Mike Schulz talks with Dave and Darren jaw about the dubious-sounding merits of Chantal Akerman’s celebrated 1975 Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, and The Fireplace, an Adult Swim Yule Log that’s reminiscent of “Too Many Cooks” — in a good way — before segueing into the dramedy Spoiler Alert, based on an end-of-life memoir where the focal character is “aggressively irritating” — but the film’s “pleasant, at best” nonetheless; Emancipation, Will Smith’s “attempt to reclaim the Oscar’s glory,” but which probably won’t happen, despite his portrayal of Whipped Peter, a real-life slave who gets his own back; and Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, whose stop-motion-animated charms are lost on Mike, in spite of (or because of) the critical adoration it’s received. . .

“Spoiler Alert,” “Emancipation,” and “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio”