Podcast Episodes

The original 3:10 to Yuma, released at the height of the Hollywood Western, is carried by the battle of wills premise and the dangerously charismatic performance of its antagonist, Glenn Ford. Fifty years on, did this movie really need to be fixed? And was James Mangold the man for the job?

Akira Kurosawa, often best known for his samurai epics, also pretty much invented the modern police procedural. Spike Lee, famed for his social commentary and love for New York, takes the story and runs with it. But which movie is more thrilling? Do these movies have anything to say?

These movies, depicting men on the edge of society and the edge of hopelessness, are a different kind of thriller. Combining suspense (and a suspension bridge), action, and drama, this pair took David and Claire by surprise more than many other movies on this podcast.

You know how sometimes you go see the same Shakespeare play, but it's different actors, and they updated the setting to a 20th century dictatorship or Chicago gangsters or something? This is a lot like that.

You've got the classic Bogie/Bacall sexual tension in 1946, and a 1978 remake that attempts to hew a little closer to Chandler's inscrutable story. Chandler himself couldn't follow the story he'd written well enough to explain it to Hawks, so just try to sit back and enjoy the ride.