It’s your regular boy-meets-girl story – if the boy in question is a schizophrenic, the girl suffers from borderline personality disorder and the two meet in a drug trial by a dubious pharmaceutical company, designed by a mad scientist with mummy issues, and overseen by an AI mourning for her human lover. Yes, it’s that old chestnut.
In this month’s episode Mege and Matt discuss Erik Poppe’s U – July 22, a cineastic attempt to come to terms with the massacre of 69 young people on the island of Utøya, Norway, by a right-wing terrorist. Does the film do justice to its subject? What are the responsibilities of filmmakers depicting recent real-life atrocities? Also, Mege talks about the new Netflix series Maniac, starring Jonah Hill, Emma Stone and Justin Theroux, and Matt speaks of the joys of web-swinging through New York in the recently released game Spider-Man.
A Damn Fine Cup of Culture 