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Will Menaker from Chapo Trap House joins Team Kino this week to explore Josh Trank's Capone: a film where Tom Hardy waddles around in a diaper chomping a carrot and squawking like Danny DeVito's Penguin. It's an odyssey of fake friends, shitting your pants while being interviewed by the FBI, and yes, we get into the Armond White review.
ReComradations:
Will: State of Siege, dir. Costa-Gavras (1971) and Z, dir. Costa-Gavras (1969)
Abdul: Rebels of the Neon God, dir. Tsai Ming-liang (1992)
Evan: Abt dropped by Audi over imposter controversy | Sam Smith, The Race
Laura: The Raid, dir. Gareth Evans (2011)