Thursday, October 9, 2025
248. 'Drugstore Cowboy' (1989)
Gus Van Sant's 2nd feature, starring Matt Dillon, Kelly Lynch, James Le Gros, Heather Graham, William S. Burroughs, James Remar, and Max Perlich.
Tuesday, September 30, 2025
247. 'Jeremiah Johnson' (1972)
Continuing the Redford Appreciation Episodes with a revisit of Sydney Pollack and Robert Redford's 1972 deceptively revisionist Western, 'Jeremiah Joh...
Wednesday, September 24, 2025
246. Robert Redford & 'All Is Lost' (2013)
JC Chandor's 2nd feature film after 'Margin Call' was 2013's sailing-catastrophe film 'All Is Lost', and it's a unique film in that it has virtually n...
Tuesday, September 16, 2025
245. Robert Redford is Dead at 89
I'm joined by Charles Fleming, LA-based writer, author and returning FCAC guest to talk about todays news of the death of Robert Redford. We discuss R...
Tuesday, September 16, 2025
244. Empathy and Revisiting 'Brother's Keeper' (1992)
Recent events have gotten me thinking about Roger Ebert's quote about movies being empathy machines, bringing us closer to people we might think we ha...
Tuesday, September 9, 2025
243. 'Making Monsters' With KNB FX Founder Howard Berger and co-author Marshall Julius
Howard Berger and Marshall Julius have a brilliant new book out called 'Making Monsters: Inside Stories From The Creators of Hollywood's Most Iconic C...
Wednesday, September 3, 2025
242. 'Videodrome' (1983)
David Cronenberg's 'Videodrome' remains a shockingly prescient vision of the world we're living in now: technology overlords using computerized develo...
Sunday, August 24, 2025
241. Just Kids
I recently learned of the senseless death of a friend from elementary school—someone I hadn’t seen in over forty years. His name was Joe Kane. The...
Tuesday, August 12, 2025
240. 'A Civil Action' (1998)
Here's the next episode in a little courtroom-drama jag I've been on; it's about the second of screenwriter Steven Zaillian's three directorial effort...
Tuesday, August 5, 2025
239. Dead & Company 60th Anniversary Shows, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA
Dead & Company's 60th Anniversary three-show stand is an opportunity to talk about about the living history that the band's music represents, the ongo...
Saturday, August 2, 2025
238. John Grisham's The Rainmaker
In 1996, Francis Ford Coppola needed the money. He was coming off a run of films that included The Godfather Part III, Bram Stoker's Dracula, and Jack...
Tuesday, July 1, 2025
237. '2010 The Year We Make Contact'
Well, it's come to this. Was it curiosity? Was is discovery? A sense of completism? Oxygen deprivation? Whatever it was, I've now watched '2010: The...
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