Mar 28, 2022
We hope that you’re hungry for this week’s episode because we’re watching Juzo Itami’s great cinematic love letter to ramen. Even more than that, this fantastical narrative jumps between a dizzying array of comic vignettes exploring all things food. It’s a feast of good food, bad food, good manners,...
Mar 21, 2022
It goes without saying that this is a big one for us. Akira Kurosawa’s classic tale of peasants-seek-samurai/samurai-get-crew-together/samurai-kill-bandits is both a highly influential titan in 20th-century cinema and perhaps one of the most defining films of the Criterion Collection. But will our episode attain...
Mar 14, 2022
This year, Mike has selected Lawerence Kasdan’s star-studded, rollicking western update as his “gift” for the birthday boy Charlie. Why? That’s still a little unclear, but your hosts are still delighted by this crowd-pleasing action/western. So gear up with your pearl-handled colt, fancy 2-gun rig, derringer,...
Mar 7, 2022
We’ve come stumbling out of the desert to share a pretty big episode this week - well, at least its a big one for your two hosts - as we dive back into the landscapes of Wim Wenders in one of his many great meditations on manhood, families, and America. And Harry Dean Stanton give a largely silent, but...