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Guest Host: Meghan O'Neill

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"DeNiro. Pacino. Gugino. Neutrino. Maraschino. Gran Torino. We discuss Righteous Kill."

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Robert Deniro. Al Pacino. Co-starring together at last, as the result of an cruel prank, in which they are cast in a terrible, terrible (terrible) movie. We talk about Righteous Kill. Meanwhile Dan lets us in on why he sees everything as the set-up for an erotic cat-and-mouse game, Elliott talks about the most effective treatment for a coma, and Meghan unwittingly reveals Elliott and Dan’s secret life as sex workers.

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Two veteran New York City detectives work on a case of serial executions of criminals who escaped justice.

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Detectives Thomas Cowan and David Fisk, 30-year veterans of the NYPD, investigate the murder of a pimp. The crime resembles a case they solved many years earlier. As the body count rises, they realize they're dealing with a vigilante taking over when the police fail. The similarities between past and present crimes leads the detectives to wonder if they put the wrong man behind bars.

Final Judgments[]

  • Bad-Bad Movie (Meghan) @38:45
  • Bad-Bad Movie (Dan) @40:10
  • Bad-Bad Movie (Elliott) @42:35

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Recommendations[]

  • Gran Torino (2008) by Clint Eastwood by Dan @Time
  • A Matter of Life and Death (1946) by Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger by Elliott @Time
  • Julie & Julia (2009) by Nora Ephron by Meghan @Time
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