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We're hours away from Scary Movie Month and---while Nightcrawler doesn't exactly qualify as frightening---it IS intense. Jake Gyllenhaal is certainly at his Taxi Driver weirdest. He's also just about at his best in Dan Gilroy's investigation of capitalism-at-any-cost. Rough stuff, but it's also quite funny. Gyllenhaal plays an amoral "stringer" (a freelance videographer) who knows that ratings equals money and "if it bleeds, it leads". He'll do absolutely anything to get the shot...and then we discover the gory results. Rene Russo, Bill Paxton and Riz Ahmed are effective too, but this film belongs to the worm in the lead role. So doll up to look your best before you go on the air to glorify crime scenes and put a scare in your viewers as the 613rd episode of Have You Ever Seen gets deep into the scummy world of Nightcrawler.
If you're going to stay up all night, put some Sparkplug Coffee in your cup. They give our listeners a one-time 20% discount. Just use our "HYES" promo code. The website is "sparkplug.coffee/hyes".
Let us know what you think of this thriller with an email ([email protected]) or a tweet on Twi-X (@moviefiend51 and @bevellisellis...same @ for Bev on Threads). We also put our shows on YouTube later on the day they go up on your podcast app. Rate and review our shows on your app, but also comment and like our show, but also subscribe to the YouTube channel (@hyesellis in your browser).
By Ryan Ellis4.3
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We're hours away from Scary Movie Month and---while Nightcrawler doesn't exactly qualify as frightening---it IS intense. Jake Gyllenhaal is certainly at his Taxi Driver weirdest. He's also just about at his best in Dan Gilroy's investigation of capitalism-at-any-cost. Rough stuff, but it's also quite funny. Gyllenhaal plays an amoral "stringer" (a freelance videographer) who knows that ratings equals money and "if it bleeds, it leads". He'll do absolutely anything to get the shot...and then we discover the gory results. Rene Russo, Bill Paxton and Riz Ahmed are effective too, but this film belongs to the worm in the lead role. So doll up to look your best before you go on the air to glorify crime scenes and put a scare in your viewers as the 613rd episode of Have You Ever Seen gets deep into the scummy world of Nightcrawler.
If you're going to stay up all night, put some Sparkplug Coffee in your cup. They give our listeners a one-time 20% discount. Just use our "HYES" promo code. The website is "sparkplug.coffee/hyes".
Let us know what you think of this thriller with an email ([email protected]) or a tweet on Twi-X (@moviefiend51 and @bevellisellis...same @ for Bev on Threads). We also put our shows on YouTube later on the day they go up on your podcast app. Rate and review our shows on your app, but also comment and like our show, but also subscribe to the YouTube channel (@hyesellis in your browser).

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