429 - Geek Challenge: Wolf vs. The Insider

In honor of the late Christopher Plummer, Paul and Arlo host a Geek Challenge with two films featuring one of Canada’s greatest. First, Paul has Arlo watch Mike Nichols’ 1994 horror (?) film Wolf, starring Jack Nicholson as a middle-aged book editor who finds the beast inside courtesy of a wolf bite (with a five-minute cameo from a scenery-chewing Plummer). Then, Arlo makes Paul watch Michael Mann’s 1999 ripped-from-the-headlines thriller The Insider, with Russell Crowe as a scientist taking on Big Tobacco, Al Pacino as the journalist trying to tell his story, and Plummer doing one hell of a job as Mike Wallace. Plus, Paul tries to get Arlo to watch Craig McCracken’s new animated series Kid Cosmic.

 

NEXT: the boys sharpen their fangs on a Four-Color Flashback discussion of the first two volumes of Scott Snyder, Stephen King, and Rafael Albuquerque’s American Vampire.

 

 

BREAKDOWN

00:00:55  -  Intro / Kid Cosmic

00:10:29  -  Wolf

00:55:45  -  The Insider

01:49:45  -  Pointless tangent about the term “bucket list” (We’re sorry.)

01:52:54  -  Outro / Next

 

 

MUSIC

• “Wolf Like Me” by TV On The Radio, Return to Cookie Mountain (2006)
• “Iguazu” by Gustavo Santoalalla, Ronroco (1998)

 

 

GOBBLEDYCARES

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