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Random Acts of Cinema

Dec 26, 2022

To steal (and completely spoil) Mike’s joke from the very end of this episode: we hope that you’re ready to listen to three men discuss 3 Women.  Because we’re joined this week by Patrick O’Riley from the Vintage Video Podcast, who brings us Shelly Duvall and Sissy Spacek in Robert Altman’s...


Dec 19, 2022

John Singleton transforms the nostalgia-laden, American coming-of-age tale, establishing the iconic South Central setting at a crucial moment in American history.  Already a political film, the director anticipates the Los Angeles riots and secures gangsta rap as the hub of early 90s culture.

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Dec 12, 2022

Like the Documentary Now! spoof, we’re really more interested in our protagonist Nanook (Allakariallak) than the admittedly-groundbreaking documentarian Robert J. Flaherty.  And sure, it’s obviously staged.  But our survivalist hero sure knows how to use the hell out of a walrus tusk knife.  It’s...


Dec 5, 2022

Uh oh. It’s a movie based on a play. Can the screen presences of Hollywood legends Sydney Poitier and Ruby Dee possibly transcend this stage-to-screen adaptation that only adds a couple of quick cut-away scenes of a single alternative setting to an otherwise one-room story? Well… yes. Pretty easily, it turns...


Nov 28, 2022

Special guest Max Rieger joins us this week as we dive into the volatile and fascinating world of 1938 Mexico in order to follow the last day in the life of… an alcoholic English misanthrope played by hunky 1980s dreamboat Albert Finney.  Director John Huston’s adaptation of Malcolm Lowry’s so-called...