Another Round, Raya and the Last Dragon, WGA Awards, Movies With Animals in the Title

Cinephile with Adnan Virk

Adnan Virk, Le Batard & Friends

Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Film Interviews

4.9 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Thomas Vinterberg's film "Another Round" earned him a 2021 Oscar nomination for Best Director. The film follows four high school teachers who consume alcohol on a daily basis to see how it affects their social and professional lives. On this week's episode, Adnan review the acclaimed film along with Disney's "Raya and the Last Dragon" and Netflix's "The White Tiger." He also reviews the wonderful documentary "My Octopus Teacher" which garnered an 2021 Oscar nomination for Best Documentary Feature. Plus, the Writer's Guild of America Awards announced their winners over the weekend, bolstering the Oscar chances for several films. For this week's Mount Rushmore the guys give their picks for "Movies with Animals in the Title!" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Danish director Thomas Vinterberg's latest film is a sweet, strangely modest tragic
0:27.6	comedy about the pleasures of mostly banal excess.
0:31.3	That's from De Vica Grish of the New York Times.
0:33.8	Excellent blurb.
0:34.6	Talking about our feature review.
0:36.0	Another round.
0:37.6	Not a surprise.
0:38.4	It's up for best international feature, also known as Best Foreign Film.
0:41.4	It's the favorite to win the Oscar a month from now.
0:44.2	But it was one of the biggest shockers of the Oscar nominations that Thomas Vinterberg
0:48.2	is up for Best Director.
0:49.4	So we're reviewing that in addition to the White Tiger, which is not only for best adapted
0:53.5	screenplay.
0:54.5	That's currently on Netflix, the great pre-enca Chopra.
0:56.5	Stars and that.
0:57.5	Raya and the last dragon, which I took my kids to see, and Joe is without child, but he went
1:02.6	to see it in a New York City theater.
1:04.2	So that's the first film my man, Engel Brack, has seen back in a theater, which is great
1:08.0	news.
1:09.0	And lastly, my octopus teacher, which avid fans of Sinophile will remember, Ben Lines
1:13.8	raved about months ago.
1:15.6	It's a nominate for Best Documentary Feature, currently available on Netflix.
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