Hi, this is Chris Habbs.

I don’t know why you’re listening to this, but since you are, let’s talk about movies.

I’m sort of a mid-grade movie buff, I guess.

I watch more movies.

I don’t even know what’s average, so it’s hard to quantify.

If I look at my Letterboxd diary, it tells me I’ve watched 40 movies this year, which I guess is a little less than one a week.

Reality is I’ve only seen a couple of them in the theater.

I just don’t get to the theater that often.

I enjoy it when the movie fits, and especially if it’s a new movie come out where the timing is interesting and sort of can then partake in the cultural discussion around it.

But a lot of the time, I’m just catching up with movies later, either at home or when I’m traveling and I can watch them on an airplane or something like that.

I’m sort of also mid-grade in the kinds of movies I want to watch.

I’m not big into art movies, the sort of esoteric ones that the film critics and books will tell you are just these amazing wild things.

I haven’t probably dived deep enough into the art side of it to appreciate those the way I ought to, and so I struggle with them.

On the other hand, I’m also not into the real just kind of basic popular-level action movies and dumb comedies and things like that.

They’re just boring and feel like a waste of my time.

But ones that’ll stop and make me think, that will entertain me, that will tell a good story, those I, man, I enjoy, and so I try to keep up with.

I’ve listened to the Filmspotting podcast for 15 years at least, about as long as it’s been around, I think.

And so I probably keep up with, and I’m aware of more of current film than I actually ever get to see.

So I tend to raid their reviews and their end-of-year lists and things for things that I ought to catch up on, and so I feel like I get a A good collection of movies that are worth my time and that I can go see, and then it’s fun to bounce off of those reviews afterwards and see what movie critics and people with more educated opinions have thought about them.

And so I can learn a little bit about it too and be a better appreciator of the craft of moviemaking as I go see it.

All that is background to say, the last couple weeks there’s been amazing buzz about this documentary came out called You Can See Everything, sufficient that my 17-year-old daughter said, Hey Dad, have you heard about that movie?

I’d be kind of interested to see it.

I too was kind of interested to see it, and so she and I went to the theater yesterday after work and watched this nearly three-hour-long documentary about Elizabeth Holmes, who is currently serving time for fraud conviction after running the Theranos company.

It’s really hard to say too much about this movie without spoiling it in ways that I don’t want to do, because I would encourage you to watch it if this sounds mildly interesting.

There are so many layers going on here.

I’m not familiar with the rest of Nathan Fielder’s work.

Nathan’s the director and the movie maker here, but he’s an integral part of this story too.

And man, so many layers worth a watch and consideration.

I’d really like to go back and watch some of his earlier work in television to understand kind of more what his deal is, and then maybe come back and watch this movie again and appreciate it more and pick up some things I didn’t the first time.

But A really engaging story, the telling and the questions you walk away with and the things to think about as you walk away from the film, those will keep me thinking for quite a while.

My high school daughter enjoyed it as well.

She said she probably won’t be, like, walking around thinking about it for the next week like I will, but it was worth her time and she found it very interesting.

So if you get the opportunity to see You Can See Everything, I’d recommend it’s worth it.

I don’t know what my next movie outings will be.

My daughter really wants to see the new Hunger Games movie when it comes out, so we’ll probably go see that as a family activity.

And then we’ll see what the buzzy, interesting releases are toward the end of the year.

As the weather gets colder and it’s time to spend more time inside, inside a theater isn’t a bad place to be when there’s an interesting movie.

We’ll talk later.