Joker | Peak Sloth

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Joel Murphy and Andy McIntyre watch maligned movies and find their silver linings. For November, they are watching maligned musicals.

Joel, Andy and their guest Lars Periwinkle kick things off with the most maligned musical to come out this year: Joker: Folie à Deux. They try to figure out why this film is a musical in the first place and who, exactly, it’s supposed to be for.

Joker: Folie à Deux (2024)
Directed by: Todd Phillips
Written by: Scott Silver & Todd Phillips (written by), Bob Kane & Bill Finger and Jerry Robinson, Paul Dini & Bruce Timm (characters created by)
Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Lady Gaga, Brendan Gleeson, Catherine Keener, Zazie Beetz, Steve Coogan, Harry Lawtey, Leigh Gill

Theme Song: “Bankin’” by Bronson Scott

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This year’s Academy Award nominations are out and they are once again so white and so baffling. In a surprise move, Joker receives the most nominations of any film and it joins Ford v Ferrari, The Irishman, JoJo Rabbit, Little Women, Marriage Story, 1917, Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood and Parasite on the list of Best Picture nominees.

Joel Murphy and Lars Periwinkle share their thoughts on all of the nominations. They also discuss Hollywood’s love of remakes and the new Birds of Prey trailer.

This week’s music:

Intro – “Giddy Up” by Tahuna Breaks
End – “When Jokers Attack” by Brian Jonestown Massacre

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