Wes Anderson's Candy-Colored Dream Movie

06/16/23 • 27 min

Alexis and Kim take a trip to Asteroid City and discuss Wes Anderson as an auteur, why a memorable visual style is so important, and how an enormous cast of powerhouse players can each stand out in an ensemble.
Read Alexis's review:
https://trashwire.com/2023/06/16/asteroid-city-review
Read Kim's review:
https://www.geekgirlauthority.com/asteroid-city-movie-review-wes-anderson

0:00 Intro
0:41 Kim’s opinion
2:04 Alexis’ opinion
3:41 The humor and the cast
5:37 Anderson the auteur
13:06 Cinema without cynicism
17:53 The grim future of movies and TV
21:30 Final thoughts on Asteroid City
23:56 Slight spoilers
25:35 Upcoming movies
27:13 Wrap-up
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Alexis and Kim talk about Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, the perks of telling a story through visuals, breakthroughs in animation, the current multiverse madness sweeping comic book movies, and more. This review contains light spoilers, so if you want to go in blind, watch this after you’ve seen Across the Spider-Verse.
0:00 Intro
0:20 Great but not flawless
0:44 Kim’s thoughts
1:54 Alexis’ thoughts
3:14 We love Spider-Punk
4:27 Runtime
6:32 But that ending
14:13 Movie multiverse madness
16:30 The humor
19:14 Voice cast
20:33 The visuals
25:50 Compared to Into the Spider-Verse
28:20 Wrap-up
Read Alexis’ review:
https://trashwire.com/2023/06/01/spider-man-across-the-spider-verse-review
Read Kim’s review:
https://www.geekgirlauthority.com/spider-man-across-the-spider-verse-movie-review
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Is The Flash a fun comic book movie or a Frankenstein fever dream? Alexis and Kim share their thoughts on the movie, the troubled production, the rubbery CGI, and more. This review contains spoilers.
0:00 Intro
0:22 Non-spoiler thoughts
6:05 Spoilers
35:49 Should you see this movie?
38:23 Wrap-up
Read Alexis’ review of The Flash
https://trashwire.com/2023/06/15/the-flash-review
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