#442: Fuzz Busters, Pt. 2 — Rebel Ridge

The Next Picture Show

Telegraph Road Productions

Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Film History

4.6 • 819 Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2024

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Jeremy Saulnier’s REBEL RIDGE puts a distinctly 2020s spin on the one-man army formula established in the era-defining ‘80s action hit FIRST BLOOD, resulting in a film with more nuance, less firepower, and equal amounts of ass-kicking. We parse that equation a bit more in-depth in our spoiler-light discussion of REBEL RIDGE, before bringing back FIRST BLOOD to see how the decades between the two films shape their respective ideas about escalation of force, small-town policing, and genre politics. And for Your Next Picture Show, we offer a quick-hit ranking of Saulnier’s filmography to date. Please share your comments, thoughts, and questions about FIRST BLOOD, REBEL RIDGE, and anything else in the world of film by sending an email or voice memo to [email protected], or leaving a short voicemail at (773) 234-9730. Next Pairing: Azazel Jacobs’ HIS THREE DAUGHTERS and Tamara Jenkins’ THE SAVAGES Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:23.6	Adobe Express, the quick and easy create anything app.
0:31.6	It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.
0:34.6	You believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being?
0:41.8	We may be true with the past, but the past is not through with us.
0:49.6	Welcome back to the next picture show, a movie the week podcast about a classic film
0:54.1	and the way it shaped our thoughts on a recent release.
0:56.6	I'm Scott Tobias here again with...
0:58.5	Genevieve Kosci and Tasha Robinson.
1:00.9	In our last episode, we discussed First Blood, Sylvester Stallone's air-defining 80s action hit.
1:07.2	Now the One Man Army formula has been updated for the 2020s and Jeremy Sonier's new Netflix thriller Rebel Ridge.
1:14.7	After scoring roles in Barry Jenkins the Underground Railroad, an M-night Shyamalan's old,
1:19.9	in which he played a rapper with the amazing name of mid-sized sedan, British actor Aaron Pierre
1:25.3	is poised for a breakthrough as Terry Richmond, the film's
1:29.0	taciturn ass kicker. As Terry is cycling his way through the Louisiana backwater of Shelby
1:35.2	Springs, the local cops pull him over under dubious suspicions and discover $30,000 in cash
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