Monday, March 28, 2022
Oscars Recap 2022
Dissecting the latest attempt at reinventing the Oscars and assessing where, if anywhere, the telecast goes from here.
Thursday, March 24, 2022
115. Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron in George Miller's 'Mad Max: Fury Road' (2015)
Thrilled to be joined this week by Kyle Buchanan, a NY Times writer whose new book 'Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild & True Story of Mad Max: Fury Roa...
Thursday, March 17, 2022
114. Harrison Ford, Sean Young & Ridley Scotts 'Blade Runner' (1982)
Jason and FCAC returning guest Bruce Edwards, a television and film line producer and production manager as well as a filmmaker, collector, and cinema...
Tuesday, March 8, 2022
113. WKRP In Cincinnati (1978)
Joined again by good friend of the pod and pop cultural maven and scholar Richard Brown, this week we dive into all the 70's goodness of iconic sitcom...
Tuesday, February 22, 2022
112. Peter Bogdanovich's 'Targets' (1968)
Jason is thrilled to be joined by crime writer Joseph Schneider, author of two (and soon to be three) LAPD Detective Tully Jarsdel novels (links below...
Tuesday, February 15, 2022
111. Jeremy Strong, Brian Cox in HBO's 'Succession'
Late to the party, as ever! Topics: My weird aversion to watching what's popular. My weird aversion to Adam McKay (con't). A certain HBO series' prod...
Tuesday, February 8, 2022
110. Gomorrah Season 5 (2022)
If you know the pod, you know I am of the opinion that Gomorrah and The Bureau are probably the best TV series ever made. And Gomorrah just concluded...
Tuesday, February 1, 2022
109. The Warriors (1979)
(NOTE: A previous version of this episode erroneously posted and was cut off at the end. This is the revised posting with the full episode) Joined onc...
Tuesday, January 18, 2022
108. I Finally Watched 'The White Lotus'
Mike White's 'The White Lotus' is a product of the pandemic; a quick-turnaround series that went from inception to air in 9 months as HBO scrambled in...
Tuesday, January 11, 2022
107. Don't Look Up (2021)
I admit to having a few deep-seated biases when it comes to writer-directors whose work doesn't speak to me. Two of them have names that rhyme with K...
Tuesday, January 4, 2022
106. Best Film & TV Books of 2021 & Harry Potter Reunion Special
Back from holiday break and bursting into 2022 with a special quick listen all about the best Film & TV books I read in 2021 AND a quick review of the...
Thursday, December 23, 2021
105. 'Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli: The Epic Story of the Making of The Godfather'
Longtime journalist and author Mark Seal has a fantastic new book out that's positively overstuffed with brilliant and hilarious and mind-blowing anec...