{"id":3981,"date":"2026-04-21T13:49:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T13:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/?p=3981"},"modified":"2026-04-21T13:49:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T13:49:48","slug":"ken-and-robin-consume-media-fight-or-flight-queen-of-chess-rental-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/index.php\/ken-and-robin-consume-media-fight-or-flight-queen-of-chess-rental-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Ken and Robin Consume Media: Fight or Flight, Queen of Chess, Rental Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Con-Steppe.jpg\" \/> <meta content=\"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Con-Steppe.jpg\" property=\"og:image\" \/><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><i>Ken and Robin Consume Media is brought to you by the discriminating and good-looking backers of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/kenandrobin\">Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff Patreon<\/a>. Each week we provide capsule reviews of the books, movies, TV seasons and more we cram into our hyper-analytical sensoriums. Join the Patreon to help pick the items we\u2019ll talk about in greater depth on a little podcast segment we like to call Tell Me More.<\/i><\/p>\n<h2>Recommended<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4e18Kmg\">Fight or Flight<\/a> (Film, US, James Madigan, 2024) Booze-soaked, cashiered Secret Service agent (Josh Hartnett) is reactivated to apprehend a prolific hacktivist (Charithra Chandran) on a plane of assassins seeking to kill her. Yep, it\u2019s 2022\u2019s Bullet Train on a plane, with superb fight choreography and Hartnett fully morphed into his rumpled charmer Pok\u00e9mon form.\u2014RDL<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4sNwFcv\">Rental Family<\/a> (Film, Japan\/US, Hikari, 2025) Isolated expat actor living in Tokyo (Brendan Fraser) reluctantly accepts a gig at an agency that supplies performers to insert themselves into client\u2019s personal lives. Fraser brings his reservoir of sadness to a reassuring, well-judged drama based on a heightened version of an actual Japanese phenomenon.\u2014RDL<\/p>\n<p>Queen of Chess (Film, US, Rory Kennedy, 2026) Trailblazing chess great Judit Polg\u00e1r, raised alongside her sisters by a dad determined to mold them into champions, doggedly battles over many years to best nemesis-turned-mentor Garry Kasparov. Documentary profile invests its game recreations with energy and suspense.\u2014RDL<\/p>\n<h2>Okay<\/h2>\n<p>Tee Yai: Born to be Bad (Film, Thailand, Nonzee Nimibutr, 2025) A notorious armed robber with reputed supernatural powers (Apo Nattawin Wattanagitiphat) stays a step ahead of the cops as his running buddy (Wisarut Himmarat) falls for an abused sex worker (Supassra Thanachat). Thailand\u2019s answer to John Dillinger gets a down-the-middle treatment in a crime docudrama that flirts with heroic bloodshed themes but never releases the doves.\u2014RDL<\/p>\n<p> <em>Ken was on the road this week.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ken and Robin Consume Media is brought to you by the discriminating and good-looking backers of the Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff Patreon. Each week we provide capsule reviews of the books, movies, TV seasons and more we cram into our hyper-analytical sensoriums. Join the Patreon to help pick the items we\u2019ll talk about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[52],"class_list":["post-3981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audiofree","tag-ken-and-robin-consume-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3982,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3981\/revisions\/3982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}