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Pierce Brosnan Gives a Gonzo Performance in Mick Garris’ ‘Bag of Bones’ [The Losers’ Club Podcast]
Perhaps it was penance that brought Pierce Brosnan back to Stephen King’s Dominion. After leading 1992’s The Lawnmower Man, an “adaptation” whose producers King sued in a bid to get his name removed, the actor signed onto director Mick Garris’ Bag of Bones, a 2011 A&E miniseries that’s nothing if not faithful to its source material. (That 19 years separate the two projects is surely not a coincidence.)
Brosnan delivers an intriguingly odd performance as Mike Noonan, a character King himself has said is “probably as close as you could get to me,” and Losers Randall Colburn, Mel Kassel, and Dan Pfleegor spend a good chunk of their dissection trying to figure out if it’s so bad it’s good or just, you know, good. Elsewhere, they touch on the scares, the script, and what happens when you excise (most of) the sex from what is easily King’s horniest book.
Stream their review below, but stick around the theater, because next week the Losers are revisiting Frank Darabont’s The Shawshank Redemption. For further adventures, join the Club over long days and pleasant nights via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, RadioPublic, Acast, Google Podcasts, and RSS. You can also unlock hundreds of hours of content in The Barrens (Patreon).
Coming Soon & Now Showing is a monthly series on Halloweenies that catches up on the latest horror headlines and round robins capsule reviews of new and old horrors.
This month, Michael Roffman and Justin Gerber discuss the blockbuster weekend involving Backrooms and Obsession. They also brush on some franchise news and dust off oldies for the first time: 1987’s Dead of Winter and 1977’s False Face.
Stream the episode below. Subscribe via Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, and RSS. New to the Halloweenies? Catch up with the gang by revisiting their essential episodes on past franchises such as Halloween, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, Scream, The Evil Dead, Chucky, Alien, and the Universal Monsters.This year? Hellraiser!
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