This week’s Drive-In Double Feature is all about subterfuge and hiding your allegiances. We’re going deep undercover into the criminal underworlds of Hong Kong masterpiece Infernal Affairs and its most famous remake, Martin Scorsese’s opus The Departed.

Whether the characters are using Morse code or T9 texting to conceal their communications, both films use the high-stakes, cat-and-mouse suspense of undercover police work to explore the cultural impacts of massively pivotal times in their respective modern histories. Join us on our deep dive into how the fears, resentments, and uncertainties of these major events wove themselves into compelling narratives that have stood the test of time as two of the greatest crime thrillers ever made.

MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD! We're unraveling the mysteries and digging into the deaths in both films. To get the most out of our deep dive, we highly recommend watching Infernal Affairs and The Departed before hitting play!

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• (00:00:00) - Hong Kong in 'Infernal Affairs'
• (00:00:19) - Drive In
• (00:00:46) - Drive & Dive In: Infernal Affairs & The Departed
• (00:01:28) - The Departed vs Infernal Affairs: Who Can You Trust?
• (00:05:47) - The Departed: China Ending
• (00:10:55) - Infernal Affairs vs The Purge
• (00:14:08) - The Departed: A Young Man's Perspective
• (00:19:02) - Infernal Affairs: The Duality of Hong Kong
• (00:21:58) - The Departed vs Infernal Affairs: How They Compare
• (00:26:07) - Martin Scorsese: The Departed vs Infernal Affairs
• (00:32:21) - What If She Likes A Guy And Then Has Sex With Him
• (00:33:21) - Are There Any Other Female Characters In The Film?
• (00:36:00) - Infernal Affairs (Hong Kong)
• (00:37:48) - Infernal Affairs 2: The Departed's Success
• (00:42:33) - The Departed Ending Explained
• (00:45:59) - The Departed vs The Departed
• (00:48:56) - The Departed and Leonardo DiCaprio
• (00:53:15) - The Departed vs. Infernal Affairs
• (00:56:51) - Infernal Affairs: Christian vs Buddhist Story
• (00:59:23) - In the Elevator With Billy From Both
• (01:01:01) - The Departed vs Infernal Affairs: A Critical Comparison
• (01:05:21) - Netflix's 'Writing for the Environment'
• (01:11:45) - Diving Into International Cinema

Lock your doors and turn off the television, this week’s Double Feature is calling from inside the house. We're traveling back to 1996 to dissect two brilliant, self-aware horror films that completely deconstructed the genre: Wes Craven’s GOATed slasher Scream and Alejandro Amenábar’s Spanish thriller Thesis (Tesis).

While Scream used pop-culture, cell phones, and a set of slasher "rules" to comment on the horror landscape, Thesis took a darker look at the morbid curiosity of media through a film student uncovering a snuff ring at her university. We break down how both films challenge our relationship with onscreen violence, the anatomy of a perfect opening sequence, and why 1996 changed the face of suspense forever.

MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD! We're exposing the killers and detailing every single twist in both scripts. To get the most out of our deep dive, we highly recommend watching Scream and Thesis before hitting play!

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• (00:00:00) - Episode Clip
• (00:00:41) - Intro
• (00:01:27) - Scream vs Thesis
• (00:02:39) - Before Reading This Podcast, Please Watch The Movies
• (00:03:44) - Scream (1996)
• (00:05:28) - Ghostface
• (00:10:40) - Thesis
• (00:20:11) - Scream Is One of My All-Time Favorite Movies
• (00:22:22) - Scream vs Thesis
• (00:31:23) - Randy in Scream
• (00:36:53) - How The Cell Phone Changed Horror Movies
• (00:41:04) - Spoilers in Movie Trailers
• (00:47:05) - Snuff Films: Gritty Fiction
• (00:52:04) - Drew Barrymore: America's Sweetheart
• (00:57:36) - Scream and Thesis: Through the Lens
• (01:00:44) - Infinity Mirror of Meta Commentary
• (01:03:33) - The Phone Voice in Scream
• (01:09:29) - Whereas Thesis: Avoiding Violence
• (01:10:12) - The News in 'Thesis'
• (01:10:37) - How Much Do Scream and Thesis Compare?
• (01:13:17) - Problematic Male Characters in Slashers
• (01:16:27) - The Stab Explained
• (01:22:37) - Thesis: More Vicious?
• (01:26:47) - Media Inspired by Thesis
• (01:31:05) - The Scream Franchise Thoughts
• (01:33:46) - Outro

Load your pistol, draw your sword, and sit back for this legendary showdown. This week we dive into the DNA of the cynical, wandering anti-hero, comparing Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo (1961) and A Fistful of Dollars (1964).

How did a story about a wandering samurai transform into a dusty Western shootout? Join us as we explore the iconic performances of Toshiro Mifune and Clint Eastwood, the ethics of the "Man with No Name" archetype, artistic interpretation in the era of artificial intelligence, and the infamous copyright lawsuit.

MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD!
We don't pull any punches, and we cover every single twist, standoff, and beat of both films. We highly recommend watching Yojimbo and A Fistful of Dollars before hitting play on this episode.

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• (00:00:00) - Vineland: The Art of Being Vicious
• (00:00:43) - The Drive In
• (00:01:07) - Yojimbo vs Fistful of Dollars
• (00:09:45) - The Dark Half of Hannibal
• (00:10:59) - Fistful of Dollars vs Yojimbo
• (00:16:45) - Fooled: The Making of Fistful of Dollars vs Y
• (00:22:54) - "No Crane Shot"
• (00:23:13) - No Court Case for Fistful of Dollars
• (00:24:00) - Yojimbo and Red Harvest
• (00:28:32) - Clint Eastwood on To A Fistful of Dollars Being Inspired
• (00:34:01) - Fool's Dollars: Leon's Take on Yojimbo
• (00:35:36) - Fistful 2: The Shootout
• (00:38:29) - Fooled: The Art of Cinematic Shooting
• (00:42:02) - Sam Raimi On The Filmmaking Process
• (00:45:45) - Raimi vs. David Lynch: Imagination breeds
• (00:50:39) - Man with No Name vs. Fistful
• (00:54:34) - Kuro on The Cabin in the Woods
• (00:59:42) - Film Critic on The Extremism
• (01:04:54) - Artists' Concerns About AI
• (01:09:54) - Virtually Everything Is In the Dark
• (01:16:23) - Adam Levine on the Sampling Wars
• (01:20:44) - The Beastie Boys' 'In the Elevator'
• (01:21:28) - On Whether Ice Nine Kills Should Be Due Money
• (01:22:42) - AI and the right to copyright
• (01:27:31) - Yojimbo vs The Old Western
• (01:33:43) - Read Red Harvest
• (01:34:53) - Driving In: Thesis and Scream