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Tyler Banark from @TylerBanarkReviewsMovies joins Melvin to discuss one of his favorite films of 2022, The Menu! Combining culinary arts with cultish antics, this horrific thriller showcases excellent performances, delicious food, and class-warfare all in a tight 107-minutes! And there’s a whole lot more where that came from! Tune in now!
Topics:
- (PATREON EXCLUSIVE) 32-minutes recapping David Zaslav’s two years as Warner Bros. Discovery’s CEO, his bizarre cancelations and removals of streaming exclusives and originals, the current state of Coyote vs. Acme, and discussing how we feel about that as movie fans. (PATREON EXCLUSIVE)
- Tyler Banark shares about The League of Cinephiles, going to TIFF, and his favorite movies (right now).
- Initial impressions on The Menu, and fun trivia regarding a TIFF screening and food truck.
- The Menu was one of Tyler’s top 5 movies of 2022. He shares the other top 4, and talks about how some movies succeed merely by connecting with its audience.
- Thinking through the hierarchal structure of service work, and the intoxication of chasing perfection.
- Yes, it’s bold as day: “The Menu” as a phrase or “thing” is very much a metaphor for life.
- How The Menu portrays the “never meet your heroes” idea.
- How each course lends itself to metaphorical interpretation.
- Interpretations of the ending, and what makes it poignant, and what makes it a little silly.
Recommendations:
- Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974) (Movie)
- Little Manhattan (2005) (Movie)
- Your Name. (2016) (Movie)
- High and Low (1963) (Movie)
- Wings (1927) (Movie)
- Incantation (2022) (Movie)
The Menu is Rated R for strong/disturbing violent content, language throughout and some sexual references. It features Ralph Fiennes, Anya Taylor-Joy, Nicholas Hoult, Hong Chau, Janet McTeer, Paul Adelstein, John Leguizamo, Aimee Carrero, Reed Birney, Judith Light, Rob Yang, Arturo Castro, and Mark St. Cyr. Directed by Mark Mylod. The Menu is available here.
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