Episode 9a: Back-Masking, The Movie (sample)

Notes: Sam and Alissa both managed to get into socially distant critics’ screenings of Tenet, which they had long and passionate thoughts about, and they felt strongly that they should yak about them to each other and spare their spouses at least some of the agony of being married to people who can’t be stopped from talking about movies for hours on end.

Nolan is a very interesting filmmaker; most of his movies are on Amazon Prime, a couple of them for free. Sam’s essay about whether or not to do to see Tenet is here; Alissa’s review of the film is here and her excellent piece on its use of the Sator Square is here. We recommend a pair of movies at the end of the piece; here’s Sam on I’m Thinking of Ending Things and here’s Alissa on Bill and Ted Face the Music.

Our theme song is Louis Armstrong and His Hot 5’s Muskrat Ramble, made freely available by the Boston Public Library and audio engineering shop George Blood, LP through the Internet Archive. Tenet is copyright 2020 Warner Bros. Brief audio clips are used herein for review purposes. All other content is copyright 2020 Sam Thielman and Alissa Wilkinson.

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