The Gauntlet

It’s Always Fair Weather (1955) / Passing Strangers (1974)

This week we’re embracing male relationships as we dance through the ups and downs of friendship with Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen and fly kites in the bay with Arthur J. Bressan Jr.’s young lovers

Hell Drivers (1957) / High-Ballin’ (1978)

This week we’re joining the great big convoy as we drive dangerously with Cy Endfield’s working class haulers and fight off hijackers with Peter Carter’s easy riders

Eyes of Fire (1983) / Phantom Town (1998)

This week we’re facing fear on the frontier as we settle on cursed land with Avery Crounse and get lost in Jeff Burr’s wild west phantasmagoria

Lewat Djam Malam (1954) / Sambizanga (1972)

This week we’re saluting Scorsese and the World Cinema Project as we join Sarah Maldoror in the fight for Angolan independence and struggle to adapt to post-revolutionary Indonesia with Usmar Ismail

A Cat in the Brain (1990) / Coffin Homes (2021)

This week we’re wallowing in gore as we paw our way into the twisted mind of Lucio Fulci and hack each other to bits over real estate with Fruit Chan

Pit Stop (1969) / The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix (1975)

This week we’re revving our engines and peeling out as we speed through the world of Figure 8 racing with Jack Hill while Ivo Caprino shows us how to animate a grand prix winner

The Passion of the Christ (2004) / Shoot ‘Em Up (2007)

This week we’re plunging neck deep into the dark heart of the Bush years as we go in whips blazing with Mel Gibson and preach the gospel of guns with Clive Owen

Ministry of Fear (1944) / The Hitcher (1986)

This week we’re pissing our pants and going into survival mode as we get trapped in Fritz Lang’s nest of spies while Rutger Hauer stalks us on the open road

Attica (1974) / Life (1999)

This week we’re headed to the slammer as we do life with Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence and lose our Firestone fortune documenting the Attica uprising

116 - The Dream Lady (1918) / Macbeth (1948)

This week we’re spinning the wheel of fortune as we tempt fate with Orson Welles and pitch a soothsaying tent with Elsie Jane Wilson