This week Dave and Steel are joined by Steel’s old friend Aaron Peck, a real-life professional film critic. Together the three of them recap their holiday adventures with children, talk with Aaron about his expertise in running, reading, and reviewing films (Aaron shares his perspective on the best films of 2015), play great movie soundtrack music from The National, Van Morrison, Bill Conti, R. Kelly, The Who and Radiohead, and Aaron shares some book wisdom from Roger Ebert’s memoir Life Itself.
Links
Expert Testimony: Aaron Peck
Reading:
Aaron’s Best Books of 2015:
- Non-fiction: The World’s Strongest Librarian: A Memoir of Tourette’s, Faith, Strength, and the Power of Family by Josh Hanagarne
- Fiction: The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber
- Most in need of a better ghost writer: My Story by Elizabeth Smart (with Chris Stewart)
Films
- Aaron’s film reviews for The Herald Journal
- Aaron’s reviews for High-Def Digest
Film recommendations
Aaron’s Best Films of 2015:
All the new releases Aaron saw in 2015, ranked (1-120!).
Upstream Color (Shane Carruth, 2013) [for Steel]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5U9KmAlrEXU
Snowpiercer (Bong Joon-Ho, 2013) [for Steel]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyWfZ9866DE
The Raid (Gareth Evans, 2011) [for Dave]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6f6f\_kfp1Z8
The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick, 2011) [for Dave]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXRYA1dxP\_0
Lost the Plot
Daylight (1996)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK1h5OlTu3A
Unchained Melodies: Classic Tracks from Film Soundtracks
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcPWWK79NBW35Rhl0i-1w-uh1v8mhP1fo
Book Wisdom
This week’s book wisdom came from legendary film critic’s Roger Ebert’s memoir Life Itself.
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