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John David Washington tries to bring an end to a war being waged on those in the present by people in the future in Christopher Nolan’s TENET. In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer selects Palestinian filmmaker Elia Suleiman’s four features (CHRONICLE OF A DISAPPEARANCE, DIVINE INTERVENTION, THE TIME THAT REMAINS, and IT MUST BE HEAVEN) and Columbus, Indiana's architecture and tours, as seen in Kogonada’s drama COLUMBUS. Paul Markoff picks director Michael Showalter’s romantic comedy THE BIG SICK starring and co-written by Kumail Nanjiani. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ TENET clip courtesy Warner Bros. THE BIG SICK clip courtesy Lionsgate Home Entertainment Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded October 11, 2021.

After an accident, a jazz pianist desperately wants his situation to return to normal so he can enjoy the big career break he’s finally received in Pete Docter and Kemp Powers’ animated film SOUL. Also, a girl builds her own rocket ship and sets sail for a lunar landing in Glen Keane and John Kahrs' animated musical OVER THE MOON. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ SOUL clip courtesy Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures OVER THE MOON clip courtesy Netflix Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded December 14, 2020.

On this special holiday episode, a teenage boy receives an unusual creature as a Christmas gift. In director Joe Dante’s 1984 horror-comedy GREMLINS, chaos ensues in a small town when the rules for caring for the Mogwai are violated.   Also, Mark Pfeiffer and Paul Markoff look back at their film-related wishes for 2020 and share those they hope might be granted this season and in 2021. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ GREMLINS clip courtesy Warner Home Video Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded December 14, 2020.

On this themed episode, Mark Pfeiffer and Paul Markoff look at two movies exploring the nature of filming realism for mass entertainment. Jim Carrey stars as a man unaware that his known reality has been built around and is the subject of a long-running and popular television series in director Peter Weir’s THE TRUMAN SHOW.  Also, Albert Brooks plays himself as an acclaim-seeking filmmaker trying to document the day-to-day ins and outs of a regular American family in his 1979 comedy REAL LIFE. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ THE TRUMAN SHOW and REAL LIFE clips courtesy Paramount Pictures Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded August 31, 2020.

Starring Ethan Hawke as the famous inventor, writer-director Michael Almereyda’s experimental biopic TESLA covers about twenty years of Nikola Tesla’s time in the United States, from working for Thomas Edison in 1884 to his J.P. Morgan-funded experiments in Colorado Springs in the early 1900s.  In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer selects the Martin Scorsese short film compilation Blu-ray set SCORSESE SHORTS. Paul Markoff picks Cameron Crowe’s family drama WE BOUGHT A ZOO. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ TESLA clip courtesy IFC Films WE BOUGHT A ZOO clip courtesy Twentieth Century Fox Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded August 31, 2020.

Charlize Theron leads a team of immortals trying to fight the good fight and find a new, emerging one of their kind without detection by those who might exploit them in director Gina Prince-Bythewood’s THE OLD GUARD. Mark Pfeiffer and Paul Markoff also discuss how they they’re feeling about not going to movie theaters during the pandemic and what the future may hold for the theatrical experience. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ THE OLD GUARD clip courtesy Netflix Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded July 20, 2020.

Will Ferrell and Rachel McAdams are Iceland’s best and most unlikely hope for international musical glory in director David Dobkin’s comedy EUROVISION SONG CONTEST: THE STORY OF FIRE SAGA. In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer selects Errol Morris’ documentary about Sunshine State eccentrics in VERNON, FLORIDA. Paul Markoff picks 10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU, a teen romantic comedy twist on Shakespeare’s THE TAMING OF THE SHREW. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ EUROVISION SONG CONTEST: THE STORY OF FIRE SAGA clips courtesy Netflix VERNON, FLORIDA clip courtesy The Criterion Collection 10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU clip courtesy Buena Vista Home Entertainment Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded July 20, 2020.

Four Vietnam veterans, including Delroy Lindo and Isiah Whitlock Jr., reunite in Ho Chi Minh City in search of the remains of their leader, played by Chadwick Boseman, and the gold bars they hid decades ago in Spike Lee’s DA 5 BLOODS. Also, Mark Pfeiffer and Paul Markoff speculate on the actors and actresses from the 1980s to present day who future generations may come to view as defining stars of their times. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ DA 5 BLOODS clip courtesy Netflix Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded June 15, 2020.

In Michael Showalter’s romantic comedy THE LOVEBIRDS Kumail Nanjiani and Issa Rae star as a longtime couple on the verge of breaking up when they get mixed up in a murder and citywide conspiracy that compels them to run around New Orleans looking for answers and to clear their names. In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer highlights the second season of the film-adapted TV series WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS. Paul Markoff picks the French romantic comedy PRICELESS (HORS DE PRIX) starring Audrey Tautou. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ THE LOVEBIRDS clip courtesy Netflix WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS clip courtesy FX Network Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded June 15, 2020.

High school senior Ellie accepts payments from second-string football player Paul to write love letters for him to popular girl Aster he has a crush on in THE HALF OF IT. Although their relationship starts out as just business, a friendship forms between them and is threatened when it becomes apparent that both are pining for Aster in writer-director Alice Wu’s twist on CYRANO DE BERGERAC. Mark Pfeiffer and Paul Markoff also discuss their histories with drive-in movie theaters, which have been rare places to see films in public during the pandemic. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ THE HALF OF IT clip courtesy Netflix Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded May 18, 2020.

In Andrew Patterson’s THE VAST OF NIGHT a 16-year-old switchboard operator and a young radio announcer in small-town New Mexico in the 1950s search for answers about the unidentified sound transmission she hears interrupting his broadcast. In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer picks David Wain’s romantic comedy spoof THEY CAME TOGETHER starring Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler. Paul Markoff chooses Nanette Burstein’s AMERICAN TEEN, a documentary about high school seniors in small-town Indiana. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ THE VAST OF NIGHT clip courtesy Amazon Studios THEY CAME TOGETHER clip courtesy Lionsgate  AMERICAN TEEN clip courtesy Paramount Vantage Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded May 18, 2020.

While director Jafar Panahi appeals his 20-year filmmaking ban and potential incarceration by the Iranian government, he uses the time under house arrest to begin staging what his most recent film would have been in THIS IS NOT A FILM (IN FILM NIST). Co-directed by Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, the 2011 non-fiction work expounds on the nature of a film and the life of an artist when continuing to create involves great personal risk. Also, Mark Pfeiffer and Paul Markoff discuss how the coronavirus pandemic is affecting their movie watching, what changes may be coming to movie theaters when they reopen, and how this could affect what we see and how we see it. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded April 27, 2020.

In John Lee Hancock’s fact-based, inspirational sports drama THE ROOKIE, Dennis Quaid stars as a high school science teacher and former pitching prospect who gets one last unexpected chance to become a Major League Baseball player. In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer selects Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck’s SUGAR, which observes the professional and personal challenges for a pitcher from the Dominican Republic as a minor leaguer in middle America. Paul Markoff picks Robert Zemeckis’ CAST AWAY featuring Tom Hanks stranded alone on an island. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ THE ROOKIE clip courtesy Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment SUGAR clip courtesy Sony Pictures Home Entertainment CAST AWAY clip courtesy 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded April 27, 2020.

It’s a 1984 double feature as Mark Pfeiffer and Paul Markoff look back at another adventure featuring Harrison Ford’s whip-wielding archaeologist in Steven Spielberg’s INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM and the story of a teenager whose arcade game skills get him recruited to be an elite interstellar war pilot in THE LAST STARFIGHTER. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM clip courtesy Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment THE LAST STARFIGHTER clip courtesy Universal Pictures Home Entertainment Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded April 13, 2020.

Elfin brothers voiced by Tom Holland and Chris Pratt embark on a quest to find a stone that will help them bring their deceased father back for a day in ONWARD.  In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer reports on the best films he saw at this year’s True/False Film Festival, including CITY SO REAL, DICK JOHNSON IS DEAD, MAYOR, and COLLECTIVE. Paul Markoff picks PITCH PERFECT, the a cappella competition comedy starring Anna Kendrick. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ ONWARD clips courtesy Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures PITCH PERFECT clip courtesy Universal Pictures Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded April 13, 2020.

In the stop-motion animated comedy A SHAUN THE SHEEP MOVIE: FARMAGEDDON, the woolly protagonist tries to help an alien return home while Farmer John turns his property into a extraterrestrial-themed tourist attraction for those fascinated by local rumors of outer space creatures being in the area. Also, Mark Pfeiffer and Paul Markoff discuss actors playing themselves on screen and what to make of such meta performances. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded February 22, 2020.

Lara Jean is now in a real relationship with Peter in TO ALL THE BOYS: P.S. I STILL LOVE YOU, but another boy who received one of her love letters responds positively and complicates matters. Michael Fimognari directs and Lana Condor and Noah Centineo star in the sequel to the teen romantic comedy TO ALL THE BOYS I’VE LOVED BEFORE. In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer picks Gus Van Sant’s meditative drama GERRY, in which Matt Damon and Casey Affleck get lost in the wilderness. Paul Markoff chooses Joe Wright’s HANNA starring Saoirse Ronan as a highly trained teenage assassin pursued by Cate Blanchett. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ TO ALL THE BOYS: P.S. I STILL LOVE YOU clip courtesy Netflix GERRY clip courtesy Shout! Factory HANNA clip courtesy Focus Features Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded February 22, 2020.

In Céline Sciamma’s PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE (PORTRAIT DE LA JEUNE FILLE EN FEU), Noémie Merlant is brought to an island in the late 1800s under the guise of being a companion for Adèle Haenel when she has really been hired to paint the young woman’s wedding portrait for which she refuses to sit. Also, Will Ferrell makes a split-second decision during a family ski vacation that exposes the fault lines in his marriage to Julia Louis-Dreyfus in DOWNHILL, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash’s FORCE MAJEURE remake. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ DOWNHILL clip courtesy Searchlight Pictures Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded February 22, 2020.

Mark Pfeiffer and Paul Markoff reveal the titles making their lists of the Best Films of 2019 in this special edition episode. They also discuss their favorite performances in last year’s films. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded January 18, 2020.

Two British soldiers in World War I are instructed to make a treacherous journey on foot to deliver a vital message to the 2nd Battalion in Sam Mendes' 1917, which is constructed to appear as though it unfolds in a single unbroken take. In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer picks Josh and Benny Safide’s short GOLDMAN V SILVERMAN featuring Adam Sandler. Paul Markoff selects the the stop-motion animated PARANORMAN about a boy who can speak with the dead. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ 1917 clip courtesy Universal Pictures PARANORMAN clip courtesy Focus Features Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded January 18, 2020.