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Bonus Episode: When ‘Taxi Driver’ Got Booed at Cannes and Inspired a Real-Life Vigilante
Episode 74
On this week’s Wrap Party, Zeth digs into Taxi Driver – and what happens when a film about alienation, obsession, and twisted vigilante justice is mi…
9 months ago
Jodie Foster: A Teenage Star-Turn, a Deranged Stalker, and the Attempted Assassination of Ronald Reagan
Episode 74
After being nominated for an Academy Award for her role as a child prostitute in the 1976 film Taxi Driver, Jodi Foster gave up acting to go to colle…
9 months, 1 week ago
Jodie Foster: A Teenage Star-Turn, a Deranged Stalker, and the Attempted Assassination of Ronald Reagan
Episode 74
After being nominated for an Academy Award for her role as a child prostitute in the 1976 film Taxi Driver, Jodi Foster gave up acting to go to colle…
9 months, 1 week ago
Bonus Episode: From the Great Train Robbery to Natural Born Killers, How Movie Culture Is Crime Culture
Episode 73
On this week’s Wrap Party, Zeth is talking about the ways in which crime, criminals, corruption, and redemption always have and always will be at the…
9 months, 1 week ago
Bonus Episode: From the Great Train Robbery to Natural Born Killers, How Movie Culture Is Crime Culture
Episode 73
On this week’s Wrap Party, Zeth is talking about the ways in which crime, criminals, corruption, and redemption always have and always will be at the…
9 months, 1 week ago
Humphrey Bogart: Mob Assassins, Rat Packs, and the Downfall of Murder, Inc.
Episode 73
Murder for hire. Murder for business. Murder for profit. In the 1940s, a crew called Murder, Inc. protected the interests of the Commission, a collec…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Humphrey Bogart: Mob Assassins, Rat Packs, and the Downfall of Murder, Inc.
Episode 73
Murder for hire. Murder for business. Murder for profit. In the 1940s, a crew called Murder, Inc. protected the interests of the Commission, a collec…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Bonus Episode: Gangsters and Movie Stars, Deliver Me from Nowhere, and Days of Heaven
Episode 72
On this week’s Wrap Party, Zeth is talking about Al Capone and Howard Hawks, James Caan and the Colombo crime family, and the mob’s long history in H…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Bonus Episode: Gangsters and Movie Stars, Deliver Me from Nowhere, and Days of Heaven
Episode 72
On this week’s Wrap Party, Zeth is talking about Al Capone and Howard Hawks, James Caan and the Colombo crime family, and the mob’s long history in H…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Lana Turner: The Preeminent Pinup Girl, the King of Los Angeles, and the Death of Johnny Stompanato
Episode 72
As captivating as actress Lana Turner was on screen, her personal life off screen was more dramatic than any movie could hope to be. Her father, turn…
9 months, 3 weeks ago