Thursday, October 23, 2025
251. 'Back to the Future' (Part 1)
It's the 40th Anniversary of 'Back to the Future' and I read a review of Michael J. Fox's brief new memoir about the making of the film, and about his...
Thursday, October 16, 2025
Tropic Thunder
Like a thunderbolt from another dimension, a dimension where $90 million-dollar comedies with top-tier talent and a first-class, Oscar-winning cinemat...
Tuesday, October 14, 2025
249. Diane Keaton in 'Annie Hall'
Diane Keaton died over the weekend at the age of 79, and it's been fascinating to read her various obituaries and memories of her being shared. Also ...
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...
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