Cinema To The Letter

37: M Night Shyamalan's Unbreakable Earth

As Glass hurtles towards theaters this week, writer/director M. Night Shyamalan is earning the greatest honor of his near three decades as a filmmaker. That's right; being the subject of a Double Edged Double Bill episode! Adam and Thomas are joined by make up artist and film fan Whitney Collazo to dissect two films from the infamous auteur. First, our good feature is the understated superhero origin story Unbreakable, which started the train that lead to Split and Glass. Then, our bad feature is After Earth, which sent the Will Smith and Jaden Smith train off the rails. Plus, the joys of subtle Samuel L. Jackson, what it feels like to be "DENIED" and our picking for next week's episode at the tail end! Listen here for all the turns and twists! 
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36: Torque of God - Coming This January

January is a glum time, especially at the theater. The first calendar month of the year gets a bad reputation as a dump month and with good reason. Movie studios celebrate the new year by releasing their worst leftover films into theaters. Yet, a few gems do slip through the cracks. That's why our latest Double Edged Double Bill is all about films released in January. Our good feature is City of God, the multiple Oscar nominated sprawling coming of age crime film that dramatizes the lethal criminal underground of the slums in Rio. Our bad feature is Torque, a parody and/or rip off of Fast and the Furious where we're not sure who is in on the joke. It's hard to tell the difference, ain't it? Well, tune in now for Ice Cube's anguish, an elaborate John Travolta discussion and our picks for next week's episode!
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35: Blindspotting the Venom of 2018

Happy New Year! As we ring in 2019, it's still important to look back a bit at 2018. Specifically, the great and not-so-great films of the year. Adam Thomas and Thomas Mariani are joined by returning guest Yonathan Habtemichael to discuss two notable films from the year on the latest Double Edged Double Bill. Our good feature is the underrated indie dramedy Blindspotting and the other is the mega hit Marvel blockbuster Venom. Very different films with more similarities than you'd think. Both take place in Northern California, both deal with protagonists suppressed by systems outside of their control and both focus on the duality of man. However, Blindspotting doesn't have Daveed Diggs bite into a live lobster and Venom doesn't feature Tom Hardy freestyling. Still, there's plenty of parallels to draw while our trio discusses other hits & misses of the year and picks their double feature for next week. Listen now to find out!
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34: Fatal Goldmember

Double Edged Double Bill is getting super serious about silliness for the last episode of 2018! Adam Thomas, Thomas Mariani and returning guest Heather Thomas are here to laugh with and at two spoof films in "honor" of the Will Ferrell vehicle Holmes and Watson in theaters! First up is our good feature Fatal Instinct, where comedy legend Carl Reiner takes the early 90s erotic thriller genre down a peg. Then our trio settles in for the bad feature Austin Powers In Goldmember, where Mike Myers mugs as four characters for the third entry in the comedy franchise. All this plus a rare humble Beyonce, a dissection of Armand Assante's comedic potential and the introduction of a format change for the show! So hold onto your golden keys and listen in!
Special thanks to Scott Johnson for the intro assist. To stay up to date about the podcast, follow us on Twitter @DEDBpod, our Facebook page and send us feedback at doubleedgeddoublebill@gmail.com! If you like the show, please go on iTunes to subscribe, rate and/or review us to give the show more visibility! We’re also now on Spotify!

33: DC Comics Presents Batman: The Phantasm Rises

Welcome back to another Double Edged Double Bill, old chums! In honor of the release of Aquaman this week, Adam Thomas and Thomas Mariani are doing an episode on DC Comics adaptations... but mostly Batman. Yes, the luck of the Double Edged Double Bill ended up in The Caped Crusader's favor and our returning guest Scott Johnson is joining our Justice League of Discussion! Our good feature is the 1993 film Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, which our trio of heroes dares to say is perhaps the best Batman film ever! Meanwhile at the Legion of Doom, the podcast powered titans have a rousing battle over our "bad" feature The Dark Knight Rises, the contentious capper to the Christopher Nolan Batman trilogy which results in the most divisive discussion on the show yet! So tune into this Bat Channel at the soonest Bat Time to find out where these superheroes fall in the grand scheme of things.
Thanks to Sam Brutuxan for the intro assist! To stay up to date about the podcast, follow us on Twitter @DEDBpod, our Facebook page and send us feedback at doubleedgeddoublebill@gmail.com! If you like the show, please go on iTunes to subscribe, rate and/or review us to give the show more visibility! We’re also now on Spotify!

32: Clint Eastwood's Every Which World But Perfect

Do you feel lucky, punks? Well then, why not press your luck with the latest episode of Double Edged Double Bill? This week in honor of the release of The Mule, we're doing an episode all about it's writer/star Clint Eastwood. Known for his tough guy roles and efficient directorial style, Clint Eastwood is cinematic icon who - for better or for worse - is still making films at age 88. Now, Adam Thomas and Thomas Mariani look into two very different movies of his career with their most recurring guest host Sam Brutuxan! First up, our good feature is the 1993 crime film A Perfect World which Eastwood directed and co-starred in alongside Kevin Costner. Then, our bad feature is the 1978 "comedy" Every Which Way But Loose which Eastwood didn't direct but did co-star alongside an orangutan. Same diff? Listen to find out!
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31: Slay That Christmas Music, Otter Boy

Happy Holidays, everyone! December is here and we've got a double header about as odd as a grab bag stocking on this week's Double Edged Double Bill. First up as our good feature is the 1977 Jim Henson Christmas special Emmet Otter's Jug Band Christmas. Then, our bad feature is the 2005 horror comedy film Santa's Slay starring wrestler Bill Goldberg as a killer Santa Claus. Yeah, it may be our strangest double feature yet. Singing furry animals and "funny" Christmas themed kills abound. Tis the season? Listen here with bells on!
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30: Joe Dante's Looney Tunes Back In The Burbs

Joe Dante has been making genre pictures for over forty years. In honor of his birthday this week, Double Edge Double Bill hosts Thomas Mariani and Adam Thomas are taking a look at two films in his storied filmography. Our good feature his underrated 1989 comedy The Burbs, wherein Tom Hanks leads a gang of wacky neighbors to find out the mysteries of the new weirdos next door. Then, our bad feature is Dante's 2003 film Looney Tunes: Back In Action, which studio meddling turned from potentially great madcap adventure into an uneven mess. All this and the question of what "body dialogue" will be revealed by listening in here!
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29: Rocky V. The Natural: Double Bill of the Century

Grab your hot dogs and six pack for the big game! With Creed II coming out this week, Adam Thomas and Thomas Mariani are doing a double bill of sports films! Even if our duo aren't huge sports people, they love a good sports film. For this week, that good film is the seminal baseball drama The Natural, which basically feels like the superhero origin film for a master of America's past time. Then in this corner, our fighters slug it in the ring with their bad boxing film Rocky V, the absolute low for the beloved sports franchise. Even after fighting wrestlers & giving robots away as gifts, Rocky Balboa hits a new low with this initial attempt at a finale. Thank God Creed came along. So sit in the stadium and listen to the amazing acoustics here!
Thanks to Dan Chambos for the intro for this episode. To stay up to date about the podcast, follow us on Twitter @DEDBpod, our Facebook page and send us feedback at doubleedgeddoublebill@gmail.com! If you like the show, please go on iTunes to subscribe, rate and/or review us to give the show more visibility! We're also now on Spotify!

28: Masters of the Willow Verse

Gather, fare maidens and lordes. It's time for another Double Edged Double Bill! This week we're doing a double header of fantasy films, given Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald is set to come out! Guest and fan of the show Dan Chambos joins Adam Thomas and Thomas Mariani to look at films about magical realms. First, 1988's Willow where George Lucas rips himself off and gets the dynamic team up of Val Kilmer & Warwick Davis to keep it all together. Then, our hosts try to survive as 1987's Masters of the Universe drags us from Eternia and into Skeletor's hammy grasp. Listen to all this fantastical madness here!
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