Episode 365: Can You Take Me Lower?

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style= "font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> The weekly movie reviews come at you quick this week with five new titles. Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy have opinions on all five including an uncomfortable tale of grooming that was chosen for the Chicago Critics Film Festival in 2022 (Palm Trees and Power Lines). Michael Shannon pretends to be an infamous author (A Little White Lie) and Stephen King’s evil kids get a prequel of sorts (Children of the Corn). Guy Ritchie is is inexplicably back with another action comedy (Operation Fortune: Ruse Du Guerre) and Michael B. Jordan is back as Adonis in front of and behind the camera to battle Jonathan Majors in and out of the boxing ring (Creed III).</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style= "font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> 0:00 - Intro</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style= "font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> 1:20 – Palm Trees and Power Lines</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style= "font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> 11:01 – A Little White Lie</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style= "font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> 23:25 – Children of the Corn</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;"><span style= "font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> 37:36 – Operation Fortune: Ruse