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Four Play selects four iconic films from a theme or genre to meticulously analyze and place in their proper historical context. Hosted by veteran esports commentators Richard Lewis, Duncan "Thorin" Shields, and Christopher "MonteCristo" Mykles, Four Play showcases both legendary Hollywood movies as well as hidden gems outside the mainstream. Be sure to watch along with our hosts each week to get the most of each conversation!
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- 36 Years Later, Does This Cold War Classic Hold Up? (The Hunt for Red October) · 1 h 59 min · Episode 118John McTiernan directed Die Hard and Predator, and MonteCristo has now made this show cover three of his films. Richard Lewis, MonteCristo and Thorin close out the recently…
- Here's Why You Can't Outgrow The Muppets (Muppet Treasure Island) · 1 h 36 min · Episode 117Tim Curry said on the record, many times, that his favorite film to work on was not The Rocky Horror Picture Show and it was not Clue. It was Muppet Treasure Island. So in the…
- Is This Dolly Parton Film The WORST We've Ever Reviewed? (9 to 5) · 1 h 33 min · Episode 116Dolly Parton's film debut made $100 million in 1980 and almost nobody has watched it since. Richard Lewis, MonteCristo and Thorin sit down with "9 to 5" as part of the Recently…
- The Best Lovecraft Movie Isn't Based on Lovecraft (In The Mouth of Madness) · 1 h 27 min · Episode 115John Carpenter's "In the Mouth of Madness" is not based on a single H.P. Lovecraft story, and it may still be the best Lovecraft film ever made. Richard Lewis, MonteCristo and…
- Nobody Understands Primer the First Time. That's the Point. · 1 h 31 min · Episode 114Primer cost $7,000. Shane Carruth wrote it, directed it, produced it, starred in it, edited it and scored it, won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize, and then more or less…
- Tom Cruise's Best Performance... But No One Talks About It! (Edge of Tomorrow) · 1 h 19 min · Episode 113Edge of Tomorrow cost $178 million, made $381 million, and stars two of the most famous actors alive. It arrived in 2014 alongside Guardians of the Galaxy, Interstellar and Gone…
- Everyone FORGOT About This Time Travel Movie With Bruce Willis & Brad Pitt (12 Monkeys) · 1 h 37 min · Episode 11212 Monkeys made $170 million in 1995. It stars Bruce Willis and Brad Pitt. Brad Pitt got an Oscar nomination for it. Almost nobody talks about it anymore, and there is no good…
- Back to the Future Is More Weird Than You Think... · 1 h 37 min · Episode 111A beloved family film opens with a main character machine-gunned by Libyan terrorists in a mall car park, and spends its second act on a teenager talking his own mother out of…
- 20 Years Later, The Prestige Is Nolan's Best Film · 1 h 49 min · Episode 110Thorin has been teasing The Prestige on Four Play for over a hundred episodes. It is his favorite film of all time. MonteCristo and Richard Lewis think it is Nolan's best. Twenty…
- Tenet Is the Only Film You Can't Watch Once · 1 h 46 min · Episode 109Richard Lewis turned Tenet off three times. On the fourth attempt he finally made it to the end, and he came out calling it an unfairly maligned film. That is the story of this…
- Nobody Attacking The Odyssey Has Actually Read The Odyssey · 2 h 19 min · Episode 108Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey spent a year being called woke by people who never opened the poem. Then it opened to $264 million worldwide and a 95% on Rotten Tomatoes…
- Inception's Biggest Flaw Reveals Everything About Christopher Nolan · 1 h 38 min · Episode 107Inception is a nearly perfect film. It reinvented the summer blockbuster, proved a two-and-a-half-hour original movie about dream architecture could nearly make a billion…
- Satoshi Kon Predicted the Internet and Nobody Was Ready | PARANOIA AGENT · 1 h 30 min · Episode 106Thorin thinks Paranoia Agent sucks. MonteCristo and Richard think it's an 8 out of 10 and one of the most prescient pieces of media ever made about the internet. This is not a…
- The Most BIZARRE Anime Film That Will BLOW Your Mind · 1 h 41 min · Episode 105Christopher Nolan has never mentioned Paprika. Not once. The dream heist machine, the corridor where people fall through shifting gravity, the entering of dreams to steal…
- The Miyazaki Movie You Haven't Seen Is His Best One · 1 h 25 min · Episode 104Everyone's seen Spirited Away. Everyone's seen Princess Mononoke. Almost nobody has seen the 1984 Miyazaki film that's better than both of them. Richard Lewis, Thorin, and…
- The Matrix Stole Everything and Understood Nothing · 1 h 33 min · Episode 103The Wachowskis walked into a studio with a copy of Ghost in the Shell and said "we want to do that, but for real." Four years later, The Matrix made a billion dollars. Ghost in…
- Why The Internet Is WRONG About Akira · 1 h 37 min · Episode 102There is a sentiment going around that Akira is mid. Richard Lewis, Thorin, and MonteCristo are here to tell you that the internet is wrong, but also that the people who told you…
- Robert Duvall's STANDOUT Performance In A Feel-Good Western | OPEN RANGE · 1 h 37 min · Episode 101Open Range (2003) proves Robert Duvall can carry a western on his back — even when Kevin Costner is standing right next to him.
- Robert Duvall Is the Smartest Person in Every Room | A CIVIL ACTION · 1 h 39 min · Episode 100A Civil Action has the most stacked cast of any movie you've never seen. Robert Duvall, John Travolta, James Gandolfini, Tony Shalhoub, John Lithgow, William H. Macy, and Stephen…
- Is This Robert Duvall's Best Performance? | The Apostle · 1 h 43 min · Episode 99Robert Duvall wrote it, directed it, and delivered his career-best performance in it. The Apostle is a $5 million Southern Gothic character study about a charismatic Pentecostal…
