Tuesday, August 5, 2025
239. Dead & Company 60th Anniversary Shows, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA
Dead & Company's 60th Anniversary three-show stand is an opportunity to talk about about the living history that the band's music represents, the ongo...
Saturday, August 2, 2025
238. John Grisham's The Rainmaker
In 1996, Francis Ford Coppola needed the money. He was coming off a run of films that included The Godfather Part III, Bram Stoker's Dracula, and Jack...
Tuesday, July 1, 2025
237. '2010 The Year We Make Contact'
Well, it's come to this. Was it curiosity? Was is discovery? A sense of completism? Oxygen deprivation? Whatever it was, I've now watched '2010: The...
Thursday, June 26, 2025
236. '2001: A Space Odyssey', Part 4
We've come to the end...or is it the beginning? This is part 4 of my series of episodes about the emotional and intellectual contact Stanley Kubrick ...
Tuesday, June 24, 2025
235. '2001: A Space Odyssey', Part 3
In Part 3, I geek out into how incredible and evocative the HAL sequences are in this film; what an amazing sense of character and personality Kubrick...
Thursday, June 19, 2025
234. '2001: A Space Odyssey', Part 2
In part 2 of my four-part series on 2001, I am going through the TMA-1 (Tycho Magnetic Anomaly One) sequence in which Dr. Haywood Floyd of "The Counci...
Monday, June 16, 2025
233. '2001- A Space Odyssey', Part 1
The first of my four-part series on Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey' covers some introductory approach notes and the first sequence in the fi...
Wednesday, June 4, 2025
232. 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre' & 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre II'
I'd never seen Texas Chainsaw Massacre before this episode. I had also never seen Texas Chainsaw Massacre II. Regrets, I have a few. And this apparen...
Friday, May 30, 2025
231. Cannon Fodder: '52 Pickup' (1986)
Cannon Fodder continues! John Frankenheimer finds himself directing for Cannon Films with Roy Scheider starring in Elmore Leonard's own adaptation of ...
Friday, May 23, 2025
230. Cannon Fodder: Charles Bronson in '10 to Midnight' (1983)
In this week's episode it's the debut of 'Cannon Fodder', a recurring series of episodes where I watch a curated selection of films made by schlockmei...
Thursday, May 8, 2025
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Episode 1 Commentary
For the hardest of the hardcore Full Cast and Crew Smiley Heads out there...as promised, here are the Tinker Tailor commentary tracks. Wasn't sure how...
Wednesday, May 7, 2025
229. 'The Big Picture' (1989)
Long before 'Waiting For Guffman', Christopher Guest directed 'The Big Picture', a heartfelt, hilariously incisive movie about making movies. The film...
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