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LITTLE WOMEN writer-director Greta Gerwig brings a new version of Louisa May Alcott’s story about the March sisters to the screen with a cast including Saoirse Ronan, Florence Pugh, Emma Watson, Laura Dern, Meryl Streep, and Timothée Chalamet. Also, Mark Pfeiffer and Paul Markoff discuss the 92nd annual Academy Award nominees in the major categories.  Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ LITTLE WOMEN clip courtesy Columbia Pictures Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded January 18, 2020.

STAR WARS: EPISODE IX - THE RISE OF SKYWALKER wraps the third trilogy in the saga with with the resistance, including Daisy Ridley’s Rey, hoping to bring final defeat to the First Order and the reemergence of Emperor Palpatine. In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer selects Ira Sachs’ FRANKIE starring Isabelle Huppert as a terminally ill actress trying to arrange the future happiness for her family. Paul Markoff picks James L. Brooks’ HOW DO YOU KNOW, a romantic comedy with Reese Witherspoon, Paul Rudd, and Owen Wilson. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ STAR WARS: EPISODE IX - THE RISE OF SKYWALKER clip courtesy Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures FRANKIE clip courtesy Sony Pictures Classics HOW DO YOU KNOW clip courtesy Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded December 23, 2019.

Adam Sandler is a New York City jeweler who obtains a rare black opal that could be the score of his life in Josh and Benny Safdie’s UNCUT GEMS. Ever the risk-lover, he places big bets on the stone and the NBA playoffs that could cost him everything. After the bombing at the 1996 Olympics, the security guard who saved lives by bringing the suspicious package to attention goes from hero to suspect in director Clint Eastwood’s RICHARD JEWELL. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ UNCUT GEMS clip courtesy A24 RICHARD JEWELL clip courtesy Warner Bros. Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded December 23, 2019.

Writer-director Noah Baumbach’s MARRIAGE STORY tracks Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson as a couple trying to end their relationship amicably but finding that goal much harder to achieve. In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer picks Todd Haynes’ legal thriller DARK WATERS with Mark Ruffalo taking on a chemical company. Paul Markoff chooses Glenn Ficarra and Jon Requa’s fact-based comedy I LOVE YOU PHILLIP MORRIS with Jim Carrey as a con man who finds the love of his life among his fellow inmates. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ MARRIAGE STORY clip courtesy Netflix DARK WATERS clip courtesy Focus Features I LOVE YOU PHILLIP MORRIS clip courtesy Lionsgate Home Entertainment Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded December 23, 2019.

The future of Arendelle is at risk, and the secret to saving it may require discovering the origin of Elsa’s powers in the Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee-directed FROZEN II. Also, Daniel Craig is a private investigator hired to solve who, if anyone, killed a wealthy mystery novelist when several family members and a caregiver stand to gain from his death in Rian Johnson’s KNIVES OUT. The star-studded cast include Jamie Lee Curtis, Don Johnson, Chris Evans, Michael Shannon, Toni Collette, Christopher Plummer, and Ana de Armas. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ FROZEN II clip courtesy Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures KNIVES OUT clip courtesy Lionsgate Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded December 23, 2019.

On this special holiday episode, Macaulay Culkin is an eight-year-old who is accidentally left behind when his family goes on a Christmas trip to Paris and must defend himself and the house from burglars played by Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern in HOME ALONE. Chris Columbus directed and John Hughes wrote this 1990 blockbuster family film. Also, Mark Pfeiffer and Paul Markoff share the film-related wishes they hope might be granted this season and in the new year. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ HOME ALONE clips courtesy Twentieth Century Fox Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded December 23, 2019.

Robert De Niro looks back on a life working for the mob in Martin Scorsese’s decades-spanning crime drama THE IRISHMAN. Joe Pesci and Al Pacino also star in a film that reflects on the actors’ and director’s representations of gangsters in their work. Also, Mark Pfeiffer and Paul Markoff discuss Scorsese’s recent remarks about franchise films and what he considers cinema. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ THE IRISHMAN clip courtesy Netflix Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded November 8, 2019.

Eddie Murphy stars as the comedian Rudy Ray Moore, who polishes the filthy jokes the neighborhood derelicts tell into an act as a kung-fu fighting pimp character he wants to bring to the movies in director Craig Brewer’s DOLEMITE IS MY NAME  In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer makes a special selection. Paul Markoff picks Mike Leigh’s HAPPY-GO-LUCKY featuring a breakthrough Sally Hawkins performance. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ DOLEMITE IS MY NAME clip courtesy Netflix HAPPY-GO-LUCKY clip courtesy Miramax Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded November 8, 2019.

The unemployed Kims scheme for every family member to get lucrative jobs in the home of the wealthy Parks, but holding onto their cushy positions is tougher than expected in director/co-writer Bong Joon-Ho’s PARASITE (GISAENGCHUNG). Also, Mark Pfeiffer and Paul Markoff discuss the idea of filmmakers using actors’ likenesses to create new digital performances and what effects this technology may have in the future. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded November 8, 2019.

Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson occupy a lonely island in 1890s New England where they must keep the lantern lit for the ships at sea while wrestling to maintain their sanity in director and co-writer Robert Eggers’ THE LIGHTHOUSE. In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer picks SOUND & FURY, the short anime film accompanying the Sturgill Simpson album of the same name. Paul Markoff selects his favorite film of 2010, Christopher Nolan’s INCEPTION. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ THE LIGHTHOUSE clips courtesy A24 Sturgill Simpson's "Remember to Breathe" from SOUND & FURY courtesy Netflix and Elektra INCEPTION clip courtesy Warner Bros. Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded November 8, 2019.

Jennifer Connelly’s psychic ability to communicate with insects may help her find the serial killer claiming victims at and near her Swiss boarding school in Dario Argento’s 1985 horror mystery PHENOMENA.  Also, Mark Pfeiffer and Paul Markoff discuss the state of mainstream film comedies and if there are obstacles to them being made today.  Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ PHENOMENA clip courtesy Synapse Films Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded October 10, 2019.

The origin of one of Batman’s primary antagonists is dramatized in director Todd Phillips’ JOKER. Joaquin Phoenix stars as a mentally troubled clown and aspiring comedian who finds his identity by turning to nihilism and violent crime. In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer picks Mystery Science Theater 3000’s The Great Cheesy Movie Circus tour. Paul Markoff selects Henry Selick’s stop-motion animated CORALINE, which tells a story about a girl who discovers an alternate world behind the door in her new home. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ JOKER clip courtesy Warner Bros. CORALINE clip courtesy Focus Features Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded October 10, 2019.

U.S. Space Command believes catastrophic power surges are being sent to Earth by Tommy Lee Jones, who led a deep space mission that has gone silent for more than a decade, and Brad Pitt is his son, an unflappable astronaut who is asked to travel to the moon and then to Mars to try and establish communication with his long-absent father in director James Gray’s AD ASTRA. Also, Mark Pfeiffer and Paul Markoff discuss some of this decade’s defining movie-related moments. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ AD ASTRA clip courtesy 20th Century Fox Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded October 10, 2019.

Jillian Bell commits to get fit in more ways than one in Paul Downs Colaizzo’s comedy BRITTANY RUNS A MARATHON. Michaela Watkins, Lil Rel Howery, Micah Stock, and Utkarsh Ambudkar co-star. In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer enjoys DOWNTON ABBEY's transition from TV to the cinema. Paul Markoff hunkers down with Drew Goddard’s satirical horror film THE CABIN IN THE WOODS. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ BRITTANY RUNS A MARATHON clips courtesy Amazon Studios DOWNTON ABBEY clip courtesy Focus Features THE CABIN IN THE WOODS clip courtesy Lionsgate Home Entertainment Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded September 22, 2019.

In writer-director Lorene Scafaria’s HUSTLERS Jennifer Lopez and Constance Wu lead a team of strippers who weather the 2008 financial crisis by scamming money from Wall Street men with high credit limits and desires to party. Julia Stiles, Keke Palmer, and Lili Reinhart also star. Also, Mark Pfeiffer and Paul Markoff discuss whether being scary is an essential quality for a horror movie. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ HUSTLERS clip courtesy STX Entertainment Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded September 22, 2019.

27 years after fighting something evil in their small Maine town, a group of friends reunite with the goal of eliminating it in director Andy Muschietti’s IT CHAPTER TWO. Jessica Chastain, Bill Hader, and James McAvoy play some of the now-grown Losers Club members. Bill Skarsgård stars as the terrifying clown Pennywise. In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer reports on his favorite films at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival. Paul Markoff chooses Peter Lord and Jeff Newitt’s stop-motion animated comedy THE PIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ IT CHAPTER TWO clip courtesy Warner Bros. KNIVES OUT clip courtesy Lionsgate A HIDDEN LIFE clip courtesy Fox Searchlight Pictures THE PIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS clip courtesy Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded September 22, 2019.

A young man with Down Syndrome runs away from a care facility to fulfill his dream of becoming a wrestler in THE PEANUT BUTTER FALCON. Zack Gottsagen, Shia LaBeouf, and Dakota Johnson star in the heartwarming adventure from co-writers and directors Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz. Also, Dayton-area filmmakers Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert capture what happens when a Chinese company directly invests in United States manufacturing in the documentary AMERICAN FACTORY. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ THE PEANUT BUTTER FALCON clips courtesy Roadside Attractions AMERICAN FACTORY clip courtesy Netflix Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded August 31, 2019.

Director and co-writer Gurinder Chadha’s BLINDED BY THE LIGHT features a Pakistani-British teenager falling in love with Bruce Springsteen’s music while feeling misunderstood in a working class English town in 1987.   In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer highlights Jennifer Kent’s revenge film THE NIGHTINGALE about a young woman convict who goes into the 1820s Tasmanian wilderness in search of the men who killed her family. Paul Markoff picks Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland’s STILL ALICE with Julianne Moore as a woman with an early onset diagnosis of Alzerheimer’s Disease. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ BLINDED BY THE LIGHT clip courtesy New Line Cinema THE NIGHTINGALE clip courtesy IFC Films STILL ALICE clip courtesy Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded August 31, 2019.

It’s an ‘80s double feature on this episode as a bullied teenage boy new to California finds help from a kindly maintenance man who teaches him a martial art in John G. Avildsen’s THE KARATE KID. Ralph Macchio, Pat Morita, Elisabeth Shue, and William Zabka star. Also, Joyce Hyser believes being a girl is why her story isn’t entered in a high school competition for a summer job at a newspaper, so she poses as a boy to get what she thinks she deserves in Lisa Gottlieb’s comedy JUST ONE OF THE GUYS. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ THE KARATE KID and JUST ONE OF THE GUYS clips courtesy Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded August 31, 2019.

Gugu Mbatha-Raw’s Ruth comes from a family of women with superhuman powers in director and co-writer Julia Hart’s FAST COLOR. Ruth fled home years ago, but while being chased by government officials in a rain-deprived dystopia, she seeks safety with the mother and daughter she left behind. In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer picks Mike Mitchell’s superhero comedy SKY HIGH. Paul Markoff selects BEYOND THE LIGHTS, Gina Prince-Bythewood’s romance about Mbatha-Raw’s pop star and Nate Parker's police officer. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ FAST COLOR clips courtesy Lionsgate SKY HIGH clip courtesy Buena Vista Home Entertainment BEYOND THE LIGHTS clip courtesy 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded August 10, 2019.