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Corner Office (2023): Discussion begins. An ambitious corporate drone finds he’s most productive when working in a corner office that no one else can see. This somewhat surreal satire sounds promising in theory; early reviews aren’t good, but you could give it a shot. In some theaters and also on VOD. Corner Office official site.
Nightbreed (1990): Discussion begins. Clive Barker’s 1990 cult horror about an encounter between a village of mutants and a serial killer. This one has been re-released many times… but this is the first time on 4K UHD! (Don’t worry, standard Blu-ray included as well). Buy Nightbreed.
Sucker Punch director’s cut?: Discussion begins. Read Alex Kittle’s Sucker Punch review. In an interview with Letterboxd, Zach Snyder reveals that he’d like to release a director’s cut of his sexy-girl-power superhero flick with the original ending restored—the one the studio insisted he cut because it was (and we quote) “too weird.” Since we found the original interesting but “not quite weird enough,” this would be a welcome excuse to revisit this piece of campy PG-13 exploitation. Read the Letterboxd interview.
The Wheel of Heaven (2022): Discussion begins. Joe Badon‘s latest feature was originally planned as a miniseries; it gets super-meta and is about many things, but the basic structure is a woman reading a choose-your-own-(surreal)-adventure book. Premiering in Badon’s hometown of New Orleans tonight (August 4th) at the New Marigny Theater, future festival dates to be announced. The Wheel of Heaven official Facebook page.
WHAT’S IN THE PIPELINE:
No guests are scheduled for next week’s Pod 366, but we’ll be back with an unknown lineup to talk about the week’s weird movie news and releases.
In written reviews next week, Giles Edwards will continue to drop reports from Fantasia Festival 2023; Shane Wilson skates into another one that Came from the Reader-Suggested Queue with Bam Margera’s grossout slacker comedy Haggard (2023); and will see what’s up with the Wakaliwood doc Once Upon a Time in Uganda (2023). Onward and weirdward!