Ep 05: Re-injecting The Genre pt 2 - BRICK

The loving deconstruction of genres continues with Rian Johnson's hardboiled high-school booster shot of a debut, "Brick." We discuss how Rian Johnson's entire filmography challenges the preconceptions of whatever genre he chooses to tackle and how he's always artfully subverted those tropes in a new and interesting way. Then we gumshoe our way through "Brick" and find out why it always ranks in the top five or top ten-thousand of And It's Me, Joel's favorite movies.