00:00-00:32 - Intros

00:33 - 08:03
- Each week, we assign each other a movie to watch: we call them homework assignments. First up, Tucker told Sean to
watch
Vengeance (2009) (originally titled Fuk Sau) directed by by
Johnnie To. Also mentioned in this section -
Le Samourai (1967) directed by Jean-Pierre Melville,
Sunrise (1927) directed by FW Murnau, and
Mad Detective (2007) co-directed by To and Ka-Fa Wai. In addition, Ka-Fa Wai wrote the screenplay for Vengeance.
Also referenced (and it will likely be the first of many times we shout him out) is film critic
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky.
08:04 - 18:10 This time around, Tucker's homework was
Attack the Block (2011), directed by Joe Cornish and produced by Edgar Wright. Also referenced in this section -
The Goonies (1985) directed by Richard Donner, and
Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) directed by John Carpenter. Just so you know, Sean's gonna keep talking about Carpenter way
way too much. All the time. He has a problem. Tucker also has a problem realizing that you aren't supposed to call British people "African-
Americans". Sorry about that!
18:11 - 23:28
And now, we start the movie game for the week, where we didn't tell
each other what films we watched all week and now have to guess how the
other reacted to the film on title alone. First up - Tucker watched
Black Rain (1989) directed by Ridley Scott. Also referenced in this section -
The Yakuza (1974) directed by Sydney Pollack and
Ken Takakura.
23:29-31:59 - Sean watched
Centurion (2010) by Neil Marshall. We talk about Marshall's other films
The Descent and
Doomsday, as well as director
Larry Fessenden and the upcoming Martin McDonagh film
Seven Psychopaths (2012). We also talk about this picture of Al Pacino and Christopher Walken:

Whoa. Let's move on.
32:00 - 38:25 Tucker watched
Blue Steel (1989) directed by Kathryn Bigelow. Also referenced: Bigelow's
Near Dark (1987) and the Ben Stiller directed/Dan Harmon & Rob Schrab written
Heat Vision and Jack pilot (1999).
Oh and when Sean mentions Jeff Lester telling me about Kathryn Bigelow,
he was wrongly remembering hearing him mention it on the wonderful
Wait, What? podcast.

38:26 - 42:40 Sean watched
The Wanderers (1979) directed by Philip Kaufman. Also there is a lot of talk about
The Warriors directed by Walter Hill, and a
double feature of both films at the New Beverly theater held by Edgar Wright. Kaufman's version of
The Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978),
Linda Manz, and
Erland Von Lidth come up too.
42: 41 - 47:39 Tucker watched
Port of Shadows (1938) directed by
Marcel Carne (originally titled Le Quai Des Brumes) and starring
Jean Gabin. Also mentioned Robert Aldrich's
Kiss Me Deadly (1955).
47:40 - 50:25 Sean watched Let There Be Light (1946) directed by John Huston -
which you can watch in its entirety here.
50:25 - 50:30
weird technical problems. Sorryz. All you missed was Sean struggling to
talk about John Huston with really no handle on Huston's filmography. Tucker also forgot about Roman Polanski.
In other words, you missed nothing.
50:30 - 58:48 We recover with Tucker talking about Kathyrn Bigelow's bona fide 1991 classic
Point Break. Also we mention the proto-surfer philosophy movie
Big Wednesday (1978) directed by John Milius.
58:49 - 1:08:11 To wrap it up, Sean watched
The Castle, a 1997 tv movie directed by
Michael Haneke (originally Das Schloss) It was adapted from Franz Kafka's The Castle. Also mentioned - Steven Soderbergh's
Kafka (1991), which adapts some of the same material. Finally, we have a short tangent talking about 2011 tv series
The Shadow Line. GATEHOUSE.
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