Paul and Corey Cross the Streams: S7E01 [JUROR #2 (2024)]

Welcome to Season 7! As we are now a quarter of the way through the 21st century, like Bill Murray in Tootsie, Paul and Corey are asking, "What happened?" This season we are looking at the trends, genres, styles, and more that make up cinema of the past 25 years. First up, Paul has chosen Clint Eastwood's Juror #2 (2024), a film whose distribution by Warner Brothers Discovery is as fraught as the experience of the titular juror himself! Lots to discuss from the gig economy to Daniel Bessner's article The Life and Death of Hollywood to personal ethics in the face of neoliberal decay. Because the film is so new, we do recommend you watch before listening.