Movie set in NYC directed by people from NYC, podcast started in NYC by people who live in NYC.

Safdies had previously been indie favorites with Good Time.

Adam Sandler in a serious role was covered on the pod with their Reign Over Me review

Movie had the right aesthetics for the time. Kind a grimey, neon, popular music. Sandler is a dirtbag character.

Relief that a movie came out that wasn't capeshit

A24 (The Witch, The Lighthouse, Hereditary, It Comes At Night, Midsommar, Moonlight, Green Room, Mid-90s, The Florida Project) usually gets some good praise among internet film buffs. They're kind of like an accessible way into film appreciation. Not quite low-brow popcorn flicks but not exactly high-film either. There's a whole culture around it that goes nuts around releases. It's a film twitter thing. A lot of overlap between filmtwit and lefttwit.