Jun 29, 2015
0:00:00 - 0:21:046 - This week, Sean is joined by returning champion David Brothers, the Ryan Seacrest of Image Comics, to discuss the following films:
Police Story Lockdown (2013), directed by Ding Sheng, starring Jackie Chan, Liu Ye, Jiang Tian, and Yin Tao; and Police Story (1985), directed by Jackie Chan, starring Chan, Brigette Lin, Maggie Cheung, Chor Yuen, and Charlie Cho.
Also discussed in this section: Jet Li, Legend of Drunken Master, Rumble in the Box, Drug War, Crime Story, Supercop, Universal Soldier films, Call of Duty, Brian De Palma, Ed Brubaker's run on Captain America, First Strike, Special I.D., Rashamon, Live Free or Die Hard, Die Hard With a Vengeance, The Girl Next Door, Taken, Sylvester Stallone, Rambo 4, Escape From L.A., Nonstop, Ringo Lam, Burn Hollywood Burn, Fist of Fury, Chinese Connection, Prison on Fire, In Hell, Shanghai Knights, Donnie Yen, Chris Ready's Jackie Chan In The 80s series, Dirty Harry, Thunderbolt, The Protector, The Exterminator, the Punisher, Brian Dennehy, and Death Wish.
0:21:47 - 0:39:24 - Run All Night (2015), directed by Juame Collet-Serra, starring Liam Neeson, Ed Harris, Joel Kinnaman, Vincent D'onofrio, Bruce McGill, Common, and Nick Nolte.
Also discussed in this section: A Walk Among the Tombstones, Red Harvest, Vikings, Game of Thrones, Nas, the Robocop remake, Tom Hardy, Ryan Gosling, The Drop, Jurassic Park, Killing Them Softly, Smokin Races, Lucky Number Slevin, Daniel Craig, Person of Interest, Attack the Block, Taxi Driver, The Warriors, Michael Ironsides, Revolver, Payback, this MUBI article on Neeson/Serra, Sucker Punch, and Method Man.
0:39:25 - 0:53:52 - The Long Riders (1980), directed by Walter Hill, starring James & Stacy Keach, Robert, Keith, & David Carradine, Randy & Dennis Quaid, and Christopher & Nicholas Guest, Pamela Reed, and James Remar.
Also discussed in this section: The Wild Bunch, From Shane To Kill Bill by Patrick McGee, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Gone Baby Gone, The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid, Deadwood, Brewster's Millions, Supernova, the Wright Brothers, Kung Fu, Southern Comfort, Dead Presidents, Parks & Recreation, John Milius, Kindergarten Cop, Heaven's Gate, Fleetwood Mac, 3: 10 to Yuma, Get Shorty, Out of Sight, Jackie Brown, Justified, Nashville, 52 Pickup, and The French Connection.
0:53:53 - 1:04:02 - The Getaway (1972), directed by Sam Peckinpah, starring Steve McQueen, Ali McGraw, Ben Johnson, Sally Struthers, Al Littieri, Bo Hopkins, and Slim Pickins.
Also discussed in this section: Bullit, John Milius, Point Blank, Akira Kurosawa, John Woo, Enzo G. Castellari, What's Up Doc?, Peter Bogdonavich, Polly Platt, Candice Bergen, Robert Mitchum, and Star Wars.
1:04:02 - 1:25:22 - Mortal Kombat (1995), directed by Paul WS Anderson, starring Cary Hiroyuki Tagawa, Christopher Lambert, Robin Shou, Linden Ashby, Bridgette Wilson, and Talisa Soto.
Also discussed in this section: Street Fighter, Event Horizon, the Resident Evil series, Russel Mulcahy, DOA, Dead or Alive, Subway, Highlander, Bloodsport, Steven Seagal, Sin City 1 & 2, Lila & Eve, Everly, Fast & The Furious 5, Samuel Fuller, Alien vs Predator, Kill Bill, Nymphomaniac, My Super Ex Girlfriend, Lucy, The Brave One, Takashi Miike, Eli Roth, Under The Skin, Akira, Powder, Charlize Theron, Neil Degrasse Tyson, The Devil's Advocate, and Hayao Miyazaki.
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