Episode 383: X Doesn’t Always Hit The Spot

Steve Prokopy returns to review ten new films with Erik Childress including documentaries on an 18-time MLB all-star (It Ain’t Over) and an infamous Playboy playmate (Anna Nicole Smith: You Don’t Know Me). Penelope Cruz speaks Italian (L’Immensita) and Kenya Barris loses everything in translation for a remake (White Men Can’t Jump). Steve looks at the co-winner of the Jury Prize at last year’s Cannes (The Eight Mountains) and they go back to the mountains to check out the directorial debut of Joe LoTruglio (Outpost). A sexual awakening and religion class again (The Starling Girl) while a dominatrix tries to get the most out of her client (Sanctuary). Paul Schrader returns with a diary and dark past (Master Gardener) and the whole gang returns for apparently now the pre-penultimate chapter of one of the most successful franchises of all-time. Money-wise at least (Fast X).

0:00 - Intro

6:54 - It Ain't Over 

16:20 - Anna Nicole Smith: You Don’t Know Me

30:15 - L'Immensita 

34:54 - White Men Can't Jump

46:02 – The Eight Mountains

51:59 - Outpost

1:01:23 - The Starling Girl 

1:10:49 - Sanctuary 

1:23:57 - Master Gardener 

1:32:16 - Fast X

1:55:55 - Outro