Latest Aubreyhicks Podcast Episodes
Wind River (2017 - dir. Taylor Sheridan)
Reel Review - October 23, 2018 01:09 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsWind River, written and directed by Taylor Sheridan, is the story of Cory Lambert (Jeremy Renner), a wildlife officer who finds the body of an 18-year-old woman on an American Indian reservation in snowy Wyoming. Young FBI agent Jane Banner (Elizabeth Olsen) arrives to investigate. This Florida ...
We Are Birds: A California Indian Story (dir. Albert Chacon)
Reel Review - October 15, 2018 20:56 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsFor many indigenous people living in the US today, the past had been cut off from them. We Are Birds Director Albert Chacon discovered this history through the tradition of birdsinging – bird songs are the oral tradition of passing down the family’s story through song and dance. The old rituals ...
A Star Is Born (2018 - dir. Bradley Cooper)
Reel Review - October 12, 2018 21:48 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsThe latest remake of A Star is Born is, well … is getting mixed reviews. Some are rapturous (like this, this, or this and especially this) others not so much (for instance: this, this, or this). Our panel discuss this latest version in the "there is always a possibility of getting disc...
Powwow Highway with Cast Members
Reel Review - October 08, 2018 22:57 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsWe are thrilled to share this conversation about Powwow Highway with you! A. Martinez, Amanda Wyss, Joanelle Romero, from the film join host Jonathan Schwartz and USC Profs Ange-Marie Hancock Alfaro and Chris Finley in conversation about the making, legacy, and meaning of this cult classic. If...
Powwow Highway (1989 - dir. Jonathan Wacks)
Reel Review - October 08, 2018 22:48 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsPowwow Highway is the story of Philbert and Buddy who journey from Montana to Santa Fe to bail Buddy's sister Bonny out of jail. For many indigenous peoples in the Americas, life can be grim. Much has been taken from them. In Powwow Highway, we begin with a view of the failed American Dram with ...
Colette (dir. Wash Westmoreland)
Reel Review - September 28, 2018 02:19 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsDoes the biopic about a 19th century French writer Colette bring her to life? This episode features a conversation on a film which seems to be of the moment. Gender dynamics, intellectual property, relationships ... history. Host Jonathan Schwartz is joined by podcast favorites Ange-Marie...
Part 1: Sorry to Bother You (dir. Boots Riley)
Reel Review - August 07, 2018 23:37 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsSorry to Bother You, written and directed by Boots Riley. The film follows a young Cassius (Cash) Green who joins an Oakland telemarketing company, adopting a white accent to thrive, propelling him up the ladder. He is faced with the dilemma of success and the ethics of what he's selling. The en...
Part 2: Sorry to Bother You (dir. Boots Riley)
Reel Review - August 07, 2018 23:24 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsSorry to Bother You, written and directed by Boots Riley. The film follows a young Cassius (Cash) Green who joins an Oakland telemarketing company, adopting a white accent to thrive, propelling him up the ladder. He is faced with the dilemma of success and the ethics of what he's selling. The en...
Tully (dir. Jason Reitman)
Reel Review - May 18, 2018 18:07 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsTully is the third collaboration of writer Diablo Cody and director Jason Reitman and its the story of motherhood. Charlize Theron plays expectant mother, Marlo. It is the birth of this third child that seems to push Marlo to a breaking point. While she seems to resent the gift of a night nanny ...
Beirut (dir. Brad Anderson)
Reel Review - April 20, 2018 01:46 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsThe film follows a fictional hostage situation in Beirut, Lebanon at the height of the Lebanon Civil War. Our panel discusses the controversies surrounding the film including how Hollywood portrays the Middle East. Is it social commentary, an action thriller, or both? Listen now to find out how ...
A Wrinkle in Time (dir. Ava Duvernay)
Reel Review - March 26, 2018 16:31 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsAva DuVernay's film A Wrinkle in Time has met with mixed reviews. The book the film adapts is both classic and beloved and also one of the most banned books in American schools and libraries due to Madeline L’Engle’s deeply Christian views on how faith and science can exist together. Not only do...
The Post (dir. Steven Spielberg)
Reel Review - February 21, 2018 23:22 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsSteven Spielberg's most recent film - The Post - has been wildly anticipated by audiences - especially considering the current challenges in our media and news landscape. Chronicling The Washington Post’s publishing of The Pentagon Papers during the tail end of the Vietnam War and starring Tom H...
Star Wars: The Last Jedi (dir. Rian Johnson)
Reel Review - January 18, 2018 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsOur nerd quotient is rising with the discussion of Star Wars: The Last Jedi. The latest installment of the Star Wars series brings with it controversy. How well does The Last Jedi fit into the Star Wars franchise? How does this new film show how culture has changed since the first film (A New ...
Darkest Hour (dir. Joe Wright)
Reel Review - December 21, 2017 15:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsGary Oldman is Winston Churchill in the new WWII film, Darkest Hour. The first month of Churchill's historic time as Prime Minister, he faced a great decision; one that would lead either to war or to a negotiated peace with Hitler. The compressed timeline of the film drops the viewer in the mi...
Mudbound (dir. Dee Rees)
Reel Review - December 18, 2017 19:29 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsDirector Dee Rees' new film, Mudbound, follows two southern families before, during, and after World War II. One family is white, one black. Centering on the complex relationships between the two families, the film explores how different generations dealt with societal changes which inevitably f...
Blade Runner 2049 (dir. by Denis Villeneuve)
Reel Review - October 30, 2017 21:17 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsIs Blade Runner 2049 the sequel we didn't know we needed? Set in a dystopian future Los Angeles, Ryan Gosling's K is a replicant who hunts down dis-loyal replicants: a Blade Runner. When a secret is uncovered, he sets out on a quest. The journey becomes one to not only find the secret but to ans...
American Assassin (dir. Michael Cuesta)
Reel Review - September 21, 2017 18:08 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsDirector Michael Cuesta brings the fictional hero of Vince Flynn's Mitch Rapp novels to the big screen in the new film,American Assassin. The all-star cast includes Dylan O'Brien, Michael Keaton, and Taylor Kitsch as a threesome tied together through the specter of betrayal and revenge, set up...
The Handmaid's Tale (Hulu Miniseries)
Reel Review - August 30, 2017 23:03 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsHulu has adapted The Handmaid's Tale, the classic novel by Margaret Atwood, into a 10 episode saga of life in the dystopia of Gilead. Gilead is a totalitarian society in what was formerly the United States, ruled by a twisted Protestant fundamentalism in its ‘return to traditional values'. As o...
The Kingdom (dir. Peter Berg)
Reel Review - July 05, 2017 18:10 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsPeter Berg’s The Kingdom is an action procedural which tries to also be a lesson in cross-cultural tolerance. Released in 2007, we wonder if this film makes the same amount of sense ten years later. The film follows an FBI team which travels to infiltrate and find a terrorist cell in Riyadh, Sau...
Wonder Woman (dir. Patty Jenkins)
Reel Review - June 08, 2017 23:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsWonder Woman is finally on the big screen! Raised on an island secluded from the world, Diana trained harder than any Amazon before her. Taught that the world of man was corrupted by Ares, the God of War, Diana sees an opportunity to kill Ares and set the world right after a pilot crashes on the...
Hidden Figures (dir. Theodore Melfi)
Reel Review - April 30, 2017 21:53 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsThis crowd pleasing film centers on the overlooked stories of women of color whose mathematical work contributed to NASA's first successful launch of a human being into orbit during the space race of the 1960s. We discuss how the film both illustrated the racial divide in America while showcasin...
Ghost in the Shell (dir. Rupert Sanders)
Reel Review - April 08, 2017 00:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsThis film has sparked controversy on its casting choices, with many critics claiming another instance of Hollywood whitewashing due to film’s Japanese manga. We discuss the nature of remakes, the whitewashing controversy, whether the film adds to the Ghost world, and Scarlett Johansson. The fu...
Get Out (dir. Jordan Peele)
Reel Review - March 11, 2017 00:07 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsOur second episode of the Price Projection Room features a discussion of the poignant horror film Get Out, written and directed by Jordan Peele (MADTV, Key and Peele, and Keanu). Get Out follows a young African-American photographer on a visit to his white girlfriend's parents' home. The tag l...
Fences (dir. Denzel Washington)
Reel Review - February 10, 2017 22:54 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsOur inaugural episode of the Price Projection Room podcast features a lively discussion of the film adaptation of August Wilson's Fences, directed by Denzel Washington. Fences is part of Wilson's series of ten plays, all set in Pittsburgh depicting different decades of African American life in...
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