Christy Lemire

So the critics said no, and the entire planet bought a ticket anyway.

Christy Lemire called it a hokey, corny, safe, cliched, sanitized look at Michael Jackson.

That's five adjectives.

She was building something.

I'd say it's the most thoroughly documented set of doorways in American history.

And Amy Nicholson in the LA Times called it a vapid, airless, mindless time waster, which is three hyphenated adjectives and a noun.

That's a different construction from Christy Lemire's.

Each critic has their own masonry.

And if you're a podcast listener, you're missing the goal we're giving you on YouTube.

Christy is going full unblinking Elizabeth Holmes and I'm giving Nathan Fielder reaction face.

It's really hard to not blink.

I don't know how

God.

Those poor technicians.

Matthew Bird says, Christy, I had a comment for Alonzo above.

Can you see if you can find it? Oh, sure.

And in this, she just shows, I'm sorry, man, you're not supposed to in any way, you know.

slight the actors they're all geniuses you know everybody I listen to everybody was a podcast it's all like dancing on eggshells I watch Alonzo Duralde and Christy Lemire and like oh wow it's so-and-so it's Austin Abrams he's magical he was in Brad's status and they're never like no one ever is like oh this look at this asshole's hair look at her stupid wardrobe it's why I I ask in incredible passion every night of my life on Twitter why I don't transcend or ascend to the next level, why I'm not on film shows and why nobody goes to me or invites me.

It probably is because I'm like, who's this stern, horrible, Germanic shrew in this? And why is she playing Tom Cruise's sister? And by the way, there's this old bag who occasionally they do cutaways to.

And it reminded me, remember in Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead where there was just this made-up slang? So occasionally you'd be watching this shitty crime movie and they'd just cut to Christopher Walken going, buckwheats! And they're like, what? And he's like, buckwheats! And it would just be this absurd thing where they'd make boat drinks, and they'd have this idiotic fucking slang that didn't exist.

It's Film Week on LAist 89.3 and the LAist app.

I'm Larry Mantel with critics Christy Lemire, the co-host of the Breakfast All Day YouTube and podcast series, and Tim Cogshell of AltFilmGuide and Cinegods.com. We begin with the new film from director and co-screenwriter Alejandro Iñárritu.

Tom Cruise stars in Digger.

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Up next is The Scout, a comedic drama starring Mimi Davila.

Hello there.

And Christy Lemire, film critic and co-host of the YouTube channel Breakfast All Day.

Welcome back, Christy.

Hi, good to see you.

And that's it for this week.

Tim Grierson, senior U.S. critic for Screen International and author of This Is How You Make a Movie.

Christy Lemire, film critic and co-host of the YouTube channel Breakfast All Day.

Thank you both.

I'm Larry Mantle, joined by film critic Maureen Lee Lenker, who formerly was at Entertainment Weekly, who's written for Gold Derby, the LA Times, Hollywood Reporter, and Turner Classic Movies.

Also with us, Christy Lemire, co-host of the Breakfast All Day YouTube and podcast series.

We begin with Prime Time, a movie that dramatizes the 2006 TV series To Catch a Predator, hosted by Chris Hansen.

Robert Pattinson stars in Prime Time as Chris Hansen.

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Up next, The History of Concrete.

I think he's let his ideology get the best of him in a way that's not really helpful.

Christy Lemire, Lemire with the AP.

I used to, I used to love her, but I don't, I've kind of lost track of her a bit, but I thought she was very mainstream in a good way.

So just a few off the top of my head.

There were two.

We had our, our buddy Mar- uh, LaSante, and we had, uh, Christy Lemire, uh, filling for me two weeks.

But 500 episodes is a l-

And we also had Bilka.

That is a podcast of the cinema, as we call it, and we know how ridiculous that sounds.

I do a show with Christy Lemire called Breakfast All Day.

That's a YouTube show, but you can also listen to it as a podcast.

I'm on Maximum Film on the Maximum Fun Network, and I'm a regular co-host on the Deck the Hallmark podcast as well.