The Hi-Lo Bro Show

This is the one where Richard obsesses on obsession, and Garrett revs his engine. *** Referenced media: “Psycho” (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960) “Raging Bull” (Martin Scorsese, 1980) “Crash” (David Cronenberg, 1996) “Eraserhead” (David Lynch, 1977) “The Fog” (John Carpenter, 1980) “The Thing” (John Carpenter, 1982) “Halloween” (John Carpenter, 1978) “In the Mouth of Madness” (John Carpenter, 1994) “Chris...

This is the one where Richard quotes W.B. Yeats and Moss Hart to express different forms of hunger and the correct way to communicate figurative thinking, and Garrett waxes nostalgic about VHS dreams and silver screen fantasies. *** Referenced media: “Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!” (Pedro Almodóvar, 1989) “Driving Miss Daisy” (Bruce Beresford, 1989) “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban” (Alfonso Cu...

This is the one where Richard dreams of flying to Jupiter, while Garrett shame spirals over youthful bad taste. *** Referenced media: “Star Wars” (George Lucas, 1977) “Starship Troopers” (Robert Heinlein, 1959) “2001: A Space Odyssey” (Stanley Kubrick, 1968) “Fury” (David Ayer, 2014) “Deep Impact” (Mimi Leder, 1998) “Armageddon” (Michael Bay, 1998) “Apollo 13” (Ron Howard, 1995) “The Martian” (Rid...

This is the one where Richard celebrates protest art via Russian punk rock influences, while Garrett realizes that loving low culture is like eating French fries. *** Referenced media: “Eye in the Sky” (Gavin Hood, 2015) “Night Watch” (Timur Bekmambetov, 2004) “Day Watch” (Timur Bekmambetov, 2006) “1917” (Sam Mendes, 2019) “District 9” (Neill Blomkamp, 2009) “A Clockwork Orange” (Stanley Kubrick,...

This is the one where Richard considers the differences between life, death, dreams, and nightmares by way of surrealism, while Garrett struggles to “get” the purpose of satire. *** Referenced media: “Un Chien Andalou” (Luis Buñuel, 1929) “L’Age d’Or” (Luis Buñuel, 1930) “The Exterminating Angel” (Luis Buñuel, 1962) “Inception” (Christopher Nolan, 2010) “Lost” (Jeffrey Lieber, J.J. Abrams, and Dam...

This is the one where Richard connects the Russian avante-garde with Steven Spielberg by way of tank battles, while Garrett founders on the shoals of Brad Pitt when describing teamwork in close quarters. *** Referenced media: “Thelma and Louise” (Ridley Scott, 1991) “Platoon” (Oliver Stone, 1986) “Saving Private Ryan” (Steven Spielberg, 1998) "The Fast and the Furious” (Rob Cohen, 2001) “Band...

This is the one where Richard invokes the Fisher King and mise en abyme, while Garrett celebrates eccentric art, all in memory of “The King of Cult Cinema”, Roger Corman (1926-2024), who helped launch the careers of this episode’s two filmmakers, Francis Ford Coppola and Peter Bogdanovich. *** Referenced media: "The Big Doll House" (Jack Hill, 1971) “Rolling Thunder” (John Flynn, 1977) “...

This is the one where Richard refers to Martin Heidegger’s “The Origin of the Work of Art” and praises cultural transgression, while Garrett remembers being a teen boy drawn to VHS tape covers featuring blood, breasts, and bullets. *** Referenced media: “Jackie Brown” (Quentin Tarantino, 1997) “Re-Animator” (Stuart Gordon, 1985) “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song” (Melvin Van Peebles, 1971) “Billy...

This is the one where The Hi-Lo Bros talk with filmmaker Dane Elcar and actor-producer Max Woertendyke about their movie " Brightwood ".  Recorded on October 21, 2023. *** Referenced media: “The Pond” (Dane Elcar, 2018) “The Twilight Zone” (Rod Serling, 1959-1964) “Scenes from a Marriage” (Ingmar Bergman, 1973) “Scream” (Wes Craven, 1996) “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” (Tobe Hooper, 1974)...

This is the one about Artificial Intelligence where the Richard Chatbot signals Northrop Frye, and the Garrett Chatbot remembers eating. *** Referenced media: “Death Wish” (Michael Winner, 1974) “Un Chien Andalou” (Luis Buñuel, 1929 “The Terminator” (James Cameron, 1984) “The Matrix” (The Wachowski’s, 1999) “2,001: A Space Odyssey” (Stanley Kubrick, 1968) “Westworld” (Michael Crichton, 1973) “West...

This is the one where Richard uses his superego to consider two peculiar horror movies about expressing the id, and Garrett expresses an ego ideal of contextual memory with a tip of the hat to Joe Bob Briggs. *** Referenced media: “Back to the Future” (Robert Zemeckis, 1985) “Die Hard” (John McTiernan, 1988) “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” (Tobe Hooper, 1974) “Get Out” (Jordan Peele, 2017) “Night of...

This is the one where Richard blazons the samurai katana, wakizashi, and the tanto, and Garrett remembers thinking that a photorealist depiction of gang violence might be the right way to woo a romantic partner. *** Referenced media: “The Last Samurai” (Edward Zwick, 2003) “Ronin” (John Frankenheimer, 1998) “Seven Samurai” (Akira Kurosawa, 1954) “The Magnificent Seven” (John Sturges, 1960) “The Ma...

This is the one where Richard refers to Gnosticism, Elliot, birth marks, and all things awesome, and Garrett plays on the floor with a children’s toy.

This is the one where Richard pines for a Sears catalog and Garrett discovers phallic imagery.

This is the one where Richard falls in love with a book, Garrett trips over teenage memories, and the HiLo Bros consider vigilantes.

This is the one where Richard recalls Bleeding Kansas, Garrett professes man-love for Clint, and revisionism is explained--sort of.

This is the one where replicants inspire Richard to go full Milton while Garrett obsesses over AI coupling.

This is the one where three men galivant through Estonia, and Heston plays the Lamb of God. Richard remembers the early 1980s, and Garrett insists on quoting Richard Matheson.

This is the one where John Locke enjoys Bach and Chopin. Garrett thinks 19th century Swedes are cold fish, and Richard celebrates Jill Schoelen.