Full Cast And Crew

Tuesday, January 24, 2023 144. Johnny Depp, Martin Landau, Bill Murray, Sarah Jessica Parker & Patricia Arquette in Tim Burton's 'Ed Wood' (1994)

A favorite on the podcast is 'movies about making movies' and Tim Burton's funny, moving, spot-on 1950's Hollywood cautionary tale/celebration of the ...

Thursday, January 5, 2023 143. Jack Nicholson & Faye Dunaway in Roman Polanski, Robert Towne, and Robert Evans' 'Chinatown' (1974)

'Chinatown' has it all: premium 1960's and 70's counter-cultural bona fides in Jack Nicholson and Robert Towne. The ultimate Robert Evans production,...

Tuesday, December 20, 2022 143. The Full Cast and Crew Weird Christmas Spectacular: 'Black Christmas' (1974), 'An American Christmas Carol' (1979), Xmas eps from 'Alice' (1979) 'The Bob Newhart Show' (1972), Esoteric Christmas songs and MORE

As we wrap up the Full Cast and Crew year, I'm sharing some off-beat Christmas cheer with you all in this, our first-ever Weird Christmas Spectacular....

Tuesday, December 6, 2022 142. Steven Spielberg's 'The Fabelmans', W/Paul Dano, Michelle Williams, Judd Hirsch & Seth Rogen

A heartfelt appreciation about how good and truthful Steven Spielberg's deeply personal, funny, and moving film 'The Fabelmans' is. Go and see this ...

Tuesday, November 22, 2022 141. 'Zodiac' (2007)

Thrilled to finally deep-dive into the making-of David Fincher's brilliant newspaper movie/police procedural/serial killer obsession film 'Zodiac'. To...

Tuesday, November 8, 2022 140. 'Meetup at the Movies': The Grateful Dead in Europe 1972

I originally recorded this episode as a dry-run for a forthcoming and entirely separate-from-FCAC limited-run podcast seriesI'm going to be doing in 2...

Monday, October 31, 2022 139. Jamie Lee Curtis, Michael Myers, and Donald Pleasance in John Carpenter and Deborah Hill's 'Halloween' (1978)

Joined by frequent guest Frazer Rice (links to previous eps below), this week I dive into the fascinating backstory of the making-of John Carpenter's ...

Tuesday, October 25, 2022 138. We Get Letters!

These are our listeners! And this week, after a couple recommendations for the listeners, I'm reading feedback helpful and otherwise. Out of the mouth...

Tuesday, October 18, 2022 137. Christopher Walken, Natalie Wood, and Louise Fletcher in 'Brainstorm'

After my last episode with the wonderful, artfully creepy 'The Dead Zone'...I wanted more. More Walken. More Sci-Fi. More 1983. And then Louise Fle...

Tuesday, October 4, 2022 136. Christopher Walken in David Cronenberg's adaptation of Stephen King's 'The Dead Zone' (1983)

Jason is joined by frequent FCAC contributor Richard Brown as they discuss David Cronenberg's atypical (for Cronenberg) film of Stephen King's novel "...

Tuesday, September 27, 2022 135. 'Star Wars' (1977)

The making of George Lucas' first 'Star Wars' film is an incredible saga unto itself. The global success of 'Star Wars' and how it changed the film bu...

Tuesday, September 20, 2022 134. Helen Mirren & Michael Sheen in Stephen Frears & Peter Morgan's 'The Queen' (2006)

Current events lead me to revisit 'The Queen' (2006), which, in addition to being an actor's movie of the highest caliber, offers a more nuanced appra...

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