KHJ, Los Angeles, the big 93.

The New Beverly presents the Pura Cinema podcast.

And we are joined by a writer and screenwriter, Kim Morgan, who has written some really excellent criticism.

And, like, I don't even particularly like that word for what you do.

You open up movies, and I think you make it really personal the way you look at them in a way that I, I don't know, I find myself drawn to kind of ideas that are inside you when you're watching a movie, but you don't necessarily

can't articulate it in some of your writing, especially this article on Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

Thank you. That's very nice to hear. Thank you.

And that's what we're going to try to dive into today about our feelings about what I think for all of us is our favorite film of the year.

It is for me. Yeah.

It is my favorite movie I've seen eight times this year. I know.

We've all seen it.

Multiple times.

Yeah.

We're all almost up to 10, right?

I mean, we're only at three, which is low for, but actually that's incredibly high for me.

I never, ever see movies in the theater now. This made twice as like way too much.

Yeah, especially also when you're doing shows like this, when you're covering a lot of movies.

Yeah, that's the thing is it's all about this. But I guess like for me, I guess if there's a guiding

idea, I was curious about diving into, was just like, why are we so drawn to this movie? What is it

about this film that keeps revealing new layers to it with every viewing?

Because the third viewing was my favorite viewing so far.

And, you know, obviously things change.

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