About this episode

The episode features a discussion about the film Looper, exploring its themes and cast.

On the latest episode of TFTB, our film club hosts time travel way back to 2012 to rewatch Looper. Written and directed by Rian Johnson, Looper brought an all star cast together that included Emily Blunt, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Bruce Willis. The concept was that contract Killers or “Loopers” could travel back in time and carry out hits for organized crime bosses in the future. Find out what our film clubbers had to say about it, and let us know what you think on our socials. Let us k...

People in this episode

Hosts: Sam, Kevin, James, Hannah, Ryan, Tristan

Topics covered

• time travel
• film analysis
• Looper
• Rian Johnson
• science fiction
• movie review

Keywords

• Looper
• time travel
• Rian Johnson
• film club
• movie review
• science fiction
• Emily Blunt
• Joseph Gordon-Levitt
• Bruce Willis

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Looper

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