Adjust Your Tracking

2020-04

Episodes

Chungking Express (1994)

Sunday Apr 26, 2020

Sunday Apr 26, 2020

This week it's over to Hong Kong for Wong Kar-wai's iconic Chungking Express, starring Brigitte Lin, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Tony Leung and Faye Wong, a film that has so firmly cemented itself as a must what classic of Hong Kong cinema. We follow two stories of heartbreak in the daily lives of two cops in Hong Kong. DO you like pineapple? How does an apartment cry? Is Faye the original Manic Pixie Dream Girl? We also talk about Hong Kong, Quentin Tarantino, Flintstones and oddly Metal Gear Solid.
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Sunday Apr 19, 2020

This week it's right into the life of English stately homes in the 1930s as Anthony Hopkins alongside Emma Thompson, has to navigate repressed love and Nazi bosses in the Remains of the Day. The film looks at repressed English society and displays the life of a Butler and how he sacrificed everything for his job, but realised too late what it cost him. We also discuss the Sonic the Hedgehog movie. Alex Winter's Freaked. And what to do when you find a spot of dirt? 
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Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)

Sunday Apr 12, 2020

Sunday Apr 12, 2020

This week podcasting is only for closers when we dive into the adaptation of the David Mamet Play, Glengarry Glen Ross, starring amongst other Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon and Alec Baldwin. The film depicts two days in the lives of four real estate salesmen and how desperate they become when the corporate office sends a trainer who tells them all expect two of them will be fired. How comfortable are 90s suits? Which Simpsons character was inspired by this film? What is Mamet Speak? Jack Lemmon as a contemporary dramatic actor? And it's time for the new game show Which Baldwin Am I?
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Boyz n the Hood (1991)

Sunday Apr 05, 2020

Sunday Apr 05, 2020

This week we are in the hood for John Singleton's seminal director debut, Boyz n the Hood, starring an insane cast that features Ice Cube, Cuba Gooding Jr., Morris Chestnut, Laurence Fishburne, Nia Long, and Angela Basset. The films charts the life of a boy who is trying to navigate life in South Central Los Angeles and the growing gang culture. As we discuss the allusions to Stand by Me, the career of Cuba Gooding Jr, Hollywood's treatment of black films, is it Larry or Laurence Fishburne? and what is with plastic on seats?
All these and more on Adjust Your Tracking!
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