It’s DIE HARD on the New York subway! This week we welcome back special guest Jason Bailey (who completes his hat trick of appearances) to discuss THE TAKING OF PELHAM123 (2009)!

When a ruthless thief who calls himself Ryder (John Travolta) takes over a New York city subway train and demands a $10 million ransom for the hostages, disgraced MTA official Walter Garber (Denzel Washington) finds himself in the middle of the crisis. Garber must now somehow attempt to negotiate his way through this high stakes situation, which soon becomes even more perilous and political when a suspicious NYPD hostage negotiator (John Turturro) and the slippery Mayor of New York (James Gandolfini) both get personally involved. As the body count rises and tensions increase, Garber finds himself drawn into a strange, almost symbiotic relationship with the unhinged hijacker…and ultimately has to go into the lion’s den to confront him personally.

While the bulk of this episode is focused on the 2009 Tony Scott remake, inevitably the guys talk extensively about the 1974 original (and even the 1998 TV movie version). Things are starting to come full circle now, as a seventies film that influenced the original 1988 Die Hard is then remade for a post 9/11 landscape…with new Die Hard DNA inevitably added to the mix. The chaps talk about the story’s themes (particularly the astute and incisive examination of big city politics), the inherent challenges of remakes, and the excellent, layered acting performances. As always the guys hand out ‘Die Hard Oscars’ and wrap things up with a challenging edition of the ‘Double Jeopardy’ trivia quiz.

TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8TtjRlX_3E

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It’s DIE HARD in D.C! It’s a big one this week as we’re finally discussing the fourth film in the DIE HARD franchise: LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD (aka DIE HARD 4.0)!

After a group of elite hackers led by former government cyber-security expert Thomas Gabriel (Timothy Olyphant) initiate a massive cyber-attack on critical US infrastructure, grizzled NYPD detective John McClane (Bruce Willis) is dragged into the fray when he is asked to facilitate the routine transfer of a skilled young hacker named Matt Farrell (Justin Long), whom the villains now want dead. The mismatched due of McClane and Matt are then forced to work together to escape the hired killers who are after them and resolve the wider crisis, but when Gabriel learns of McClane’s involvement, he seeks to turn tables by targeting McClane’s emotionally estranged daughter Lucy (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) and using her as a pawn in his masterplan…thus forcing McClane to dig deep in order to save both the country and his daughter.

The guys discuss the film’s complicated legacy, its tortured development history, and the inherent challenges of making a fourth film in any series. They each give their thoughts about what works, what doesn’t and whether or not this robust political action-thriller still feels like a DIE HARD film or not. John McClane 4.0 is also put under the microscope, along with the film’s supporting cast, and the work of the director Len Wiseman. As always the show culminates with the Die Hard Oscars and the ever-popular Double Jeopardy Trivia Quiz…but stay tuned for a special announcement at the very end of this episode!

TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOwS1yzIU4k

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It’s Die Hard in a multiverse! This week we’re discussing Tony Scott’s “science-fact” time-travel movie DÉJÀ VU with the help of special guest Scout Tafoya!

After a catastrophic terrorist attack on a ferry in New Orleans leaves hundreds of innocent people dead, local ATF agent Doug Carlin (Denzel Washington) becomes drawn into the massive, multi-jurisdictional investigation into the bombing. During this process, FBI agent Paul Pryzwarra (Val Kilmer) invites Doug to join a cutting-edge, secretive unit who are using state-of-the-art surveillance technology to create a flowing, temporary 360-degree “time window” in an attempt to find the culprit. However, Doug gradually discovers that this so-called “time window” is actually a form of time-travel, which therefore creates the meta-physical possibility that this terrible attack could - at least theoretically - be stopped. When Doug begins to develop feelings of love for Clare Kuchever (Paula Patton), one of the victims of the attack, he becomes yet further determined to test the boundaries of known physics in a concerted effort to stop the attack from happening, save the lives of those affected, and create a new timeline.

Appropriately enough (given the film’s subject matter), the guys discuss their deep love for this wildly underrated modern masterpiece from multiple perspectives: as a riff on other classic pictures from film history, as meta-textual self-examination, and as a profound study of the human condition. They get into it all: the themes, the performances, the visuals (wow) and why this film is so much more than the sum of its (spectacular) parts. As always they guys study the film’s ‘DIE HARD DNA’, hand out awards in the ‘DIE HARD OSCARS’ and wrap things up with a suitably convoluted edition of the ‘DOUBLE JEOPARDY’ trivia quiz. So grab the goggle rig and strap in for a journey of mind, body and soul that stretches the boundaries of known physics…and movie podcasts!

TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxdS8TP37I4

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