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This week on your favorite movie podcast we chat about the Danish film, "Another Round," starring Mads Mikkelsen. Martin played by Mads Mikkelsen is the married father of two boys and also a history teacher. Martin joins three of his friends, also teachers at the same School in a sort of social experiment: Drinking while at work, but more specifically maintaining a constant BAC level of .05 % from the minute they wake up in the morning and into the evening right before they go to bed. It is proposed that maintaining a constant BAC level of .05 % will help boost creativity and confidence.

Personally, my immediate thought is no way is this going to be even remotely true. They are teachers with families AKA others that rely on their every day performance. Just when you think that this every day drinking detail is helping (or hurting) the opposite appears to be true.

This is an interesting movie that gets the viewer thinking about several aspects of life: work life, home life, everyday life and more specifically how one is in their personal life. Not surprisingly, relationships are affected and some tragedy does occur. This movie is both uplifting and sad. I recommend watching it especially if you are looking for something a little bit different from "the usual." Cheers!

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This afternoon, Jay and I are discussing the movie Night Hunter. This is not a movie that was on my radar which is surprising to me, but also not. The casting is excellent. I love all of the names in this film. I'd say some of the subject matter is intense, but movie is gritty, but worth a watch as it comes together (well for the most part) at the end. Another detail to note, is that Night Hunter wasn't out in the theater for very long and it didn't get a lot of "attention." The movie got "bigger" due to streaming.

Henry Cavill, Alexandra Daddario and Stanley Tucci's characters all work for a local police department, one is a detective, Walter Marshall, one is a psychologist, Rachel Chase and the other is a commissioner, Jack Harper. Ben Kingsley (Michael Cooper) and his young ward played by Eliana Jones also round out the cast of Night Hunter.

The movie pulls the viewer in immediately. We see a young girl meeting an older guy at a Diner, the situation not only looks suspicious, but also, maybe dangerous for the young girl ... And the movie goes from there. We don't want to give too much away, but if you are looking for a crime, drama thriller type movie, this is it. The movie is definitely creepy in parts, sad too, but the ending is not something that I saw coming - at all.

Moving on from Night Hunter, Jay also provides us with another honey based recipe: Hot Honey Ranch Sauce. Yum!

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Hello friends. Welcome back to Critique-o-polis. Today, Jay and I discuss the third installment of The Knives Out series: Wake Up, Dead Man.

As with the previous two movies, the location is remote, set aside from the busy city and focuses the viewer on the story AKA the crime at hand. Wake Up, Dead Man is set in a small, fictional village, Chimney Rocks. The movie centers around a local Church with a small congregation, one that is led by Monsignor Wicks (played by Josh Brolin). Monsignor Wicks has a very close group of Church attendees, all with different personalities and different "levels" of faith.

During his Good Friday mass, Monsignor Wicks in murdered, but how and by whom? Did the young, new hire Father Jud - played by Josh O'Connor, commit the crime? He was the closest to the Monsignor when he died ... Or did someone else mysteriously let themselves into the Church, get up behind the altar and commit murder? Hard to say ... Let's call in Benoit Blanc - played by Daniel Craig to help solve the case.

There are many details and layers to this story and to solving the case of the mysterious murder of Monsignor Wicks. The movie is led by an all star cast, including Mila Kunis, Kerry Washington, Thomas Haden Church, Jeremy Renner, Jeffrey Wright, and Glenn Close in the role of Martha.

If you are looking for a good mystery and you are not starting it too late in the evening (the movie has a run time of 2:24), then you should check out this entertaining most recent installment in the Knives Out series.

Don't forget to keep listening to this episode for Jay's latest honey recipe.

That is all for now. Thank you for reading and listening to Critique-o-polis!