Hosted by Charlie Bennett and Christian Sager.
What is pulp fiction for? We look at the first season of Sundance's rural crime noir Hap & Leonard for answers. Does this Joe R. Lansdale adaption bring something new to platonic male friendships? Or is it simply a salad mixer you can throw plot lines into?
Additional Resources:
- ‘Hap And Leonard’ Renewed For Season 2 At SundanceTV – Update
- 'Hap and Leonard': Inside TV's New Pulp Fiction Buddy-Comedy
- 'Hap and Leonard' EP on Adapting Joe R. Lansdale and Making Brits into Texans
- 'Hap And Leonard' Creator Needed To 'Burn Bridges' To Make It As A Writer
- Darkness on the Edge of Town
It's Inauguration Day for Donald Trump... so is a comic book about the first teenage president essential reading for American citizens now? We look at both the 1973 and 2015 versions of PREZ from DC Comics while discussing the cyclical nature of politics and satire.
Additional Resources:
- Why DC’s Prez Is the Best Comic You Aren’t Reading
- How a Comic About a Teen Girl President Became the Most Scathing Satire of 2016
- TCJ ARCHIVE The Joe Simon Interview
- Cartoonist Mark Russell on his reboot of Prez, comics’ first teen president
- Why DC Comics' 'Prez' is essential reading for the 2016 election
- DC Comics skewers right-wing politics in this new comic where a teen is made president
- The Teens Who Would Be President: Explaining DC's 'Prez' Comic Books
- Lost in Transition: 2015’s ‘Prez’ And A Robot Named Tina
- Polygon Explains Everything: Prez, a comic about the first US president elected by Twitter
Last year Peter Thiel secretly funded Hulk Hogan's lawsuit that destroyed Gawker. Should the wealthy be able to ruin a publication if they don't like what it has to say? We discuss the new precedent this case set between privacy and Freedom of Speech, all while tumbling down the rabbit hole of trashy media and big money.
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While Lawless is a flawed film that's not for everyone, it's still one of our favorites. We go through some personal reconciliations while reviewing how John Hillcoat, Nick Cave and others made this true myth.
Additional Resources:
- How 'Lawless' Nabbed New A-Listers Tom Hardy and Jessica Chastain
- John Hillcoat Talks Sticking With Shia LaBeouf For ‘Lawless,’ How Tom Hardy Embraced His Feminine Side & More
- The Road Director Hillcoat's Next Project Falls Apart
- EXCLUSIVE: Jessica Chastain to Star in 'The Wettest County
- Nick Cave: 'Lawless is not so much a true story as a true myth'
- Nick Cave on Writing the 'Lawless' Screenplay and Compiling and Playing Its Music (Q&A)
- Nick Cave on Lawless, the sentimentality of sadists, and the war on drugs