“Jack Twist? More like Jack NASTY.”

Our backs were fine after this film, but our hearts? Shattered. This major motion picture directed by Ang Lee was adapted from the short story “Brokeback Mountain” by Annie Proulx as part of her collection, Close Range: Wyoming Stories.

Topics include when we first came to this film, the S-Town podcast, Proulx’s Vermont roots, Larry McMurtry’s All of My Friends Are Going to be Strangers, Tanner being emotionally destroyed by The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead on a plane, rampant homophobia in Wyoming, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Health Ledger’s otherworldliness, Jack Gyllenhaal being slightly miscast but still bringing the goods, and Matt’s experience as an inept manual laborer on a golf course.