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Jason and Rachel review Your Mother, Your Mother, Your Mother, Bassam Tariq’s wildly original action drama starring Mahershala Ali as a devout Muslim hitman struggling to protect his family after the death of his wife.

Yes, this is an action movie involving assassins, swords, gangsters and gunfights.

It is also very seriously about breast milk.

We get into Mahershala Ali’s incredible performance, the movie’s depiction of Muslim faith and community, Ramadan, grief, fatherhood, John Cho’s frighteningly sincere religious extremist, Giancarlo Esposito, the fantastic child performances, and why the action feels much more dangerous than your average superhero movie.

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Jason and Rachel review Digger, Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s bizarre, expensive and extremely polarizing new film starring Tom Cruise, Jesse Plemons, Riz Ahmed, John Goodman and a ridiculously stacked cast.

And this is one you REALLY don’t want spoiled before seeing.

We get into the movie’s massive twist, Tom Cruise disappearing under layers of makeup, the strange fake cat, the surreal Terry Gilliam/Wes Anderson-style production design, the climate apocalypse storyline, Jesse Plemons playing another billionaire, Riz Ahmed as the only sane person in the room, and why the movie eventually reveals itself to be something completely different from what the trailers suggest.

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Jason and Rachel review Primetime, Lance Oppenheim’s deeply uncomfortable fictionalized take on the world of To Catch a Predator, starring Robert Pattinson and Merritt Weaver.

Rachel says she’d rather watch Saw than sit through this again — and somehow still gives the movie a thumbs up.

We get into Robert Pattinson’s Chris Hansen-inspired character, the strange morality of predator-sting television, whether public humiliation actually solves anything, the gray areas the show refuses to acknowledge, and why the movie makes almost everyone involved feel compromised.

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Jason and Rachel are joined by Hollywood Insider/Master of Macabre DanDanThePieMan to review Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil — a video game movie about what happens when a completely normal guy with no survival skills suddenly finds himself trapped inside a survival-horror nightmare.

Jason talks about discovering the original Resident Evil on PlayStation in the ’90s and staying up until sunrise watching friends play, while the gang gets into why this movie works by capturing the feeling of playing a video game instead of simply recreating the game’s story.

Plus: why Jason thinks this is a smarter way to adapt video games, why some Resident Evil fans are furious, the surprisingly dark ending, and our official ranking of Cregger’s three movies: Barbarian, Weapons, and Resident Evil.

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Jason and Rachel review The Uprising, Paul Greengrass’ Andrew Garfield historical rebellion movie that somehow becomes a Robin Hood origin story — a twist the marketing apparently decided to spoil before anyone got there.

We get into the rough opening weekend, the confusing Robin Hood pivot, the lack of bows and arrows, Andrew Garfield as the Plowman, Jamie Bell as John Ball, the historically messy Peasants’ Revolt, Richard II going from simpering teen king to strategic despot overnight, and whether the movie’s modern political parallels are too blunt to ignore.

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