224. The Hunter (right click OR click)
Mark and Ian talk about Steve McQueen’s final film. He plays a bounty hunter which sounds cool. In the end the movie is sort of a mess of comedy, action, and drama based on the life of a real bounty hunter.
music:
Jon Anderson - Loved by the Sun
223. Harry Brown and Kick Ass (right click OR click)
Mark and Ian talk vigilante justice. One movie is about a British pensioner who takes out the trash and another is about a British kid that is pretending to be a ‘merican nerd-boy that wants to fight for love or some such thing.
music:
Is Ellipsis – Dead Right
222. Betrayed (right click OR click)
Zack tells Ian about this odd little movie from the 80′s. It’s about how a woman investigates some white supremisists but they end up being the “good” racists not Nazis or anything … so she is torn as to if she should turn them into her Fed buddies. Yeah a real moral quandary this one.
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Here’s a fun-sized-futile-mini-bonus podcast where my oft mentioned but rarely present brother Seth regales Zack and Ian with a quick review of the Roland Emmerich … movie? 2012.
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221. Silver Streak (right click OR click)
Despite being set mostly on a train this movie is not as good as an anime series called Baccano! could be that 70′s era train travel isn’t as cool as 30′s? That’s not really a question though is it? This is the movie with Gene Wilder and hints of Richard Pryor though honestly there is far more Pryor in Superman 3.
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music:
David Bowie – I’m Deranged*
*bonus points if you’ve seen Lost Highway or own this soundtrack or Outside, it’s all pretty solid
220. The Seven Year Itch (right click OR click)
Mark and Ian talk about this movie from 1955 Marty! It might be “dirtier” than just about any of these gross out rom-coms the kids eat up these days. It’s the one with this:
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music:
I: Cube – Adore
219. Iron Man 2 (right click OR click)
Zack and Ian discuss this next in the series of intertwined Marvel comic movies. We also talk about what makes for good comics/movies.
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music:
The Pixies – Wave of Mutilation
218. Gamer (right click OR click)
I don’t know what is what with this one. I mean the Crank guys make this and they use Law Abiding Citizen too but not even Terry Crews or Keith David can quite make this movie work … But we talk about it anyway and discuss the important issues of what happens when people treat people like this:
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music:
Tweaker – Years From Now
Batman revisited (right click OR click)
Since word just dropped on a release date for Batman 3 (fingers crossed it’s 3D (not really what do I look like …? okay sound like… okay well yeah 3D is dumb we all know that Roger Ebert thanks))). I decided to post a bonus podcast taken from one of the many Zack, Blaine, and Ian discussions that don’t make it into a regular podcast. Enjoy, this has much more Commando discussion then Batman though.
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music: Shirely Walker – Batman TAS Mask of the Phatasm theme
217. Fargo (right click OR click)
Mark and Ian, with a little help from Seth, talk about this slightly odd but not really that odd movie. It was a big deal like 13 years ago or something.
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music: NO MUSIC THIS WEEK (think of snow and cold but not Verspertine cold I don’t know maybe … like something Danny Elfmanesque)
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