Ben and Rob take the test this week with The Assessment (2024), a stark, unsettling sci-fi drama that might just be the strongest directorial debut we’ve seen in years. With Elizabeth Olsen delivering what could be one of the best performances of the year, The Assessment throws us into a chilling future where personal worth is measured, judged, and quantified by the state—and failing the test means more than just bad news.

The lads ask: is The Assessment a late-stage capitalism nightmare, a meditation on motherhood, or just the most anxiety-inducing job interview ever put on film? They also dig into the real-life parallels that first-time director Fleur Fortune was navigating during production, and of course—what the hell does that blue pole mean?

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Ben and Rob welcome Annihilation, Alex Garland’s 2018 cosmic horror that proved too complex for the box office despite critical adoration. Starring Natalie Portman as a biologist on a grief-fuelled mission into a zone where DNA scrambles and metaphors get literal, Annihilation is part horror, part elegy, and part existential crisis. Alex Garland’s adaptation of the novel is somehow even bleaker than the source novel, perhaps contributing to it often being considered a poor follow up to Ex Machina.

But what’s so interesting about Annihilation’s five act structure? What’s this about Alex Garland being a True Gamer? Is Annihilation a misunderstood masterpiece or a cosmic screensaver with a bear jump scare? And what does this all have to do with our upcoming live show!?

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Ben and Rob wade into the beautiful mind of Brian Wilson’s mind waters with ‘Love & Mercy’ the biopic that, much like the man, is split right in two. With Paul Dano as the young Brian Wilson crafting Pet Sounds and battling hallucinations, and John Cusack as the older Brian Wilson trapped under the thumb of a manipulative therapist, ‘Love & Mercy’ captures the genius of Brian Wilson, the dysfunction within The Beach Boys, and the line between inspiration and illness.

But why is Ben so deeply emotionally attached to Brian Wilson? Is Paul Dano secretly becoming what Gary Oldman once was? Why was it so hard to be a sober Beach Boy? And with Brian Wilson sadly passing away this week, are we objectively in a worse world, or is there hope?

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