Adjust Your Tracking

CW: Due to the nature of the content of this film we do talk about rape and violence against women.
If you go down to Cornwall today, watch out for the creepy locals! On Adjust Your Tracking this week we are covering Sam Peckinpah's controversial home invasion 1971 film Straw Dogs, starring Dustin Hoffman and Susan George as a couple recently moved to Cornwall who are forced to defend their home against attackers. An incredibly violent film which still is able to shock and disgust today, so controversial in fact that it didn't get a full release on home video in the UK until 2002. We also talk about King of Staten Island and struggle to understand old money.
All these and more on Adjust Your Tracking!
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It's a new miniseries on the podcast! We are covering the 70s next, a decade that can be claimed to have invented modern cinema. First up we cover probably the most obscure film yet on the podcast, a film that in recent years it's appreciation has been growing, Wanda, written, directed and starring Barbara Loden, the only film she ever made. The film focuses on an apathetic woman with limited options who inadvertently goes on the run with a bank robber. Ollie also has some thoughts on Batman Forever that he still needs you to hear.
All these and more on Adjust Your Tracking!
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To wrap up our 90s miniseries we present the Trackies, a small bonus episode where we give out our awards for the films we watched for the 90s miniseries and allows us to put a bookend on it. Who will win a comfortable pair of Trackies?! And we rank the top 10 as we countdown what wins our best picture of the 90s miniseries.
See you on Sunday as start our new miniseries on the 1970s.
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Riddle me this! Who's afraid of the big, black bat? As part of our 'classics revisited' episode for the 90s. We take a look back to what Batman was like in 1995's Batman Forever. Directed by Joel Schumacher and starring Val Kilmer, Tommy Lee Jones, Jim Carrey, Nicole Kidman and Chris O'Donnell. This ain't your Nolan Batman, full wild and unrepentant 1966's camp is on display here with an insane portrayal of the caped crusader as he tackles the hardship of a love triangle with himself, a new ward in Dick Grayson and two insane criminal wrecking havoc in Gotham as he is sent mysterious riddles (that he largely ignores). None of it makes sense and it is a wild ride. 
All these and more on Adjust Your Tracking!
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Taking a break from the main adventure, we are going to do another influencer series as we look at an cultural icon Bill Murray, we dig into his career, what made him so iconic in culture, talk about Groundhog Day, Lost in Translation and his career with Wes Anderson and then we go back to breakdown the only film he ever directed 1990's Quick Change, co-starring Geena Davies and Randy Quaid. The story of a how a group of successful bank robbers in New York trying to evade and escape the police. We also touch upon Happy Feet 2 and the magic of ET.
All these and more on Adjust Your Tracking!
The list of films we suggest to support Black Lives Matters are: When They See Us, 13th, Do Not Resit, The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson, 16 Shots, Let the Fire Burn, The Hate U Give, Slavery By Another Name, Boyz in the Hood, If Beale Street Could Talk, I Am Not Your Negro, Selma, Malcolm X, Do the Right Thing, Get Out.
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This week we've managed to get to the end of the 90s miniseries, and we are rounding it off with a whopper. Alexander Payne's Election, starring Matthew Broderick and Reese Witherspoon. A movie that has managed to land somewhat in the public zeitgeist after flopping in 1999. Satrying modern politics in the world of a mid-America high school election. We have our friend Paul Nadin on the show and we talk a lot about modern videogames, narrative and morality in games, and process of indie game development. We also talk trans narratives in 1999 movies and round it off with Phantom Menace talk.
All these and more on Adjust Your Tracking!
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We delve into the nightlife of young graduates, Doomed-Bourgeois-in-Love in New York in the very early 80s in Whit Stillman's The Last Days of Disco, starring Chloë Sevigny & Kate Beckinsale, bit of a disagreement this week and Ollie and Liam have different takes on the films, other topics include 80s Gameshows, Bill & Ted, Ewoks and Lethal Weapon.
All these and more on Adjust Your Tracking!
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This week we cover our animated film for the miniseries, Perfect Blue. The debut film for iconic Japanese director Satoshi Kon. A completely terrifying film that manages to tear apart the lines between reality, fiction, and dreams in a decent into self-doubt and murder as an obsessive fan torments ex-Pop Idol turned actress Mima as she struggles with her new career path. We also talk DC Comics movies and the The Beastie Boys Story.
All these and more on Adjust Your Tracking!
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This week we catch up with Austin, Texas native Richard Linklater with an early career film that barely exists in the world. SubUrbia, Starring Giovanni Ribisi, Parker Posey and Ajay Naidu, sounds like it should have everything you need for a classic GenX picture but we go into why this one just misses the mark. We hang out for 2 hours in a parking lot, listen to some sweet 90s indie rock, and talk the Frighteners and Cats for far too long.
All these and more on Adjust Your Tracking!
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It's the Hughes Brothers sophomore picture with the ambitious Dead Presidents, with Larenz Tate, Keith David, Chris Tucker and Bokeem Woodbine. The film takes a look at how Black American veterans were treated after they returned from the Vietnam War with a backdrop to the civil rights uprisings in New York City? An ambitious project which still is a very debated by critics how successful it was. We also get into Ron Howard films, David Lean and we attempt out best George McFly laughs. 
All these and more on Adjust Your Tracking!
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