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Tuesday, May 23, 2023
155. Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, and Phillip Seymour Hoffman in 'Moneyball' (2011)
Bennett Miller was the 3rd director attached to the adaptation of Michael Lewis' classic baseball non-fiction book 'Moneyball', after Steven Soderbergh was replaced by Sony, who got nervous over his p...
Tuesday, May 16, 2023
154. Robert Altman's 'Nashville' (1975)
I'm joined by frequent FCAC Guest Star Richard Brown as we explore the many possible reactions to Robert Altman and Joan Tewksbury's 'Nashville'...a film that polarized pretty much everyone when it ca...
Tuesday, May 2, 2023
152. Warren Zevon's David Letterman Appearances
The 2003 episode that David Letterman devoted entirely to a single guest, Warren Zevon, stands out as one of Dave's signature episodes and the frank and revealing conversation they had about Zevon's t...
Tuesday, April 25, 2023
152. Twenty-Two Glimpses of Jeff Spicoli
Sean Penn's committed, beyond-his-years performance as Jeff Spicoli is one of the great and most-storied American film acting performances, full stop. After last week's episode about 'Fast Times ...
Tuesday, April 18, 2023
151. Fast Times At Ridgemont High (1982)
Amy Heckerling and Cameron Crowe's 1982 adaptation of Crowe's book 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High' is a classic that rises above the low-brow teen-sex comedy that Universal executives probably expected...
Tuesday, April 11, 2023
150. Russell Crowe & Al Pacino in Michael Mann's 'The Insider' (1999)
Following his 1995 crime epic 'Heat', Michael Mann was in a position to do most any film he desired to do. So when Disney Studios ponied up north of 90 million dollars to help him bring a thorny, word...
Wednesday, April 5, 2023
149. Paul Newman and Tom Cruise in Martin Scorcese and Richard Price's 'The Color of Money' (1986)
After a two-week hiatus...and a hilariously unexpected detour in our attempt to do "The Manchurian Candidate" on this episode, my guest Keir Graff and I pivoted to 'The Color of Money' and I'm so glad...
Tuesday, March 14, 2023
148. 'Bobby Darin: Beyond The Song' (1998)
In the late 90s three 28-year-olds with zero documentary filmmaking experience re-ignited a college dorm room pipe dream about making a documentary about the life and career of singer/songwriter/actor...
Tuesday, February 28, 2023
146. William Hurt, Holly Hunter, and Albert Brooks in James L. Brooks' 'Broadcast News' (1987)
Joined again by Full Cast and Crew spirit-animal Richard Brown for a deep discussion about James L. Brooks' 1987 picture ...
Tuesday, February 14, 2023
145. Grab Bag: Oscar Noms, Andrea Riseborough Controversy, Armie Hammer, Quentin Tarantino and More!
Hey, where you been? I guess it's me, not you...where have I been? Sitting through Avatar! THREE HOURS AND TWELVE ...
Tuesday, January 24, 2023
144. Johnny Depp, Martin Landau, Bill Murray, Sarah Jessica Parker & Patricia Arquette in Tim...
A favorite on the podcast is 'movies about making movies' and Tim Burton's funny, moving, spot-on 1950's Hollywood cautionary ...
Thursday, January 5, 2023
143. Jack Nicholson & Faye Dunaway in Roman Polanski, Robert Towne, and Robert Evans'...
'Chinatown' has it all: premium 1960's and 70's counter-cultural bona fides in Jack Nicholson and Robert Towne. The ultimate ...

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