Secret Handshake

Secret Handshake

by Jacob Knight, Marten Carlson & Cody Bouchard

Film History Film Reviews

Season 3

Spine #36 - 47 Meters Down: Uncaged

Live every week like it's Shark Week. The boys throw another marathon and blast through a bevy of great white attacks in order to celebrate the glory that is shark movies. At the top of their list: Johannes Roberts' underwater descent into albino shark madness 47 METERS DOWN: UNCAGED.

Spine #35 - Night of the Juggler

The boys head back to the Big Apple to explore four more entries into the NYC Grime canon, including the unwoke, perverse, smash 'em up opus that is NIGHT OF THE JUGGLER (1980).

Mini-Series: Too Old to Die Young (Volume Four)

The boys bring it home with the fourth and final installment of their mini-series tribute to Nic Refn's magnum streaming opus, TOO OLD TO DIE YOUNG, but not before tossing in some analysis of it's spiritual prequel, THE NEON DEMON, for good measure.

Mini-Series: Too Old to Die Young (Volume Three)

Volumes 6 + 7 of TOO OLD TO DIE YOUNG try Marten's patience, while Jacob argues it's where Nic Refn's epic act of prog rock cinema really starts to congeal into something all its own. As an added bonus: Refn's doom metal Viking opus, VALHALLA RISING.

Mini-Series: Too Old to Die Young (Volume Two)

Jacob and Marten continue down the lost highway of TOO OLD TO DIE YOUNG with Volumes 4 + 5, hunting pedophiles and, eventually, rape porn peddlers as Viggo enlists Marten in his quest to cleanse the planet of sex pests. Also up for discussion: Nicolas Winding Refn's stone masterwork of chase film fetishism, DRIVE (2011).

Mini-Series: Too Old to Die Young (Volume One)

The boys take a break from their usual Season Three shenanigans to deliver a four part, in-depth dissection of Nicolas Winding Refn's thirteen-hour dronecore L.A. crime opus, TOO OLD TO DIE YOUNG. Also up under the SH microscope: Refn's breakout work: the Tom Hardy prion brawl picture, BRONSON (2008).

Spine #34 - Videodrome

Death to Videodrome. Long live the New Flesh. This week, the boys dig into one of their all time favorite filmmakers: David Cronenberg. Does his latest sci-fi transmission, CRIMES OF THE FUTURE, fit in with the rest of his body of work? Find out.

Bonus Episode - Top Gun: Maverick (Feat. Tom Cruise)

We're feeling the need...the need for speed! Jacob and Marten hop into the cockpit of Tom Cruise's highly anticipated legacy sequel, TOP GUN: MAVERICK, and dissect the career of one of our all time finest movie stars.

Spine #33 - The Boogens

Marten really gets one for him, as he and Jacob discuss the charms of low budget monster movie-making, starting with everybody's favorite indescribable turtle beastie in THE BOOGENS.

Spine #32 - Nemesis

Jacob and Marten tool up and get their body parts replaced with cybernetic organisms before getting down and dirty with NEMESIS and the filmography of trash action maven Albert Pyun. Is it better to be more human than human when watching these movies? You bet your ass it does.

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