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Jim Jarmusch has made a surreal, existential western ("Dead Man"), a Zen samurai/mobster movie ("Ghost Dog") and a meditation on art disguised as a vampire movie ("Only Lovers Left Alive"). And now... zombies. With his new THE DEAD DON'T DIE, Jarmusch again exploits genre conventions as a means to explore his fears and obsessions. And this time, those fears and obsessions are pretty explicitly America in the age of Trump. Also on the show, a conversation with Joe Talbot and Jimmie Fails, the director and star of Sundance award-winner – and early Golden Brick frontrunner – THE LAST BLACK MAN IN SAN FRANCISCO. Plus, Adam weighs in on ROCKETMAN. 0:00 - Billboard 1:20 - Review: "The Dead Don't Die" Bill Callahan, "Young Icarus" 24:58 - Adam on "Rocketman" 34:57 - Next Week / Notes / Madness 2020 46:46 - Massacre Theatre54:02 - Interview: Joe Talbot and Jimmie Fails 1:28:02 - Close Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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A raunchy/sweet comedy in the "Superbad" mold, Olivia Wilde's BOOKSMART mixes genre clichés and clever updates as it follows its high-achieving heroines on a one-night odyssey to shed their by-the-book images and make it to The Year's Biggest Party. Adam and Josh have lots of praise for leads Beanie Feldstein and Kaitlyn Dever and the talented ensemble – and for some of the formal inventiveness that Wilde brings to her directing debut. And then Adam and Josh go on the run with Thelma and Louise for the Top 5, assembling an all-star crew of the movies' best female pals along the way. 0:00 - Billboard 1:20 - Review: "Booksmart" Leikeli47, "Bad Gyal Felx" 26:01 - Next week / Notes 34:58 - Massacre Theatre 42:52 - Top 5: Female Friendships 1:21:30 - Close Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

Of the films celebrating 40th anniversaries in 2019, only Francis Ford Coppola's "Apocalypse Now" can really compete with ALIEN's critical stature and influence, but Adam and Josh make the case for several more films from '79 that deserve to be remembered with this week's Top 5 – including films from directors Andrei Tarkovsky, Carol Ballard, Woody Allen... and Jim Henson. Plus, a revisit of their 2016 Sacred Cow review of Ridley Scott's sci-fi/horror classic.  0:00 - Billboard 1:21 - Top 5: Films of 1979 Peter Allen, "Everything Old Is New Again" 1:03:08 - Next week / Notes 1:07:19 - New Poll 1:11:35 - Sacred Cow: "Alien" 1:47:09 - Listener Feedback ("Alien") 1:54:43 - Close Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

The Tao of Whoa. Whether you love or hate the JOHN WICK franchise - or even if you're completely indifferent to it - it has given us all the chance to appreciate the particular genius of Keanu Reeves. For those of us who grew up watching him, the former duuude and earnest action star has matured into an actor of depth and vulnerability with a singular sense of physical grace. Whether Keanu's talents are put to their best use in the new JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 3 - PARABELLUM is up for debate, which Adam and Josh do in their review. Then it's the TOP 5 KEANU MOMENTS, a career-spanning appreciation of The One, from Ted "Theodore" Logan to Mr. Wick himself. Plus Massacre Theatre and Josh's recommendation of the new doc "Our Time Machine," which is currently playing the Chicago Critics Film Festival.    0:00 - Billboard 1:09 - Review: "John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum" Josh Ritter, "Old Black Magic" 28:25 - Donations 30:32 - Josh recs: "Our Time Machine" 34:03 - Next week / Notes 40:27 - Massacre Theatre 48:03 - Top 5: Keanu Moments 1:28:42 - Close / Outtake Learn more about your ad choices. Visit