#200 – Synchronic | Directed by Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson (with Brett Salter of Irish Salt)

Tune in as Brett Salter (Irish Salt) jumps back onto the program to break down the 2019 sci-fi thriller movie Synchronic, which follows a couple New Orleans paramedics as they get caught up in the mystery surrounding a new designer drug and the reality-altering impact it’s having on its users. Anthony Mackie’s flair for dark comedy, puzzling out the stylistic choices for elements like nonlinear storytelling and color grading, and the theory that perhaps this film should have ran along a Steins;Gate-esque road comprise a few of the topics for this episode.

Directed by Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson, Synchronic stars Anthony Mackie, Jamie Dornan, Alexia Ioannides, Katie Aselton, Ramiz Monsef, Bill Oberst Jr., Carl Palmer, Betsy Holt, and Shane Brady.

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