The homie Soham Gadre (Chicago Reader, Fangoria, Paste Magazine, Polygon, Screen Slate, The Film Stage) joins us to take aim at the infamous biopic genre as we pick apart WALK THE LINE, a handsomely-made but inert piece of work that dives headlong into every winsome cliche in the book as it goes to cover the Man in Black.
We discuss our distaste for the lurching, numbing structure of the genre, we talk about the disastrous decision to have Phoenix do his own singing, its disinterest in anything even remotely political or socially conscious, its disservice towards Cash's first wife and the actress hired to play here, and how two of us still kinda liked it? Thanks basically entirely to the photography and Reese Witherspoon's excellent performance.
Other topics include Dr. Quinn: Medicine Woman, Stuart Little skateboarding existentially, a performance from a chicken outlaw with a brain transplant, having your life saved by cosmic berserker Werner Herzog, and the night that the skeletons came back to life.
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