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A rural village braces itself for development from the big city in Ryusuke Hamaguchi's EVIL DOES NOT EXIST (2024), a beautiful movie that rhymed with certain things we've been feeling lately about democracy, capitalism, freedom, and community. PLUS: We parse Toronto Life's list of the 50 most influential Torontonians of 2024, and explore the exciting world of Eric Roberts.

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Marshall Steinbaum

You guys will always be the most influential Torontonians to me.

Eric Cline

Back when Brooks Brothers were the actual Brooks Brothers, they were profiteers in the American Civil War. They delivered uniforms that were so shabby they had to be thrown away. Now there's an authentic brand that represents American business!

Johnny 5

Thank you so much for posting this! I always did want to get a PhD in political science, and this seems like a cool program. Maybe I could do this before I die…

Johnny 5

I would love it if they did an episode on Star 80. I’ve never seen it but I’ve heard it’s fantastic, and it would be a good excuse to finally watch it.

Alex

If Dancing With The Stars' audience is like the UK version (strictly come dancing) then I would say there is at least one group who seems to enjoy it earnestly - grandmas.

Patrick ODonnell

I occasionally had to work with Authentic Brands Group at my old job, and it’s as soulless as the name implies

Orn Pauldorf

the thesis of the entire human race: you don't need to be evil to destroy the world.

Joshua Painter

Oh man I'm so glad you guys want to do more Hamaguchi. Drive My Car and Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy are both absolute masterpieces, but the best of his for the purposes of Michael and Us might be Happy Hour, a film which I m pretty sure I nominated a while back and got about 2 votes. Edward Yang and Nuri Bilge Ceylon both have sort of similar styles and would be great to explore as well (A Brighter Summer Day and The Wild Pear Tree would be great for M&U).

Chris M.

My favorite part of Eric Roberts’ book is how contrite he is toward Julia except for one paragraph where out of nowhere he insults her performance in Steel Magnolias.

Mangoappreciator

This episode isn't appearing in my podcast feed even though the last and next one is. Anyone else having this issue?

Jeremy Mele

This movie felt like the anti-Twin Peaks, in an utterly fascinating way: the small town community as actually far more keyed into the world and its darknesses than the big city outsiders. The shots of the camera moving through the forest and depicting the trees from below almost seems a direct homage to Twin Peaks, which often had tracking shots of the woods, but from above. The ending too had an almost Lynchian ambiguity that I thought was really interesting.