We blew a thin layer of dust off of Drive and it turns out, it is still freaking awesome.

Dylan sat down with co-host Caroline Diezyn and guest Adam Bowes to look at Drive from every angle imaginable.

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CW: rape

The movie: Pulp Fiction

What we will be talking about:

-our relationships with Pulp Fiction

-how IMDb shapes how we watch movies

-whether or not Quentin Tarantino deserves his legacy

-the more troublesome language

-Tarantino cashing in on his cool credit to do whatever he wants, no matter how problematic

-the badass female characters, especially Fabienne and Mia Wallace

-female sexual pleasure in film

-the value of names

-rape as a lazy plot device

-Pulp Fiction fan theories

-the depiction of BDSM

The last time we got together, I had the chance to speak with Jeremy Hobbs and Victor Liorentas about one of my all-time favourite movies, Jaws. During that conversation, we spent a ton of time talking about things that were not the movie we came to talk about.

So, instead of losing those parts of the podcast, and instead of asking people to listen to a 2.5-hour episode, I am releasing a Part 2, as it were, which is actually just a great conversation on its own.

We talk about film projection, the so-called Digital Apocalypse, Victors career as a projectionist, and, most importantly, why these two have dedicated so much of their time to creating Retro-mania at the Hyland Cinema – a monthly screening of classic movies in as close to its original presentation as the guys can make happen. We are talking curtains and 35mm film prints and more than anything we are talking about presenting movies the way they were intended to be seen.

The movie: Jaws

The guest: The creators of Retro-mania at the Hyland Cinema, Jeremy Hobbs and Victor Liorentas

Among the topics we get into:

-a Frankensteined-together 35mm IB technicolor print of the movie

-our own relationships with Jaws

-early vs. later Spielberg

-our agreed-upon love affair with Robert Shaw and Quint

-Brody and his neuroses

-the techniques and tropes that makes Jaws so immortally great

-the weird fade in the middle of a scene

-the iconic film score, including the less-iconic parts

The movie: Ever After - A Cinderella Story

The guest: Writer, blogger, and event co-ordinator Deanne Kondrat

Among the topics we get into:

-the setting in an more reality-based alternative history

-the bananas casting of 33-year-old Dougray Scott as a young, petulant prince

-comparing this movie to the Disney classic Cinderalla and its 2015 remake

-a more complex evil stepmother, brought to life by Anjelica Huston

-the not-so-evil stepsister

-replacing the fairy godmother with Leonardo DaVinci

The movie: Barton Fink

The guest: Proprietor of Runout Records, Roozbeh Showleh

Among the topics we get into:

-the lasting images from the film

-the setting, based on stereotypes and images from the 1940s

-writers block

-a bit of a dissection of the final scene, including a super-bleak read from Dylan

-the lead performance by John Turturro

-Barton and his ignorant relationship with the common man

-watching formative texts years after adolescence and the development of tastes

-the difference between reference (Coens) and borrowing wholesale (Tarantino)

The movie: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers - Extended Edition

The guest: Franchise fan Chris de Hoog

Among the topics we get into:

-how The Lord of the Rings franchise has been cannibalized by the Internet

-reconciling silly moments with epicness and grandeur

-some book answers to our nitpicky questions

-character reads including

---Aragorn and Arwen as an OTP

---the many problems with Eowyn

---Theoden and his deathwish

---Faramir as forgotten brother or badass plot propellor

---Frodo as a problematic film hero

---Legolas and Gimli as comedic relief

-comparing the legacies of Star Wars to The Lord of the Rings movie franchises

-a bit of ragging on The Hobbit

The movie: You're Next

The guest: Co-host of Hammer films podcast Hammertime Horror, Tom Stuart

Among the topics we get into:

-playing with the conventions of slasher genre

-the transition from horror movie into a fantasy of competence

-protagonist Erin as the unconventional final girl

-its unearned reputation as a feminist slasher movie

-the human relationship with violence

The movie: Spanish psychological thriller The Skin I Live In

The guest: Co-host of Hammer films podcast Hammertime Horror, Riley McDonald

Trigger warning re: discussions of sexual assault and violence

Among the topics we get into:

-bad Netflix plot summaries

-the incredible structure of The Skin I Live In and how its non-linear story creates a compelling confusion of feelings

-the murky danger of sympathy

-the fragility of identity

-how our faces belong more to others than to ourselves

-the deft balancing of multiple genres

Sure, the 2015 reboot of Fantastic Four was bad, but what we are here to figure out is if it was really THAT bad.

Pat Leyland is back as our go-to guy for terrible movies, to try to understand how much of the the bad reputation is deserved.

Among other topics, we will get into

-characters that act like they know they are in a movie

-what should have been added

-what should have been left out

-the weird pacing

-whether the movie realizes how poorly it reflects on Millennials