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Random Acts of Cinema

Aug 30, 2021

It’s first episode for one of our theme song directors!  And one of your hosts went a little overboard getting up to speed with the works of Rainer Werner Fassbender.  Honestly, a lot of the typical second-half of the twentieth century European auteur themes come up in this film except now we have a decade spanning...


Aug 23, 2021

Boy oh boy, we really crack the nut of red scare allegories this time! Or we don’t.  Hard to say which.  But we have a great time talking about rural Southern California, divorce, imposters, whatever happens to the eponymous bodies, losing family and friends to right wing hysteria, Morticia Addams, and the Twilight...


Aug 16, 2021

The word “game” has two meanings.  So that means that the title of director Ernest B. Schoedsack’s The Most Dangerous Game can also mean…wait…oh no…oh god…run!  RUN!!  Anyway, it seems like we spend about as much time talking about Hard Target (1993) and Surviving the Game (1994) as we do the film in...


Aug 9, 2021

“All around me are familiar faces, worn out places, worn out faces.”

You know what rhymes with “faces”?  “Places”.  Know what rhymes with “places”?  “Faces”.  If you like this kind of clever word play, except with more mother-in-law jokes, then have we got a mad cap flick for you!  Director...


Aug 2, 2021

Why not just jumpstart the sub-genre of body horror by inventing a whole new pseudoscience called psychoplasmic therapy that allows for the fears of divorce, children, and past mental traumas to literally manifest themselves in growths, tumors, little blonde goblin killers, and a mounting body count? And if on top of...