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We discuss 2016's Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, Ang Lee’s first attempt to portray the pathos of soldiers with the innovative technique of high frame rate. In its script, Billy Lynn is a straightforward crying soldier movie that wants us to feel bad for the people who invaded Iraq, but is something more achieved through the dissonant effect of high frame rate?

We inagurate Ang Lee Pod Cast with one last Will Smith movie: 2019's Gemini Man. Ang Lee injects his characteristic pathos into a 90s script destined to be a Tony Scott thriller, and he does it with the odd but compelling effect of high frame rate. Will Smith plays an aging genius assassin who is confronted by a younger version of himself, which triggers an eventful mid-life crisis.

A man with a fateful secret embarks on an extraordinary journey of redemption by forever changing the lives of seven strangers.

An affluent New York City couple finds their lives touched, intruded upon, and compelled by a mysterious young black man who is never quite who he says he is.

Nicky, an accomplished con artist, gets romantically involved with his disciple Jess but later ends their relationship. Years later, she returns as a femme fatale to spoil his plans.

A struggling salesman takes custody of his son as he’s poised to begin a life-changing professional career.

After a police chase with an otherworldly being, a New York City cop is recruited as an agent in a top-secret organization established to monitor and police alien activity on Earth.

Hancock is a superhero whose ill-considered behavior regularly causes damage in the millions. He changes when the person he saves helps him improve his public image.

A smooth-talking man falls for a hardened columnist while helping a shy accountant woo a beautiful heiress.

A crash landing leaves Kitai Raige and his father Cypher stranded on Earth, a millennium after events forced humanity's escape. With Cypher injured, Kitai must embark on a perilous journey to signal for help.

A young artist gets stranded in an extensive, immaculate forest in western Ireland, where, after finding shelter, she becomes trapped alongside three strangers, stalked by mysterious creatures each night.

A father and his teen daughter attend a pop concert only to realize they've entered the center of a dark and sinister event.

Aang, a young successor to a long line of Avatars, must master all four elements and stop the Fire Nation from enslaving the Water Tribes and the Earth Kingdom.

David Dunn tries to stay one step ahead of the law while delivering vigilante justice on the streets of Philadelphia. His special talents soon put him on a collision course with the Beast -- the psychotic madman who has superhuman strength and 23 distinct personalities. Their epic showdown leads them to an encounter with the mysterious Elijah Price, the criminal mastermind who holds critical secrets for both men.

Three girls are kidnapped by a man with a diagnosed 23 distinct personalities. They must try to escape before the apparent emergence of a frightful new 24th.