Episode 55 - Crocodile Dundee

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10/03/17 • 109 min

G'day, mates! The 1986 Aussie-American comedy "Crocodile Dundee" takes us deep into the Outback on a harrowin’ journey with poisonous snakes, gun-totin’ roos and giant rubber crocs. It also takes us to New York City where the hero of the story goes around Manhattan while casually assaulting newspaper editors, pimps, cross-dressers and small-knife-wielding, would-be muggers.

Paul Hogan plays Michael J. "Crocodile" Dundee, a possibly magical, fun-lovin’ big-knife-wielding bloke who enjoys knocking unsuspecting people unconscious, shooting at drunken idiots and poaching protected wildlife. He's perfectly content walking about the world by himself until he meets a "sheila" with a nice arse and is quickly swept away.

Linda Kozlowski plays Sue Charlton, a plucky young reporter who enjoys cheating on her boyfriend and jet setting around the world to write trivial articles while exclusively staying in extravagant 5-star hotels because her daddy owns the newspaper she works for.

Reginald VelJohnson (Carl Winslow from "Family Matters") plays Gus, the newspaper's apparent full-time kindly limo driver who loves to drink on the job and throw makeshift boomerangs at pimps.

Join us as we recount a time we almost got charged by an angry bull, as we wonder why Americans were so obsessed with Australia in the 1980s, and as we try to come up with interesting slogans for cocaine.

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Reginald VelJohnson (Carl Winslow from "Family Matters") plays Gus, the newspaper's apparent full-time kindly limo driver who loves to drink on the job and throw makeshift boomerangs at pimps.

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This episode is sponsored by No Regret It Credit.

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Episode 54 - What Women Want

Back in the year 2000, Nancy Meyers made "What Women Want," another installment in her series of battle of the sexes films that purport to be pro-women but are anything but. She seems to believe that the only thing women want is to find a bad boy and make him want to change his ways just for her.

Mel Gibson plays Nick Marshall, a Don Draperesque old-school chauvinist advertising executive who exploits women until he is electrocuted and granted the magical power to read women's minds.

Helen Hunt plays Darcy Maguire, a newly appointed creative director at a historically misogynistic advertising agency who falls victim to Mel Gibson’s powers. Like all Nancy Meyers female lead characters, her only flaws are that she cares about everything too much and has too much love to give.

Marisa Tomei plays Lola, a sexy young coffee shop barista and aspiring actress whose whole purpose in the movie is to be manipulated, used for sex and discarded in favor of the Nancy Meyers stand-in character.

Sarah Paulson plays Annie, an Ivy League educated assistant to Mel Gibson who bitterly goes about her work and misuses company resources to talk to her boyfriend in Israel.

And, Judy Greer plays Erin the File Girl, a sad employee of the ad firm who constantly thinks suicidal thoughts at work. Eventually, Gibson gets wind that she’s going to off herself and he convinces her not to go through with it by offering her a promotion.

Join us as we talk about wanting to join the Nancy Meyers Fan Club just to infiltrate it from the inside, how this movie ripped off "Ernest Goes to Jail," why simply giving a promotion to a suicidal employee doesn’t help anything, and we also sing the theme song to "Family Matters" for no reason.

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In Theaters: Blade Runner 2049

We want to introduce you to a brand-new bonus segment we'll be doing sporadically on Film Snuff that we're calling "In Theaters." This is our immediate reaction after seeing a new movie we're interested in that was just widely released theatrically.

In this debut installment of In Theaters, we discuss "Blade Runner 2049," the sequel 35 years in the making to Ridley Scott's 1982 cult classic "Blade Runner."

Ryan Gosling plays Officer K, a blade runner for the Los Angeles Police Department 30 years after the events of the first film. Officer K unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos. His discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard (with Harrison Ford reprising his role from the original film), a former Blade Runner who's been missing since 2019.

**NOTE: THIS EPISODE CONTAINS SPOILERS**

Quick Facts

Released widely: Oct. 6, 2017

Runtime: 2 hours 43 minutes

Starring: Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford, Jared Leto, Robin Wright, Ana de Armas, Sylvia Hoeks, Mackenzie Davis

Directed by: Denis Villeneuve

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