Al Pacino. Being typecast. Alice wrongfully disagrees. Invisible actors. When actors trick you. Putting Michael on the spot. Supernatural detective. Avoiding standard devices. When you walk in on a film. Unnecessary staples. Michael disliked Memento, but still thinks it’s visionary. Visual foreshadowing. Podcast hosts with weird sleeping patterns. Films always get Insomnia wrong. Almost. Finally, a film with an important humanistic message. Alice unknowingly makes puns. Enough with the silly conspiracies! Die Hard is the standard for action films. Smallpox viral, not Survivalism viral. When even suspension of disbelief can’t save you. Character or actors? A film thought experiment – try it at home!
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Insomnia
Released: May 24, 2002
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Director: Christopher Nolan
Writer: Hillary Seitz
Starring: Al Pacino, Robin Williams, Hilary Swank, Martin Donovan
Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to investigate the methodical murder of a local teen.
The Rock
Released: June 7, 1996
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Director: Michael Bay
Writer: David Weisberg, Dougals Cook, Mark Rosner
Starring: Sean COnnery, Nicolas Cage, Ed Harris, William Forsythe, Tony Todd
A renegade general and his group of U.S. Marines take over Alcatraz and threaten San Francisco Bay with biological weapons. A chemical weapons specialist and the only man to have ever escaped from the Rock attempt to prevent chaos.
