Podcast Episodes

Runaway Train (1985)

Season 2 Episode 58

Remember Cannon Films?  They were an independent production company started in the '70s run by two Israeli cousins (Yoram Globus, Menahem Globus) who…

3 years, 4 months ago

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Malcolm X (1992)

Season 2 Episode 57

Thirty years ago, director Spike Lee released what at the time was his magnus opus...this highly ambitious biopic of the eponymous iconic civil right…

3 years, 4 months ago

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Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022)

Season 2 Episode 56

Three years ago, most audiences were delighted by the breezy ensemble mystery comedy Knives Out directed by Rian Johnson and starring an impressive c…

3 years, 4 months ago

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Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)

Season 2 Episode 55

Big Jim is back!  I'm referring to James Cameron of course, the Oscar-winning director of Titanic who also gave us such modern classics as Aliens, Th…

3 years, 4 months ago

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Vice Versa (1988)

Season 2 Episode 54

This year's series of holiday-themed movies concludes with a body-switch comedy from 1988 starring Judge Reinhold and Fred Savage as a father and son…

3 years, 4 months ago

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Zero Dark Thirty (2012)

Season 2 Episode 52

Ten years ago, we saw the release of Kathryn Bigelow's follow-up to The Hurt Locker, a film which not only won Best Picture at the Oscars but for whi…

3 years, 4 months ago

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Wall Street (1987)

Season 2 Episode 51

Thirty-five years ago, writer/director Oliver Stone released the follow-up to his searing Vietnam War drama Platoon which came out the previous year …

3 years, 4 months ago

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The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996)

Season 2 Episode 50

The Holiday Movie Season continues.....and strangely enough, this one has quite the pedigree: it's directed by Renny Harlin who gave us the underrate…

3 years, 4 months ago

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Starship Troopers (1997)

Season 2 Episode 49

Twenty-five years ago, this biting satire loosely based upon Robert Heinlein's military science fiction novel of the same name was released - there w…

3 years, 4 months ago

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Elf (2003)

Season 2 Episode 48

Our ongoing parade of holiday movies continues with likely one of the more beloved ones of the 21st Century with this charming tale of Buddy, the ove…

3 years, 5 months ago

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