Shite & Sound

In the first of three parts, Finn & Uther begin their titanic and officially certified job of finding the best film of 2021.

The 16 finalists: Another Round, Dune, Evangelion: 3.0+1.0.1 Thrice Upon a Time, The Father, The French Dispatch, The Green Knight, James & Isey, Judas & the Black Messiah, The Last Duel, The Matrix Resurrections, The Nest, No Sudden Move, Petite Maman, Pig, The Power of the Dog, and Summer of Soul.

Awards this episode include: Best Fight or Dance Sequence, Best One-Scene Performance, Grossest/Gnarliest Moment, and Best Cinematography.

Other films recommended (it's a big one): Malignant, Star Wars - Episode 1: The Phantom Menace, Paddington, Paddington 2, Drive My Car, Annette, Memoria, Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror, L'arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat, Pretend It's A City, Tick Tick... Boom!, City Hall, Scott the Woz: Borderline Forever, Scott the Woz: The Dark Age of Nintendo, The Harder They Fall, Passing, Hand of God, F9: The Fast Saga, Nobody, Kate, Boss Level, Doctor Who: Heaven Sent, In the Earth, High-Rise, The Many Saints of Newark, El Camino, The Velvet Underground, Inside, The Hunt, Mission: Impossible - Fallout, Godzilla vs. Kong, Gunpowder Milkshake, In the Heights, Monster Hunter, Nobody, The Suicide Squad, West Side Story (1957), West Side Story (1961), West Side Story (2021), Titane, Raw, The Night Comes for Us, The Duellists, West Side Story, Spookers, Love Story, Kaikohe Demolition, Those Who Wish Me Dead, The Show, Pieces of a Woman, Gertrud, Possession, The Old Man and the Gun, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Dril, Aquaman, Climax, The Dissident, Old, Apostle, Piercing, Seance, Heat, Kill Bill, Skins, Widows, Short Term 12, Get Out, BoJack Horseman, Death Note, Sorry to Bother You, Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead, Black Panther, Widows, Long Day's Journey into Night, Zeroes and Ones, Lynch's Dune, Jodorowsky's Dune, Mandy, Ammonite, The Little Things, and the work of Joel Haver.