This week we review and discuss Caught Stealing, a dark comedy crime thriller movie directed by Darren Aronofsky and starring Austin Butler, Regina King and Zoe Kravitz, about washed up baseball player Hank Thompson in 1990s New York who who unwittingly runs afoul of New York City's criminal underbelly while pet sitting for his neighbor.
We discuss how we went into the movie with no expectations at all but were blown away by its quality, how the movie is a big puzzle in which each piece is deliberate, how the movie realises its themes of responsibility and facing your fears, why the main character's arc is one of the best we've seen all year and why this movie shows that taking screenwriting basics seriously and getting them right leads to a better movie, and much more.
