Film Disquisition
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Nov 28, 2017
Film Disquisition Vol 2 Ep 3: Cold Creek Manor
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Volume 2
Kristen Stewart: An Exhaustive Examination
Episode 3: Cold Creek Manor (2003)
Kristen Tilson is a moody kid living in the big city with her parents and younger brother. One day, after her disobedient brother darts into traffic on the way to school and is nearly killed by a SUV, her family decides to move to the country to get away from it all. They relocate to Cold Creek Manor, a rustic residence with a mysteriously retro vibe whose previous tenants left in a hurry. In addition to the cool new digs, Kristen also gets a pony named Chester!
During a game of hide and seek with her brother, Kristen comes upon a wooden sign reading "evil," which kind of ruins the whole vibe of the day for her. Bad omens continue for Kristen when a snake spooks her and her brother in the outdoor pool. Fortunately, they are saved by Dale, the former resident of the home, who recently returned from a stint in prison and is now employed…
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Nov 11, 2017
Film Disquisition Vol 2 Ep 1: The Safety of Objects
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Kristen Stewart: An Exhaustive Examination
Episode 1: The Safety of Objects (2001)
Sam Jennings is a semi-rebellious moody youth who just wants to go to summer camp, but her mom can't afford it.
She lives in the suburbs, but hangs out in the woods, where she smokes cigarettes with her friend Sally. Also they have cool midnight pool parties with the new kid in town.
One day, her estranged father returns to town after 4 months to announce he's getting remarried. Sam and her younger sister aren't thrilled. When approached by her father about moving with him to Mexico, Sam runs away. However, she soon finds herself in some real danger when the neighborhood lawn care guy kidnaps her via trickery and takes her to his garbage home. Turns out the weirdo dude was traumatized by the death of his young brother and so he kidnaps kids his brother's age in some sort of terribly misguided attempt to relive the night if his d…
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Mar 4, 2017
Film Disquisition Vol 1 Ep 2: Accepted
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Blake Lively: An Exhaustive Examination
Episode 2 - Accepted (2006)
Monica Moreland is an ambitious 1st year student at Harmon College with a passion for photography. Her life is thrown into chaos when her older boyfriend - the head of the campus fraternity at Harmon - is revealed to be cheating on her.
Fortunately, her next door neighbor, Bartlelby, from high school - now attending South Harmon Institute of Technology (SHIT) - is there to support her interests and individual agency. Soon a new romance has blossomed.
She transfers to SHIT, which appeals to her more free spirited and progressive nature, to pursue her aspirations in photography.
But Monica's trusting nature is once again exploited and her spirit wounded when it's revealed that SHIT is not a real school, but a fiction created by Bartlelby after he was rejected by all the colleges to which he applied.
Monica learns to trust again once Bartlelby…
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Feb 18, 2017
Film Disquisition Vol 1 Ep 1: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
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Blake Lively: An Exhaustive Examination
Episode 1 - The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005)
Four best girlfriends hatch a plan to stay connected with one another as their lives start off in different directions: they pass around a pair of secondhand jeans that fits each of their bodies perfectly. (IMDb)
Join Vanessa and Toben on an academic and well-researched quest to answer one of the most pressing cinematic questions of our time: what's the best movie Blake Lively's ever been in? During volume one of this series, they will watch - in chronological order - every single major motion picture featuring the actress Blake Lively. At the end of each episode, an updated ranking of Blake Lively movies will be determined, until the inevitable conclusion.
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Hosts: Vanessa (http://twitter.com/the_virago) and Toben (http://twitter.com/pursuedbyabeard)
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Film Disquisition Vol 3: Fifty Pills
Gracie is a peppy, pearl-necklace-wearing college student who is interested in super lower middle class Darren. Unfortunately, Darren is hard up for funds and on academic probation so their time together isn't exactly filled with fun dates. It becomes clear that Darren is going through a very hard time when he isn't even able to go for a walk due to having sold his winter coat for cash to pay his tuition. Gracie becomes suspicious of Darren's behavior when she begins hearing rumors that Darren is selling drugs. One night, she calls him and pretends to be some rando looking for an Ecstasy hookup and when he confirms that he has some pills available she catches him. Gracie does forgive him and in the end is finally able to go on that walk with Darren and they take a selfie together with a disposable camera- Gracie thinks in a cute, couple way, but Darren has ulterior motives to assuage his parents fears and prove that he is not gay.
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Film Disquisition Vol 3: Deepwater
Jodi (?) is a sweet, caring nurse who takes an interest in her patient Nat's ostrich farm dreams... they are definitely dreams, because Jodi is actually an aid in a psychiatric hospital and Nat is very, very unwell.
Space Money Octagon Presents The Filmography Disquisition Series Volume 3 Kristen Bell: An Exhaustive Examination
Join co-hosts Vanessa and Toben as they journey through an actor's filmography in an effort to definitively determine that actor's best movie, using a very real and refined review process. In Volume 3 of the series, Vanessa and Toben are seeking out the best Kristen Bell movie.
Check out the current rankings.
Contact: filmdisq@gmail.com (emails may be read on the show)
Hosts: Vanessa and Toben
Music: Mozart's Bassoon Concerto in B Flat Major, K. 191 - I. Allegro performed by the Skidmore College Orchestra
Intro voice performance: @iamastove
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Film Disquisition Vol 3: Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical
Mary Lane is a true E-flat Dillinger! Living in a world of moldy figs, Mary Lane is a good girl who is basically the American Standard when it comes to being an upstanding citizen. That is until her boyfriend, Jimmy, begins acting suspicious. One night, Jimmy comes to her window and wakes her up. He acknowledges that he's been acting odd - even admitting to gaining weight when he tries to give her his class ring and can't get it off his finger - but Mary doesn't care. They reaffirm their relationship- comparing themselves to another pair of star crossed lovers (Romeo & Juliet) - and Mary promises to run away with him. When she returns from packing, Jimmy is being swept away in a strange car and so she follows. Unbeknownst to her, she winds up at the dope den where Jimmy has been partaking in reefer! There she meets Ralph who she THINKS is a suave college frat boy and he convinces her to try her first joint, though she believes it to be a cigarette. From there she devolves into an S&M v…
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Film Disquisition Vol 3: Spartan
Laura Newton is the neglected daughter of a high ranking US official. She is captured by a sex slavery ring based out of Dubai and waits to be rescued. Back home in the US, Laura is declared as dead. Eventually, clever Robert Scott, a Delta Force soldier finds her and concocts a plan using shipping containers to get her out of the country. Before the evening of the escape, they lay low at a safe house and Laura confides in Robert that her father - the high ranking US official - never had her best interests at heart. Her father was the one who pulled her security detail the night of her kidnapping to protect himself during one of his multiple extramarital affairs. Later that night, everything goes sideways during the escape to the shipping containers when it turns out that Robert has been tracked by his own team, sent to sabotage the rescue mission to protect the president from the bad press this will bring. A fight ensues between the soldiers as a Swedish news crew watches. Laura is ab…
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Film Disquisition Vol 2 Ep 40: Happiest Season
Abby isn't particularly excited by the Christmas season, despite the efforts of her long term girlfriend, Harper. One night, after some troublemaking in Pittsburgh, Abby - who is on the verge of proposing - accepts Harper's invitation to come home with her for Christmas and meet her family. Abby's expectations for the holiday are soon upended, though, when Harper reveals that she's not yet come out as gay to her family and, due to her father's political aspirations, doesn't feel like she can do so until after the holidays. Abby, who now must pretend to be Harper's straight roommate, finds herself entangled in a web of lies and begins questioning whether Harper is truly the right person for her. After tensions and secrets boil over at the family white elephant gift exchange, and Harper denies their relationship, Abby decides to break things off and return to Pittsburgh. While refueling at a gas station, Abby is confronted by a contrite Harper, who reveals she has finally come out to her…
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Film Disquisition Vol 2 Ep 39: Underwater
Nora is a pessimistic mechanical engineer at the deep-sea drilling facility Kepler in the Mariana Trench. One day, disaster strikes when a strong earthquake causes a pressure breach, leaving many of the station's crew dead. With only a half hour to evacuate before the whole station explodes, Nora and a small group of survivors gear up for a seafloor walk to the next station where escape pods await to take them to the surface. The deadly water pressure is not all that threatens the remaining crew, though, as mysterious creatures soon attack, killing several more people. By the time they make it to the escape pods, just Nora and two other survivors remain...but so does one more massive danger: a giant Cthulhu-esque creature! In a final act of heroic sacrifice, Nora stays behind and overloads the station's engine core - destroying the monster and allowing the other survivors to reach the surface.
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Film Disquisition Vol 2 Ep 36: JT LeRoy
Savannah is new to San Francisco and has just moved in with her older brother and his girlfriend, Laura. One night after a party, Laura reveals to Savannah that she is secretly a best-selling author writing under the pseudonym JT LeRoy. Soon Savannah is roped into pretending to be JT for interviews and photoshoots. Before she knows it, she's meeting with an actress who wants to turn JT's book into a movie. As the stakes grow higher, Savannah's relationship with Laura frays as the two struggle over ownership of JT. Once the ruse is finally revealed, Savannah and Laura are able to make peace and go their separate ways amicably.
Space Money Octagon Presents The Filmography Disquisition Series Volume 2 Kristen Stewart: An Exhaustive Examination
Join co-hosts Vanessa and Toben as they journey through an actor's filmography in an effort to definitively determine that actor's best movie, using a very real and refined review process. In Volume 2 of the series, Vanessa and Toben are seeking…
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Film Disquisition Vol 2 Ep 32: Café Society
Vonnie is an assistant at a Hollywood talent agency, where she is secretly dating her boss, Phil. One day she's tasked with showing Bobby, her boss' nephew from New York City, around town. They hit it off and begin to hang out regularly. A romance then blossoms after Vonnie and Phil break up. Soon, Vonnie is considering marriage and moving to New York with Bobby. But her feelings for Phil still linger, and - when he leaves his wife for good - Vonnie decides to marry Phil. Years (?) later, Vonnie and Phil visit New York City and stop by the nightclub that Bobby now manages with his brother. Vonnie and Bobby get reacquainted, reminisce about their previous romance, and eventually reveal that they often still think of each other and what might have been. After sharing a kiss in Central Park, the two return to their own lives and families. As a new year begins, Vonnie's mind wanders and she wonders if she made the right choices in her life.
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Film Disquisition Vol 2 Ep 26: Clouds of Sils Maria
Clouds of Sils Maria Valentine is the personal assistant to Maria Enders, an actress traveling to accept an award on behalf of reclusive playwright Wilhelm Melchior, whose play was Enders' breakout role. En route to Zurich, Valentine and Maria get word that Wilhelm has died. While at the award ceremony-turned-memorial, Valentine convinces Maria to meet with a director about returning to the play that made her famous. Over the next several weeks, Valentine helps Maria prepare for the role, running lines and exchanging ideas about the themes and meaning of the play. Their perspectives differ on many things, including the potential of the actress set to play the role a younger Maria once did. One day, while on a hike, Valentine and Maria are arguing once more over the play and interpretations of it... then Valentine vanishes, never to be seen by Maria again.
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Film Disquisition Vol 2 Ep 23: On the Road
Space Money Octagon Presents The Filmography Disquisition Series Volume 2 Kristen Stewart: An Exhaustive Examination
On the Road (2012) Marylou is chill 16 year old bride who knows how to roll her own joints. She's married to Dean, an adult man, who apparently taught her how to roll joints. One day, Dean leaves for Denver and takes a mistress. A year or so later, she's still kind of with Dean, and travels with him to visit their friend Sal for Thanksgiving in North Carolina. Soon they're all on the road together, heading to New York City to ring in the new year of 1949. Around this time, Marylou hooks with Sal, but everyone's cool with it as Dean is pretty clearly into open relationships. Marylou, Dean, and Sal hit the road once more, this time bound for San Francisco - with a short detour to return a husband to his wife on Louisiana. As they head west, Marylou worries Dean will leave her once they arrive in San Francisco. She also reveals her desire to settle down and have a child, w…
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Film Disquisition Vol 3: Safety Not Guaranteed
Belinda is a nice woman who lives in a cute house in the Pacific Northwest. One day, a mysterious woman knocks on her door and questions Belinda on Kenneth, a past love interest. Or friend. Belinda seems embarrassed by the questions, and defensively tells the other woman that Kenneth wasn't the type of guy to bring around friends and family because he was odd. In fact, she tells the other woman, she hasn't seen Kenneth since he crashed into her front lawn a few years back. The mysterious woman leaves, and Belinda has no clarity on what just happened.
Space Money Octagon Presents The Filmography Disquisition Series Volume 3 Kristen Bell: An Exhaustive Examination
Join co-hosts Vanessa and Toben as they journey through an actor's filmography in an effort to definitively determine that actor's best movie, using a very real and refined review process. In Volume 3 of the series, Vanessa and Toben are seeking out the best Kristen Bell movie.
View the current rankings.
Contact: filmdisq@gmail.com (emails may be read on the show)
Hosts: Vanessa and Toben
Music: Mozart's Bassoon Concerto in B Flat Major, K. 191 - I. Allegro performed by the Skidmore College Orchestra
Intro voice performance: @iamastove
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Film Disquisition Vol 3: Serious Moonlight
Sarah is a cute, entitled girl, playing house with a married man named Ian. Sarah is excited for two things: for Ian to break it off once and for all with his wife and to go to Paris with Ian and begin their life together. All that is thrown into chaos, however, when Sarah comes looking for Ian at his home on the morning of their flight and finds herself jumped by robbers. She ends up duct-tapped and scared, locked away in the upstairs bathroom with her lover - AND his wife. Sarah throws a temper tantrum at finding the two physically close and begins flaunting her fancy bracelets that Ian has bought her and telling Louise that's she's his little Russian doll. Finally, it becomes clear that Ian - through the shared trauma with his wife - has decided to reconcile with her and leave Sarah. Sarah walks out of their house with one last longing look.
Space Money Octagon Presents The Filmography Disquisition Series Volume 3 Kristen Bell: An Exhaustive Examination
Join co-hosts Vanessa and Toben as they journey through an actor's filmography in an effort to definitively determine that actor's best movie, using a very real and refined review process. In Volume 3 of the series, Vanessa and Toben are seeking out the best Kristen Bell movie.
View the current rankings.
Contact: filmdisq@gmail.com (emails may be read on the show)
Hosts: Vanessa and Toben
Music: Mozart's Bassoon Concerto in B Flat Major, K. 191 - I. Allegro performed by the Skidmore College Orchestra
Intro voice performance: @iamastove
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Film Disquisition Vol 3: Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Sarah Marshall is a cute, but insecure, actress who breaks up with her schlubby sad boyfriend. She is also a little sad herself.
Space Money Octagon Presents The Filmography Disquisition Series Volume 3 Kristen Bell: An Exhaustive Examination
Join co-hosts Vanessa and Toben as they journey through an actor's filmography in an effort to definitively determine that actor's best movie, using a very real and refined review process. In Volume 3 of the series, Vanessa and Toben are seeking out the best Kristen Bell movie.
Check out the current rankings.
Contact: filmdisq@gmail.com (emails may be read on the show)
Hosts: Vanessa and Toben
Music: Mozart's Bassoon Concerto in B Flat Major, K. 191 - I. Allegro performed by the Skidmore College Orchestra
Intro voice performance: @iamastove
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Film Disquisition Vol 2 Ep 38: Charlie’s Angels
Sabina Wilson is a cool, quirky heiress with a great fashion sense and killer haircut, working as a field agent for the Charles Townsend Agency - a global spy organization. One day in France, she's assigned a mission to help get info from a whistleblower regarding a potentially deadly piece of energy conservation technology. Once the mission goes sideways and the tech goes missing, Sabina and her partners must go off the grid to make things right while also trying to uncover a mole in the agency. Several outfit changes and a dance sequence later, Sabina and the gang save the day with minimal casualties.
Space Money Octagon Presents The Filmography Disquisition Series Volume 2 Kristen Stewart: An Exhaustive Examination
Join co-hosts Vanessa and Toben as they journey through an actor's filmography in an effort to definitively determine that actor's best movie, using a very real and refined review process. In Volume 2 of the series, Vanessa and Toben are seeking out the best Kristen S…
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Film Disquisition Vol 2 Ep 37: Seberg
Actress Jean Seberg is returning to California from France, where she is kind of a big deal. On her flight, she meets Hakim Jamal - a civil rights activist who's is in a coalition with the Black Panthers. Seberg soon allies herself with the cause, offering financial support and serving as a host for several meetings. She also strikes up a romance with Hakim, but their affair alienates them both from the Black Panthers and their families. Further complicating matters are Jean's growing suspicions that she's being spied on. Now a paranoid and nervous wreck, Jean has her suspicions confirmed when a young FBI agent reveals that she's been targeted by the feds for her association with Hakim and the Black Panthers. With this knowledge weighing on her, Jean returns to France - and never works in America again.
Space Money Octagon Presents The Filmography Disquisition Series Volume 2 Kristen Stewart: An Exhaustive Examination
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Film Disquisition Vol 2 Ep 35: Lizzie
Bridget Sullivan is the new maid for the Borden family in Fall River, Massachusetts. She quickly strikes up a friendship with the Bordens' adult daughter Lizzie, thanks to a shared interest in reading. As Bridget and Lizzie grow closer, Bridget's relationship with the family patriarch becomes troubled and abusive, adding to growing discord in the Borden home. Bridget and Lizzie's interest in each other soon becomes romantic, but once Mr. Borden discovers their relationship, he forbids them from spending time together. Bridget is then brought in to a murder plot by Lizzie, and becomes an accomplice to the murder of Mr. and Mrs. Borden. Following Lizzie's arrest, Bridget testifies in Lizzie's defense, then leaves Fall River.
Space Money Octagon Presents The Filmography Disquisition Series Volume 2 Kristen Stewart: An Exhaustive Examination
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Film Disquisition Vol 3: Stuck in Love
Tricia is a rich, bored trophy wife who loves long runs on the beach and sleeping with sad men. William is her current project and in between friends-with- benefits stuff she helps him set up a dating profile.
Space Money Octagon Presents The Filmography Disquisition Series Volume 3 Kristen Bell: An Exhaustive Examination
Join co-hosts Vanessa and Toben as they journey through an actor's filmography in an effort to definitively determine that actor's best movie, using a very real and refined review process. In Volume 3 of the series, Vanessa and Toben are seeking out the best Kristen Bell movie.
View the current rankings.
Contact: filmdisq@gmail.com (emails may be read on the show)
Hosts: Vanessa and Toben
Music: Mozart's Bassoon Concerto in B Flat Major, K. 191 - I. Allegro performed by the Skidmore College Orchestra
Intro voice performance: @iamastove
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Film Disquisition Vol 3: Hit and Run
Annie is a sweet and sassy sociologist bent on advancing her academic career and loving Charlie, her uncouth, yet lovable boyfriend with a past. When Annie gets the opportunity to interview for a dream job out of town, Charlie takes it upon himself to escort her even though he's not supposed to leave town since he's in the witness protection program. While they playfully argue - and Annie schools him on his foul language - it comes to light that Charlie used to be a criminal and Annie feels betrayed. Several car chases and a bag of money in a field later - they reconcile and ride off into the sunset.
Space Money Octagon Presents The Filmography Disquisition Series Volume 3 Kristen Bell: An Exhaustive Examination
Join co-hosts Vanessa and Toben as they journey through an actor's filmography in an effort to definitively determine that actor's best movie, using a very real and refined review process. In Volume 3 of the series, Vanessa and Toben are seeking out the best Kristen Bell movie.
View the current rankings.
Contact: filmdisq@gmail.com (emails may be read on the show)
Hosts: Vanessa and Toben
Music: Mozart's Bassoon Concerto in B Flat Major, K. 191 - I. Allegro performed by the Skidmore College Orchestra
Intro voice performance: @iamastove
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Film Disquisition Vol 2 Ep 34: Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk
Kathryn Lynn is nearly fully recovered from a car wreck that almost killed her just before her younger brother Billy enlisted in the Army. Billy returns after a harrowing mission in Iraq, now viewed as a hero, but Kathryn is concerned that there's more to the story about what happened. She's even more concerned that Billy is possibly suffering from PTSD. Kathryn recommends that Billy see a therapist and consider seeking a discharge so he doesn't have to go back to Iraq. As Billy attends a Thanksgiving football game, Kathryn organizes a plan to get him help and out of the Army. Ultimately, though, Billy decides to return to Iraq with his squad, leaving Kathryn worried about his future.
Space Money Octagon Presents The Filmography Disquisition Series Volume 2 Kristen Stewart: An Exhaustive Examination
Join co-hosts Vanessa and Toben as they journey through an actor's filmography in an effort to definitively determine that actor's best movie, using a very real and refined review proc…
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Film Disquisition Vol 3: Big Miracle
Jill Jerard is a news anchor trying to catch her big break. She's hungry for the story that will push her to the big leagues so when an opportunity presents itself to head up to the top of the world to cover a story, she is the first to volunteer. The story she is sent to cover is about 3 grey whales trapped in the ice and unable to migrate south for the winter. Once in Alaska, Jill has to contend with the weather, the opportunistic youth and Adam, the reporter who sparked the world's interest in the story. Everything is going smoothly for Jill until her coarse, professional attitude puts her at odds with Adam and the emotion surrounding the story of the trapped whale family. That's okay though because Jill only has to put in another half decade of work before she finally makes it!
Space Money Octagon Presents The Filmography Disquisition Series Volume 3 Kristen Bell: An Exhaustive Examination
Join co-hosts Vanessa and Toben as they journey through an actor's filmography in an effort to definitively determine that actor's best movie, using a very real and refined review process. In Volume 3 of the series, Vanessa and Toben are seeking out the best Kristen Bell movie.
View the current rankings.
Contact: filmdisq@gmail.com (emails may be read on the show)
Hosts: Vanessa and Toben
Music: Mozart's Bassoon Concerto in B Flat Major, K. 191 - I. Allegro performed by the Skidmore College Orchestra
Intro voice performance: @iamastove
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Film Disquisition Vol 3: Burlesque
Nikki is a mean-spirited burlesque dancer with a drinking problem. She's used to being the main attraction at the club and when new girl Ali comes in with some smooth dance moves and a large voice, Nikki is enraged and tries to sabotage her. Unfortunately for Nikki, her plan backfires and this pushes Ali to inadvertently be the star of the show. Nikki leaves the troupe in a fury but ends up returning for a big show because the club is her home.
Space Money Octagon Presents The Filmography Disquisition Series Volume 3 Kristen Bell: An Exhaustive Examination
Join co-hosts Vanessa and Toben as they journey through an actor's filmography in an effort to definitively determine that actor's best movie, using a very real and refined review process. In Volume 3 of the series, Vanessa and Toben are seeking out the best Kristen Bell movie.
View the current rankings.
Contact: filmdisq@gmail.com (emails may be read on the show)
Hosts: Vanessa and Toben
Music: Mozart's Bassoon Concerto in B Flat Major, K. 191 - I. Allegro performed by the Skidmore College Orchestra
Intro voice performance: @iamastove
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Film Disquisition Vol 3: You Again
Marni is a successful adult woman who has shaken off a dark past of being bullied by the head cheerleader in high school. She thought her days of greasy bangs, pimples and general awkwardness were over until her brother shocks her with the news that he is marrying Joanna - you guessed it - the tormentor of her formative years. Marni decides that the best tactic is to just address their old issues head on but is shocked when Joanna claims to have no memory of her. Marni spends the week leading up to the wedding suffering one humiliation after another at the hands of Joanna until finally she leverages (in the middle of the rehearsal dinner) an old high school tape of Joanna showing her true colors. Her brother is disgusted with both of them and Marni realizes that her underhanded trick with the tape was just as bad as Joanna's own behavior. Finally able to make up, Marni walks Joanna down the aisle and gains a sister.
Space Money Octagon Presents The Filmography Disquisition Series Volume 3 Kristen Bell: An Exhaustive Examination
Join co-hosts Vanessa and Toben as they journey through an actor's filmography in an effort to definitively determine that actor's best movie, using a very real and refined review process. In Volume 3 of the series, Vanessa and Toben are seeking out the best Kristen Bell movie.
View the current rankings.
Contact: filmdisq@gmail.com (emails may be read on the show)
Hosts: Vanessa and Toben
Music: Mozart's Bassoon Concerto in B Flat Major, K. 191 - I. Allegro performed by the Skidmore College Orchestra
Intro voice performance: @iamastove
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Film Disquisition Vol 3: When in Rome
Beth is a type A older sister with a distaste for love. When her younger sister has a shotgun wedding in Rome, Beth heads there reluctantly. She is more concerned with her upcoming art show than her sister's sudden nuptials. During the wedding, sparks fly between Beth and Nick, the best man. Just when Beth is about to take a chance on the attraction, she spies Nick with a saucy Italian woman in a red dress and she gives up on the notion completely and finishes out the night alone, in a city fountain, downing a bottle of wine. In her despair, she plucks several coins from the fountain and unknowingly curses herself with a love spell that binds the casters of the coins to her. Back in NYC she is bombarded by a magician, a model, a meats-man and an artist. And Nick. They hunt her down, infiltrating her day-to-day life bombarding her with art, magic tricks, baskets of meats and promises of love. Her honeymooning sister is able to inform her about the magic of the fountain and how to reverse the curse. She must return each coin to the person who threw it in. All the coins returned, she reluctantly gives Nick back his poker chip that she believes he threw into the fountain that night in Rome. When his adoration of her seems legit, they get married in Rome. There's a whole mix-up with the priest and another poker chip but it doesn't matter because they still get married.
Space Money Octagon Presents The Filmography Disquisition Series Volume 3 Kristen Bell: An Exhaustive Examination
Join co-hosts Vanessa and Toben as they journey through an actor's filmography in an effort to definitively determine that actor's best movie, using a very real and refined review process. In Volume 3 of the series, Vanessa and Toben are seeking out the best Kristen Bell movie.
View the current rankings.
Contact: filmdisq@gmail.com (emails may be read on the show)
Hosts: Vanessa and Toben
Music: Mozart's Bassoon Concerto in B Flat Major, K. 191 - I. Allegro performed by the Skidmore College Orchestra
Intro voice performance: @iamastove
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Film Disquisition Vol 3: Astro Boy
Cora is a secret Metro City girl who resides on earth, scavenging and refurbishing robots. Earth, which has been turned into a junkyard by all the rich people who live in the clouds, is where she meets Astro Boy, a misfit metro city drop out. He fits right in with Cora and her band of dirty scavengers, and helps them rebuild a giant robot named Zog. However, Hamegg the leader of the orphans, reveals Astro Boy to be a robot and Cora is betrayed. However, after the final battle against the Peace Keeper, Cora and Astro Boy are able to hug it out.
Space Money Octagon Presents The Filmography Disquisition Series Volume 3 Kristen Bell: An Exhaustive Examination
Join co-hosts Vanessa and Toben as they journey through an actor's filmography in an effort to definitively determine that actor's best movie, using a very real and refined review process. In Volume 3 of the series, Vanessa and Toben are seeking out the best Kristen Bell movie.
View the current rankings.
Contact: filmdisq@gmail.com (emails may be read on the show)
Hosts: Vanessa and Toben
Music: Mozart's Bassoon Concerto in B Flat Major, K. 191 - I. Allegro performed by the Skidmore College Orchestra
Intro voice performance: @iamastove
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Film Disquisition Vol 3: Couples Retreat
Cynthia's marriage is failing due to being unable to conceive and also because both her and her husband are Type-A to the extreme. In a last ditch effort to save their marriage they concoct a plan to get their friends together and go to a resort called Eden, where world class therapists, food, adventures and fun await. While their friends are hesitant about the therapy portion of the resort, they do all go to the island together. At dinner that night everyone realizes - as a hardbound agenda is passed around - that the bulk of their time will be spent in therapy and other relationship building programs. Only Cynthia and Jason are excited about this. Because they are both so afraid of failure and imperfection - they have come prepared with lists of their issues, what they believe they should work on and what they'd like the end result to be. Their therapist sees right through this and eventually gets them to name their emotions. Cynthia feels judged. From that moment on their relationship is strained throughout the bulk of their skill building therapy sessions as Cynthia begins to realize that she is not happy in her marriage. Towards the end of their stay, they may make a daring trek to Hump Island (the sister resort for people looking for hookups) in the middle of a storm to help their friend get his girlfriend back, however, Cynthia is so over Jason that she splits off with the other ladies in her group to enjoy the club atmosphere and to cut loose. It is there that Jason finds her and asks for forgiveness at failing her. They make up, make out and go jet skiing!
Space Money Octagon Presents The Filmography Disquisition Series Volume 3 Kristen Bell: An Exhaustive Examination
Join co-hosts Vanessa and Toben as they journey through an actor's filmography in an effort to definitively determine that actor's best movie, using a very real and refined review process. In Volume 3 of the series, Vanessa and Toben are seeking out the best Kristen Bell movie.
View the current rankings.
Contact: filmdisq@gmail.com (emails may be read on the show)
Hosts: Vanessa and Toben
Music: Mozart's Bassoon Concerto in B Flat Major, K. 191 - I. Allegro performed by the Skidmore College Orchestra
Intro voice performance: @iamastove
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Film Disquisition Vol 3: Fanboys
Zoe is a smart-mouthed nerd working at a comic book store with her secret crush - a clueless boy named "Windows." Her job consists of fielding sexual harassment from her friends and patrons, keeping her Star Wars obsessed friend group in line and basically saving their skins more than once. Zoe struggles to articulate her feelings to Windows, after all she's not like other girls - in fact, she is not a girl at all! - she likes James Bond! And Star Wars! And Zelda! Things no other girl has ever enjoyed. Or, at least, that's how Windows and the rest of the guys treat her. Zoe ends up saving the day and rescuing her friends in the middle of their road trip to break into Skywalker Ranch. She joins them for the rest of the trip and helps them break into the centcom of all things George Lucas - the well guarded Skywalker Ranch. There, they hope to be able to watch Episode I with their friend Linus as he has entered into his last days from a long sickness. When they get caught by the guards…
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Film Disquisition Vol 2 Ep 30: Equals
Nia is a quiet, thoughtful young lady who secretly has feelings and emotions. One day, she discovers that a colleague, Silas, is also developing feelings and emotions. Soon they start hooking up, which really complicates things at their workplace and in the emotionless utopian community they live in known as The Collective. When hiding their feelings become too much, Nia and Silas consider running away together into the unknown. When The Collective announces a cure for the "disease" of emotions, Nia and Silas put their plan into action - but it's soon derailed by the revelation that Nia is pregnant. Nia escapes the clutches of the medical authorities thanks to the help of a few others who also have feelings, but she's mistakenly believed by Silas to dead. When they finally reunite, Silas has been given the cure, with only a few hours left to be himself with Nia. They decide to continue with their escape plan, leaving The Collective for an uncertain future together.
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Film Disquisition Vol 3: Roman
"Isis" is a young, nice girl. Of course, a man gets obsessed with her and thinks he knows her. And fantasizes about what a cool, sweet dreamboat she is. And then he kills her. What a nightmare.
Space Money Octagon Presents The Filmography Disquisition Series Volume 3 Kristen Bell: An Exhaustive Examination
Join co-hosts Vanessa and Toben as they journey through an actor's filmography in an effort to definitively determine that actor's best movie, using a very real and refined review process. In Volume 3 of the series, Vanessa and Toben are seeking out the best Kristen Bell movie.
Check out the current rankings.
Contact: filmdisq@gmail.com (emails may be read on the show)
Hosts: Vanessa and Toben
Music: Mozart's Bassoon Concerto in B Flat Major, K. 191 - I. Allegro performed by the Skidmore College Orchestra
Intro voice performance: @iamastove
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Film Disquisition Vol 3: Gracie’s Choice
Gracie Thompson is a street urchin-like young lady who has to pick up the slack of her addict mother. She becomes the head of household (along with her grandma) for her four younger half siblings while her mother jumps from one toxic relationship to the next and does a stint in jail. After beginning a new relationship, finding advocates in the school staff and taking on a job, Gracie begins to find some stability in her life, but when her mother shows back up and browbeats her grandma into giving up the caretaker funds, Gracie sues for her emancipation and caretaking rights for her brothers (her sister gets pregnant and moves in with her boyfriend) and begins life balancing a relationship, the needs of young children, her job - she gets promoted! - and school. Somehow she manages to do it and in the end battles it out in court to formally adopt her brothers. With her mother's parental rights revoked, the judge grants Gracie the adoption of her brothers. They walk out of the court with…
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Film Disquisition Vol 2 Bonus Episode
Vanessa and Toben chat about Kristen Stewart's appearances on SNL, Hot Ones, and a Netflix short film, then solidify the definitive rankings of the best Kristen Stewart movies, and finally announce the subject of volume 3.
Space Money Octagon Presents The Filmography Disquisition Series Volume 2 Kristen Stewart: An Exhaustive Examination
Join co-hosts Vanessa and Toben as they journey through an actor's filmography in an effort to definitively determine that actor's best movie, using a very real and refined review process. In Volume 2 of the series, Vanessa and Toben are seeking out the best Kristen Stewart movie.
Current Rankings:
* Camp X-Ray
* Clouds of Sils Maria
* Personal Shopper
* Charlie's Angels
* Underwater
* Happiest Season
* JT LeRoy
* The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2
* Seberg
* Still Alice
* Anesthesia
* Speak
* Lizzie
* Snow White and the Huntsman
* Equals
* Welcome to the Rileys
* The Runaways
* American Ultra
* Café Soci…
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Film Disquisition Vol 2 Ep 29: American Ultra
American Ultra Phoebe is an undercover CIA agent who, for the past five years, has been tasked with keeping Mike Howell safe - and within the city limits of Liman, West Virginia. Unbeknownst to Mike, but beknowst to Phoebe, Mike was part of a mothballed experimental CIA project to create super sleeper agents. One day, Mike informs Phoebe that he's killed two men who attacked him at work. Phoebe and Mike are soon brought in to the sheriff's department for questioning, but before they can explain what's happened, the department is besieged by CIA contract goons trying to eliminate Mike. Phoebe blows her cover to save Mike's life, but the revelation of her covert life damages his trust in her. When the CIA brings Phoebe in, it's revealed that she was Mike's handler when he was first inducted into the experimental program, and her feelings for him are indeed real. Phoebe and Mike escape with their lives, get married, and later return to the field - running operations their way.
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Film Disquisition Vol 2 Ep 24: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2
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Space Money Octagon Presents The Filmography Disquisition Series Volume 2 Kristen Stewart: An Exhaustive Examination
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 Bella is a horny strong vampire mom now.
Join Vanessa and Toben as they journey through an actor's filmography, chronologically, in an effort to definitively determine that actor's best movie. In Volume 2 of the series, Vanessa and Toben are seeking out the best Kristen Stewart movie.
Current Rankings:
* Snow White and the Huntsman
* Speak
* Welcome to the Rileys
* The Runaways
* The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1
* Adventureland
* The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
* The Twilight Saga: New Moon
* Zathura
* On The Road
* Panic Room
* Twilight
* The Yellow Handkerchief
* The Messengers
* The Safety of Objects
* Fierce People
* In The Land of Women
* Into The Wild
* Cold Creek Manor
* Catch That Kid
* The Cake Eaters
* Jumper
* What Just Happened…
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Film Disquisition Vol 2 Ep 21: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1
Space Money Octagon Presents The Filmography Disquisition Series Volume 2 Kristen Stewart: An Exhaustive Examination
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 (2011)
Bella Swan is cool, chill bride-to-be, eagerly awaiting her upcoming big day when she'll get married to Edward and/or become a vampire. Despite revelations that Edward is a murderer, Bella is still gun-ho for the wedding ... which is happening right now, apparently! They're married now! At the reception, Bella meets the vampire cousins from Alaska before undergoing a barrage of speeches and a surprise visit from Jacob, who is cool for like 5 minutes before getting weird and protective about Bella's safety during the upcoming "marital rights" time. After the wedding, Bella and Edward jet off to Rio, then to a secluded island, where they swim underneath the moonlight before engaging in sexual congress for the first time. Following the best night of their lives, Bella and Edward share an awkward conversation about bedroom…
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Film Disquisition Vol 2 Ep 33: Personal Shopper
Maureen spends her days employed as a personal shopper in Paris; at night she moonlights as a supernatural medium, seeking to connect with the spirit of her recently deceased brother, Lewis. After a brief encounter with an unknown spirit at Lewis' former home, Maureen tries to make a stronger connection - eventually drawing an angry spirit out of the house. Later, Maureen is contacted via text messages by an unknown entity, asking her probing questions about her fears and other personal issues. Soon Maureen is caught up in a murder investigation involving her employer. Are supernatural forces at work? Or are the answers Maureen seeks more grounded and personal?
Space Money Octagon Presents The Filmography Disquisition Series Volume 2 Kristen Stewart: An Exhaustive Examination
Join co-hosts Vanessa and Toben as they journey through an actor's filmography in an effort to definitively determine that actor's best movie, using a very real and refined review process. In Volume 2 of the s…
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Film Disquisition Vol 2 Ep 31: Certain Women
Beth is a law school graduate who twice a week drives four hours to Belfry, Montana, to teach night classes about school law. After class, she gets food at a local diner with a student, a rancher. One night, the rancher gives Beth a ride on a horse and tries to put the moves on her, but Beth brushes her off. Beth soon decides that the long drive is too much trouble and gets someone else to teach the class for her. Back home in Livingston, Beth arrives at her day job at a law office to find The Rancher, who says she just wanted to see her again. They part ways and Beth goes to work.
Space Money Octagon Presents The Filmography Disquisition Series Volume 2 Kristen Stewart: An Exhaustive Examination
Join co-hosts Vanessa and Toben as they journey through an actor's filmography in an effort to definitively determine that actor's best movie, using a very real and refined review process. In Volume 2 of the series, Vanessa and Toben are seeking out the best Kristen Stewart movie.
Current R…
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Film Disquisition Vol 2 Ep 28: Anesthesia
Anesthesia Sophie is an inscrutable grad student at Columbia University. Frustrated not only with her studies in philosophy, but with her general place in life, Sophie struggles with self-harm. One day, she shares her troubles with her professor and asks him to sit in on a therapy session. During the session, Sophie reveals her anger, frustration, and self-loathing over feeling isolated in a world that she sees only as disconnected and alien, devoid of genuine human interaction. Sophie's professor later convinces her to give up her instrument of harm, and make an effort to find peace with the world.
Space Money Octagon Presents The Filmography Disquisition Series Volume 2 Kristen Stewart: An Exhaustive Examination
Join co-hosts Vanessa and Toben as they journey through an actor's filmography in an effort to definitively determine that actor's best movie, using a very real and refined review process. In Volume 2 of the series, Vanessa and Toben are seeking out the best Kristen Ste…
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Film Disquisition Vol 2 Ep 27: Still Alice
Join co-hosts Vanessa and Toben as they journey through an actor's filmography in an effort to definitively determine that actor's best movie, using a very real and refined review process. In Volume 2 of the series, Vanessa and Toben are seeking out the best Kristen Stewart movie.
Space Money Octagon Presents The Filmography Disquisition Series Volume 2 Kristen Stewart: An Exhaustive Examination
Still Alice Lydia Howland is an aspiring actress living in Los Angeles with two roommates, working her way through the local theater scene. One day, her mother, a linguistics professor at Columbia, visits and takes her out for lunch, where she asks Lydia about reconsidering her career path. While visiting her family for Christmas, Lydia notices that her mother, Alice, is having trouble remembering people she just met. Lydia and her siblings later learn this is a symptom of Alice's early onset Alzheimer's disease, which in this case is familial. Her siblings both get tested for the disease, bu…
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Film Disquisition Vol 2 Ep 25: Camp X-Ray
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Camp X-Ray Cole is a new guard at Guantanamo Bay. On her first day, she gets punched in the face by a detainee. One day, while on library duty, she meets Ali - a man who's been detained at Gitmo for eight years and just wants to read the last Harry Potter book. After their literary discussion turns sour, Cole receives a fecal cocktail from Ali. Despite this, the two eventually develop a mutual respect for each other and connect emotionally. As Cole nears the end of her deployment, Ali shares with her his fear that he will never be free and never have a home again. In Ali's moment of despair, as he considers killing himself, Cole urges him to hold on to even the smallest amount of hope, before letting him decide his own fate. Ali chooses to live, and shares a moment of affection with Cole before they part ways. As a parting gift, Cole…
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Film Disquisition Vol 2 Ep 22: Snow White and the Huntsman
Space Money Octagon Presents The Filmography Disquisition Series Volume 2 Kristen Stewart: An Exhaustive Examination
Snow White and the Huntsman (2012)
Snow White is a little princess whose life is turned upside down when her father, the king, is murdered by the villainous beauty Ravenna. Imprisoned for years in the north tower of the same castle that she had grown up in, Snow White now spends her days praying alone. One day, a new prisoner arrives with word that there are still people on the outside loyal to Snow White's family. With this information, Snow White soon escapes in search of aid to retake the kingdom. After tripping on mushroom dust in the dark forest, Snow White is captured by a Huntsman hired by the evil queen to return her. Thanks to the mercy of the Huntsman, Snow White is spared - and she convinces him to help her find the loyalist army. When a troll nearly eats them both, Snow White discovers she has the power to calm wild creatures. When a brief rest at a small…
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Film Disquisition Vol 3: Pulse
Mattie and her friends are very concerned about Josh. He's been acting weird. Mattie goes to to check in him and notices that his place is an absolute dumpster. Josh has her wait in the kitchen and while he's out of the room, Mattie is disturbed to see red tape on the windows and even more freaked out when she finds Josh's cat locked in a closet dying of malnutrition. Horrified, Mattie runs to find Josh but he has committed suicide with an internet cable. This leads her on a chase to figure out what happened. Soon, her and her friends are receiving instant messages on the computer from Josh and assume it's his computer malfunctioning back at his old apartment. When Veronica Mars - I mean Mattie - goes to investigate THAT, she finds his computer was sold by his landlord days earlier. Mattie sleuths some more and finds Dex. He explains that the computer was busted long before he got it but he uncovered some disturbing data from the fried hard drive. A series of images shows tortured soul…
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Film Disquisition Vol 2 Ep 20: The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
Space Money Octagon Presents The Filmography Disquisition Series Volume 2 Kristen Stewart: An Exhaustive Examination
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010)
Bella Swan, a prospective University of Alaska student, is still in high school and her 100 year old vampire boyfriend Edward wants to marry her. Bella's pretty cold to that idea, though, as she doesn't believe marriage is worth any more than the piece of paper the marriage certificate is printed on. Also, she'd rather just be a cool, immortal vampire. With graduation coming up quick, Bella finds her attention divided between her studies, Edward, and visiting her mom in Florida. Bella is also being targeted by a vengeful lady vampire, but she'll worry about that after she straightens things up with her estranged wolfman friend Jacob. This proves challenging as Jacob's enmity toward vampires has grown stronger and he's really getting pushy about the whole "Bella, don't become a vampire before you've considered all the alternatives" thi…
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Film Disquisition Vol 2 Ep 16: Adventureland
Space Money Octagon Presents The Filmography Disquisition Series Volume 2 Kristen Stewart: An Exhaustive Examination
Adventureland (2009)
Em is a chill, stone-cold cutey who works at the Adventureland amusement park in Pennsylvania while home for the summer from NYU. She listens to cool music and steals rum and drives a dorky little car. One day, she crosses paths with new Adventureland employee James, and they hit it off thanks to their complimentary mumbly, chill-yet-manic energy. Their burgeoning relationship is complicated by James' previous romantic misfires and also Em's affair with the park's chief mechanic, Connell. When she's not canoodling with James or hooking up with Connell, she's confronting bigotry amongst her coworkers and/or getting stoned.After a mostly enjoyable and carefree summer, things reach a boiling point when the affair between Connell and Em - which she called off due to her feelings for James - is revealed. This leads to Em quitting the park and droppi…
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Film Disquisition Vol 2 Ep 15: The Yellow Handkerchief
Space Money Octagon Presents The Filmography Disquisition Series Volume 2 Kristen Stewart: An Exhaustive Examination
The Yellow Handkerchief (2008)
Martine is a moody, southern teen looking to get out of town after a romantic misfire. She bums a ride with awkward and creepy older teen boy Gordy. They soon connect with grown adult Brett and carpool on a ferry to save money. After Brett helps her out of a jam at a motel, Martine and he hang out at a bus stop for awhile, before learning a storm knocked out public transportation for the day. So they meet back up with Gordy and hit the road again. Will Martine ever decide to return home? Will she, Brett, and Gordy learn something about themselves and each other during their road trip? Does Gordy get less creepy and redeem himself in the eyes of Martine? Does Martine figure what Brett's deal is? Mostly yes.
Join co-hosts Vanessa and Toben on a quest that began (in Volume 1) with one of the most pressing cinematic questions of our time…
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Film Disquisition Vol 2 Ep 19: The Runaways
Space Money Octagon Presents The Filmography Disquisition Series Volume 2 Kristen Stewart: An Exhaustive Examination
The Runaways (2010)
Joan's a hip moody teen who's into leather jackets and rock & roll, and wants to play electric guitar. One night at club, she crosses paths with a music producer and pitches him her dream of fronting an all-women rock band. This goes over surprisingly well and all of a sudden, Joan is helping audition bandmates in a trailer. Soon, their producer has booked them a tour as an opening act… and before they know it, they've been signed to Mercury Records! Then they're off to Japan for an overseas tour that is a boon to their popularity, but a strain on their relationships with each other. By the time they get back to the states, Joan can no longer play peacekeeper between singer Cherie and the rest of the band, and the they part ways. Years later, while Joan is enjoying a successful solo music career, she briefly reconnects with Cherie during a radio c…
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Film Disquisition Vol 1 Ep 17: The Rhythm Section
Space Money Octagon Presents The Filmography Disquisition Series Volume 1 Blake Lively: An Exhaustive Examination
Episode 17 - The Rhythm Section (2020)
Stephanie is a woman haunted by the death of her family. It’s been three years since they were killed in a plane crash. Since that tragic day, Stephanie’s life has spiraled in a dangerous direction. She now lives as a sex worker, barely getting by and using hard drugs to dull the pain. One day, a journalist tracks her down, wanting to talk to her about the crash – which he claims was no accident, but instead a terrorist plot. As Stephanie learns more about what really happened, her thoughts turn toward revenge, and she seeks out a dashing ex-MI6 agent linked to the journalist. After months of training, Stephanie begins tracking the man behind the bombing of the flight her family was on – but who can she really trust? Is she ready to become an assassin for hire? Does she really have the heart for revenge? After a series of glo…
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Film Disquisition Vol 2 Ep 17: The Twilight Saga: New Moon
Space Money Octagon Presents The Filmography Disquisition Series Volume 2 Kristen Stewart: An Exhaustive Examination
The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009) Bella Swan is back, and it's her birthday! Now a moody 18 year old, Bella is worried of aging out of her relationship with Edward the vampire. One night, Bella gets a paper cut in front of a whole family of vampires and almost gets eaten. This incident spooks Edward and he decides Bella would be safer and better off without him and his vampire family around. Bella is heartbroken by this, and decides to lay down in the forest and die. Fortunately, she's saved by a cool shirtless dude who's definitely not a werewolf. For months after, Bella is a wreck, isolating herself and wallowing in her loneliness. One day, she discovers that engaging in social activities with friends makes her less sad and lonely, so does that for a while... until she crosses paths with a dangerous motorcyclist and is warned off by a vision of Edward. In an effort t…
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Film Disquisition Vol 2 Ep 13: What Just Happened
Space Money Octagon Presents The Filmography Disquisition Series Volume 2 Kristen Stewart: An Exhaustive Examination
What Just Happened (2008)
Zoe is the moody daughter of a big shot Hollywood producer. At 17 years old, she still enjoys spending time with her busy father when time allows. However, that relationship soon grows strained when her relationship with a much older man - a Hollywood agent - is revealed following the man's death. Will Zoe and her father reconcile or will this be the wedge that breaks their bond forever? This question lingers as the film ends, leaving Zoe's fate a mystery.
Join co-hosts Vanessa and Toben on a quest that began (in Volume 1) with one of the most pressing cinematic questions of our time: what's the best movie Blake Lively's ever been in?
In Volume 2, Vanessa and Toben seek to determine the best Kristen Stewart movie of all time.
They will watch - in chronological order - every major motion picture featuring the actress Kristen Stewart. At the…
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Film Disquisition Vol 1 Ep 11: Savages
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Episode 11 - Savages (2012)
O is a cool beach lady with a flair for dramatic voice overs, sex in waterfront houses, smoking dope, and polyamorous relationships. She shares business and pleasure with Ben and Chon in Laguna Beach - the home of their lucrative weed business.
One night at dinner, O learns her boys have made plans for them all to get out of increasingly dangerous weed game and head to Indonesia. However, before their plans come together, O is kidnapped by a Mexican cartel. She's used as a bargaining chip to force her drug boys to take a deal that sees them supplying weed to less than reputable businessmen. Then the deal gets even worse, as the big bad cartel lady declares that O will be held for one year and that they'll have to give more money to her.
While in captivity, O is bound (but not the sexy way), and kept barely alive under the creepy and abusive eye…
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Film Disquisition Vol 2 Ep 7: Zathura
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Episode 7: Zathura (2005)
Lisa is a moody, sleep positive teen, whose fun and carefree life is thrown askew by having to babysit her two younger brothers when their dad must head to work unexpectedly. Soon after dad leaves, Lisa is informed by her brothers that their house has been transported to space, thanks to Zathura - a magical board game they found in the basement. A skeptical Lisa is soon frozen as the game places her in cryo-sleep. She awakens 5 turns later, unaware of what has transpired. Cold and still groggy from from her slumber, she turns up the thermostat and grabs a shower. When she finally reunites with her brothers downstairs, she is shocked to find that the kitchen is on fire and also that the house is indeed in space - and being chased by aliens!
She soon is brought up to speed on the whole situation and becomes acquainted with a strangely handsome…
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Film Disquisition Vol 1 Bonus Episode: Gossip Girl
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Volume 1
Blake Lively: An Exhaustive Examination
Bonus Episode - Gossip Girl
Privileged teens living on the Upper East Side of New York can hide no secret from the ruthless blogger who is always watching.
Series overview:
Join Vanessa and Toben on an academic and well-researched quest to answer one of the most pressing cinematic questions of our time: what's the best movie Blake Lively's ever been in? During volume one of this series, they will watch - in chronological order - every single major motion picture featuring the actress Blake Lively. At the end of each episode, an updated ranking of Blake Lively movies will be determined, until the inevitable conclusion.
Film rankings:
1. The Shallows
2. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
3. The Town
4. The Age of Adaline
5. Elvis and Anabelle
6. Savages
7. The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
8. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
9. Accepted
10. Green Lantern
11. Hick…
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Film Disquisition Vol 2 Ep 14: Twilight
Space Money Octagon Presents The Filmography Disquisition Series Volume 2 Kristen Stewart: An Exhaustive Examination
Twilight (2008)
Bella Swan is an awkward, moody, new girl in the small town of Forks, Washington. As she adjusts to life away from her mom and the comforts of Arizona, Bella becomes acquainted with the locals at the surprisingly large high school. She's welcomed by and soon falls in with a small group of friends, but quickly takes interest in an outsider group of foster kids from the mysterious and exotic frozen expanse of Alaska. Bella soon finds herself paired in Biology class with one of the mysterious Cullen clan, Edward. Bella's efforts to get acquainted with Edward take some time, as he is distant and often absent. One day, they finally strike up a decent conversation and warm up to each other. Their burgeoning relationship takes a curious turn, though, when Bella is nearly killed by a bad teen driver - BUT IS SAVED BY EDWARD AND HIS SUPER POWERS. Turns out he's…
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Film Disquisition Vol 1 Ep 14: The Shallows
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Episode 14 - The Shallows (2016)
Nancy Adams is a medical student taking some time away from the daily grind to enjoy a vacation in Mexico. When her hungover and irresponsible travel buddy bails on plans for surfing, Nancy decides to go it alone at a secret beach that she knows about thanks to photos from her dearly departed mother.
Nancy, who is very good a surfing and filling out surfwear, meets a couple of locals who tell her about some of the ins and outs of the secret beach - which is more intense than the beaches she usually surfed in Texas.
After a day of hanging 10, Nancy is ready to pack it in - after catching just one more wave. As she paddles out in search of the right wave, she comes across the partially eaten carcass of a dead whale. Nancy heads to shore, but not before catching the attention of the shark defending its feeding grounds. After a nearly deadly en…
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Film Disquisition Vol 1 Ep 9: Green Lantern
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Episode 9 - Green Lantern (2011)
Carol Ferris and her childhood friend Hal love watching jets takeoff from the local test airfield, where both their father's work. Tragedy strikes one day, leaving Carol's friend Hal without a dad.
18 years later, Carol and Hal are now both pilots for Ferris Aircraft, where she also serves as an office manager(?).
Carol, call sign Sapphire, not only has to deal with Hal's unprofessional antics, but also with the sexist expectation of "having it all" that society commonly places upon professional women.
After Hal screws up a test flight and nearly gets fired, he and Carol meet up for drinks to discuss his mental state and emotional well-being. Carol, WHO IS CLEARLY TOO GOOD FOR HAL, can't help but have feelings for this puckish rogue with a heart of gold, and they consider rekindling an old romance at a neighborhood bar. Hal immediately tak…
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Film Disquisition Vol 2 Ep 6: Double Feature
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Kristen Stewart: An Exhaustive Examination
Episode 6: Undertow (2004) & Fierce People (2005)
Undertow: Lila is a moody southern girl living in rural Georgia with an emotional, overprotective dad who does not approve of her barefoot boyfriend. She finds her relationship with Chris to be a struggle, though, and soon ends the relationship over concerns over boundaries and their age difference.
Fierce People: Maya is a privileged, moody, horse and art enthusiast teenager living in a tight-knit, closed-off upstate New York community. Her carefree summer plans take a turn when Finn, an outsider, arrives in the community, leading to a romantic connection. That connection is soon strained, though, as Maya's brother causes trouble for both of them - and also murders his and Maya's grandfather. As the traumatic events that tore the group apart begin to fade with the end of summer, Maya and Finn part ways on a hopeful…
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Film Disquisition Vol 2 Ep 9: In The Land of Women
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Kristen Stewart: An Exhaustive Examination
Episode 9: In The Land of Women (2007)
Lucy is a disaffected moody Michigan youth, who lives with her mom and dad and younger sister in the suburbs. One day, while smoking on the roof, she spots some goober who is new to town comically struggling to take out the garbage across the street. After meeting, Lucy confides in the sad older boy that her parents didn't know she smokes and that he must keep it a secret. He agrees after bumming a smoke.
The next day, Lucy argues with her mom over a proposal to invite the new guy over for dinner, as her mom wants to welcome him to the neighborhood. Complicating the situation is her mother's recent breast cancer diagnosis, which has strained the whole family's emotional health and none of them are really talking about it.
Lucy finally agrees to show the new guy - who is like a sad puppy and taking care of his ill grandmother -…
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Film Disquisition Vol 2 Ep 4: Speak
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Kristen Stewart: An Exhaustive Examination
Episode 4: Speak (2004)
- CONTENT NOTE: SEXUAL ASSAULT/RAPE -
Melinda is a moody freshman student at Merryweather High School (go Hornets/Wombats!), carrying with her the baggage of a traumatic summer experience - which has alienated her from many of her friends. She struggles with the challenging, shifting social dynamics of high school, which includes dealing with antagonistic teachers. Thankfully, she's able to find solace in an art class, where her creative spirit thrives and focuses on tree.
Over the course of the school year, she's able to come to terms with what happened - thanks to the healing power of artistic expression - and ends up reconnecting with some of her old friends, as well making new friend along the way.
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Film Disquisition Vol 1 Ep 7: The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
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Episode 7 - The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (2009)
Pippa Lee is a teen with a stressful home life, due issues with her mother and potential speed abuse. After running away from home, she moves in her aunt and her girlfriend. Soon she's roped into her aunt's girlfriend's pornographic (?) photography venture. This leads to dangerous lifestyle of drugs and partying hard. One day on the beach she meets an older wealthy man, Herb, who takes an interest in her. They hit it off at his beach house party and she finds herself pursuing him, perhaps as an escape from the repetitive cycle of her "non ambitious" life. Their new relationship of course causes complications for Herb and his wife. After Herb's wife kills herself in front on them, Pippa decides to marry Herb out of guilt?
Decades later, she and her husband, Herb, have relocated to accommodate the health issues a man of his a…
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Film Disquisition Vol 1 Ep 3: Simon Says
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Episode 3 - Simon Says (2006)
Jenny, the lovable ironic stoner, is traveling with friends for a camping trip on a long holiday weekend. They stop at a gas station and general store for provisions and directions to a campsite. The store owner, Stanley, is a real weirdo who disarms Jenny of her ironic self defense - despite her "love is blonde" t shirt. It's strongly implied that Stanley is suffering from a mental disorder that causes him to associate with the personality of his murdered brother Simon. Furthermore, it seems likely that Stanley/Simon will target Jenny and hey friends for some sort of homicidal weekend killing spree... the likes of which he's engaged in before. As credits roll, Jenny's fate remains ambiguous.
Film rankings thus far:
1. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
2. Accepted
Series overview:
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Film Disquisition Vol 2 Ep 11: Into The Wild
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Episode 11: Into The Wild (2007)
Tracy is an aspiring moody folk singer in Slab City, California. One afternoon while plinking away on her guitar, Tracy takes notice of a mysterious scruffy stranger who recently wandered into town. After chatting, they agree to spend the day together - including a visit to Salvation Mountain. Later, Tracy invites the stranger in for a joint session of sexual congress - but he respectfully declines, citing concern about her young age. After singing a nice song together, the stranger tells Tracy to follow her dreams and grab them and the two part ways... never to see each other again.
Join co-hosts Vanessa and Toben on a quest that began (in Volume 1) with one of the most pressing cinematic questions of our time: what's the best movie Blake Lively's ever been in?
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Film Disquisition Vol 1 Ep 13: Cafe Society
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Episode 13 - Cafe Society (2016)
Veronica Hayes is tall and striking and sweet and likes jazz and scotch and living in the 1930s. She works in public relations for the mayor's office in New York. One day she meets a short, talkative man at a night club and he wins her over with his sad puppy charms. They soon get married and have their first child. But complications arrive in the form of an old flame of Veronica's husband. Veronica is abandoned at home with child while her no good nebbish husband sneaks around town with his ex, who is also married. Veronica, who is wise and not blind, questions her troll husband about the these things and he just lies to her like she isn't Blake Lively. New Year's eve rolls around and Veronica gets all glammed up and looks amazing and also is pregnant with a second child. What happens with her and her no-good husband? Who knows?! The movie…
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Film Disquisition Vol 2 Ep 18: Welcome to the Rileys
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Welcome to the Rileys (2010) "Mallory" is a moody runaway teen from Florida who hates cops and works as a dancer in New Orleans. One night at work, she strikes up a conversation with a middle aged man named Doug Riley, who is trying to avoid his coworkers at a business convention. After a brief misunderstanding about his line of work, the two strike up an unlikely friendship and bond over marijuana and home renovation. They hang out a lot because Doug doesn't like being alone and Mallory doesn't have any authoritative adult influences in her life. Soon Doug becomes a boarder at Mallory's home. After several days of sharing life experiences and learning from each other, Doug's wife shows up...and is surprisingly calm about the whole situation. In fact, she temporarily moves in with them and they have a whole little family situation. As Mallory feels more pressure from t…
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Film Disquisition Vol 1 Ep 4: Elvis & Anabelle
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Episode 4 - Elvis & Anabelle (2007)
Anabelle Leigh, Miss Cameron County, is an up and coming beauty queen in Texas with an overbearing manager mom and a step dad full of good old boy wisdom and also alcohol.
At the Miss Texas Rose pageant, she aces the Opera singing portion of the show on her way to being crowned Miss Texas Rose. Moments after receiving her crown, she dies from issues related to her eating disorder.
Later, at the morgue in her hometown funeral home, the funeral director/embalmer kisses her back to life? She's fine apparently, but has a new hunger for life and is less than enthused to be the center of attention. She's haunted by macabre dreams of being buried alive. She decides to run away from home and the pressures of her family.
One night, she breaks into the funeral home she came back to life in, seeking to remember what happened the night she was re…
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Film Disquisition Vol 2 Ep 8: The Messengers
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Episode 8: The Messengers (2007)
Jess is the troubled and moody eldest daughter of the Solomon family, who has relocated to the country from the big windy city. As they settle into their new home - a totally not haunted house - in farmland, North Dakota, Jess heads onto town to get acquainted with the locals. After chatting up the worst basketball player in the community, Jess returns home and helps her mom move some boxes into the basement. There, she finds an old necklace and a spooky raven, which flies away to join its flock surrounding the house.
One night while babysitting her kid brother, Jess is haunted by visions of the house being destroyed. She's rescued by a recently hired farm hand, but when she tries to show him what happened, the house is totally normal. As Jess' haunting continues, her family begins to question her sanity and well being. We soon lea…
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Film Disquisition Vol 2 Ep 2: Panic Room
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Episode 2: Panic Room (2002)
Sarah Altman is a moody, youthful razor scooter enthusiast on the hunt for a new home in Manhattan, New York with her mother. She's drawn to the cool panic room in one home and lucks out, because that's the home her mom decides to buy. Her luck immediately changes, though, as her home is broken into on their first night there. A heavy sleeper, Sarah isn't alerted to the criminals' activity until her mother awakens her. They dash into the panic room and soon begin negotiating with the burglars. Sarah proves adept at this, coaching her mom in how best to profanely demand the criminals leave them alone. As the situation intensifies, Sarah soon finds herself the calmer of the two in the panic room, and attempts to signal SOS with a flash light to neighbor. Soon though, Sarah - who happens to be diabetic - becomes incapacitated when her blood s…
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Film Disquisition Vol 1 Ep 8: The Town
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Episode 8 - The Town (2010)
Krista Coughlin is a Charlestown, Boston, native (with the accent to prove it), known to frequent local drinking establishments and "pal" around with the city's criminal element. She and ex-boyfriend (?) Doug have a playfully antagonistic relationship. A real will they, won't they get back together vibe.
But trouble is soon brewing when Doug becomes taken with a bank manager after he robs her bank (not a euphemism) and briefly kidnaps her.
Krista, a single mother (is it Doug's kid?) with a drinking problem, is happy to maintain her association with Doug and his criminal gang, which includes Krista's brother, as they continue their life of bank robberies and neighborhood barbecues.
Krista and Doug briefly reconnect as he considers a career change, and she provides him with some clarity about his options.
Krista's life is soon thrust into chaos…
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Film Disquisition Vol 1 Ep 6: New York I Love You
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Episode 6 - New York I Love You (2008)
Blake Lively's fresh out of a high school relationship and now dating a thoughtful film student from NYU. Things get a little awkward, though, when she brings him to her senior prom and they bump into her ex. He's there with his new prom date, a cute brunette girl - who is also disabled - and attending thanks to the Make A Wish Foundation. After an exchange of pleasantries, she and her ex go their separate ways, continuing their evenings with their dates... haunted by the fleeting thoughts of what might have been.
Film rankings thus far:
1. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
2. Elvis and Anabelle
3. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
4. Accepted
5. Simon Says
Bonus content warning:
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Film Disquisition Vol 1 Ep 5: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
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Episode 5 - The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 (2008)
Bridget, an up and coming college futbol player, returns home for the summer after her first year at Brown. She reunites with her high school best friends for their annual sacred pants blessing.
While cleaning out the basement at her dad's house, she finds a secrect box of letters from her grandmother that he'd kept hidden from her.
Before she can reconcile what this all means, she's off to Turkey for an archaeology internship trip.
Soon, her crew has made several notable fossil finds and they celebrate with a night of dancing, aided by the magical pants.
Later, while captaining a match of futbol, she makes a groundbreaking discovery into ancient Greek culture. However, Bridget's past proves to be difficult as dealing with ancient mummy's brings back feelings about death and the suicide of her mother. Fueled by sad…
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Film Disquisition Volume 1: Blake Lively: An Exhaustive Examination; Episode 15: All I See Is You
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Episode 15 - All I See Is You
Gina - a vivid dreamer - has been blind since a childhood car accident. She lives in Bangkok, Thailand, with her husband, who helps her navigate the city when needed. One day, during a visit with a doctor, Gina learns of a procedure that could help restore her vision. A few weeks later, Gina has the surgery and is thrilled to be able to see for the first time in her adult life. As she embraces the pleasures of sight, her husband struggles to adapt to a life in which he's not as in control in the relationship as he once was.
Their relationship takes a tough turn after a visit to Spain with Gina's sister and her horny husband. Upon returning to Thailand, the whole situation gets real mysterious: IS HER HUSBAND SWAPPING OUT HER MEDICAL EYE DROPS WITH WATER TO MAKE HER GO BLIND AGAIN SO HE CAN REGAIN CONTROL OF THE RELATIONSHIP?
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Film Disquisition Vol 1 Ep 10: Hick
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Episode 10 - Hick (2011)
Glenda is a strong, independent, southern woman who smokes, and pees standing up - who one day crosses paths with a runaway teen girl. She offers her a ride, sage wisdom about dangerous men, and also drugs to snort.
Soon Glenda and her teen protege are robbing a general store and lying to the cops about how the clerk died. That night, at a bowling alley, teen girl is introduced to Glenda's young kid. Glenda, who has a heart of gold, let's teen girl crash on the couch for the night.
The next morning, they're off at sunrise for another adventure - meeting Glenda's rich husband, who looks like a hippie Joe Biden from 30 years ago. Glenda's husband has a new bartender and courier, who apparently knows teen girl.
Glenda disappears as teen girl and courier man head out to run errands. Glenda reappears later and we learn she's been searching for teen girl…
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Film Disquisition Vol 2 Ep 10: The Cake Eaters
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Episode 10: The Cake Eaters (2007)
Georgia, a moody teen dealing with a degenerative neurological condition, wants to experience life to the fullest while she still can. Her mother, though, is very protective and worried about Georgia in the way that a mother would be about their teen daughter. Trouble comes calling one day in the form of a man named Beagle... who works in the lunch room of Georgia's high school. Despite the inappropriateness of the relationship, Georgia pursues Beagle in search of her first sexual experience. After some initial hesitation and frustration, Georgia and Beagle consummate their relationship. The next day, Georgia is given a ride to school by Beagle and they part ways... until lunchtime
Join co-hosts Vanessa and Toben on a quest that began (in Volume 1) with one of the most pressing cinematic questions of our time: what's the best movie B…
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Film Disquisition Vol 2 Ep 12: Jumper
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Jumper (2008)
Sophie is moody teen who lives in a mansion with her mysterious and distant mother. One day, a stranger seeking her mother appears at the door. Sophie lets him in and then leaves the stranger and her mother alone with their secrets.
Join co-hosts Vanessa and Toben on a quest that began (in Volume 1) with one of the most pressing cinematic questions of our time: what's the best movie Blake Lively's ever been in?
In Volume 2, Vanessa and Toben seek to determine the best Kristen Stewart movie of all time.
They will watch - in chronological order - every major motion picture featuring the actress Kristen Stewart. At the end of each episode, an updated ranking of Kristen Stewart movies will be determined using a refined academic and scientific process.
Current Rankings:
* Speak
* Zathura
* Panic Room
* The Messengers
* The Safety of Objects…
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Film Disquisition Vol 2 Ep 5: Catch That Kid
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Episode 5: Catch That Kid (2004)
A moody, urban-climber cool girl, Maddy just wants to follow in her father's footsteps and become an accomplished mountain climber. Too bad she's stuck in the city with no mountains to climb, and parents who are worried about her daredevil antics. One day, her father collapses due to an old mountain coming injury. The exorbitant medical bills are a cold dose of reality to Maddy and her mother - the head of security of at a local bank. Without the safety net of universal health insurance, Maddy is forced into a life-altering decision - embrace a life of crime to save her father, or allow the sins of capitalism to claim the life of a loved one. She chooses the ethical path and is soon plotting a bank heist with her dude pals. When the boys' lustful nature threatens the entire operation, Maddy must one again take charge and convince the bo…
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Film Disquisition Vol 1 Ep 16: A Simple Favor
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Episode 16 - A Simple Favor
Emily is a cool tall charismatic gazelle Amazon woman in a pantsuit who handles public relations for a fashion and fragrance guru in New York, New York. One day, as she's picking up her son from school in Connecticut, she meets a child-sized mother named Stephanie. They bond quickly, thanks to their sons' friendship and also gin martinis. When Emily shares details of her high pressure family and work life, Stephanie - desperate for validation from a strong female figure - volunteers to watch Emily's child after school should the need arise. The need arises soon, when Emily gets stuck in a work meeting, and Stephanie takes the kids to the park. Later, during drinks at Emily's home - Emily reveals her sexual fluidity and coaxes Stephanie to also reveal a secret. Stephanie's secret is much more intense and results in Emily giving her a new nicknam…
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Film Disquisition Vol 1 Ep 12: The Age of Adaline
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Episode 12 - The Age of Adaline (2015)
Adaline Bowman is a kind, genuine woman, who dabbles in identity theft. Also, she was born in 1908 - and is ageless due to a supernatural car crash and lightning strike. She lives in San Francisco and works at a library. One day, she's tasked with digitizing old film reels. Watching them triggers a flashback of her life up until now. We learn Adaline was married and had a child before her supernatural accident. When her husband died, she raised her daughter alone. But as the years passed, her never-aging appearance arouses suspicion from friends, neighbors, and eventually the federal government. Adaline escapes prying eyes and the g-men and comes up with a plan to protect herself: every ten years, she will move and assume a new name. This continues until the modern day: Adaline's daughter is now elderly and the end of another decade…
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