Under the Wheels Episode 29: Wonder Woman 1984 and Invisible Man

Matt and Gabe discuss Wonder Woman 1984 and Invisible Man, both connected by a common thread - invisibility.

References:

• Bronson
• Elf
• The Breadwinner
• The Song of Sparrows
• The Chef Show
• Soul
• Megamind

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Under the Wheels Episode 28: Possessor and VFW

 

Matt, Austin, and Gabe discuss Brandon Cronenberg's new film Possessor, Jeff Bezos's film VFW, and video games. Lots of video games. And Best Damn Root Beer, if you would like to sponsor us please do.

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Under the Wheels Episode 27: The Problems with Mando (Season 2)

 

Matt, Gabe, and Austin try to dissect why the second season of The Mandalorean doesn't live up to the first season while also pondering what it means to "save Star Wars".

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Under The Wheels Episode 26: Mank

Gabe and Matt go old school to talk about David Fincher's new "biographical" "drama" Mank, where Matt stumbles upon pronouncing everything and Gabe can't pronounce Amanda Seyfried. They also get depressed about the impending top 10 of the year.

References:

• Wikipedia donate
• The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
• Ghost Dog
• Andrei Rublev
• The Crown
• Ludwig Goransson
• Orson Welles wine commercial
• Side by Side (Documentary)

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Under The Wheels Episode 25: Ghost of Tsushima

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Matt and Gabe slice and dice through the good, the bad, and the ugly of Ghost of Tsushima and try not to get Sucker Punched along the way (apologies for the terrible pun).

Mike's Youtube playlist of Ghost of Tsushima

Reference:

• Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
• Color out of Space
• Island of Dr. Moreau controversy
• Raymond Daniels sends someone's testicles to the Shadow Realm
• Bellator MMA
• Tenebre and Giallo
• In the Mood for Love and Wong Kar Wai
• Star Trek Beyond Zanzibarland
• Witness
• Over the Moon, Dear Basketball, and Glen Keane
• Apocalypse Now - The Final Cut
• Lindsay Ellis Borat Video

#prestigetelevision, #snydermoment

Under the Wheels Episode 24: The Haunting of Bly Manor

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Matt and Gabe attempt to unravel The Haunting of Bly Manor.

References:

• My Week with Marilyn
• Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
• The Exorcist
• Cruising
• Blue Velvet
• Henry James
• Who is the worst Chris
• Twin Peaks
• Twin Peaks, the Return
• The Knick
• Half in the Bag: Borat 2 and Haunting of Bly Manor

Under the Wheels Episode 23: The Efficient Beach Episode (ft. Nosferatu)

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In the filler episode of Under the Wheels, Matt and Gabe discuss Quibi, how Matt can't say Cerebus correctly, the legacy of Cerebus, the actual draw of Batman: The Killing Joke, an observation on the works of the late Stuart Gordon, a sidebar into the unrealized Honey I Shrunk the Kids sequels, a Rick Moranis Appreciation, Gabe's issue with the Superhero Movie Equivalent of 1950-60 (as well as the creepy age gap between some leading men and women), for some reason a long diatribe about musicals, John Lee Hancock (who Matt calls John Lee Miller for some reason), Gabe's famous "Tangential Biopic Theory" and why he hates it, an elongated discussion on The Natural, Greengrass's Greenzone, Jason Isaac's sometimes-regular radio appearances, a brief analysis of Neill Blomkamp, why the uncanny valley of practical effects look better than the uncanny valley of visual effects, the complete closure of any good movies coming out in theaters, a summary of some of the basic points of the novel Dune, Neal Adams Presents Hollow Earth Theory, Matt (once again) misses Gabe's metaphor completely, a small debate on positive, negative, and self help books, Athlete's relationship to God, quarterback talk, homosexuality in sports, and Matt's rant about the injustice of Zach Snyder's Justice League.

Discussion Links:

• Quibi goes under
• Dave Sim and Cerebus
• Gerhard Art - Excellent Background Artist
• Batman: The Killing Joke
• Bill Sienkiewicz - Fatman on Batman
• Kevin Nowlan on Twitter
• Reanimator and From Beyond
• Rick Moranis got Punched in New York?!?
• Funny Face
• The Rise and Epic Fall of the Hollywood Musical - Lindsay Ellis
• The Highwaymen
• The Natural
• Green Zone
• Elysium
• Bliss
• Batman Odyssey
• Russell Kirkpatrick
• The Secret
• Folding Ideas - The Snyder Cut

Special Edition - Some fun facts about Frank Sinatra:

1. He learned how to skateboard in the 1970's

2. He was married twice - his first wife died in the 1950's and he didn't remarry until the 1980's (though his wife was 45 years younger than him at the time)

3. He was so nuanced that he recorded the same dance sequence twice, on two different sets, and the two dances are almost identical movement-wise

4. He never thought he was good enough and couldn't watch his routines on film

5. He was to dance choreography as Hitchcock was to screenwriting - he rarely took credit but his influence was usually pretty large.

6. To keep costs down on film shoots (since film is expensive) he would spend 2 or 3 weeks rehearsing and training so they could get the whole thing in only a few takes.

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Under the Wheels Episode 22: Tenet and Devil All The Time

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Matt and Gabe discuss two films featuring Robert Pattinson as a supporting actor: Tenet and Devil All the Time.

Under the Wheels Episode 21: I'm Thinking of Ending Things

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Gabe and Matt dive deep into the mind of Charlie Kaufman and attempt to make meaning of his latest film I'm Thinking of Ending Things, not sponsored by Dairy Queen. Along the way, they stumble their way through how Mulan the Movie is having a direct negative effect on Hong Kong, they get demonetized and banned in China for... well, obvious reasons, Matt is wrong in most of the assumptions he makes, how movie theaters can make a killing on concessions by appealing to people's need to not wear a mask, the evolution of expensive food, a very strange tangent about Pauline Kael, the crazy theories around The Shining, how Gabe knows more about the flag physics of the moon than Matt, and the Roger Ebert video-games-as-art controversy.

Referenced:

Don't Look Now

Battles Without Honor and Humanity

Suburban Sasquatch

Heat

The Town

Bill and Ted Face the Music

Pauline Kael

The waving US Flag on the moon

Ad Astra

Under the Wheels Episode 20: The Old Guard

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Sponsored by Jif Peanut Butter (please?) - Matt and Gabe get back into movies made in 2020 with the "hit" Netflix movie "The Old Guard" starring Dudley Dursley from Harry Potter with some other somewhat famous international stars. Topics include how awesome Rutger Hauer is/was, Sly Stallone's steroid-enhanced Ego and his drag sensibilities, the odd style choices of Julie Taymore (and how they sometimes work), Vincent D'Onofrio's voice, the qualities of a biopic, the Under the Wheels version of a Harriet Tubman biopic, Brian Tyree Henry, Matt Damon through the years, poor execution of moral quandries, the makeup of good villains (and really lazy ones), a few of Gabe's rules for Action Scenes, multiple mentions of Rhiz Ahmed, the horrible new trend in movie soundtracks (not score), and answer some viewer questions!

Referenced on this Episode:

• The Night Hawk
• Frida
• FDR: American Badass!
• If Beale Street Could Talk
• Rounders
• Amadeus
• H. Bomberguy RWBY video