We finally take on Michael Mann’s 1995 crime masterpiece Heat, a movie that brings together Al Pacino and Robert De Niro as two professionals on opposite sides of the law. We discuss Neil McCauley, Vincent Hanna and the obsessive cat-and-mouse relationship that drives the entire film. We start with first impressions, including Arnold’s experience watching…
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We’re talking about Roofman, the Channing Tatum and Kirsten Dunst crime drama inspired by the unbelievable true story of Jeffrey Manchester, a former Army Ranger who turned to robbing McDonald’s restaurants and eventually hid inside a Toys R Us while trying to build a new life. We were surprised by how different Roofman was from…
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On this week’s release, our season two finale, episode 12, we are watching the Quentin Tarantino written/Tony Scott directed 1993 classic, True Romance starring Christian Slater and Patricia Arquette. On this episode we geek out on our love of Tarantino’s work, we gush about Arnold’s Google-like memory, and we discuss how Gary Oldman’s character proves…
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Never Seen It Podcast — Episode 88 Spring Breakers (2012)
In this episode of the Never Seen It podcast, we discuss Spring Breakers — the polarizing crime-drama fever dream directed by Harmony Korine. Going into the film, many of us expected a raunchy college comedy in the vein of early 2010s party movies. Instead, we found ourselves trapped inside a hypnotic, neon-lit art house experiment…
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