94. Napoleon & Arrival

This week, we review Denis Villeneuve's sci-fi head-scratcher Arrival, in which humanity is thrown into a tizzy by the sudden appearance of twelve massive, featureless grey shells with aliens inside them. The film acts as a timely plea for global cooperation, although in light of recent events we spent most of it wishing the shells would spray some kind of deadly virus into our atmosphere and put us all out of our misery.Meanwhile, Danny recalls a time of classier would-be tyrants as he reviews Abel Gance's 1927 silent epic Napoleon. It charts the rise of a charismatic man of the people with an unwavering commitment to the revolution, all his own hair, and normal-sized hands over five and a half hours of pure utopian escapism.We also talk about Al Capone's nicknames, Michael Stipe's resemblance to a serial killer, Shia LaBeouf's rapping ability, and one of cinema's greatest elephant sex scenes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.