Recommend or Refute | 2010: The Year We Make Contact, Hook, and Showing Up

from Afterthoughts · host Dixon, Ryan, and John

We've got the whole crew back in the studio this week. John breaks down 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984), the overlooked sequel to Kubrick's groundbreaking masterpiece. Ryan revisits a controversial childhood movie with Steven Spielberg's Hook (1991), and Dixon Kelly Reichardt's latest indie dramedy Showing Up (2023).

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