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Wes and Clay wrap up their coverage of the 2020 Academy Awards by watching their B-Roll selection of the Best Picture nominees, “Marriage Story”. Directed and written by Noah Baumbach, “Marriage Story” stars Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson as a married couple going through a divorce. We, as the audience, arrive just in time to... Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : thepenskyfilevideo@gmail.com

The lowest rated Best Picture nominee at the 2020 Academy Awards is Todd Phillips’ “Joker”. Currently at 68% with 543 reviews, the film stars Joaquin Phoenix as the eponymous villain. Based on the Joker character from DC Batman comics, Phoenix assumes the character of Arthur Fleck. Fleck is an unstable man who lives with his... Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : thepenskyfilevideo@gmail.com

Who would you say is the “Parasite” in this film? Bong Joon Ho brings his work home to Korea in this pitch-black modern fairytale. Meet the Park Family: the picture of aspirational wealth. And the Kim Family, rich in street smarts but not much else. Be it chance or fate, these two houses are brought... Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : thepenskyfilevideo@gmail.com

We are continuing our coverage of the “master of horror”, Wes Craven. We have already discussed “Vampire in Brooklyn” and “A Nightmare on Elm Street“. With our “B-Roll” selection, we chose to watch 1996’s “Scream”! Scream is a metatextual homage to the slasher films that defined the late ’70s and 80s. It stars Neve Campbell... Links! • linktr.ee/the_pensky_file • e-Mail : thepenskyfilevideo@gmail.com

Happy Halloween! Our “Wes Craven” themed coverage continues with the director’s highest-rated film (according to Rotten Tomatoes), “A Nightmare on Elm Street”! It’s the film that gave the world one of the most iconic villains of all time: Fred “Freddy” Krueger! A child murderer who haunts the dreams of children, Krueger’s weird aesthetic and iconic... Links! • linktr.ee/the_pensky_file • e-Mail : thepenskyfilevideo@gmail.com

Happy Halloween! As is customary in podcast culture, Reel Ripe & Reel Rotten are covering something horror-themed: the “Master of Horror” himself, Wes Craven, and his critical low-point, “Vampire in Brooklyn”. Starting off with Craven’s lowest-rated film, Wes, Clay and Amanda watched “Vampire in Brooklyn”. Released in 1995, “Vampire in Brooklyn” stars Eddie Murphy with... Links! • linktr.ee/the_pensky_file • e-Mail : thepenskyfilevideo@gmail.com

For the B-Roll selection of our coverage of Kathryn Bigelow, we are turning out the lights, pouring ourselves a tall glass of blood, and watching “Near Dark”! “Near Dark” is Bigelow’s 1987 attempt to meld the vampire and western genres. She had wanted to do a straight western but had to add something currently (as... The post B-Roll: Kathryn Bigelow – Near Dark (88%) appeared first on The Pensky File.

In “The Weight of Water“, journalist Jean Janes (Catherine McCormack) begins researching the 1873 axe-murder of two sisters and discovers new information in the case. Meanwhile, her marriage to writer Thomas (Sean Penn) begins to fall apart. The show has moved into the “rotten” side of director Kathryn Bigelow‘s career and we’re here today discussing... The post Kathryn Bigelow – The Weight of Water (35%) appeared first on The Pensky File.

The show has moved onto Kathryn Bigelow because Clay “deparately wanted to do her” and that means we’re starting off with the critically acclaimed “The Hurt Locker“. Directed by Bigelow and scripted by Mark Boal, The Hurt Locker is regarded as the best film about the most recent Iraq War. it stars Jeremy Renner as... The post Kathryn Bigelow – The Hurt Locker (97%) appeared first on The Pensky File.

The B-Roll selection for Amy Adams has Wes and Clay watching a film that both of them are unfamiliar with, 2016’s Nocturnal Animals. Directed and written by Tom Ford, Nocturnal Animals is the story of an art gallery owner named Susan (Adams) who reads a new novel written by her ex-husband and begins to insert... The post B-Roll: Amy Adams – Nocturnal Animals (73%) appeared first on The Pensky File.

For our coverage of the “best” Amy Adams film, we discuss the intellectual science fiction of Arrival! It’s currently at 94% on Rotten Tomatoes and it secured several Academy Award nominations in 2016. Amy Adams stars as a linguist who is recruited by the US miitary to decode the language of aliens who have landed... The post Amy Adams – Arrival (94%) appeared first on The Pensky File.

Amy Adams stars in a truly horrible romantic-comedy where the jokes fall flat, the Irish are maligned, and Adam Scott is mis-used! “Leap Year” is a film from 2010 and is currently at 23% on Rotten Tomatoes. Adams stars as Anna, a woman who heads to Ireland on February 29th to propose to her boyfriend... The post Amy Adams – Leap Year (23%) appeared first on The Pensky File.

To complete our coverage of the 2019 Best Picture nominees, we have selected “A Star Is Born” as our B-Roll. It’s Bradley Cooper’s directorial debut, and he also stars as the talented but troubled rock star Jackson Maine. When Jackson meets Ally (Lady Gaga), the two begin a relationship of incredible highs and devastating lows.... Links! • https://thepenskyfile.com/links • e-Mail : thepenskyfilevideo@gmail.com

This episode of the podcast covers the highest rated Best Picture nominee from 2018, Ryan Coogler’s MCU entry: Black Panther! The crown jewel of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (so far), Black Panther follows the adventures of T’Challa, the newly crowned king of Wakanda – an African nation that is supremely advanced. When a villain named... The post 2019 Oscars: Black Panther (97%) appeared first on The Pensky File.

As a special event, we’re going to cover the “ripe” and “rotten” films nominated for the 2019 Best Picture Oscar! For the low end of the spectrum, we start with Bohemian Rhapsody, a biopic about the rock band Queen, and specifically its frontman Freddie Mercury. Directed by Bryan Singer, the film is a rapid overview... The post 2019 Oscars: Bohemian Rhapsody (62%) appeared first on The Pensky File.

We say farewell to Edgar Wright with the final film in his Three Flavors Cornetto trilogy, The World’s End. At 89% on Rotten Tomatoes, it is critically adored but audiences generally see it in a different light. Starring Simon Pegg as a flunkie who assembles his childhood friends to finish a pub crawl, the film... The post B-Roll: Edgar Wright – The World’s End (89%) appeared first on The Pensky File.

This week, we take a look at the lowest rated film on Edgar Wright’s Rotten Tomatoes listing: 2010’s Scott Pilgrim vs the World. Currently at 81%(!), Scott Pilgrim stars Michael Cera as the titular “hero”, a young twenty-something who falls for a girl with several ex-lovers. And of course, he needs to fight them to... The post Edgar Wright – Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (81%) appeared first on The Pensky File.

We kick off our Edgar Wright coverage with his highest rated film, 2017’s Baby Driver! Currently at 93% on Rotten Tomatoes, Baby Driver tells the story of a getaway driver (the best in the biz!) who yearns for both a different lifestyle and a Spotify Premium membership. It’s a film that relies heavily on its... The post Edgar Wright – Baby Driver (93%) appeared first on The Pensky File.

Denzel Washington’s “B-Roll” selection is Man on Fire, which is currently at 39% on Rotten Tomatoes. Highly stylized in the way that only early 2000s action films are, Washington takes the role of John Creasy, an alcoholic bodyguard. When his young ward is kidnapped, Creasy becomes vengeance incarnate and hunts down those who have done... The post B-Roll: Denzel Washington – Man on Fire appeared first on The Pensky File.

When a racist cop inherits the heart of a black lawyer, the end result is a fun-filled comedy romp that ends in shotgun murder! Denzel Washington’s worst film (according to Rotten Tomatoes) is the 0% rated “Heart Condition“. It’s a tonally inconsistent film that can’t decide if it wants to be a light-hearted, anti-racism version of... The post Denzel Washington – Heart Condition (0%) appeared first on The Pensky File.