Feb 25, 2022
This week, Franz and Paul don’t fight the enemy, they fight themselves. Oliver Stone spent over ten years working on PLATOON, pulling from his own combat experience as well as Homeric Myth. It’s fierce, frustrating, grandiose, unmistakable Oliver. So, into the ‘Nam we go! The Drive-In Garage can’t even...
Feb 18, 2022
We enter the Cimino-verse with the remarkable 1974 crime drama, THUNDERBOLT AND LIGHTFOOT, starring Clint Eastwood and Jeff Bridges. And we unpack the fascinating key points, dynamics, and major attractions of the ‘70s Buddy Movie subgenre. Franz and Paul don’t want your watch, man. They want your...
Feb 11, 2022
Well we’re broodin’ on up (north) to the Somafree Institute to talk about David Cronenberg’s chilly family divorce-a-palooza, THE BROOD! Along the way we encounter the Soberfree Oliver Reed, the Navelfree Ragelings, phenomenal earth tone interior design, and the saddest little girl in the world. If you can’t...
Feb 5, 2022
Franz and Paul are not heroes, just men who follow orders. The siege mentality is on full display in John Carpenter’s 1976 Hawksian urban warfare classic. The gentle “thhp! thhp!” of silencers obscures the chaos as we slowly realize that, on a cosmic level, we ALL wanted vanilla twist.