The Latecomers

Show Notes Free Palestine   Sometimes you wake up on a fishing boat and you don’t know who you are. If this has happened to you, consider yourself in good company, alongside Matt Damon in this week’s movie, the Bourne Identity from 2002. It does matter who you keep close to you, and when that person is a desperate drifter with a tiny car, keep your head on a swivel because she doesn’t know what sh...

Show Notes Free Palestine   Time for a road trip – keep your hands inside the vehicle, driver gets to choose the music, and for the love of God do not taunt the truckers. We watch Steve Zahn break all of those rules – probably – much to the detriment of his brother and everyone else they come in contact with in 2001’s Joy Ride. In a movie that is way better than it needs to be, we are off on an il...

Show Notes Free Palestine   It’s time to watch a military debacle with Jerry Bruckhaimer and Ridley Scott’s Black Hawk Down. How many helicopters does it take to complete a mission successfully? Two more than they had apparently. We spend some time talking about media and propaganda and the merits of telling a “true story” as well as the merits of American exceptionalism. Also, a game of name the...

Show Notes We're back to give you a roadmap of last 25 movies we think are worthy of discussion when it comes to thrills. From 2001's Black Hawk Down to 2016's Train to Busan, we go around the world, war zones to Zombies. We'll talk ghosts, witches, murderous STDs and much, much more. Come along for a preview, and then join us next week for Black Hawk Down (available to rent on all your favorite s...

Show Notes Free Palestine   This week, we are going into the woods with three terrible film makers who think wearing jeans on a camping trip is a good idea and can neither read a map nor keep their hands to themselves. The Blair Witch Project, a pioneer of found footage films is up this week. Lemuel gives us outdoor tips and we discuss the benefits of unionization. You can see the cause of my dist...

Show Notes Free Palestine   This week we go flying and don’t negotiate with terrorists. Harrison Ford plays a noble president surrounded by ignoble hijackers who is trying to save his wife and daughter, and anyone that wasn’t murdered immediately. How bullet proof is this plane? Very.   Recommendations: Twisters (In theaters) and Twister (Max)   Next up: Blair Witch Project (1999) (Amazon Prime)  ...

Show Notes Free Palestine   One of the greatest casts of all time and an unflinching look at racism and the failures of the judicial system in the US and particularly in Mississippi. Joel Schumacher directs the adaptation of a John Grisham novel that tells the story of a white lawyer representing a black man and all of the machinations that go on around them. It looks directly at the inherent raci...

Show Notes Free Palestine   David Fincher, Morgan Freeman, Brad Pitt – what could go wrong. Other than all the murders, of course.  We watched Se7en this week and discuss murder, body horror effects, sin, and the merits of harming yourself for or during the filming of a movie, how much a film should fill in the gaps as to “how” something happens and when it matters and the benefits of used booksto...

Show Notes Free Palestine   Buckle in for a possibly uncomfortable flashback as we discuss Outbreak from 1995. Viruses, helicopter chases, sweaty Patrick Dempsey, intense Dustin Hoffman, scared Cuba Gooding, Jr., cocky Kevin Spacey, tough Renee Russo, and a monkey who doesn’t know its own power make for a tense against the clock thriller.   Recommendations: Quiet Place Day One (In Theaters)   Next...

Show Notes Free Palestine   It’s time for Sandra Bullock to take on an early tech billionaire 1995’s The Net. Horny floppy haired assassins, men who are patently terrible at their jobs, pixelated and pixelating computer viruses and vindictive over-inclusive police records all come together to make Angela Bennett’s life hell.   Recommendations: Stopmotion (AMC+) [ Handmaking Coraline for some proce...

Show Notes Episode 6.5 19   The Killer (1989) #19 of 50 Thrill makers: Gun Fu!   Free Palestine   John Woo takes us on a hell of a ride in The Killer from 1989. Guns, beautiful women, churches with good vibes and homo-romantic overtones this week as we watch a tale of an assassin with a golden heart, his best friend and the cop who comes to love him. It’s full of gunfire and has the most heartbrea...

Show Notes Free Palestine   Mamet and DePalma bring us into a slick but dangerous 1930s Chicago in 1987’s The Untouchables . Fancy dress, guns, Ennio Morricone music, and snappy dialogue bring us into the fictional non-fiction world of Elliot Ness and Al Capone. Powerhouse cast, powerhouse script, quotable from begin to end, and introducing Patricia Clarkson, can this movie do any wrong. Listen to...

Show Notes Free Palestine   We’ve got some OG anti-AI media this week with WarGames from 1983. Matthew Broderick just wants to play the latest video game, but Dabney Coleman has put his opponent in charge of the entire American military complex – it’s not a great combination.   Recommendations: Ennio (Hulu)   Next up: The Untouchables (1987) (Showtime)   Email us at latecomers@gmail.com Find Amity...

Show Notes Free Palestine   One of the most unspoiled movies of all time, we watched When a Stranger Calls from 1979. If you have heard of this movie but haven’t seen it, it’s likely that you are only privy to the first 20 minutes of the film. It’s tense, but it gets wild after we leave the house from which the call is coming. Carol Kane shows off her lungs. A husband listens to and believes his w...

Show Notes Free Palestine   This week we give all our co-workers side eye as we follow Dr. Wheeler on her quest for info in Coma from 1978. She’s noticing things none of her fellow doctors are noticing, or want her to notice. Once again, the smart woman knows what’s up and her boyfriend is willingly blind to the truth. Oh, and capitalism is definitely the villain.     Recommendations: The Kingdom...

Show Notes Free Palestine   This week we follow Michael York’s D’artanan into Paris to meet The Three Musketeers! Four silly men vs. Captain Hook, or rather Rochforte and a Cardinal with more interest in the court than the pulpit. A world of excess, adultery and swordfights awaits.   Recommendations: Watch some Roger Corman movies in remembrance. Here’s a list.   Next up: Coma (1978) Rentable   Em...

Show Notes Free Palestine   This week we talk about The Naked Prey from 1965 (though you’d be hard pressed to know when it was made just by watching it). Filmed in Africa and staring mostly native Africans, with only a 9 page screenplay, it’s a tense chase with life on the line. Cornel Wilde, 53 years old and suffering dysentery, runs mostly naked through the wilds experiencing many of the dangers...

Show Notes Free Palestine   This week, we have to warn you that once night comes, you will be alone and no one will hear your distress as you watch The Haunting from 1963. Dutch angles, rococo design, claustrophobic sets, lens distortions, and four distinct and powerful performances lend to deep unsettlement and a slow burn thrill.       Recommendations: Read some Shirley Jackson; Mike Flannagan’s...

Show Notes Free Palestine   This week extraordinary women do bad things in the name of their mediocre husbands in Burn, Witch, Burn from 1962. A movie with many names, none of which is as good as the story it is based on, finds Tansy just trying to surreptitiously help her husband, who is positive his success is definitely because of his own talent, being ridiculed and castigated by the same man....

Show Notes Free Palestine   This week we wax a bit poetic about Kim Stanley as we discuss the 1964 film Séance on a Wet Afternoon. How far will a woman go to be recognized for her gifts? Pretty damn far as it turns out. Two spectacular performances and three seances bring the thrills this week.   Recommendations: Visit a landmark   Next up: Night of the Eagle (can be found as Burn, Witch, Burn) (1...

Show Notes Free Palestine   This week, the French take on Patricia Highsmith in Purple Noon – the first film adaptation of The Talented Mr. Ripley . See one of the most beautiful men you have ever laid eyes on be the luckiest psychopath in cinema history. Will he pull off his schemes? Will we root for him? Does he go to far in the end? Listen to find out.   Recommendations: Le Diabolique; Elevator...

Show Notes Free Palestine   We travel to Japan this week with Akira Kurosawa’s The Hidden Fortress. One undercover samurai, one hidden princess and two morons travel behind enemy lines to get themselves, and a whole bunch of gold, to safety.   Recommendations: Other Kurosawa films: Rashoman, Seven Samurai, Ikuru; DO THE THING   Next up: Purple Noon (1960) (rentable)   Email us at latecomers@gmail....

Show Notes Free Palestine   An infamous performance by Christopher Lee – only onscreen for seven minutes and with a mere 16 lines – leaves an indelible and unmatched stamp on the character of Dracula in Hammar Films’ classic Horror of Dracula. Peter Cushing has to kill his best friend while several actors kind of stand around and watch, often disinterestedly. But the women are working every scene....

Episode Notes Free Palestine   Turns out you can’t mansplain your way around a demon, as Dana Andrews finds out in 1957’s Night of the Demon (Curse of the Demon if you’re outside of the US – I think?). A skeptic and self-proclaimed paranormal psychologist who walks under ladders just to see what happens f-s around with the wrong cultist and is about to find out. But then a heady combo of meth, hyp...

Free Palestine   We’re here to see a man about a horse in Stanley Kubrick’s racetrack heist film The Killing. Asymmetric storytelling and a world before cell phones lead to a tense will they/won’t they between a group of thieves and the heist they have planned to a T. It’s a tough break when you succeed in a heist and then can’t make it to the end of the day because of a wicked woman.   Recommenda...