EPiSODE 78.

“Nostalgia is one of our saving graces.”

On the latest episode, hosts John Cribbs and Christopher Funderburg take things back to their heroic bloodshed drenched pasts to discuss John Woo’s ne plus ultra of Hong Kong action cinema, Hard Boiled. Like many a greasy teenage malcontent in the early 90s, their exposure to the films of John Woo was key in setting them on a life-path of undeviating film nerd-dom.

Join them as they discuss their shared love of Tequila, rice like family, one corrupt cop, one vicious hitman and 10,000 bullets - it’s a celebration of John Woo’s golden age with a focus on Hard Boiled, the film that took an extreme sub-genre to its conceptual extremes, the extremity of extremity. Their conversation touches on the importance of melodrama and big emotions in heroic bloodshed films, the surprising similarities of the careers of John Woo and Wong Kar-Wai, and the sheer joyful awesomeness of massive action sequences. It’s as purely celebratory as the show gets.

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