Welcome back to The Playlist Podcast, the show in which we review films, discuss pertinent pop culture items, or really anything that we think is worth discussing. Though this week, the topic at hand was very unexpected.

On this episode, I’m joined by Matt Donato (/Film, Flickering Myth, We Got This Covered) to discuss “Slice,” A24‘s pizza-themed horror-comedy that is the directorial debut of Austin Vesely and the acting debut of Chance the Rapper.

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Austin Vesely has some serious balls. In his feature film directorial debut, “Slice,” the young writer-director casts one of the biggest musical artists in the world, Chance Bennett, aka Chance the Rapper, joined by one of Hollywood’s brightest rising stars, and a handful of veteran comedians. The filmmaker then crafted a “Thriller“-esque story —yes, that Michael Jackson music video — that features heavy amounts of special effects work, including practical makeup and CGI, and climaxes with a witch fighting a ghost, who is saved by a werewolf, as they battle over the gate to Hell.

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Director Austin Vesely and musical artist Chance the Rapper have been longtime collaborators and friends since before the “Acid Rap” days. Vesely, who shot many of Chance’s music videos such as “22 Offs,” “Sunday Candy,” and “Angels,” is now making his feature film debut, “Slice,” and he’s bringing his collaborator, Chance, along for the ride as the leading man.

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We can definitely expect a plethora of pizza and cold-blooded murder, in Vesely’s new film.

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We’re just getting started with our look at the best in film and TV of 2017, but before we really got sucked into the retrospective, we wanted to take a minute to look forward to what’s to come in the next twelve months or so. Lord knows we need things to keep us going in the shitshow that has been the second half of the 2010s, and fortunately, cinema has provided.

After a slow start, 2017 turned out to be a pretty great year for movies, and 2018 looks to keep that up in a big way.

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On November 18th, Chance The Rapper will off more than his rap skills when he takes the stage as the host of “Saturday Night Live.” That appearance will give us our first real taste of Chance The Actor, before he stars in his own film, “Slice.”

Last Halloweeen, A24 dropped a surprise teaser for the movie, which first alerted us to its existence, and today they’ve done it again.

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There are few genres as enduringly popular — and profitable — as the horror flick. Superheroes and disaster movies and spy actioners and movies based on a holiday featuring Julia Roberts as part of an ensemble cast come and go, but since the silent era, people have consistently liked to go to the movies to have the shit scared out of them.

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You would think that A24 has enough on their plates already this fall, with awards season runs for both “Moonlight” and “20th Century Women,” but the indie studio and tastemakers are already teasing a surprise they have coming for both cinephiles and hip hop heads next year.

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The company has announced that this past summer, they backed the production of “Slice,” a feature length film shot on the sly in Chicago and starring President Barack Obama fave Chance The Rapper.

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