Spoilerpiece Theatre Episode 131: Live by Night
In Episode 131 below we review Live by Night, 20th Century Women, and The Bye Bye Man. Strange things are afoot this week at Spoilerpiece Theatre, and we’ll just leave it at that. Kris leads off by reviewing The Bye Bye Man (at 3:48), a horror movie where the villain has no goal other than to mess with people until they die, so his dog can eat them. Just like with The Forest, Kris almost spoilerpieces Dave into wanting to see it, although thankfully Dave comes to his senses when he realizes how stupid it is. I follow with 20th Century Women (at 26:48), a Mike Mills movie set in 1970s Santa Barbara with good bones, great camerawork, and charming performances, but annoying stream of consciousness storytelling like Mills’s film Beginners. Then Kris and Dave wrap up with Live by Night (at 41:39), the Ben Affleck gangster picture where people do a lot of living by day. Sienna Miller blends in, Brendan Gleeson goes too soon, and Chris Messina is the only one who belongs in this story with lots of clothed sex and heavy involvement from the KKK. The guys reveal that it looks great despite being weird, even though they agree that you should probably live by not seeing it.