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Ep 162 The Score
With the fifth entry of the Parker series, The Score, Richard Stark aka Donald E. Westlake puts his career criminal anti-hero in charge of his most ambitious heist yet: the 12-man robbery of a North …
Published on 9 hours ago
Ep 161 I Killed Bette Davis by Larry Cohen
If you're a fan of Larry Cohen, the maverick filmmaker behind such mind-bending genre pictures as It's Alive, God Told Me To, Q: The Winged Serpent and The Stuff, you owe it to yourself to check out …
Published on 2 weeks ago
EP 160 Visitors from Lanulos
“I went to a different planet where the spacemen drink coffee and don't cheat on their wives.” Cryptozoologist Christopher Funderburg and parapsychologist Martin Kessler meet in an undisclosed locati…
Published on 4 weeks ago
FiVE FROM THE FiRE / Episode 11: Becky D'Anna and Jon Laubinger
What if every single print of every single film by 5 esteemed filmmakers were housed in a burning warehouse and there was only time to save 5 of them? This is the hypothetical hot seat into which gue…
Published on 1 month, 1 week ago
Ep 159 Gremlins Rip-Offs
For this year's Halloween theme, the Pink Smoke sets its sights on the mid-80's to early 90's trend of "mischievous little monsters" horror movies modeled after a certain masterpiece by a certain Joe…
Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Ep 158 Crow Killer / "Liver-Eating" Johnson / Jeremiah Johnson
We journey out to Montana Territory in the latter half of the 19th century to break biscuits with John "Liver-Eating" Johnson, subject of the books Crow Killer by Raymond W. Thorp and Robert Bunker a…
Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Ep 157 Arthur and Arthur 2: On the Rocks
We watched Arthur. A New York love story. Pure lightning in a bottle. The little movie that went on to become the #4 biggest hit of 1981. And we watched Arthur 2: On the Rocks. A critical punching ba…
Published on 2 months, 1 week ago
Ep 156 The Mourner
We continue our series on the Parker books by Donald E. Westlake, published under the nom de guerre Richard Stark, which follow the various criminal activities of hard-boiled heister Parker and the s…
Published on 3 months ago
Ep 155 Dogfight
Ever since Dogfight was released in 1991 to middling reviews and invisible box office, it's slowly developed a following among viewers who appreciate Nancy Savoca's empathetic story of two young peop…
Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago
1974: Fifty Years Later / Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Last year, the Pink Smoke Podcast created a series called 1974: 50 Years Later, each episode featuring a different guest who chose a 1974 movie to talk about, ranging from giant blockbusters to minor…
Published on 4 months, 1 week ago