The Visual Text
Chunky is a casual conversation between best friends about contemporary film, its antecedents, and their relationship to the Zeitgeist. Mitchell Cravens is your host, and Francesco Pascuzzi is your film expert. Most films that we discuss also have been reviewed by Francesco or Mitch at http://thevisualtext.com. So check us out!
- Update frequency
- every 18 days
- Average duration
- 61 minutes
- Episodes
- 37
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2020
Pet Sematary
Pet Semetary could have been so much more. Eric is back to discuss this remake of his FAVORITE BOOK EVER.
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Us
We didn't like Us. And it's real fun when we shit on stuff.
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Oscars, Smoshcars
We review the Oscars. The first half was wonderful - we're really happy for the historic number of woman and POC winners. The second half - the fucking poop emoji.
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Cold War (Zimna wojna)
Cold War (Zimna wojna) is a 2018 Polish film by Pawel Pawlikowski that probably should win best foreign film. We'll see.
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The Guilty
The Guilty (Den skyldige) is a 2018 Danish film by Gustav Möller that got snubbed for an Oscar nom. We discuss.
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Roma - The Story Of A Pepperoni Pizza
We had mixed feelings on Roma. It's an interesting social commentary that comes off as a bit impersonal and objective.
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The Favourite
The Favourite was fun, and for once we had slightly differing views about it! What a concept.
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Green Book Solved Racism
Green Book was yet another film about racism directed by a white person. Because we need more of those.
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Burnin' Up
Burning was our favorite film this year by a lot. We gush.
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More Rampant Speculation
More rampant speculation about the Oscars from the For Your Speculation podcast ft. our boy Chonké.
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A Fart Is Born
The episode title says it all. A Star Is Born was not our fave.
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Let's Speculate
Chunky and the folks at For Your Speculation discuss the current state of the oscar race!
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Hereditary
Hereditary was messed up and we loved it! We break down a wonderful performance from Toni Collette and explore some horror tropes along the way.
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Love, Chunky
Love, Simon was important to us and a lot of other people. We discuss.
Note from Mitch: Thank you to our producer, Eric Revilla, for making me sound significantly less cross-faded than I was at the t…
We've Arrived
We did Arrival because the Shape of Water can fuck off. XOXO Denis Villeneuve && XOXO Amy Adamssss. Oh and RIP Abbott; Abbott is death process.
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