Ep804: Late Screening: BOOGIE NIGHTS - 25th Anniversary Review

Ian and Cole lace up their skates and crank up the hi-fi sound system for this 25th-anniversary review of Boogie Nights!

Mark Wahlberg stars as Eddie Adams, a starry-eyed busboy who gets lured into the glamourous world of adult films by top director Jack Horner (Burt Reynolds) and his colorful cast and crew. Before long, the abnormally well-endowed Eddie adopts the persona "Dirk Diggler" and rockets to fame--which turns out to be a trap lined with drugs, violence, and shady hangers-on.

Paul Thomas Anderson's homage to the decline of 70s porn culture remains unmatched in its balance of candy-coated hedonism and coke-fueled bleakness. Watch as the guys dig into the good, the bad, and the Diggler with tangents on the ethics of sex work; the crazy number of future Marvel characters getting it on in the Valley; and how the writer/director's epic, found-family vision neatly lines up with The Godfather!

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