Highest 2 Lowest

X-Ray Vision

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Society & Culture, Tv & Film

4.5 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Jason and Rosie dive deep into Spike Lee's latest film 'Highest 2 Lowest', exploring its themes, character dynamics, and cinematic techniques. They reflect on their experience at the premiere, analyze the adaptation from Akira Kurosawa's 'High and Low', and delve into the cultural significance of New York City as portrayed in the film.

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:04.0	Warning.
0:05.7	Today's episode contains spoilers for Spike Lee's newest feature film, highest, lowest.
0:12.7	The latest. Hello, my name is Jay Skinsapcion.
0:31.2	And I'm Rosie Knight.
0:32.4	And welcome back to X-ray Vision, the podcast where we dive deep into your favorite shows, movies, comics,
0:37.8	a pop culture company for My Heart Podcast, where we're bringing you three episodes a week.
0:41.7	Plus news on 10.
0:42.5	Noose.
0:43.1	In today's final episode of the popcorn pop-out, we are reviewing the latest from legendary
0:49.0	director Spike Lee and his ode to the iconic director and his friend,
0:57.8	Akira Kurosawa, we attended the premiere.
0:59.4	We will be updating you on that.
1:04.8	Me and Jason were bemused and baffled and delighted because we were definitely,
1:06.7	we were like, how did we get invited here?
1:07.1	It was great.
1:08.4	We had a great time.
1:12.2	Then we're going to review the movie, which, spoiler alert, if you follow us on Letterbox,
1:13.8	do you know we both enjoyed heartily?
1:17.7	And then you had Rosie explains it all UK edition.
1:21.7	Well, now Jason's going to explain it all New York edition and talk about what these movies mean as a New Yorker.
1:23.6	But first, the airlock.
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