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Lupita Nyong’o, Winston Duke, and their two children are terrorized by a family that looks exactly like them in writer-director Jordan Peele’s US. Also, Mark Pfeiffer and Paul Markoff discuss the five films they would show someone to convey their tastes in movies. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ US clip courtesy Universal Pictures THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG (LES PARAPLUIES DE CHERBOURG) clip courtesy The Criterion Collection FIELD OF DREAMS clip courtesy Universal Pictures Home Entertainment DAMSELS IN DISTRESS clip courtesy Sony Pictures Home Entertainment UP clip courtesy Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded March 30, 2019.

The lives of alienated and secretive individuals converge in a strip club in writer-director Atom Egoyan’s 1994 drama EXOTICA starring Bruce Greenwood, Mia Kirshner, Elias Koteas, and Don McKellar. In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer covers the Wexner Center for the Arts’ Cinema Revival: A Festival of Film Restoration and spotlights Alfred Santell’s melodrama THAT BRENNAN GIRL and John Berry’s CLAUDINE with Diahann Carroll and James Earl Jones. Paul Markoff picks Nicolas Winding Refn’s DRIVE with Ryan Gosling as a stuntman by day and getaway driver by night. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ EXOTICA clip courtesy Miramax THAT BRENNAN GIRL clip courtesy Paramount Pictures CLAUDINE clip courtesy Twentieth Century Fox DRIVE clip courtesy Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded March 9, 2019.

In CAPTAIN MARVEL Brie Larson’s superpowered Vers is caught in a war between two alien races and finds a partner stopping the villains in Samuel L. Jackson’s Nick Fury. Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck direct the latest Marvel adventure. In Stephen Merchant’s FIGHTING WITH MY FAMILY, Florence Pugh is a working class teen from a family of wrestlers trying to become a WWE champion. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ CAPTAIN MARVEL clip courtesy Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures FIGHTING WITH MY FAMILY clips courtesy MGM Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded March 9, 2019.

Rebel Wilson hits her head and wakes up to a life inside a romantic comedy in director Todd Strauss-Schulson’s ISN’T IT ROMANTIC. In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer reports on the True/False Film Festival, with highlights including Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert’s AMERICAN FACTORY, Brett Story’s THE HOTTEST AUGUST,  Todd Douglas Miller’s APOLLO 11, and Jodie Mack’s THE GRAND BIZARRE. Paul Markoff is in favor of Jeff Nichols’ LOVING, which tells the story behind the landmark Supreme Court case.. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ ISN’T IT ROMANTIC clip courtesy Warner Bros. COLD CASE HAMMARSKJÖLD clip courtesy Danish Film Institute AMAZING GRACE and APOLLO 11 clips courtesy Neon LOVING clip courtesy Focus Features Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded March 9, 2019.

André Holland is a sports agent protecting his interests and those of his rookie client during a National Basketball Association lockout in director Steven Soderbergh’s HIGH FLYING BIRD. Also, with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences tinkering with this year’s Oscars, Mark Pfeiffer and Paul Markoff discuss potential changes to future awards ceremonies. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ HIGH FLYING BIRD clip courtesy Netflix Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded February 16, 2019.

In THE LEGO MOVIE 2: THE SECOND PART, Bricksburg has become Apocalypseburg, and the threat of alien invasion looms. When Lucy, Batman, and others are kidnapped and taken to the Systar System, it’s up to the Chris Pratt-voiced Emmett to save them and stop the impending Our-Mom-Ageddon.   In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer reconsiders director Jake Kasdan’s musical biopic parody WALK HARD: THE DEWEY COX STORY starring John C. Reilly. Paul Markoff selects David Twohy’s thriller A PERFECT GETAWAY with Milla Jovovich and Steve Zahn. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ THE LEGO MOVIE 2: THE SECOND PART clips courtesy Warner Bros. WALK HARD: THE DEWEY COX STORY clip Sony Pictures Home Entertainment A PERFECT GETAWAY clip courtesy Universal Pictures Home Entertainment Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded February 16, 2019.

Director and co-writer Pawel Pawlikowski’s COLD WAR (ZIMNA WOJNA) follows the volatile, fifteen-year romance between Tomasz Kot’s music director and Joanna Kulig’s singer in communist Poland and beyond. Also, writer-director Dan Gilroy reunites with his NIGHTCRAWLER stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Rene Russo for a satirical horror film about the fine art world with VELVET BUZZSAW. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ COLD WAR clip courtesy Amazon Studios VELVET BUZZSAW clip courtesy Netflix Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded February 2, 2019.

In GLASS M. Night Shyamalan’s comic book-inspired trilogy concludes. Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, and James McAvoy reprise their roles from UNBREAKABLE and SPLIT. In recommendations in time for Valentine’s Day, Mark Pfeiffer chooses Michael Dowse’s WHAT IF with Daniel Radcliffe and Zoe Kazan trying to be friends while denying their romantic feelings. Paul Markoff picks David Frankel’s HOPE SPRINGS with Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones seeking to rekindle the love in their longtime marriage. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ GLASS clips courtesy Universal Pictures WHAT IF clip courtesy CBS Films HOPE SPRINGS clip courtesy Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded February 2, 2019.

Mark Pfeiffer and Paul Markoff reveal the titles making their lists of the Best Films of 2018 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/ THOROUGHBREDS clip courtesy Focus Features ANNIHILATION clip courtesy Paramount Pictures A STAR IS BORN clip courtesy Warner Bros. BISBEE ‘17 clip courtesy 4th Row Films WILDLIFE clip IFC Films FIRST REFORMED clip courtesy A24 HEREDITARY clip courtesy A24 WIDOWS clip courtesy Twentieth Century Fox EIGHTH GRADE clip courtesy A24 Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded February 2, 2019.

Twenty-five years after first helping a London family, a magical nanny comes back to aid the now-grown Banks children in saving their Cherry Tree Lane home in director Rob Marshall’s MARY POPPINS RETURNS. Emily Blunt takes over for Julie Andrews as Mary Poppins. Ben Whishaw, Emily Mortimer, and Lin-Manuel Miranda also star. Seeing supernatural creatures causes people to kill themselves in Susanne Bier's BIRD BOX, so Sandra Bullock and her two children must travel blindfolded down a river in the hope of reaching refuge. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ MARY POPPINS RETURNS clips courtesy Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures BIRD BOX clip courtesy Netflix Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded January 12, 2019.

Multiple realities and different versions of Spider-Man converge in Miles Morales’ hometown in Bob Perischetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman’s animated SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE. In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer chooses ZVIZDAL: [CHERNOBYL - SO FAR SO CLOSE], the Belgian group BERLIN’s mix of documentary film, dioramas, and performing arts used to present an elderly couple who still reside in the village within the zone of the 1986 nuclear plant accident. Paul Markoff picks director Jonathan Demme’s RICKI AND THE FLASH with Meryl Streep as a mother who focused on her rock stardom ambitions over family. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE clip courtesy Columbia Pictures RICKI AND THE FLASH clip courtesy Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded January 12, 2019.

Writer-director Barry Jenkins adapts James Baldwin’s novel IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK, which focuses on a young couple in love and expecting a child. KiKi Layne and Stephan James star as the lovers who are torn apart when he is accused of a crime and imprisoned while their families try to prove his innocence. Alfonso Cuarón’s semi-autobiographical ROMA lovingly observes a maid who cares for a middle class family in Mexico City in the early 1970s. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK clip courtesy Annapurna Pictures Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded January 12, 2019.

Writer-directors Joel and Ethan Coen serve a slab of dark Americana in THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS. The Old West anthology film tells six tales with a cast including Tim Blake Nelson, James Franco, Liam Neeson, Tom Waits, and Zoe Kazan. In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer selects MINDING THE GAP, Bing Liu’s documentary about skateboarding friends in Rockford, Illinois. Paul Markoff picks Doug Liman’s AMERICAN MADE with Tom Cruise as a pilot who flies missions for the CIA and smuggles drugs for the Medellín Cartel. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS clip courtesy Netflix MINDING THE GAP clip courtesy Hulu AMERICAN MADE clip courtesy Universal Pictures Home Entertainment Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded December 16, 2018.

Celeste, played as a teenager by Raffey Cassidy and as an adult by Natalie Portman, emerges from surviving a school survivor to become a jaded pop star in writer-director Brady Corbet’s VOX LUX. In Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Palme d’Or-winning drama SHOPLIFTERS (MANBIKI KAZOKU) a makeshift family creates meaningful bonds in caring for one another while struggling with life in poverty. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ VOX LUX clip courtesy Neon Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded December 16, 2018.

Set in early 1800s England, director Yorgos Lanthimos’ THE FAVOURITE features Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz scheming against one another to become the preferred friend and adviser to Olivia Colman’s Queen Anne. In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer appreciates the zaniness of a robot fighting a force controlling cell phones in S. Shankar’s science fiction-action-comedy 2.0. Paul Markoff is compelled by how Alex Garland explores the feelings between a man and an artificially intelligent creation in EX MACHINA. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ THE FAVOURITE clip courtesy Fox Searchlight Pictures EX MACHINA clip courtesy A24 Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded December 16, 2018.

On this special holiday episode, Paul Newman suggests a corporation’s board of directors promote Tim Robbins’ recent business school graduate to president as a means of devaluing the stock they wish to buy on January 1 to retain control of the company in THE HUDSUCKER PROXY, Joel and Ethan Coen’s 1994 comedy influenced by the films of Preston Sturges and Frank Capra, including IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE. Mark Pfeiffer and Paul Markoff also share the film-related wishes they hope might be granted this season. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ THE HUDSUCKER PROXY clip courtesy Warner Bros. Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded December 2, 2018.

Wreck-It Ralph and Vanellope, voiced by John C. Reilly and Sarah Silverman, learn what life is like beyond arcade games when they go online in RALPH BREAKS THE INTERNET. Viola Davis, Michelle Rodriguez, and Elizabeth Debicki lose their husbands in a heist gone wrong and must follow in their thieving ways to come up with $2 million their spouses took from a crime boss in director and co-writer Steve McQueen’s WIDOWS. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ RALPH BREAKS THE INTERNET clip courtesy Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures WIDOWS clip courtesy Twentieth Century Fox Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded December 2, 2018.

The ROCKY series continues in director Steven Caple Jr.’s CREED II with Michael B. Jordan’s heavyweight boxer Adonis Creed facing a challenger whose father killed his father in the ring more than thirty years ago. In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer picks Matthew Heineman's drama A PRIVATE WAR with Rosamund Pike as conflict zone journalist Marie Colvin and the comedy INSTANT FAMILY with Mark Wahlberg and Rose Byrne as foster parents.  Paul Markoff likes Aardman Animations' holiday comedy ARTHUR CHRISTMAS. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ CREED II clip courtesy MGM A PRIVATE WAR clip courtesy Aviron Pictures INSTANT FAMILY clip courtesy Paramount Pictures ARTHUR CHRISTMAS clip courtesy Sony Pictures Entertainment Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded December 2, 2018.

A teenage boy watches the marriage of his parents, played by Carey Mulligan and Jake Gyllenhaal, dissolve in early 1960s Montana in director and co-writer Paul Dano’s WILDLIFE. Also, as awards season is in full swing, Mark Pfeiffer and Paul Markoff discuss the merits, or lack thereof, of the withdrawn plan to introduce a Best Popular Film category at the 2019 Academy Awards. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ WILDLIFE clips courtesy IFC Films Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded November 11, 2018.

A grumpy, green hater of holiday cheer plots to steal Christmas from Whoville in a new 3D computer-animated version of Dr. Seuss’ THE GRINCH.  Benedict Cumberbatch voices the villain whose heart is two sizes too small. In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer spotlights COLD WATER (L’EAU FROIDE), Olivier Assayas’ snapshot of a sixteen-year-old boyfriend and girlfriend restless to take control of their lives in early 1970s France.  Paul Markoff selects director Clint Eastwood’s HEREAFTER, which connects three stories about people with mystical experiences regarding death and the afterlife. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ THE GRINCH clip courtesy Universal Pictures HEREAFTER clip courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded November 11, 2018.