Let's Take Five

Did you hear that? The guys end up being recorded as they talk about Francis Ford Coppola's paranoid thriller, The Conversation.

Francis Ford Coppola's Five

1) The Godfather

2) The Conversation

3) Apocalypse Now

4) The Godfather Part III

5) Bram Stoker's Dracula

No episode this week, but The Conversation will be out next Friday.

Well....it's The Godfather! Eric and Austin look at this immortal classic and how it embraces immersion, authenticity and scale. Also Austin talks about You've Got Mail.

The guys have finished another Five and are looking back at how much they just like this good boy. They look at what seems to drive Ethan Hawke, his interest in getting better and they get distracted to talk about Warcraft. They also announce their next Five...

As we enter the end of our Five, we maybe get to Ethan Hawke's best performance of a depressed priest who starts to radicalize himself. They talk about the movies ambiguous qualities as well as how the film embraces transcendentalism. Don't sit on this underseen masterpiece.

Ethan Hawke's Five

1) Training Day

2) Before Sunset

3) Sinister

4) Before Midnight

5) First Reformed

Austin and Eric talk civilly about a movie that is primarily about a fight. The guys talk about the final(?) entry in the Before series by talking about Ethan Hawke returning to the role for the second time.

Ethan Hawke's Five

1) Training Day

2) Before Sunset

3) Sinister

4) Before Midnight

5) First Reformed

No more of these movies where Ethan Hawke has one very emotional day. We're going to watch one where it's four days! Eric and Austin get into the very scary horror film Sinister to see what it's like to see Hawke play a bad guy and lean into genre.

Ethan Hawke's Five

1) Training Day

2) Before Sunset

3) Sinister

4) Before Midnight

5) First Reformed

After several episodes, Eric and Austin return to have a long conversation again about the Before trilogy. They break down Before Sunset with their usual amount of hyperbole including wondering if this is the best sequel ever made.

Ethan Hawke's Five

1) Training Day

2) Before Sunset

3) Sinister

4) Before Midnight

5) First Reformed

We have covered a number of Ethan Hawke movies before but haven't devoted any time looking purely at his career. We start our Five looking at his first Oscar nomination playing the supporting(?) role in Training Day. Does the movie hold up? At all? Find out!

Ethan Hawke's Five

1) Training Day

2) Before Sunset

3) Sinister

4) Before Midnight

5) First Reformed

First Five of the season completed! Eric and Austin look back at Paul Thomas Anderson's career, talk about the films they didn't cover, and what it means to be an event director. Also they announce the next Five...