DePalma, Stone, Pacino, Montana. We are joined by Glenn Kenny (author of The World is Yours: The Story of Scarface) to discuss excess, capitalism, happiness, tigers, sunken bathtubs, cocaine economics, and also the movie Scarface! Is it “Scar-face” or “Scarf-ace”? Who knows! Join us! All I have in this world is my balls and my word and IContinue reading “SCARFACE (1983)”
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RED DAWN (1984)
John Milius’s 1984 film Red Dawn has a reputation as a jingoistic conservative fever dream, but we talk with Nat Hansen, who argues that its political outlook is more complex and more interesting. Along the way, we also discuss the film’s portrayal of masculinity, the toll of war, the film’s many references, from The BattleContinue reading “RED DAWN (1984)”