Previously: We gushed about coming of age stories.
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Sweeney: One of the great tricks of this podcast thing has been guessing what things are going to be culturally relevant far enough in advance to put them on the podcast schedule. But once the first trailers started making the rounds for the Men In Black reboot/spinoff/whatever starring Tessa Thompson and Chris Hemsworth, we knew we were going to record an episode on it.
Much to the internet’s surprise and disappointment, early reviews were…not great. But we decided we were going to make up our minds and so we saw it anyway and wound up having a conversation that was half about this movie and half about reviews. The unofficial title of this episode is “Tessa & Chris, and Aggressively Fine Movies”
Joining us on this chat is our smart, thoughtful friend Kat O’Keefe whose bookish thoughts you can find on her YouTube channel and on Twitter.
Find out what we had to say about this movie and reviews more broadly:
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As always, thank you to Stefan Chin for our delightful theme music.
For those of you watching and reading along, here is our planned upcoming media in the order they’ll be released: The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness, Spider-Man: Far From Home, The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman, The Americans, and Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw.