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🎬 This week on The Flixters: Thrills, Tape, and Time Travel! 🎙️🍿
Buckle up, cinephiles — The Flixters are back with a jam-packed episode featuring four wildly different films that’ll have you questioning reality, morality, and maybe your taste in vans.
First up: Highest 2 Lowest, Spike Lee’s stylish crime thriller remake of Kurosawa’s High and Low, starring Denzel Washington and A$AP Rocky in a high-stakes ransom drama set in the music biz. 🎧💼 💡 Fun Fact: This marks the fifth collab between Spike Lee and Denzel — their first since Inside Man in 2006!
Then we creep into The Man in the White Van, a retro-flavored thriller based on real-life Florida serial killer cases. Think Halloween vibes with a dash of true crime chills. 🚐🎃 💡 Fun Fact: Sean Astin plays the dad — yep, Samwise Gamgee is now protecting his kids from creepy vans!
Next, we hit play on Tape, a Hong Kong reimagining of Richard Linklater’s intense one-room drama. Secrets, betrayal, and emotional gut punches — all in Cantonese. 🎥💔 💡 Fun Fact: Selena Lee not only stars but co-wrote the screenplay, with Linklater himself as executive producer!
And finally, our Hidden Gem pick: Parallel (2018), a Canadian sci-fi thriller where a mysterious mirror opens portals to alternate realities. Multiverse mayhem meets startup hustle. 🪞🌌 💡 Fun Fact: Director Isaac Ezban made this his English-language debut — and filmed it in Vancouver, even though it’s set in Seattle. Sneaky, eh?
So grab your headphones, pour a drink, and let The Flixters guide you through this cinematic rollercoaster. It’s drama, dread, and dimension-hopping — all in one episode! 🎧✨
On Anniversary Corner we look back at Mo Better Blues (1990).
And if that’s not enough entertainment for you, we’ve even thrown in new trailers to watch and what you can catch on streaming.
Thank you for supporting us and we hope you enjoy the show!
00:00 Intro
03:12 Shoutouts
04:25 Movie News
10:44 New on Streaming
17:11 New Trailers
26:26 Anniversary Corner
30:35 Highest 2 Lowest Review
38:52 The Man in the White Van Review
46:57 Tape Review
53:19 Parallel (Hidden Gem)
58:45 Outro
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