Richard Drumm and Sarah Cullen cast an eye over 2019 and reveal some of their high and lows of the year. Also under the hammer of discussion in this pod is
- the adequately anti-capitalist agenda of Knives Out
- how American horror is black horror
- tree motifs in The Souvenir you may not have twigged
- weird sex stuff in High Life and The Lighthouse
- manufactured misfortune in Gwen
- a naked Mads Mikkelsen firing guns in flagrante
- Charlie’s Angels crushing Richard’s soul
- Ari Aster’s reductive filmmaking
- environmental activism v parenting in Woman at War