Low Key

Fresh is about meeting the perfect guy after terrible first dates and horrible run-ins with weirdos on dating apps. Saying more would ruin the experience.Check it out if you haven't already and the join us for a discussion about one of the great early surprises of 2022.Fresh is available now at Hulu (watch here).After watching the film, check out the spoiler-filled interview by Movie Maker with Fresh director Mimi Cave. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week on the Low Key podcast, Aaron Lanton and Keith Dennie are joined by guest extraordinaire Sam (Sam Said It and The Game Raven Review podcasts) to talk about what makes The Batman a worthy successor, the satisfaction of watching the hero make mistakes in his second year, and where this movie ranks all-time among Batman films. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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We take a look at HBO Max's newest film straight to streaming Kimi, now known as agoraphobics' favorite movie of all-time. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We review the Kristen Bell parody thriller The Woman Across the Street From the Girl in the Window, a Netflix series so good we start talking about a bunch of other movies we can barely remember the names of. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Spoilers abound as we discuss Jane Campion's masterful Western/Hitchcockian thriller The Power of the Dog. It's the rare movie that turns out at the end to be a completely different movie — and even in a completely different genre — than we thought at the beginning. We explore questions like: —who or what "the dog" of the title is—performative masculinity—whether there's a bad guy—Peter's sexuality—whether Rose was ever good at pianoWe hope you enjoy listening this conversation as much as we enjoyed having it. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Don't Look Up is a divisive movie, and your hosts are appropriately divided. Keith found parts of it funny but overall found it all too unbelievable, while Aaron and Tim embrace the absurd — or is it? — metaphor at the center of the film. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

8-Bit Christmas features Neil Patrick Harris as a modern-day dad telling his daughter the very '80s story of his quest for a Nintendo. It's packed with knowing '80s references like the Cabbage Patch Kid crisis and deep cuts like the infamous Billy Ripken "f--- face" card, and owes obvious debts to the '80s classics A Christmas Story and The Princess Bride. Tim, a child of the '80s, and Keith and Aaron, children of the '90s, have different levels of enthusiasm for the HBO Max film: Keith finally asks Tim: Are you maybe a little too close to this material? But this is a fun conversation that veers merrily into why dads don't build treehouses anymore, the best dumb Christmas movies, and, of course, true meaning of the holidays. Merry Christmas, f--- face. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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In by far our favorite episode, we take a break from talking about movies other people made and talk about "The Moment" — a thoughtful and moving romance written and directed by your very own Low Key co-host, Keith Dennie! Joining us is "The Moment" producer Charles W. Bush, who helped bring the film to life. Charles and Keith talk about every element of the film, from Keith's grounded, emotional script to a mini-crisis caused by a theft at a key point in the production — and how "The Moment" team worked together to bring the film to the screen. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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The newish Netflix action film Kate stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead as an assassin in Japan, working for a mentor played by Woody Harrelson. It's full of tropes — the last job, the assassin who bonds with a young woman — but they worked for us. It's got bright lights, rampant anime influences, and great music. We just wish there was a little less backstory and a little more of Kate fighting Yakuza henchmen. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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We start this episode by talking about why we love Disney+'s What If, which scrambles and tweaks our favorite Marvel stories to imagine how they might have gone a little differently. The, inspired by What If, we think about the many directions into which the MCU could go — how will the X-Men come into play? What's up with the Spideyverse? And which of our predictions have come true so far?Then Tim makes his silly case for why Tom Cruise should play Wolverine. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This episode: Paper Tigers! Featuring very special guest Sam from the Sam Said It podcast. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

James Gunn's The Suicide Squad doesn't give its characters much plot armor — that enchanted substance, created by corporations and screenwriters, that protects bankable characters from dying, no matter what.Will Bloodsport (Idris Elba) make it through the mission alive? Will Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie)? Rick Flagg (Joel Kinnamon)? Nothing is guaranteed, and it's no spoiler to say some of the characters we like most don't make it out of The Suicide Squad alive. Spoiler alert: The movie's called The Suicide Squad.We talk about how the scarcity of plot armor makes The Suicide Squad far more compelling than most comic-book movies — as well as the state of DC movies in general. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Jean-Claude Van Damme stars in The Last Mercenary, a new Netflix French film about a master-of-disguise mercenary named The Mist (Van Damme) who comes out of hiding when a bureaucratic error threatens the safety of his long-lost son. There's also a race to keep something called The Big Mac from falling into the wrong hands. But it's so much more needlessly complicated than that.The Last Mercenary makes you ask all the wrong questions you should be asking during an action movie, including: Could I beat up all these characters? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

A bold decision by Kevin Smith in the new Netflix series Masters of the Universe: Revelations has angered some fans of the original He-Man and the Masters of the Universe. We talk about how the decision actually solves a big problem with He-Man — and share a personal theory about why Adam has been less than honest with Teela for the last 40 years or so.There are also lots of '80s and '90s-focused side discussions this episode about Sonic the Hedgehog, Sailor Moon, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and everyone's favorite Saturday morning cartoon, Shirt Tails. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.