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Cinephile with Adnan Virk

Let Him Go, Meryl Streep Raps, Ben Lyons, Best Stephen King Adaptations

Cinephile with Adnan Virk

Adnan Virk, Le Batard & Friends

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Tv & Film

4.92K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Adnan is joined by friend-of-the-show, Ben Lyons, who's here to talk about the Oscar contenders he's most excited to watch this winter! Adnan also reviews the new Kevin Costner, Diane Lane thriller "Let Him Go." Plus, more and more movies are being pushed back to 2021, but it's okay because at least there is new audio of Meryl Streep rapping. For this week's Mt. Rushmore the guys give their picks for the best Stephen King Adaptations! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Let him go isn't subtle, but as a genre film, it's original and shrewdly made with a

0:28.1

flora-dly gripping suspense. That's Owen Glyberman, one of the best film critics in America. He's the

0:33.5

chief film critic for Variety. His thoughts on her feature review this week let him go. Let him go is only the

0:38.4

third film that I've seen in movie theaters since the pandemic began in March 11. Think about that. I

0:43.8

liked me. I could go once a week and I've gone three times now in eight-and-a-half months and

0:48.6

thankfully I found it to be a very rewarding experience in a film that was much better than I had

0:52.8

anticipated. I like the trailer, but the movie was even better than the trailer. Plus we've got

0:56.8

entertainment news involving Wonder Woman 1984 and a little gal Gadot for you coming to America. Wherever

1:03.1

you heard this before, push from 2020 now to 2021. Merrill Streep wrapping big news, though. We've got

1:09.0

Ben Lions back, baby. The Lions, then. My man. You can always follow him on Twitter, Instagram. I am Ben

1:14.1

Lions, the son of Jeffrey Lions, a famed film critic, grandson, famous newspaper columnist Leonard Lions.

1:20.0

Ben is the best. If you're a cinephile listener, you know about me and Ben. We go way back. In many

1:24.5

ways, he's the reason there even is a cinephile because of his support and getting me to the Oscars.

1:28.7

Haven't caught up with Ben since February 5th. That was when we talked just after Sundance. He was

1:33.2

giving his reviews of the Sundance movie. So long time catch up with Ben. His wife's got a new

1:37.2

book out. I encourage everyone to check that out. Merrill Lions, it's called Crystal Healing for Women.

1:42.4

And we talk about just his favorite movie so far this year and what films to look forward to with

1:46.4

the awards circuit. Normally we'd be knee deep. I start getting screeners in mid-October. Now I think

1:52.1

it's going to be mid-December because you know the Oscars got pushed from late February to late April.

1:56.5

So if you do the math, two months from now we should get going. But December is going to be a big

2:00.4

time month for your Oscar hopefuls. December 4th, you're going to get Mank from David Fincher,

2:05.5

Nomad Land, which won the audience award in Toronto, Chloe Jaws film, Frances McDormand,

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