Paid in Puke S9E10: The Bling Ring

On this episode of Paid in Puke Podcast, we’re rummaging through Sofia Coppola‘s 2013 true crime drama, “The Bling Ring”, starring Emma WatsonKatie ChangTaissa FarmigaClaire JulianLeslie Mann, and Israel Broussard. Coppola based the script on Nancy Jo Sales’ 2010 Vanity Fair article, “The Suspects Wore Louboutins”. Our returning guest is the Sparkle Queen known as Laura Lawrence (“9 to 5”). Laura has has seen the film many times, jammed out to the soundtrack many MORE times, and brings a shopping bag full of fun facts. 

We also get into the film’s prescience for today’s influencer culture, and why kids are less inclined to aspire to landing “a good job”. On the Lunchtime Poll, we reveal the things we have in such abundance, we might not notice getting robbed.

Listen to the episode here!

Hammer to Nail Review: Mustang

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When watching Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s Turkish film, Mustang, one cannot help but recall The Virgin Suicides, Sofia Coppola’s haunting fable about a father’s fear of his daughters’ burgeoning womanhood. Only, in the case of Mustang, things are much worse for five orphaned sisters who are imprisoned in their own home by their oppressive uncle. Though they couldn’t see it, the Lisbon sisters of Suicides, could have waited out their childhood until adulthood emancipated them. The only escape for Mustang’s Lale, Nur, Ece, Selma, and Sonay is to be married off. They would merely be replacing Uncle Erol (Ayberk Pekan) with a new patriarch. To achieve true independence in their world means literally risking their lives and running as far away as possible. If only it were that easy…

Read the rest at Hammer to Nail!

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