Monday Rewind - Mississippi: A Time To Kill vs O Brother Where Art Thou? vs Stone Cold

About this episode

The episode explores Mississippi's cinematic representation through a comparison of three films.

Mississippi - the sweatiest state in all of cinema becomes the star of of USofAMovie. While many may have assumed that blockbuster courtroom dramas or tip-top Cohen Brother's movies would be the obvious choice, you'd be stone cold wrong. Will introduces Ryan and Oli to Brian "Easter Island Head" Bosworth in 1991's 'Stone Cold'. They came for 'Hard Ticket To Hawaii' ridiculousness and stayed for the truly impressive explosions and action. Question is, should we get a pet lizard? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

People in this episode

Host: Oli Pettigrew

Guest: Ryan

Topics covered

• Mississippi
• film analysis
• courtroom drama
• action movies
• Cohen Brothers
• 90s cinema

Keywords

• Mississippi
• Stone Cold
• A Time To Kill
• O Brother Where Art Thou?
• Cohen Brothers
• 90s films
• action
• courtroom drama

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Cohen Brothers

Books & works: A Time To Kill, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Stone Cold

Places: Mississippi

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