Patlabor 2: The Movie
Man with a Movie Camera / Grizzly Man
The End of the Affair
Fiddler on the Roof
Sweet and Lowdown
Nightcrawler
The Matrix / I Saw the TV Glow
Happy Together / Fight Club
Cabaret / Beau Travail
This week's Rick's Pick is Patlabor 2: The Movie (1993) directed by Mamoru Oshii! After some Odyssey talk, we dive into this movie's sophisticated premise, inconsistent animation, and colonial criticism. Plus: Bankruptcy makes his podcasting debut in a big way.
This week's Puliter Prize-winning episode is a Two Reeler! We discuss Rick's Pick, Man with a Movie Camera (1929) directed by Dziga Vertov, and the long-awaited Lane's Frame Grizzly Man (2005) directed by Werner Herzog. One of our gentler episodes, despite the runtime! We needed to recover our dignity and minds after last week's shenanigans.
This week's Lane's Frame (or is it?) is The End of the Affair (1999) directed by Neil Jordan. This episode is a weird one for reasons that become clear quickly.
This week's Rick's Pick is Fiddler on the Roof (1971) directed by Norman Jewison! We digress for quite a bit about Obsession (again...) and the current era of horror (AGAIN!) in relation to the movie musical before segueing into a discussion about this movie's interesting characters, uneven tone, and showstopping songs.
This week's Lane's Frame is Sweet and Lowdown (1999) directed by Woody Allen! Our discussion about this movie is quite brief because it is slight and frothy. But sometimes that's good too, right?
This week's Rick's Pick is Nightcrawler (2014) directed by Dan Gilroy! The spiritual successor to Se7en mayhaps? We talk about Gyllenhaal's star quality, the comparison of this movie to Taxi Driver or Network, and the datedness of its anti-journalism themes. We also digress about video games for like 15 minutes, because we have to do that monthly.
Our last two Pride Pics of 2026 are The Matrix (1999) directed by The Wachowski Sisters and I Saw the TV Glow (2024) directed by Jane Schoenbrun! Is transness about unplugging or plugging in? Why can't Ricky do the Agent Smith voice? Should Anthems for a Seventeen Year‐Old Girl be in every movie? All that and more on this long-ass episode!
Our Pride Pics continue with Happy Together (1997) directed by Wong Kar-Wai and Fight Club (1999) directed by David Fincher. With Happy Together, we talk about our trouble connecting with the characters and story and the bury your gays trope; with Fight Club, we somehow talk about everything except the movie for 90 minutes? Weird episode!
Life is a cabaret! Or is it? Our Pride Pics continue this week with two bangers: musical drama Cabaret (1972) directed by Bob Fosse and psychological drama Beau Travail (1999) directed by Claire Denis. Eso son Reebok o son Nike?
Happy Pride Month Watchers!! This week's pride pics were Ed Wood (1994) directed by Tim Burton and Being John Malkovich (1999) directed by Spike Jonze. Identity issues galore! Is the human experience inherently lonely or is that specific to men? Fetishes! Being Jesse Plemons? Is this anything? Plus: a not-so-brief intro about Curry Barker's Obsession!