Jumped on a call with my buddy Blake Howard after he was blown away by our favorite film of the year so far. We both rave about Matthew McConaughey’s miracle of a performance in writer-director Andrew Patterson’s richly idiosyncratic and often indecribable folk tale The Rivals Of Amziah King, a movie full of life in all it’s messy sadness, musicality and joy. – One Heat Minute, 08/26/2026