This week, Steve and Brandon inadvertently watched two nearly identical monster movies from 1997, but then give equal time to talking about Sinners and Thunderbolts. We couldn't help ourselves, and recorded a nearly 100 minute episode. Sorry for the long runtime!
Hold List
Mimic
Guillermo Del Toro
Author of short story: Donald A Wollheim
Script: Matthew Robins (Frequent Del Toro Collaborator, Crimson Peak, Pinocchio)
Cinematographer Dan Lausten - The Shape of Water, Silent Hill, Nightmare Alley, John Wick 2-4, Crimson Peak, The Gorge
Composer Marco Beltrami - Hellboy, Pantheon, Fear Street Trilogy, A Quiet Place 1 & 2, Logan,
Mira Sorvino - Mighty Aphrodite, The Replacement Killers, Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion
Jeremy Northam - The Net with Sandra Bullock, Amistad, The Invasion (2007)
Giancarlo Giannini - Casino Royale/Quantum of Solace, Dune (2000 TV Mini Series), Hannibal
Charles S Dutton - Alien 3, Legion, Gothika, Criminal Minds, Law and Order
Josh Brolin - Avengers, No Country for Old Men, Inherent Vice, The Goonies, Planet Terror, True Grit, Dune Part 1 & 2,
Alix Koromzay - The Haunting, Kindergarten Cop. Long Gap between films from 2006-2024.
F Murray Abraham - Amadeus, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Cabinet of Curiosities, Thir13en Ghosts, Muppets from Space, Star Trek Insurrection, Last Action Hero, Scarface, Might Aphrodite
Norman Reedus (Hollywood Debut) - The Walking Dead, Boondock Saints, Blade 2
Fun Facts: The hospital seen in the beginning is the same hospital used in John Carpenter’s In the Mouth of Madness for the Asylum scene. The R. C. Harris Water Treatment Plant
The Relic
Peter Hyams - Timecop, Outland, 2010 The Year We Make Contact (2001 Odyssey Sequel), Sudden Death,
Novel by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Screenplay by Amy Jones, John Raffo, Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver (Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver are married writer/producer couple, Modern Plate of the Apes, Jurassic World, and Avatar movies credits)
Penelope Ann Miller - Carlito’s Way, The Artist, Kindergarten Cop, The Shadow (Margo Lane)
Tom Sizemore - Saving Private Ryan, Black Hawk Down
Linda Hunt - Dune(1984), Kindergarten Cop
James Whitmore - The Shawshank Redemption, GIve ‘em Hell, Harry