Beer star. Also, with so many films being made in recent years, will anyone remember them? Mark Pfeiffer and Paul Markoff test their memories in a game in which they challenge one another to recall films they reviewed between 1997 and 2017.  Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded June 15, 2019.

Elton John’s rise to fame and fortune as a rock superstar is traced in Dexter Fletcher’s ROCKETMAN. Taron Egerton stars as the chart-topping singer-songwriter. In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer selects director Jeff Nichols’ music videos for Lucero’s “Long Way Back Home” and Bruce Robison and Kelly Willis’ “Astrodome,” which he co-directed with José Luis González. Paul Markoff picks Jay Roach’s political comedy THE CAMPAIGN with Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ ROCKETMAN clips courtesy Paramount Pictures “Astrodome” clip courtesy The Next Waltz THE CAMPAIGN clip courtesy Warner Bros. Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded June 15, 2019.

The Disney animated classic ALADDIN is remade in live action by director Guy Ritchie. The story about a street urchin who finds a magical lamp and tries to win the heart of a princess stars Mena Massoud, Naomi Scott, and Will Smith as the wise-cracking Genie. Also, Mark Pfeiffer and Paul Markoff add to the Filmbound Canon, their personal collections of all-time great films released beginning in 1995.  Mark chooses Jonathan Glazer’s visionary UNDER THE SKIN with Scarlett Johansson as a man-hunting alien. Paul selects Jeff Nichols’ drama MUD with Matthew McConaughey as a drifter seeking to reconnect with the longtime love of his life. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ ALADDIN clips courtesy Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures UNDER THE SKIN clip courtesy A24 MUD clip courtesy Lionsgate Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded May 26, 2019.