Mike discusses with Dave, and Darren how The Banshees of Inisherin could have been darker, considering the subject is loneliness in late middle-age and digit-removal in early-1920s Ireland, but is fine with its likability; how Armageddon Time is a little bit “afterschool-special-ly” for a film with a title like Armageddon Time, but, since it’s set in mid-Eighties Manhattan grade school, he “quite liked it” anyway; and how Decision to Leave, “a Korean take on Vertigo,” is playful, scary, and funny, with an “innocent-ish” ingénue — like a Hitchcock film (whether Korean or not left unspoken).

“The Banshees of Inisherin,” “Armageddon Time,” and “Decision to Leave”