Episode 593: A Fine Line Between Stupid & Clever

Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy are back on the review beat with seven new films this week. Steve looks at a documentary about model and photographer Bunny Yeager (Naked Ambition) as well as the conclusion of everyone’s beloved big house (Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale). Corey Hawkins deals with a mysterious offer from Willem Dafoe (The Man In My Basement) and Dev Patel gets put through the folk horror wringer (Rabbit Trap). The film which opened this year’s Chicago Critics Film Festival is one of the best you will see this year (The Baltimorons). Stephen King’s Vietnam-era novel finally gets its adaptation from the director of The Hunger Games sequels (The Long Walk). Finally, 41 years in the making itself, everyone’s favorite dysfunctional rock trio returns (Spinal Tap II: The End Continues)

3:36 - Naked Ambition

9:37 - The Man in My Basement

20:32 - Rabbit Trap

30:03 - The Baltimorons

40:48 - Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale

49:29 - The Long Walk

1:02:49 - Spinal Tap II: The End Continues

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