The year is 1986 and you have 13 hours in which to listen to this podcast,

where your baby brother becomes one of us forever.

The movie, Labyrinth.

Hello everyone and welcome to Unspooled.

I'm Paul Sheerb, writer, director, actor, a lover film, joined as always by my friend, Amy Nicholson,

a film critic and someone who also shares an intense pain with me, which is not having her MBA team anywhere near the finals this year of the NBA playoffs.

That's okay because we can take that disappointment and we can turn it into film discussion and really getting into these films that are dark and I'm glad we're talking about a dark film today because I think both of our spirits are darkened by not having our teams here.

Obviously I've had more time to deal with it than you, but I feel like we're in the mood for something a little bit darker.

If I have learned anything watching Labyrinth, it's that you can't always get everything you want in life is not fair.

Life is not fair.

And Amy, a belated happy birthday, I wish it to you in real life, but you have celebrated your time.

I'm hoping that in our conversation today, we see that.

We see that year. We see that in maturity pop through on this episode.

I don't know what I'm going to get, but I feel like I'm going to get a different Amy and older Amy, a different perspective.

That's what I'm putting that on you.

But today's movie, that's really interesting because I think for many people, this is a film that defines them.

Maybe even is an avenue to which they found their own sexuality and to others, they kind of just think it's trash out or I guess in the words of the movie, it's all junk.

Yet this is a movie that every time I even just see the poster, it serves up a lot of complicated emotions in me.

Good and bad, confusing, male strums.

Oh my, how do I feel about anything in this?

And this is a video for Connolly to David Bowie.

And yet it is a film that sticks to my soul much the way that the dark crystal of full of film before this did a film that I don't even think I've seen the dark crystal in a fall in years.

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