Two for Space Jam, Please
Film, TV & Pop Culture
About
Joe Hall and Cheryl Quimba watch movies then say things about those movies. They have strong feelings about Todd Haynes, Korean horror, class warfare, and how not to make a twenty-first century rom com. They're basically Siskel and Ebert, but with nothing to lose.
Episodes
- Episode 138 – The Secret Agent (2025)
The hairy leg will live forever.
- Episode 137 – Neighbors (2026)
Good? fences? make? good? neighbors???
- Episode 136 – Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted (2024)
The best movie about roommates / musical legends we've ever seen.
- Episode 135 – Frankenstein (2025)
Oh, Frankenstein, be not equitable to every other, and trample upon me alone, to whom thy justice, and even thy clemency and affection, is most due. Remember, that I am thy creature; I ought to be thy Adam; but I am rather the fallen angel…
- Episode 134 – The Legend of Suram Fortress (1985)
This one's got everything you'd ever want in a movie: pomegranates, swords, llamas, mountains, crocuses, fortune tellers, big hats, broken eggs, and beauty and sorrow everywhere.
- Episode 133 – Mountainhead (2025)
The world of Mountainhead is terrifying and absurd, much like our own.
- Episode 132 – Bugonia (2025)
What if ... we're the aliens?
- Episode 131 – One Battle After Another (2025)
Top. Leo. Role. Of. All. Time. We loved this one, folks. Viva la revolución!
- Episode 130 – Weapons (2025)
The episode wherein we talk a hell of a lot about witches.
- Episode 129 – The Big Short (2015)
This entire episode is us shaking our fists at the sky. Turns out a 2015 movie about the 2008 recession is still sadly, painfully relevant.
- Episode 128 – Friendship (2025)
Demented things happen when men become friends.
- Episode 127 – Showing Up (2023)
We showed up for Kelly Reichardt's Showing Up and spent some time with a very glum sculptor and one injured bird
- Episode 126 – Sinners (2025)
Sinners is a blood-soaked, music-drenched, powerful and mystifying horror-thriller. And there are two Michael B. Jordans! Two!!
- Episode 125 – I Saw The TV Glow (2024)
I know this might sound crazy. I don't want to alarm you. Do you remember a TV show we used to watch together? It was called ... The Pink Opaque.
- Bonus Episode Unlocked: Micky 19 (Micky 17 Reconsidered)
We got feedback. We reconsidered. That's how we do.
- Episode 124 – Severance Season 2 (2025)
We finished the Cold Harbor file. Please enter the room.
- Episode 123 – Mickey 17 (2025)
Our feelings about this one: mixed. Our love for Bong Joon Ho: eternal. Also, we have a Patreon! It's fun over there. Check out patreon.com/twoforspacejamplease to see how to access bonus content and get ahold of a thing we made that's rea…
- Episode 122 – Scavengers Reign (2023)
Tip of the day: If you find yourself stranded on a strange and mysterious planet, be very careful with any and all goo.
- Episode 121 – Red Rocket (2021)
- Episode 120 – Megalopolis (2024)
Oh, Francis Ford Coppola. If only you could have failed better.
- Episode 119 – Kneecap (2024)
Brits amach! (Brits out!)
- Episode 118 – Anora (2024)
So. Much. Yelling. In. Russian. We watched Sean Baker's heartrending, tragi-comic new film and then dug into the class conflict / representations of sex work / weaponized wealth of it all.
- Episode 117 – Neptune Frost
Neptune Frost is an Afrofuturist fever dream, replete with otherworldly poetry, song, color, drums, wise birds, wheel men, mystical hackers, dancing miners, and a technological/earthly joy. And we're so glad we watched it.
- Episode 116 – Thelma (2024)
Join us as we meet Thelma, 93, adorable grandma and certified badass. It's the action comedy we never knew we needed. Also, we have a Patreon! It's fun over there. Check out patreon.com/twoforspacejamplease to see how to access bonus conte…
- Episode 115 – How To Blow Up a Pipeline (2022)
What counts as justified, rational action in a lethally warming world? Inquiring minds want to know.
- Episode 114 – Janet Planet (2024)
A review of Janet Planet calls it "not a movie to be explained," and so this episode is more of the pondering/wandering variety. It's summer. We're here for it.
- Episode 113 – The Running Man (1987)
Cheryl's still working on her treatise, "A Unified Theory of Action Movies and Why They're Her Problematic Fave," but we get into some of its broader points after watching this adrenaline-fueled Arnold Schwarzenegger vehicle.
- Episode 112 – Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024)
Cheryl is seriously considering shaving her head. #TheMadMaxCinematicUniverse #ImperatorFuriosa #girlboss
- Episode 111 – The Iron Claw (2023)
Muscles, muscles everywhere. In The Iron Claw, pro wrestling is the stuff of melodrama and inconceivable tragedy. Join us in the ring.
- Episode 110 – Civil War (2024)
Wooboy. Buckle up, folks. This ain't going to be pretty.
- Episode 109 – 3-Iron (2004)
It started with a student story about phrogging. It ended with us watching a 20-year-old Korean movie that had us reflecting on class, small appliance repair, and the utter beauty of not talking.
- Episode 108 – Dune: Part Two (2024)
Dune: Part Two was a Dud: Part Two. We have our reasons.
- Episode 107 – The Zone of Interest (2023)
This was (obviously) a heavy conversation. We covered the banality of evil, the ways we remember atrocity, familial protectionism, gradations of complicity, small acts of resistance, and the practice of viewing present-day horrors through…
- Episode 106 – Anatomy of a Fall (2023)
The chilly, cerebral courtroom thriller Anatomy of a Fall dares to ask -- Is marriage itself a complex exercise in litigation? (Follow-up question: Does blasting a 50 Cent song at eardrum-blasting volumes justify murder??)
- Episode 105 – Please Baby Please (2022)
Are kitchen appliances sexy? What does bisexual lighting mean in 2023? We're asking the tough questions, folks. Our instigator - Please Baby Please, a movie so campy it should come with its own three-person tent.
- Episode 104 – May December
In the first minute of this episode, Joe called May December "a banger." Let me be clear - this movie is not "a banger." But it made us feel weird and unsettled and disturbed and maybe that's ... good ...?
- Episode 102 – Aniara (2018)
It's time for a movie adapted from a long sci-fi poem written as a critical response to the United States' bombing of Hiroshima. Aniara means despair.
- Episode 101 – Barbie (2023)
Get in, losers. We're going to Barbie Land.
- Episode 100 – Oppenheimer (2023)
- Episode 99 – The Blackening (2023)
We're back and we watched The Blackening and had a lot of fun talking about why this horror-comedy / comedy-horror worked. Turns out -- you need good writing and good performances to make a good movie. Easy. Also, Joe reveals a secret! As…
- Episode 98 – Leonor Will Never Die (2022)
- Episode 97 – Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
- Episode 96 – The Last of Us Season 1 (2023)
The Last of Us made us angry. Do with that what you will.
- Episode 95 – White Noise (2022)
It's 1984 but it's also 2023 and we're afraid of dying and fumbling our way to survival and it's goofy and tender with an airborne toxic event still keeping us up at night.
- Episode 94 – The Triangle of Sadness (2022)
After a looooong hiatus, we're (finally!) back. And we missed you. We watched Triangle of Sadness, one of the more recent iterations of the increasingly popular eat-the-rich theme, and talked all about representations of class struggle, vi…
- Episode 93 – The Menu (2022)
We brought our appetites for the absurdist dark comedy that is The Menu - and we left satisfied!
- Episode 92 – The Banshees of Inisherin
The Banshees of Inisherin asks of its audience - how many fingers would you cut off to get your former best friend to leave you alone??
- Episode 91 – Barbarian (2022)
Join us for a brief stay at probably the worst Airbnb experience of all time. We grit our teeth (and sometimes closed our eyes) and watched Barbarian!
- Episode 90 – Vesper (2022)
Vesper is viscous, gooey, slipshod, and visceral. Ferny plants shoot lethal, glowing pink darts that burrow into you and turn into insects. Scavenging pilgrims build rubbish towers high into the sky. A floating orb holds the consciousness…
- Episode 89 – Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022)
Our biggest piece of advice if you're planning a hurricane party with your friends in a mansion for the weekend - Put. Away. The swords. We watched Bodies Bodies Bodies and talked about funny horror and killer parlor games. And also - what…