[PREVIEW] 🎙🧚‍♀️ #074 - Harlem Nights

Eddie Murphy has directed exactly one movie over the course of his career, and given this is Eddie Murphy we're talking about, it's guaranteed to be a mean-spirited, laugh-an-hour period crime comedy-drama, hold the comedy, in which he plays a heartless, homicidal sociopath. Wait- huh?? To be fair and true, we hadn't seen this film before and we definitely missed at least 50% of what happened, given that we got every character's name wrong at least once - sometimes two-dozen - and also given the resounding refrain of "what just happened??" The only thing worse than watching a film for the first time with the commentary on is recording a commentary for a film you're watching for the first time. Don't try this outside of home. Discussed in this episode: Bullet wounds to the forehead that don't bleed = rare. Rita correctly identifying "Biscuit" from Life (1999) and Joe incorrectly identifying him as Arsenio Hall and then having his world upturned when the real Arsenio Hall turns up later and shares the screen with the guy who looks like Biscuit because he really is Biscuit. High on the list of jobs that should be hard to fail at: accurately reading the result of dice rolls. The most popular suit colour - it's not what you'd expect! A betting fake-out ploy that's too complicated and sports-centric for Joe's brain Eddie Murphy's most frequent directing note: "concentrate on the nipples". Totally unnecessary toying, shagging and deceiving characters when you're ultimate objective is to just kill them Banks that have been abandoned for five years but someone's still paying the Energex bill Old-school film credits obsessed with periods Dangerous Intentions and Cruel Liaisons Short schoolgirl skirts (say it 3x fast) [but not if you're in public] Thanks to Mr. Porter for the suggestion! (if you want to sync it up to the film, we hit PLAY @ 2:49)