Promising Young Woman, Pretend It's A City, Larry King's Passing, Best Female Revenge Movies

Cinephile with Adnan Virk

Adnan Virk, Le Batard & Friends

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Tv & Film

4.9 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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"Promising Young Woman" follows Carey Mulligan who plays a woman traumatized by a tragic event in her past, who seeks out vengeance against those who crossed her path. This week on Cinephile, Adnan reviews the genre-bending film along with Martin Scorsese's Netflix mini-series profiling author Fran Lebowitz, "Pretend It's A City." In entertainment news, broadcasting legend Larry King passed away at the age of 87 over the weekend and the new James Bond film has been delayed for a third straight time. And in honor of "Promising Young Woman," the guys give their picks for the 'Best Female Revenge Movies!' All that and more on this week's Cinephile! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is lip gloss, mist and throppy, packages feminist manifesto. Clever but not smart,
0:28.3	cynical without being perceptive or particularly passionate. Women are angry for good reason. They
0:33.5	also deserve better movies than this one. Stephanie is a caricatime magazine. A rather
0:38.3	damn thing review of promising young woman. It is our feature review this time here on
0:42.5	Sinafile. In addition to that, pretend it's a city. Seven episodes, 30 minutes apiece. It's
0:48.7	Martin Scorsese hanging out with his good friend, Fran Lieberwitz, for entertaining fashion
0:52.7	on Netflix. In addition to that, I just watched none of the hunter again. Props to
0:57.1	my man Scott McGassie. People are wondering what happened to Rags. Scott messaged me in the
1:01.0	days. I watched that film, which is one of my all-time favorites. Night of the Hunter. I actually
1:06.2	watched it again. It was on TCM, a great job by our man Ben Mank, which is a great preview
1:10.3	of it. I'm going to talk a little bit about Night of the Hunter, which is a movie I love
1:13.8	as I mentioned. In addition to that, we've got some news all over the place here. News from
1:18.0	the movie Mank, which is one of Joe's favorites of the year. I got a little news here in
1:21.6	Sound of Metal, particularly the sound design, which I find fascinating. Also, just an explosive
1:26.8	story about Johnny Depp. You are going to want to overture ears and eyes. It is rather
1:32.1	toxic. Or as the article says, radio active. When you're looking at his career and what
1:37.0	Johnny's been up to since it's obviously been a very, very notable fall from grace. As
1:41.1	always, thank you for supporting the Sinofile podcast. Please go to Apple Podcasts where
1:44.9	you can subscribe, rate, and review. I rank my movies at four or eight beliefs. You can
1:48.9	please rank these movies at five stores. We got this review here from Dano, L33. Hopefully
1:56.1	it's Paul Dano. You guys are great. Please review promising young women. He put young women,
2:00.5	but it's young woman. One of the best movies I've seen in a long time, quite a lot of
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