Ep 043 // Belfast

Published: Dec. 6, 2021, 1 p.m.

In this episode, Jacob sends Tate and Sage to the movie unexpectedly. In an episode that features our most chaotic and shortest pre-review, we talk a long time about 2021's Belfast starring Jude Hill, Lewis McAskie, Caitriona Balfe, Jamie Dornan, Dame Judi Dench, and Ciarán Hinds. We attempt to explain some background knowledge about 'The Troubles' aka the Catholic-Protestant conflicts in Northern Ireland, we hit on some of the funniest moments in the movie, Sage makes a perfect analogy, claiming this movie "floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee", cover how this movie uses other movies of the era to help set up the next story points. Jacob blows Tate and Sage's minds with something he noticed in the movie, and peppered throughout Sage's angry words for The Lyric movie theater in Fort Collins.

This movie was directed by Kenneth Branagh.

GD4AM: 88/100

IMDb: 7.6/10

Metacritic: 77/100

RT: 86%

A semi-autobiographical film that chronicles the life of a working-class family and their young son's childhood during the tumult of the late 1960s in the Northern Ireland capital.

This movie is currently only in theaters.