The Devil's Advocate feat. Carly Severn
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English - January 26, 2023 15:05 - 1 hour - 126 MBFilm Reviews TV & Film film film reviews movies film history 1990s 1990s movies 90s movies pop culture movie reviews pop culture podcast Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Journalist at KQED San Francisco Carly Severn joins us to discuss the 1997 thriller THE DEVIL'S ADVOCATE. It's a film that is equal parts Faustian parable and John Grisham legal kitsch and features a scene-chewing Al Pacino as the titular prince of darkness.
We praise the film's singular cast (including the aforementioned Pacino, Keanu Reeves in 90s accent mode, and an extremely commited Charlize Theron), relate the film's fixations on good and evil to some other stalwart film properties of the decade, and unpack why the late 90s was a period uniquely positioned from a prime reappraisal of America's spiritual condition.
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Our theme song is "Mirror" by Chris Fish.