50% of the year in the rearview mirror! Which means we have spent many, many hours discussing great movies (and some not so great) over at Uncut Gems Podcast and it is time to recap what we were up to in the month of June, both on the main show and on the Patreon-exclusive bonus podcast series.
As per tradition, we began the month by checking in on our Spike Lee Joint-a-thon project where we discuss two of his movies a month, one arguably lesser known than the other. In June, we talked about Girl 6 as well as He Got Game, which dovetailed nicely into our main show deliberations as the movie is a bit of a stealth Father’s Day classic.
Episode 176 (Girl 6)
Spike Lee’s Major Joint 05 (He Got Game) (full episode on Patreon)
The conversation on He Got Game served as a soft transition into our monthly theme of Distressed Fathers, where we talked about movies about dads in emergency mode making questionable decisions. The connective tissue between this month and the last (something we have playfully deployed this year to spice things up) was the fact that both Peter Hyams and John G. Avildsen (who directed the first film in the series, Joe) were their own cinematographers. Thus, we talked about a handful of 70s revenge movies, including Joe, Death Wish, Rage and Rolling Thunder. And to lighten up the mood somewhat we paired these movies together with a bonus conversation about Finding Nemo, which is found on our Patreon!
Episode 177 (Joe and Death Wish)
Episode 178 (Rage)
Episode 179 (Rolling Thunder)
Bonus Tie-in 36 (Finding Nemo) (full episode on Patreon)
Last but not least, the Kathryn Bigelow Marathon made an appearance after a month-long break. And it did so in style as we talked at length about Bigelow’s perhaps most underappreciated movie, the 1995 Strange Days.
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