104 - Bad Times at the El Royale

Eavesdropping at the Movies · Oct 19, 2018 · 49m

We pick at flaw after flaw in a film we sincerely enjoyed! Drew Goddard's post-noir, post-Tarantino, post-Hitchcock thriller is an oddball, a delightfully playful collection of stories about secrets and regrets and temptations and damage. A fabulous ensemble cast is split up and paired off in all sorts of ways, histories are exposed, deception is currency, violence is brutal and shocking. And it all happens on one rainy night in a broken old motel in 1969. We have few issues with Goddard's screenplay, which, but for the exception of one or two characters who we reckon could have been given a…