FOLLOWING FILMS

Explaining the Ending of Shutter Island “Which would be worse: to live as a monster, or to die as a good man?” Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island opens like a noir thriller. In 1954, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his new partner Chuck Aule (Mark Ruffalo) arrive at Ashecliffe Hospital, a grim facility for the criminally insane, to investigate the disappearance of a patient named Rachel Solando. But as the storm-battered island closes in, and Teddy's paranoia deepens, the story begins to fracture—what starts as a detective mystery quickly becomes a psychological descent into guilt, identity, and memory. To fully understand the film’s devastating final act, we must unravel its layered narrative and examine what lies beneath the surface. The Reveal: Teddy Daniels Is a Delusion By the film’s climax, everything we’ve seen is turned on its head. The investigation wasn’t real. The marshal wasn’t real. “Teddy Daniels” is an identity invented by Andrew Laeddis , a patien...

In this episode, Dave is joined by Non and Jess from the Joy Sandwich Podcast.  We talk about Oscar winner, The Departed.  To focus the discussion Dave discusses the ideas of honesty and dishonesty, which is not as black and white as you might think.   Britt joins us for Fangirl Fixation to talk about a movie that actually surprises her for once! Ethical Liars Honesty on Facebook Adult lies and Child Behavior Listen! Fangirl Fixation: 0:03:30 Honesty: 0:16:47 The Departed with Joy Sandwich: 0:28:34 Rate and Review on iTunes!

On this episode we take a trip to Boston with David from That Moment In on a mission to uncover some rats. Martin Scorsese's Best Picture winning THE DEPARTED has Matt Damon and Leonardo DiCaprio as a compromised cop and an undercover agent who are looking to reveal the other in a deadly game of cat and mouse. And in THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE we have movie god Robert Mitchum trades criminal contacts like baseball cards in an attempt to save himself, unaware of others playing the same game with his fate. These two cinematic crime classics do battle after new release BLACK MASS attempts to join their ranks.

On the very first episode of the Original Remake podcast we discuss the origins of this show which has something to do with our first double feature selection of INFERNAL AFFAIRS and THE DEPARTED. Ultimately we seek answers to three questions: Does the remake do justice to the original? And if you just watch the remake do you get a good sense of why the original was successful or not successful and thus remade? But most of all which movie to watch, the original or the remake? Along the way we talk about the distinct cultural difference of moving the story from INFERNAL AFFAIRS to Boston, the advantage or disadvantage of having a big star like Jack Nicholson playing the big heavy, and the humorous whirlwind of vulgarity that is Dignam in THE DEPARTED.