The Latecomers

Show Notes It's time to close out the 40s with an adventure and a terror. Mr. Toad goes on a wild ride in spite of his friends' best efforts and then Ichabod goes on a wild ride at the behest of his rival. Two more stories from the library and the last of the piecemeal films, not only do the characters go on wild rides, we do too!  Recommendations: The Wind in the Willows (80s Stop Motion available on Peacock) and Longlegs (available on Hulu)   Next up: Cinderella (1950)   Email us at latecomers@gmail.com Find Amity @ www.amityarmstrong.com Our Facebook group is here for those who consent: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1754020081574479/

Show Notes Seven songs, seven cartoons - from near death by waterfall to Pecos Bill, with Johnny Appleseed and a tugboat in between. This one is chock-full of stunning animation and fun music in short vignettes so you can't even get bored. Fun songs, sweet poems and silly gags - it's a fun one! Recommendations: Quesadillas - yes, those quesadillas Next up: The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr Toad (1949) Email us at latecomers@gmail.com Find Amity @ www.amityarmstrong.com Our Facebook group is here for those who consent: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1754020081574479/

Show Notes We've got a duology as well as a debate - is this movie fun, and is it fancy free? We start with a staid tale of the power of love which is expressed through violence as Bongo the bear tries to make his way among nature's savage beasts after living amongst the civilized circus animals. After nothing happens for a while, he does get there in the end - all he has to do is murder his rival and slap his girlfriend. FUN! Then we see Mickey - along with his anthropomorphic buddies Goofy and Donald - slice a bean and ride a stalk to steal from a giant after pushing him off a cloud. FANCY FREE - though the giant does come looking for him, so free might not be the word we're looking for.   Recommendations: Thunderbolts* (In Theaters)   Next up: Melody Time (1948)   Email us at latecomers@gmail.com Find Amity @ www.amityarmstrong.com Our Facebook group is here for those who consent: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1754020081574479/

Show Notes Back into the world of propaganda and lack of narrative throughline, we learn about birds, burritos and piñatas this week as we discuss The Three Caballeros (no, not Los Tres but The Three…). Donald Duck once again wants to learn all about places and kin from south of the equator. From heat seeking penguins to sex-starved ducks (that's Donald doing an excellent Pepe Le Pew impersonation) we get to see so many birds outside of their natural habitats and needing to use a magic sarape to fly. Reminder: it is explicit propaganda - mostly for the sexiness of Brazilian women. Yes, in a kid's movie   Recommendations: The Gone Wrong Show (Peacock)   Next up: Fun and Fancy Free (1947)   Email us at latecomers@gmail.com Find Amity @ www.amityarmstrong.com Our Facebook group is here for those who consent: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1754020081574479/

Show Notes Travel with us - and the Disney animators - to the wild world of South America - from Lake Titicaca to the Argentine Pampas to Rio, we get a cartoon's eye view of the our neighbors to the south. Disney was trying to lure these South American countries away from the Nazis and Donald Duck was the tool.    Recommendations: Gilda (Tubi), The Traitors (Peacock), The Anniversary Party (Rentable)   Next up: The Three Caballeros (1944)   Email us at latecomers@gmail.com Find Amity @ www.amityarmstrong.com Our Facebook group is here for those who consent: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1754020081574479/

Show Notes We were introduced to a wobbly legged pre-cursor Simba this week as we watched 1942's Bambi. With the story arc of simply growing up, we get to see baby Bambi and his woodland friends frolic freely until Man comes and does what he does best - destroy everything. But everything comes out twitterpated in the end.     Recommendations: Go outside and/or make something with your hands   Next up: Saludos Amigos (1943)   Email us at latecomers@gmail.com Find Amity @ www.amityarmstrong.com Our Facebook group is here for those who consent: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1754020081574479/

Show Notes This week we follow the adventures of a silent baby as he is tormented by all but the one creature who he is supposed to fear - Jumbo Jr. stars as Dumbo! The physically largest circus in all of creation, built on the backs of faceless slaves, and populated by bullies, welcomes a new baby and has nothing nice to say. We remind you and ourselves that our protagonist is a BABY. But at least there are some animals looking out for him, namely the mouse and the kind, happy and wise crows - didn't see that coming.   Recommendations: The Two Popes (Netflix)   Next up: Bambi (1942)   Email us at latecomers@gmail.com Find Amity @ www.amityarmstrong.com Our Facebook group is here for those who consent: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1754020081574479/

The combination of music and animation goes back to the beginning of animation and Disney dives all the way into the motif in 1940's Fantasia. We get dinosaurs, dancing mushrooms and hippos, the first color Mickey Mouse and a full Bacchanal - all while listening to some of the most popular classical music of all time - would you dare ask for anything more? A plot? Nah, not this time. Just kick back and let it wash over you.    Recommendations: Ghostbusters: Afterlife and Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (Starz); Erin Brockovich (Netflix?)   Next up: Dumbo (1941)   Email us at latecomers@gmail.com Find Amity @ www.amityarmstrong.com Our Facebook group is here for those who consent: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1754020081574479/

Show Notes We're going deep on one of the most unsettling movies of all time - Pinocchio. A movie full of horny animals, butts, and human trafficking, we never would have thought we would want to screen a Disney animated film from the 40s before showing it to a kid, but this thing is bonkers and more than a little frightening. From gross Italian stereotypes to the theme song for all of Disney, it's a whiplash inducing fever dream. But it sure does look beautiful.   Recommendations: Freaky Tales and Sinners (both in theaters now)   Next up: Fantasia (1940)   Email us at latecomers@gmail.com Find Amity @ www.amityarmstrong.com Our Facebook group is here for those who consent: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1754020081574479/

Show Notes We enter the vault and go all the way back to the beginning to the Disnification of their first Grimm's fairy tale with Snow White. Being the fairest in the land is a tough and dangerous gig, as this pale princess finds out when the evil queen and her narc of a mirror come after her. So loveable that she woos 7 grown men in less than 12 hours, she has a heart of gold to go along with the skin of snow and the voice of… babies and birds … She sounds like a baby and a bird. And of course, there's dwarves to sell you on the idea of mining. This movie has it all! Join us as we embark on this new and exciting journey.   Recommendations: Apple TV shows - Severance, Morning Show   Next up: Pinocchio (1940)   Email us at latecomers@gmail.com Find Amity @ www.amityarmstrong.com Our Facebook group is here for those who consent: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1754020081574479/

Show Notes Welcome back! We are embarking on a new and hopefully more lighthearted and escapist journey with Disney Animation - and Pixar, of course! Here's a little of our Disney history and a sneak peek into what you can expect.

Show Notes In our final episode of the season, we're talking Train to Busan from 2016. In a film that mashes 28 weeks later and Snow piercer had a baby we follow the adventures of Bad Dad, Bad Ass, and Baseball Boy, along with their respective women, trying simply to survive both zombies and capitalists while hurtling through space on a train. We find out what makes a good person and if your job speaks to your morality (hint: it might).   Recommendations: Your Friendly Neighborhood Spiderman (Disney +)   Next up: Bit of a break and then NEW SEASON – Season 7: Disney Animation – We'll see you in April!     Email us at latecomers@gmail.com Find Amity @ www.amityarmstrong.com Our Facebook group is here for those who consent: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1754020081574479/

Show Notes Ready, set, drive! This week we watched Mad Max – Fury Road, a diesel soaked naked prey in an the apocalyptic future vision out of the mind of George Miller. Rictus Erectus, Vuvalini, Immortan Joe, Furiosa, the Doof warrior, Splendid, Capable, Nux, The Dag and … Max, the gang's all here. Stunts galore – explosions and crashes and motorcycles and sand storms – it's got everything you could want.   Next up: Train to Busan(2016) (Amazon Prime)     Email us at latecomers@gmail.com Find Amity @ www.amityarmstrong.com Our Facebook group is here for those who consent: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1754020081574479/

Show Notes This week we're talking STDs with 2014's It Follows. It's not a slasher movie, but it sure looks up to John Carpenter. Girls just want to have fun, and this supernatural buzzkill comes out to keep that from happening unless you want to be ****ed to death by something that looks like your parent's corpse. It's slow, but it's not stupid, and it's scary!   Recommendations: Companion (In Theaters)   Next up: Mad Max Fury Road (2015) (Netflix)     Email us at latecomers@gmail.com Find Amity @ www.amityarmstrong.com Our Facebook group is here for those who consent: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1754020081574479/

Show Notes It's the best modern day action franchise – maybe the best American action franchise – John Wick. Never have so many people died because a dipshit made a dumb decision and killed a dog. We talk all things Keanu, the hubris of waiting for an assassin while nude, the assassin's code and how cool the underground world they build really is. Join us for the watch – and keep on – make it a whole marathon! It's gotta be a better way to spend your day than working, right?   Recommendations: Interior Chinatown (Hulu)   Next up: It Follows (2014)     Email us at latecomers@gmail.com Find Amity @ www.amityarmstrong.com Our Facebook group is here for those who consent: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1754020081574479/

Show Notes This week we go back in time to when AI was a remarkable step forward instead of a feature on all of our devices, whether we like it or not, with Alex Garland's Ex Machina. Oscar Isaac plays a billionaire that falls into all of the billionaire stereotypes that have proven true with the rise of Elon Musk: a self-proclaimed demi-god. Domhnall Gleeson plays a patsy for every other speaking character. Alicia Vikander plays – well, that's the question isn't it, what – or who – is she?     Recommendations: Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 2 Episode 9: The Measure of a Man (Paramount+) and comfort watches.   Next up: It Follows (2014) (Max)     Email us at latecomers@gmail.com Find Amity @ www.amityarmstrong.com Our Facebook group is here for those who consent: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1754020081574479/

Show Notes It's a love story this week as we watch Gone Girl directed by fave David Fincher. We extoll the virtues of Ben Affleck and Carrie Coon and spend a lot of time asking about love and romance. What is love? Is this it? Why? What? How? Come to your own conclusions but not until you hear ours.   Recommendations: Wolf Man (in theaters); Self-care   Next up: Ex Machina (2014) (Rentable)     Email us at latecomers@gmail.com Find Amity @ www.amityarmstrong.com Our Facebook group is here for those who consent: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1754020081574479/

Show Notes This week we watch Bong Joon-Ho's dystopian masterpiece – no not that one, the other one – Snowpiercer. Chris Evans doesn't want to be a hero, and can he truly be if he know what people taste like? We argue yes, when the villain is capitalism, any man can be a hero. Tilda Swinton puts in a grounded and naturalistic performance (her words) and Allison Pill is just a delight while Kang-ho Song plays his normal hilarious druggie. Bong has an innate ability to entertain and make you laugh while spotlighting the horrors of society. This movie rocks and you need to watch it.   Recommendations: The Straight Story (Disney+) and The Elephant Man (available in physical format only)   Next up: Gone Girl (2014) (Hulu)     Email us at latecomers@gmail.com Find Amity @ www.amityarmstrong.com Our Facebook group is here for those who consent: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1754020081574479/

Show Notes Lily Taylor is trying very hard to not kill her kids in the first film of the Conjuring Universe – aptly named the Conjuring. Ed and Lorraine Warren – characters we are not going to conflate with their real-world counterparts – are enlisted to help a family of seven with a demon problem. Think Poltergeist but replace a haunted closet with a haunted mom and Zelda Rubenstein with Vera Farmiga. Patrick Wilson's Ed Warren is not allowed to perform exorcisms but it's a good thing he keeps a special exorcism book in the car.  Special appearance by the Hollywood version of Annabelle, a Hasbro-approved nightmare.   Recommendations: Muppet Treasure Island (Disney+); The Host (Netflix)   Next up: Snowpiercer (2013) (Netflix)     Email us at latecomers@gmail.com Find Amity @ www.amityarmstrong.com Our Facebook group is here for those who consent: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1754020081574479/

Show Notes This week, we are on a hunt for the most wanted man in the minds and hearts of Americans lead by the inimitable Jessica Chastain in Zero Dark Thirty. Kathryn Bigelow is a master of packing lot of tension in scenes set anywhere from black sites to offices. The fundamental reality of war makes even the most benign seeming activities a possible powder keg leaving us off kilter and at a loss trying to guess where danger might be coming from be it in the field or in the office. Let's follow a smart woman telling everyone around her what's important and how to solve their problem.   Recommendations: Wicked (again – it's available at home now) and Nosferatu (sorta)   Next up: The Conjuring (2013) (Not on MAX – rentable on rental platforms)     Email us at latecomers@gmail.com Find Amity @ www.amityarmstrong.com Our Facebook group is here for those who consent: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1754020081574479/

Show Notes First days on the job don't get much worse than this one – Iko Uwais stars in the pure action film The Raid: Redemption. Cops go into a tenement building and have to fight their way out facing off against an army of desperate people and unhinged gangsters. Once we get in, the only way out is through. Martial arts you probably have never seen alongside bonkers gunfights leaves us exhausted by the end.   Recommendations: Cross (Prime); Juror #2 (Max)   Next up: Zero Dark Thirty (2012) (Netflix)     Email us at latecomers@gmail.com Find Amity @ www.amityarmstrong.com Our Facebook group is here for those who consent: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1754020081574479/

Show Notes Five walk into an elevator and one walks out – this week we talk Devil, a 2010 M. Night Shyamalan production. We've got some shady people locked together and a sad cop watching with enough smarts to listen to the Catholic who knows the danger they all face. It's a mostly real-time horror flick that relies on fears we all have – you know, that you're going to be stuck in an elevator with a demon. I know it keeps us all up at night.   Recommendations: The Midwitch Cuckoos (AMC+); A Charlie Brown Christmas   Next up: The Raid Redemption (2010)     Email us at latecomers@gmail.com Find Amity @ www.amityarmstrong.com Our Facebook group is here for those who consent: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1754020081574479/

Show Notes This week we watched Liam Neeson pick up his mantle of action hero in 2008s Taken. It's surprisingly paced and full of short effective fights that make up a satisfying action movie. Maggie Grace is a believable, if too resilient teen, and Famke Jansen is a terrible co-parent, rounding out a typical American family facing a sex-trafficking threat. Good thing he's honed those skills.   Recommendations: A Christmas Carol (the Muppets one on Disney + [and go the the special features to watch the full heartbreaking version] and the George C. Scott one on Paramount =); Rankin Bass Christmas specials which you should just by on physical media.   Next up: Devil (2010)     Email us at latecomers@gmail.com Find Amity @ www.amityarmstrong.com Our Facebook group is here for those who consent: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1754020081574479/

Show Notes Home invasion classic The Strangers brings the Masked Man, Dollface and Pin-up Girl to a newly fractured couple, fracturing them even further. Is this a statement about class? Maybe. Is James being a dick because he's hurt? Probably. How is Kristen's skin so good while she is smoking like a chimney? That one is easy – it's because she's Liv Tyler. And who is Tamra and why are they looking for her?   Recommendations: Ink Master (Paramount +) Next up: Taken (2008)   Email us at latecomers@gmail.com Find Amity @ www.amityarmstrong.com Our Facebook group is here for those who consent: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1754020081574479/

Show Notes We watched the best superhero movie – or at least top 3 – this week with the second film in Christopher Nolan's trilogy, The Dark Knight. Incredible cast, unbelievable performances, great writing, and insane effects and set pieces all come together to form a tour-de-force that we could watch over and over again, maybe even just to hear Michael Caine tell us about rubies the size of a tangerine. Or to watch that magic trick where the Joker makes a pencil disappear. Or the best heist film ever in the first 10 minutes. Or an 18-wheeler doing a somersault. Or all of it, we'll take all of it.   Recommendations: Wicked (In Theaters)   Next up: The Strangers (2008)     Email us at latecomers@gmail.com Find Amity @ www.amityarmstrong.com

Show Notes Creepy kid alert! Adorable kid alert!   If you like kids, we've got ‘em this week in The Orphanage. Sick ones, dead ones, creepy ones, ghost ones. How can a movie that ends with a suicide be uplifting? The magic of storytelling, that's how.     Recommendations: Gastronauts (Dropout)   Next up: The Dark Knight (2008)     Email us at latecomers@gmail.com Find Amity @ www.amityarmstrong.com Our Facebook group is here for those who consent: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1754020081574479/

Show Notes This week we watch a naïve midwife and a cynical gangster, whose mostly cynical because he's actually a cop, in Eastern Promises. One of the least Cronenbergian David Cronenberg films is best remembered for a naked bathhouse fight, but which has some deep and nuanced characters played by thoughtful actors and interacting in interesting and eminently believable ways. But also, there's a naked bathhouse fight.   Recommendations:  The Shout – available on Amazon   Next up: The Orphanage (2007)     Email us at latecomers@gmail.com Find Amity @ www.amityarmstrong.com Our Facebook group is here for those who consent: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1754020081574479/

When in an emergency situation, it may be better to do as you are told… if not you might cause an(other) outbreak. We watch a single family take down a whole country (and probably the rest of the world) in 28 Weeks Later from 2007. A dad starts the film in a thrilling sequence as a coward, becomes a liar, makes some terrible choices, and then kills so many people. The kids he raised are uninterested in following rules or asking for help, even in an apocalyptic situation. And mom just wants to love her family while possibly holding the key to humanity's salvation. It's a lot to put on a family of four. And Jeremy Renner and Rose Byrne just want to save kids, though for different reasons.   Recommendations: Heretic (In Theaters); I Saw the TV Glow (MAX)   Next up: The Orphanage (2007) (Rentable on streaming services)   Email us at latecomers@gmail.com Find Amity @ www.amityarmstrong.com Our Facebook group is here for those who consent: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1754020081574479/

Show Notes Daniel Craig makes his Bond debut in 2006's Casino Royale. Montenegro and Venice are just a couple of expensive places his 00 status takes him. Surrounded by the excellence of Mads Mikkelsen, Eva Green and Jeffrey Wright, the rebooted series shines – all under the watchful eye of Dame Judy Dench. How many acts does the film have? About 5. But all of them are full of action, and most contain a chase scene or two. Com talk about it with us.     Recommendations: Trap (MAX); Agatha All Along (Disney+)     Next up: 28 Weeks Later (Prime)     Email us at latecomers@gmail.com Find Amity @ www.amityarmstrong.com Our Facebook group is here for those who consent: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1754020081574479/

Show Notes Free Palestine You know it's gonna be a rough one when Mark Walhberg is the voice of reason even as he yells every line. We watch the epitome of infiltration this week with Martin Scorsese's The Departed. DiCaprio is the good guy, Damon is the bad guy, Martin Sheen doesn't deserve what he gets and Vera Farmiga, unfortunately, gets stuck in the “woman who is criminally terrible at her job” trope. Is it twisty? Yup. But is it confusing? Nope. In addition to the stress of possible discovery and all of the shooting, thrill comes through when a 2 ½ hour movie never feels it. Recommendations: Woman of the Hour (Netflix) VOTE! Next up: Casino Royale (Paramount +) Email us at latecomers@gmail.com Find Amity @ www.amityarmstrong.com Our Facebook group is here for those who consent: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1754020081574479/

Show Notes Free Palestine   This week we marvel at the speed and dexterity of one of the best martial arts actors in Thailand's Tom Yum Goong, or here in the states, The Protector – Tony Jaa coming for the people that took his elephant. If you want to see a baby elephant, a pangolin, martial arts bmx and roller bladers, a four minute uncut fight scene, a dominatrix with a whip, a giant and a capoeirista, boy have we got the movie for you!   Recommendations: Books this week (Amazon Links for reference not endorsement, get them at a local store or library near you): Mexican Gothic by Sylvia Moreno-Garcia; The Last Tale of the Flower Bride by Roshani Chokshi and The Devil's Picnic by Taras Grescoe   VOTE!   Next up: (Amazon Prime)     Email us at latecomers@gmail.com Find Amity @ www.amityarmstrong.com Our Facebook group is here for those who consent: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1754020081574479/

Show Notes Free Palestine   This week we watched some Spanish magical realism – maybe – with 2002's Intacto. An underground world of betting with your luck – and ultimately your life – and the people who are caught up within it. Do you feel lucky?     Recommendations: Ghost Story (Podcast currently available free on Apple Podcast or on Wondery), Bay Curious Podcast (for Bay Area voters)   Next up: The Protector (2005) (Amazon Prime)     Email us at latecomers@gmail.com Find Amity @ www.amityarmstrong.com Our Facebook group is here for those who consent: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1754020081574479/

Show Notes Free Palestine   This week we watch one of the scariest movies of the 2000s, Gore Verbinski's The Ring. Naomi Watts, Martin Henderson, Shannon Cochran and Brian Cox make a quartet of terrible parents that damage some already damaged children. We learn that you shouldn't hide a kid in a barn or a well, nor should you attempt to pet an animal who clearly doesn't want to be touched. We learn it's good to pay attention to your kids and bad to sleep with your assistant. And finally, we learn that often, the best choice is to mind your own business.   Recommendations: The Substance (In Theaters)   Next up: Intacto (2002) (Youtube or Plex)   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZw74qvdU-E&t=1698s https://watch.plex.tv/watch/movie/intacto?utm_content=5d9f34fcd5fd3f001ee14d5c&utm_medium=deeplink&utm_source=google-catalog     Email us at latecomers@gmail.com Find Amity @ www.amityarmstrong.com Our Facebook group is here for those who consent: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1754020081574479/

Show Notes Free Palestine   Sometimes you wake up on a fishing boat and you don't know who you are. If this has happened to you, consider yourself in good company, alongside Matt Damon in this week's movie, the Bourne Identity from 2002. It does matter who you keep close to you, and when that person is a desperate drifter with a tiny car, keep your head on a swivel because she doesn't know what she wants and she has zero sense of self-preservation. Another life tip from this movie is if Brian Cox is your boss, you in danger girl.   Recommendations: The 3 Body Problem (Netflix); Vaccines (your doctor or CVS)   Next up: The Ring (2002) – AMC+   Email us at latecomers@gmail.com Find Amity @ www.amityarmstrong.com Our Facebook group is here for those who consent: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1754020081574479/

Show Notes Free Palestine   Time for a road trip – keep your hands inside the vehicle, driver gets to choose the music, and for the love of God do not taunt the truckers. We watch Steve Zahn break all of those rules – probably – much to the detriment of his brother and everyone else they come in contact with in 2001's Joy Ride. In a movie that is way better than it needs to be, we are off on an ill-advised, infatuation infused road trip that couldn't go worse. And you've got options if you aren't happy with the way it ends!   Alternate Endings (some not all):   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPVnnZN_FE0   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H789sXJdOes&list=PLVCZUMw8Kut8wJf7iS3j82_AT2_n6sJgi&index=17   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=br3PLH5Yx0k&list=PLVCZUMw8Kut8wJf7iS3j82_AT2_n6sJgi&index=13     Recommendations: Speak No Evil (In Theaters); Evil (Paramount+)   Next up: The Bourne Identity (2002) - Starz   Email us at latecomers@gmail.com Find Amity @ www.amityarmstrong.com Our Facebook group is here for those who consent: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1754020081574479/

Show Notes Free Palestine   It's time to watch a military debacle with Jerry Bruckhaimer and Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down. How many helicopters does it take to complete a mission successfully? Two more than they had apparently. We spend some time talking about media and propaganda and the merits of telling a “true story” as well as the merits of American exceptionalism. Also, a game of name the white guy.     You can see the cause of my distress over the reality of this movie here: https://web.archive.org/web/20160924142751/https://www.blairwitch.com/project/main.html   Recommendations: Blink Twice (In Theaters)   Next up: Joyride (Free on Plex or Rentable)   Email us at latecomers@gmail.com Find Amity @ www.amityarmstrong.com Our Facebook group is here for those who consent: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1754020081574479/

Show Notes We're back to give you a roadmap of last 25 movies we think are worthy of discussion when it comes to thrills. From 2001's Black Hawk Down to 2016's Train to Busan, we go around the world, war zones to Zombies. We'll talk ghosts, witches, murderous STDs and much, much more. Come along for a preview, and then join us next week for Black Hawk Down (available to rent on all your favorite streaming services). Email us at latecomers@gmail.com Our Facebook group is here for those who consent: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1754020081574479/

Show Notes Free Palestine   This week, we are going into the woods with three terrible film makers who think wearing jeans on a camping trip is a good idea and can neither read a map nor keep their hands to themselves. The Blair Witch Project, a pioneer of found footage films is up this week. Lemuel gives us outdoor tips and we discuss the benefits of unionization. You can see the cause of my distress over the reality of this movie here: https://web.archive.org/web/20160924142751/https://www.blairwitch.com/project/main.html   Recommendations: Love Lies Bleeding (Max); Deadpool and Wolverine (In Theaters)   Next up: Three weeks off and then an introduction to the second half of the series   Email us at latecomers@gmail.com Find Amity @ www.amityarmstrong.com Our Facebook group is here for those who consent: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1754020081574479/

Show Notes Free Palestine   This week we go flying and don't negotiate with terrorists. Harrison Ford plays a noble president surrounded by ignoble hijackers who is trying to save his wife and daughter, and anyone that wasn't murdered immediately. How bullet proof is this plane? Very.   Recommendations: Twisters (In theaters) and Twister (Max)   Next up: Blair Witch Project (1999) (Amazon Prime)   Email us at latecomers@gmail.com Find Amity @ www.amityarmstrong.com Our Facebook group is here for those who consent: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1754020081574479/

Show Notes Free Palestine   One of the greatest casts of all time and an unflinching look at racism and the failures of the judicial system in the US and particularly in Mississippi. Joel Schumacher directs the adaptation of a John Grisham novel that tells the story of a white lawyer representing a black man and all of the machinations that go on around them. It looks directly at the inherent racism of both the rural population and the American justice system as well as the white savior complex and the occasional usefulness thereof.     Recommendations: Worst Roommate Ever (Netflix)   Next up: Air Force One (AMC+)   Email us at latecomers@gmail.com Find Amity @ www.amityarmstrong.com Our Facebook group is here for those who consent: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1754020081574479/

Show Notes Free Palestine   David Fincher, Morgan Freeman, Brad Pitt – what could go wrong. Other than all the murders, of course.  We watched Se7en this week and discuss murder, body horror effects, sin, and the merits of harming yourself for or during the filming of a movie, how much a film should fill in the gaps as to “how” something happens and when it matters and the benefits of used bookstores.   Shout out to Michael Reid Mackay, who we thought was a puppet, but is in fact a real boy.   Recommendations: Taskmaster Season 14 (Youtube); The Bear season 3 (FX on Hulu)   Next up: A Time To Kill (1996 ) (Rentable)   Email us at latecomers@gmail.com Find Amity @ www.amityarmstrong.com Our Facebook group is here for those who consent: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1754020081574479/

Show Notes Free Palestine   Buckle in for a possibly uncomfortable flashback as we discuss Outbreak from 1995. Viruses, helicopter chases, sweaty Patrick Dempsey, intense Dustin Hoffman, scared Cuba Gooding, Jr., cocky Kevin Spacey, tough Renee Russo, and a monkey who doesn't know its own power make for a tense against the clock thriller.   Recommendations: Quiet Place Day One (In Theaters)   Next up: Se7en (1995) (Rentable)   Email us at latecomers@gmail.com Find Amity @ www.amityarmstrong.com Our Facebook group is here for those who consent: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1754020081574479/

Show Notes Free Palestine   It's time for Sandra Bullock to take on an early tech billionaire 1995's The Net. Horny floppy haired assassins, men who are patently terrible at their jobs, pixelated and pixelating computer viruses and vindictive over-inclusive police records all come together to make Angela Bennett's life hell.   Recommendations: Stopmotion (AMC+) [Handmaking Coraline for some process info]   Next up: Outbreak (1995) (Rentable)   Email us at latecomers@gmail.com Find Amity @ www.amityarmstrong.com Our Facebook group is here for those who consent: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1754020081574479/

Show Notes Episode 6.5 19   The Killer (1989) #19 of 50 Thrill makers: Gun Fu!   Free Palestine   John Woo takes us on a hell of a ride in The Killer from 1989. Guns, beautiful women, churches with good vibes and homo-romantic overtones this week as we watch a tale of an assassin with a golden heart, his best friend and the cop who comes to love him. It's full of gunfire and has the most heartbreaking end.   Recommendations: High Strung (all of your fav free movie streaming sites)   Next up: The Net (1995) (Paramount +)   Email us at latecomers@gmail.com Find Amity @ www.amityarmstrong.com Our Facebook group is here for those who consent: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1754020081574479/

Show Notes Free Palestine   Mamet and DePalma bring us into a slick but dangerous 1930s Chicago in 1987's The Untouchables. Fancy dress, guns, Ennio Morricone music, and snappy dialogue bring us into the fictional non-fiction world of Elliot Ness and Al Capone. Powerhouse cast, powerhouse script, quotable from begin to end, and introducing Patricia Clarkson, can this movie do any wrong. Listen to find out.   Recommendations: Furiosa (In Theaters); Geek Girl (Netflix)   Next up: The Killer (1989) (Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/the.-killer)   Email us at latecomers@gmail.com Find Amity @ www.amityarmstrong.com Our Facebook group is here for those who consent: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1754020081574479/

Show Notes Free Palestine   We've got some OG anti-AI media this week with WarGames from 1983. Matthew Broderick just wants to play the latest video game, but Dabney Coleman has put his opponent in charge of the entire American military complex – it's not a great combination.   Recommendations: Ennio (Hulu)   Next up: The Untouchables (1987) (Showtime)   Email us at latecomers@gmail.com Find Amity @ www.amityarmstrong.com Our Facebook group is here for those who consent: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1754020081574479/

Show Notes Free Palestine   One of the most unspoiled movies of all time, we watched When a Stranger Calls from 1979. If you have heard of this movie but haven't seen it, it's likely that you are only privy to the first 20 minutes of the film. It's tense, but it gets wild after we leave the house from which the call is coming. Carol Kane shows off her lungs. A husband listens to and believes his wife. An ex-cop goes rogue. And Colleen Dewhurst just tries to get a damn drink. All of them circle a very sick, very disturbed man played in an unnervingly sympathetic way. We're gonna spoil it so you should absolutely watch beforehand to see what happens when a stranger calls.     Recommendations: Puzzletales by Post Curious Games  https://www.getpostcurious.com/   Next up: War Games (1983) (MAX)   Email us at latecomers@gmail.com Find Amity @ www.amityarmstrong.com Our Facebook group is here for those who consent: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1754020081574479/

Show Notes Free Palestine   This week we give all our co-workers side eye as we follow Dr. Wheeler on her quest for info in Coma from 1978. She's noticing things none of her fellow doctors are noticing, or want her to notice. Once again, the smart woman knows what's up and her boyfriend is willingly blind to the truth. Oh, and capitalism is definitely the villain.     Recommendations: The Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (In Theaters); Your Local Library and the apps Libby, Hoopla, and Kanopy.   Next up: When a Stranger Calls (1979) (Peacock)   Email us at latecomers@gmail.com Find Amity @ www.amityarmstrong.com Our Facebook group is here for those who consent: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1754020081574479/

Show Notes Free Palestine   This week we follow Michael York's D'artanan into Paris to meet The Three Musketeers! Four silly men vs. Captain Hook, or rather Rochforte and a Cardinal with more interest in the court than the pulpit. A world of excess, adultery and swordfights awaits.   Recommendations: Watch some Roger Corman movies in remembrance. Here's a list.   Next up: Coma (1978) Rentable   Email us at latecomers@gmail.com Find Amity @ www.amityarmstrong.com Our Facebook group is here for those who consent: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1754020081574479/

Show Notes Free Palestine   This week we talk about The Naked Prey from 1965 (though you'd be hard pressed to know when it was made just by watching it). Filmed in Africa and staring mostly native Africans, with only a 9 page screenplay, it's a tense chase with life on the line. Cornel Wilde, 53 years old and suffering dysentery, runs mostly naked through the wilds experiencing many of the dangers of colonial Africa – and it's all due to the greedy hateful actions of an elephant murderer.   Recommendations: The Idea of You and Red, White, and Royal Blue (Amazon)   Next up: The Three Musketeers (1973) available on Amazon [and for bonus points – The Four Musketeers from 1974]   Email us at latecomers@gmail.com Find Amity @ www.amityarmstrong.com Our Facebook group is here for those who consent: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1754020081574479/

Show Notes Free Palestine   This week, we have to warn you that once night comes, you will be alone and no one will hear your distress as you watch The Haunting from 1963. Dutch angles, rococo design, claustrophobic sets, lens distortions, and four distinct and powerful performances lend to deep unsettlement and a slow burn thrill.       Recommendations: Read some Shirley Jackson; Mike Flannagan's The Haunting of Hill House on Netflix   Next up: The Naked Pray (1965) rentable on Amazon   Email us at latecomers@gmail.com Find Amity @ www.amityarmstrong.com Our Facebook group is here for those who consent: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1754020081574479/