On this episode of Adjust Your Tracking, Joe and I riff at the open and catch up on recent screenings old and new, finding common ground in a pair of John Carpenter classics, “Halloween” and “The Thing.” We then briefly transition into some talk of “First Man” and realize we’ve neglected director Damien Chazelle on the podcast until now. Keeping in line with recent AYT concerns and talking points, eventually we land on a discussion of theatrical and streaming. That leads us into the back half of the show where discuss two new releases: Gareth Evans insane and brutally entertaining period horror “Apostle” on Netflix starring Dan Stevens from “Legion” and Danish thriller “The Guilty” which is getting a small theatrical release this Friday and expanding from there.
Known for “The Raid” movies, with “Apostle,” director Gareth Evans switches from action-insanity to something more supernatural about a bizarre, dangerous religious cult. Set in 1905, in ‘Apostle,” Thomas Richardson (Stevens) travels to a remote island to rescue his sister after she’s kidnapped by a mysterious religious sect demanding a ransom for her safe return. It soon becomes clear that the cult will regret the day it baited this man, as he digs deeper and deeper into the secrets and lies upon which the commune is built.
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