Our boys face dreads both literal and existential with the latest episode of the podcast!
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John Travolta’s military cop investigates a brutal murder in Con Air director Simon West’s exceedingly problematic, William Goldman-co-written adaptation of Nelson DeMille’s 1992 bestseller.
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Nicolas Cage’s run of cheesily fun Jerry Bruckheimer-produced action extravaganzas continues with the wildly entertaining 2000 gear-head blockbuster Gone in 60 Seconds.
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The screenwriter of the upcoming Face/Off remake joins us to chat about two late-90s potboilers for Travolta and Cage!
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John Travolta and an Oscar-nominated Robert Duvall lead a remarkable ensemble cast in hotshot screenwriter turned director Steven Zaillian’s overachieving 1999 legal drama A Civil Action, a sleeper which is infinitely more entertaining and rich than its dry title and half-forgotten reputation would suggest
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Josh Gondelman joins us to talk about two good-to-great movies for the pair!
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Martin Scorsese, Paul Schrader and Nicolas Cage got together for 1999’s Bringing Out the Dead, a pitch-black paramedic comedy of sin and salvation that, in an unsurprising turn of events is very intense and pretty fucking terrific.
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Nathan and Clint talk about a war film masterwork with barely any Travolta, and a piece of Joel Schumacher sleaze with far too much Cage!
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Terence Malick returned to filmmaking with 1998’s The Thin Red Line, a towering masterpiece completely ruined by John Travolta’s weird mustache.
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The only thing keeping Joel Schumacher’s 1999 Neo-Noir 8MM from being a harrowing glimpse into humanity’s seedy underbelly is that it’s incredibly stupid and silly, and has roughly the verisimilitude of Warriors of Virtue.
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