Kino Madness

We talk real estate and politics with the David Mamet play turned into Hollywood movie GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS.

The episode proper begins at 21:15 Back from a (partially justified) hiatus, HHKK covers the Jet Li-led Europacorp attempt at a martial arts movie that feels a lot like Guy Ritchie directed it.

The enduring dramedy that asks one essential question; what if Joe Pesci had to stay for an extended period in Alabama? Hijinx ensues, also there's an Oscar-winning performance in this and it can't be stressed enough.

Presented in HHKK Vérité This pod was conceived from Nathaniel and Ethan's long movie conversations, so something in that vein is captured in this episode. We talked for a while with the mics rolling before formally starting the format of the podcast, and we also had basketball on the TV because it was the last game of The Finals. This might be the best episode we've done, or you also could hate it considering it is ostensibly about one of the most seminal martial arts films of all time. Enjoy!

Ethan and Nathaniel tackle a defining classic of Hollywood lore and they can't handle the truth.

We introduce Jet Li to the pod to talk about the remake of a Bruce Lee movie 20 years later and parallels to THE MATRIX. It's FIST OF LEGEND.

Ethan and Nathaniel discuss one of the most straight down the middle bio pics in existance, where even critics of 30 years ago said this was tired!

HHKK travels to Thailand to see the wildest martial arts star we've discussed yet, Tony Jaa and his 2005 film THE PROTECTOR

We tackle Michael Mann's historical epic based on the great American novel as we continue through 1992.

We tackle the 80s VHS core classic American attempt at a Hong Kong martial arts film BLOODSPORT

Neil Jordan's 1992 thriller THE CRYING GAME

This week we wrap up the Raid duology with The Raid 2!

This week's pick rolls on with 1992 with Philip Noyce's action thriller PATRIOT GAMES.

Nathaniel's next pick is Gareth Evans' 2011 action thriller film THE RAID. Plus, a look ahead at the next few weeks of the show to come.

Ethan's picks this week is a wacky look at behind the scenes Hollywood, it's Robert Altman's 1992 satirical black comedy THE PLAYER Starring Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Fred Ward, Whoopi Goldberg, Peter Gallagher, Brion James, Cynthia Stevenson Plus at the end: A preview of what's to come on the Hollywood half of the pod!

Nathaniel's first pick introduces us to a screen legend with Lau Kar-leung's 1994 Hong Kong action-comedy kung fu film DRUNKEN MASTER II Starring Jackie Chan, Anita Mui, Ti Lung, Lau Kar-leung, and Andy Lau

Huzzah! A new podcast rises from the ashes! Ethan's first pick is Paul Verhoeven's 1992 neo-noir erotic thriller BASIC INSTINCT Starring Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone, George Dzundza, Jeanne Tripplehorn

Recorded on a phone entirely in Ethan's Jetta, obviously not as high quality but this is bonus baby, the wild west. Listen to us as we make misguided use of our time and money.

This episode pits Wes Anderson's 2014 dramedy "The Grand Budapest Hotel" vs Mike Leigh's 2010 dramedy "Another Year" Subscribe to our feed wherever you get your podcasts at: anchor.fm/s/16ba53cc/podcast/rss Current tourney bracket: https://challonge.com/nu6s6yc8 Go read Vance's writing here: https://film-cred.com/author/vance-osteen/ Featuring Leo, Adam, Ethan and Tommy Rosilio

This episode pits Lisa Cholodenko's 2010 dramedy "The Kids Are All Right" vs Richard Linklater's 2013 romantic drama "Before Midnight" Subscribe to our feed wherever you get your podcasts at: anchor.fm/s/16ba53cc/podcast/rss Current tourney bracket: https://challonge.com/nu6s6yc8 Go read Vance's writing here: https://film-cred.com/author/vance-osteen/ Featuring Vance, Nathaniel and Ethan

This episode pits Apichatpong Weerasethakul's 2011 art drama film "Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives" versus Josh and Benny Safdie's 2019 crime thriller "Uncut Gems" Subscribe to our feed wherever you get your podcasts at: anchor.fm/s/16ba53cc/podcast/rss Current tourney bracket: https://challonge.com/nu6s6yc8 Go read Vance's writing here: https://film-cred.com/author/vance-osteen/ Featuring Vance, Leo, Nathaniel, Ethan, and David Keister

Ring in 2021 with an episode recorded in November of 2020. Sorry we're back guys, eps should be weekly from now into the near future. This episode pits Martin Scorsese's 2019 crime epic "The Irishman" versus Christopher Nolan's 2017 war film "Dunkirk" Subscribe to our feed wherever you get your podcasts at: anchor.fm/s/16ba53cc/podcast/rss Current tourney bracket: https://challonge.com/nu6s6yc8 Go read Vance's writing here: https://film-cred.com/author/vance-osteen/ Featuring Leo, Nathaniel, Ethan, and Chance Freytag

Strap in, we go deep on this y'all This episode pits Jean Luc Godard's 2014 3D experimental narrative essay film "Goodbye to Language" versus Jia Zhangke's 2013 drama "A Touch of Sin" Subscribe to our feed wherever you get your podcasts at: anchor.fm/s/16ba53cc/podcast/rss Current tourney bracket: https://challonge.com/nu6s6yc8 Go read Vance's writing here: https://film-cred.com/author/vance-osteen/ Featuring Vance, Leo, Nathaniel, and producer Ethan

This episode pits Lazlo Nemes' 2015 drama "Son of Saul" versus Paul Thomas Anderson's 2014 period neo-noir crime film "Inherent Vice" Subscribe to our feed wherever you get your podcasts at: anchor.fm/s/16ba53cc/podcast/rss Current tourney bracket: https://challonge.com/nu6s6yc8 Go read Vance's writing here: https://film-cred.com/author/vance-osteen/ Featuring Vance, Adam, Nathaniel, Ethan, and Sam Chronister

Watch an episode go from 100 to 0 real quick This episode pits Barry Jenkins' 2016 coming-of-age drama "Moonlight" versus Nuri Bilge Ceylan's 2014 drama "Winter Sleep" Subscribe to our feed wherever you get your podcasts at: anchor.fm/s/16ba53cc/podcast/rss Current tourney bracket: https://challonge.com/nu6s6yc8 Go read Vance's writing here: https://film-cred.com/author/vance-osteen/ Featuring Leo, Adam, Nathaniel, Ethan, and Sebastian Georgiev

Kino Madness: too hot for podcasting This episode pits Debra Granik's 2010 mystery drama "Winter's Bone" versus Benh Zeitlin's 2012 drama "Beasts of the Southern Wild" Go read Vance's writing here: https://film-cred.com/author/vance-osteen/ Subscribe to our feed wherever you get your podcasts at: anchor.fm/s/16ba53cc/podcast/rss Current tourney bracket: https://challonge.com/nu6s6yc8 Featuring Leo https://letterboxd.com/lab_521/ Adam https://letterboxd.com/aschronister/ Nathaniel https://letterboxd.com/nattycboi/ Vance https://letterboxd.com/TheHolyMountain/ and Nicole Americano https://letterboxd.com/nikkia347/

Kino Madness is live and uncut this week This episode pits Abbas Kiarostami's 2010 art film "Certified Copy" versus Ruben Ostlund's 2014 dramedy "Force Majeure" Subscribe to our feed wherever you get your podcasts at: anchor.fm/s/16ba53cc/podcast/rss Current tourney bracket: https://challonge.com/nu6s6yc8 Featuring Leo https://letterboxd.com/lab_521/ Nathaniel https://letterboxd.com/nattycboi/ Vance https://letterboxd.com/TheHolyMountain/ and Producer (rarely on mic) Ethan https://letterboxd.com/pageus/

MIDWEEK POD! SORRY! THIS IS A HOBBY! This episode pits Paulo Sorrentino's 2013 art drama film "The Great Beauty" versus Paul Verhoeven's 2016 thriller "Elle" Subscribe to our feed wherever you get your podcasts at: anchor.fm/s/16ba53cc/podcast/rss Current tourney bracket: https://challonge.com/nu6s6yc8 Featuring Ethan https://letterboxd.com/pageus/ Adam https://letterboxd.com/aschronister/ Nathaniel https://letterboxd.com/nattycboi/ and Duncan Adkins https://letterboxd.com/dakara/

Somehow the name of the place we recorded was said twice. (Bleeps added accordingly. Thanks guys.) This episode pits George Miller's 2015 post-apocalyptic action film "Mad Max Fury Road" versus Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson's 2015 stop-motion psychological dramedy "Anomalisa" Subscribe to our feed wherever you get your podcasts at: anchor.fm/s/16ba53cc/podcast/rss Current tourney bracket: https://challonge.com/nu6s6yc8 Featuring Leo https://letterboxd.com/lab_521/ Ethan https://letterboxd.com/pageus/ Adam https://letterboxd.com/aschronister/ Nathaniel https://letterboxd.com/nattycboi/ Vance https://letterboxd.com/TheHolyMountain/ and Chris Hall https://letterboxd.com/chall4120/

This episode pits Pedro Costa's 2014 film "Horse Money" versus Martin Scorsese's 2011 adventure drama "Hugo" Subscribe to our feed wherever you get your podcasts at: anchor.fm/s/16ba53cc/podcast/rss Current tourney bracket: https://challonge.com/nu6s6yc8 Featuring Leo https://letterboxd.com/lab_521/ Ethan https://letterboxd.com/pageus/ Adam https://letterboxd.com/aschronister/ and Mateo Javier Acosta https://letterboxd.com/matthaeusorae/

Kino Madness gets real "foreign" and "sophisticated" this week This episode pits Maren Ade's 2016 comedy drama "Toni Erdmann" versus Hirokazu Kore-eda's 2018 drama "Shoplifters" Subscribe to our feed wherever you get your podcasts at: anchor.fm/s/16ba53cc/podcast/rss Current tourney bracket: https://challonge.com/nu6s6yc8 Featuring Leo (https://letterboxd.com/lab_521/) Nathaniel (https://letterboxd.com/nattycboi/) Vance (https://letterboxd.com/theholymountain/) and Tommy Rosilio (https://letterboxd.com/totalrektcall/)

You like jazz? This episode pits Damien Chazelle's 2016 romantic comedy musical "La La Land" versus Abderrahmane Sissako's 2014 drama "Timbuktu" Subscribe to our feed wherever you get your podcasts at: anchor.fm/s/16ba53cc/podcast/rss Current tourney bracket: https://challonge.com/nu6s6yc8 Featuring Leo (https://letterboxd.com/lab_521/) Nathaniel (https://letterboxd.com/nattycboi/) Adam (https://letterboxd.com/ASChronister/) and Scott Shanbom (https://letterboxd.com/sshanbom/)

We stan Al Cody. This episode pits Alex Garland's 2015 science fiction psychological thriller "Ex Machina" against Joel and Ethan Coen's 2013 black comedy-drama "Inside Llewyn Davis" Subscribe to our feed wherever you get your podcasts at: anchor.fm/s/16ba53cc/podcast/rss twitter.com/kinomadnesspod Tourney List can be found here: boxd.it/51QDi Featuring Vance (https://letterboxd.com/theholymountain/) Adam (https://letterboxd.com/aschronister/) Nathaniel (https://letterboxd.com/nattycboi/) and Sam Chronister (https://letterboxd.com/chroni/)

This episode pits Spike Jonze’s 2013 science-fiction romantic drama "Her" against Sean Baker’s 2017 slice of life drama "The Florida Project" Subscribe to our feed wherever you get your podcasts at: anchor.fm/s/16ba53cc/podcast/rss twitter.com/kinomadnesspod Tourney List can be found here: boxd.it/51QDi Featuring Ethan (https://letterboxd.com/pageus) Leo (https://letterboxd.com/lab_521) and Nick Wibert (https://letterboxd.com/nickwibert)

This episode pits Hou Hsiao-hsien's 2015 wuxia film "The Assassin" against Noah Baumbach's 2019 drama "Marriage Story"   Subscribe to our feed wherever you get your podcasts at: https://anchor.fm/s/16ba53cc/podcast/rss  https://twitter.com/kinomadnesspod  Tourney List can be found here: https://boxd.it/51QDi  Featuring  Vance (https://letterboxd.com/TheHolyMountain)  Ethan (https://letterboxd.com/pageus)  Nathaniel (https://letterboxd.com/nattycboi) 

This episode pits Celine Sciamma's 2019 historical drama "Portrait of a Lady on Fire" against Chantal Ackerman's 2015 documentary "No Home Movie" Subscribe to our feed wherever you get your podcasts at: https://anchor.fm/s/16ba53cc/podcast/rss https://twitter.com/kinomadnesspod Tourney List can be found here: https://boxd.it/51QDi Featuring Leo (https://letterboxd.com/lab_521) Nathaniel (https://letterboxd.com/nattycboi) Adam (https://letterboxd.com/ASChronister)

The inaugural episode pits Terrence Malick's 2011 experimental epic drama "The Tree of Life" against Gaspar Noe's 2010 experimental drama art film "Enter The Void" https://twitter.com/kinomadnesspod Tourney List can be found here: https://boxd.it/51QDi Featuring Leo (https://letterboxd.com/lab_521) Vance (https://letterboxd.com/TheHolyMountain) Ethan (https://letterboxd.com/pageus) Nathaniel (https://letterboxd.com/nattycboi) Adam (https://letterboxd.com/ASChronister)