Season 1

Tuesday, July 11, 2023 160. How to Listen to Dead & Company

An episode about 40 years of fandom and learning to actively listen to music while being of an age that can appreciate the collective experience of De...

Friday, July 7, 2023 159. 'Indiana Jones & The Dial of Destiny'

I went and saw the new Indiana Jones movie at the Drive-In.  

Tuesday, June 27, 2023 158. Film Scores I Have Loved Before

An email from a listener got me thinking about film scores that I actually listen to and love, so this episode shares a handful of classic and contemp...

Tuesday, June 13, 2023 157. 40 Glimpses of Paul Newman in 'The Verdict'

This week's companion episode to my previous episode about Sidney Lumet's 'The Verdict' is for the craft purists, the Newman obsessives, and the actin...

Tuesday, June 6, 2023 156. Paul Newman in Sidney Lumet & David Mamet's 'The Verdict' (1982)

One of my very favorite films and featuring one of Paul Newman's favorite performances, Sidney Lumet's 'The Verdict' has grown in stature and apprecia...

Tuesday, May 2, 2023 153. Warren Zevon's David Letterman Appearances

The 2003 episode that David Letterman devoted entirely to a single guest, Warren Zevon, stands out as one of Dave's signature episodes and the frank a...

Tuesday, April 25, 2023 152. Twenty-Two Glimpses of Jeff Spicoli

Sean Penn's committed, beyond-his-years performance as Jeff Spicoli is one of the great and most-storied American film acting performances, full stop....

Tuesday, April 18, 2023 151. Fast Times At Ridgemont High (1982)

Amy Heckerling and Cameron Crowe's 1982 adaptation of Crowe's book 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High' is a classic that rises above the low-brow teen-sex ...

Tuesday, April 11, 2023 150. Russell Crowe & Al Pacino in Michael Mann's 'The Insider' (1999)

Following his 1995 crime epic 'Heat', Michael Mann was in a position to do most any film he desired to do. So when Disney Studios ponied up north of 9...

Wednesday, April 5, 2023 149. Paul Newman and Tom Cruise in Martin Scorcese and Richard Price's 'The Color of Money' (1986)

After a two-week hiatus...and a hilariously unexpected detour in our attempt to do "The Manchurian Candidate" on this episode, my guest Keir Graff and...

Tuesday, March 7, 2023 147. 'Avatar: The Way of Water' & the 4K 3D Re-release of 'Titanic'

James Cameron has made 3 of the top 4 highest-grossing films of all time, with a collective box office of more than EIGHT BILLION DOLLARS. Recently I ...

Tuesday, February 28, 2023 146. William Hurt, Holly Hunter, and Albert Brooks in James L. Brooks' 'Broadcast News' (1987)

Joined again by Full Cast and Crew spirit-animal Richard Brown for a deep discussion about James L. Brooks' 1987 picture 'Broadcast News', a stealthil...

Subscribe, don't miss the next episode!

×