Why doesn't anyone believe me when I say I loved going to see this movie??
Friday, April 4, 2025
225. Val Kilmer: I'm Your Huckleberry
An episode in memoriam of Val Kilmer, who died this week.
Mentioned in this episode:
'Val', the excellent, moving, insightful, thoughtful documentary compiled from decades of Val Kilmer's home...
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
224. Don Simpson and the Hollywood Culture of Excess
Don Simpson was one-half of one of the most successful production partnerships in Hollywood history. His reality-distortion-field helped bring about films like Flashdance, Top Gun, Beverly Hills Cop, ...
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
223. 'Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy' (1979 BBC Series)
What does it say about your favorite podcast host that he considers the 1979 BBC adaptation of John le Carre's seminal espionage novel 'Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy' to be COMFORT VIEWING??
Noneth...
Monday, March 3, 2025
221. Oscar Recap 2025!
HERE IT IS! Your most-anticipated episode of the year.
Friday, February 28, 2025
220. OSCAR SPECIAL: Ranking The Best Picture Nominees w/ @vhsrevolution
I'm joined by David Schumann of the IG and YouTube accounts @vhsrevolution as we each offer up our Top Five out of the 10 Best Picture Nominees ahead of Sunday night's Academy Awards telecast.
And...
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
219. 'Slap Shot' (1977)
Here's the third of my episodic trilogy about George Roy Hill's films 'Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid', 'The Sting', and, now: 1977's 'Slap Shot'.
Monday, February 10, 2025
217. 'The Sting' (1973)
George Roy Hill's 1973 masterpiece 'The Sting' (released December 1974) grossed in 1974 what would be over 900 million dollars today.
It's a deceptively simple, stealthily subversive and counter-c...
Monday, January 27, 2025
216. 'An American Werewolf In London' (1981)
In Hollywood, the story beats of werewolf movies were codified in 1941 by a German-Jewish emigrant to Hollywood via London named Curt Siodmak, who wrote the seminal film 'The Wolf Man', starring Lon C...
Wednesday, January 15, 2025
215. 'No Country For Old Men' (2007)
Sparse. Laconic. Expansive. Languid. Wry.
The Coen Brother's 2007 Neo-Noir Western 'No Country For Old Men' moves to the fatefully ticking beat of it's own Grandfather Clock.
It's a film that...
Thursday, January 9, 2025
'Liquid Sky' (1983)
'Liquid Sky' was a $500,000 largely experimental film by the Russian expat director Slava Tsukerman that sprung from a group of friends and colleagues surrounding School of Visual Arts acting teacher ...
Wednesday, December 11, 2024
212. 'Casino' (1995)
Our episodic roll of the Scorceseverse dice comes up a winner here with a look at 'Casino', Marty's unofficial "sequel" to 'Goodfellas' and a treatise on the inevitable end of mob controlled Vegas cas...
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