Cinema To The Letter

42: The Winner Is: Driving In The Moonlight

It's awards season again and the Academy Awards are on the horizon. However, unlike that show, Double Edged Double Bill actually has hosts. Before the latest Best Picture winner is crowned though, Adam Thomas and Thomas Mariani are looking back at a couple of winners of the past with returning guest Yonathan Habtemichael. First up is the winner from 2016 Moonlight as our good film. Then, playing the role of our bad film is the winner from 1989 Driving Miss Daisy. Plus, Adam's multiple Oscar baiting breakdowns, a special appearance by zombie Jessica Tandy and our picks for next week's episode honoring the recently departed Dick Miller. Listen in to make sure we read the envelopes correctly!
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41: Somewhere In The Room

This week's Double Edged Double Bill is for all you lovers out there. With Valentine's Day coming up, Adam Thomas and Thomas Mariani are getting lovey dovey for this double feature of romance films. The good film is Somewhere In Time, the sci-fi romance starring Christopher Reeve. Then, the bad film is the infamous cult so-bad-it's-good film The Room from writer/director/producer/star Tommy Wiseau. Along with these two features, our duo discusses Eminem related expectations in cinema, the vampiric finances of Tommy Wiseau and our picks for next week's episode on Best Picture Winners. So stop trashing your room and have a romantic evening with our latest discussion here!
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40: Jim Carrey in I Love You, Number 23

25 years ago this week, Jim Carrey kicked off his stardom with one of the most insanely successful years for any comedy star. In 1994, he appeared in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, The Mask and Dumb and Dumber, three of the most successful comedies of the decade.  So, Adam Thomas and Thomas Mariani are celebrating that banner year's anniversary with a Jim Carrey double feature. First up, the good film is the massively underrated dramedy I Love You Phillip Morris, which our boys argue is Carrey's best performance. Then, the bad feature is The Number 23, Carrey's first attempt at a thriller which... isn't as well received. Our boys discuss the memory retention of saxophones, ponder who should have played Dr. Eggman and pick the two films for next week! Listen in on all the smokin' action right here!
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39: Avatar of the Hunter - Overrated vs. Underrated

While the picks on Double Edged Double Bill tend to be subjective, we've reached a new level with this week's episode. Adam Thomas and Thomas Mariani have each picked a film they consider overrated and underrated respectively. The first film is Thomas' underrated film The Night of the Hunter, the 1955 thriller that inspired many a filmmaker yet isn't well known by the general public. Then, the discussion turns to Adam's overrated pick Avatar, the massive highest grossing movie of all time... that's left little cultural impact. Plus, where RL Stine ripped off his story structure, the supervillain origin story of James Cameron and our picking for next week's episode! Listen in here to determine if this show is underrated or overrated. Hell, we'd be surprised if it was rated in the first place!
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38: Star Trek - Wrath of Generations

This week, our captains Adam Thomas and Thomas Mariani are going where no man has gone before: the Star Trek film franchise! Alright, plenty of Trekkers have been here before, but not our intrepid crew of the USS Double Edged Double Bill! Beaming aboard is returning guest and actual Trekker Kaycee Jarrard who will school Adam and Thomas as they venture into this double bill. First is the good feature Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, which may be so good that it broke the potential of all Trek films to follow. Then, our bad feature is Star Trek Generations which brought Captains Kirk and Picard on screen together to... mixed results. Plus, crying over uniform adjustment, questions about Picard's love of Dickensian children and our picks for next week! Engage with us here!
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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!