And the show starts in two hours…

“Jeff and Sasha delve into two newish streaming films — Chloe Domont‘s Fair Play (Netflix), a story about a financial-realm power couple (Phoebe Dynevor, Alden Ehrenreich) whose relationship falls apart when the woman is promoted over the dude, and Maggie Betz‘s The Burial (Amazon), a fact-based story about a scrappy lawyer, Willie Gary (Jamie Foxx), taking on a powerful corporation. It costars Tommy Lee Jones.

We also kick up the Killers of the Flower Moon dust, and particularly explore the potential Oscar fate of Lily Gladstone.

Here’s the link.

“American Fiction” (Amazon MGM, 12.15) is simply brilliant – a hilarious and incredibly intelligent crowd-pleaser. I may be jumping the gun a bit, but it's taking the top spot in my Best Picture rankings for the Oscars. #AmericanFiction #mff2023 pic.twitter.com/GFGcPlxWeN

— Mark Johnson @ Middleburg Film Festival (@MarkLikesMovies) October 21, 2023

If you have compassionate feelings about the current plight of God knows how many tens of thousands of Gaza residents and the likelihood that many of them will be killed when Israeli troops finally invade…if you recognize that the number of hardcore Hamas cadres who murdered 1400 Jews on 10.7 and who absolutely have to pay the price for this genocide…when you allow that these fanatics almost certainly represent a modest fraction of the total Gaza population…there has to be some way of saying “don’t slaughter innocent Gaza residents” without sounding like an anti-Semite…there has to be some way to do this.

This is apparently what Dave Chappelle tried to say in Boston the other night, but he’s being attacked for anti-Semitism regardless.