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The Latecomers

Amity Armstrong

Amity and Lemuel have seen a lot of things, but they have missed some major cultural plot points. The Latecomers is their recaps and reviews of the shows that have shaped entertainment and culture because when it comes to the good stuff - better late than never.

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01:10:32

Night of the Demon (1957) #6 of 50

The Latecomers ·

2024/03/28

Episode Notes Free Palestine Turns out you can’t mansplain your way around a demon, as Dana Andrews finds out in 1957’s Night of the Demon (Curse of the Demon if you’re outside of the US – I think?). A skeptic and self-proclaimed paranormal psychologist who walks under ladders just to see what happens f-s around with the wrong cultist and is about to find out. But then a heady combo of meth, hypnotism, and the wisdom of a lovely school teacher allows him to outsmart said cultist with a good dose

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01:09:20

The Killing (1956) #5 of 50

The Latecomers ·

2024/03/21

Free PalestineWe’re here to see a man about a horse in Stanley Kubrick’s racetrack heist film The Killing. Asymmetric storytelling and a world before cell phones lead to a tense will they/won’t they between a group of thieves and the heist they have planned to a T. It’s a tough break when you succeed in a heist and then can’t make it to the end of the day because of a wicked woman. Recommendations: Perfect Days (In Theaters and rentable on most platforms) Next up: Night of the Demon (1957)

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01:11:05

Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) #4 of 50

The Latecomers ·

2024/03/14

Show NotesFree Palestine Spencer Tracy gets off the train and walks into immediate danger in Bad Day at Black Rock from 1955. Looking for his savior’s father, he finds murderous racists instead. Anne Francis is more bloodthirsty than you’ve seen her and, along with Ernest Borgnine and Lee Marvin, is worshipping at the shrine of Robert Ryan. Last we saw him, he was a washed up boxer, this time he’s a callous murderer who is wielding an iron fist over the residence of Black Rock. One day in the

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01:12:41

The Wages of Fear (1953) #3 of 50

The Latecomers ·

2024/03/07

Free Palestine This week, the film Lemuel has been referencing for two years is finally here Wages of Fear from 1953. It couldn’t go on the AFI list because of the A, but for thrills, it’s certainly packed. Four men, including a Mario AND a Luigi, several tons of nitroglycerin, 40s era trucks and 300 miles of unforgiving terrain. What could possibly go wrong? Recommendations: Taskmaster (Youtube) Next up: Bad Day at Black Rock (available on Hulu) Email us at latecomers@gmail.com Find Amity

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00:58:26

The Set-Up (1949) #2 of 50

The Latecomers ·

2024/02/29

Free Palestine This week, the fix is in, or it would be if only someone told the fighter – it’s 1949’s The Set-Up directed by Robert Wise. In near real-time, we watch the rise and fall of over-the-hill boxer Stoker Thompson whose dreams of a big payday are dashed by his managers dreams of a medium payday. But is the real villain a woman? Maybe… Recommendations: True Detective: Night Country (Max), Echo (Disney+) Next up: The Wages of Fear (1953) (available on Max) Email us at

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00:53:29

The Most Dangerous Game (1932) #1 of 50

The Latecomers ·

2024/02/22

Notes Free Palestine We are starting off strong (and brief) with the first iteration of The Most Dangerous Game from 1932 – spoiler alert: it’s people, just like Soylent Green (spoiler #2). Faye Wray and Robert Armstrong stuck around and filmed another film on the King Kong set while postproduction was building a gorilla and some dinosaurs. It’s short and tense and there is no mistaking the villain for a villain. It’s good stuff! If you want to hear our opinions on Book of Clarence – or on

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00:39:24

Season 6.5 - Thrillmakers

The Latecomers ·

2024/02/15

Show Notes It's time to make our own list of the thrilling movies that the AFI overlooked. We have films from the US, Hong Kong, Japan, and France - and that's just the first half. This week, we discuss the beginning of our list - those films that overlap the time period that the AFI covered, the first one hundred years of film from 1900 to 2000. Here we offer a brief introduction to those twenty-five films dating from 1932 to 1997. First up next week: The Most Dangerous Game (1932) - available on

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01:57:35

#1: Psycho (1960)

The Latecomers ·

2024/01/11

Show Notes Free Palestine We’ve reached the top, the pinnacle, the film that the AFI has lionized as the MOST THRILLING FILM of all time – from 1960, Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho. Etched deep in the public consciousness and the cultural zeitgeist, no one over 30 doesn’t know the twist reveal, but watching Gen Z reactions, they still get pulled into the story and are shocked by the places that Hitchcock and Anthony Perkins take us. The filmmaking holds up, the twists and turns hold up and the ride is

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01:14:09

#2: Jaws (1975)

The Latecomers ·

2024/01/04

Show Notes Free Palestine This week, we watched the first summer blockbuster: Jaws from 1975. Early Spielberg, unfortunate practical effects, and some excellent performances all lead to a thrill ride that won silver in the AFI thrills list. A conscientious police chief who loves his family teams up with a rich, egghead thrillseeker and a salty dog out for revenge and hijinks ensue. It’s a remarkably good time for a movie where a dog dies. Recommendations: Leave the World Behind (Netflix); The

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01:03:52

#3: The Exorcist (1973)

The Latecomers ·

2023/12/28

Show Notes Free Palestine Lemuel has been dreading this week since the beginning of our countdown and we are finally here - #3 on the list, 1973’s The Exorcist. And he liked it! Kinda… We discuss the need or lack thereof for old age makeup, who the title is referring to, how Karen’s have existed forever, and what’s the point of the prologue? We have a good time with a bad time this week. Recommendations: The Diplomat (Netflix) Next up: Jaws (1975) Email us at latecomers@gmail.com Find Amity

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01:00:11

#4: North by Northwest (1959)

The Latecomers ·

2023/12/21

Show Notes Free Palestine This week Amity gets frustrated with the self-inflicted trials that Cary Grant goes through in Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest. Never has someone tried so hard to get themselves in trouble and never has someone had so little care for their own life without being actively seeking death. We have an excellent villain and a compelling leading lady and some very cool – and yes thrilling – set pieces. If only our protagonist wasn’t such a dumb dummy. Recommendations: The

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01:16:17

#5: Silence of the Lambs (1991)

The Latecomers ·

2023/12/14

Show Notes Free Palestine We watched one of our collective favorite movies this week with Jonathan Demme’s Silence of the Lambs. There’s new things to notice, even when you’ve seen it a dozen times. Parallels between statues and body positioning? Check. Book titles specific to the moment? Check. Lecter never blinking, except when deliberate? Check. Starling’s conscious covering of her freckles in professional situations? Yup, that too. Listen in to see what else… Recommendations: Godzilla Minus

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01:08:16

#6: Alien (1979)

The Latecomers ·

2023/12/07

Show Notes Free Palestine Once again, a group of people in space don’t follow a quarantine procedure and all hell breaks loose in Ridley Scott’s Alien. A smart woman not listened to – the beginning of so many horror stories. Does the cat live? Does anyone else? Why is there so much imagery that looks like sexual organs? And why is everything wet? Listen up as we talk about this creepy trailblazer. Recommendations: Blue Eyed Samurai (Netflix) The Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros Next up:

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01:10:48

#7: The Birds (1963)

The Latecomers ·

2023/11/30

Show Notes Free Palestine It’s a trip to the coast this week as we watch Rod Taylor and Tippi Hedrin fight our fine feathered friends in Hitchcock’s classic: The Birds. Since there is more character development than actual bird attacks, we get to really care if these people get their eyed pecked out of their skulls. Do the effects still hold up? Kinda. Is this one of the best child performances of all time? Perhaps…. Listen to find out. Recommendations: Wes Anderson shorts on Netflix: The

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01:29:05

#8: The French Connection (1971)

The Latecomers ·

2023/11/23

Show Notes Free Palestine Get ready for some terrible policing this week as we discuss 1971’s The French Connection, directed by William Friedkin and starring a sweaty Gene Hackman whose character definitely smelled like gin in every frame of this film. These cops may not be dirty but they aren’t clean. We visit a time when cops weren’t assigned cases but rather made them up as they went, and when one cop’s hunches end up killing other cops, everyone agrees to keep following those hunches. Join us

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01:29:15

#9: Rosemary’s Baby (1968)

The Latecomers ·

2023/11/16

Show Notes It’s our 300th episode and we’re talk babies – how they’re made, how they’re gestated, and how they’re raised – especially when dad’s the devil with Rosemary’s Baby from 1968. The casual spousal rape, the not so casual demonic rape, Mia Farrow is asked to go through so much in this film and may not get enough credit for any of it. Also, is John Cassavetes a monster? Is Ruth Gordon? And is that Victoria Vetri? Listen to find out. Thank you for sticking around for all this time - or welcome

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01:23:33

#10: Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

The Latecomers ·

2023/11/09

Show Notes Free Palestine We watched the last adventure movie of the thrills list and the first of an enduring franchise – Raiders of the Lost Ark starring Han Solo himself, Harrison Ford, and directed by Stephen Spielberg. A desert shoot in 130 degree temperatures and an epidemic of amoebic dysentery along with just the barest bones of a script still couldn’t stop this movie being made. Camp at its finest and spectacular practical effects that still hold up over 40 years later, the thrills keep

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01:43:30

#11: The Godfather (1972)

The Latecomers ·

2023/11/02

Show Notes Free Palestine We stand with SAG-AFTRA It’s our last revisit of the series – we talk about the inclusion of and placement in the AFI thrills list of The Godfather. Is it thrilling? Listen to see what we think and then listen to one of our very early episodes – can you believe we’ve been doing this for 5 years? Us either. Take a listen as Amity talks about a movie she didn’t see until her late 30s even though everyone else in the world had already seen it. We’ve got thoughts… Next up:

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01:07:01

#12: King Kong (1933)

The Latecomers ·

2023/10/26

Show Notes Free Palestine We stand with SAG-AFTRA Once upon a time there was a big ape who just wanted to be alone on his island to fight with dinosaurs. But people came and built a big wall. It was okay because they gave him delicious women. But one day a new type of people came and their woman was a curious new kind. As he is trying to understand his new friend, the ape is attacked and captured and stolen from his home to be put on display. He gets free only to succumb to death at the hands of

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01:23:42

#13: Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

The Latecomers ·

2023/10/19

Show Notes Free Palestine We stand with SAG-AFTRA Modern gangsters Bonnie and Clyde are brought to life (and death) by Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway this week in the eponymous Bonnie and Clyde from 1967. Not Amity’s favorite – thanks to the French New Wave influence and a dislike for Faye Dunaway generally – we dig into the hows and whys of the making of this film and all of the concessions made to get it to production as well as how that may have detracted from the film

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