Spoilerpiece Theatre Episode 112: Complete Unknown

“Spoilerpiece Theatre” is a weekly movie podcast where I talk about new releases with fellow BOFCA critics Dave Riedel and Kris Jenson. We don’t give a shit about spoilers. We just want to talk about the movies.

In Episode 112 below, we review Complete Unknown, The Innocents, The Light Between Oceans, and Morgan. Dave is feeling under the weather so fan favorite Dede Crimmins joins us. She and Kris lead off by discussing the Massachusetts Independent Film Festival (at 5:02). They share a few of their favorite films, before Dede transitions into Complete Unknown (at 11:41). Dede finds Rachel Weisz’s character fascinating in it, but she wishes there was more to the movie’s simple plot. Next, Kris talks about how war leaves scars long after hostilities end in The Innocents (at 21:32), a heavy post-World War II film about rescuing babies. Then Dede and I review The Light Between Oceans (at 35:46), a long, slow drama about babies and post-war tensions that also stars Rachel Weisz and features Michael Fassbender as a brooding lighthouse hunk. Dede wraps everything up with Morgan (at 54:16) a mashup of Splice, Ex Machina, and Blade Runner that has the most wasted cast she has ever seen and an ending that thinks it’s clever without actually being clever.