239 - Review of the Year 2020: Part II (with Calvin Dyson)

Guest: Calvin Dyson

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We're so nearly there... 2020 is nearly over. But first, we need to have a frank discussion about Peninsula, Tremors: Shrieker Island, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, Tenet, Bill & Ted Face the Music, The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run and Mank... in that order. Also: a fun music quiz. Who will win? Allen or Calvin?

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Films covered in this episode:
Peninsula
Allen: ✰ ✰ ½
Calvin: n/s
Sol: ✰ ✰ ✰
Overall score: 55%

Tremors: Shrieker Island
Allen: ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Calvin: n/s
Sol: ✰ ✰ ✰
Overall score: 65%

Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
Allen: ✰ ✰ ½
Calvin: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
Sol: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
Overall score: 70%

Tenet
Allen: ✰ ✰
Calvin: ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Sol: ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Overall score: 60%

Bill & Ted Face the Music
Allen: ✰ ✰ ✰
Calvin: n/s
Sol: ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Overall score: 65%

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run
Allen: ✰ ✰
Calvin: n/s
Sol: ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Overall score: 55%

Mank
Allen: ✰ ✰ ✰
Calvin: n/s
Sol: ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Overall score: 65%

214 - Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

Films (and TV) covered in this episode:
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
Allen: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
Sol: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
Overall score: 90%

Bruno
Allen: ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Sol: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Overall score: 80%

Continuing our two-week discussion of Sacha Baron Cohen, we pick up from the failure of Ali G Indahouse to discuss the relative success of Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan followed by Bruno and a little epilogue touching on Who Is America?.

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213 - Ali G Indahouse

Films (and TV) covered in this episode:
Da Ali G Show
Allen: n/s
Sol: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
Overall score: 80%

Ali G Indahouse
Allen: ✰ ½
Sol: ✰ ✰ ✰
Overall score: 45%

Ali G in da USAiii
Allen: n/s
Sol: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
Overall score: 100%

The Dictator
Allen: ½
Sol: ½
Overall score: 20%

Grimsby
Allen: ✰ ✰ ½
Sol: n/s
Overall score: 50%

What started as a throwaway joke: Sacha Baron Cohen Season - posed in one of our Patreon-exclusive Diminisodes - springs into bizarre reality (but not particularly bizarre by 2020 standards). This week, we're covering Ali G from his origins on The 11 O'Clock Show, through Da Ali G Show, Ali G Indahouse and culminating in Ali G in da USAiii. We're also covering The Dictator and Grimsby so that we don't have to worry about them next week, when we do Borat, Bruno and Who Is America?.

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The Microsoft Paint picture Sol created as a response to The Dictator, as promised in this week’s episode.