Season 1

Wednesday, May 8, 2024 185. The Women of 'Blade Runner 2049'

The female actors of 'Blade Runner 2049' are a huge part of the brilliance of Denis Villenueve's 2017 sequel to Ridley Scott's 'Blade Runner'. They br...

Friday, April 19, 2024 184. 'Dune 2'

Denis Villenueve's masterpiece 2nd part of his 'Dune' trilogy.  

Tuesday, April 9, 2024 183. 'Get Shorty' (1995)

Barry Sonnenfeld and Scott Frank's adaptation of Elmore Leonard's 1990 crime novel 'Get Shorty' was the 2nd film that John Travolta made after returni...

Thursday, March 21, 2024 182. 'Sunset Boulevard' (1950) with Special Guest Brad Caleb Kane

I'm joined again by multi-hyphenate Brad Caleb Kane for a discussion about Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett's iconic 1950 satirical noir Hollywood ca...

Thursday, March 14, 2024 181. All of Brad Pitt's Cliff Booth Scenes from 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood'

The second in my growing collection of episodes devoted to 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood'...this time it's an episode celebrating all the brilliant C...

Monday, March 11, 2024 180. Oscars 2024 Recap

It's my annual Oscar Recap. And Killers of the Flower Moon wuz robbed!

Tuesday, March 5, 2024 179. 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood' (2019)

All of Leonardo DiCaprio's scenes as Rick Dalton in Quentin Tarantino's movie-making love-letter 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood' If you're new to the ...

Thursday, February 15, 2024 177. The Third Man (1949)

Carol Reed and Graham Greene's iconic post-war neo noir classic 'The Third Man'. A perfect movie. Steven Soderbergh calls it the only movie you need t...

Friday, February 9, 2024 176. The Long Good Friday

In which my evolving, complicated relationship with the crowd-pleasing John 'Frenzy' MacKenzie's exuberant, vibe-y classic 'The Long Good Friday' is f...

Thursday, January 25, 2024 175. The King Crimson documentary

Director Toby Amies and I discuss his excellent and unexpected documentary 'In the Court of the Crimson King: King Crimson at 50'.    

Wednesday, January 17, 2024 174. James Cameron's 'Aliens' and David Fincher's 'Alien 3'

Ridley Scott's brilliant 1979 sci-fi/horror classic 'Alien' burnished his deserved reputation as bold re-interpreter of techno-dystopian futurism and ...

Thursday, December 14, 2023 173. 'Withnail & I' (1987)

One of the most quotable and iconic of British films, born out of writer/director Bruce Robinson's personal experiences and shepherded to the big scre...

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