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Super in-depth analysis of movies (and occasionally TV, and video games). Hosted by veteran podcasters Alex & Sharon Shaw with different guests for round-table chats every week.
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Friday Jun 17, 2022
Friday Jun 17, 2022
[School of Movies 2022]
The third in the Rage Cage trinity, released less than a month after Con Air, this movie saw our boy Nick set against John Travolta, who was at the time flying high on the success of Pulp Fiction a few years previously.
The premise of "Good guy wears bad guy's face" is completely nuts for a start, but what it allows us to see onscreen is two extremely intense actors performing as both a wackadoo international terrorist-for-hire and the broken, obsessed FBI agent hellbent on revenge. Science and physics are utterly abandoned in favour of comic book logic, but the proceedings remained nonetheless a slick bullet ballet just oozing with star-power as the two leads try to out-weird each other.
Action maestro John Woo had only just begun to direct films for a western audience (following Hard Target and Broken Arrow) but this might be the most fondly remembered.
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Hollywoo Actress Maya Souris @Mayasantandrea
Jason "Chewie" Slate @TheManaPool
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An absolute riot of a film, and hearing you all break down in hysterics over its many insanities while also giving the film a great deal more thought than I’m convinced its writers ever did is also a great listen.
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