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From the rock band Queen’s early days through its Live Aid performance, director Bryan Singer’s BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY follow the group’s rise through the story of its lead singer Freddie Mercury, played by Rami Malek. Also, Melissa McCarthy is a struggling writer who finds her work more in demand when creating and selling fake celebrity correspondence as the real thing to memorabilia dealers in director Marielle Heller’s CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME? Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY clips courtesy Twentieth Century Fox CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME? clip courtesy Fox Searchlight Pictures Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded November 11, 2018.

Michael Myers breaks free and seeks to terrorize Haddonfield, Illinois again forty years later, but Jamie Lee Curtis’ Laurie Strode is ready and waiting to get her vengeance in co-writer/director David Gordon Green’s HALLOWEEN, a sequel to John Carpenter’s 1978 horror classic. In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer finds the appeal in Hirokazu Kore-eda’s crime drama THE THIRD MURDER (SANDOME NO SATSUJIN).  Paul Markoff enjoys the humor and camaraderie among three nerdy friends living in a tough neighborhood getting mixed up in things they shouldn’t in Rick Famuyiwa’s DOPE. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ HALLOWEEN clip courtesy Universal Pictures DOPE clip courtesy Universal Pictures Home Entertainment Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded November 11, 2018.

Jeff Bridges, Jon Hamm, Cynthia Erivo, and Dakota Johnson are strangers with secrets whose paths cross at the declining, border-straddling motel where they’re staying in writer-director Drew Goddard’s BAD TIMES AT THE EL ROYALE. Also, Mark Pfeiffer and Paul Markoff discuss how, or if, one should separate the art from the artist when someone involved with a film is alleged or convicted of wrongdoing. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ BAD TIMES AT THE EL ROYALE clip courtesy Twentieth Century Fox Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded October 21, 2018.

Director Damien Chazelle’s FIRST MAN tracks the space race via the work and home life of Ryan Gosling as astronaut Neil Armstrong. In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer admires Frederick Wiseman’s small town documentary MONROVIA, INDIANA, and Paul Markoff appreciates the humor and scares in Rob Letterman’s GOOSEBUMPS. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ FIRST MAN clips courtesy Universal Pictures MONROVIA, INDIANA clip courtesy Zipporah Films GOOSEBUMPS clip courtesy Columbia Pictures Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded October 21, 2018.

In the latest version of A STAR IS BORN, Bradley Cooper directs, co-writes, and stars as successful but self-destructive musician Jackson Maine, who finds love and an ascendant talent in Lady Gaga’s Ally. Also, Kathryn Hahn and Paul Giamatti are a couple in their forties feeling pressure and disappointment in pursuing fertility treatments and other options to have a child in writer-director Tamara Jenkins’ comedic drama PRIVATE LIFE. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ A STAR IS BORN clips courtesy Warner Bros. PRIVATE LIFE clip courtesy Netflix Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded October 21, 2018.

Jeffrey Wright goes into the Alaskan wilderness to hunt wolves suspected of killing children in director Jeremy Saulnier’s HOLD THE DARK. In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer appreciates the action, humor, and satire in John Carpenter’s THEY LIVE and picks BISBEE ‘17, AMÉRICA, and HALE COUNTY THIS MORNING, THIS EVENING as must-see films at the Wexner Center for the Arts’ Unorthodocs. 2018 film festival. Paul Markoff savors the lurid thrills of David Fincher’s GONE GIRL. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ HOLD THE DARK clip courtesy Netflix THEY LIVE clip courtesy Universal Pictures GONE GIRL clip courtesy Twentieth Century Fox Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded September 29, 2018.

A good deed that Anna Kendrick performs for Blake Lively eventually leads to investigating her mysterious and glamorous friend’s disappearance in Paul Feig’s comedic thriller A SIMPLE FAVOR. Also, Ben Mendelsohn finds that a divorce and early retirement haven’t made him happier in writer-director Nicole Holofcener’s THE LAND OF STEADY HABITS. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ A SIMPLE FAVOR clip courtesy Lionsgate THE LAND OF STEADY HABITS clip courtesy Netflix Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded September 29, 2018.

Boyd Holbrook leads a group of misfits, including ex-soldiers and an evolutionary biologist, to retrieve some alien technology before the government and hunter aliens find it in director and co-writer Shane Black’s THE PREDATOR. In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer is dazzled by the bold visuals and sound design of Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani’s crime film LET THE CORPSES TAN (LAISSEZ BRONZER LES CADAVRES).  Paul Markoff chooses Ramin Bahrani’s drama 99 HOMES with Andrew Garfield assisting Michael Shannon in a shady real estate business. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ THE PREDATOR clip courtesy Twentieth Century Fox 99 HOMES clip courtesy Broad Green Pictures Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded September 29, 2018.

John Cho plays a desperate father who searches his missing teenage daughter’s computer and social media for clues to her whereabouts in director and co-writer Aneesh Chaganty’s thriller SEARCHING. Also, Lana Condor is a high school junior whose secret love letters are unknowingly sent to onetime objects of her affection and lead to a fake relationship of convenience with Noah Centineo in director Susan Johnson’s TO ALL THE BOYS I’VE LOVED BEFORE, an adaptation of Jenny Han’s young adult novel. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ SEARCHING clip courtesy Screen Gems TO ALL THE BOYS I’VE LOVED BEFORE clip courtesy Netflix Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded September 1, 2018.

Two Colorado Springs police officers infiltrate a local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan in director Spike Lee’s BLACKKKLANSMAN.  John David Washington is the African-American cop developing close relationships over the phone with Klan members, and Adam Driver is the white, Jewish colleague who stands in for him at face-to-face meetings. In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer praises Ingmar Bergman’s WINTER LIGHT (NATTVARDSGÄSTERNA), a notable inspiration for Paul Schrader’s FIRST REFORMED.  Paul Markoff appreciates Alexander Payne’s NEBRASKA with Bruce Dern and Will Forte. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ BLACKKKLANSMAN clip courtesy Focus Features NEBRASKA clip courtesy Paramount Vantage Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded August 18, 2018.

Writer-director Bo Burnham’s EIGHTH GRADE explores the middle school experience through the eyes of Elsie Fisher’s introverted teen, who worries that the disappointments of junior high will continue the next fall in high school. Also, Mark Pfeiffer and Paul Markoff add to the Filmbound Canon, which are their personal collections of all-time great films released beginning in 1995.  Mark selects Whit Stillman’s 1998 comedy THE LAST DAYS OF DISCO starring Chloë Sevigny and Kate Beckinsale. Paul admires the silliness and weirdness of Gore Verbinski’s RANGO. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ EIGHTH GRADE clip courtesy A24 THE LAST DAYS OF DISCO clip courtesy The Criterion Collection RANGO clip courtesy Paramount Pictures Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded August 18, 2018.

Co-written by its two lead actors and directed by Carlos López Estrada, BLINDSPOTTING features Daveed Diggs trying to get through his last days of probation without Rafael Casal, as his best friend, getting him into additional trouble. In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer enjoys the humor, drama, and romance in director Jon M. Chu’s CRAZY RICH ASIANS, and Paul Markoff admires director John Lee Hancock’s THE FOUNDER with Michael Keaton as the highly ambitious and ruthless businessman who transformed McDonald’s into a dominant fast food chain. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ BLINDSPOTTING clip courtesy Lionsgate CRAZY RICH ASIANS clip courtesy Warner Bros. THE FOUNDER clip courtesy The Weinstein Company Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded August 18, 2018.

Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt and his IMF team must recover three stolen plutonium cores before they are installed in portable nuclear weapons in writer-director Christopher McQuarrie’s MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - FALLOUT. Also, Jason Statham attempts to protect an ocean research team from a megalodon, a 70-foot shark thought to have been extinct for millions of years, in director Jon Turteltaub’s THE MEG. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - FALLOUT clip courtesy Paramount Pictures THE MEG clip courtesy Warner Bros. Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded August 18, 2018.

Lakeith Stanfield is a telemarketer whose professional success comes at a price neither he nor his girlfriend, played by Tessa Thompson, could have ever imagined in the dystopian comedy SORRY TO BOTHER YOU from writer-director Boots Riley.   In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer enjoys The Beatles’ animated trip to Pepperland in director George Dunning’s YELLOW SUBMARINE, and Paul Markoff is intrigued by Jake Gyllenhaal meeting his doppelgänger in director Denis Villeneuve’s ENEMY. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ SORRY TO BOTHER YOU clip courtesy Annapurna Pictures YELLOW SUBMARINE clip courtesy Abramorama ENEMY clip courtesy A24 Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded July 21, 2018.

Dwayne Johnson plays a security expert who goes to extraordinary lengths to get into a burning Hong Kong building so he can save his family in writer-director Rawson Marshall Thurber’s SKYSCRAPER. Mark Pfeiffer and Paul Markoff also discuss movie ticket subscription services.  (Note: this episode was recorded before recent developments regarding MoviePass.) Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ SKYSCRAPER clip courtesy Universal Pictures Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded July 21, 2018.

Ben Foster and Thomasin McKenzie are a father and daughter living by choice in a Portland, Oregon park and trying to avoid detection in director and co-writer Debra Granik’s LEAVE NO TRACE. In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer finds an unlikely escape in Ol Parker’s ABBA jukebox musical sequel MAMMA MIA! HERE WE GO AGAIN, and Paul Markoff has his heart warmed by director Morgan Neville’s Fred Rogers documentary WON’T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR? Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ LEAVE NO TRACE clips courtesy Bleecker Street Media MAMMA MIA! HERE WE GO AGAIN courtesy Universal Pictures WON'T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR? clip courtesy Focus Features Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded July 21, 2018.

Scott Lang’s connection with Hope van Dyne’s long-missing mother brings Paul Rudd and Evangeline Lilly together again in director Peyton Reed’s ANT-MAN AND THE WASP as they work to rescue Janet van Dyne from the quantum realm. Although they’re not superheroes, Mark Pfeiffer and Paul Markoff also discuss their origin stories as movie lovers. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ ANT-MAN AND THE WASP clip courtesy Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded July 21, 2018.

In director J.A. Bayona’s JURASSIC WORLD: FALLEN KINGDOM Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, and their team work to save the dinosaurs from an imminent volcanic eruption and relocate the magnificent beasts to an island sanctuary, but others have more profitable destinations in mind for the creatures. In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer selects FILMWORKER, director Tony Zierra’s documentary about Stanley Kubrick’s longtime assistant Leon Vitali.  Paul Markoff picks DETROIT, director Kathryn Bigelow’s intense drama depicting that city’s 1967 riots. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ JURASSIC WORLD: FALLEN KINGDOM clip courtesy Universal Pictures FILMWORKER clip courtesy Kino Lorber DETROIT clip courtesy Annapurna Pictures Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded June 23, 2018.

A superhero family undergoes big changes when Elastigirl is recruited to restore the public’s faith in those with special powers while Mr. Incredible stays home to tend to the kids in writer-director Brad Bird’s INCREDIBLES 2. Also, Zoey Deutch and Glen Powell are overworked corporate executive assistants who conspire to get their bosses, played by Lucy Liu and Taye Diggs, to fall in love so they can acquire some much-needed free time in director Claire Scanlon’s romantic comedy SET IT UP. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ INCREDIBLES 2 clip courtesy Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures SET IT UP clip courtesy Netflix Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded June 23, 2018.

In writer-director Ari Aster’s horror film HEREDITARY, Toni Collette stars as an artist struggling to cope with the death of her mother, with whom she had a fraught relationship, as well as the tension at home with Gabriel Byrne as her husband and Alex Wolff and Milly Shapiro as her two children. In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer selects the unrestored 70mm print of Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY that is currently on tour.  Paul Markoff chooses a journey of earthly indulgences with director Malcolm D. Lee’s comedy GIRLS TRIP starring Regina Hall, Queen Latifah, Jada Pinkett Smith, and Tiffany Haddish. Send your comments, questions, and feedback to filmboundpod@gmail.com. Twitter: @filmbound Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/filmboundpod/ HEREDITARY clip courtesy A24 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY clip courtesy Warner Bros. GIRLS TRIP clip courtesy Universal Pictures Music: "Parasail" by Silent Partner Recorded June 23, 2018.