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We're closing out 2024 for the Watchcast the only way we know how: with the most depressing movie we can fit into a theme. And this year it's with David Cronenberg's captivating Eastern Promises, featuring Viggo Mortensen like you've never seen him before.
CHAPTERS:
() - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 118: Eastern Promises (2007)
() - Intro.
() - Viggo appreciation right out of the gate.
() - Our last movie of 2024: David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises!
() - On the merits of putting on the accent.
() - A little bit of background on the movie and its accuracy.
() - Launching into the film, and its brutal opening.
() - The baby enters the picture.
() - Our first trip to Semyon's restaurant.
() - Some discussion about Nikolai's true nature, and some of the family dynamics at play.
() - The closest thing this movie has to a funny moment.
() - Break!
() - We're back, and things are developing.
() - There are dens of iniquity, and then there's this place.
() - Semyon comes calling.
() - The pretense of a deal.
() - Tying up loose ends.
() - Anna has had enough, and Nikolai and Kiril hash it out.
() - The set-up.
() - The bathhouse.
() - Nikolai's reveal.
() - A subtler ending than you might expect.
() - The sequel that never came together.
() - Final thoughts.
() - Our theme for January: Jude Law sci-fi!
() - Outro.
