“When was the political situation in France not tragic?”
Hell hath no fury like a Frenchwoman gaslit.
Check out our discussion on the Caliber 9 From Outer Space podcast - available on Apple, Spotify, Amazon, Podbean and a whole bunch of other podcast platforms.
“I’ll drop you at Le Deux Magots”
"Let me make it simple for you, Mrs Shawn. Last night, Kimberly and I slept together."
From the sublime to the ridiculous, noir comes in many forms. Nick Langdon joins us this week to discuss Back to the Wall (1958), directed by Édouard Molinaro and In the Cold of the Night (1990), directed by Nico Mastorakis.
We will be announcing a Spoiler Territory section for both films, so if you haven't seen them before you listen, you can nevertheless avoid…
Ned Beatty lurks in Canada's shittiest titty bar, sporting an anachronistic rockabilly haircut and barely controlling a brood of bastard redneck sons. These guys hate honest truckers and conscientious women, but their love for bourbon is second only to their passion for hooting, hollering, and raising bare-assed hell on the highways.
What is firebrand young trucker Joey Rosso to do? The rednecks drove his mother and young sisters off the road to their deaths, then they did the same to…
"Nobody likes you. Everybody hates you. You're gonna lose. Smile, you fuck."
Two decades of simmering, post-60's American cynicism collapsed into a long process of dissociation across the 90's, and a retrospective view of Shane Black's script for The Last Boy Scout makes it feel like a harbinger. He's the Raymond Chandler of the modern era. The bad vibes of the production and the antipathy between cast and crew seep into this, but they mix with the misanthropy of the…
I committed a bit of a faux-pas. A friend of mine said he wanted to have a movie night and he suggested Blade Runner because it's his favourite movie. I'm not going to say no to watching Blade Runner, but I suggested a Philip K Dick double feature, with Total Recall as the B movie. Problem is, I sent him an Outlook calendar invite titled "Dickfest" which triggered an alarm in his work's security software and gave his wife a…
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