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The Latecomers
Amity and Lemuel have seen a lot of things, but they have missed some major cultural plot points. The Latecomers is their recaps and reviews of the shows that have shaped entertainment and culture because when it comes to the good stuff - better late than never.
Episodes
The LatecomersThe Haunting (1963) #12 of 50
Show Notes Free Palestine This week, we have to warn you that once night comes, you will be alone and no one will hear your distress as you watch The Haunting…
The LatecomersBurn, Witch, Burn (Night of the Eagle) (1962) #11 of 50
Show Notes Free Palestine This week extraordinary women do bad things in the name of their mediocre husbands in Burn, Witch, Burn from 1962. A movie with many…
The LatecomersSéance on a Wet Afternoon (1964) #10 of 50
Show Notes Free Palestine This week we wax a bit poetic about Kim Stanley as we discuss the 1964 film Séance on a Wet Afternoon. How far will a woman go to be…
The LatecomersPurple Noon (1960) #9 of 50
Show Notes Free Palestine This week, the French take on Patricia Highsmith in Purple Noon – the first film adaptation of The Talented Mr. Ripley. See one of…
The LatecomersThe Hidden Fortress (1959) #8 of 50
Show Notes Free Palestine We travel to Japan this week with Akira Kurosawa’s The Hidden Fortress. One undercover samurai, one hidden princess and two morons…
The LatecomersHorror of Dracula (1957) #7 of 50
Show Notes Free Palestine An infamous performance by Christopher Lee – only onscreen for seven minutes and with a mere 16 lines – leaves an indelible and…
The LatecomersNight of the Demon (1957) #6 of 50
Episode Notes Free Palestine Turns out you can’t mansplain your way around a demon, as Dana Andrews finds out in 1957’s Night of the Demon (Curse of the Demon…
The LatecomersThe Killing (1956) #5 of 50
Free Palestine We’re here to see a man about a horse in Stanley Kubrick’s racetrack heist film The Killing. Asymmetric storytelling and a world before cell…
The LatecomersBad Day at Black Rock (1955) #4 of 50
Show Notes Free Palestine Spencer Tracy gets off the train and walks into immediate danger in Bad Day at Black Rock from 1955. Looking for his savior’s father…
The LatecomersThe Wages of Fear (1953) #3 of 50
Free Palestine This week, the film Lemuel has been referencing for two years is finally here Wages of Fear from 1953. It couldn’t go on the AFI list because of…
The LatecomersThe Set-Up (1949) #2 of 50
Free Palestine This week, the fix is in, or it would be if only someone told the fighter – it’s 1949’s The Set-Up directed by Robert Wise. In near real-time…
The LatecomersThe Most Dangerous Game (1932) #1 of 50
Notes Free Palestine We are starting off strong (and brief) with the first iteration of The Most Dangerous Game from 1932 – spoiler alert: it’s people, just…
The LatecomersSeason 6.5 - Thrillmakers
Show Notes It's time to make our own list of the thrilling movies that the AFI overlooked. We have films from the US, Hong Kong, Japan, and France - and that's…
The Latecomers#1: Psycho (1960)
Show Notes Free Palestine We’ve reached the top, the pinnacle, the film that the AFI has lionized as the MOST THRILLING FILM of all time – from 1960, Alfred…
The Latecomers#2: Jaws (1975)
Show Notes Free Palestine This week, we watched the first summer blockbuster: Jaws from 1975. Early Spielberg, unfortunate practical effects, and some…
The Latecomers#3: The Exorcist (1973)
Show Notes Free Palestine Lemuel has been dreading this week since the beginning of our countdown and we are finally here - #3 on the list, 1973’s The…
The Latecomers#4: North by Northwest (1959)
Show Notes Free Palestine This week Amity gets frustrated with the self-inflicted trials that Cary Grant goes through in Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest…
The Latecomers#5: Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Show Notes Free Palestine We watched one of our collective favorite movies this week with Jonathan Demme’s Silence of the Lambs. There’s new things to notice…
The Latecomers#6: Alien (1979)
Show Notes Free Palestine Once again, a group of people in space don’t follow a quarantine procedure and all hell breaks loose in Ridley Scott’s Alien. A smart…
The Latecomers#7: The Birds (1963)
Show Notes Free Palestine It’s a trip to the coast this week as we watch Rod Taylor and Tippi Hedrin fight our fine feathered friends in Hitchcock’s classic…
The Latecomers#8: The French Connection (1971)
Show Notes Free Palestine Get ready for some terrible policing this week as we discuss 1971’s The French Connection, directed by William Friedkin and starring…
The Latecomers#9: Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
Show Notes It’s our 300th episode and we’re talk babies – how they’re made, how they’re gestated, and how they’re raised – especially when dad’s the devil with…
The Latecomers#10: Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Show Notes Free Palestine We watched the last adventure movie of the thrills list and the first of an enduring franchise – Raiders of the Lost Ark starring Han…
The Latecomers#11: The Godfather (1972)
Show Notes Free Palestine We stand with SAG-AFTRA It’s our last revisit of the series – we talk about the inclusion of and placement in the AFI thrills list of…
The Latecomers#12: King Kong (1933)
Show Notes Free Palestine We stand with SAG-AFTRA Once upon a time there was a big ape who just wanted to be alone on his island to fight with dinosaurs. But…
The Latecomers#13: Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Show Notes Free Palestine We stand with SAG-AFTRA Modern gangsters Bonnie and Clyde are brought to life (and death) by Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway this week…
The Latecomers#14: Rear Window (1954)
Show Notes We stand with SAG-AFTRA Let’s go a peeping – we watched 1954’s Rear Window directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Jimmy Stewart is redeemed – moving from…
The Latecomers#15: Deliverance (1972)
Show Notes Sadly still applicable: We stand with SAG-AFTRA Content warning: Sexual Assault We revisit our episode on Deliverance from 1972 – a prime example of…
The Latecomers#16: Chinatown (1974)
Show Notes Sadly still applicable: We stand with SAG-AFTRA Content warning: We do speak about the Polanski of it all. We have indicated with time stamps when…
The Latecomers#17: The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Show Notes Sadly still applicable: We stand with the WGA and SAG-AFTRA This week, we get to Lemuel’s favorite (if we go by number of times he has mentioned it…
The Latecomers#18: Vertigo (1958)
Show Notes Sadly still applicable: We stand with the WGA and SAG-AFTRA Hold on to something because we’ve got Vertigo – Alfred Hitchcock’s classic 1958…
The Latecomers#19: The Great Escape (1963)
Show Notes Sadly still applicable: We stand with the WGA and SAG-AFTRA It’s a war movie AND a prison break movie – what’s not to love – we watched The Great…
The Latecomers#20: High Noon (1952)
Show Notes Sadly still applicable: We stand with the WGA and SAG-AFTRA It’s a whole different vibe this week as we move from a film with no heroes to a film…
The Latecomers#21: A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Show Notes Still Applicable: We stand with the WGA and SAG-AFTRA We watched the movie that traumatized Amity when she was absolutely too young to have anything…
The Latecomers#22: Taxi Driver (1978)
Show Notes Still Applicable: We stand with the WGA and SAG-AFTRA We go back in time to revisit Taxi Driver – definitely a more thrilling Scorsese film than…
The Latecomers#23: Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Show Notes Still Applicable: We stand with the WGA and SAG-AFTRA Buckle in, it’s an epic that lives up to its name: the 210 minute Lawrence of Arabia directed…
The Latecomers#24: Double Indemnity (1944)
Show Notes Still Applicable: We stand with the WGA and SAG-AFTRA Up this week is an insurance fraud movie hidden within a murder story – Double Indemnity…
The Latecomers#25: Titanic (1997)
Show Notes First and foremost: We stand with the WGA and SAG-AFTRA This week we watched modern classic, James Cameron’s first most expensive film ever made…
The Latecomers#27: The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Show Notes It’s time for another noir with a prototypical McGuffin – 1941’s Maltese Falcon featuring the crackling dialog of Dashiell Hammett. Bogart…
The Latecomers#28: Star Wars (1977)
Show Notes We tackle a film that has been discussed by every other person on the planet it seems – Star Wars from 1977 (via 1997). We don’t go through the plot…
The Latecomers#29: Fatal Attraction (1987)
Show Notes This week, Lemuel leads our discussion of Fatal Attraction because Amity just can’t. We discuss how at 37 Alex can get so bent out of shape over a…
The Latecomers#29: The Shining (1980)
Show Notes We revisit our episode from early last season to discuss Stanley Kubrick’s horror classic, 1980’s The Shining. We discuss how well it fits into the…
The Latecomers#30: The Deer Hunter (1978)
Show Notes It’s time for us to revisit a dark war film from the 70s – 1978’s The Deer Hunter. How does it fit into the thrills list and does the idea of…
The Latecomers#31: Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Show Notes We watch the other 1977 sci-fi classic, Stephen Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind. How does Roy’s fanaticism work against him and how…
The Latecomers#32: Strangers on a Train (1951)
Show Notes This week we have another Hitchcock classic – 1951’s Strangers on a Train. Amity struggled to find a character to connect to and Lemuel understood…
The Latecomers#33: The Fugitive (1993)
Show Notes It’s a race to the truth with 1993’s third highest grossing film, The Fugitive. Harrison Ford is innocent and Tommy Lee Jones doesn’t care. A…
The Latecomers#34: Night of the Hunter (1955)
Show Notes This week we watched Charles Laughton’s directorial debut as well as his final film as a director, the superb Night of the Hunter from 1955. We…
The Latecomers#35: Jurassic Park (1993)
Show Notes It’s a big week here – we are talking 1993’s sci-fi classic Jurassic Park – where there’s very little Jurassic but that’s okay. We get into the…
The Latecomers#36: Bullitt (1968)
Show Notes This week we watched seminal action film Bullitt from 1968. We go on a brief asbestos tangent and then we talk about the twisty crime thriller…
The Latecomers#37: Casablanca (1942)
Show Notes We watch one of the most famous and lauded films in cinema history – and we like it! This week we discuss another Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains…
The Latecomers#38: Notorious (1946)
Show Notes This week we take a drive with Hitchcock, Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant – all the way from Miami to Rio in 1946’s Notorious. She’s so beautiful and…
The Latecomers#39: Die Hard (1988)
Show Notes This week we take on the most divisive Christmas/heist film of all time – 1988’s Die Hard. Bonnie Bedelia in her 80’s business woman armor, Bruce…
The Latecomers#40: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Show Notes We revisit an episode from pre-pandemic times with 2001: A Space Odyssey – a remarkably prescient film from the twisty mind of Stanley Kubrick. Many…
The Latecomers#41: Dirty Harry (1971)
Show Notes This week we take on one of the icons of cop cinema – Dirty Harry from 1971. The seventies were a harsh time and this movie doesn’t let us forget it…
The Latecomers#42: The Terminator (1984)
Show Notes This week, we go back in time and jump to the future all at once with 1984 James Cameron blockbuster The Terminator. Amity gets hung up on skulls…
The Latecomers#43: The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Show Notes This week we watch the movie that Amity thought was the first color film of all time – 1939’s The Wizard of Oz. We have thoughts on Dorothy’s…
The Latecomers#44: E.T. The Extra Terrestrial (1982)
Show Notes We revisit a childhood classic this week with 1982’s Spielberg kids on bikes OG film, E.T. The Extra Terrestrial. Confused as to who several of the…
The Latecomers#45: Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Show Notes IS IT THRILLING: Amity and Lemuel re-visit the three hour war epic from 1998, Saving Private Ryan. This is a real love-fest for Tom Hanks. And a…
The Latecomers#46: Carrie (1976)
Show Notes IS IT THRILLING: Amity and Lemuel re-visit the first adaptation of Stephen King's work to hit the screen with Brian De Palma's 1976 classic Carrie…
The Latecomers#47: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Show Notes This week we go back to the beginning of a tale so intriguing it has been redone countless times – 1956 sci-fi classic Invasion of the Body…