Two for Space Jam, Please
Episodes
Episode 39 – They Live (1988)
04 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We took a sharp left turn and watched John Carpenter‘s 1988 action/sci-fi flick, They Live. The movie’s IMDB descripti...
Episode 38 – Residue (2020)
16 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We were long overdue to watch a truly good movie, and Merawi Gerima‘s poetic, quietly moving Residue, about a young filmmaker who returns h...
Episode 37 – Hillbilly Elegy
30 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ron Howard’s Hillbilly Elegy, based on the 2016 memoir of the same name by J.D. Vance, is bullshit, and we take a little time to talk about...
Episode 36 – The Social Dilemma (2020)
21 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Do we think in Twitter? Can we truly opt out of social media? Have we become machines of our machines? The Social Dilemma has us tackling these questi...
Episode 35 – Dirty Dancing (1987)
08 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dirty. Dancing.
Episode 34 – My Octopus Teacher
22 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We dive deep into Craig Foster's man-octopus love story/documentary My Octopus Teacher. Polysemousness! Anthropocentrist narrative arcs! The leftovers...
Episode 33 – I’m Thinking of Ending Things
08 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
WHY CAN’T ANYONE ELSE TAKE A MENTAL DUMP AND/OR LET THEIR FORMAL FREAK FLAG FLY ON FILM?! we ask in our conversation about Charlie Kaufman’...
Episode 32 – The Last Dance (2020)
19 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We did sports words and thoughts over the 2020 Netflix-ESPN documentary The Last Dance, about Space Jam actor Michael Jordan and several non-Space Jam...
Episode 31 – The Assistant (2019)
29 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We talk about 2019’s The Assistant, an icy, realist examination of a tyrannical boss, sexual abuse, and complicity in the workplace. Thanks to&#...
Episode 30 – Is Floor Lava? Floor is Lava. Floor is Lava… (2020)
13 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We don’t have anything to say about the show that most people are watching or recently watched and are experiencing as a gummy cavity where thei...
Episode 29 – Jackson Rising (2017) (Book Club)
24 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Book club is back. We discuss the first chapter of Jackson Rising (Daraja Press, 2017) and Cooperation Jackson’s expansive vision. We don’...
Episode 28 – Means TV
21 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What does it mean in the year of our Lord 2020 to seek out media that is not produced by profit-driven, morally bankrupt, corporate machines? Means ...
Episode 27 – De Rigueur Tiger King Content
14 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It wasn’t until after we recorded our conversation about Netflix’s Tiger King that we realized the hit documentary series is a mirror and ...
Episode 26 – How to Beat Coronavirus Capitalism
01 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
While we’re all marooned at home baking bread in sweatpants and trying to make friends with our very legitimate and mounting anxieties, Naomi Kl...
Episode 25 – 12 Monkeys (1995) / Life Under Covid Lock Down
22 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
For some reason we’ve been watching movies about pandemics to escape from the pandemic. We thought we’d take the Bruce Willis/Brad Pitt ti...
Episode 24 – BoJack Horseman Finale (2020)
15 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We’re all going to die. It took a cartoon about a writer struggling toward happiness and an alcoholic horse man / former sitcom actor (and a cat...
Episode 23 – American Factory (2019)
07 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Thriller novels: where JK Rowling goes to be a piece of shit and politicians like Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich dramatize their world view in the stu...
Episode 22 – Cats
23 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the holiday edition of Two For Space Jam, Please! We backed our dump truck up to Cats, a movie about…Cats? Cheryl makes a spirited de...
Episode 21 – Friendship (Booksmart, sort of)
09 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In our secret holiday bunker, we drank a bottle of wine, watched Olivia Wilde’s Booksmart, and then forgot to talk at all about Olivia WildeR...
Episode 20 – Parasite (2019)
22 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Class struggle! The haunted houses of the rich! The myth of hope in capitalism. Half of us crying. We talk about Bong Joon-Ho’s Parasite. Thanks...
Episode 19 – Chanelle Gallant
11 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We were thrilled to sit down with Chanelle Gallant in Toronto to talk about her brilliant essay, “Fuck You Pay Me,” in Pleasure Activism (...
Episode 18 – Succession
28 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We review Succession through the second season. We didn’t mean to. It just happened. I’m hoping oligarchs won’t be relevant in two y...
Episode 17 – Hustlers (2019)
18 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The one where we talk about J.Lo looking phenomenal at 50, the honesty of a lap dance, and how the whole world’s a strip club. After our discuss...
Episode 16 – Matewan (1987)
12 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We dip into the vault to watch John Sayles 1987 labor classic, Matewan, the based-on-fact story (and here’s a hilariously biased company version...
Episode 15 – Midsommer (2019)
22 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Dearest listeners, we have returned from a short break to get freaked out by this summer’s horror-pastoral freakout, Midsommer. We discuss liter...
Episode 14 – The Wandering Earth (2019)
28 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We streamed Frant Gwo’s mega-blockbuster The Wandering Earth after a long weekend of find a place to live seeking, flat tires, and dead batterie...
Episode 13 – Chanelle Gallant’s “F_ck You, Pay Me” (2019) (BOOK CLUB)
06 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We’re reading Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good, written and gathered by adrienne maree brown. There was so much here to talk abou...
Episode 12 – Bon Appétit, It’s Not the Avengers
29 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The responsible pop culture thing for us to do would have been for us to watch the Avengers. We were going to watch Us but then a lot of life stuff go...
Episode 11: Emergent Strategy (2017) (BOOK CLUB)
01 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week’s movie is a book. That’s how things go down here sometimes. Cheryl just read adrienne maree brown’s visionary self/societ...
Episode 10: Magic Mike XXL (from the archives)
21 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We didn't know we needed some beef in 2015.
Episode 9: Sorry to Bother You (2018)
11 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
After Green Book won an Oscar, we toyed w/hate-watching it since Feb cinema is a dumping ground for lame movies. We decided instead to return to Boots...
Episode 8: Gravity (from the archives)
04 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
It's back to the archives with a 2013 discussion of Cuarón's movie about what's keeping us down.
Episode 7: The Great British Bake Off Omnibus
25 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We watched 20,000 hours of GBBO material and definitely covered it all in under an hour.
Episode 6: Zero Dark Thirty (from the archives)
18 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We talked about this movie shortly after its release in 2012. 2019 internet tells me history hasn’t treated this one well, and I don’t thi...
Episode 5: Children of Men
11 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Roma led us back to Alfonso Cuarón’s 2006 Children of Men. Will we keep going w/Cuarón? Maybe!
Episode 4: American Honey (from the archives)
04 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The snow is melting and we’re thinking about the warmth of American Honey.
Episode 3: A Star is Born (2018)
28 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We watched A Star is Born. Things take a turn.
Episode 2: One Direction: This is Us (from the archives)
21 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
When Joe asked me to choose an episode from the archive to kick off our special “From the Archives” series, One Direction: This is Us...