The Big Picture: Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons

Published 2024-02-02; 1:27:21 by the feed.

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The extraction calls the show “The Big Picture (The Ringer)” and the episode “Physical Media Strikes Back with Tim Simons”.

Hosts: Sean Fennessey. Guests: Tim Simons.

Subject films: none named.

On the transcript: No speaker labels; Sean and Tim are often ambiguous so speaker attributions are moderate-confidence. Amanda Dobbins does not appear on the episode, only mentioned as nearby.

Added from the extractor's memory, not said

Films that came up

passing (33)

Oppenheimer · Ferrari · Rad · Slither · Starship Troopers · Inception · Cinema Speculation (book, Tarantino) · Don't Look Back · Woodstock · The Raid · Station Eleven · The Sopranos · Kingdom of Heaven · Dude, Where's My Car? · Bros · The Power of the Dog · Napoleon · Maestro · The Irishman · Marriage Story · Okja · Sound of Metal · Time · The Way of the Gun · American Graffiti · Howard the Duck · Women in Love · Mahler · May December · Safe · Far from Heaven · The Velvet Underground · Kiki's Delivery Service

recommended (24)

The Last of the Mohicans · True Romance · Cloak & Dagger · RoboCop · Showgirls · Mallrats · Waterworld · First Reformed · Joe · Hardcore · Rolling Thunder · The Devils · Possession · The Third Part of the Night · On the Silver Globe · The Boyfriend · Altered States · The Renowned Westerns of Budd Boetticher (Indicator box) · Killers of the Flower Moon · Messiah of Evil · Miami Blues · Thieves Like Us · My Neighbor Totoro · Spirited Away

compared (7)

Black Hat · Con Air · Coming Home in a Body Bag · Miami Vice · Apocalypse Now · Tar · The Boy and the Heron

anecdote (13)

Mean Streets · Hearts and Minds · One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest · Ali · Hair · Miller's Crossing · True Lies · The Abyss · Star Wars (original trilogy / special editions) · Wings of Desire · Sorcerer · Skinamarink · What to Expect When You're Expecting

dismissed (1)

Big Night

Claims (43)

  1. craft (Arrow editions): Mallrats → True Romance. Both have fancy Arrow box editions; owned and loved, but is it worth re-buying?
    “do I need to spend $55 on a true romance 4K when I already have true romance in DVD and Blu-ray?”
    The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 0:12:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (episode prep): Waterworld → Kevin Costner. Bought Waterworld 4K for a planned Kevin Costner podcast episode.
    “I did buy the Waterworld 4K because I'm planning a massive Kevin Costner episode this year.”
    The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 0:15:40 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  3. people (people): Lindsay Klingman → Richard Pearce. Tim says the editor Lindsay Klingman is married to the director Richard (Dick) Pearce.
    “I met her and her husband, uh, Dick Pierce, he's a director.”
    The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 0:27:50 · Tim Simons (0.85 sure it was them)
  4. craft (edited): Lindsay Klingman → Hearts and Minds. Klingman started out editing Hearts and Minds, where she met Richard Pearce, then went to Cuckoo's Nest.
    “She, like, she started out by editing that Vietnam documentary, Hearts and Mind.”
    The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 0:28:24 · Tim Simons (0.60 sure it was them)
  5. unmapped (fired from): Lindsay Klingman → Ali. Klingman was fired off Ali by Michael Mann.
    “She was fired off of Ali by Michael Mann.”
    The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 0:28:50 · Tim Simons (0.60 sure it was them)
  6. industry (Oscar speech): Hearts and Minds → Bert Schneider. Schneider's speech accepting its Oscar was a template-setting moment of New Hollywood.
    “there's a very famous speech that Burch Schneider gave when it won”
    The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 0:29:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  7. unmapped (watch list): Cinema Speculation → Joe. The speaker's chapter-head viewing project began with Joe, which neither friend had seen.
    “we were watching the chapter head movies in order.”
    The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 0:29:59 · Tim Simons (0.60 sure it was them)
  8. unmapped (could become): Con Air → Hardcore. Con Air could become the Rolling Thunder or Hardcore of 2047, a once-obscure film needing care and restoration.
    “Conair could become the rolling thunder or hardcore of 2047.”
    The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 0:31:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  9. theme (echo): Rolling Thunder → Coming Home in a Body Bag. Rolling Thunder is a borderline exploitation movie, like the real Coming Home in a Body Bag from True Romance.
    “it's like the real coming home in a body bag, like from true romance”
    The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 0:32:07 · Tim Simons (0.50 sure it was them)
  10. unmapped (same story): Con Air → Rolling Thunder. Con Air is the same story as Rolling Thunder: a disrespected veteran who ends up in prison and needs vindication and reunion with family.
    “It's about a veteran who doesn't is not respected in a public setting and gets into a physical altercation and goes to prison”
    The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 0:32:39 · Tim Simons (0.60 sure it was them)
  11. unmapped (bad 4K grade): Miller's Crossing → The Abyss. Miller's Crossing (Criterion) looks too green, as the James Cameron 4Ks (True Lies, The Abyss) look wrong to many.
    “which is very green in the print, and looks wrong.”
    The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 0:34:17 · Tim Simons (0.50 sure it was them)
  12. unmapped (4K controversy): True Lies → James Cameron. The new Cameron 4Ks frustrate people; True Lies and The Abyss look off.
    “the bigger controversy around this is the 4K, all the James Cameron movies.”
    The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 0:34:32 · Tim Simons (0.50 sure it was them)
  13. craft (re-edit): Star Wars (original trilogy / special editions) → George Lucas. Lucas re-edited and added CGI; a fan's de-specialized version feels better and was burned to Blu-ray.
    “put them in the original color corrections and I like, it feels better.”
    The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 0:36:02 · Tim Simons (0.50 sure it was them)
  14. unmapped (restoration): Wings of Desire → Wim Wenders. Wenders says the negative was wrong and he and his DP and editor always knew; the restoration is the intended version.
    “It was never supposed to look like this.”
    The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 0:37:40 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  15. what-if (recut): Black Hat → Michael Mann. Arrow's Black Hat 4K includes a recut that moves a significant sequence to the front, making it more coherent.
    “there's a recut version of the movie.”
    The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 0:38:13 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  16. unmapped (color fix): Sorcerer → William Friedkin. If Friedkin were alive and the technology could restore the red-shifted print to the other reels' look, the speaker would be fine with it.
    “I think I would be okay with that because if it is like, oh, this is because of the degradation”
    The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 0:41:33 · Tim Simons (0.50 sure it was them)
  17. what-if (recut): Miami Vice → Michael Mann. The theatrical cut throws you into the club; Mann's Blu-ray version adds earlier scenes.
    “really kind of loves the theatrical cut of Miami Vice because he just throws you into the club.”
    The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 0:41:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  18. unmapped (Criterion route): The Power of the Dog → The Irishman. Streamer films reach boutique labels: Power of the Dog went to Criterion right away.
    “Like the power of the dog going to the criterion collection right away is interesting.”
    The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 0:43:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  19. unmapped (extended cut): Napoleon → Napoleon. The speaker will be stoked for the 4.5-hour cut of Napoleon.
    “whenever that 4.5 hour cut of Napoleon comes out, I'm like, I'm gonna watch it”
    The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 0:44:32 · Tim Simons (0.50 sure it was them)
  20. people (directed): The Devils → Ken Russell. The Devils is Ken Russell's, about France and the church, a psychotic opera of horror.
    “This is Ken Russell's, I think 1977.”
    The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 0:46:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  21. people (cast): The Devils → Vanessa Redgrave. Vanessa Redgrave appears in The Devils, prompting a shouted Kobe-style Redgrave.
    “when Vanessa Redgrave showed up, he shouted Redgrave in the Kobe voice.”
    The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 0:46:40 · Tim Simons (0.60 sure it was them)
  22. people (cast): Possession → Sam Neill. Possession is the 1981 Sam Neill movie.
    “possession, like 1981 possession, like that Sam Neal movie.”
    The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 0:46:52 · Tim Simons (0.60 sure it was them)
  23. unmapped (same journey): Possession → The Devils. Both were hard to see for stretches, art-house classics now regarded highly.
    “I very similar kind of film to the devils in that for some periods of time, it was harder to see”
    The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 0:47:36 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  24. unmapped (consonant with): Possession → David Cronenberg. Possession is a precursor to many freak-out movies, consonant with Cronenberg.
    “a precursor to a lot of different kinds of movies, you know, kind of like consonant with David Kronenberg”
    The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 0:47:43 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  25. unmapped (portal): Possession → Andrzej Zulawski. Possession gets so far under your skin that the speaker bought a Zulawski box set to chase more of him.
    “but he gets so under your skin in that movie that I kind of wanted to try to go back to that place.”
    The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 0:49:25 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  26. unmapped (portal): The Devils → Ken Russell. The Devils is a portal to Russell's other 70s and 80s films, each with Russellian insanity.
    “Like the devil's is a portal to other Ken Russell movies”
    The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 0:49:33 · Tim Simons (0.60 sure it was them)
  27. unmapped (box art): The Renowned Westerns of Budd Boetticher (Indicator box) → Randolph Scott. The Indicator Boetticher box features Randolph Scott painted like a Monet; a child adopted it as a toy.
    “these beautiful images of Randolph Scott, Randolph Scott, like, you know, painted like a, like a, like a Monet.”
    The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 0:56:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  28. craft (sound): Apocalypse Now → Apocalypse Now. Watching Apocalypse Now with TV speakers on a streaming service loses the artistic intent.
    “if you want to watch Apocalypse Now, you don't want to watch it with your TV speakers on a streaming service.”
    The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 0:59:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  29. unmapped (format timing): Skinamarink → Skinamarink. Scarier alone at home in the dark; silly in a theater with a chatty crowd.
    “this is a very silly movie that doesn't really work very well.”
    The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 1:00:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  30. unmapped (Criterion route): Killers of the Flower Moon → The Irishman. Hope Killers gets a Criterion partnership like The Irishman did; Apple films otherwise have no physical release.
    “At some point there will be like a criterion partnership like they did with the Irishman.”
    The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 1:03:00 · Tim Simons (0.45 sure it was them)
  31. unmapped (collection): Killers of the Flower Moon → Martin Scorsese. Wants Killers to round out a Scorsese collection; Apple not releasing physical.
    “I'd like to own it as well to round out my wonderful collection of Martin Scorsese films”
    The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 1:03:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  32. unmapped (orbit): Willard Huyck → George Lucas. Huyck and Katz were in the Lucas orbit in the 70s with an American Graffiti credit.
    “They were in the Lucas orbit in the 70s.”
    The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 1:07:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  33. people (same writers): Messiah of Evil → Howard the Duck. Messiah of Evil's writers-directors are best known for Howard the Duck, which it has nothing to do with.
    “They are probably best known for working on Howard the Duck”
    The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 1:07:35 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  34. lineage (influence 80s horror): Messiah of Evil → American Graffiti. Messiah of Evil is described as hugely influential on 80s horror that followed.
    “clearly hugely influential on the 80s films that were going to come after it.”
    The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 1:08:01 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  35. unmapped (same label): Messiah of Evil → Miami Blues. Radiance put out Messiah of Evil; the speaker first got hip to the label buying Miami Blues at Fopp.
    “But I bought Miami blues there, which is a really, really good Alec Baldwin, Jennifer Jason Lee movie.”
    The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 1:09:09 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  36. unmapped (same label): Messiah of Evil → Thieves Like Us. Radiance also issued a great edition of the Altman film Thieves Like Us.
    “they put out a great edition of Thieves Like Us, the Altman movie”
    The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 1:09:44 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  37. lineage (spiritual forebear): Ken Russell → Tár. Russell's melodramatic operatic composer biopics like Mahler are a Tar precursor.
    “He made a lot of, um, uh, like melodramatic, stylish operatic recreations of composers lives, like Mahler.”
    The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 1:12:01 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  38. lineage (precursor): Mahler → Tár. Ken Russell's composer-life films like Mahler are a precursor to Tar.
    “It is kind of a tar precursor.”
    The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 1:12:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  39. lineage (lineage): Leonard Bernstein → Tár. Tim asks whether the hosts joked that Tar was about Bernstein conducting Mahler in the church; Sean answers that it was inspired by his work.
    “Mad Tar must have been about Bernstein doing the Mahler in the church, right?”
    The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 1:12:20 · Tim Simons (0.60 sure it was them)
  40. unmapped (Apple physical): The Velvet Underground → Killers of the Flower Moon. Velvet Underground is the one Apple movie with a physical release (Criterion).
    “Actually, that's the one Apple movie that has a physical release.”
    The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 1:14:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  41. unmapped (more challenging than): The Boy and the Heron → Spirited Away. Spirited Away is a classic linear movie; Boy and the Heron is harder to follow for kids.
    “I don't think it made as much sense to them as spirited away, a classic linear movie.”
    The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 1:18:45 · Tim Simons (0.50 sure it was them)
  42. unmapped (introduced): Spirited Away → Leonardo DiCaprio. DiCaprio introduced Scorsese to Spirited Away.
    “he was like, but, you know, I did put you onto Miyazaki and specifically spirited away.”
    The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 1:19:08 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  43. lineage (influence): Hayao Miyazaki → Leonardo DiCaprio. Miyazaki's planet-degradation themes were a critical influence on DiCaprio becoming an environmental activist.
    “Miyazaki is one of the critical influences on DiCaprio becoming such an aggressive environmental activists”
    The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 1:19:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)

Fun items (26)

  1. fun, about Oppenheimer 4K: The Oppenheimer 4K and Blu-ray sold out; a Variety piece by Todd Gilchrist covered it, and Nolan urged buying physical copies over streaming.
    “they had sold out and people were like, we've never seen this before.”
    The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 0:03:52 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Mallrats: Replaced fancy Arrow editions? The speaker owns Mallrats, but the Ben Affleck character is comically canceled.
    “Yeah, the entire Ben Affleck character is comically canceled.”
    The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 0:15:35 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Waterworld: Bought the $25 Waterworld 4K on sale for Costner episode prep; it is part of movie history.
    “I can justify to myself the $25 during the sale”
    The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 0:15:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Best Buy: Best Buy stopped selling physical media; the speaker visited and found racks gone, replaced by kitchen and home furnishings.
    “they had removed all the racks.”
    The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 0:18:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about IKEA Billy shelves: Billy shelves fit four VHS tapes across, which pulls Blu-rays flush to the front.
    “but it fits 4 VHS tapes perfectly.”
    The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 0:22:53 · Tim Simons (0.55 sure it was them)
  6. fun, about First Reformed: Found a used copy of First Reformed at CD Trader in Tarzana for about six bucks (transcribed 599).
    “I found a copy of 1st reformed there for like 599.”
    The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 0:24:08 · Tim Simons (0.55 sure it was them)
  7. fun, about Mean Streets: Found a copy of Mean Streets for $4 at a pawn shop on a vacation in Maine.
    “I found a copy of Mean Streets for $4.”
    The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 0:24:40 · Tim Simons (0.55 sure it was them)
  8. fun, about Hearts and Minds: Editor Lindsay Klingman went from Hearts and Minds straight to One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; watching her filmography as an editor's-eye project.
    “And she went from hearts and minds.”
    The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 0:28:44 · Tim Simons (0.60 sure it was them)
  9. fun, about Cinema Speculation: Chapter-head movie project: watching Tarantino's book's chapter films in order, starting with Joe, then Hardcore and Rolling Thunder.
    “so we started a thing where we were watching the chapter head movies in order.”
    The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 0:29:59 · Tim Simons (0.60 sure it was them)
  10. fun, about Con Air: Con Air and Rolling Thunder as the same story; gag about how many hands Nick Cage has in Con Air.
    “How many how many hands does Nick Cage have in Conair?”
    The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 0:32:57 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  11. fun, about Miller's Crossing: Criterion 4K of Miller's Crossing looks very green and wrong compared to what the speaker grew up with.
    “which is very green in the print, and looks wrong.”
    The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 0:34:17 · Tim Simons (0.50 sure it was them)
  12. fun, about Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope: Burned a fan de-specialized version of the originals onto a Blu-ray and shelved it, and hid VHS triple box behind Blu-rays on IKEA Billy shelves.
    “I burnt them onto a Blu-ray and put them on the shelf because I'm a fucking psychopath.”
    The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 0:36:14 · Tim Simons (0.55 sure it was them)
  13. fun, about Wings of Desire: Wim Wenders told Sean the film's negative was wrong, and he and his DP and editor always knew; the restored version is the intended one.
    “the negative of that film was just all wrong”
    The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 0:37:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  14. fun, about Black Hat: The Arrow Black Hat 4K includes a recut with a significant sequence moved to the front, making it more coherent but maybe less disorienting.
    “there's a recut version of the movie.”
    The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 0:38:13 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  15. fun, about Sorcerer: Saw Sorcerer four or five times in a year, one a red-shifted print at the New Beverly.
    “4 or 5 times this past year”
    The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 0:40:33 · Tim Simons (0.55 sure it was them)
  16. fun, about Miami Vice: Prefers the theatrical cut because it throws you into the club with no context; Blu-ray version adds scenes before.
    “Like, he's just like, oh, we're just in the club.”
    The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 0:42:03 · Tim Simons (0.50 sure it was them)
  17. fun, about The Devils: Went in expecting trash, paused five minutes in to ask if it was the best movie ever; now streams on the Criterion Channel.
    “I paused it to be like, is this the best movie I've ever seen?”
    The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 0:45:48 · Tim Simons (0.60 sure it was them)
  18. fun, about Possession: Only on Shudder; the speaker wants a physical copy so it stays around.
    “It was like, oh, it's only shutter.”
    The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 0:47:21 · Tim Simons (0.50 sure it was them)
  19. fun, about Zulawski box set (Eureka): Eureka box with The Third Part of the Night, The Devil, On the Silver Globe; waited for a sale under $50 and loved all three.
    “there is an Andrews, uh, Andre Zalowski box set that Eureka makes, but possession's not in it.”
    The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 0:48:10 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  20. fun, about Indicator Boetticher box: Daughter adopted the colorful Indicator Budd Boetticher Westerns box as her favorite toy without seeing any of the films.
    “Alice was just like, this is my favorite toy.”
    The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 0:56:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  21. fun, about Skinamarink: Scariest film in years alone on a laptop in the dark; silly in a theater.
    “this is one of the scariest movies I've seen in years.”
    The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 1:00:23 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  22. fun, about Killers of the Flower Moon: Rewatching on Apple TV the speaker found himself watching a car detailing reel mid-film, the case for putting in a disc.
    “I had somehow started watching a car detailing Instagram reel during killers of the flower moon.”
    The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 1:01:56 · Tim Simons (0.55 sure it was them)
  23. fun, about Fopp (London): A London video Blu-ray t-shirt store, called a crack den for collectors; spent about $300.
    “It's a it's a video Blu-ray t-shirt poster store in London.”
    The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 1:08:41 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  24. fun, about Messiah of Evil: Radiance's 4K hard box of Messiah of Evil is called one of the coolest purchases ever, a hard-to-see 1974 cult horror.
    “But the Messiah of Evil one, is like one of the coolest purchases I've ever made.”
    The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 1:09:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  25. fun, about Leonardo DiCaprio: Letterboxd conversation: DiCaprio says he put Scorsese onto Spirited Away.
    “And then Scorsese is like, you did.”
    The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 1:19:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  26. fun, about Killers of the Flower Moon: Underappreciated DiCaprio performance, plays smooth while pretending not to know about the murders.
    “I think it's an underappreciated performance in Killers of the Flower Moon.”
    The Big Picture · Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons · 1:20:53 · Tim Simons (0.50 sure it was them)

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