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Bonus Episode: The Screening Room – Blue Collar
Episode 5
This week in the Screening Room we’re talking about factory lines, automobiles, unions, blackmail, Dizzy Gillespie for President, and the 1978 film ‘…
2 months, 1 week ago
Bonus Episode: Blaze on, ‘Blazing Saddles’
Episode 5
We’re gonna need a sh*tload of dimes cuz Zeth is talking about the 1974 film ‘Blazing Saddles,’ why it endures 52 years later, and its recent appeara…
2 months, 1 week ago
Richard Pryor: Stabbing, Shooting, F***ing, Burning, and Freebasing
Episode 5
Richard Pryor was one of the funniest people who ever lived. He elevated stand-up comedy to an art form. But the real life that informed his stand-up…
2 months, 1 week ago
Bonus Episode: The Screening Room – Licorice Pizza
Episode 27
This week we’re talking waterbeds, pinball machines, hot dog stands, full desert sleds out on the eighth hole by the sand trap, and Paul Thomas Ander…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Bonus Episode: The Blacklist and Other Unprecedented Moments in Hollywood
Episode 27
On this week’s Wrap Party, Zeth is talking about the Hollywood Blacklist, the Hollywood Ten, Dalton Trumbo, and Lucille Ball. Later, inspired by the …
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Lucille Ball: Gun Wounds, Refugees, and the Redhead Who Survived the Red Scare
Episode 27
Lucille Ball might have been a natural boundary-pusher, but America's top TV comedienne had some ‘splaining to do when a damning news broadcast unvei…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Bonus Episode: The Screening Room – The Unbelievable Truth
Episode 76
This week we’re talking gossip and rumors, priests and mechanics, the end of the world, and Hal Hartley’s 1989 film ‘The Unbelievable Truth.’ Plus we…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Bonus Episode: Will Cliff Booth Make Movie History?
Episode 76
On this week’s Wrap Party, spurred on by Netflix’s recent announcement, Zeth is talking about the upcoming epic confluence of crime film directors Qu…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Adrienne Shelly: Celluloid Dreams, Suicide Coverups, and a Recipe for Murder
Episode 76
Adrienne Shelly was an actress, writer, and director whose star was rising when her lifeless body was found in a New York apartment. While the polic…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Bonus Episode: The Screening Room – The Getaway
Episode 19
This week we’re talking Texas penitentiaries, double crosses, slow-motion violence, Ali MacGraw, and Bloody Sam as we dig into Sam Peckinpah’s 1972 f…
2 months, 4 weeks ago