Spoilerpiece Theatre Episode 122: Arrival
In Episode 122 below, we review Arrival, Loving, Moonlight, and The Origin of Violence. Dave gripes about his record club’s inability to send him records he wants, before discussing his burgeoning November beard and his latest Baby Henry story. After we get some good laughs in to compensate for our election sadness, Kris gets things going with Arrival (at 6:10), a sci-fi film starring Amy Adams as a linguist that speaks heptapod. Adams plays the same character she always does, but it does some very interesting things Kris doesn’t expect and really turns out to be the kind of high concept sci-fi he enjoys. Next, Dave and I keep the good movie momentum with our description of Loving (at 21:26), an emotional drama based on a true story with amazing performances by Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton. Kris follows with his take on Moonlight (at 33:32) a three-party story of a gay man’s life that’s not revolutionary, but so well-assembled that it kind of is. I close out the show with The Origin of Violence (at 48:36), a French film playing at the Boston Jewish Film Festival that turned out to be more about the Holocaust than I expected, although not in a bad way, since the film uses it to tell a compelling story.