We've been busy during spooky season so we tried to sit down and relax and watch a fun little adaptation of a book we both enjoyed when we were younger, and what we got was a searing allegory for institutional rot, a metaphor for the futility of rebellion with a gun aimed at your head, the light that can emerge from even the most violent circumstances, and a film that definitely gets Mr. Beast hard.

The Long Walk is one of the best Stephen King adaptations ever made and is a quintessential movie of the moment.

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If we've learned anything watching movies for 3 decades, it's that no one had it harder in the late 90's than any character Jennifer Connolly was playing. In the shocking conclusion to her "Standing on a Pier" trilogy, House of Sand and Fog, she is fighting for her family home and her dignity against Ben Kingsley in the best performance of his life.

We discuss the nature of parasitic bureaucracy, how it turns people against each other, the cultural misunderstandings that find us at each others throats, and the role human power plays in exacerbating those situations.

And as a bonus, we talk about how much Crash sucks.

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If there's anything Paul Thomas Anderson loves to make movies about, it's buds. Just a bunch of buds doing bud stuff, just a gaggle of guys being guys.

The Master is one of his best, a tale of two men unable to be honest with one another until it's truly too late while also serving as a rapturous examination of the damage living under mass delusion can do. Starring a cavalcade of people that would become the heirs to the heights of Hollywood and featuring perhaps both Joaquin Phoenix and the late great, sorely missed Philip Seymour Hoffman's greatest performances, The Master stands as a beautiful, brilliantly performed, surreally hilarious monument. Get processed.