Two for Space Jam, Please Cheryl Quimba and Joe Hall

Wooboy. Buckle up, folks. This ain't going to be pretty.

It started with a student story about phrogging. It ended with us watching a 20-year-old Korean movie that had us reflecting on class, small appliance repair, and the utter beauty of not talking.

Dune: Part Two was a Dud: Part Two. We have our reasons.

This was (obviously) a heavy conversation. We covered the banality of evil, the ways we remember atrocity, familial protectionism, gradations of complicity, small acts of resistance, and the practice of viewing present-day horrors through the lens of future generations. It's a lot. We muddle through, together.

The chilly, cerebral courtroom thriller Anatomy of a Fall dares to ask -- Is marriage itself a complex exercise in litigation? (Follow-up question: Does blasting a 50 Cent song at eardrum-blasting volumes justify murder??)

Are kitchen appliances sexy? What does bisexual lighting mean in 2023? We're asking the tough questions, folks. Our instigator - Please Baby Please, a movie so campy it should come with its own three-person tent.