With 2023 in our rearview mirror, we set our sights on a bunch of new goals and projects we will embark on over the course of 2024 and began podcasting full of excitement and glee, with a roster of movies we’d like to sink our teeth in.
However, before proceeding to those new and fresh ideas and themes, we had to put a bow on one last remaining project carried over from 2023 – the grand Steven Soderbergh retrospective. To this effect, we spoke about Kimi on our main show and about Magic Mike’s Last Dance on the Patreon-exclusive add-on podcast. We also recorded a special episode 154.5 where we talked about his two Spalding Gray movies we somehow circumvented last year and where we took a holistic look at our journey through Soderbergh’s filmography, culminating with our personal top 10 lists of his movies.
Episode 154 (Kimi) (Soderbergh Deep Cut)
Soderbergh Shallow Cut 13 (Magic Mike’s Last Dance) (full episode on Patreon)
Episode 154.5 (Steven Soder-noument)
Thus, the new year began in earnest when Steven Soderbergh was put to bed. In that spirit, we decided to up the ante a little bit and we took our last year’s concept of dividing the year across twelve different themes around which we’d gather a handful of movies to talk about. So, we tried to make these themes connect to one another through some form of a lynchpin (some flimsier than others), hence making the experience of programming the show a little bit more challenging and fun… and definitely not daunting in the slightest. To this effect, we bounced off the episode 153 where we talked about Terror Train into a Liam Neeson-starring train-set thriller The Commuter, which launched a month-long trip through a set of three Neeson vehicles, affectionately dubbed as “Liam Neeson’s Planes, Trains and Automobiles”, with a bonus discussion about Taken, the action movie which reinvigorated Liam Neeson’s career and put him on a map as a bona fide action star.
Episode 155 (The Commuter)
Episode 156 (The Ice Road)
Episode 157 (Non-Stop)
Bonus Tie-in 30 (Taken) (full episode on Patreon)
Finally, having concluded our absolutely magical journey through the cinema of John Cassavetes in 2023, we needed a new director marathon to put on the stove, so we chose to talk about the trailblazing and eclectic cinema of one Kathryn Bigelow. To this end, we could only begin where she began her own journey, and we talked about her iconoclastic biker movie The Loveless.
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