Filmspotting

Back in 1999, it was hard to watch EYES WIDE SHUT without thinking about Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman as a real-life married couple participating in some sadistic form of therapy. Twenty years later, it's maybe still a little distracting, but it's easier to see the pair's performances in the greater contexts of their respective careers – and, in particular, how effective the casting of the cocky, entitled Cruise is as Dr. Bill Harford, a man who sees his confidence reduced to rubble by the end of the film. For their

Adam and Josh left 2017's blockbuster IT at least mildly curious for more, but is the sequel film's almost three-hour running time and the addition of A-listers like Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy and Bill Hader enough to satisfy that curiosity? This week, Filmspotting returns to Derry and to director Andy Muschietti's epic - or at least epic in length - IT CHAPTER TWO. Plus, the Fall Movie Preview in the form of Adam and Josh's Top 5 Questions About the Fall Movie Season.    0:00 - Billboard 1:21 - Review: "It: Chapter 2" Bleached, "Hard to Kill" 22:38 - Next Week / Notes 30:02 - Polls [TIFF / Unlikely Space Movies] 40:06 - Fall Movie Preview 1:21:09 - Close / Outtake Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

In 1999, BEING JOHN MALKOVICH marked the auspicious debut of two geniuses: screenwriter Charlie Kaufman ("Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," "Synecdoche, NY") and director Spike Jonze ("Where the Wild Things Are," "Her"). 20 years later, the movie remains surprising and innovative, and its concerns - artistic fulfillment and artistic exploitation - feel as current as ever. Adam and Josh revisit MALKOVICH as part of their

Initial critical response to Richard Linklater's WHERE'D YOU GO, BERNADETTE was not great, earning some of the worst reviews of his 30-year career. But Adam and Josh find plenty to recommend in both Linklater's direction and star Cate Blanchett's performance. Listener feedback has them crunching numbers to determine this decade's defining actress, plus a look ahead to September's Toronto International Film Festival and the third film in the Marlene Dietrich-Josef von Sternberg Marathon, 1932's SHANGHAI EXPRESS. 0:00 - Billboard 1:13 - Review: "Where'd You Go, Bernadette" Lillie Mae, "You Got Other Girls For That" 27:39 - Next Week / Notes / Peter Fonda 41:21 - Polls (Decade-Defining Actress / TIFF) 56:40 - Dietrich-Von Sternberg #3: "Shanghai Express" 1:23:02 - Close Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

Making a film that details the violence – specifically, the sexual violence – that colonialism wrought in places like Tasmania in the early 19th century is an honorable endeavor that also makes for a very difficult viewing experience. Adam and Josh find lots to admire in Kent's THE NIGHTINGALE, but question whether the director's decision to make the film so explicit makes it a better one. That review, plus Dietrich in drag and some tough notes for a young Gary Cooper in 1930's MOROCCO, the second film in the Marlene Dietrich/Joseph von Sternberg Marathon. 0:00 - Billboard 1:04 - Review: "The Nightingale" Marlene Dietrich, "When Love Dies" 33:40 - Next Week / Notes 41:59 - Massacre Theatre 50:01 - Dietrich/Von Sternberg Marathon #2 1:17:41 - Close Learn more about your ad choices. Visit