S9E31: Divine Touch with Scott Alexander
Added 2025-08-05 09:40:30 +0000 UTCScreenwriter Scott Alexander and Bret discuss coming of age before kid culture, watching Charles Bronson on the hunt and missing out on a discount Pickle.
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Friendship is hilarious.
The Dude
2025-08-16 00:59:24 +0000 UTCNot related to this episode but Brett and Adam should try get Jennifer Jason Leigh on the show. She’d be a perfect guest imo.
Iain
2025-08-12 10:21:13 +0000 UTCHow Bret feels about the Z Channel, and how it shaped his taste in movies in the formative years of his life, is exactly how I feel about the Pirate Bay
David Morgan-Brown
2025-08-11 08:41:25 +0000 UTCI wish Bret would do the audiobook for all his books. Or someone use ai to do it haha
Erick
2025-08-10 17:16:34 +0000 UTCC’mon Bret! You’re sleeping on Eddington! And now Weapons! Both great with a crowd. Eddington especially interesting as a comedy litmus test.
Bobby Miller
2025-08-10 16:00:18 +0000 UTCThe Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane is the Scott Jacoby Bret should know better. It stars Jodie Foster Pre Taxi Driver and the French Candian production makes it a 70s yhriller much more explicit then any US TV Move by Barry Diller.
Edi Panta
2025-08-10 00:07:03 +0000 UTCScott Jacoby as Bad Ronald didn't move into his "neighbor's house" in the film, he's hidden by his mother in his own house because he killed a young, bully girl classmate. The stalking starts after his mother dies and a new family, with two daughters, moves in.
Edi Panta
2025-08-10 00:03:53 +0000 UTCBret and Scott might also want to check out The Mind Benders (1963) a British science fiction film with Dirk Bogarde experimenting with sensory deprivation. I’m sure it influenced Paddy Chayefsky when developing Altered States, which, BTW is being reissued by Criterion in 4K in October (with extras). Russell’s only true Hollywood movie finally receiving the recognition it deserves!
Philip Huntley
2025-08-09 10:18:34 +0000 UTCI recall my dad saying - in 1980, maybe 'The Elephant Man' wasn't appropriate for an 11 year old (he was right!)
Steven Hamilton
2025-08-07 18:17:19 +0000 UTC"The wonderful world of diz-uh-nee"
Von Wintermarck
2025-08-07 15:11:17 +0000 UTC
