Saddle up, pardners; Marshall of our sister show Twin Cinema joins us this week to talk about the classic 1961 Western The Magnificent Seven! A remake of Akira Kurosawa's seminal Seven Samurai, the John Sturges-helmed remake follows a ragtag group of outlaws (Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn, James Coburn, and more) hired to defend a meek village from some evil Mexican banditos. Along the way, we share our custom cocktail and drinking rules!
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LONG LIVE THE NEW FLESH! This week, Jared and Clint dive deep into the realms of the cathode ray tube as they discuss 1984's Videodrome, directed by David Cronenberg. This mid-80s sci-fi mindscrew about a mysterious TV signal that causes hallucinations in its victims is one of the Canadian auteur's weirdest and best. Check out out custom cocktail and drinking rules below!
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Jared and Clint go it solo this time around, as we take on the surprisingly dark and horrifying kid's film The Brave Little Toaster! Here, we muse on the existential underpinnings of life as a sentient appliance, and gasp in horror at all the rampant car murder. Enjoy along with our custom cocktail and drinking game!
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ANNOUNCEMENT: From now until September, we're emptying out the mailbag of all our remaining favorites and starting all over again. If there's a movie you want us to cover, don't forget to suggest it to us at our mailbag or on Twitter! (Also pledge to our Patreon if you want access to our upcoming bonus episode, where we talk about the mailbags we didn't quite get to!)
Hot off the heels of Video Game Movie Month, we stumble upon another video game-y film for May - Hardcore Henry! Leo Brady of AMovieGuy.com joins us to talk about this bold, but flawed experiment in making a film mimic the frenetic perspective (and questionable moral center) of FPS games. Check it out along with our custom cocktail and drinking rules!
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