Episode 665: Are We Talking about Hamlet or Axel Foley?

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Peter Fenzel and Matthew Wrather continue their occasional series of paging through the program thumbnails on HBO Max and stopping on something that looks interesting. This time, it’s Eddie Murphy in Beverly Hills Cop, which we analyze as a Shakespearean tragi-comedy, which it isn’t not. Like a lot of these older movies we’re watching, it’s pretty interesting how it exceeds expectations: it’s is what you think and a little bit more.

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