543 – Michaela Coel Week! – Mother Mary and The Christophers
Fighting In The War Room: A Movies And Pop Culture Podcast
Katey, Matt, Da7e and David
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
This week, David, Katey, and Da7e unite in the War Room to talk about the two movies about art, sorta, that Michaela Coel is currently starring in. First, David and Da7e try to explain director David Lowery’s Mother Mary, where Coel’s fashion designer faces off with Anne Hathaway’s pop star. Then, all three jump in on Steven Soderbergh’s The Christophers with Coel’s art forger facing off with Ian McKellen’s washed up and cancelled genius painter. Good news – we like both!
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FORMAT
00:00 – Lightning Round: Best Real or Fictional Pop Star
01:30 – Intro – Welcome to Episode 543! Review! E-Mail!
13:57 – Mother Mary
33:00 – The Christophers
51:16 – Outro
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | We've all forgotten, Sasha Fierce. |
| 0:04.3 | In honor of Michael and Mother Mary, both in theaters this weekend, what's your favorite pop star, real or fictional? |
| 0:11.1 | I'm Katie Rich. |
| 0:12.0 | I kind of miss the real part of this, and I now feel bad that I'm not going to answer Lady Gaga. |
| 0:16.6 | And I also don't know that my answer is technically a Bobstar, but I am thinking of Cassandra Wong, |
| 0:21.2 | lead singer of Crucial Taunt in Wayne's World |
| 0:23.4 | and how as a child she was obviously the most beautiful woman |
| 0:25.9 | who had ever existed. |
| 0:26.8 | And honestly, Tia career may very well still be. |
| 0:30.5 | I'm David the Seven, and I'm going with Wild Stallion. |
| 0:33.9 | Through the power of music, they create somehow a post-capitalist utopia, be excellent to each other. |
| 0:42.2 | I'm David Ehrlich, and this is definitely recency bias at work, but I would be lying to myself and to the world if I didn't go with, what is that sound? |
| 0:52.5 | Sorry, that's the 3D printer that I thought wasn't going to make any noise |
| 0:55.6 | but it's over, it's done. |
| 0:57.6 | If I didn't go with my friends, |
| 1:01.2 | My friends, Mira, Rumi, and Zoe |
| 1:02.8 | from K-pop deep hunters. |
| 1:06.2 | Pretty great. |
| 1:07.2 | You can't fight in here. |
| 1:08.2 | This is the war room. |
| 1:09.2 | Fine, I can hear you now, Dimitri. I can no longer |
| 1:12.3 | sit back and allow. Clear and plain and coming through fine. Subversion. I'm coming through |
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