Episode 90: 1993 with Nick de Semlyen
A podcast about the great movie years.
Empire magazine editor Nick de Semlyen’s most recent book, The Last Action Heroes, is a delightful history of ‘80s and ‘90s action cinema, so he joins us to discuss 1993, from the blistering action of “Demolition Man” to the action satire of “Hot Shots! Part Deux” to the pointed inaction of “The Remains of the Day.”
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True Romance is available for digital rental or purchase; it also has a dynamite 4K from Arrow Video. You can hear the Twenty Thousand Hertz episode on Hans Zimmer that Mike mentioned here, and the Song Exploder episode here. And you can hear the “Going for Gold” theme that Nick mentioned here.
The Fugitive is also available for digital rental or purchase, and it also just got a very good 4K. The Remains of the Day is streaming on Amazon Prime Video and guess what it got recently? A really nice 4K.
Hot Shots! Part Deux is streaming on Hulu and available for digital rental or purchase. And Demolition Man is available for digital rental or purchase.
If you’d like to hear our last pass at 1993, with guest Karina Longworth, you can listen to that here. And if you’d like to watch When I Close My Eyes, the documentary Mike mentioned (and, not incidentally, produced), you can do that on PBS’s Independent Lens site.
You can follow Nick on Twitter and Instagram, and you can buy The Last Action Heroes here and Wild and Crazy Guys here. You can follow Jason on Blusky, Instagram, and Letterboxd - where you'll find his lists of all the movies on every episode of the show (including this one). And he just announced the publication date for the James Gandolfini biography we’ve mentioned on the show - you can pre-order it from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Bookshop. You can follow Mike on Instagram, Blusky and Twitter/X/whatever.
Last but not least, if you’d like to make a little donation to support us and the show, you can do that at Ko-fi!