It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.

Do you believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being?

We may be true with the past, but the past is not through with us.

Welcome back to the next picture show, a movie the week podcast devoted to a classic film in the way it shaped our thoughts on a recent release.

I'm Scott Tobias here again with Keith Phipps.

And Tasha Robinson.

Vox film critic and culture reporter extraordinaire, Alyssa Wilkinson, joins us again.

Hello, Alyssa.

Howdy?

And our producer and co-host,

J. B. Kovsky, will be back on Mike for our next pairing. In our last episode, we slogged through

the merciless desert heat and wind of the Oregon Trail in 1845 with Kelly Rikert's Meek's

cutoff. This week, we're going even further back in 19th century Oregon for First Cow.

Rikert's offbeat comedy drama about friendship, immigration, and fried treats in the Oregon

territory in 1820.

John McGarrow stars as Otis Cookie Figowicz, a soft-spoken cook who makes whatever food he can

wrangle up for the gruff fur trappers who bring him

along on hunts. One day, Cookie runs into King Liu, a Chinese immigrant who's on the run

for killing a Russian man. Played by Orion Lee, Lou immediately develops a kinship with

Cookie, and the two eventually go into business together. Using the milk they secretly

purloin from a prize cow owned by Chief Factor,

a wealthy landowner played by Toby Jones,

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