This week, Alex and James talk about the 1998 film Blade. We look at how the typically compelling Wesley Snipes simply is not here, how the film depicts masculinity, the way Blade is a transitional film between the action blockbuster of the 1980s and the superhero films of the 2000s, and we generally make a lot of jokes about ice skating in an uphill direction.
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