38.5 Mission Implausible

38.5 Mission Implausible

Author: Dylan Davis July 19, 2025 Duration: 1:52:32
What can we say that hasn’t already been said about the last Mission Impossible film? And why can’t we just go through it all again? Just because we love cinema, love Tom Cruise, and every tangent in between. Danny Gaylord joins us from the Film is Lit Podcast as we fawn over and shake our head at this very, very flawed film. You can find the Super 70 Podcast wherever you find podcasts. You can find me, my book, and my blog at www.thatdylandavis.com and @thatdylandavis on threads, Letterboxd, and Blusky. You can find Roziland MacPhail on Soundcloud and Facebook.

Dylan Davis hosts The Super 70 Podcast, a unique audio experience built for film lovers. Each episode is designed as a scene-by-scene commentary track meant to be played in sync with a specific movie, offering deep-dive analysis, behind-the-scenes trivia, and thoughtful observations you might miss on a solo viewing. Of course, you can also just enjoy the conversation on its own during a commute or while doing chores-the insights stand alone. Dylan brings the perspective of a creator himself, having written works like "FLYNN!", "Dating Virginia," "Buffalo Seine," and "Threshold." This background as a writer and a dedicated consumer of culture informs the discussions, which are less about simple review and more about engaging with film as a vital, layered art form. Tune in to this podcast for a guided tour through the details of cinema, where the focus is on understanding the craft and the choices that shape the stories on screen. It’s like having a well-informed friend in the room, pointing out the clever edits, the symbolic set design, or the narrative turns that define a film’s impact. The goal is to enrich your viewing experience and foster a deeper appreciation for the movies, one scene at a time.
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34.5 Godzilla And Trauma [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 56:10
Takeshi Yamazaki shook the American movie market last month when Godzilla Minus One became the highest earning Japanese film in history. The lizard has always been popular but placed against the backdrop of the tragedy o…
34.4 The Holdovers Holiday Special Part Deux [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 24:17
My good friend Dave Anderson went to go see the Holdovers on my recommendation and he listened to my last podcast episode with great envy. Jealous that he could not participate, he texted me, begged me, pleaded with me,…
34.3 The Holdovers Holiday Special [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 44:20
Alexander Payne had not made a single film that I like until I went to see The Holdovers for Tightwad Tuesday. Masked by the period piece setting, the story is more about how broken people find peace than it’s outward im…
34.2 Ridley And Napoleon [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:58:57
My son Luke and I saw Napoleon the day after Thanksgiving and we came back immediately and turned the mikes on to talk about Ridley Scott’s latest epic. We run through the scenes, the history behind the great man (Napole…
34.1 Freakin' Friedkin! [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:49:49
After wrapping up the Sorcerer commentary, Dave and I sat around, consumed mass quantities, and as much as we tried to focus on Hurricane Billy Friedkin and his work, we quickly descended into how we consume cinema, soun…
34 Sorcerer (1977) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:06:02
Hot off the success of the ninth highest grossing movie of all time, William Friedkin abandoned a film about the Bermuda Triangle to focus on a re-interpretation of the George Arnaud novel “The Wages of Fear.” Every poss…
33.2 The Specialist, Hannah Arendt And The Banality Of Evil [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:39:58
I sent my friend Dave Kinnaman Hanna Arendt’s famous book Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Study in the Banality of Evil. Dave became so engrossed in Arendt’s history of the Holocaust and her philosophy of murder that I then sen…
33.1 ANZAC Cinema [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:39:22
A few months ago I asked a friend of mine, Paul Emig to pick a movie, any movie, for the Super 70 Podcast. He chose Peter Jackson’s Braindead and needless to say this was not my cup of tea. But we don’t care about bad ta…
33 Braindead (1987) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:43:08
Peter Jackson had already spent most of his own money developing his third film Braindead when his producer closed a deal to bring in a quarter million dollars to finish the project. Avalon Studios of Wellington, New Zea…
32.1 Film, Literature, And Kinnaman [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 2:05:37
I keep in touch with my friend Dave Kinnaman over Zoom. We talk carpentry, history, and literature. Things got pretty wild when I dove in deep discussing two famous documentaries: Ken Burns’ Vietnam and The Last Days of…