We close out season three with Steven Spielberg’s dystopian thriller Minority Report, starring Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton and Max von Sydow.

Plus: the seeming immortality of Tom Cruise, Sam’s first feature, and yet another award nomination – but this time, it’s not for Sam.

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Trailer for Minority Report

Will Ferrell takes one in the jugular in OId School

Tom Cruise as Les Grossman in Tropic Thunder

"Fly Like an Eagle," by Steve Miller Band

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This week we take a slow, spiraling ride down Mulholland Dr, David Lynch’s puzzle-box fever dream starring Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, and Justin Theroux.

Plus: Transcendental Meditation, Adolescence, and the time James was up against Angelo Badalamenti for a film-scoring job.

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Trailer for Mulhallond Dr

Bob climbs over the sofa in Twin Peaks

Jeff Goldblum forgot his mantra

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This week we slash our way through Mary Harron’s satirical horror-thriller American Psycho, starring Christian Bale, Chloe Sevigny, and Willem Dafoe.

Plus: The Picard Maneuver! And Sam gets stalked by his auto mechanic.

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Trailer for American Psycho

The Picard Manoeuver

Tom Cruise as inspiration for Patrick Bateman

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This week we explore Abbas Kiarostami’s meditative drama The Wind Will Carry Us, starring Behzad Dorani.

Plus: Iranian hospitality, Marjie’s Broadway debut, and the movie that led to Sam and James meeting each other.

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Trailer for The Wind Will Carry Us

Trailer for Joe Gould's Secret

Nick Cave on cold-water swimming

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A double-bill! Vincent Gallo’s Buffalo ‘66, starring Gallo and Christina Ricci; and Thomas Vinterberg’s Festen, or The Celebration, starring Ulrich Thomsen, Paprika Steen and Thomas Bo Larsen. One of them became an instant classic for James.

Plus: Dogme 95 and the “vow of chastity.”

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Trailer for Buffalo '66

Trailer (a terrible and misleading one) for The Celebration

The Dogme 95 movement’s “Vow of Chastity”

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This week we get into Paul Thomas Anderson’s 1997 kaleidoscopic end-of-an-era drama Boogie Nights, starring Mark Wahlberg, Julianne Moore, and Burt Reynolds. 

Plus: James’s psilocybin adventure!

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Trailer for Boogie Nights

Ben Affleck on teaching miners to be astronauts

The final scene of Big Night

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This week we explore John Sayles’s 1996 bordertown drama Lone Star, starring Chris Cooper, Matthew McConaughey, and Kris Kristofferson.

 Plus: Sam goes to the Emmys!

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Trailer for Lone Star

A Scene from Taste of Cherry

Doogh

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This week we explore Todd Haynes’s prescient 1995 environmental-illness drama Safe, starring Julianne Moore. 

Plus: Emmy nominations, James’s upcoming psilocybin journey, and how bad Sam is at running.

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Trailer for Safe

Kripalu

Sam's Emmy nominations

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This week we dig up Danny Boyle’s suitcase-full-of-cash thriller Shallow Grave, starring Ewan McGregor, Kerry Fox, and Christopher Eccleston.

Plus: Ripley, the frustrations of tourism, and the European Cup.

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Trailer for Shallow Grave

Trailer for Ripley

Trailer for Cry Funny Happy

Deadline.com announcement of Sam’s football project

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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.

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Trailer for Carlito's Way

The Globe and Shakespeare’s “anti-literalism”

Trailer for Bonnie, a documentary about casting director Bonnie Timmermann

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