Justin JJ Jaeger is a recovering television news reporter who can’t resist the sweet taste of a hot microphone. He is a member of both the International Cinematographers Guild and SAG-AFTRA and has just enough random industry credits to his name to put the “quitter” in non sequitur. He lives in Portland, Oregon, and gobbles up arts and entertainment in all its glorious forms. He always wants to get into deep conversations with everyone about music, books, and movies as evidenced by his long runs as a contributing voice on many of the entertainment podcasts of trustory.fm. You can find fun snippets from JJ on The Film Board, Trailer Rewind, and the Marvel Movie Minute among others. He talks through both popular and obscure book reviews from his recent life on the Youtube channel, Jayge’s Pages. You’ll likely find him at any dive-y karaoke bar around town, searching through the selections and testing out tunes to bring the house down.
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The Book of Henry is not the film any of us expected. This is a film that splits audiences – including JJ, Steve and Tommy. Is this film for you? Within the first 15 minutes of this episode you will know whether you will push play, or keep scrolling.
Joanna Hogg’s 2019 film The Souvenir is based on her own experiences as a student filmmaker in the 1980s. This leads JJ and Steve to again ponder the question of whether such a personal story can be fully accessible to an audience. They are sharply divide
JJ and Steve travel back to 1995. That time when landlines were ubiquitous and had yet surrendered to the internet, cell phones and texting. Although Landline is from 2017, it feels like a close relative to the mid-90s indie film scene that was bursting o
The Roads Not Taken is a challenging film to watch. The question is whether it is intended to be oblique or if it is such a personal film that audiences aren’t expected to fully access the intent and meaning behind it.
Tommy joins JJ and Steve in a discussion of The Endless, the story of two brothers that have escaped from a weird death cult. Is it a cult, or just a commune of people that like being off the grid? Is this a horror film or a sci-fi film? Can it be both?
When is a film that has scenes with Kirk and Spock not a Star Trek movie? Well . . . when it’s a film about a young woman writing an epic screenplay for a Star Trek contest.
Is there magical realism woven into the end of this film? Possibly. Will kids want to carve watermelon helmets after watching this? Maybe. Is this a film that the whole family can watch together and enjoy? Steve and JJ disagree. Listen in to find out why.
JJ and Steve are joined by Tommy to make sense of the puzzle that is The Goldfinch. It’s not that the story is complex or difficult to decipher. It’s not that there’s a mystery to solve. It’s just that it is very challenging to describe why this film does
For some reason this film about building a 1000 mile underground fiber optic connection was also buried underground. In this story about an attempt to set a speed record in round trip communications JJ and Steve find that it’s the back half of the story
When is a movie that features characters trying to break out of prison not a prison break movie? How can you watch a man earn his freedom and not feel elated? These are just a few of the questions that JJ and Steve dig into during their conversation about