The sky is falling! New York's film critic Cassandras Charlie and Michael have their heads covered with tinfoil and their eyes trained on the hive mind's cinema du jour (brain-dead blockbusters, Sundance favorites, left-field treasures). They'll be predicting the future... if they ever finish lamenting the present.

For our premiere episode we LARP as tourists in Little Italy and review Pieces of a Woman. Kornel Mundruczo directs and Kata Weber writes this drama starring Vanessa Kirby, Shia LaBeouf, and Ellen Burstyn. Also: a carafe of piss water, Italian erasure, a menacing denizen, date bars as pastries, [redacted] Jackson, Amazon yoga blankets, Nicole Kidman casting a stone, on the nose vs. tongue in cheek, and God's Bob Evans.

For our premiere episode we LARP as tourists in Little Italy and review Pieces of a Woman. Kornel Mundruczo directs and Kata Weber writes this drama starring Vanessa Kirby, Shia LaBeouf, and Ellen Burstyn. Also: a carafe of piss water, Italian erasure, a menacing denizen, date bars as pastries, [redacted] Jackson, Amazon yoga blankets, Nicole Kidman casting a stone, on the nose vs. tongue in cheek, and God's Bob Evans.