The Juiciest Bits Mandy Elliott and Charlie Barber

This week we're wrapping up our series on office movies with Corner Office (Joachim Back, 2022), a surreal dark comedy starring Jon Hamm and Danny Pudi. We talk about all manner of things, including Jon Hamm's excellent moustache and bangs and how interchangeable they are, and we compare this movie to the others in the series as well as to Apple TV series Severance, which is an excellent show that does much of what Corner Office tries to do, only better. Please enjoy this episode as we laugh at our own jokes (someone has to).

Well, folks, we did it. We made an episode about 9 to 5 (Higgins, 1980), one of the greatest movies of [just before] our time. Ever heard of Dolly Parton? She's in this movie! Jane Fonda? She's in it, too! And, of course, Lily Tomlin and Dabney Coleman round out the cast magnificently.

This movie makes fun of office work by depicting very realistic office conditions, rife with misogyny, sexism, and bureaucracy. But, it's also hilarious and very relatable if you're a non-cis man who has ever worked in an office (we can't speak to the other). Oh, it also demonstrates the value of female allyship. Get into it!

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Just in time for spring, the time of year when hope abounds, we present to you our next theme: movies about soul-sucking office jobs (we would never do this to you if spring were not imminent). As such, this episode is about Office Space (Mike Judge, 1999), a movie that child Mandy thought was hilarious and that adult Mandy realizes is problematic (but also so quotable). But still, there is a TON to talk about, including white fragility, ableism, fatphobia, and, of course, the exploitation of workers. So put aside your Jump to Conclusions Mat, celebrate Michael Bolton's entire catalog, and join us!

In this, our final heist movie episode, we are talking about Fast Five, the fifth in the masterpiece franchise that is The Fast and the Furious. In this romp, Dom (Vin Diesel) and the gang find themselves in Brazil, where they drive right through a wall and hijack a bad guy's safe in a scientifically impossible (but cinematically awesome) way. In this episode, we talk about morality and the film's Catholic imagery, friendship, and, of course, family. So grab a Corona and enjoy as we talk about these things, and digress about Dwayne Johnson's t-shirts and his propensity to sweat.

Hello! This week, we're talking about a traditional heist movie: The Taking of Pelham 123, starring our king Walter Matthau and Robert Shaw (not to be confused with the 1998 made-for-tv movie starring Vincent D'Onofrio, Donnie Wahlberg, and Edward James Olmos, which is INCREDIBLY '90s; or the 2009 version with Denzel Washington and John Travolta, which I haven't seen).

In this movie we see the impossible: somebody deigning to steal an NYC subway car. How do they do it? Where will they put it? There's really no way to know, except by listening to this episode. And by watching the movie. But mostly listening to this episode. We also talk about things like class, policing, and NYC as an integral part of the plot. Enjoy!

And we're back! We've decided to begin 2024 with a series of good ol' fashioned (and perhaps some new-fashioned) heist movies, beginning of course with perhaps the silliest romp ever made, Con Air. Con Air stars Nicholas Cage as an Alabama soldier who is too powerful for regular laws and must be subjected to super laws when he nobly and selflessly* beats a man to death for flirting with his poor helpless wife and is sent to prison. Once released he becomes a passenger on "Con Air," a prison transport plane where we meet all sorts of attitudes toward prison and criminality (and Steve Buscemi is there!).

We can't say this movie is intentionally commenting on the prison industrial complex, but we can say that it is ridiculous and that we're mostly here for Nic Cage's accent.

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*this beating is neither noble nor selfless, and we tend to think he should have used his words/driven away in his car, which was RIGHT THERE.