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In this episode, Jessica Stone joins the podcast. She brings along the movie Only Lovers Left Alive. Marty and Clif give Jessica the movie Arrival to watch.

Clif and Marty welcome back returning guest favorite Jessica Stone for two wildly different but unexpectedly connected films, Arrival and Only Lovers Left Alive.

The conversation starts with Arrival, through a discussion of language, grief, nonlinear time, and whether Denis Villeneuve’s cerebral style is immersive genius or frustratingly distant. Jessica brings sharp observations about symbolism, sound design, and the heptapods, while Marty offers a spirited dissent that sparks one of the episode’s best debates.

Then the crew moves into the dreamy, undead world of Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive, revisiting the vampire genre through a very different lens.

It’s an episode about aliens, immortality, loss, communication, and whether time might really be a flat circle.

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