Cultural Stew Podcast

TITLE: Cultural Stew Podcast EPISODE: 0042 LOCATION: GFMEDIA Studios EPISODE TITLE: Blinded by Ratings, Our Minds Racing and Hunting for Gold NEWS IN THE MEDIA WORLD: 2:41 NEW TRAILERS: 18:57 THE KING https://youtu.be/yMJnsTx-TBg Timothée Chalamet stars as Henry V in this adaptation of several of Shakespeare’s plays. I didn’t expect much, but this looks pretty cool. It comes to theaters October 11th and starts streaming November 1st. LUCY IN THE SKY https://youtu.be/vQP-L2pJzmk Natalie Portman plays an astronaut in this fictionalized take on the strange and dark events the followed real-life astronaut Lisa Nowak’s return to Earth. From the trailer, the film looks dreamy and tense and beautiful. I’m really interested in the ways it’s playing with aspect ratio. The movie comes out October 4th. THE LAUNDROMAT https://youtu.be/wuBRcfe4bSo Along the lines of how The Big Short took on the 2008 financial crisis, Netflix’s upcoming film The Laundromat takes a very eccentric and comedic look at the Panama Papers a