Elitist Bastards Go To The Movies: The Unbearable Lightness of the A-Team

This week, Hanke and Souther: share their views on The Karate Kid, The A-Team, The Secret in Their Eyes, Please Give and Survival of the Dead; explain why The Sentinel isn’t as gory as you may have heard; make the case for the classic Howard Hawks comedy The Twentieth Century; and express a deflated optimism about soon-to-open flicks Toy Story 3 and Jonah Hex. The Elitist Bastards podcast is also available on the iTunes store as a free download.

Podcast produced/“cohered” by Steve Shanafelt for MountainX.com. This week’s opening theme is “1832” by E. Lee. Original art by Jeremy Dylan.

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8 thoughts on “Elitist Bastards Go To The Movies: The Unbearable Lightness of the A-Team

  1. I have to say that I like the TOY STORY pictures a great deal more than both of you seem to. That said, I’m not exactly brimming with anticipatory glee over the prospect of a third – especially in 3D.

    I really should watch TWENTIETH CENTURY. Perhaps it should go on the top of the DVD pile when I return to Sydney.

  2. Ken Hanke

    I really should watch TWENTIETH CENTURY. Perhaps it should go on the top of the DVD pile when I return to Sydney.

    You could take up the new thing for readers who aren’t local and watch it at the same time we’re screening it as a kind of solidarity thing. I leave it to you to work out the time difference.

  3. You could take up the new thing for readers who aren’t local and watch it at the same time we’re screening it as a kind of solidarity thing.
    I’m not sure how the boss would feel about me taking a 90 minute morning tea break at 10am.

  4. Ken Hanke

    I’m not sure how the boss would feel about me taking a 90 minute morning tea break at 10am.

    Tell him it’s research. Or put him on the phone with me. I’ll straighten him out.

  5. pff

    if your boss doesnt allow 90 minutes of breaks every hour, you should just quit.

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