The Gauntlet

A Bigger Splash (1974) / The Mill & The Cross (2011)

This week we’re living the lives of artists as we dive in to David Hockney’s bad breakup and join Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s procession

How High (2001) / D.E.B.S. (2004)

This week we’re going back to school for some higher learning as we enroll some joints with Method Man and Redman and conduct field work at Angela Robinson’s sexy spy academy

The Working Class Goes to Heaven (1971) / Workingman’s Death (2005)

This week we’re saluting the workers as we labor under extreme conditions with Michael Glawogger and lose our finger and minds on the factory floor with Elio Petri

149 - La Religieuse aka The Nun (1966) / L’altro Inferno aka The Other Hell (1981)

This week we’re taking our vows and entering convent life as we descend into madness with Bruno Mattei and try to escape with Jacques Rivette and Anna Karina

Ilya Muromets aka The Sword and the Dragon (1956) / Laserblast (1978)

This week we’re taking a spin on the Satellite of Love as we do our own riffs on MST3K, Charles Band’s laser cannon, and the epic fantasy of Aleksandr Ptushko

How The West Was Won (1962) / Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1 (2024)

This week we’re hitching our wagons to the epic visions of MGM and Kevin Costner as we explore two sprawling takes on westward expansion

Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1972) / Documentarian (2012)

This week Arlin Golden joins us for a doc swap as we confront a hostile subject with Ivars Zviedris & Inese Klava and journey to Lithuania with Jonas Mekas

Who Am I This Time? (1982) / The Second Civil War (1997)

This week we’re channel surfing as we tune in to Jonathan Demme’s public television romance and Joe Dante’s war time broadcast

Crazy Thunder Road (1980) / His Motorbike, Her Island (1986)

This week we get our motors running and head out on the highway as we terrorize Tokyo with Sogo Ishii’s biker gangs and fall in love with Nobuhiko Obayashi’s romantic riders

This week we’re crosschecking polite society and battling beer barons as Vikram Murthi joins us for a drinking session with Paul Newman and the Mackenzie Brothers, listen up hosers!