Child violence on screen; Story & Writing, torturing the audience & characters; Competent filmmaking, character work; and other such stuff and things and stuff.

Cinematography, selling satire; Story & Writing, satire vs tropes; and other such stuff and things and stuff.

Editing dialog-heavy scenes; Story & Writing, exposition dumps, the real villain; and other such stuff and things and stuff.

Story & Writing, plot vs character; Daniel Day-Lewis; and other such stuff and things and stuff.

Cinematography, polished camera moves; Story & Writing, fairytale rules, character wants, love; and other such stuff and things and stuff.

Cinematography, compositions, first frame last frame; Story & Writing, structure, morality, terse dialog; and other such stuff and things and stuff.

Story & Writing, fairytales, flashbacks, and protagonists; and other such stuff and things and stuff.

Story & Writing, how world-building impacts the audience experience, setting up your character arcs; and other such stuff and things and stuff.

We devour Eva Green & Ewan McGregor's "Perfect Sense" and discuss: Cinematography, contrast, camera movement; Story & Writing, scene character, relationship epidemics; and other such stuff and things

We double-cross Tom Cruises original Mission: Impossible and discuss: Cinematography, split focus diopters; Story & Writing, the opening, big set pieces; and other such stuff and things and stuff.