The Savage Beast Podcast

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There is significant risk that Neil Gaiman is going to put out a universally panned book where he anthropormorphises Cancellation

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We watched Training Day (Antoine Fuqua, 2001) in which Denzel strides like a colossus through Fuqua’s gritty cartoon landscape. LA bakes in the sun, Ethan Hawke squirms effectively as the rookie caught up in a maelstrom and it builds to a suitably overheated melodramatic climax.

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Watching Andrew McCarthy’s ‘Brats’ documentary is an intensely awkward experience

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We watched Amy (Asif Kampala, 2015) an intimate, devastating portrait of mercurial talent. It rightly makes us fall in love with a fresh, funny and riotously talented musician and then crushes us as she is destroyed by the machinery of fame and neglect. A powerful paen to an icon

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Time travel worked! Everything got worse.

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Challenge!

Write a Horror story in 6 words or less!

#Horrorfam #Writing

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Teaser

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Always forget about this bit in Terminator.

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RIP the god-king of B-movies

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What’s a still from a movie or TV show that will completely devastate anyone who has seen it, but seem completely unremarkable to anyone who hasn’t?

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We watched Late Night With The Devil (Cameron Caine’s 2023) which takes a dynamite concept and fluffs it with needless complexity and too much mustard. A couple of decent scares aside and mildly successful attempts at period detail aside, it’s ultimately silly rather than scary.

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We watched Funny Pages (Owen Kline, 2022) which takes a scalpel and sledgehammer to the indie comics scene, in a sometimes blackly comic and occasionally just downright unpleasant manner. It’s assured, and clearly knows its target well but perhaps turns the cruelty dial too far.

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We watched Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (Lam Nai-Choi, 1991) a brash and explosively violent midnight movie with the simplistic morality of a Saturday morning cartoon. It instantly earns its place in the splattercore pantheon and is a joyously unhinged hymn to creative carnage.

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I feel that when people talk about gateway horror, ‘Arachnophobia’ (Frank Marshall, 1990) is somewhat forgotten. Which is a shame as it’s a banger: tense, funny and atmospheric with a killer cast

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We watched Master & Commander (Peter Weir, 2003) an astonishing immersive piece of historical action. Weir delivers a film that is grittily accurate, patiently streamlined and utterly thrilling. A salt-encrusted pursuit film that speaks artfully on systems of service and honour.

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We watched The Rock (Michael Bay, 1996) where you can see the golden age of action movies pivot into the pumped turbo dreck of a Bay shaped world. Despite the noise, gloss and smash cut violence, it’s strangely unthrilling. Connery and Cage add to an irritating cartoon tone. Bad.

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@housetoastonish She’s back

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@TeleuteDPu @johnlees927 GO. TO. LUNCH!

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We watched Copland (James Mangold, 1998) a monolith of 90s character actor masculinity, that is ridiculous but stuffed to the gills with great chewy performances and an assured sense of gravitas. Sly is mannered but effective; Liotta is transcendent and walks off with the film.

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@AcmeDarryl He’s trying hard, and his physicality as a lumbering oaf is effective, but agree that a more nuanced character actor would have been better. Maybe someone like John Caroll Lynch