"Once a lawyer, always a drunkard, and now looking like 2010s David Bowie." So says newly-minted gangster "Rolls Royce" Wensel describing himself to the POSSIBLY love of his life, the daring thief "Bull" Weed. And it turns out that this, the first American gangster movie (yay!), was also a love triangle (boo!).

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If you'd like to watch ahead for next week's film, we will be discussing and reviewing Jackie Chan's The Young Master (1980).

A classic Bergman film. Well, a classic Martin Bergman film. About Temecula. Where your favorite podcast hosts first met. Anyway… two neurotic New Yorkers - with ulterior motives - take on a couple of quick gigs in the wine country of (southern) California. Perhaps romance is in the air for this strangely legit cast?

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If you'd like to watch ahead for next week's film, we will be discussing and reviewing Josef von Sternberg's Underworld (1927).

Content warning: This episode addresses a film that explicitly addresses issues related to and depicts the actions of violent sexual assault.

Director Martha Coolidge blends drama and documentary in an unflinching consideration of her rape as a younger woman. Ostensibly a dramatic recreation of the events surrounding and during the assault, she breaks through the dramatic wall to discuss the project and personal recollections of herself an the actors in this daring and groundbreaking film.

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If you'd like to watch ahead for next week's film, we will be discussing and reviewing Martin Bergman's A Weekend in the Country (1996).

Who's ready for an anthology movie about mostly Americans in France writing about mostly not Americans in France for an imagined audience of mostly Americans in America? And sometimes everyone speaks French. But mostly they don't. Wes Anderson works with his ever-growing company of highest-profile players to construct this triptych of art and insanity, love and revolution, and food and crime. And a deep admiration for the talents and obsessions of midcentury American magazine writers.

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If you'd like to watch ahead for next week's film, we will be discussing and reviewing Martha Coolidge's Not A Pretty Picture (1976).

Dead or alive, you're listening to me. Paul Verhoeven somehow achieves both badass copaganda action movie and cutting satire of American violence, consumerism, corporate greed, and bad TV.

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If you'd like to watch ahead for next week's film, we will be discussing and reviewing Wes Anderson's The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun (2021).

Seijun Suzuki dreams up yet another ever-so-slightly-surreal Yakuza picture. Thank god.

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If you'd like to watch ahead for next week's film, we will be discussing and reviewing Paul Verhoeven's Robocop (1987).

That Pat Brennan… what a man! Come listen to us face an ethical quandary when we stumble upon a real treasure of a western, that is still undeniably a 1950s western. What am I talking about? Let's just say that it can be summed up in two words: Henry Silva.

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If you'd like to watch ahead for next week's film, we will be discussing and reviewing Seijun Suzuki's Youth of the Beast (1963).

The more you learn about this movie, the more clear it becomes that what you'd think to be the good parts are the bad parts, and that the bad parts are really the good parts. Making movies is hard. Sidney Lumet directs a visually stunning reimagining of the Wizard of Oz and then some other stuff is in it too.

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If you'd like to watch ahead for next week's film, we will be discussing and reviewing Budd Boetticher's The Tall T (1957).