We wrap up our series on the films of S. Craig Zahler with perhaps is least palatable film DRAGGED ACROSS CONCRETE. In the 2018 crime thriller, Zahler focuses his increasingly fascistic lense on the issue of........police brutality (oof!). Starring Mel Gibson (double-oof!) and Vince Vaughn, Zahler's brand of gritty celluloid violence goes full-mask off and asks the big questions like: Why can't cops beat up whoever they want? Conversation also includes:

• Craig complaining about baseball;

• Hutton Gibson, Mel's nazi-sympathizing, conspiracy-enthusiast father.

• Joe Biden's renewal of the Foreign Intelligence and Surveillance Act; an

• We discuss our recent watches including BODY DOUBLE, THANKSGIVING, SALTBURN, and ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD.

We continue our series examining the films of S. Craig Zahler and their increasingly bizarre depiction of a violent, conservative "utopia/dystopia". This week we watched BRAWL IN CELL BLOCK 99, Zahler's attempt at a prison exploitation flick starring Vince Vaughn, Don Johnson, and Udo Kier. Also: we celebrate the death of Henry Kissinger, one of history's greatest villains; upcoming movies we're geeked for: THE IRON CLAW, THE SWEET EAST, POOR THINGS, and FERRARI; the Daily Wire has released an anti-trans comedy called LADY BALLERS (or based JUWANNA MAN); and what makes an exploitation film an exploitation film?

We celebrate our 1 year pod-iversary by beginning a new series of conservative films, specifically the violent fantasies of S. Craig Zahler. We begin with Zahler's directorial debut Bone Tomahawk, a western-horror starring Kurt Russell, Richard Jenkins, Matthew Fox, and Patrick Wilson. Zahler has a stylish eye and works well in genre conventions, but what lies beneath this horror western is a lot of tired tropes painting native tribes as inhuman. And we start tracking the different types of Manly Men in the Zahler-verse. Discussion also includes: Scorsese's KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON; under-appreciated mensch David Arquette; Traditional vs. Revisionist westerns and; some of our favorite moments from our first year of podcasting!