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Joe Hall and Cheryl Quimba watch movies then say things about those movies. They have strong feelings about Todd Haynes, Korean horror, class warfare, and how not to make a twenty-first century rom com. They're basically Siskel and Ebert, but with nothing to lose.

Cheryl Quimba and Joe Hall


    • May 26, 2025 LATEST EPISODE
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    Episode 126 – Sinners (2025)

    Play Episode Listen Later May 26, 2025 43:32


    Sinners is a blood-soaked, music-drenched, powerful and mystifying horror-thriller. And there are two Michael B. Jordans! Two!!

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    Episode 125 – I Saw The TV Glow (2024)

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 21, 2025 47:36


    I know this might sound crazy. I don't want to alarm you. Do you remember a TV show we used to watch together? It was called ... The Pink Opaque.

    Bonus Episode Unlocked: Micky 19 (Micky 17 Reconsidered)

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 15, 2025 22:38


    We got feedback. We reconsidered. That's how we do.

    Episode 124 – Severance Season 2 (2025)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 22, 2025 54:34


    We finished the Cold Harbor file. Please enter the room.

    Episode 123 – Mickey 17 (2025)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 17, 2025 39:16


    Our feelings about this one: mixed. Our love for Bong Joon Ho: eternal. Also, we have a Patreon! It's fun over there. Check out patreon.com/twoforspacejamplease to see how to access bonus content and get ahold of a thing we made that's real and physical and can be held in your actual hands.

    Episode 122 – Scavengers Reign (2023)

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 10, 2025 64:12


    Tip of the day: If you find yourself stranded on a strange and mysterious planet, be very careful with any and all goo.

    Episode 121 – Red Rocket (2021)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 20, 2025 57:58


    It’s 2016 and the U.S. is one big washed-up porn star. Happy new year. Also, we have a Patreon! It’s fun over there. Check out patreon.com/twoforspacejamplease to see how to access bonus content and get ahold of a thing we made that’s real and physical and can be held in your actual hands. Thanks to slfhlp for … Continue reading "Episode 121 – Red Rocket (2021)"

    Episode 120 – Megalopolis (2024)

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 23, 2024 56:36


    Oh, Francis Ford Coppola. If only you could have failed better.

    Episode 119 – Kneecap (2024)

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 2, 2024 37:38


    Brits amach! (Brits out!)

    Episode 118 – Anora (2024)

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 11, 2024


    So. Much. Yelling. In. Russian. We watched Sean Baker's heartrending, tragi-comic new film and then dug into the class conflict / representations of sex work / weaponized wealth of it all.

    Episode 117 – Neptune Frost

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 23, 2024


    Neptune Frost is an Afrofuturist fever dream, replete with otherworldly poetry, song, color, drums, wise birds, wheel men, mystical hackers, dancing miners, and a technological/earthly joy. And we're so glad we watched it.

    Episode 116 – Thelma (2024)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 26, 2024


    Join us as we meet Thelma, 93, adorable grandma and certified badass. It's the action comedy we never knew we needed. Also, we have a Patreon! It's fun over there. Check out patreon.com/twoforspacejamplease to see how to access bonus content and get ahold of a thing we made that's real and physical and can be held in your actual hands.

    Episode 115 – How To Blow Up a Pipeline (2022)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 29, 2024


    What counts as justified, rational action in a lethally warming world? Inquiring minds want to know.

    Episode 114 – Janet Planet (2024)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 8, 2024


    A review of Janet Planet calls it "not a movie to be explained," and so this episode is more of the pondering/wandering variety. It's summer. We're here for it.

    Episode 113 – The Running Man

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 24, 2024


    Cheryl's still working on her treatise, "A Unified Theory of Action Movies and Why They're Her Problematic Fave," but we get into some of its broader points after watching this adrenaline-fueled Arnold Schwarzenegger vehicle.

    Episode 112 – Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

    Play Episode Listen Later May 27, 2024


    Cheryl is seriously considering shaving her head. #TheMadMaxCinematicUniverse #ImperatorFuriosa #girlboss

    Episode 111 – The Iron Claw (2023)

    Play Episode Listen Later May 20, 2024 52:50


    Muscles, muscles everywhere. In The Iron Claw, pro wrestling is the stuff of melodrama and inconceivable tragedy. Join us in the ring.

    Episode 110 – Civil War (2024)

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 15, 2024 55:02


    Wooboy. Buckle up, folks. This ain't going to be pretty.

    Episode 109 – 3-Iron (2004)

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 1, 2024 58:50


    It started with a student story about phrogging. It ended with us watching a 20-year-old Korean movie that had us reflecting on class, small appliance repair, and the utter beauty of not talking.

    Episode 108 – Dune: Part Two (2024)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 18, 2024 48:09


    Dune: Part Two was a Dud: Part Two. We have our reasons.

    Episode 107 – The Zone of Interest (2023)

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 26, 2024 63:08


    This was (obviously) a heavy conversation. We covered the banality of evil, the ways we remember atrocity, familial protectionism, gradations of complicity, small acts of resistance, and the practice of viewing present-day horrors through the lens of future generations. It's a lot. We muddle through, together.

    Episode 106 – Anatomy of a Fall (2023)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 1, 2024 62:04


    The chilly, cerebral courtroom thriller Anatomy of a Fall dares to ask -- Is marriage itself a complex exercise in litigation? (Follow-up question: Does blasting a 50 Cent song at eardrum-blasting volumes justify murder??)

    Episode 105 – Please Baby Please (2022)

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 18, 2023 43:38


    Are kitchen appliances sexy? What does bisexual lighting mean in 2023? We're asking the tough questions, folks. Our instigator - Please Baby Please, a movie so campy it should come with its own three-person tent.

    Episode 104 – May December

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 4, 2023 55:23


    In the first minute of this episode, Joe called May December "a banger." Let me be clear - this movie is not "a banger." But it made us feel weird and unsettled and disturbed and maybe that's ... good ...?

    Episode 103 – Israelism (2023)

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 24, 2023 65:38


    We returned after a few months of...stuff...to talk about the 2023 documentary Israelism.

    Episode 102 – Aniara (2018)

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 4, 2023 41:34


    It's time for a movie adapted from a long sci-fi poem written as a critical response to the United States' bombing of Hiroshima. Aniara means despair.

    Episode 101 – Barbie (2023)

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 7, 2023 58:14


    Get in, losers. We're going to Barbie Land.

    Episode 100 – Oppenheimer (2023)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 24, 2023 63:46


    We didn’t expressly set out to do it, but we took a stance on Barbenheimer and watched Oppenheimer first. We had sooooo many things to say about this movie about a war criminal feeling bad for his crimes (bomb-and-cry). It was late but we were jazzed to talk about war movies, anti-war movies, and what … Continue reading "Episode 100 – Oppenheimer (2023)"

    Episode 99 – The Blackening (2023)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 20, 2023 46:02


    We're back and we watched The Blackening and had a lot of fun talking about why this horror-comedy / comedy-horror worked. Turns out -- you need good writing and good performances to make a good movie. Easy. Also, Joe reveals a secret! As always, spoilers abound.

    Episode 98 – Leonor Will Never Die (2022)

    Play Episode Listen Later May 15, 2023 47:24


    We get real loopy talking about the zany Filipino meta-action movie, Leonor Will Never Die, and somehow get on a tangent about our love for Star Trek because, well, the heart wants what it wants. Thanks to slfhlp for providing us some SICK BEATS for our intro and outro. Get in touch with Joe & Cheryl at … Continue reading "Episode 98 – Leonor Will Never Die (2022)"

    Episode 97 – Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 10, 2023 36:31


    Roll for initiative and grab your arcane spells — we watched Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, and we got all chaotic neutral with it. Thanks to slfhlp for providing us some SICK BEATS for our intro and outro. Get in touch with Joe & Cheryl at twoforspacejamplease @ gmail.com and subscribe on iTunes or Spotify.

    Episode 96 – The Last of Us Season 1 (2023)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 21, 2023 66:18


    The Last of Us made us angry. Do with that what you will.

    Episode 95 – White Noise (2022)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 6, 2023 59:28


    It's 1984 but it's also 2023 and we're afraid of dying and fumbling our way to survival and it's goofy and tender with an airborne toxic event still keeping us up at night.

    Episode 94 – The Triangle of Sadness (2022)

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 13, 2023 71:07


    After a looooong hiatus, we're (finally!) back. And we missed you. We watched Triangle of Sadness, one of the more recent iterations of the increasingly popular eat-the-rich theme, and talked all about representations of class struggle, villianizing billionaires, and the kinds of dismantling capitalism stories we wish were being made. 

    Episode 93 – The Menu (2022)

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 28, 2022 69:28


    We brought our appetites for the absurdist dark comedy that is The Menu - and we left satisfied!

    Episode 92 – The Banshees of Inisherin

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 14, 2022 52:47


    The Banshees of Inisherin asks of its audience - how many fingers would you cut off to get your former best friend to leave you alone??

    Episode 91 – Barbarian (2022)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 31, 2022 50:06


    Join us for a brief stay at probably the worst Airbnb experience of all time. We grit our teeth (and sometimes closed our eyes) and watched Barbarian!

    Episode 90 – Vesper (2022)

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 3, 2022 34:40


    Vesper is viscous, gooey, slipshod, and visceral. Ferny plants shoot lethal, glowing pink darts that burrow into you and turn into insects. Scavenging pilgrims build rubbish towers high into the sky. A floating orb holds the consciousness of a bedridden man, and a 13-year-old girl plays with plants to have some shot at survival. Yes, we enjoyed this one

    Episode 89 – Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022)

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 12, 2022 32:19


    Our biggest piece of advice if you're planning a hurricane party with your friends in a mansion for the weekend - Put. Away. The swords. We watched Bodies Bodies Bodies and talked about funny horror and killer parlor games. And also - what are people in their twenties like again??

    Episode 88 – The Rehearsal (2022)

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 5, 2022 50:30


    Nathan Fielder's The Rehearsal is bizarre, uncomfortable, emotional, surprising, and deeply, deeply weird. This show was HBO being cool with spending millions to let a guy confront his anxiety through helping others confront their own anxieties - which is ok by us!

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    Episode 87 – The Gray Man (2022)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 25, 2022 38:44


    This week we're coming at you from our neighbor to the north - Canada! We watched The Gray Man, starring Ryan Gosling (a Canadian!) as a CIA assassin named Six who learned a little too much about his employer and so is on the run in a cat and mouse chase across Europe. The movie was wildly expensive to produce and is wildly mediocre. Do better, Netflix.

    Episode 86 – Elvis (2022)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 5, 2022 64:00


    Special episode alert! We've got two guests joining us -- New York State Assemblymember Jon Rivera, and Ethan Powers -- to review Baz Luhrmann's Elvis. We laugh, we cry, we disagree, we spend an inordinate amount of time trying to figure out what's going on with Tom Hanks. Are you lonesome tonight?? Well, come join us! sorry :(

    Episode 85 – Clockwatchers (1997)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 20, 2022 54:40


    It's 1997 and our queens Parker Posey, Toni Collete, and Lisa Kudrow are at the height of their powers playing temps trying to survive in a mind-numbing cubicle hellscape. Clockwatchers, another entry in our ongoing series on labor movies, feels prescient in its representation of disposable workers that sadly still holds true today. Bonus: we reminisce about a few of our own past jobs! There's some, uh, pallet smashing.

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    Episode 84 – The Bob’s Burgers Movie (is Not Maverick)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 6, 2022 32:01


    For this episode we joined the Bob's Burgers crew in their quest to pay one month of their business loan payment and solve a grisly murder. It's sweet and gross and comforting and touching. The Belchers - they're just like us!

    Episode 83 – The Sleep Dealer (2008)

    Play Episode Listen Later May 30, 2022 38:19


    In Alex Rivera's 2008 sci-fi drama Sleep Dealer, people are plugged into a global computer network via nodes on their bodies, work involves controlling your robot avatar in another country, and memories are sold to pay back student loans. It's the near future!!

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    Episode 82 – The Humans (2021)

    Play Episode Listen Later May 18, 2022 39:03


    Hey, it's Joe. I'm not used to writing these episode recaps and, well, we watched the 2021 movie The Humans (based on the 2015 play) and it was, uh, full of sad but also enduring humans.

    Episode 81 – Severance (2022)

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 25, 2022 57:10


    Once you get us started, we can talk about work until the cows come home, or until it's 5 o'clock and time to ride the brain-blending elevator down to the floor where you get to be a human again. We talk Kafka, fluorescent lighting, bad design, worker solidarity, personal sh*t, and waffle parties. It's Severance time, baby.

    Episode 80 – Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022)

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 11, 2022 37:46


    In Everything Everywhere All at Once, we get a bedraggled, fed up, middle aged, Chinese immigrant wife and mom as our protagonist (played by the incomparable Michelle Yeoh), and she gets to kick actual ass as she tears through an IRS building while being audited. So yeah, we liked it.

    Episode 79 – Drive My Car (2021)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 21, 2022 51:28


    Ryusuke Hamaguchi's Drive My Car is a quiet, slow moving, tender movie that rewards patience and an attentive regard for the smallest moments. We digress at times during our conversation (as always), so get ready to hear our thoughts on the craft of fiction, finite friendships, and suffering, oh, suffering.

    Episode 78 – The Batman (2022)

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2022 38:08


    In this house, we stan Robert Pattinson. Even when (especially when) he plays an angsty, brooding, eyeliner-wearing, journal-writing Bruce Wayne who probably listens to The Cure.

    Episode 77 – Kimi (2022)

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 28, 2022 35:00


    Sometimes you're in the mood for a movie that's good-bad. Kimi is good-bad, with a shockingly simple storyline that has three bad guys killed by a nail gun at the end. What more could you want?

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