We're back to watching assigned movies for each other, except for Brad. Stubborn as a crossword clue and busy as a cranberry merchant, Mr. Oman refused to participate in the film-watching exercise, claiming that a film festival called "Sundance" and "Charlie's wedding" kept him too busy. But, like wayward sons of disappointed dads, the show must carry on.
In this episode of Go Flix Yourself, Nate is exasperated by Ghostface's shenanigans and the surrounding world's seeming apathy and willingness to embrace Ghostface masks. Brad reports on some of the earliest films he watched from the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. And Ben schooled our self-appointed Steven Spielberg czar on some Spielberg trivia. Finally, there's lots of talk about Scream VI and a game inspired by Albert Brooks's films.
Stop what you're doing and join in on the fun, friends. It's time to Go Flix Yourself.
FILMS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:
- Lake Placid (1999)
- The Post (2017)
- Scream VI (2023)
- History of the World Part 2 (2023) - television series
- STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie (2023)
- Radical (2023)
- Sometimes I Think About Dying (2023)
- SQUARING THE CIRCLE (the story of hipgnosis) (2023)
EPISODE LINKS:
- History of the World Part 2 Trailer - A sequel 40 years in the making, Mel Brooks' History of the World PART II. A four-night event, streaming on March 6 on Hulu.
- Trailer for Scream VI - Following the latest Ghostface killings, the four survivors leave Woodsboro behind and start a fresh chapter. In Scream VI, Melissa Barrera ("Sam Carpenter"), Jasmin Savoy Brown ("Mindy Meeks-Martin"), Mason Gooding ("Chad Meeks-Martin"), Jenna Ortega ("Tara Carpenter"), Hayden Panettiere ("Kirby Reed") and Courteney Cox ("Gale Weathers") return to their roles in the franchise alongside Jack Champion, Henry Czerny, Liana Liberato, Dermot Mulroney, Devyn Nekoda, Tony Revolori, Josh Segarra, and Samara Weaving.
- STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie - Another movie that Brad loved from Sundance. Description: "At age 16, an undersized army brat landed a part as a 12-year-old on a Canadian television show. Confident he could make it in the U.S., he moved into a tiny apartment in the slums of Beverly Hills. Three years later, he struggled to scrape by and was ready to retreat. But then came his breakout roles — Alex P. Keaton on the sitcom Family Ties and Marty McFly in the Back to the Future trilogy — and a superstar was born. Michael J. Fox dominated the industry for most of the 1980s and '90s, but a diagnosis of Parkinson's disease at age 29 threatened to derail his career."
- Radical - Another film that Brad talked about liking from Sundance. Description: "Who will the sixth-grade students at Jose Urbina Lopez Elementary in Matamoros become? They are among the worst-performing students in Mexico, the world they know is one of violence and hardship. An overbearing discipline, not possibility, dominates their classrooms. It might seem like a dead end… but it is also the perfect place for new teacher Sergio Juarez to try something different. One problem: Sergio (played by an amazing Eugenio Derbez) has no idea what he's doing."
- Sometimes I Think About Dying - Another film that Brad talked about liking from Sundance. Description: "Lost on the...
