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Movie Meltdown - Episode 159

This week we return to the coffee shop to discuss this week\u2019s Sofa Theater feature, director Rian Johnson's original take on the detective genre\u2026 Brick.\xa0

And along the way we mention\u2026 a mad scientist with the wall of sound, Peanuts, the Japanese guy on Gilligan\u2019s Island that didn\u2019t know the war was over, Lynchian, 10 Things I Hate about You, it sticks to it\u2019s business, meeting John Carpenter and Adrienne Barbeau in the 80\u2019s, \xa0she\u2019s the person who doesn\u2019t get in wrecks\u2026 but she causes them, Blue Velvet, wearing uncool loafers, River\u2019s Edge, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, cleaning up for the strippers, speaking Mandarin, and petitioning to get Jess Weixler a plaque.\xa0

Spoiler Alert: Go watch Brick before listening to this episode.\xa0

\u201cYou\u2019re in THEIR world. They are in their own little world and everybody within that understands it\u2026 and you\u2019re kind of playing catch up as you are thrown into it\u2026\u201d\xa0