May 29, 2023
Sci-fi/horror. Bikini lady. Pre-code. A story that has been remade for every generation since the dawn of cinema. Starring Quasimodo and Dracula. Kind of. Don’t pretend that you’re not interested.
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May 22, 2023
Today we celebrate Mike’s birthday with the rebirth of Gozer (you know: the Gozerian?) Yep, we’re watching Ivan Reitman’s all-time action-comedy classic: Ghostbusters. But can we disassociated the powerful weight of nostalgia and truly consider the legitimacy of this film as a valid entry in the...
May 15, 2023
Sophia Loren and Marcelo Mastroinanni heat up the screen again in Ettore Scola’s period piece set on the day in 1938 when Hitler visited Mussolini in Rome. Or at least, that’s what the first 20 minutes or so of the film would lead you to believe.
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May 8, 2023
Michael Cimino’s sprawling anti-western is, quite famously, one of those films that questions the very legitimacy of auteur filmmaking. We’re joined by recurring guest and friend of the podcast Max Rieger to wrestle with this very question. And not all of us agree with one another. Unless we’re talking about...
May 1, 2023
Joe and Steve hit the pavement of San Francisco’s Chinatown and beyond, searching through a tapestry of Asian-American identities for a business partner who has run off with their money… or has he? Wayne Wang’s stripped-bare noir is less of an homage and more of an exploration of what it means to be an immigrant...