Will and Billy discuss director Steven Soderbergh’s Contagion, including his sleek, smooth directing; the frankly amazing cast (Damon! Paltrow! Fishburne! Winslet! Law! Cranston! Cotillard!) and the way an epic movie about disease and death manages to be so downright entertaining.
Repo Man
“Repo Man” is everything a cult film should be. It’s set in an offbeat subculture (1980s Los Angeles punk), it focuses on a bizarre cast of characters (sleazy repo men), is driven by a memorable soundtrack (the aforementioned 1980s L.A. punk) and is full of quotable lines (including a monologue that makes the most of the words “plate,” “shrimp” and “plate of shrimp.”
The Matrix
This week, Billy and Will re-examine “The Matrix” 20 years later, discussing the computer effects, the jaw-dropping stunts and the talented twosome that made the movie … and then did something even more amazing a few years later.