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September 15, 2024

Episode 91: 2020 with Emily St. James

A podcast about the great movies.

Book cover for “LOST: Back to the Island.”

TV critic, author, podcaster, and television writer Emily St. James is the co-author (along with previous guest Noel Murray) of the book LOST: Back to the Island (out Tuesday), so she joins us to geek out with Mike over that show and discuss the unusual offerings of the very odd year of 2020, including Wolfwalkers, Da 5 Bloods, and The Empty Man.

Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, Google Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Still image from “Da 5 Bloods.”

Da 5 Bloods is streaming on Netflix, of course, and you can hear the first episode of Fun City Cinema that we mentioned here. The Empty Man is streaming on FXNow and is available for digital rental or purchase; here’s a little something from our friend Scott Tobias about its burgeoning cult status.

First Cow is streaming on Amazon Prime Video, and is available for digital rental or purchase. Minari is streaming on Max and is available for digital rental or purchase. And Wofwalkers is streaming on AppleTV+.

Still image from “The Empty Man.”

You can follow Emily on Blusky, Twitter and Instagram, and you can buy LOST: Back to the Island here and pre-order Woodworking here. You can follow Jason on Blusky, Instagram, and Letterboxd - where you'll find his lists of all the movies on every episode of the show (including this one). You can also read the Vulture piece on Contagion that he mentioned here. You can follow Mike on Instagram, Blusky and Twitter/X/whatever.

If you’d like to watch When I Close My Eyes, the documentary short Mike produced, you can do that on PBS’s Independent Lens site. And if you’d like to pre-order Jason’s new book Gandolfini: Jim, Tony, and the Life of a Legend, you can pre-order it from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Bookshop.

Last but not least, if you’d like to make a little donation to support us and the show, you can do that at Ko-fi!

Still image from “Wolfwalkers.”
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