Only God Forgives & Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning (with Matthew Hayes)

Art-House and Grindhouse join forces for part three of our Vulgar Vibes miniseries. Cinematographer Matthew Hayes joins the podcast this week to chop it up about a pair of ultra-violent meditations on masculinity and free will. First up, it's VOD maverick John Hyams's surrealist fourth entry in the Universal Soldier franchise with "Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning" starring Scott Adkins, Dolph Lundgren and Jean-Claude Van Damme. After that, it's Nicolas Winding Refn and Ryan Gosling's much anticipated but far more divisive follow-up to "Drive" with 2013's "Only God Forgives." Is John Hyams the most underrated action director working today? Why isn't Scott Adkins leading more mainstream action films? Was Refn leaning too hard into his edgelord sensibilities with "Only God Forgives?" Was anything going to be considered a disappointment after the zeitgeist-capturing "Drive?" Did anyone expect the fourth entry in a dying VOD franchise to be a straight up Lynchian body horror nightmare? Find out now on Vulgar Vibes Pt. 3... You can find Matthew's work at matthay.es and follow him on Instagram @matthewhayesiii. ⁠SUBSCRIBE NOW⁠ for early access and exclusive bonus episodes at WWW.PATREON.COM/ROTTENREWIND