sometimes always never

Action! “Sometimes Always Never” is a movie that really moved me; it’s an incredible piece of work, and it was fantastic to get to speak to it’s writer Frank Cottrell-Boyce, and its director Carl Hunter, about the lengthy gestation period the movie went through, and to get a sense of what goes into pulling off a movie like this.

If you haven’t yet had the pleasure, the movie stars Bill Nighy, Alice Lowe, and Sam Riley, and deals with themes of kinship, loss, and er, word games. It’s profoundly affecting and has a striking visual identity.

Hope you enjoy it! Let me know what you think!

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Ashley & Matt review a new British film about a man obsessed with Scrabble, who attempts to reconnect with his family while searching for a missing son.

Special guest Emily Kubincanek joins us for a marathon of reviews this week, starting with the new Netflix action blockbuster, The Old Guard, starring Charlize Theron and KiKi Layne. Then we loop into Hulu's time-bending rom-com Palm Springs, starring Andy Samberg and Cristin Milioti. Tom Hanks writes and stars in the new Apple TV+ WWII epic, Greyhound, which just released this week. We slow things down for the meditative First Cow from writer/director Kelly Reichardt. Oh, and Werner Herzog made a new Japanese-language film called Family Romance, LLC. Last, we finish things off with a wordy scramble of a review for the British quirk-film Sometimes Always Never, which stars Bill Nighy and Sam Riley.

Music in this episode: "5:32pm" by The Deli

Show Notes:

• 00:00:00 – QwyeBye
• 00:01:50 – Intro & Off-Topics
• 00:04:40 – The Old Guard
• 00:22:20 – Palm Springs
• 00:34:15 – Greyhound
• 00:42:30 – First Cow
• 00:58:45 – Family Romance, LLC
• 01:10:15 – Sometimes Always Never

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