Spoilerpiece Theatre Episode 226: Widows

“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 226 below, we review Private Life, Life Without Basketball, The Other Side of the Wind, Boy Erased, and Widows. This week, our friend Megan Kearns returns to the show! She kicks things off with Private Life (3:02), a frank and moving depiction of a couple’s attempts to conceive. I’m next with Life Without Basketball (7:37), a documentary about a Muslim American woman who faces discriminatory rules regarding dress, preventing her from advancing her basketball career. Then, Kris runs us through Salem’s Lot (11:31), the classic spooky miniseries based on the Stephen King story, as well as Orson Welles’s The Other Side of the Wind (15:33), a film forty years in the making. It’s a true masterpiece, argues Kris, and you should all see it on Netflix now. Then, Kris and I look at Boy Erased (21:48), Joel Edgerton’s film about  gay conversion therapy, with some good qualities but an unfortunate amount of overlap with The Miseducation of Cameron Post. Last up, all three of us get less and less enthusiastic about Steve McQueen’s Widows (40:11).