We kick off Season Three of the podcast with Brian De Palma’s crime drama Carlito’s Way, starring Al Pacino, Penelope Ann Miller, and Sean Penn.Plus: offensive accents, an update on Sam’s car, and the time we almost paid someone $10,000 to read a script.LINKS:<a href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZMd4Baswb4'>Trailer for Carlito's Way</a><a href='https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2024/jan/25/shakespeares-globe-criticised-for-casting-able-bodied-actor-as-richard-iii-michelle-terry'>The Globe and Shakespeare’s “anti-literalism”</a><a href='https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8gbu61'>Trailer for Bonnie, a documentary about casting director Bonnie Timmermann</a><a rel="payment" href="https://buymeacoffee.com/alternatesides">Support the show</a>

We kick off Season Three of the podcast with Brian De Palma’s crime drama Carlito’s Way, starring Al Pacino, Penelope Ann Miller, and Sean Penn. Plus: offensive accents, an update on Sam’s car, and the time we almost paid someone $10,000 to read a script. LINKS: Trailer for Carlito's Way The Globe and Shakespeare’s “anti-literalism” Trailer for Bonnie, a documentary about casting director Bonnie Timmermann Support the show

We kick off Season Three of the podcast with Brian De Palma’s crime drama Carlito’s Way, starring Al Pacino, Penelope Ann Miller, and Sean Penn.Plus: offensive accents, an update on Sam’s car, and the time we almost paid someone $10,000 to read a script.LINKS:<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZMd4Baswb4" rel="noopener noreferrer">Trailer for&nbsp;Carlito's Way</a><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2024/jan/25/shakespeares-globe-criticised-for-casting-able-bodied-actor-as-richard-iii-michelle-terry" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Globe and Shakespeare’s “anti-literalism”</a><a href="https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8gbu61" rel="noopener noreferrer">Trailer for&nbsp;Bonnie, a documentary about casting director Bonnie Timmermann</a><a href="https://buymeacoffee.com/alternatesides" rel="noopener noreferrer">Support the show</a>

1993: Carlito's Way

James and Sam have been friends and collaborators for over 20 years. They’ve worked on films and TV shows and commercials together and have written numerous scripts that lie unproduced in their shared Dropbox folder. But James has a secret: he hasn’t actually seen that many movies. And Sam, who’s a bit of a film snob, has been giving him a hard time about it for years. As James enters undeniable middle age, he has finally promised to catch up on some of the films he’s missed. Every week or so, while Sam has to move his Subaru from one side of a Brooklyn street to the other (to appease the street-cleaning gods), they chat about a classic movie that James has somehow managed to avoid until now. One film from each year of James’s life so far: 1973 to 2026…

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James and Sam have been friends and collaborators for over 20 years. They’ve worked on films and TV shows and commercials together and have written numerous scripts that lie unproduced in their shared Dropbox folder. But James has a secret: he hasn’t actually seen that many movies. And Sam, who’s a bit of a film snob, has been giving him a hard time about it for years. As James enters undeniable middle age, he has finally promised to catch up on some of the films he’s missed. Every week or so, while Sam has to move his Subaru from one side of a Brooklyn street to the other (to appease the street-cleaning gods), they chat about a classic movie that James has somehow managed to avoid until now. One film from each year of James’s life so far: 1973 to 2026…

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