The understated, minimalist 'Flash Gordon' showed admirable restraint in scenery, costuming, and acting. JUST KIDDING, it's a completely over-the-top circus spectacle of indulgence and various aspects of a film crew working on movies with vastly different tones except they're all working on the same movie. But FLASH means a lot to a lot of people, notably middle-aged white men who were 6 in 1980 and who embrace this movie tighter than they clutch their ticket to Autograph Alley at ComicCon to get a signed pic of the guy who played '3rd Hawkman In Attack Scene' for $25. So we try and plumb the depths, such as they are.
262. Paul Newman in 'Nobody's Fool' (1994)
For my final episode of 2025, it's 'Nobody's Fool' one of my favorite films, and
261. Comfort Content For Troubled Times
The news is unrelenting. Shootings in Bondi Beach. Terror in the classrooms at
260. Alfred Hitchcock's 'Psycho' (1960)
From a chance viewing of Saul Bass' iconic 'Psycho' titles on TCM sprung this ex
259. 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest' Part 3
This final episode about Milos Forman's brilliant and deeper-than-expected maste
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