#216 – Upgrade | Directed by Leigh Whannell (with James Willey of Movie Good or Movie Bad?)

Tune in as James Willey (Movie Good or Movie Bad?) joins the podcast for a discussion on Upgrade, the 2018 cyberpunk action thriller about an auto mechanic’s vengeful quest to uncover who murdered his wife and left him paralyzed in the process—a quest that he pursues with the help of a chip implant that can take over a human’s motor functions. The references that this movie may very well be dropping to Tesla and Elon Musk, the dark comedy that this manages to slip into its tale, and the trope of “curing” disabilities in sci-fi and fantasy comprise some of the topics on this episode.

Written and directed by Leigh Whannell, Upgrade stars Logan Marshall-Green, Simon Maiden, Betty Gabriel, Harrison Gilbertson, Benedict Hardie, Melanie Vallejo, Linda Cropper, Richard Cawthorne, Christoper Kirby, Clayton Jacobson, and Kai Bradley.

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