Cut and Splice: Reviewing, discussing and analyzing movies

In this bonus episode we briefly discuss some of the better examples of "landing the plane" properly in trilogies and other cases where third movies worked well or not.

We give a 29 minute review of this nebulous journey into the unknown before getting into spoilers.

Somehow Inception's ending rears its head and we revisit that debate while trying to crack some of the meaning and themes explored in this piece.

We give a 31 minute review of these two sci-fi epics before getting into the details in comparing and contrasting their style, story and themes.

There are some spoilers for 2001 in the review portion, but it's also a tough movie to spoil.

The tail end of our last episode took us in various directions worth sharing separately.We start by discussing a couple of other movies relating to death. Jason ranks Shawn Levy's movies. We give some thoughts about Ben Stiller, Ryan Reynolds and Ben Affleck.

We also discuss other comedy directors and the trend of some of them moving into other genres. Lastly we touch on when politics gets mixed up with movies as also relates to Kevin Costner's Horizon Saga.

We give a 19 minute review before getting into spoilers on this comedy with a blockbuster cast that dabbles in the Jewish grieving ritual of Shiva.

Gil gets to share and contrast his own experience of the ritual while mourning his mother in Israel.