The Fugitive (feat. Michael Liroff)
Jamelle and John are joined by Michael Liroff of the Five Four podcast to discuss “The Fugitive,” a masterpiece of Dad cinema. They talk the liberal politics of the 1990s, the surprisingly nuanced rac...
11 Marras 20221h 10min
The Hunt for Red October (Take Two)
Episode 26 — The Hunt for Red October (Take Two)In this one year anniversary episode of Unclear and Present Danger, Jamelle and John return to the film that started it all, “The Hunt for Red October.”...
30 Loka 20221h 5min
The Firm
Episode 25 — The FirmIn this episode of Unclear and Present Danger, John and Jamelle discuss the 1993 John Grisham film adaptation “The Firm.” They use the genre of the legal thriller to discuss the l...
16 Loka 20221h 9min
Passenger 57 (feat. Amanda Smith)
In this episode of Unclear and Present Danger, Jamelle and John are joined by Amanda Smith of the Disaster Girls podcast to discuss the Wesley Snipes vehicle “Passenger 57,” which features an extremel...
3 Loka 20221h 14min
White Sands
Somehow, a crime thriller starring Willem Dafoe, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and Mickey Rourke set in the New Mexico desert isn’t especially good. Still, the 1992 film “White Sands” gave Jamelle and J...
21 Syys 20221h 4min
Deep Cover (feat. Adam Serwer)
Jamelle, John and special guest Adam Serwer of The Atlantic watch one of the great crime movies of the 1990s — Bill Duke’s “Deep Cover” — and talk about post-Cold War anxiety over the drug trade, Blac...
2 Syys 20221h 9min
Die Hard 2: Die Harder
Welcome to episode 22 of Unclear and Present Danger. This week, we watched “Die Hard 2: Die Harder,” the sequel — of course — to “Die Hard.” In this conversation, Jamelle and John talk the 1990s panic...
21 Elo 202257min
Rising Sun
On episode 21 of Unclear and Present Danger, Jamelle and John discuss the horrifically problematic 1993 thriller “Rising Sun” starring Wesley Snipes and Sean Connery. It’s lurid, salacious and incredi...
6 Elo 20221h 10min
