#56: Tetsuo/Hard Boiled

We’ve been on a bit of a hiatus as we’ve been pursuing our post-grad degrees (Rob to help the nation’s youth, Matt to imprison them) but Rob forgot he had this one sitting on his hard drive for, like, several months. He doesn’t remember if he edited it, but he does remember he did an impression of Matt for WAY too long, but he promises he does eventually drop it. Anyway, it was topsy-turvy month, so the films on the docket are Shinya Tsukamoto’s body-horror cult classic Tetsuo: The Iron Man and John Woo’s operatic action classic Hard Boiled.

#53: The Third Man/Cobra

This month’s picks present two, uh, dissimilar responses to evil in the world. In the first, Carol Reed’s classic postwar noir The Third Man, Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles reunite a decade after Citizen Kane to wade into a morass of moral ambiguity from which no one emerges clean. In Sylvester Stallone’s Cannon Films copaganda flick Cobra, all the problems in the world can be solved by a bullet. Also: we debate whether or not Jake Gyllenhaal looks weird.