Spoilerpiece Theatre Episode 69: SPECTRE

“Spoilerpiece Theatre” is a weekly movie podcast where I talk about new releases with fellow BOFCA critics Dave Riedel and Kris Jenson. We don’t give a shit about spoilers. We just want to talk about the movies.

In Episode 69 below, we talk about Spectre, Spotlight, the Coolidge Corner Halloween Horror Movie Marathon, and the New York Film Festival with guest Charlie Nash. Charlie makes his second Spoilerpiece appearance to share his experiences at the Coolidge Corner Halloween Horror Movie Marathon and the New York Film Festival with me and Kris. At the 12-hour movie marathon, which he dubs “a cinephile’s wet dream,” Charlie saw horror films that stimulated his overactive imagination like Halloween, Night of the Demons, The Changeling, and The Hitcher. Also, at the New York Film Festival he watched Carol and Son of Saul, two important movies that he breaks down. Charlie and Kris then take on Spectre, the James Bond picture that Kris dubs “more of a postscript than an epilogue” to Daniel Craig’s entries in the franchise. It’s overly long, self-congratulatory, and worst of all—it has a shitty theme song. Thankfully all three of us saw Spotlight, a tremendous film that chronicles the Boston Globe’s report that exposed sexual scandal in the Catholic Church. Not only is it a better Boston movie than Black Mass, but Spotlight is elegant, subtle, and gripping based on its story and the performances by its leads.