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Ambulance and Everything Everywhere All At Once

All that HCC film professors Marie Westhaver and Mike Giuliano really need to say about "Ambulance" in this podcast episode is that it is a Michael Bay movie. It's about, well, an ambulance that is hijacked during a bank robbery and then driven all over Lost Angeles. Yes, it is loud and stupid and in its own way entertaining. Although Marie and Mike carp about its excessive running time, they smile as they describe their favorite dumb scenes; and they agree that Jake Gyllenhaal, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Eiza Gonzalez give convincing performances under the most unconvincing of circumstances. Marie and Mike also discuss a much better movie, "Everything Everywhere All At Once." Mike describes it in terms of multiverse mania, as this wildly inventive story jumps about through multiple universes. What keeps it emotionally grounded, Marie and Mike agree, is that Michelle Yeoh as a laundromat owner undergoing an IRS audit, Jamie Lee Curtis as an IRA bureaucrat, and others in the cast remain compellingly realistic amidst the surreal events. Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, who together wrote and directed "Everything Everywhere All At Once," have created a distinctively unusual movie that you should see.