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And we\u2019re back to your regularly scheduled episodes! This week, we return to our non-EW episodes with one of the more divisive high-profile bombs in recent years, 2017\u2032s Downsizing<\/i>. A globalization satire from Alexander Payne and his Sideways co-writer Jim Taylor, the film follows an everyman played by Matt Damon who decides to join the masses deciding to shrink themselves for the sake of green initiatives and a little outsized wealth. The film ran the 2017 fall festival gamut, opening the Venice Film Festival to raves only to see increasingly negative receptions at Telluride and Toronto. In the long wait to its eventual Christmastime release, the negative perceptions settled in and the film became a box office bomb.<\/p>\n
By Oscar time, its biggest chances lied in the supporting turn from SAG, Globe, and Critics\u2019 Choice nominee\u00a0Hong Chau as a political activist forced into downsized life as punishment. This episode, we\u2019ll be talking about the 2017 Supporting Actress race and how she was shut out at the last minute. We\u2019ll also discuss Damon\u2019s constant foot-in-mouth syndrome, 8 Kinds of F*cks, and the National Board of Review\u2019s Top Ten Films of 2017.<\/p>\n
Topics also include our thoughts on this year\u2019s Cannes, talking head documentaries, and Paramount\u2019s big year of bombs.<\/p>\n
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