The Gauntlet

Train in the Snow (1976) / Unstoppable (2010)

This week we’re celebrating the kinetic majesty of the iron horse as we try to dislodge a snow-trapped Yugoslavian children’s cooperative with Tony Scott’s propulsive runaway, choo choo motherfuckers

I’m No Angel (1933) / Wild Boys of the Road (1933)

This week we’re joining the pre-code circus as we tame lions and men with Mae West and hit the road with Wild Bill’s wild boys (and girls) of the great depression

The World’s Greatest Sinner (1962) / This Night I’ll Possess Your Corpse (1967)

God is dead this week as we get swept up in a whirlwind of sin and join the vainglorious crusades of Timothy Carey and José Mojica Marins

The Last Wagon (1956) / The Gauntlet (1977)

This week we fight our way through the grand canyon state as we hitch a ride on the last wagon with Delmer Daves’ and run the gauntlet with Clint Eastwood

Young Einstein (1988) / C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America (2004)

This week we’re rewriting history as Yahoo Serious has Tasmanian apple farmer Albert Einstein split the beer atom and Kevin Willmott’s mock doc asks how different America would be had the Confederates won the civil war

Potop aka The Deluge (1974)

This week we don our fuzzy hats, load up on pierogies, and charge forward in our polar bear sleigh as we join Jerzy Hoffman in defending the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth against short movies and Swedish invaders

On the Silver Globe (1988) / Highlander II (1991)

This week we’re sifting through the wreckage of troubled productions as we crash land on the silver globe with Andrzej Żuławski and battle insurance companies for immortality with Russell Mulcahey

The White Reindeer (1952) / The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996)

This week we summon some fresh powder from the Finnish stone gods, unearthing our inner assassin with Renny Harlin and using our new antlers to gore hunters with Erik Blomberg

Body and Soul (1925) / Elmer Gantry (1960)

This week we’re being led astray by opportunistic preachers as we put our faith in Oscar Micheaux’s melodrama and hit the revival tour to repent with Burt Lancaster’s traveling salesman

Beyond the Time Barrier (1960) / Timestalkers (1987)

This week we zap through time like a bolt of lightning, landing in a plague-ravaged future with Edgar G. Ulmer while a tintype zips us back to the Wild West with Michael Schultz