Episode 75: Ocean's Out of Sight


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George Clooney, Criminal! This week, Faults in the Vaults returns after a brief hiatus with a Steven Soderbergh-helmed double bill featuring fantastic all star casts led by the dashing George Clooney as a charming and charismatic career criminal. We beef up security and round up 2001's Ocean's Eleven in order to break out 1998's Out of Sight. The Mailbag sifts through some long neglected reader mail and delivers a continental shout out. This Week in Torrents, despite its' more recent negative attention, Josh highlights a shining example of Rick and Morty fandom with The Delicious Taste of Ice Cream. Diggin' Up the Docsfinds both Mitch and Josh captivated by the life and career of Steven Spielberg in Susan Lacy's refreshingly candid career retrospective, appropriately titled Spielberg (2017). Recycled Cinema points its historical lens at Alexander Mackendrick's classic UK "Comedy of Errors", The Ladykillers (1955), starring the great Alec Guinness and Peter Sellers, and then compares and contrasts with the curious career misfire that is Joel and Ethan Coen's Americanized screwball retread of The Ladykillers (2004) led by a scenery stealing Tom Hanks. Also in this episode, a brief recap of lost time, Mitch takes a trip back East, Josh begins a new job, Halloween comes and goes, and new projects loom on the horizon...
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