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The Good, The True, and The Cinema
The Good, The True, and The Cinema

Ep. 3 - Primetime plus a Good, True, and Beautiful Review of The Princess Bride

1 tim 12 min•30 september 2026

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It's 2006. Post-9/11 America is hungry to see justice served, and Jeff Zucker hands To Catch a Predator the 9 p.m. slot. Lance Oppenheim's Prime Time follows Chris Hansen and his crew as decoys lure men into a staged house on camera, and it asks what happens to the soul of anyone who deals in darkness every night for ratings.

In this episode, Joshua Johnson, John Dougherty, and Craig Detweiler review Oppenheim's fever dream of a film: Robert Pattinson playing the meme of Chris Hansen more than the man, a story built on true events but told as fiction, and whether all that restless style ever reaches the substance underneath. Then each host brings a double feature in conversation with it, and John offers a Good, True, and Beautiful review of The Princess Bride, one of his favorite films of all time.

When we tune in to watch someone get what's coming to them, what happens to us?

Now Showing: Prime Time
(01:49) Prime Time: spoiler-free review
(24:03) Spoiler section

Double Feature
(41:18)
Network (Sidney Lumet, 1976)
Spotlight (Tom McCarthy, 2015)
Close-Up (Abbas Kiarostami, 1990)

A Good, True, and Beautiful Review
(57:30)
The Princess Bride (Rob Reiner, 1987)

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