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Quentin Tarantino recreates a changing movie industry and culture in 1969 with ONCE UPON A TIME … IN HOLLYWOOD. Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt star as an actor on the decline and his stunt double/personal assistant while next door neighbor Sharon Tate, played by Margot Robbie, is a rising star married to one of the hottest directors at the time. Also, in Lulu Wang’s THE FAREWELL a Chinese family chooses to hide an elderly family member’s terminal diagnosis from her and plans a wedding as a cover story for bringing everyone together to see her for the final time. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ ONCE UPON A TIME … IN HOLLYWOOD clip courtesy Columbia Pictures THE FAREWELL clip courtesy A24 Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded August 10, 2019.

Director Jon Favreau’s THE LION KING uses photorealistic animation to remake the 1994 Disney animated film about a young lion who is tricked out of his rightful position as ruler of the pride. In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer chooses James Bobin’s children’s adventure film DORA AND THE LOST CITY OF GOLD and Eric Mahoney’s rock documentary BRAINIAC: TRANSMISSIONS AFTER ZERO. Paul Markoff picks Bennett Miller’s true crime sports drama FOXCATCHER with Steve Carell, Channing Tatum, and Mark Ruffalo. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ THE LION KING clips courtesy Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures DORA AND THE LOST CITY OF GOLD clip courtesy Paramount Pictures BRAINIAC: TRANSMISSIONS AFTER ZERO clip courtesy Hotshot Robot FOXCATCHER clip courtesy Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded August 10, 2019.

Kumail Nanjiani is a rideshare driver who picks up a police detective played by Dave Bautista and winds up ensnared in the cop’s search for a drug lord in Michael Dowse’s action-comedy STUBER. Also, Mark Pfeiffer and Paul Markoff discuss some of the most memorable film screenings they’ve experienced. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ STUBER clip courtesy Twentieth Century Fox Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded July 13, 2019.

Peter Parker has his European vacation interrupted when Nick Fury and Quentin Beck, a superhero from another universe, need his help to stop the latest threat in Jon Watts’ SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME. Tom Holland, Samuel L. Jackson, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Zendaya star. In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer picks the streaming video search engine JustWatch and end credits extra scenes database MediaStinger. Paul Markoff selects Rob Minkoff’s animated comedy MR. PEABODY & SHERMAN.  Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME clips courtesy Columbia Pictures MR. PEABODY & SHERMAN clip courtesy Twentieth Century Fox Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded July 13, 2019.

Florence Pugh and Jack Reynor go with their friends on a trip to a remote Swedish commune for a solstice celebration and gradually discover they are among a pagan cult in Ari Aster’s MIDSOMMAR. Also, after an extinction event a robot known as Mother initiates a human repopulation program in a bunker. In Grant Sputore’s I AM MOTHER, her teenage daughter begins to question the artificial intelligence’s honesty when a woman played by Hilary Swank arrives and tells her a different story. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ MIDSOMMAR clip courtesy A24 I AM MOTHER clip courtesy Netflix. Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded July 13, 2019.

Woody, voiced by Tom Hanks, frets about his role in the life of the child he entertains in director Josh Cooley’s TOY STORY 4. Woody must also keep a close eye on Forky, a new toy who becomes a fast favorite but rejects his role as a plaything. In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer chooses ANIMA, Paul Thomas Anderson’s short film starring Thom Yorke and featuring three songs from the Radiohead singer’s solo album of the same name. Paul Markoff picks Stephen Herek’s 1991 teen comedy DON’T TELL MOM THE BABYSITTER’S DEAD starring Christina Applegate. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ TOY STORY 4 clips courtesy Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Thom Yorke’s “Not the News” clip courtesy XL Recordings DON’T TELL MOM THE BABYSITTER’S DEAD clip courtesy Warner Bros. Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded July 13, 2019.

In Richard Shepard’s horror-thriller mix THE PERFECTION, Allison Williams is a former cello prodigy whose return to the arts world and new friendship with her successor, played by Logan Browning, yield surprising twists. Also, Mark Pfeiffer and Paul Markoff discuss if summer 2019 movies have been underwhelming so far and if box office returns for these films indicate that franchise filmmaking may be near a tipping point. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ THE PERFECTION clip courtesy Netflix Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded June 15, 2019.

Kaitlyn Dever and Beanie Feldstein are best friends and scholastic overachievers who aim to prove how fun they can be at a party the night before high school graduation in director Olivia Wilde’s debut feature BOOKSMART. In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer picks Jim Jarmusch’s zombie comedy THE DEAD DON’T DIE with Bill Murray and Adam Driver. Paul Markoff selects J.J. Abrams’ Spielberg-esque adventure SUPER 8. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ BOOKSMART clip courtesy Annapurna Pictures THE DEAD DON’T DIE clip courtesy Focus Features SUPER 8 clip courtesy Paramount Home Entertainment Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded June 15, 2019.

A German man fleeing fascists attempts to secure passage from France by assuming a dead author’s identity in director Christian Petzold’s TRANSIT. Franz Rogowski and Paula Beer star. Also, with so many films being made in recent years, will anyone remember them? Mark Pfeiffer and Paul Markoff test their memories in a game in which they challenge one another to recall films they reviewed between 1997 and 2017.  Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded June 15, 2019.

Elton John’s rise to fame and fortune as a rock superstar is traced in Dexter Fletcher’s ROCKETMAN. Taron Egerton stars as the chart-topping singer-songwriter. In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer selects director Jeff Nichols’ music videos for Lucero’s “Long Way Back Home” and Bruce Robison and Kelly Willis’ “Astrodome,” which he co-directed with José Luis González. Paul Markoff picks Jay Roach’s political comedy THE CAMPAIGN with Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ ROCKETMAN clips courtesy Paramount Pictures “Astrodome” clip courtesy The Next Waltz THE CAMPAIGN clip courtesy Warner Bros. Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded June 15, 2019.

The Disney animated classic ALADDIN is remade in live action by director Guy Ritchie. The story about a street urchin who finds a magical lamp and tries to win the heart of a princess stars Mena Massoud, Naomi Scott, and Will Smith as the wise-cracking Genie. Also, Mark Pfeiffer and Paul Markoff add to the Filmbound Canon, their personal collections of all-time great films released beginning in 1995.  Mark chooses Jonathan Glazer’s visionary UNDER THE SKIN with Scarlett Johansson as a man-hunting alien. Paul selects Jeff Nichols’ drama MUD with Matthew McConaughey as a drifter seeking to reconnect with the longtime love of his life. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ ALADDIN clips courtesy Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures UNDER THE SKIN clip courtesy A24 MUD clip courtesy Lionsgate Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded May 26, 2019.

Writer-director John Singleton’s BOYZ N THE HOOD takes us into south central Los Angeles, Crenshaw specifically, to observe what life is like for a group of friends as they grow into young adulthood with violence or the threat of violence a part of their community. Cuba Gooding Jr., Ice Cube, Morris Chestnut, and Laurence Fishburne are among the cast of Singleton’s 1991 debut film. In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer thrills to the ancient Chinese action and political intrigue in Zhang Yimou’s SHADOW (YING). Paul Markoff appreciates the drama and dark humor in Ruben Ӧstlund’s FORCE MAJEURE (TURIST). Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ BOYZ N THE HOOD clip courtesy Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded May 26, 2019.

In director Jonathan Levine's LONG SHOT an unlikely romance develops between an unemployed journalist-turned-speechwriter and his boss, the United States Secretary of State and an aspiring Presidential candidate who also happens to be his former babysitter and childhood crush. Charlize Theron and Seth Rogen star. Also, Mark Pfeiffer and Paul Markoff discuss how moviegoing and show production have changed for them in the shift from their longtime television show NOW PLAYING to this podcast. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ LONG SHOT clips courtesy Lionsgate Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded May 26, 2019.

In NON-FICTION (DOUBLES VIES) writer-director Olivier Assayas considers the digital age's effects on art, media, and personal lives. Guillaume Canet, Juliette Binoche, Vincent Macaigne, and Nora Hamzawi star in this comedy set in and around the Parisian publishing world. In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer admires David Robert Mitchell’s UNDER THE SILVER LAKE, which features Andrew Garfield obsessing over codes to solve the mystery of a missing woman. Paul Markoff picks Doug Liman’s EDGE OF TOMORROW with Tom Cruise caught in a loop as his life ends and restarts in the war against aliens. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ UNDER THE SILVER LAKE clip courtesy A24 EDGE OF TOMORROW clip courtesy Warner Bros. Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded May 11, 2019.

The Marvel Cinematic Universe superheroes who survived Thanos’ snap in AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR search for a way to reverse it in AVENGERS: ENDGAME. Robert Downey Jr.’s Iron Man, Chris Evans’ Captain America, Chris Hemsworth’s Thor, and plenty more seek resolution in the adventure from directors Anthony and Joe Russo. Also, Mark Pfeiffer and Paul Markoff discuss what differentiates films from television and if such distinctions matter. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ AVENGERS: ENDGAME clip courtesy Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded May 11, 2019.

Hugh Jackman’s explorer goes on an adventure with a Sasquatch-like creature voiced by Zach Galifianakis in writer-director Chris Butler’s stop-motion animated MISSING LINK. In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer reports on this year’s Roger Ebert’s Film Festival, otherwise known as Ebertfest, and highlights David Mirkin’s comedy ROMY AND MICHELE’S HIGH SCHOOL REUNION with Mira Sorvino and Lisa Kudrow. Paul Markoff selects Kent Jones’ drama DIANE featuring Mary Kay Place. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ MISSING LINK clips courtesy United Artists Releasing ROMY AND MICHELE’S HIGH SCHOOL REUNION clip courtesy Touchstone Home Entertainment DIANE clip courtesy IFC Films Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded April 27, 2019.

Superhero powers are bestowed upon a teenage foster kid in director David F. Sandberg’s SHAZAM! Zachary Levi stars as the hero who looks like an adult but has the maturity level and wisdom of a young teen. Also, Mark Pfeiffer and Paul Markoff discuss the Motion Picture Association of America’s film ratings and how they have changed through the years as a tool for parents. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ SHAZAM! clip courtesy Warner Bros. Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded April 27, 2019.

In director Adam Leon’s TRAMPS Callum Turner and Grace Van Patten are strangers who are stuck together trying to fix a mistake made during a criminal job and might start to fall in love while hanging out. In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer picks Katt Shea’s NANCY DREW AND THE HIDDEN STAIRCASE with Sophia Lillis as the teenage sleuth. Paul Markoff selects Jonathan Levine’s cancer dramedy 50/50 with Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen, and Anna Kendrick. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ TRAMPS clip courtesy Netflix NANCY DREW AND THE HIDDEN STAIRCASE clip courtesy Warner Bros. 50/50 clip courtesy Summit Entertainment Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded March 30, 2019.

Vince Vaughn and Mel Gibson are cops scheming to keep their income flowing while on suspension by robbing criminals in writer-director S. Craig Zahler’s DRAGGED ACROSS CONCRETE. Also, Mark Pfeiffer and Paul Markoff discuss how “true” films based on true stories must be and how to approach such movies as viewers. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ DRAGGED ACROSS CONCRETE clip courtesy Summit Entertainment Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded March 30, 2019.

In 3 FACES (SE ROKH) a distraught girl, whose family refuses to let her attend a Tehran conservatory, reaches out to two filmmakers for help but appears to commit suicide on a smartphone video she sends them. Actress Behnaz Jafari and director Jafar Panahi play themselves as they travel to a remote Iranian village in search of the truth. In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer falls for director Sebastián Lelio’s GLORIA BELL starring Julianne Moore. Paul Markoff picks film critic Josh Larsen’s book MOVIES ARE PRAYERS: HOW FILMS VOICE OUR DEEPEST LONGINGS. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ GLORIA BELL clip courtesy A24 Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded March 30, 2019.