Nightmare Alley, Flee, and Oscar noms
Trauma stories, plus snubs and wishes for the Academy Awards
We discuss Nightmare Alley and Flee, two films about men grappling with haunting pasts.
03:02 Nightmare Alley, available on HBO Max and Hulu, is a visually sumptuous lesson in the genre of film noir.
21:29 The animated docudrama Flee, streaming on Hulu, is a tender, bittersweet account of witnessing the terrors of humanity at a young age.
39:41 Plus, culture notes about this year's Oscar nominations, including who we want to win and who got shut out in the cold.
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