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Support BLM: https://blacklivesmatteresources.carrd.co/ Jueun and Beata discuss two psychological thrillers, Sleuth and Deathtrap. As always, there will be spoilers. Sleuth is a mystery that finds Andrew Wyke (Laurence Olivier), a wealthy author of detective novels and game aficionado, facing off against his wife's lover, Milo Tindle (Michael Caine), a middle-class hair salon-owner. When Wyke, who is seemingly content to split from his wife strikes an unusual deal with Tindle, it sets into motion a fierce game of one-upmanship between the two, with the stakes growing increasingly higher. Deathtrap follows once-successful playwright Sidney Bruhl (Michael Caine). After he sees his latest Broadway effort bomb on its opening night, he tumbles into despair -- until he receives a package from his former student Clifford Anderson (Christopher Reeve). Inside is an unproduced script that's better than anything Sidney has written in years. At the urging of his wife, Myra (Dyan Cannon), Sidney undertakes a plan to lure Clifford to his country home, murder him and then announce the script as his own work. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ranting-bobatea/support
Support BLM: https://blacklivesmatteresources.carrd.co/ Prince of Darkness is a 1987 American supernatural horror film directed, written and scored by John Carpenter. Starring Donald Pleasence, Victor Wong, Jameson Parker and Lisa Blount, the film is the second installment in what Carpenter calls his "Apocalypse Trilogy", which began with The Thing (1982) and concludes with In the Mouth of Madness (1994). --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ranting-bobatea/support
Recap and discussion of the ep. 1-2 of Psycho-Pass Season One. Sources mentioned; https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interview/2014-09-17/gen-urobuchi/.78542 https://liveatpc.com/delving-deep/ "Stylistic Crossings: Cyberpunk Impulses in Anime" by Jane Chi Hyun Park (available on JSTOR) https://the-artifice.com/psycho-pass-the-ethics-of-an-ideal-society/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ranting-bobatea/support
Jueun and Beata talk about Alice Pung's Laurinda, a YA book that follows the only Asian girl in an Australian elite girls' school. We talk about the flaws of Pung's storytelling, what we liked about it, racism and classism, and read the funniest moments in the novel. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ranting-bobatea/support
Beata recaps ep. 3 and 4 of March Comes in Like a Lion. She talks about the parallels between Rei and Nikaidou and does a quick recap for ep. 4. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ranting-bobatea/support
Beata recaps ep 1-2 of March Comes in Like a Lion and talks about its personal significance, visual imagery, and thematic elements. Warning: there are some spoilers for later episodes. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ranting-bobatea/support
Jueun and Beata give their fond thoughts on Haikyuu!!, Kuroko no Basuke, Ping Pong the Animation. As well as their less fond thoughts on Free and Yuri on Ice!! Apologies: "Rafiki" is a Kenyan film. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ranting-bobatea/support
We discuss Disney and how we felt as kids and how we feel now about films like Mulan, Moana, Coco, and Zootopia. Let's ruin our childhood. Apologies for the messed up audio in the latter half of the podcast. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ranting-bobatea/support
Jueun and Beata discuss One Punch Man, My Hero Academia, general Marvel including Deadpool 2 and some actor news, and the general state of Hollywood and "progress" --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ranting-bobatea/support