Now that June has made landfall, it’s as good a time as any to look back at the previous month and corral all the conversations we had over at the Uncut Gems Podcast, both the main show and its Patreon channel.
Tradition dictates we begin by touching base with our ongoing Spike Lee Joint-a-thon, which is what we did exactly. We talked at length about Lee’s two mid90s efforts, Clockers and Crooklyn, and although these two films remain underappreciated, we did our best to decode them and hopefully inspire their overdue reappraisals.
Episode 171 (Clockers)
Spike Lee’s Major Joint 04 (Crooklyn) (full episode on Patreon)
For the main theme in the month of May we chose the unlikely cinematic collaborations between one Peter Hyams and Jean-Claude Van Damme. In that spirit, we talked about all three movies these two titans did together, Timecop, Sudden Death and Enemies Closer. Additionally, we paired these conversations with a tie-in chat about Hyams’ breakout conspiracy thriller Capricorn One. But that’s not it. We also somehow managed to springboard from talking about roundhouse kicks and doing the plits in the kitchen to head into deep space, which means we may be the only podcast out there to connect JCVD to Stanley Kubrick. In addition to our trio of JCVD-Hyams gigs, we decided to spend some time reappraising 2010: The Year We Make Contact (which is currently celebrating the 40th anniversary of its cinematic release) and this conversation wouldn’t be complete without a detailed discussion about the film that preceded it, so we tied into it with a great podcast about Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Flasz On Film 
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