Rarely does it happen when not only do we all agree on a stance towards a film, but also that we’re not exactly positive on it either. But here we are. In this episode we are trying our level best to talk about Ben Wheatley’s Free Fire.
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In this episode of the show we took a little break after a long string of talking about genre movies and talked about Ridley Scott’s A Good Year, which is incidentally symmetrical to what Ridley Scott did. After all, he also – following such movies as Kingdom of Heaven, Hannibal and Black Hawk Down – figured out he wanted to do something else and maybe start directing comedies.
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In this episode we discussed the much maligned sequel to Brian De Palma’s Mission Impossible, partly because it fits the profile of what we talk about on the show, but also because it was Nic’s birthday and he really wanted to chat about Mission Impossible 2. So we did just that.
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In this episode of the show we celebrated the memory of the late great Tony Scott. In fact, this isn’t the only way we did so, as we also recorded a special Patreon exclusive podcast where we talked for over four hours about True Romance, Days of Thunder, Crimson Tide and Domino (available here). However, on this particular occasion, which missed the ninth anniversary of Scott’s death only by a day, we talked about his arguably most mature and complete film, Man on Fire.
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I have to say – and I know I tend to say this quite often – but this episode of the show turned out to be particularly interesting as we discussed Peter Jackson’s The Frighteners.
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In this episode of the show we have tackled a movie that is truly close to my heart, Danny Boyle’s Sunshine. Without a shadow of a doubt, this belongs in the portfolio of cinematic comfort food that I periodically come back to and – pardon the pun – bask in the sunshine that emanates from the screen when the film is on.
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In this episode of the show we discussed Alejandro Amenábar’s The Others, a supernatural horror film that came as part of the post-Shyamalan wave and eventually disappeared from the zeitgeist to become a pub quiz question or an entry in a listicle about films with cool twist endings.
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I don’t think we often tie in the topics of what we cover on the show to a theatrical release. The closest we have ever come to acknowledging the outside world (though I might be wrong) was when we talked about Solo – A Star Wars Story around May the 4th and Alien 3 around April the 26th. But that’s about it. This time we made a conscious choice to tether ourselves to the discourse surrounding the release of Old (brief as it may be in the grand scheme of things) and decided to have a conversation about M. Night Shyamalan’s The Village.
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If you’ve ever bothered to listen to the show, you will know that we clearly don’t set any time constraints, unlike the absolute vast majority of podcasts out there. I know there’s a bajillion think pieces about making a successful show, just as there’s an even larger amount of ‘great advice’ aimed at creating a stunning blog and attracting traffic of comparable volume to the M25 on a Friday afternoon before a Bank Holiday weekend.
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For a bunch of weeks in a row now we have covered on The Uncut Gems Podcast movies that I hold up as bona fide masterpieces. I suppose you could accuse me of some kind of gerrymandering because it is ultimately in my power to decide what we talk about, but it just so happens that movies like Unstoppable, Vanishing Point, Death Proof and this week’s hero – Duel – fit into a theme and also, coincidentally, tend to be overlooked.
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