linktr.ee/CatchingUpOnCinema This February at Catching Up On Cinema is “NOT Made in America” month! All month long we’ll be reviewing foreign films that have garnered American remakes. This week, Kyle and Trevor review Erik Skjoldbjærg’s, Insomnia (1997)! A Norwegian noir from the Criterion collection, as well as director Skjoldbjærg’s feature debut, the film is a…
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Episode 90 – Naked Lunch (1991)
In the final episode of Catching Up On Cinema’s ‘Preciating Peter Weller month, Kyle and Trevor sit down to review David Cronenberg’s bizarre masterpiece, Naked Lunch (1991)! Adapted from the literary works and life of Beat Generation author William S. Burroughs, the film is a strange and occasionally barely comprehensible journey into the drug addled…
Episode 9 – The Ninth Gate (1999)
Good lord that’s a lot of nines!In this episode, Kyle has Trevor Catch Up On Roman Polanski’s satanic neo-noir, The Ninth Gate! Listen as Kyle explains to Trevor the concept of a “smoking movie!”Johnny Depp reading and smoking!Frank Langella self-immolating and summoning the Devil!Floating French women that like to bang outdoors!And yet another death by hanging! (Seriously…