#906: Top 5 Shyamalan Moments / Knock at the Cabin

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🗓️ 3 February 2023

⏱️ 95 minutes

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M. Night Shyamalan is on the short list of big-budget filmmakers who reliably bring original stories to the multiplex, which means that enthusiasm for his new work can be somewhat out of step with his recent track record. But with their Top 5 Shyamalan Moments (01:13), Adam and Josh prove that the director's best work is deserving of close attention. Working with ace collaborators like cinematographers Roger Deakins and Tak Fujimoto, composer James Newton Howard, and actors such as Bruce Willis and Toni Collette, Shyamalan exhibits a gift for patience and craft that - at his best - distinguishes him from his peers. Along with that Top 5, Adam and Josh have an on-air production meeting about next week's Madness '23-inspired show (40:26), shake the dust off for their first Massacre Theatre of the new year (46:21), and share some thoughts on Shyamalan's latest, KNOCK AT THE CABIN (48:59), before returning to the Top 5 (01:07:40). Time codes may not be precise due to dynamically inserted ads. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What kind of a show you guys put not here today?
0:06.4	We're not interested in armed?
0:07.6	No.
0:08.1	Well, look, we're going to do this thing.
0:09.4	We're going to have a conversation.
0:12.9	From Chicago, this is Film Spotting.
0:14.7	I met him, Kempanar.
0:15.9	And I'm Josh Larson.
0:19.4	We were called and are united by a common vision,
0:23.9	which is now becoming command that we cannot ignore.
0:29.9	The four of us are here to prevent the apocalypse.
0:37.6	First, it was a beach that rapidly aged unsuspecting sunbaters.
0:41.9	Now, it's a lakefront cabin that becomes the site of a deadly hostage crisis.
0:46.3	M. Night Shyamalan has fully entered his Rouenine family vacation's period.
0:50.7	My longstanding refusal to do anything that is even camping adjacent,
0:54.3	totally validated.
0:55.8	This week, we've got a review of Shyamalan's latest,
0:58.7	Knock at the Cabin, which goes into wide release this weekend.
1:01.8	That in our top five M. Night Shyamalan moments.
1:04.9	All that and more, I head on Film Spotting.
1:07.3	Welcome to Film Spotting.
1:15.1	Josh, we posted a poll last week asking listeners what they thought of M. Night Shyamalan.
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