The Card Counter (2021)

The fourth and final instalment Schrader-thon is here!

Unlike our last episode, where the film was like crawling through broken glass, Schrader's THE CARD COUNTER, made in 2021 is his follow up after the electrifying FIRST REFORMED. We follow gambling drifter Oscar Isaac as he tries to outrun his past as a soldier incarcerated for torturing prisoners of war. It's pretty dark, uncompromising and in perfect Paul Schrader fashion, has a man writing in a diary in it.

If things go as planned, we’ll even get to talk about some of his movies that DON’T have full-frontal…

Currently streaming on HBO Max!