The boys are back in town, and by town we mean Los Angeles and boys we mean us. This week we dove headfirst into William Friedkin's 1985 neo-noir TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A. starring William Petersen as Secret Service agent Richard Chance and Willem Dafoe as counterfeit kingpin Rick Masters. Going in blind, you'd think this movie would be a paint-by-numbers collision course between a good government guy whose only vice is BASE jumping and a bad guy who artfully crafts phony twenty dollar bills and kills anyone who gets in the way of his enterprise. What actually transpires is far more nuanced and interesting: after his partner is murdered three days before retirement, Chance begins a rapid descent into madness and corruption, fueled by revenge and willing to poison everyone in his orbit to achieve it. 

We talk about that as well as the special effects or lack thereof, the arc of Chance's new partner Vukovich, we give some love to the king of character actors John Turturro, and of course, we extensively dissect the movie's car chase scene, one of the best ever put to film. It's a vibe.

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