#28 - Dangerous When Wet
Color of Night (1994) / The Island of St. Matthews (2013) This week we’re getting dangerously wet as we go skinny dipping with Richard Rush and water ski down memory lane with Kevin Jerome Everson
Dec 07, 2021•1 hr 37 min
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#27 - The Chosen One
Barabbas (1961) / The Beast of War (1988) This week the chosen ones lead us down dangerous paths as we chase tanks with Kevin Reynolds and the Mujahideen and get tossed into the gladiator arena in Richard Fleischer’s biblical epic
Nov 30, 2021•1 hr 45 min
#26 - Disorder in the Court
Giwaku aka Suspicion (1982) / Court (2014) This week we’re going to court and cross examining Yoshitaro Nomura’s fiery legal procedural and Chaitanya Tamhane’s understated indictment of judicial injustice and class conflict
Nov 23, 2021•1 hr 47 min
#25 - Dune
Dirkie (1969) / White Sun of the Desert (1970) This week we’re getting lost in the dunes with Comrade Sukhov and Dirkie as we wander through the unforgiving sandscapes of the Karakum and Kalahari deserts
Nov 16, 2021•1 hr 32 min
#24 - Let's Put on a Show
Marat/Sade (1967) / I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians (2018) This week we’re going into production as we join the crew of Radu Jude’s Romanian historical reenactment and get caught in the madhouse of Peter Brook’s play-within-a-play
Nov 09, 2021•1 hr 48 min
#23 - Missing Persons
Summerfield (1977) / Missing (1982) This week we join the search party for a missing Australian schoolteacher and a vanished American abroad in an enigmatic slow burn by Ken Hannam and confrontational thriller by Costa-Gavras
Nov 02, 2021•1 hr 40 min
#22 - Spoketober
Quicksilver (1986) / The Cyclist (1989) This week we’re celebrating Spoketober as we pedal our way through Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s satirical circus and bunny hop from Wall Street to the mean streets with Kevin Bacon
Oct 26, 2021•1 hr 52 min
#21 - A Date with Doris
Bad Girls Go to Hell (1965) / Deadly Weapons (1974) This week we’re going on a date with the grand dame of the grindhouse as we discuss Doris Wishman’s bad girls and deadly weapons
Oct 19, 2021•1 hr 42 min
#20 - All Creatures Great and Small
The Incredible Journey (1963) / MVP2: Most Vertical Primate (2001) This week we’re going beast mode as we discuss the homeward bound trio of Fletcher Markle’s kids classic and Robert Vince’s skateboarding chimpsploitation
Oct 12, 2021•1 hr 45 min
#19 - Autumn Leaves
An Autumn’s Tale (1987) / Far From Heaven (2002) This week autumn leaves are falling as we discuss two tales of love and transition in Todd Haynes’ modernist melodrama and Mabel Cheung’s immigration romantic comedy
Oct 05, 2021•1 hr 42 min
#18 - Cry Macho
The Lusty Men (1952) / Knightriders (1981) This week we’re hitting the rodeo circuit and traveling with a troupe of jousting motorcyclists as we discuss Nicholas Ray’s sensitive cowboys and George Romero’s chivalrous knights
Sep 28, 2021•1 hr 56 min
#17 - Back to School
First Graders (1984) / Three O’Clock High (1987) This week we’re getting schooled by Abbas Kiarostami and Phil Joanou as they take us on a ride through the ups and downs of the educational experience
Sep 21, 2021•1 hr 38 min
#16 - Sleepless in Seattle
McQ (1974) / Police Beat (2005) This week we're investigating two Emerald City policiers: one with an unlicensed Duke wielding a MAC-10 and another with a lovesick beat cop wielding a green card and the American Dream
Sep 14, 2021•1 hr 47 min
#15 - Portraits of Childhood
No Greater Glory (1934) / My Little Loves (1974) This week we’re storming the trenches of childhood as we discuss Jean Eustache’s little loves and the little rascals of Frank Borzage’s turf war
Sep 07, 2021•1 hr 56 min
#14 - Best of the Worst
Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977) / Halloween Resurrection (2002) This week we take the stand to defend a pair of maligned sequels as we discuss the heresies of John Boorman’s arthouse exorcism & Rick Rosenthal’s dangertainment for a new millennium
Aug 31, 2021•1 hr 39 min
#13 - The End of the World
La Fin Du Monde (1931) / Yakuza Apocalypse (2015) This week it’s the end of the world as we discuss the excessive and apocalyptic visions of Abel Gance and Takashi Miike
Aug 24, 2021•1 hr 44 min
#12 - Sympathy for the Devil
Stalin (1992) / Stemple Pass (2012) This week we’re looking for love in all the wrong places as we confront two notorious bad boys in Ivan Passer’s sweeping HBO biopic of Stalin and James Benning’s durational landscape portrait of the Unabomber
Aug 17, 2021•1 hr 48 min
#11 - No Escape
Salto (1965) / Clearcut (1991) This week we got kidnapped by Graham Greene and led astray by Zbigniew Cybulski as we discuss two confrontational films by Polish directors in which there is no escaping the past
Aug 10, 2021•1 hr 48 min
#10 - Take Me Out to the Ballgame
10 - Eight Men Out (1988) / Finding Buck McHenry (2000) This week we’re talkin’ baseball as we discuss John Sayles’ historical investigation of the 1919 Black Sox scandal and Charles Burnett’s children’s book adaptation about a Negro Leagues legend hiding in plain sight
Aug 03, 2021•1 hr 51 min
#9 - The Honeymooners
9 - Haunted Honeymoon (1986) / Honeymoon (1998) This week wedding bells are in the air as we send Ryan off on his honeymoon by discussing a comedy chiller by Gene Wilder and a chaste marriage cringefest by Dan Sallitt
Jul 27, 2021•1 hr 48 min
#8 - The Classic Hollywood Musical
8 - Stormy Weather (1943) / Calamity Jane (1953) This week’s episode is 100% all talking! all singing! all dancing! as we tap our way through two golden age musicals: an all-black wartime musical revue and biopic from 20th Century Fox and a postwar western musical with a woman’s touch from Warner Bros.
Jul 20, 2021•1 hr 42 min
#7 - Murder, She Wrote
7 - A Question of Silence (1982) / The Slumberparty Massacre (1982) It’s murder she wrote this week with a dastardly pairing not even Jessica Fletcher could have dreamt up as we discuss Marleen Gorris’ riveting crime deconstruction and Amy Jones’ slasher classic
Jul 13, 2021•1 hr 28 min
#6 - The 4th Installment
6 - The Return of Dr. Mabuse (1961) / Land of the Dead (2005) This week we go beyond the trilogy to find out what happens when a series reaches its 4th installment as we discuss George Romero’s 21st century return to the Dead series and how producer Artur Brauner jazzed up Dr. Mabuse after Fritz Lang left the arena
Jul 06, 2021•1 hr 33 min
#5 - Bad Romance
5 - Caught (1949) / Martha (1974) This week we got caught up in a couple of bad romances as we discuss two melodramas with sadistic marriages from our German friends that love tracking shots, Max Ophüls and Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Jun 29, 2021•1 hr 30 min
#4 - Summertime
4 - Independence Day (1996) / Rhapsody in August (1991) Summertime is here and we’re going nuclear as we discuss Roland Emmerich’s blustering end of history sci-fi blockbuster and Akira Kurosawa’s multigenerational family drama and elegy to the bomb
Jun 22, 2021•1 hr 44 min
#3 - Gone Fishin'
92 in the Shade (1975) / Orca (1977) This week we packed up our rods and harpoons and cast off for Key West and Newfoundland to discuss man’s favorite sport in Thomas McGuane’s sun-baked bummer and Dino De Laurentiis’ whale revenge epic
Jun 15, 2021•1 hr 24 min
#2 - Once Upon a Time... The Revolution
Reign of Terror aka The Black Book (1949) / Maa Bhoomi (1979) The forces of revolution are unleashed as we discuss Anthony Mann’s (counter) revolutionary film noir and Ghotam Ghose’s rousing tale of the Telangana peasant rebellion
Jun 08, 2021•1 hr 30 min
#1 - Chicago Guys
The Hunter (1980) / Above the Law (1988) It’s Steve vs. Steve on the very first episode of The Gauntlet as we discuss Chicago movies and the birth and death of two action stars
Jun 01, 2021•1 hr 30 min
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