Wake Up Dead Man, Train Dreams, Sentimental Value

About this episode

Jon and Will review three films including the latest Knives Out mystery and introduce a new game called Film Roulette.

Show Notes: 00:00:00 – Film Roulette : Jay Kelly, Wicked: For Good, Bugonia, One Battle After Another, The Perfect Neighbor, After the Hunt, If I Had Legs I'd Kick You, Eternity, Hamnet, Zootopia 2, Rental Family, Rebuilding, Peter Hujar's Day, Die My Love, Predator: Badlands , Avatar: Fire and Ash, The Baltimorons, The Testament of Ann Lee 00:23:25 – Review : Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery 00:44:25 – Review : Train Dreams 01:04:40 – Review: Sentimental Value This week, Jon and Will review  Wake Up Dead Man , the newest "Knives Out" mystery from Rian Johnson. They also take a look at Train Dreams , directed by Cliff Bentley and starring Joel Edgerton and Felicity Jones. And then they finish out the show with a review of Sentimental Value , the latest from Joachim Trier and starring Renate Reinsve and Stellan Skarsgård. And that's not all. Because it's been quite some time since the Cinemaholics had a chance to talk film (sorry for the hiatus!) Jon introduced a brand new game called Film Roulette. Essentially we do a rapid-fire set of reactions to a whole bunch of movies that have either come out recently or are in the awards conversation…

People in this episode

Hosts: Jon, Will

Topics covered

• film reviews
• Knives Out
• Train Dreams
• Sentimental Value
• Film Roulette
• movie discussions

Keywords

• Wake Up Dead Man
• Train Dreams
• Sentimental Value
• film reviews
• Rian Johnson
• Cliff Bentley
• Joachim Trier

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, Train Dreams, Sentimental Value

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