11/09/2018

Today’s movie is “The Holiday Calendar” (2018), the Netflix Original holiday film directed by Bradley Walsh and written for the screen by Amyn Kaderali and Carrie Freedle. The film follows Abby Sutton (Kat Graham), who is given an antique advent calendar while preparing for the holidays, which also appears to predict the future. Now as she marks each day, she wonders what her future has in store for her, even as her life falls apart this holiday season. Spoilers ahead. Podcast:

11/08/2018

Today’s movie is “They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead” (2018), the Netflix Original documentary directed by Morgan Neville. The documentary follows the last fifteen years of Orson Welles’ life, when his star in Hollywood had waned, and he placed his hopes of a comeback on a film entitled “The Other Side of Wind”, financed as he could afford it, and left unviewed in a film vault for years. It also covers the recent restoration of the film, and a larger look at Welles in the history of film-making.

11/07/2018

Today’s movie is “Gun City” (2018), the Netflix Original historical thriller directed by Dani de la Torre Alvaredo, and written for the screen by Patxi Amézcua. The film follows the mysterious Aníbal Uriarte (Luis Tosar), a Basque member of the Information Brigade sent to discover who robbed a train transporting military weapons. His search will take him though the worlds of corrupt investigators, corporate control, human trafficking, and the anarchist resistance, where he’ll meet Sara Ortiz