Episode 55: Hacksaw Ridge / Joe Fay

Published: Nov. 10, 2016, 8:06 p.m.

b"On today's episode of Deep Focus, host Tom Breen and fellow WNHH hosts Allan Appel and Lucy Gellman review Hacksaw Ridge, a new World War II movie from director Mel Gibson that stars Andrew Garfield as American Army medic and battlefield conscientious objector Desmond Doss. For the second segment of the show, Breen talks with Lyric Hall film programmer Joe Fay about his time working at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Dallas-Fort Worth and about two movies that have had a strong influence on his own understanding and love of cinema: Tobe Hooper\\u2019s 1974 slasher classic THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, and Joe Dante\\u2019s family-friendly 1989 horror-comedy THE \\u2018BURBS."