Arrival

Super Film Bros

Welcome back super film fans to another episode of your favorite weekly movie podcast where anything goes! This week we've got our main man Frank The Tank sitting in with us adding to the ensuing hilarity, while Jose lays all of his adventures and cosplay stories on us from his A-Kon 29 trip this past weekend (all the while shamelessly plugging some random podcast about movies) after that nonsense we get to our round up of mostly Marvel MCU centric news. And finally keeping with our cerebral Sci-Fi theme this month we get into our review of 2016's Arrival starring Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner and Forest Whitaker.

Arrival is a 2016 science fiction opus brought to us via director Denis Villeneuve (Sicario, Blade Runner 2049) in which Amy Adams portrays linguistics professor Louise Banks who is brought in by the government to communicate with the aliens of one of the twelve vessels that have recently arrived around the earth. Jeremy Renner plays her counterpart in this endeavor as astrophysicist Ian Donnely while Forest Whitaker rounds out the main cast as Colonel G.T. Weber. This is another example of a slow burn thinking man's Sci-Fi so if that's not your cup of tea and you're looking for a fast paced film about an alien invasion with massive amounts of destruction and chaos go watch the original Independence Day (which we so happen to have an episode on!) or it's sub par sequel. This is not a film of super flashy special effects but rather one that keeps you pondering the subject matter long after you've viewed it especially in the instance of this crew. Multiple viewings reveal more and more about the message of the film and its intricacies therein. A great story is present here, one packed with emotional depth and consequence and we think it's definitely worth your time.

And with all of this go on ahead and check out our in depth discussion and review on this flick and please remember it's "ARRIVAL" not "THE ARRIVAL" but maybe go and watch that one too if you're feeling silly and want pre-psychotic break Charlie Sheen goodness.