Excited to have the big homey Aaron from the HIT FACTORY podcast join us for John Singleton's Detroit-set crime drama FOUR BROTHERS. We talk about the legendary Singleton's bumpy directorial career, FOUR BROTHERS's dizzying violence, outrageous action and unjustly nonexistent cultural legacy, its historical tendrils back to westerns and blaxploitation, its Marxist fist-fight climax, the effectiveness of immolation as a interrogation technique, the proper pronunciation of Outkast album titles, and if Garrett Hedlund looks like Charlie Hunnam.
We had massive technical and sudden scheduling issues throughout this whole recording and I think considering all that, this came out delightfully fun and incisive about one of the best movies we've covered so far!
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