Promotional still of the cast of The Leftovers's season 2 (2015).
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267 - Heat (with Roxana Hadadi!) (Patreon Selects)
This week, our first film selected by one of our sponsor-tier Patreon subscribers arrives, and we brought back Vulture's Roxana Hadadi to celebrate. In 1995, audiences were hyped to finally see an onscreen showdown between Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro in Michael Mann's Heat. But what promised to be a standard actioner on paper (on top of a battle of titans) was in actuality an existential tone poem on masculinity, with audiences feeling let down by the lack of fireworks in Pacino and DeNiro's brief but mighty scene. The film has since been reassessed, earning a vocal and devoted fanbase that hail the film as Mann's masterpiece.
This week, we talk about Mann's work studying the masculine mind and Pacino and DeNiro's 1990s periods. We also talk about Val Kilmer's Batman year, how the 1995 Oscars largely rejected darker material, and our thoughts on Mann's Ferrari.
Topics also include bisexual eyebrow piercings, our diner orders, and the Nyad towel.
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The 1995 Academy Awards
Roxana on Jacob Elordi's Saltburn Eyebrow Piercing
Vulture Movies Fantasy League
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Fear will be reissued on Blu-ray on March 7 via Mill Creek Entertainment. The 1996 psychological thriller comes with a retro VHS slipcover.
James Foley (Glengarry Glen Ross) directs from a script by Christopher Crowe (The Last of the Mohicans). Mark Wahlberg, Reese Witherspoon, William Petersen, Alyssa Milano, and Amy Brenneman star.
No special features are included.
When 16-year-old Nicole Walker (Reese Witherspoon) meets 23-year-old David McCall (Mark Wahlberg) at a Seattle nightclub, she falls in love. David is exciting and charming, and despite the wide age gap, he wins over Nicole's family -- except for her workaholic father, Steven (William Petersen), who's suspicious of David from the start. His concerns are realized when David turns out to be a violent sociopath who sees Nicole as his possession, and her family home a fortress to be invaded.
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“You can call them ghosts if you like, or as I prefer, the living impaired. They need help sometimes. Just like us.”—Dr. Harvey, “Casper” 1995 directed by Brad Silberling
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