Abc Movies

This week, we're looking at two late-period Nic Cage masterpieces: Pig (2021) and Joe (2013)

Two movies about the delusions and danger social media exposes us to, and compels us to submit ourselves to: Zola (2021) and Ingrid Goes West (2017).

This week, we're looking at two very different takes on musicals about life in the city: In the Heights (2021) and The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964). 

This week, two buddy road films that subvert the genre in some ways and ... not others. It's Plan B (2021) and Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (2004). 

This week, we're **back in theaters**! Madness. And we're talking two extremely lighthearted films (lol), 2021's The Killing of Two Lovers and 2011's A Separation. 

This week, we're looking at two movies about the quest for musical perfection: new Indian Marathi-language film The Disciple (2020, now on Netflix in the US) and the Coen brothers' Inside Llewyn Davis (2013). 

Happy belated 420! This week, we're talking about two stoner action movies (or at least one): Nobody (starring Bob Odenkirk, 2021) and Mandy (starring Nicholas Cage, 2018).  

This week, it's two small British films that unexpectedly took the Oscars by storm: The Father (2020) and Philomena (2013).

This week, we're deep in the Pikeaverse. It's two movies starring Rosamund Pike: I Care a Lot and A Private War.

This week, it's two movies that just became Oscar-nominated-films: Minari and Judas and the Black Messiah. It's another of our signature awards season catchup episodes! 

This week, it's two films about semi-rejecting American capitalism for a life on the road: fresh Golden Globe winner Nomadland (Chloé Zhao, 2021) and Lost in America (Albert Brooks, 1985).

This week, it's two of the many, many films about drinking. First, it's the lovely new full-bodied Danish film Another Round (2020), paired with an insouciant little indie, Smashed (2012). 

This week, we're talking two movies looking at long-term friendship: The Climb (2020) and Romi and Michelle's High School Reunion (1997). It's good! 

This week, we look at two surprisingly similar stories born from the #MeToo movement: 2020's Promising Young Woman and 2019's Bombshell. 

This week, we look back at some of the truly great films released in this truly awful year. Plus: Caleb finally agrees to talk about I'm Thinking of Ending Things!

This week, it's two slice of life films about the UK, (at least partially) dealing with the Black experience there. It's Steve McQueen's Lovers Rock (2020) and Mike Leigh's Secrets and Lies (1996). 

This week! It's two movies starring the avatar of upper-middle-class anxiety, Jude Law: The Nest (2020) and I Heart Huckabees (2004). 

This week, two movies about families of scammers fooling others and learning about themselves. It's Kajillionaire (2020, Miranda July) and Paper Moon (1973, Peter Bogdanovich). 

This week, we talk two new streaming docs, Time and Dick Johnson is Dead, and about the whole idea that suddenly documentaries are huge! 

This week, it's two movies about the compromises we seem to have to make to get our creative projects made. It's 2020's Sundance Best Director winner The 40-Year-Old Version (directed by Radha Blank) and 1989's The Big Picture (directed by Christopher Guest).