It took Laika 1,155 days, 142,000 3D-printed faces and more than 715 miles of brass wire to build the woods outside Portland, Oregon, one frame at a time. The result is Wildwood, a stop-motion fantasy about a girl who follows a murder of crows into an enchanted forest to bring her baby brother home.

In this episode, Joshua Johnson and John Dougherty review Travis Knight’s adaptation of Colin Meloy’s novel, while Craig Detweiler is away traveling. They talk about grief that refuses to let go, parents who will do anything out of love, a kids’ movie where violence has a cost, and rival factions learning to listen to each other. They pair it with two films about children, monsters and enchanted worlds, from Hayao Miyazaki and Jim Henson. John reports from the last days of the Philadelphia Film Festival, and a listener asks about Rob Reiner.

When does love that will do anything stop being love?

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02:06 – Wildwood (Travis Knight)
19:30 – Spoilers begin

Double Feature
50:33 – Princess Mononoke (Hayao Miyazaki, 1997)
55:31 – Labyrinth (Jim Henson, 1986)

Philadelphia Film Festival Report
1:02:25

Listener Mail
1:09:45 – When Harry Met Sally (Rob Reiner, 1989)

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Thirty-five days before Elizabeth Holmes reported to federal prison, she let Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim into the rented house outside San Diego that she shared with her partner, Billy Evans, and their two children. The result is You Can See Everything, a documentary about a woman the world had already made up its mind about, and about whether a camera can show anyone as they really are.

In this episode, Joshua, John, and Craig review You Can See Everything. They talk about truth and perception, what a documentary can and can’t capture, and whether a film about deception can still be a pursuit of truth. Each host brings a Double Feature pick that blurs the line between record and recreation. Then the hosts take up the backlash over Greta Gerwig’s The Magician’s Nephew and Meryl Streep’s Aslan, and ask what makes an adaptation faithful. John reports from opening weekend of the Philadelphia Film Festival, and a listener writes in about seeing The Tree of Life for the first time.

Can we see everything and still understand nothing?

Now Showing
00:00 Intro
01:35 You Can See Everything (spoiler-free)
17:30 You Can See Everything (spoilers)

Double Feature
53:12 The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer, 2012)
56:08 American Vandal (Dan Perrault and Tony Yacenda, 2017)
58:54 Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa, 1950)

Movie News
1:01:15 Greta Gerwig’s Narnia and the adaptation debate

Philadelphia Film Festival
1:11:00 Opening weekend update

Listener Mail
1:15:25 The Tree of Life

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A Facebook data scientist has the files to prove the company knew its algorithm was feeding outrage, and a Wall Street Journal reporter wants the story. Sixteen years after The Social Network, Aaron Sorkin returns to Facebook with The Social Reckoning.

In this episode, Joshua Johnson, John Dougherty, and Craig Detweiler review Sorkin’s whistleblower thriller, starring Mikey Madison, Jeremy Allen White, and Jeremy Strong as Mark Zuckerberg. Then each host brings a double feature in conversation with it, and Joshua offers a Good, True, and Beautiful review of The Tree of Life.

When the truth lands on a tech giant like a paper cut, what can courage still accomplish?

Now Showing: The Social Reckoning
(01:52) The Social Reckoning: spoiler-free review
(14:39) Spoiler section

Double Feature
(29:29)
His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks, 1940)
The Post (Steven Spielberg, 2017)
Dark Waters (Todd Haynes, 2019)

A Good, True, and Beautiful Review
(44:16)
The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick, 2011)

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