Vol 8, Episode 8: Ricochet

It's 2014 and this anthology of black comedy and satirical short films is set loose by Argentine director Damián Szifron. Beloved in its home country, the six tales are, as advertised, wild.

In one of his last films, Robert Redford plays the only character in a survival-at-sea drama with almost no dialogue and a mesmerising performance. The Legend of Crombie‘s Gold examines a series of thematically-linked films - this time, we're looking across the acting career of Robert Redford: What About Bob?

Robert Redford leads an ensemble cast in a hi-tech (for the 90s) heist movie alongside Dan Aykroyd, Mary McDonnell, River Phoenix, Sidney Poitier, David Strathairn and Ben Kingsley. Special mention to the Gary Hershberger, the actor cast as a young Robert Redford, because that's a tough act to follow. The Legend of Crombie‘s Gold examines a series of thematically-linked films - this time, we're looking across the acting career of Robert Redford: What About Bob?

A defining political thriller about the journalists hunting down the Watergate scandal. Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman play off each other magnificently as Woodward and Bernstein. The Legend of Crombie‘s Gold examines a series of thematically-linked films - this time, we're looking across the acting career of Robert Redford: What About Bob?

A spy thriller that drips with 1970s paranoia. Robert Redford is a CIA analyst at the centre of murder and conspiracy, who kidnaps Faye Dunaway, negotiates with Cliff Robertson and evades Max von Sydow (playing just the nicest hired assassin ever). The Legend of Crombie‘s Gold examines a series of thematically-linked films - this time, we're looking across the acting career of Robert Redford: What About Bob?

The gold standard of buddy movies, Paul Newman and Robert Redford light up the screen as two outlaws running from the Wild West to a Bolivian freeze-frame. The Legend of Crombie‘s Gold examines a series of thematically-linked films - this time, we're looking across the acting career of Robert Redford: What About Bob?

We begin with a romantic comedy about two newlyweds with very different personalities, settling down in a New York apartment with a lot of stairs. Genuinely funny and endearing performances from Robert Redford and Jane Fonda, at the beginning of their respective careers. The Legend of Crombie‘s Gold examines a series of thematically-linked films - this time, we're looking across the acting career of Robert Redford: What About Bob?

It's 1979 and Gene Wilder stars as a naïve rabbi bumbling his way across the Wild West. Co-starring Harrison Ford as a friendly cowboy, whose presence on the marketing got a lot bigger following a certain sci-fi movie in a galaxy far, far away.

It's 1991 and Denzel Washington stars as the protagonist of this energetic crime thriller, with an air of infallibility and a pistol secreted in the strangest of places. As is traditional, we also enjoy John Lithgow's performance as the madcap antagonist, for whom no piece of scenery is left unchewed.

A face... a fleet... a war... a man... a podcast. Once again, Sir Christopher Nolan has produced a film of such spectacle and acclaim that it has compelled our hosts - the Scylla of insight and the Charybdis of low humour - to share their thoughts about it.