On episode 26, Charles starts by answering two questions. First: Is Jon Stewart right to notice a discrepancy between the reactions to voter registration and gun registration? Second: What is on his Rollercoaster Mount Rushmore? After that, he talks to Sonny Bunch about movies. What is a good film? Have the Oscars drifted too far from popular culture? Has Hollywood run out of ideas? Tune in at 8pm ET to find out.
Episode 26 begins with a Q&A. The first question has to do with infringements on constitutional rights. “Why is it okay to infringe on a right when it comes to requiring voters to register, but it isn't okay to infringe on a right when it comes to requiring gun owners to register?” The second returns to a familiar frame: “As a well known rollercoaster aficionado, what four ‘coasters would be on your Mount Rushmore?”
Then it’s on to a chat with Sonny Bunch, of the Bulwark, about the state of modern cinema. As a self-professed “movie idiot,” Charles asks how Sonny became a critic, how one can tell what’s a Good Film, why the Oscars seem so far removed from films people actually want to watch, and why Hollywood is hooked on remakes, reboots, sequels, and spinoffs?
The dial-up tone in the introduction was recorded by lintphishx and is used under a CC 3.0 License.