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'Yesterday', Ify Gets Grilled, and Tween-Friendly Queer Cinema with Laura Sirikul

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Ify Nwadiwe, Film, News, Reviews, Comedy, Diverse, Twitter, Woke, Queer, Drea Clark, Film Reviews, Criticism, Movies, Tv & Film, Alonso Duralde

4.7 • 932 Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

This week marks Ify's first official episode as our host, and as an initiation to the show, Drea and Alonso GRILL him on his movie preferences. The gang is also joined by freelance writer and managing editor of Nerds of Color, Laura Sirikul, to discuss the new Beatles-amnesia-rom-com, Yesterday. They answer a question from the 'Who Shotline' about tween friendly queer films. And, as always, staff picks. In news, the live-action remake of The Little Mermaid gets an Ariel, Marianne Williamson loves Avatar, and Paul Schrader calls Brian De Palma "trite" and "artistically weak." Tween Friendly Queer Films: Geography Club Breakfast with Scot Saved! Show Me Love Beautiful Thing The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love Blackbird Ma Vie en Rose Alex Strangelove The Wise Kids The Perks of Being a Wallflower Edge of Seventeen (1998) Get Real Hearts Beat Loud Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List D.E.B.S. Pride Staff Picks: Alonso - Synecdoche, New York Drea - Maiden Laura - The Farewell Ify - Harlem Nights With Ify Nwadiwe, Alonso Duralde, Drea Clark, and Laura Sirikul. You can let us know what you think of Who Shot Ya? on Twitter or Facebook. Or email us atwhoshotya@maximumfun.org Call us on the "Who Shotline" - WSY-803-1664 Produced by Casey O'Brien and Laura Swisher for MaximumFun.org.

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0:00.0

Hello everyone welcome to who shot you I'm your host if you wide away and today we are joined by film reviews editor at the rap

0:13.3

Alonzo D'Ol day.

0:14.5

Alonzo, what's good with you?

0:15.8

Oh, if you welcome.

0:17.2

It's so good to see you back.

0:18.6

And to have you here is our actual like host host.

0:21.8

And it feels good. Very thrilling for all of us. What's good

0:25.2

to me right now is a really depressing but amazing show on HBO called

0:30.2

years and years. It's created by Russell Davis, the guy who did the original Queer's

0:34.9

Folk, and he kind of overhauled Dr Who.

0:37.8

And it is a show about a family in Manchester

0:41.3

over the next five, 10 ten fifteen years as the world goes to shit

0:45.8

which it's doing right now in front of us but this gives me a little sneak peek

0:48.8

of what's happening so you know in the first episode like in though his last days in office Trump drops a nuke on China you know and then we get President Pence but really Trump and Putin are still pulling all the strings the The economy is collapsing, the banks are falling apart,

1:05.4

birds and bugs are dying.

1:06.9

Like, it's awful.

1:08.5

And as much as I stopped watching House of Cards

1:11.3

because it just felt like too much of what we're living through.

1:14.3

There is a perverse interest in seeing like, how shit is it going to get and how soon?

1:19.3

And that's what this show is giving me.

1:21.8

There's not money in the world that could make me go through that.

1:26.0

Russell Toby has a lot of gay sex in it.

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