Ep 89 // ‘Cold War’ / 2018 Review

Premiere DateDec 21, 2018
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Categories Culture Film & TV Politics Talk Weekly Talk
00:00 Intro
01:05 Movie Review: Jacqueline Soller on ‘Cold War’
02:48 Movie Chat: Jacqueline Soller + J. McVay (spoiler alert)
16:10 1st Person: Faheem // Living With Mental Illness
20:49 Movie Review: Charles Hinshaw on ‘Phantom Thread’
23:04 Movie Chat: Charles Hinshaw + J. McVay (spoiler alert)
45:29 John Knefel // U.S. Domestic Politics 2018
47:39 “Show Your Troubles Out” (BTR Live Studio, 2018) Garcia Peoples
53:27 “Jazinka/32” (BTR Live Studio, 2018) Idgy Dean
62:25 1st Person: Tauran // Running Into Santa Claus At Walmart
66:27 Outro / Credits
67:12 Finish.

This week, J. McVay is joined by Jacqueline Soller to discuss the new movie, ‘Cold War,’ directed by Pawel Pawlikowski and starring Joanna Kulig and Tomasz Kot.

And as the year comes to close, we take a listen to a couple of our favorite 1st Person segments from 2018, revisit some of our favorite BTR Live Studio sessions, and listen back to our first movie chat of 2018

Music composed by and show edited by Hansdale Hsu.

HOST J. McVay
J grew up down in Louisiana and Texas before moving to NYC for college. After college, he decided to stick around, working in film and television production for well over a decade. He came to BTR in 2011 when he…

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