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Tuesday, April 9, 2024
183. 'Get Shorty' (1995)
Barry Sonnenfeld and Scott Frank's adaptation of Elmore Leonard's 1990 crime novel 'Get Shorty' was the 2nd film that John Travolta made after returning to top stardom with a bang in Tarantino's 'Pulp...
Thursday, March 21, 2024
182. 'Sunset Boulevard' (1950) with Special Guest Brad Caleb Kane
I'm joined again by multi-hyphenate Brad Caleb Kane for a discussion about Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett's iconic 1950 satirical noir Hollywood cautionary tale 'Sunset Boulevard' and various other...
Thursday, March 14, 2024
181. All of Brad Pitt's Cliff Booth Scenes from 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood'
The second in my growing collection of episodes devoted to 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood'...this time it's an episode celebrating all the brilliant Cliff Booth scenes...scenes representing some of Br...
Monday, March 11, 2024
180. Oscars 2024 Recap
It's my annual Oscar Recap. And Killers of the Flower Moon wuz robbed!
Tuesday, March 5, 2024
179. 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood' (2019)
All of Leonardo DiCaprio's scenes as Rick Dalton in Quentin Tarantino's movie-making love-letter 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood' If you're new to the podcast, there's an episode just for you. ...
Thursday, February 15, 2024
177. The Third Man (1949)
Carol Reed and Graham Greene's iconic post-war neo noir classic 'The Third Man'. A perfect movie. Steven Soderbergh calls it the only movie you need to watch in order to learn how to make a movie. In ...
Friday, February 9, 2024
176. The Long Good Friday
In which my evolving, complicated relationship with the crowd-pleasing John 'Frenzy' MacKenzie's exuberant, vibe-y classic 'The Long Good Friday' is flayed open and nailed to the floor for your audito...
Thursday, January 25, 2024
175. The King Crimson documentary
Director Toby Amies and I discuss his excellent and unexpected documentary 'In the Court of the Crimson King: King Crimson at 50'.
Wednesday, January 17, 2024
174. James Cameron's 'Aliens' and David Fincher's 'Alien 3'
Ridley Scott's brilliant 1979 sci-fi/horror classic 'Alien' burnished his deserved reputation as bold re-interpreter of techno-dystopian futurism and exploder of genres. But it made a lot of money...
Thursday, December 14, 2023
173. 'Withnail & I' (1987)
One of the most quotable and iconic of British films, born out of writer/director Bruce Robinson's personal experiences and shepherded to the big screen by George Harrison and his Handmade Films compa...
Thursday, November 9, 2023
171. 'The Friends of Eddie Coyle' (1973)
Peter Yates was quietly one of the most interesting film directors of his time. His seminal 1967 British train-robbery film 'Robbery' got him noticed for the job directing Steve McQueen in 1968's 'Bul...
Thursday, October 26, 2023
170. Lily Gladstone, Robert DeNiro, and Leonardo DiCaprio in Martin Scorcese's 'Killers of the...
Martin Scorcese's new film 'Killers of the Flower Moon' is in many ways his magnum opus; it's a film carefully wrought with all of his and his production team's highest possible creative efforts, and ...

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