Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One with Marie Bardi
It’s 2023. An all-powerful AI program named “the Entity” is sewing chaos and threatening the fragile equilibrium of the world as we know it. It is also throwing sick parties. Meanwhile, over at Blank ...
23 Jul 20232h 30min
Sympathy for Lady Vengeance with Karen Han
Park Chan-Wook’s loosely-linked “Vengeance Trilogy” comes to a starkly satisfying end with 2005’s LADY VENGEANCE - a normal flick…that’s all we have to say! Just kidding - we have LOTS to say about th...
16 Jul 20232h 11min
Oldboy with Alison Willmore
What is an Oldboy? How do you feel about Greek Tragedies? How did Choi Min-Sik achieve that iconic (and insane) hairstyle? Was giving the 2004 Palme d’Or to FAHRENHEIT 9/11 over this film one of the g...
9 Jul 20232h 2min
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance with David Ehrlich
Park Chan-Wook kicks off his famous “Vengeance” trilogy and we kick off another episode where we talk about Ted Danson’s late 90s sitcom BECKER! Critic, friend of the pod, and Crystal Skull-apologist ...
2 Jul 20232h 18min
Joint Security Area
Park Chan-Wook’s 2000 breakthrough and Korean box office juggernaut - JSA (Joint Security Area) - is the rare international murder-mystery that dares to ask the question…”what if the real smoking gun ...
25 Jun 20231h 33min
The Moon Is…the Sun's Dream / Trio
It’s a brand new era for Blank Check - Griffin is in his “arriving early to work” era. Ben is in his “Bad Boy 2.0” era. And we’re all in our WORLD CINEMA era as we kick off our series on South Korean ...
18 Jun 20231h 53min
The Cameraman / Spite Marriage
Our Buster Keaton series comes to a conclusion as his period of creative independence does, with his first two features for MGM: THE CAMERAMAN and SPITE MARRIAGE. The former? Debatably a meta-masterpi...
11 Jun 20231h 57min
College / Steamboat Bill, Jr. with John Hodgman
After his “blank check” for THE GENERAL bounced, Buster Keaton found himself creatively and financially shackled. Thus, 1927’s COLLEGE lands on the lesser end of the quality spectrum (not to mention ...
4 Jun 20232h 22min
