Listen to the full thing at patreon.com/reelpolitik
In our latest subscriber-only minisode (only about 10 mins shorter than the canonical episode hitting SoundCloud today), Jack and Yair bitch and moan about the utter mediocrity - and often high-concept, low-energy nature - of direct-to-VOD thrillers; not the kind of dogshit that 9 out of any 10 films Nic Cage does in any given year will be, but the slightly more prestigious kind that Netflix and Hulu commission for people to discuss around...
Listen to the full thing at patreon.com/reelpolitik
In our latest subscriber-only minisode (only about 10 mins shorter than the canonical episode hitting SoundCloud today), Jack and Yair bitch and moan about the utter mediocrity - and often high-concept, low-energy nature - of direct-to-VOD thrillers; not the kind of dogshit that 9 out of any 10 films Nic Cage does in any given year will be, but the slightly more prestigious kind that Netflix and Hulu commission for people to discuss around the water cooler/on Twitter then forget two weeks later. Finally, Jack reviews All The Money In The World, by which we mean he praises the professionalism of Ridley Scott (who he's not even a big fan of) and Christopher Plummer (who he is an enormous fan of - Plummer fans check out our discussion of Atom Egoyan's Remember in today's SoundCloud episode on cinematic depictions of the Holocaust.)
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