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Gomorrah (Italian: Gomorra - La serie) is an Italian crime drama television series created by Roberto Saviano for Sky Atlantic. Based on Saviano's book of the same name,[1] the show premiered on Sky Atlantic in Italy on 6 May 2014, and has run for four seasons. The title of the show is a play on the name of the Neapolitan crime syndicate, Camorra. The 2008 film of the same name is loosely based on the same book, but unrelated to the TV series.[2]. The fifth season will be the last.[3] The show, largely filmed in the Scampia neighbourhood of Naples,[4] tells the story of Ciro Di Marzio (Marco D'Amore), a member of the Savastano clan, headed by Pietro Savastano (Fortunato Cerlino), a high-ranking member. Ciro aims to navigate the dangers of the criminal world, while also fighting a brutal civil war.[5] The Savastano family also consists of his wife Immacolata (Maria Pia Calzone) and son, Gennaro (Salvatore Esposito). The show also features rival crime boss Salvatore Conte (Marco Palvetti), while introducing the characters Annalisa Magliocca (Cristina Donadio), Patrizia Santore (Cristiana Dell'Anna), Giuseppe Avitabile (Gianfranco Gallo) and Enzo "Sangueblù" Villa (Arturo Muselli) in the show's later seasons. The series has gained critical acclaim for its characterization, pacing, atmosphere, acting, directing, and writing.[6][7] It has also become a ratings hit for Sky, regularly featuring as one of the network's most-watched cable shows.[8][9] The series has been sold in 190 countries worldwide.[10][11] It premiered in the United Kingdom on Sky Atlantic on 4 August 2014, and in the United States on SundanceTV on 24 August 2016.[6] The spin-off film The Immortal, which is both a prequel and a sequel to the events after the series' third season, was released on December 5, 2019.[12][13]

The Bureau (original title: Le Bureau des Légendes) is a French political thriller television series created by Éric Rochant and produced by TOP - The Oligarchs Productions and Canal+, which revolves around the lives of agents of the DGSE (General Directorate of External Security), France's principal external security service. Originally aired in France from 27 April 2015, it was launched in the United States and Canada on iTunes on 1 June 2016 as part of a new international "Episodic Cinema" label, quickly reaching the Top Five.[1][2] In the United Kingdom, the series was released exclusively by Amazon Prime on 17 June 2016.[3][4] The first season received positive reviews in both France and other countries, and won several awards. The second season has been universally acclaimed, and has even been seen by some as the best television ever produced in France.[5] The third and fourth seasons, respectively aired in France beginning 22 May 2017[6] and 22 October 2018,[7] have met with further acclaim, with praise for the show's acting, pacing, plot and realism.[8]

It's been a long time coming, and finally, its time to devote an entire episode to singing the praises of 'Columbo'! In this Very Special Episode of the pod, Jason is once again joined by TV historian and pop-cultural eminence grise Richard Brown as they discuss the classic Columbo episode 'Try and Catch Me', starring Ruth Gordon and work their way through 20 Questions About Columbo as submitted by Full Cast and Crew SuperListeners Cindy and Mike.

Jason is joined by stand-up comedian, actor, and podcaster Sean Donnelly for a deep-dive into M. Night Shayamalan's 'Signs', which Sean and Jason agree is a film that now feels like an old-fashioned Hollywood movie of the sort we just don't get anymore. Jason and Sean also talk about Sean's new UFO podcast, his appearances on Letterman, Conan, and Colbert, the state of stand-up comedy in the midst of a 4 month stage blackout mid-pandemic, the roles Sean gets typecast with when he auditions, and so much more! Sean's website is here. M. Night's Wiki page is here. Signs wiki is here.

Get Carter is a 1971 British crime film directed by Mike Hodges and starring Michael Caine, Ian Hendry,[3] Britt Ekland, John Osborne and Bryan Mosley. The screenplay was adapted by Hodges from Ted Lewis's 1970 novel Jack's Return Home. Producer Michael Klinger optioned the book and made a deal for the ailing Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) studio to finance and release the film, bringing in Hodges and Caine. Caine became a co-producer of the film. Get Carter was Hodges's first feature film as director, as well as being the screen debut of Alun Armstrong. MGM was reducing its European operations and the film became the last project approved before it closed its Borehamwood studios. The film is set in north-east England and was filmed in and around Newcastle upon Tyne, Gateshead and County Durham. The story follows a London gangster, the eponymous Jack Carter (Caine), who travels back to his home town to discover more about his brother Frank's supposedly accidental death. Suspecting foul play, and with vengeance on his mind, he investigates and interrogates, regaining a feel for the city and its hardened-criminal element. [4] Caine and Hodges had ambitions to produce a more gritty and realistic portrayal of violence and criminal behaviour than had previously been seen in a British film. Caine incorporated his knowledge of real criminal acquaintances into his characterisation of Carter. Hodges and cinematographer Wolfgang Suschitzky drew heavily on their backgrounds in documentary film. Combined with Hodges' research into the contemporary criminal underworld of Newcastle (in particular the one-armed bandit murder) and the use of hundreds of local bystanders as extras, produced a naturalistic feel in many scenes. The shoot was incident-free and progressed speedily, despite a one-day strike by the Association of Cinematograph, Television and Allied Technicians. The production went from novel to finished film in eight months, with location shooting lasting 40 days. Get Carter suffered in its promotion, firstly from MGM's problems and secondly owing to the declining British film industry of the period, which relied increasingly on US investment. Initial UK critical reaction to the film was mixed, with British reviewers grudgingly appreciative of the film's technical excellence but dismayed by the complex plot, violence and amorality, in particular Carter's apparent lack of remorse at his actions.[1] Despite this the film did good business in the UK and produced a respectable profit. US critics were generally more enthusiastic and praised the film but it was poorly promoted in the US by United Artists and languished on the drive in circuit while MGM focused its resources on producing a blaxploitation version of the same novel, Hit Man. On its release Get Carter received no awards and did not seem likely to be well remembered. It was not available on home media until 1993 but always maintained a cult following. Endorsements from a new generation of directors such as Quentin Tarantino and Guy Ritchie led to a critical reappraisal which saw it recognized as one of the best British movies.[5] In 1999, Get Carter was ranked 16th on the BFI Top 100 British films of the 20th century; five years later, a survey of British film critics in Total Film magazine chose it as the greatest British film.[6] Get Carter was remade in 2000 by Warner Bros. under the same title, with Sylvester Stallone starring as Jack Carter, with Caine in a supporting role. This remake was not well received by critics in the US and was not given a UK theatrical release.

On Her Majesty's Secret Service is a 1969 spy film and the sixth in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions. It is based on the 1963 novel by Ian Fleming. Following Sean Connery's decision to retire from the role after You Only Live Twice, Eon Productions selected an unknown actor and model, George Lazenby, to play the part of James Bond. During the making of the film, Lazenby announced that he would play the role of Bond only once. In the film, Bond faces Blofeld (Telly Savalas), who is planning to hold the world ransom by the threat of sterilising the world's food supply through a group of brainwashed "angels of death". Along the way Bond meets, falls in love with, and eventually marries Contessa Teresa di Vicenzo (Diana Rigg). It is the only Bond film to have been directed by Peter R. Hunt, who had served as a film editor and second unit director on previous films in the series. Hunt, along with producers Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, decided to produce a more realistic film that would follow the novel closely. It was shot in Switzerland, England, and Portugal from October 1968 to May 1969. Although its cinema release was not as lucrative as its predecessor You Only Live Twice, On Her Majesty's Secret Service was still one of the top performing films of the year.[2] Critical reviews upon release were mixed, but the film's reputation has improved greatly over time and is now regarded as one of the strongest entries in the series. PODCAST NOTES Link to Frazer's graphic novel 'Stay Alive'. Link to Frazer's personal website. Watch 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service' Buy the James Bond comics here. Watch the Hulu George Lazenby documentary here. Watch a classic 1982 episode of 'This Week In Baseball' here.

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan is a 1982 American science fiction film directed by Nicholas Meyer and based on the television series Star Trek. It is the second film in the Star Trek film series, and is a sequel to Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979). The plot features Admiral James T. Kirk (William Shatner) and the crew of the starship USS Enterprise facing off against the genetically engineered tyrant Khan Noonien Singh (Ricardo Montalbán), a character who first appeared in the 1967 Star Trek episode "Space Seed". When Khan escapes from a 15-year exile to exact revenge on Kirk, the crew of the Enterprise must stop him from acquiring a powerful terraforming device named Genesis. The film is the beginning of a story arc that continues with the film Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984) and concludes with the film Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986). After the lackluster critical response to the first film, series creator Gene Roddenberry was forced out of the sequel's production. Executive producer Harve Bennett wrote the film's original outline, which Jack B. Sowards developed into a full script. Meyer completed its final script in twelve days, without accepting a writing credit. Meyer's approach evoked the swashbuckling atmosphere of the original series, a theme reinforced by James Horner's musical score. Leonard Nimoy had not intended to have a role in the sequel, but was enticed back on the promise that his character would be given a dramatic death scene. Negative test audience reaction to Spock's death led to significant revisions of the ending over Meyer's objections. The production team used various cost-cutting techniques to keep within budget, including utilizing miniature models from past projects and reusing sets, effects footage, and costumes from the first film. Among the film's technical achievements is being the first feature film to contain a sequence created entirely with computer graphics. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan was released in North America on June 4, 1982, by Paramount Pictures. It was a box office success, earning US$97 million (equivalent to about $257M in 2019) worldwide and setting a world record for its first-day box office gross. Critical reaction to the film was positive; reviewers highlighted Khan's character, the film's pacing, and the character interactions as strong elements. Negative reactions focused on weak special effects and some of the acting. The Wrath of Khan is considered by many to be the best film in the Star Trek series, and is often credited with renewing substantial interest in the franchise.

Fargo is a 1996 black comedy thriller film written, produced and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. Frances McDormand stars as Marge Gunderson, a pregnant Minnesota police chief investigating roadside homicides that ensue after a desperate car salesman (William H. Macy) hires two criminals (Steve Buscemi and Peter Stormare) to kidnap his wife in order to extort a hefty ransom from his wealthy father-in-law (Harve Presnell). The film was an international co-production between the United States and United Kingdom. Fargo premiered at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival, where Joel Coen won the festival's Prix de la mise en scène (Best Director Award) and the film was nominated for the Palme d'Or. A critical and commercial success, Fargo received seven Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture. McDormand received the Academy Award for Best Actress and the Coens won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. The film was selected in 2006 for preservation in the National Film Registry of the United States by the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"—one of only six films so designated in its first year of eligibility.[4] In 1998, the American Film Institute named it one of the 100 greatest American films in history. A Coen-produced FX television series of the same name, inspired by Fargo and taking place in the same fictional universe, premiered in 2014 and received critical acclaim.[5]

Jason's guests this week on the pod are Micheal Chernus and Emily Simoness, a married couple who join him to take a very deep dive into all the wonderful, like, greatness, man, of 'The Big Lebowski'. Michael's a Julliard-trained stage, TV, and film actor currently appearing on TV as speechwriter Ken Rosey opposite Edie Falco on the CBS series 'Tommy'. You might have also seen him as Piper's brother Cal Chapman on 'Orange Is The New Black' or playing Congressman Edward Tavner in Amazon's 'Patriot'. Michael's movie roles include portraying The Tinkerer, the original McGyver, in Marvel's Spider-Man: Homecoming; playing Tom Hanks' first mate Shane Murphy in the excellent Paul Greengrass film 'Captain Phillips'; and appearing opposite Will Smith in 2012's 'Men In Black 3". The other half of this power-couple, Emily, is the founder and executive Director of SPACE on Ryder Farm, a non-profit artistic residency program and organic farm located on the grounds of a 225-year-old family homestead in Putnam County, New York. But outside their professional accomplishments, they're just wonderful midwestern good people, whose self-effacing humor and innate smarts you'll hear on display in the podcast as we discuss the Coen Brother's 'The Big Lebowski'. ABOUT THE MOVIE: The Big Lebowski (/ləˈbaʊski/) is a 1998 crime comedy film written, produced, and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. It stars Jeff Bridges as Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski, a Los Angeles slacker and avid bowler. He is assaulted as a result of mistaken identity, after which The Dude learns that a millionaire (also named Jeffrey Lebowski) was the intended victim. The millionaire Lebowski's trophy wife is kidnapped, and he commissions The Dude to deliver the ransom to secure her release; the plan goes awry when the Dude's friend Walter Sobchak (John Goodman) schemes to keep the ransom money. Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi, David Huddleston, John Turturro and Philip Seymour Hoffman also appear, in supporting roles. The film is loosely inspired by the work of Raymond Chandler. Joel Coen stated, "We wanted to do a Chandler kind of story – how it moves episodically, and deals with the characters trying to unravel a mystery, as well as having a hopelessly complex plot that's ultimately unimportant."[4] The original score was composed by Carter Burwell, a longtime collaborator of the Coen brothers. The Big Lebowski was a disappointment at the U.S. box office and received mixed reviews at the time of its release. Over time, reviews have become largely positive, and the film has become a cult favorite,[5] noted for its eccentric characters, comedic dream sequences, idiosyncratic dialogue, and eclectic soundtrack.[6] In 2014, the film was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress, being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[7][8] A spin-off based on John Turturro's character, titled The Jesus Rolls, was released in 2019 with Turturro also acting as writer and director. Cast Jeff Bridges as Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski. Bridges had heard or was told by the Coen brothers that they had written a screenplay for him. John Goodman as Walter Sobchak; a Vietnam veteran and bowling partner and friend of "The Dude." Walter was based, in part, on screenwriter and director John Milius. Julianne Moore as Maude Lebowski; Jeffrey "The Big" Lebowski's daughter, a feminist and an avant-garde artist. Steve Buscemi as Theodore Donald "Donny" Kerabatsos; a bowling partner and friend of "The Dude." Walter's repeated response, "Shut the fuck up, Donny!" is a reference to Fargo, in which Buscemi's character was constantly talking and interrupting conversations when he is not paying attention to the story. David Huddleston as Jeffrey "The Big" Lebowski; a millionaire philanthropist for whom "The Dude" is mistaken. Philip Seymour Hoffman as Brandt; Jeffrey "The Big" Lebowski's executive assistant Tara Reid as Bunny Lebowski; Jeffrey "The Big" Lebowski's blonde 20s-something trophy wife and former porn video performer ("Log Jammin'") for Jackie Treehorn Productions. According to Reid, Charlize Theron also tried out for the role. Philip Moon as Woo; a Jackie Treehorn thug Mark Pellegrino as the Blond Treehorn thug Peter Stormare, Torsten Voges, and Flea as Uli Kunkel/Karl Hungus, Franz, and Kieffer, the German nihilists; Uli originated on the set of Fargo between Ethan Coen and Stormare, who often spoke in a mock German accent. Jimmie Dale Gilmore as Smokey; a hippie bowler in the league whom Walter threatens at gunpoint over an attempt to mark his frame an eight despite letting his foot move over the alley line Jack Kehler as Marty; The Dude's landlord, who is also a performance artist John Turturro as Jesus Quintana. The Coen brothers let Turturro come up with a lot of his own ideas for the character, like towel-shining the bowling ball and the scene where he dances backward from his bowling alley line, which he says was inspired by

The Princess Bride is a 1987 American fantasy adventure comedy film directed and co-produced by Rob Reiner, starring Cary Elwes, Robin Wright, Mandy Patinkin, Chris Sarandon, Wallace Shawn, André the Giant, and Christopher Guest. Adapted by William Goldman from his 1973 novel The Princess Bride, it tells the story of a farmhand named Westley, accompanied by companions befriended along the way, who must rescue his true love Princess Buttercup from the odious Prince Humperdinck. The film essentially preserves the novel's narrative style by presenting the story as a book being read by a grandfather (Peter Falk) to his sick grandson (Fred Savage).

Rosemary's Baby is a 1968 American horror film written and directed by Roman Polanski, based on the novel Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin. The cast features Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Sidney Blackmer, Maurice Evans, Ralph Bellamy, Angela Dorian, Clay Tanner, and, in his feature film debut, Charles Grodin. The film chronicles the story of a pregnant woman who suspects that an evil cult wants to take her baby for use in their rituals. Rosemary's Baby deals with themes related to paranoia, women's liberation, Christianity (Catholicism), and the occult.[3] The film earned almost universal acclaim from film critics and won numerous nominations and awards. In 2014, the film was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress, being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." Script In Rosemary's Baby: A Retrospective, a featurette on the DVD release of the film, screenwriter/director Roman Polanski, Paramount Pictures executive Robert Evans, and production designer Richard Sylbert reminisce at length about the production. Evans recalled William Castle brought him the galley proofs of the book and asked him to purchase the film rights even before Random House published the book. The studio head recognized the commercial potential of the project and agreed with the stipulation that Castle, who had a reputation for low-budget horror films, could produce but not direct the film adaptation. He makes a cameo appearance as the man at the phone booth waiting for Mia Farrow to finish her call. Evans admired Polanski's European films and hoped he could convince him to make his American debut with Rosemary's Baby. He knew the director was a ski buff who was anxious to make a film with the sport as its basis, so he sent him the script for Downhill Racer along with the galleys for Rosemary. Polanski read the latter book non-stop through the night and called Evans the following morning to tell him he thought Rosemary was the more interesting project, and would like the opportunity to write as well as direct it. The script was modeled very closely on the original novel and incorporated large sections of the novel's dialogue and details. Nearly every line of dialogue was taken from the novel's text. Author Ira Levin claimed that during a scene in which Guy mentions wanting to buy a particular shirt advertised in The New Yorker, Polanski was unable to find the specific issue with the shirt advertised and phoned Levin for help. Levin, who had assumed while writing that any given issue of The New Yorker would contain an ad for men's shirts, admitted that he had made it up. Cast Mia Farrow as Rosemary Woodhouse John Cassavetes as Guy Woodhouse Ruth Gordon as Minnie Castevet Sidney Blackmer as Roman Castevet/Steven Marcato Maurice Evans as Hutch Ralph Bellamy as Dr. Abraham Sapirstein Charles Grodin as Dr. Hill Patsy Kelly as Laura-Louise Angela Dorian as Terry Gionoffrio Elisha Cook as Mr. Nicklas Emmaline Henry as Elise Dunstan Hanna Landy as Grace Cardiff Philip Leeds as Dr. Shand Hope Summers as Mrs. Gilmore D'Urville Martin as Diego Marianne Gordon as Rosemary's Girlfriend Wendy Wagner as Rosemary's Girlfriend Fritzi Jane Courtney as woman at party Academy Awards Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress (Ruth Gordon, winner) Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay (nominee) Golden Globe Awards Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture (Gordon, winner) Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama (Farrow, nominee) Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay (nominee) Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score (nominee) Other awards BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role (Mia Farrow, nominee) Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures (nominee) Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written American Drama (nominee) David di Donatello Award for Best Foreign Actress (Mia Farrow, winner) David di Donatello Award for Best Foreign Director (winner) Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay (nominee) French Syndicate of Cinema Critics Award for Best Foreign Film (winner) Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor (Sidney Blackmer, winner) Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress (Gordon, winner)

Network is a 1976 American satirical drama film written by Paddy Chayefsky and directed by Sidney Lumet, about a fictional television network, UBS, and its struggle with poor ratings. The film stars Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch and Robert Duvall and features Wesley Addy, Ned Beatty and Beatrice Straight. The film won four Academy Awards, in the categories of Best Actor (Finch), Best Actress (Dunaway), Best Supporting Actress (Straight) and Best Original Screenplay (Chayefsky). In 2000, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". In 2002, it was inducted into the Producers Guild of America Hall of Fame as a film that has "set an enduring standard for American entertainment".[3] In 2005, the two Writers Guilds of America voted Chayefsky's script one of the 10 greatest screenplays in the history of cinema.[4][a] In 2007, the film was 64th among the 100 greatest American films as chosen by the American Film Institute, a ranking slightly higher than the one AFI had given it ten years earlier. Faye Dunaway as Diana Christensen William Holden as Max Schumacher Peter Finch as Howard Beale Robert Duvall as Frank Hackett Wesley Addy as Nelson Chaney Ned Beatty as Arthur Jensen Beatrice Straight as Louise Schumacher Jordan Charney as Harry Hunter William Prince as Edward Ruddy Lane Smith as Robert McDonough Marlene Warfield as Laureen Hobbs Conchata Ferrell as Barbara Schlesinger Carolyn Krigbaum as Max's secretary Arthur Burghardt as the Great Ahmet Khan Cindy Grover as Caroline Schumacher Darryl Hickman as Bill Herron Lee Richardson as the Narrator (voice) Lance Henriksen as Network lawyer (uncredited) Network came only two years after the first on-screen suicide in television history, of television news reporter Christine Chubbuck in Sarasota, Florida.[6][dead link] The anchorwoman was suffering from depression and loneliness, was often emotionally distant from her co-workers, and shot herself on camera as stunned viewers watched on July 15, 1974. Chayefsky used the idea of a live death as his film's focal point, saying later in an interview, "Television will do anything for a rating ... anything!" However, Dave Itzkoff's book Mad as Hell: The Making of Network and the Fateful Vision of the Angriest Man in Movies disputes that Chayefsky was inspired by the Chubbock case, asserting that Chayefsky actually began writing Network months before Chubbuck's death and already planned for Howard Beale to vow to kill himself on air, and that Chubbuck's suicide was simply an eerie parallel.[7] Sidney Lumet also confirmed that the character of Howard Beale was never based on any real life person.[8] Still, the Chubbuck case is mentioned in Chayefsky's screenplay.[citation needed] Before beginning his screenplay, Chayefsky visited network TV offices. Sitting in on meetings at CBS and NBC, he noted "the politics, the power struggles, the obsession with ratings."[9] He was also surprised to learn that television executives did not watch much television. "The programs they put on 'had to' be bad," he said, "had to be something they wouldn't watch. Imagine having to work like that all your life."[10] According to Dave Itzkoff, what Cheyefsky saw while writing the screenplay during the midst of Watergate and the Vietnam war was all the anger of America being broadcast in everything from sitcoms to news reports. He concluded that Americans "don't want jolly, happy family type shows like Eye Witness News" ... "the American people are angry and want angry shows."[11] When he began writing his script he had intended on a comedy, but instead poured his frustration at the broadcasts being shown on television, which he described as "an indestructible and terrifying giant that is stronger than the government" — into the screenplay. It became a "dark satire about an unstable news anchor and a broadcasting company and a viewing public all too happy to follow him over the brink of sanity."[11] The character of network executive Diana Christiansen was based on NBC daytime television programming executive Lin Bolen,[12] which Bolen disputed.[13] Chayefsky and producer Howard Gottfried had just come off a lawsuit against United Artists, challenging the studio's right to lease their previous film, The Hospital, to ABC in a package with a less successful film. Despite this recent lawsuit, Chayefsky and Gottfried signed a deal with UA to finance Network, until UA found the subject matter too controversial and backed out. Undeterred, Chayefsky and Gottfried shopped the script around to other studios, and eventually found an interested party in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Soon afterward, United Artists reversed itself and looked to co-finance the film with MGM, since the latter had an ongoing distribution arrangement with UA in North America. Since MGM agreed to let UA back on board, the former (through United Arti

The Bad News Bears is a 1976 American sports comedy film directed by Michael Ritchie and written by Bill Lancaster. It stars Walter Matthau and Tatum O'Neal. The film was followed by two sequels, The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training in 1977 and The Bad News Bears Go to Japan in 1978, a short-lived 1979–80 CBS television series, and a 2005 remake. Notable was the score by Jerry Fielding, which is an adaptation of the principal themes of Bizet's opera Carmen. PODCAST NOTES: Bernie Kaminski is my guest (00:02), Bernie's amazing paper mache pop-cultural artwork (follow @berniekaminski for more) (2:00), Jason and Bernie's contrasting Little League experiences (7:00), Happy Days vs Media All Stars celebrity softball game excerpt (9:00), Matthau's incredible and heartbreaking dugout argument scene with Tatum O'Neal (10:30), Alternative casting: Warren Beatty and Steve McQueen (11:00), Walter Matthau 'quitting' scene (13:00), Matthau in 'The Taking of Pelham 123' (13:30), Bill Lancaster, screenwriter of 'Bad News Bears' and 'The Thing' (14:00), introduction of Kelly Leak scene 'Thanks, Mister' (17:00), Matthau's scene in the dugout where he's taking it too seriously (19:00), kids temperment as reflected in their jerky sideline parents at sporting events (22:00), Bernie's surprisingly impressive and underrated Little League career, including his score book from 1976 (24:00), Olgivie's baseball patch jacket in The Bad News Bears (27:30), 'Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore' scene with Alfred Lutter as Tommy (28:00), 'Breaking Away' with Jackie Earle Haley (34:30), Jackie Earle Haley in 'Little Children' (37:30), William Devane in 'The Bad News Bears: Breaking Training' and the uselessness of the sequels (39:00), great scene between Buttermaker and Ahmad Abdul Rahim in the tree after the loss to the Yankees (42:30), Beer can collecting in 1970s childhood (46:30), Bernie's Latch-Key TV selections.

Dirty Dancing is a 1987 American romantic drama dance film written by Eleanor Bergstein, produced by Linda Gottlieb, and directed by Emile Ardolino. It stars Jennifer Grey as Frances "Baby" Houseman, a young woman who falls in love with dance instructor Johnny Castle (Patrick Swayze) at a holiday resort. The film was based on screenwriter Eleanor Bergstein's own childhood. She originally wrote a screenplay for the Michael Douglas film It's My Turn, but ultimately ended up conceiving a story for a film which became Dirty Dancing. She finished the script in 1985, but management changes at MGM put the film in development hell. The production company was changed to Vestron Pictures with Emile Ardolino as director and Linda Gottlieb as producer. Filming took place in Lake Lure, North Carolina, and Mountain Lake, Virginia, with the film's score composed by John Morris and dance choreography by Kenny Ortega. Dirty Dancing premiered at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival on May 12, 1987, and was released on August 21, 1987, in the United States, earning over $214 million worldwide.[2] It was the first film to sell more than a million copies for home video,[2] and its soundtrack created by Jimmy Ienner generating two multi-platinum albums and multiple singles, including "(I've Had) The Time of My Life", which won both the Golden Globe and Academy Award for Best Original Song, and a Grammy Award for best duet.[3] The film's popularity led to a 2004 prequel, Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights, and a stage version which has had sellout performances in Australia, Europe, and North America. A made-for-TV remake was also released in 2017.[4]

Phantasm is a 1979 American science fantasy horror film directed, written, photographed, and edited by Don Coscarelli. The first film in the Phantasm franchise, it introduces the Tall Man (Angus Scrimm), a supernatural and malevolent undertaker who turns the dead of Earth into dwarf zombies to be sent to his planet and used as slaves. He is opposed by a young boy, Mike (Michael Baldwin), who tries to convince his older brother Jody (Bill Thornbury) and family friend Reggie (Reggie Bannister) of the threat. Phantasm was a locally financed independent film; the cast and crew were mostly amateurs and aspiring professionals. Though initial reviews were mixed in regards to the dreamlike, surreal narrative and imagery, later reception was more positive and the film became a cult classic. It has appeared on several critics' lists of best horror films, and it has been cited as an influence on later horror series. It was followed by four sequels: Phantasm II (1988), Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead (1994), Phantasm IV: Oblivion (1998) and Phantasm: Ravager (2016).

The Outsiders is a 1983 American coming-of-age drama film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, an adaptation of the 1967 novel of the same name by S. E. Hinton. The film was released on March 25, 1983. Jo Ellen Misakian, a librarian at Lone Star Elementary School in Fresno, California, and her students were responsible for inspiring Coppola to make the film.[2] The film is noted for its cast of up-and-coming stars, including C. Thomas Howell (who garnered a Young Artist Award), Rob Lowe, Emilio Estevez, Matt Dillon, Tom Cruise, Patrick Swayze, Ralph Macchio, and Diane Lane. The film helped spark the Brat Pack genre of the 1980s. Both Lane and Dillon went on to appear in Coppola's related film Rumble Fish; Dillon and Estevez also starred in Tex (1982). Emilio Estevez went on to write and star in That Was Then... This Is Now (1985), the only S. E. Hinton film adaptation not to star Matt Dillon. The film received mostly positive reviews from critics, most notably the performances, particularly Macchio being singled out for praise, and performed well at the box office, grossing $33.7 million on a $10.0 million budget. PODCAST NOTES Peter O'Connor joins Jason to talk about his favorite movie, 'The Outsiders' (0:01), 'The Outsiders' emotional pitch and tone and Coppola's intentions setting out in capturing a certain tenor of emotional height in the movie (3:00), Matt Dillon as Dally intro scene (3:00), C. Thomas Howell as Ponyboy intro scene (4:23), Tom Cruise and whether or not he nailed the accent in the movie (5:00), the infamous audition process for the film (6:00), Drive-In scene with C. Thomas Howell, Ralph Macchio, Matt Dillon, Diane Lane and Michelle Meyrink (6:30), Michelle Meyrink as Jordan in hilarious bathroom clip from 'Real Genius' with Gabriel Jarrett (8:00), Cast members age during filming (9:00), Tom Cruise in 'Risky Business', 'All The Right Moves' and 'The Outsiders' all in 1983 (9:30), Peter O'Connor's acting and career discussion of on-set behavioral norms changing over time, including the infamous Christian Bale caught-on-audio outburst on the 'Terminator' set (10:00), Auditioning for 'The Outsiders' including audio from some other actors' auditions (10:30), Rob Lowe on the audition process (12:00), Coppola's Zoetrope Studios 'One From The Heart' trailer with Teri Garr, Frederick Forrest, Tom Waits, Nastassia Kinski and Raul Julia (15:00), Peter emotionally defends 'Godfather 3' (16:30), the amazing story of how an elementary-school teacher caused S.E. Hinton's 'The Outsiders' to get made as a movie (18:30), Coppola's filming of the entire 'Outsiders' movie on one of the first VHS cameras (19:00), Greaser cast members vs soc cast members anecdotes (20:00), Peter's blue-collar acting chip on his shoulder (24:00), clip of the Gold poem scene with Johnny and Ponyboy from 'The Outsiders' (27:00), Panavision filming techniques used in 'The Outsiders' (28:00), Church fire scene and male teacher hilarious denial (30:00), S.E. Hinton's backstory writing 'The Outsiders' (31:00), Alternative Casting for 'The Outsiders' featuring Anthony Michael Hall, Kate Capshaw, Helen Slater, Val Kilmer, Mickey Rourke, Glenn Scarpelli, Vincent Spano, Adam Baldwin (35:00), 'My Bodyguard' scene with the incredible Adam Baldwin, Scott Baio, Dennis Quaid (36:30), Darren Dalton with C. Thomas Howell pre-rumble car talk scene from 'The Outsiders' (38:00), Leif Garrett scene from 'The Outsiders' (42:00) Peter's journey to acting (45:00), Peter's side hustle driving Al Pacino for 10 years in NYC (46:30), Matt Dillon in the brilliant 'Over The Edge' from 1979 (53:00), Matt Dillon's career including 'Crash', 'To Die For', 'Singles, and 'Drugstore Cowboy' (57:30), Peter telling Al Pacino he's the reason Peter became an actor (1:11:00), Phillip Seymour Hoffman as an influence on Peter; as probably the greatest actor of his generation and his great appearances in 'The Great Lebowski', 'Moneyball', 'Along Came Polly' and 'Charlie Wilson's War' (1:12:00), Peter meeting Meryl Streep in his underwear (1:15:00), 'Stay Gold, Ponyboy' 1:16:00), the 'Complete Novel' version of 'The Outsiders (1:18:00), Peter's 'Latch Key TV' choices, with 'The Incredible Hulk', 'The Dukes Of Hazzard', and 'The Muppet Show' (1:20:00).

12 Angry Men is a 1957 American courtroom drama film directed by Sidney Lumet, adapted from a teleplay of the same name by Reginald Rose. This courtroom drama tells the story of a jury of 12 men as they deliberate the conviction or acquittal of an 18-year old defendant on the basis of reasonable doubt, forcing the jurors to question their morals and values. 12 Angry Men explores many techniques of consensus-building and the difficulties encountered in the process among this group of men whose range of personalities adds to the intensity and conflict. It also explores the power one person has to elicit change. The jury members are identified only by number; no names are revealed until an exchange of dialogue at the very end. The film forces the characters and audience to evaluate their own self-image through observing the personality, experiences, and actions of the jurors. The film is also notable for its almost exclusive use of one set, where all but three minutes of the film take place. In 2007, the film was selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". The film was selected as the second-best courtroom drama ever by the American Film Institute during their AFI's 10 Top 10 list. PODCAST NOTES Episode intro and guest Brian Thompson mini-bio (00:01), Jason and Brian talk about their Yankee & Red Sox near-murder meet-cute story (2:30), Sidney Lumet and Brian's first experiences of '12 Angry Men' (7:00), Henry Fonda and critical thinking role models (9:00), The 'Kids These Days' scene from '12 Angry Men' (10:30), Disinterested Judge scene from '12 Angry Men' (16:30), Brian's doorbell rings and it's the FBI and NYPD (18:30), how to smuggle drugs and money into jail and prison (19:00), Skin care tips of the incarcerated (20:30), extreme experiences and how not to allow them to distance you from others (22:00), Lewisburg Penitentiary and re-entering real life as a human being and not a gladiator on the yard (22:30), Brian's brain injury and its impact on his addictions (24:00), Sidney Lumet's book 'Making Movies' and his thoughts about films like 'Dog Day Afternoon', 'Serpico, and 'Prince Of The City' (24:30), the cast of '12 Angry Men' (28:30), clip from '12 Angry Men' where Henry Fonda bets on humanity (30:00), Sidney Lumet on Henry Fonda as an actor (32:00), Brian's emotional response and personal connections to various scenes in '12 Angry Men', including the Jack Klugman "slum" scene (34:30), Brian's permanent exemption from jury duty (36:30), Brian's life of crime and his 'felony a day' lifestyle and some background on The Westies gang in NYC(38:00), Brian's time running among Chinatown gangsters in 1980's NYC (41:30), gang style in the 1970's (45:00), clip from '12 Angry Men' of the democracy speech from actor George Voscovec (46:30), legal realities and the obfuscation of same in '12 Angry Men' (45:30), Brian's arrests at age 12 and early incarcerations and prison GED leading to post-prison college and Master's degrees (52:00), Brian's career cooking at Bouley, Nobu, and a handful of other of NYC's finest dining establishments (57:00), Suicide or advanced degrees (58:30), the "these people" clip featuring Ed Begley from '12 Angry Men', with Sidney Lumet's incredible shot of actors turning their backs on Begley one by one (1:05:30), Sidney Lumet's incredible movement of the camera in '12 Angry Men' (1:08:30), 'The Andy Griffith Show' take on '12 Angry Men' (1:11:00), 'Inside Amy Schumer' does '12 Angry Men' parody with Jeff Goldblum, Nick Dipaulo, Paul Giammatti, John Hawkes, Dennis Quaid, and Henry Zebrowski (1:13:00), Henry Fonda pissed off at Sidney Lumet's NYC backdrops day one of filming due to budget constraints (1:17:00), Lee J. Cobb's amazing concluding scene from '12 Angry Men', and childhood traumas mingling with a lack of make role models for sons (1:18:00), Brian's prison time and its impact on his son's choice of becoming an attorney (1:24:00), Brian's take on prison movies and their verisimilitude, including 'Bad Boys' with Sean Penn and 'Shawshank Redemption' (1:26:00), the difference between jail and prison (1:27:00), Being in prison in Otisville with Eddie 'Crazy Eddie' Antar (1:28:30), Brian's story of being arrested for the double murder of a Chinatown gambler and bar owner and being assisted in his defense by famed Irish mobster Mickey Featherstone and a federal agent (1:34:00), Prison phone use and why it inevitably leads to violence and conflict (1:44:30), Latch Key TV with 'My Three Sons', 'Family Affair', 'Father Knows Best', 'Bonanza', and 'The Courtship of Eddie's Father' and Brian's realization that all the formative shows of his youth featured single father's doing a great job raising kids (1:47:00).

Young Frankenstein is a 1974 American comedy horror film directed by Mel Brooks and starring Gene Wilder as the title character, a descendant of the infamous Dr. Victor Frankenstein, and Peter Boyle as the monster. The supporting cast includes Teri Garr, Cloris Leachman, Marty Feldman, Madeline Kahn, Kenneth Mars, Richard Haydn, and Gene Hackman. The screenplay was written by Wilder and Brooks. The film is a parody of the classic horror film genre, in particular the various film adaptations of Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein produced by Universal Pictures in the 1930s. Much of the lab equipment used as props was created by Kenneth Strickfaden for the 1931 film Frankenstein. To help evoke the atmosphere of the earlier films, Brooks shot the picture entirely in black and white, a rarity in the 1970s, and employed 1930s' style opening credits and scene transitions such as iris outs, wipes, and fades to black. The film also features a period score by Brooks' longtime composer John Morris. A critical favorite and box office smash, Young Frankenstein ranks No. 28 on Total Film magazine's readers' "List of the 50 Greatest Comedy Films of All Time", No. 56 on Bravo TV's list of the "100 Funniest Movies", and No. 13 on the American Film Institute's list of the 100 funniest American movies. In 2003, it was deemed "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant" by the United States National Film Preservation Board, and selected for preservation in the Library of Congress National Film Registry. It was later adapted by Brooks and Thomas Meehan as a stage musical. On its 40th anniversary, Brooks considered it by far his finest (although not his funniest) film as a writer-director. PODCAST NOTES: Jason is joined by two (or is it three?) time FCAC Very Special Guest Star Jenny Pinzari to delve DEEP into 'Young Frankenstein', her college a capella career, her teenage tv habits, and more! (00:05), the Ovaltine scene between Cloris Leachman and Gene Wilder (3:00), 'Young Frankenstein' original 1974 trailer narrated by Mel Brooks (5:00), James Whale and the original Frankenstein movies (8:00), 'Airplane' and 'Zero Hour' clip comparisons (11:00), Gene Wilder and Madeline Kahn train depot scene from 'Young Frankenstein' (16:00), Marty Feldman: Genius (18:00), 'Walk This Way' by Aerosmith was named because of 'Young Frankenstein', clip from Gene Wilder's cameo in 'Bonnie and Clyde' (22:30), Gene Wilder and Marty Feldman "help with the bags" clip and Gene's continual breaking on-set (25:00), incredible Gene Wilder interview clip about his fame and success (26:30), Madeline Kahn and 'Flames' (29:00), 'Frau Blucher' apocryphal origin stories (31:30), Cloris Leachman is 93 and STILL working (32:00), Jenny's a capella life at Boston University (36:30), 'Sedagive' clip from 'Young Frankenstein (43:30), Madeline Kahn's incredible love scene with Frakenstein's monster (45:30), Blind Priest scene between Gene Hackman and Peter Boyle (50:00), Jenny and husband Adam's 90's song parody 'Interesting Girl' (53:00), Latch-Key TV: Shari Lewis & Lambchop and 'The Song That Never Ends' (60:00), 'Saved By The Bell' (61:00), Jenny went to mall dressed as Kelly Kapowski to see Mark-Paul Gosselear was appearing and signing autographs (63:00), Jenny's first boycrush was Jonathan Taylor-Thomas who got out of acting and went to like three Ivy League colleges (64:00), 'Buffy The Vampire Slayer' and David Boreanz and Sarah Michelle Gellar (67:30), ABC's 'TGIF' block of programming with 'Full House', 'Perfect Strangers', 'Family Matters', 'Step By Step', 'Hangin' With Mister Cooper', and 'Sabrina The Teenage Witch' and 'Dinosaurs' (70:00).

Alien is a 1979 science-fiction horror film directed by Ridley Scott and written by Dan O'Bannon. Based on a story by O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett, it follows the crew of the commercial space tug Nostromo, who encounter the eponymous Alien, a deadly and aggressive extraterrestrial set loose on the ship. The film stars Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Ian Holm, and Yaphet Kotto. It was produced by Gordon Carroll, David Giler, and Walter Hill through their company Brandywine Productions, and was distributed by 20th Century Fox. Giler and Hill revised and made additions to the script; Shusett was executive producer. The Alien and its accompanying artifacts were designed by the Swiss artist H. R. Giger, while concept artists Ron Cobb and Chris Foss designed the more human settings. PODCAST NOTES Jason is joined by Bruce Edwards, a veteran of the TV and film business whose shared background with Jason includes time spent at the MTV Networks offices working for VH1 in the later 90's. Bruce's time working at the Garden State Plaza Mall in the 90's (02:00) Working at the Starlog Magazine/ Starlog Store (04:00) Meeting Lazlo from 'Real Genius' at the mall (5:00) WPIX Chiller Thriller opening from 80's and 90's TV. (07:00) Seeing Alien for the first time (09:00) Renting movies from video stores (10:00) Dan O'Bannon and Ronnie Schusett original screenplay origins (15:00) Walter Hill/ David Giler renaming characters and editing the original version (18:00) John Carpenter's The Thing as influences by Alien (20:00) 3 perfect movies: Jaws, Alien, and The Thing (24:00) Script controversy by Hill and O Bannon (30:00) Scene where crew of Nostromo haggles over investigation of signal. (34:00) Alternative Casting with Meryl Streep, Tommy Lee Jones, and the original Kane, John Finch (36:00) Latch Key TV with 'Three's Company', 'Live! With Regis & Kathie Lee', and '227' and 'Night Court'. (45:00)

A highly skilled jewel thief, Frank (James Caan) longs to leave his dangerous trade and settle down with his girlfriend, Jessie (Tuesday Weld). Eager to make one last big score in order to begin living a legitimate life, Frank reluctantly associates with Leo (Robert Prosky), a powerful gangster. Unfortunately for Frank, Leo wants to keep him in his employ, resulting in a tense showdown when he finally tries to give up his criminal activities once and for all. On this episode of Full Cast and Crew, Jason is joined by his good friend and fellow Michael Mann and 'Thief' fanboy, James Kittle. Leavening the testosterone inherent in any Michael Mann film, Jason and James also get into James' long-time love for the music of Natalie Merchant and The Indigo Girls. Also: the path not taken with James not becoming a New Your City Police Department cop in the early 90's, his collection of Polo towels, and mail as a foreign concept to millennials. Skating at Yale's Beinecke Plaza and being townies in and around Yale in New Haven (47:30), New Haven childhoods and high school scenes (49:00), Tuesday Weld's incredible performance in 'Thief' and particularly her car and diner scenes with James Caan (50:00), Latch Key TV with 'Miami Vice', and 'Hill Street Blues' (61:30), the iconic Phill Collins "In The Air Tonight" scene from Miami Vice (63:30), the opening scene of the very first episode of 'Hill Street Blues' (64:00) and how well it holds up today, the 'Hill Street Blues' theme (68:30).

Harold and Maude is a 1971 American coming-of-age black comedy-drama film directed by Hal Ashby and released by Paramount Pictures. It incorporates elements of dark humor and existentialist drama. The plot revolves around the exploits of a young man named Harold Chasen (Bud Cort) who is intrigued with death. Harold drifts away from the life that his detached mother (Vivian Pickles) prescribes for him, and slowly develops a strong friendship, and eventually a romantic relationship, with a 79-year-old woman named Maude (Ruth Gordon) who teaches Harold about living life to its fullest and that life is the most precious gift of all. The film was based on a screenplay written by Colin Higgins and published as a novel in 1971. Filming locations in the San Francisco Bay Area included both Holy Cross Cemetery and Golden Gate National Cemetery, and the ruins of the Sutro Baths. Critically and commercially unsuccessful when originally released, the film developed a cult following and in 1983 began making a profit.[1][2] The film is ranked number 45 on the American Film Institute's list of 100 Funniest Movies of all Time and was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress in 1997, for being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant".[3] The Criterion Collection special-edition Blu-ray and DVD were released June 12, 2012.[4] EPISODE NOTES: (1:00) My guest Becca Faulkner covers her British childhood in the 80's, and her work at an independent cinema in Leeds in the early 90's, where she first encountered 'Harold and Maude', (8:00) British youth fashions then and now, (9:00) seeing movies by yourself, (9:30) Cat Stevens 'Don't Be Shy' and intro credits to 'Harold and Maude', (10:30) Colin Higgins and the origins of the screenplay for 'Harold and Maude', (12:00) black comedy and 'Harold and Maude' and 'The Graduate' from 1967, (14:00) the scene where Harold meets Maude, (18:00) browsing in video stores in the 80's and 90's, (19:00) Jack Black in 'High Fidelity', 'Harold and Maude' and timelessness, (20:00) Roger Ebert's negative review of 'Harold and Maude', (21:00) 'Rushmore' as descendant of 'Harold and Maude', but would it pass the "Teenager Litmus Test'?, (25:00) why did 'Harold and Maude' flop upon release and why has it become an iconic film since release?, (27:00) other 1971 film releases, including 'Klute', 'The French Connection', (31:00) revisiting the beloved films of our youth through the eyes of our children and note: don't do that or suffer what Becca has with showing her teens 'Ghostbusters' and 'Footloose', (33:00) insane and overwrought clip from 'Footloose' with incredible guitar riff, (34:00) clip of Liza Minelli singing 'Life Is A Cabaret' from 'Cabaret' with her usual subtlety and aplomb, (35:00) the love story between Harold and Maude compared to 'Amour', (36:00) Bud Cort in 'Harold and Maude', (37:00) Alternative Casting with Richard Dreyfuss, Bob Balaban, John Savage, and Elton John, (40:00) Bud Cort's excellent, uncredited cameo in Michael Mann's 'Heat', (42:00) Bud Cort's suicide origins speech from 'Harold and Maude', (49:00)Vivian Pickles' questionnaire scene, (52:00) Becs drinks water, (55:00) Cat Stevens on the use of his music in 'Harold and Maude' and the 'Miles From Nowhere' scene,

The Star Wars Holiday Special[a] is a 1978 American television special set in the universe of the Star Wars science-fiction media franchise. Directed by Steve Binder, it was the first Star Wars spin-off film, set between the events of the original film and The Empire Strikes Back (1980). It stars the main cast of the original Star Wars and introduces the character of Boba Fett, who appeared in later films. In the storyline that ties the special together, following the events of the original film, Chewbacca and Han Solo attempt to visit the Wookiee home world to celebrate "Life Day". They are pursued by agents of the Galactic Empire, who are searching for members of the Rebel Alliance on the planet. The special introduces three members of Chewbacca's family: his father Itchy, his wife Malla, and his son Lumpy. The program also features the rest of the main Star Wars characters, including Luke Skywalker, C-3PO, R2-D2, Darth Vader and Princess Leia, all portrayed by the original cast (except R2-D2, who is simply billed as "himself"). The program includes footage from the 1977 film and a cartoon produced by Toronto-based Nelvana featuring the bounty hunter Boba Fett. Scenes take place in space and in spacecraft including the Millennium Falcon and a Star Destroyer; segments also take place in a few other locales, such as the Mos Eisley cantina from the original film. The special is notorious for its extremely negative reception and has never been rebroadcast or officially released on home video.[2][3] It has become something of a cultural legend due to the underground quality of its existence. It has been viewed and distributed in off-air recordings made from its original telecast by fans as bootleg copies, and it has also been uploaded to content-sharing websites.

Seven (stylized as SE7EN) is a 1995 American crime thriller film was directed by David Fincher and written by Andrew Kevin Walker. It stars Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kevin Spacey and John C. McGinley. The film tells the story of David Mills, a detective who partners with the retiring William Somerset to track down a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as a motif in his murders. The screenplay was influenced by the time Walker spent in New York City trying to make it as a writer. Principal photography took place in Los Angeles, with the last scene filmed near Lancaster, California. The film's budget was $33 million. Released on September 22, 1995 by New Line Cinema, Seven was the seventh-highest-grossing film of the year, grossing over $327 million worldwide.[2] It was well received by critics, who praised the film's dark style, brutality and themes. The film was nominated for Best Film Editing at the 68th Academy Awards, losing to Apollo 13.

Rocky is a 1976 American sports drama film directed by John G. Avildsen, written by and starring Sylvester Stallone.[3] It tells the rags to riches American Dream story of Rocky Balboa, an uneducated, but kind-hearted working class Italian-American boxer, working as a debt collector for a loan shark in the slums of Philadelphia. Rocky, a small-time club fighter, gets a shot at the world heavyweight championship. The film also stars Talia Shire as Adrian, Burt Young as Adrian's brother Paulie, Burgess Meredith as Rocky's trainer Mickey Goldmill, and Carl Weathers as the reigning champion, Apollo Creed. The film, made on a budget of just over $1 million, was a sleeper hit; it earned $225 million in global box office receipts, becoming the highest-grossing film of 1976. The film was critically acclaimed and solidified Stallone's career as well as commenced his rise to prominence as a major movie star.[4] Among other accolades, it went on to receive ten Academy Award nominations, winning three, including Best Picture. In 2006, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant". Rocky is considered to be one of the greatest sports films ever made and was ranked as the second-best in the genre, after Raging Bull, by the American Film Institute in 2008. The film has spawned seven sequels: Rocky II (1979), Rocky III (1982), Rocky IV (1985), Rocky V (1990), Rocky Balboa (2006), Creed (2015), and Creed II (2018). Stallone portrays Rocky in all eight films, wrote six of the seven films, and directed four of the six titular installments. In July 2019, Stallone said in an interview that there have been ongoing discussions about a prequel to the original film based on the life of a young Rocky Balboa.[5] SHOW NOTES: Rocky intro (0:01), we're joined by special guest and Rocky completist Paul Tinelli who discusses his special connection to Rocky the movie and the character (1:30), Sly Stallone's home life growing up and entry to movie business (3:00), Rocky origin story versus reality (3:45), Our guest Paul Tinelli gave his wife a 'Diner' test with Rocky on VHS on their first date (4:30), Rocky original ending and poster (7:00), How they shot the arena/fight scene with only 500 extras (08:00), 70's hangover decade and driving around in your Mom's Pinto (12:00), Rock with Cuff & Link the turtles and Moby Dick clip (14:00), Rocky is approached for the Apollo Creed fight clip (16:00), Rocky press conference shout-out to Adrian clip(17:30), Rocky has all the feels clip (18:00), Talia Shire clip with her and Burt Young from 'Rocky' (22:00), The 'Rocky' production design with LA interiors on sets and the run-and-gun Philly shoot (24:00), Rocky and Mick's fight at the gym (25:00), Rocky and Mick's incredible scene in Rocky's apartment (29:00), Burgess Meredith's great Twilight Zone appearance (30:00), Mike Medavoy and Arthur Krim story about Krim confusing Perry King with Stallone in 'Lords of Flatbush' (32:00), Joe Spinnell as Willie Cicci and the gangster in 'Rocky' (33:30), Michael Dorn from Star Trek is in Rocky, as is Troma Pictures Lloyd Kauffman (34:00), Stallone's online store is filled with amazing clothes, knives, and weird Stallonia (36:00), John Cazale was in five movies nominated for Best Picture (38:00), John Avildsen's career as a director (39:00), Paul's rundown on the best Rocky films (39:30), Bill Conti's iconic theme from 'Rocky' (43:00), Carl Weathers role as Apollo Creed (46:00), Philly Eagles fans eat horsepoop (47:00), Stallone and the ownership issues on 'Rocky' (48:30), Alternative Casting w/ (for Rocky) Ryan O'Neal, Robert Redford, Burt Reynolds, James Caan, John Travolta, Robert DeNiro, Warren Beatty, Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss, Harvey Keitel; Lee Strasberg for Mick; Carrie Snodgress, Susan Sarandon, and Cher for Adrian; Stallone, Chevy Chase, and Travolta all auditioned for Han Solo in 'Star Wars'; for Apollo Creed, Ken Norton was considered, and Roger Mosely who was TC on 'The A Team' (51:00), Columbo Cinematic Universe (1:02:00), Latch Key TV w/ the opens and themes to 'Charlie's Angels', 'Laverne & Shirley', 'Alice', 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show' theme was written by Sonny Curtis, a great songwriter who also wrote 'I Fought The Law And The Law One' and 'More Than I Can Say' (1:04:00), Voicemail to the pod from Super-Listener Frazer Rice recommends 'The Hidden' directed 'Wishmaster 2' director Jack Shoulder, and we play the trailer (1:12:45), Super-listener Jeffrey D Stevens is a set medic for major motion pictures and TV shows and wrote to the pod and we're gonna do a movie he suggested on next week's pod (1:17:00), 'Se7en' trailer (1:19:00). Et Finis.

In a Manhattan cafe, word processor Paul Hackett (Griffin Dunne) meets and talks literature with Marcy (Rosanna Arquette). Later that night, Paul takes a cab to Marcy's downtown apartment. His $20 bill flying out the window during the ride portends the unexpected night he has. He cannot pay for the ride and finds himself in a series of awkward, surreal and life-threatening situations with a colorful cast of characters. He spends the rest of the night trying to return uptown. 'After Hours' was directed by Martin Scorcese from a screenplay by Joe Minion with an assist from Joe Frank. PODCAST NOTES: Chris' tribute to radio pioneer/legend Joe Frank/cold open (00:00:01), Joe Frank's "Lies" excerpt, legal settlement, and Joe Minion's script for 'After Hours' (00:03:00), Chris' play with Larry Block (00:05:00), Phil Hendrie radio program (00:08:00), Lisa Robinson and Griffin Dunne's anecdote about Tim Burton and Scorcese (00:11:00), Cinematographer Michael Ballhaus and his 16 films with Fassbinder (00:15:00 ), Scene with Griffin Dunne and Bronson Pinchot as word processors (00:18:00), Rosanna Arquette and Griffin Dunne diner / Wizard of Oz scene (00:22:00), Rosanna Arquette is or isnt the inspiration behind Toto's 'Rosanna' and Peter Gabriel's 'In Your Eyes' (00:30:00), Griffin Dunne in 'I Love Dick' (00:31:00), the brilliant Teri Garr with Griffin Dunne in the apartment scene from 'After Hours' (00:33:30), Griffin Dunne and Linda Fiorentino's scene with the great Will Patton as 'Horst' (00:39:30), Neil & Pepe played by Cheech & Chong (00:40:00), Terminal Bar's appearance in 'Taxi Driver' and Emerald Pub in Soho (00:45:00), Clarence Felder as a hilariously philosophical bouncer in the nightclub scene from 'After Hours' (00:46:00), Catherine O'Hara's great scene as a Mr. Softee driver screwing up Griffin Dunne's phone call from 'After Hours' (00:49:00), Griffin Dunne's brilliant recap monologue in his pick-up's (Robert Plunket) apartment (00:52:00), Alternative endings suggested for 'After Hours' by everyone from Spielberg to Terry Gilliam, to Michael Powell, husband of Spielberg editor Thelma Schoonmaker (00:55:00), Scene from Lars Von Trier's 'The Kingdom', because: Chris (00:56:00), Cheech & Chong's quotes on art (00:59:00), Ebert on Scorcese (01:00:00), Rants 'n Raves with Michael Apted's '63 Up' series, Bong Joon-ho's 'Parasite', (01:02:00), Martin Scorcese's quote's on Marvel movies and why Bong Joon-ho says he won't be able to direct a Marvel movie, Headlines (01:09:15), Bomb Squad with 'Cats' Trailer #2 and box office correction to 'Ford v Ferarri' (01:10:30), Latch-Key TV with 'Beverly Hills Teens' (01:15:00), Final Lines (01:16:00) After Hours IMDB page. Joe Frank website. Phil Hendrie website.

Planes, Trains and Automobiles is a 1987 American buddy film written, produced, and directed by John Hughes. The film stars Steve Martin as Neal Page, a high-strung marketing executive, and John Candy as Del Griffith, a goodhearted but annoying shower curtain ring salesman. They share a three-day odyssey of misadventures trying to get Neal home to Chicago in time for Thanksgiving with his family. FCAC tackles the ur-Thanksgiving movie and celebrates the brilliant genius of John Candy, gone too soon. And Steve Martin's career is a thing to celebrate, too. Podcast Notes: Other Thanksgiving movies (03:00), We play an intriguing voicemail left for the podcast by DeForest DeForest about Burt Rangles et al (03:30), Chris' closing lines listener shout-outs (06:30), Discussion about John Hughes (07:30), End credits sequence in 'Planes, Trains, and Automobiles (10:30), Meet cute scene between John Candy and Steve Martin seated next to each other on a plane (11:30), The career of Steve Martin (14:00), Awkward clip from the presser for 'Planes, Trains, and Automobiles' (18:30), Brad Pitt and Adam Sandler not liking to promote movies (19:00), The career of John Hughes (21:00), Dylan Baker's brilliant scene in 'Planes, Trains, and Automobiles' (22:00), Steve Martin sing-a-long scene from 'Planes, Trains, and Automobile' (26:00), Steve Martin's near-casting in Stanley Kubrick's 'Eyes Wide Shut' (26:30), John Candy and Steve Martin diner break-up scene from 'Planes, Trains and Automobiles', including John Candy's brilliantly improvised button (30:00), John Candy's great dramatic scene from John Hughes' 'Uncle Buck' (33:30), Steve Martin and John Candy's parting scene (36:00), Del and Neil scene where Del tells Neil the truth (39:00), Car rental counter scene with Neil and Edie McClurg (42:30), Doobie the cabdriver scene (with Larry Hankan, That Guy, who was almost Kramer in 'Seinfeld') (46:00), Why Paul Young's version of 'Every Time You Go Away' isn't used in 'Planes, Trains, and Automobiles' (48:00), Final Lines pitch (52:00), Rants n Raves (52:00) Headlines (59:00) Latch Key TV: Les Nessman Turkey Drop scene from WKRP in Cincinnati (1:04:30), 'It's Thanksgiving, Charlie Brown' (1:07:30), Bomb Squad: Fantasy Island (1:09:30)

High Noon is a 1952 American Western film produced by Stanley Kramer from a screenplay by Carl Foreman, directed by Fred Zinnemann, and starring Gary Cooper. The plot, depicted in real time, centers on a town marshal who is torn between his sense of duty and his love for his new bride and who must face a gang of killers alone. Though mired in controversy with political overtones at the time of its release, the film was nominated for seven Academy Awards and won four (Actor, Editing, Music-Score, and Music-Song)[3] as well as four Golden Globe Awards (Actor, Supporting Actress, Score, and Cinematography-Black and White).[4] The award-winning score was written by Russian-born composer Dimitri Tiomkin. High Noon was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" in 1989, the NFR's first year of existence. An iconic film whose story has been partly or completely repeated in later film productions, the ending scenes especially inspired a next-to-endless number of later films, including but not just limited to westerns. (Wikipedia) PODCAST NOTES: Senate HUAC parody intro (00:01), Tex Ritter's performance of Dmitri Tiomkin and Ned Washington's 'The Ballad of High Noon' (2:00), Westerns as often 'weird' arty and surreal films and why that is (4:00), 'High Noon' and its popularity with US Presidents (5:30), Glenn Frankel's book on 'High Noon' (6:00), Stanley Kramer's proto-independant film studio (7:00), Why Hollywood was drawn to the Communist party in the 20's and 30's (8:00), HUAC and its processes and procedures (10:30), Studio collaboration with HUAC and the economics of legal defense (13:00), Carl Foreman, screenwriter of 'High Noon' (14:00), John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, and Gary Cooper as cooperative witnesses for HUAC (16:00), The moment when you realize when a movie is "great" and the realities of watching a movie so regarded as "a classic" (18:30), 'Joker' as a politically fraught movie and similar takedown of the entertainment establishment (20:30), Drinking in Westerns; why shot glasses?? (22:00), Clip from 'High Noon' with Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly (23:00), Please tell us what movie Chris' Final Line comes from (29:00), Fred Zinnemann's career and 'Day Of The Jackal' and 'A Man For All Seasons' and 'Julia' (36:30), Katy Jurado's great performance in 'High Noon' (42:00), Clip of Katy Jurado and Lloyd Bridges in 'High Noon' and the feminist messaging of same (43:00), Katy Jurado and Gary Cooper scene from 'High Noon' (48:00) in which she says "One year without seeing you" in Spanish, to which Gary Cooper replies, "Yes, I know." Columbo Cinematic Universe (56:30), John Wayne's complicated legacy and interesting relationships with many of the makers of 'High Noon; (58:00), John Wayne's Oscar acceptance speech on behalf of Gary Cooper (59:00), 'Rio Bravo' / 'High Noon' and Chris' brilliantly unexpected 'Sweet Home Alabama' / 'Southern Man' analogy (1:01:20), Alternative Casting (1:03:00), Flying Purple People Eater (1:06:30), The Wilhelm Scream and presence (1:07:10), Headlines (1:09:30), Bomb Squad segment and 'Motherless Brooklyn' recap and 'Last Christmas' starring Emilia Clarke and Henry Golding and Jason stunned by the actual plot twist (1:11:00), Final Lines (01:19:00) Read Glenn Frankel's fantastic book about the making of 'High Noon' here. 'High Noon' wiki page. Call Full Cast And Crew and leave us a voicemail message: 855-755-5322

9 to 5 (listed in the opening credits as Nine to Five) is a 1980 American comedy film produced by Bruce Gilbert, story by Patricia Resnick, screenplay by Resnick and Colin Higgins, and directed by Higgins. It stars Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, and Dolly Parton as three working women who live out their fantasies of getting even with, and their overthrow of, the company's autocratic, "sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot" boss, played by Dabney Coleman. The film grossed over $103.9 million and is the 20th highest-grossing comedy film. As a star vehicle for Parton—already established as a successful singer, musician and songwriter—it launched her permanently into mainstream popular culture. A television series of the same name based on the film ran for five seasons, and a musical version of the film (also titled 9 to 5), with new songs written by Parton, opened on Broadway on April 30, 2009. 9 to 5 is number 74 on the American Film Institute's "100 Funniest Movies" and has an 82% approval rating on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes. PODCAST NOTES: Chris' signature intro (00:01), Jane Fonda's IPC company, Karen Nussbaum and the origin story of '9 To 5' (5:00), Colin Higgins and 'Harold & Maude' (6:00), Dabney Coleman (7:00), 9 To 5 fantasy sequence clips (13:00), Dabney & Lily scene (16:00), Judy's scene with her returning ex-husband (21:30), Doralee & Dabney scene (23:00), Mrs. Columbo (28:00), Dolly Parton's America podcast (30:00), Lily Tomlin and John Travolta in Moment By Moment (35:00), David O. Russell's onset meltdown (36:00),The Electric Company theme (37:00), Chris cut out the paganini movie trailer and Jason is heartbroken (38:30), Elena Of Avalor (44:00), Sheena Easton's Morning Train (52:00), Top downloaded episodes of FCAC (53:00), Sterling Hayden's performance in 9 to 5 (55:00), Wedge Antilles rears his X-Wing again (55:30), Headlines with bats and Rudy Giuliani (58:30), Bomb Squad movie trailer review of Roland Emmerich's 'Midway' (1:04:05), Closing Lines (1:10:10).

Scott Frank's adaptation of Elmore Leonard's classic crime novel, an arbitrary set of circumstances and not-so-arbitrary bad career moves on behalf of Soderbergh led to the creation of one of the great 90's films and one of the best adaptations of Leonard's work ever put on screen. One of our hosts is a big fan. The other...well...there's hope for him yet. PODCAST NOTES for Episode 57: 'Out Of Sight' Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules For Good Writing (00:01), the greatness of Steve Zahn (05:00), Soderbergh's career after 'Sex Lies & Videotape" (10:30), George Clooneys first bank robbery scene in 'Out Of Sight' (15:30), Fosse Time use in 'Out Of Sight' (19:00), Albert Brooks as Ripley with George Clooney as Foley in the Security Guard Job Offer scene (23:00), 'Drive' with Ryan Gosling (26:30), Nancy Allen scene as Midge (27:30), Call the podcast (28:00), the trunk scene with J Lo and Clooney as one-shot scene (29:00), Trunk scene (31:00), the iconic and amazing bar/seduction scene between Gary and Celeste/Karen and Jack/J Lo and Clooney (36:00), use of freeze-frame device and the cross-cutting concept cribbed from Nic Roeg's Don't Look Now (41:00), Don Cheadle's classic turn as Snoopy Miller in the hilarious prison shakedown scene (42:00), Viola Davis great scene with J Lo and Isiah Washington (52:00), Luis Guzman, Catherine Keener and J Lo hilarious scene (55:30), Chris' trenchant analysis of the parallels between Karen and Foley's work experiences (58:00), Wendell B Harris, Jr and Jennifer Lopez hospital scene (1:01:40) Wendell B Harris, Jr door-busting scene (01:03:00), Screenwriter Scott Frank's career and credits (01:04:45), Spielberg's Minority Report humorous touches (01:05:30), Alternative Casting w/ Catherine Keener, Sandra Bullock, Gary Shandling as Ripley, Danny Devito also considered as Ripley and his brilliant restaurant scene in 'Get Shorty' (01:06:00), Samuel L. Jackson's cameo in Out Of Sight (01:08:00), Headlines (01:11:00), Irish Guy pranks his friends with audio from his casket (01:14:00), Our 'Bomb Squad' trailer this week is Edward (Don't Call Me 'Ed') Norton's 'Motherless Brooklyn' (01:15:00), Latch Key TV w/ The Frugal Gourmet, Denmark's Star-Spangled, Police Woman with Angie Dickinson, TranZor Z opening credits, George Jefferson's undying passion for obscure prog-rock (01:19:35), Last Lines (01:25:30) Elmore Leonard's Wiki page. Out Of Sight IMDB page. Subscribe to Full Cast And Crew Podcast on iTunes Podcasts here.

Skeptical graduate student Helen Lyle (Virginia Madsen) befriends Anne-Marie McCoy (Vanessa Williams) while researching superstitions in a housing project on Chicago's Near North Side. From Anne-Marie, Helen learns about the Candyman (Tony Todd), a knife-wielding figure of urban legend that some of her neighbors believe to be responsible for a recent murder. After a mysterious man matching the Candyman's description begins stalking her, Helen comes to fear that the legend may be all too real. (wikipedia) PODCAST NOTES: Chris' signature opening (00:01), the impressive weirdness of 'Candyman' and its origins in Clive Barker's 'Books Of Blood' (07:00), 'Hellraiser' and its impact on how 'Candyman' got made (09:00), Jordan Peele remake of 'Candyman' directed by Nia Decosta (10:30) Phillip Glass score for 'Candyman' (11:00), horror fans and their reactions to 'Candyman' and whether they accept it (13:00), Clip of Tony Todd's first appearance as Candyman in the film opposite Virginia Madsen as Helen (14:00), Cabrini-Green construction and the stories that inspired 'Candyman' of murderers coming into apartments through medicine cabinets between apartments (17:00), Xander Berkely's IMDB page and his typecasting throughout his career as either cuckold or affair (18:00), Michael Culkin's pompous academic character dinner party scene (19:00), Psychiatrist scene (22:00), 'Black Horror Aesthetic' UCLA Professor Tanarive Due and her husband Steven Barnes discuss the racial politics of 'Candyman' (26:00), Vanessa Williams scene from 'Candyman' (29:00), Bernard Rose as english director using the lens of "white fear" to great effect in the film (35:00), 'Wicker Man' with Nicholas Cage didn't happen (38:00), bee scene (39:00), co-host Jason's love for the Coppola movie 'The Rainmaker' with Roy Scheider, Matt Damon, Mickey Rourke, Danny Devito, Andrew Shue (43:00), Virginia Madsen's IMDB page (43:30), ALTERNATIVE CASTING Sandra Bullock, Eddie Murphy (46:00), Call the pod and leave us a voicemail 855-755-5322, RANTS N RAVES; Jason rants at tech bros commercials disrupting stupid stuff including now foot and palm sweat (50:00) HEADLINES: Robots approach the singularity, Suzanne Somers (57:40) COLUMBO CINEMATIC UNIVERSE 'Sex & The Married Detective' with Lindsay Crouse, Peter Jurasik from Beverly Hills Buntz (1:01:30) BOMB SQUAD: Not all movie trailers are created equal and in our new segment we select one a week that has the stink of impending failure on it (01:02:40) LATCH-KEY TV: 1988 World Cup Badminton, Fishin' Hole, Magnum P.I. and Tom Selleck's reverse mortgage commercials, Hollywood Squares, JM J Bullock, Benson, M.A.S.H., Matlock, Lonewolf McQuaid with David Carridine, LQ Jones, and Chuck Norris, Nightmare At Bitter Creek with Tom Skerrit, Joanna Cassidy (01:06:30) END LINES (01:17:35) EPISODE REFERENCES & LINKS: Check out Tanarive Due and her Black Horror Aesthetic class here. Email Full Cast & Crew at [email protected] More on Clive Barker here. Director Bernard Rose's IMDB page. Subscribe to the podcast here. Follow Tony Todd here. The insane trailer of 'Candyman' director Bernard Rose's violinist epic 'The Devil's Violinist' that Chris criminally cut from the episode is here. Tom Selleck's Reverse Mortgage Commercial here. FCAC episodes referenced: Lee Wilkof, Silence Of The Lambs,

Alan J. Pakula's 1976 masterpiece 'All The President's Men' brilliantly tracks The Washington Post's Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein on the hunt of the story of the Watergate break-in and it's serpentine connections to Nixon's White House. Featuring still-vital filmmaking and cinematography, use of split diopter lenses and incredible dolly shots as well as iconic performances from Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman, Jason Robards, Jack Warden, Martin Balsam, and Jane Alexander. We wrote super-detailed podcast notes but when we went to save them, they disappeared..COINCIDENCE? WE THINK NOT. Read Jon Boorstin's excellent memories of making All The President's Men here. Follow the pod on social @fullcastandcrew Email the pod: [email protected] Leave us a VM: 855-755-5322

We started out planning to do Brian De Palma's 'The Fury' starring Kirk Douglas and Amy Irving, but...in the end...it was just not weird and Brian De Palma enough for us so we switched to 'Phantom Of The Paradise' and got everything we asked for and more. Chris sells his soul for podcasting (00:00), Brian De Palma's The Fury trailer (2:30), Amy Irving and Andrew Stevens in 'The Fury' (4:30), 'Phantom Of The Paradise' trailer (6:00), Phil Spector and James Bond (14:30), Led Zeppelin (15:30), 'Inserts' movie starring Richard Dreyfus and 'Phantom' star Jessica Harper and Bob Hoskins (17:30), AC/DC's 'It's A Long Way To The Top If You Wanna Rock 'n Roll' (21:00), Sing Sing Prison Dental Health Research Program (23:00), De Palma's 'Snake Eyes' and Nic Cage and Gary Sinise (29:30), 'The Bonfire Of The Vanities' and the great book that resulted: 'The Devil's Candy' with Tom Hanks, Morgan Freeman, Bruce Willis, and Tom Wolfe and an anatomy of a filmic disaster (30:30), 'The Mission To Mars' with Gary Sinise & 'Mars' with Val Kilmer (33:00), 'Love Boat' theme by Paul Williams, it floats back to you! (39:00), Paul Williams and his unique fame and talent and how great his 'Still Alive' documentary is (39:30), Paul Williams as Swan in 'Phantom Of The Paradise' (42:30), 'Rainbow Connection' as representative Paul Williams song, filled with hope, sadness, and a little loneliness (44:30), 'Hello Larry' tv series theme song (47:00), George Memmolli and his roles in Martin Scorcese's 'Mean Streets' and 'Hello Larry' and 'Phantom Of The Paradise' (48:00), Gerrit Graham from the great Kurt Russel and Jack Warden vehicle 'Used Cars' and his counter-culture credits including writing songs with Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead and his role as "Beef" in 'Phantom Of The Paradise" (49:00), CALL US TOLL FREE 855-755-5322 and leave us a message (51:30), Lee Wilkof, National Lampoon's 'Disco Beaver From Outer Space' and this movie's Lee Ebling (52:00), 'Old Souls' musical number written by Paul Williams performed by Jessica Harper (53:30), Paul Schrader's 'Blue Collar' stars Richard Pryor and this movie's George Memmoli (55:00), The Record Plant recording studio's cameo in 'Phantom' (56:00), Sha Na Na was reportedly 'too difficult to work with' to be in this movie (57:00), Alternative Casting: Sissy Spacek (1:00:00) Headlines and/or Rants N Raves, Francis Ford Coppola recuts The Cotton Club. starring Richard Gere, Diane Lane, Gregory Hines, Nic Cage, James Remar (1:03:00), 'Once Upon A Time In Hollywood' listener reactions and retractions regarding Manson Family, Squeaky Fromme, and violence pertaining to cult member individuality (1:05:00), Chris' Last Line (1:07:45)

"Hyper-specific, pointedly particular, rarified to the point of being incomprehensible"...these words from co-host Chris define our dear friend and two-time guest Paul Kaup's love of a very narrow band of films. For years, co-host Jason has tried to get Paul to explain exactly what they are and aren't. They're not movies you would go to the movies to see, they're not movies you'd even rent back in the Blockbuster days. They're movies that don't require much mental effort at the end of a long day. But they're also not unintentionally funny or so bad they're good. They're so very nearly "good" yet still a little short of the goal. Our guest Paul Kaup has chosen 'Time Trap' as representative of this genre, and we have a lot of fun with this science-fiction thriller time-travel flick. podcast notes: Chris' intro (00:00), Paul's movies (2:00), Paul explains his genre definition (3:30), Andrew Wilson and the type of actors that do and don't appear in these movies (13:00), Taylor Lautner (14:00), Time Trap trailer (15:30), time travel, lasers, and space travel (19:00), 'Annihilation', Natalie Portman and Alex Garland (21:00), tankinis, jean shorts, and no helmets: in other words: CAVING RESCUE MISSION! (21:30), Furby & Veeves (22:00), the plot of Time Trap explained (26:00), Paul goes down a time-travel rabbit hole and might still be there. (44:00), Robo-Obama makes an appearance (46:30), the incredible Terrance Howard red carpet interview which ironically is about time travel, platonic solids, wave conjugations, and the things that hold us all together (58:00), Latch-Key TV (1:04:00), Audio Unboxing of SuperListener Sarah's gift to the hosts during which Jason sheds real blood as proof of his dedication to podcasting (01:04:30), Funco Pop Hannibal Lecter doll (1:09:00), SuperListener Daryl forgets to credit the pod (1:09:30), One False Move with Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton, Carl Franklin, Cynda Williams (01:10:30), Last Lines (01:14:30)

A prettily-wrapped early Christmas present for movie fans, Quentin Tarantino's epic yet human-scale 'Once Upon A Time In Hollywood' both rewards and upends your expectations from "a Quentin Tarantino movie". Chris' signature intro (00:00), NO SPOILERS in this episode & Chris' favorite Tarantino movies (2:00), Jason loves 'Jackie Brown' (4:00), broad plot strokes of Once Upon A Time In Hollywood & Jay Sebring, Roman Polanski, Sharon Tate, and Charles Manson (5:00), Paul Thomas Anderson on Leo DiCaprio (7:00), Rick Dalton and Cliff Booth inspired by famous stunt-man/actor pairings (7:30), Once Upon A Time In Hollywood trailer (8:45), Neil Diamond's Hot August Night (10:15), Margot Robbie, Emile Hirsch, Margaret Qualley, Luke Perry, Bruce Dern, Mike Moh as Bruce Lee, Damian Lewis as Steve McQueen (12:00), Bruce Lee and other controversies after the film's release (13:30), Pitt's Cliff Booth character (15:00), Tarantino's interests in telling this Hollywood story (16:30), Spahn Ranch scene with Manson family (18:00), Lena Dunham's performance in the movie (22:00), the only clip released from the movie (23:30), DiCaprio's incredible scene with his 8-year-old co-star (27:00), Leonardo DiCaprio soundbite about playing Rick Dalton (29:00), Al Pacino as Schwarz (30:00), Tarantino's childhood memories of growing up in LA (32:00), Burt Reynolds was supposed to play George Spahn but died during filming (36:00), Brad Pitt soundbite about playing Cliff Booth (39:30), Luke Perry's final movie (43:00), Danny Bonaduce and David Cassidy anecdote (44:00), Nicholas Hammond (the first live-action Spider-Man) is brilliant as the Sam Wannamaker Director character in Once Upon A Time In Hollywood & clip (44:30), Leo's Oscar-worthy scene acting opposite him self in a mirror (46:00), Two Different Guys On A Bench promo and Chuckler.com (47:00), Brad Pitt's history in Academy Award noms and his plan to abstain from campaigning for an Oscar (47:30), Brad Pitt is a MOVIE STAR (50:00), Tarantino surprising Box Office Grosses (56:30), filming the Spahn ranch scene, destined to be a filmic classic (58:00), Rants N Raves, Jason takes Chris on for doing a lame FB "seven books in seven days" chain letter and the lamer cul de sac of social media (59:30), Pulp Fiction heart needle scene (01:04:00), Mickey Rourke disses Robert Deniro over 'The Irishman' snub (01:05:00), the infamous Mickey Rourke in Iron Man 2 as "Whiplash" anecdote (01:07:00), When Was The Last Time Deniro Was Really Good (01:09:05), clip from "About Endlessness", directed by Roy Andersson, Chris' personal favorite (01:13:00) Latch-Key TV (01:14:00): Beau Brummell, Brian De Palma movies, Ted Wass, Phantom Of The Paradise, Body Double, Craig Wasson, Blow Out, Sally Field, Places In The Heart, Warrior Of The Lost World, Donald Pleasance, Chris' Mystery Final Line Scene (01:18:50)...(email us if you know where this is from at [email protected]. Play the fantastic Once Upon A Time In Hollywood trailer Watch a spoiler-free clip from Once Upon A Time In Hollywood here

Chris' signature thematic intro (00:00), the intricate plot of Hal Needham's Smokey and the Bandit (04:30), Coors Beer in the New York Times (06:00), Sally Field's memoir is fantastic (10:00), Bandit & The Bride meet cute scene (12:30), Sally & Burt's relationship (14:00), Burt & Dom DeLuise on The Match Game (17:30), CB Culture in pop culture (18:00), Jonathan Demme, Paul LeMat and Bruce McGill in 'Citizen's Band' (18:00), 'Convoy' by CW McCall & Mike Douglas Show music video commentary (18:45), Chip Davis is behind both 'Convoy' and Mannheim Steamroller (19:00), critical reception of Smokey and the Bandit (23:00), Sally Field's career (26:30), Out Of Jack's Mind from Jack Plotnick, Space Station 76, Grace And Frankie, Z Nation (27:00), Jackie Gleason's pullover scene in the movie (29:00), Smokey and the Bandit sequels, Jerry Reed, and Jackie Gleason playing multiple roles (32:00), Jackie Gleason's horrible 'Gaylord' character and Mountie characters in II (33:00), Mike Henry was 'Tarzan' (35:00), 'Eastbound & Down' song by Jerry Reed (36:30), Chris' D&D friends call him out (38:00), good Burt & Sally scenes (39:00), When The Bride Met Junior scene (43:00), let's dissect the plot mechanism literally (44:30), 1977 cultural happening (52:30), Smokey II plot involving transporting an elephant to the DNC (for real) (55:00), Cannonball Run (1:03:00), Burt Reynold's iconic laugh and Eddie Murphy's laugh (01:04:00), Alternative Casting (01:06:00), Headlines w/ Princess Bride, Hogan's Heroes remakes, Ivan Watson's 'The Spook Who Sat By The Door' (01:07:00), Last Lines Outro (1:10:00) Smokey and the Bandit wiki Other FCAC episodes referenced in this episode: Close Encounters: available here Saturday Night Fever: available here Lee Wilkof, An Actor's Life: available here Subscribe to the podcast here Email the pod @ [email protected]

Steven Spielberg's 1977 masterpiece "Close Encounters Of The Third Kind" stands out as a deeply weird major-studio picture and, for many movie fans and directors like J.J. Abrams and Denis Villenueve, their favorite Spielberg movie of them all. Podcast Notes: Chris intro (00:01), putting Close Encounters Of The Third Kind in movie context (2:15), Being a Star Wars kid vs. a Star Wars kid (3:00), Aliens (4:00), Spielberg appreciation (4:15), the cute red dot of light UFO is so Spielberg (5:00), the great and naturalistic Air Traffic Control scene (7:20), Teri Garr and Dreyfuss 'Don't you think I'm taking this really well?' scene (12:45), Spielberg origin story of Close Encounters (15:00), the amazing Indian village singing scene w/ Bob Balaban and Francois Truffaut (21:00), J. Alan Hinnick, UFOlogist and his influence on Spielberg's approach to the movie and contribution of the title (24:00), Dreyfuss as Neary and Spielberg stand-in (26:00), Truffaut, Balaban and Dreyfuss in the interrogation scene (27:00), Teri Garr is a colossally brilliant comic genius actor (23:30), Teri Garr's MJB Coffee commercial that got her the part in Close Encounters (34:00), Cary Guffey (Barry Guiler) turned in one of the greatest child performances in film history in his role as the kid in Close Encounters (36:00) Casting Cary Guffey stories by Melinda Dillon and Steven Spielberg (38:00), kids weird sleeping positions (42:00), Duck Dogers cartoon (42:30), casting Francois Truffaut stories from Steven Spielberg and Richard Dreyfus (45:00), Finding the landing zone set in Alabama on a disused military base and shooting on the largest set in film history (48:00), Melinda Dillon motel room set & Truffaut's reaction story (48:30), John Williams and his iconic score for the film (49:45), Matt The Engineer (51:00), John Williams and Steven Spielberg talk about finding the five tones for the Close Encounters Of The Third Kind theme music (52:00), Jason gets model-maker Dennis Muren's name wrong, sorry, Dennis! (55:00), remembering the glass-shattering scene from the Mother Ship landing sequence (57:00), the hidden R2D2 on the mothership (1:00:00), the Close Encounters Theme Disco Version (1:03:00), Alternative Casting stories (1:04:00), Steve McQueen crying casting story from Steven Spielberg (1:05:00), the insane and incredible living room grief scene from Michael Hanecke's 'Funny Games' (1:08:00), Latch Key TV (01:09:40), The Littlest Hobo theme song (1:11:45), Columbo Cinematic Universe appearance of Dukes of Hazard star Sorrel Booke in the Johnny Cash episode (1:15:30), George C Scott as Mussolini (1:18:00), Kate & Allie was a good show (1:19:30), Final Line Outro (1:21:20)

In this rollicking and laugh-filled episode, Jason and Chris have an unreasonable amount of fun talking about 'Highlander', one of the strangest movies of the 1980's and one of the least likely franchise-spawning movies ever, still going strong 30 years later with innumerable sequels, prequels and spinoffs. Chris' intro of 'Highlander' and its many accents (1986) @ 00:00 Co-Hosts Intro (@ 1:45) When did they start playing movies on planes? (@ 3:00) Chris doesn't have any Dungeon and Dragons friends (sad trombone) (7:00) Sword & rapier types as used in 'Highlander' (8:00) 'Highlander' co-star Peter Diamond in 'Star Wars: A New Hope' (9:00) Christopher Lambert's varied and confusing nationalities & accents (11:00) Interrogation Scene (11:30) Clancy Brown in 'Highlander' (13:00) The plot in 'Highlander' as told by Sean Connery (14:00) Russell Mulcahey's music video career and The Buggles 'Video Killled The Radio Star' video (15:45) The Shadow & Alec Baldwin (18:00) Greystoke: The Legend Of Tarzan, Lord Of The Apes (20:30) Vangelis' theme to Chariots of Fire (21:00) Ian Holm's french accent in Greystoke (22:00) Sean Connery as Ramirez scene (24:30) Training Montage scene / Feel The Stag! (28:00) Kurgans (33:00) Alternative Casting (34:00) Michael Douglas, Richard Gere, Liam Neeson, Gary Oldman, Viggo Mortensen, Sting, Beastmaster, Mel Gibson, Mickey Rourke Fops Dueling scene (39:00) Brooke Adams, Karen Allen, Margot Kidder, Roseanne Arquette, Nick Nolte, Rutger Hauer, Roy Scheider, Lee Van Cleef, Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Michael Caine (42:00) Highlander's: They're Just Like Us (47:00) 3-2-1 Contact theme song (49:00) Latch Key TV (55:00) New Hampshire has no towns or cities (56:45) Dynasty & Die Fledermouse are one and the same (58:00) HEADLINES (59:30) Kevin Sorbo, faith-based cinema, guns, Antifa, The Reliant trailer is NUTS (59:45) Flirty the companion horse (1:06:00)

Middle-aged, simple-minded Chance lives in the townhouse of a wealthy old man in Washington, D.C.. He has spent his whole life tending the garden and has never left the property. Other than gardening, his knowledge is derived entirely from what he sees on television. When his benefactor dies, Chance naively tells the lawyers that he has no claim against the estate and is ordered to move out. Chance wanders aimlessly, discovering the outside world for the first time. Passing by a TV shop, he sees himself captured by a camera in the shop window. Entranced, he steps backward off the sidewalk and is struck by a chauffeured car owned by elderly business mogul Ben Rand. In the car is Rand's much younger wife Eve, who mishears "Chance, the gardener" in reply to the question who he is, as "Chauncey Gardiner." Eve brings Chance to their home to recover. He is wearing expensive tailored clothes from the 1920s and 1930s, which his benefactor had allowed him to take from the attic, and his manners are old-fashioned and courtly. When Ben Rand meets him, he takes "Chauncey" for an upper-class, highly-educated businessman who has fallen on hard times. Rand admires him, finding him direct, wise and insightful. Rand is also a confidant and advisor to the President of the United States, whom he introduces to "Chauncey." In a discussion about the economy, Chance takes his cue from the words "stimulate growth" and talks about the changing seasons of the garden. The President misinterprets this as optimistic political advice and quotes "Chauncey Gardiner" in a speech. Chance now rises to national prominence, attends important dinners, develops a close connection with the Soviet ambassador, and appears on a television talk show during which his detailed advice about what a serious gardener should do is misunderstood as his opinion on what would be his presidential policy. Though he has now risen to the top of Washington society, the Secret Service and some 16 other agencies are unable to find any background information on him. During this time Rand's physician, Dr. Allenby, becomes increasingly suspicious that Chance is not a wise political expert and that the mystery of his identity may have a more mundane explanation. Dr. Allenby considers telling Rand this, but realizing how happy Chance is making him in his final days keeps him silent. The dying Rand encourages Eve to become close to "Chauncey." She is already attracted to him and makes a sexual advance. Chance has no interest in or knowledge of sex, but mimics a kissing scene from the 1968 film The Thomas Crown Affair, which happens to be showing on the TV. When the scene ends, Chauncey stops suddenly and Eve is confused. She asks what he likes, meaning sexually; he replies "I like to watch," meaning television. She is momentarily taken aback, but decides she is willing to masturbate for his voyeuristic pleasure, thereby not noticing that he has turned back to the TV and is now imitating a yoga exercise on a different channel. Chance is present at Rand's death and shows genuine sadness at his passing. Questioned by Dr Allenby, he admits that he "loves Eve very much" and also that he is just a gardener. When he leaves to inform Eve of Ben's death, Allenby says to himself, "I understand," but interpretation of that is left to the viewer. While the President delivers a speech at Rand's funeral, the pallbearers hold a whispered discussion over potential replacements for the President in the next term of office and unanimously agree on Chauncey Gardiner as successor. Oblivious to all this, Chance wanders off through Rand's wintry estate. He straightens out a pine sapling flattened by a fallen branch, then walks across the surface of a lake. He pauses, dips his umbrella deep into the water under his feet (confirming for the viewer that it is not just a skim of water on the ground), then continues on, while the President is heard quoting Rand: "Life is a state of mind."

Chris and Jason are joined by inflatable co-pilot Young Nick Blake, who shares his love for 1980's iconic, seminal Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker movie 'Airplane'. The intrepid trio covers: Chris' inventive comedic introduction to the episode (00:01) The number of jokes in the entirety of "Airplane" (9:00) Airplane origin story (10:00) Bizarro scenes from 'Zero Hour', the film the ZAZ guys based Airplane on/ripped off. (15:00) Clip of the ZAZ guys on Letterman (21:00) Ethel Merman clip from 'Airplane' (22:30) Nick Blake/Jason fight over cigarette smoking scene in Airplane (24:30) Julie Hagerty comedic genius scene in Albert Brooks' "Lost In America" with Garry Marshall and Brooks (26:30) Donna Pescow/Peter Johansen shout-out (30:00) Robert Hayes being Just Good Enough in the role (31:00) Jeff/Beau Bridges: Which Is The More Talented Bridgeses? (33:00) How awesome is the MISSION IMPOSSIBLE TV THEME! (35:40) Great films with exclamation points in their titles (43:30) The joy of paperback photo sections in 1970's books (47:00) Johnny (Stephen Stucker) Comp Reel (51:00) Jim Nabors anecdote (55:00) ALTERNATIVE CASTING (56:00) David Letterman's Screen Test for 'Airplane' clip (57:45) Barry Manilow, Dom DeLuise, Christopher Lee, Fred Willard (59:00) Yuban Coffee Commercial (01:03:00) LATCH KEY TV (01:04:00) He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe, Skeletor, Transformers, Ghostbusters Cartoon, Lorenzo Music, Garfield, The Real Ghostbusters. Comic-Con, Flaming Carrot, PBS, NOVA Airport '77 (01:15:00) 'Airplane!' Wiki Page 'Airplane!' IMDB Page Watch 'Airplane!' on iTunes Subscribe to the podcast Learn about Chris' beloved comic book Flaming Carrot

Norman Jewison's film of John Patrick Shanley's FIRST EVER screenplay was a little movie that nobody, even the studio and the actors and filmmakers, ever thought would enter the culture like a couple of well-delivered slaps to that face, that FACE! In this episode, Chris and Jason jump into 'Moonstruck' like a big apizza pie: Read Nic Cage's amazing NY Times INTV cited in the pod (2:00). Cher is amazing (15:00) Nic Cage's 'Beauty And The Beast' accent attempt. (19:00) Moonstruck screenplay origin story (20:00) The Bride & The Wolf kitchen scene b/t Nic Cage and Cher (21:00) "Where's my wedding?" speech (22:00) Anatomy of a deleted scene w/ Shanley & Jewison (24:00 Shanley speaks first). Watch 'Moonstruck' on Amazon Prime or on iTunes with all the extras we watched for this episode. Watch Cher's Academy Award Acceptance Speech for Best Actress presented by Paul Newman and Chevy Chase. Watch Olympia Dukakis' Academy Award Acceptance Speech for Best Supporting Actress. Watch John Patrick Shanley's Academy Award Acceptance Speech for Best Original Screenplay. Read the Moonstruck Wiki Page. Check out the Moonstruck IMDB Page. Subscribe to the podcast.

In this special episode of the Full Cast And Crew Podcast, we interview Lee Wilkof, an actor and director whose career on stage and screen has spanned more than 42 years. He graduated from the University of Cincinnati in 1972 and has more than 101 IMDB credits as an (and counting) and has garnered Obie and Drama Desk Awards and a Tony nomination on Broadway. Lee is a charming and self-effacing guy who we were thrilled to nerd out with about his journey through Show Business and his great anecdotes about so many of the people he's worked with over the years. One of our favorite episodes to date on the podcast and a special chance to go behind the scenes of 40 years of stage and screen history, filled with great advice for actors and human beings. In this episode (as a thunderstorm briefly rages dramatically outside the FCAC studio) Lee shares with Chris and Jason stories about: The origins of Lee's directorial debut/cautionary tale of the acting life 'No Pay, Nudity' (13:40), the vibe and characters hanging around the old Actor's Equity Lounge (14:40), meeting Nathan Lane as young actors in NYC in 1972 (16:50), a clip from 'No Pay, Nudity' featuring Nathan Lane and Jon Michael Hill ('Eastbound & Down', 'Elementary') (25:00), some George R.R. Martin stories (30:45), 'Silence Of The Lambs' co-star Ted Levine (34:15), Loudon Wainwright III playing a character loosely based on Stephen Sondheim (42:20), Joel Higgins and 'Silver Spoons' (47:25), inadvertently insulting James Lapine and 'Into The Woods' and then making up for it with a self-effacing letter (49:22), Jeff Perry as Mr. Katimski in 'My So-Called Life' and presence in the Columbo Cinematic Universe (55:20), National Lampoon's 'Disco Beaver From Outer Space' (57:25), Influential show 'The Present Tense' and Roger Ailes trying to manage a young Lee Wilkof, who got as six-paragraph rave review, and Obie and a Drama Desk noms (59:16), Getting cast in the 'Animal House' tv spinoff 'Delta House' and being told to "town it down" (01:02:48), Dressing room 'Hart To Hart' chats with Natalie Wood and RJ Wagner while Stephanie Powers was not warming to Lee on-set (01:04:00), Lee's 'The Gong Show' appearance and getting gonged by JP Morgan while a struggling actor in LA and waiting for his big break and getting two pilot offers in one day (01:08:14), Bob Newhart reportedly not being thrilled with Lee as agent Elliot Gabler on 'Newhart' (01:14:08), working with Madeline Kahn (01:17:05), a 'Hunter' (Fred Dryer, Stepfanie Kramer) clip featuring Lee (01:18:23), Lee on the difference b/t guesting and being a regular on a TV series (01:21:57), working closely with Tim Blake Nelson ('O Brother Where Art Thou', 'The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs') (01:23:44), doing 'Ally McBeal' and a falling-out with David E. Kelley story (01:24:15), being a series regular on the iconic 'Max Headroom' ABC series (01:25:55), Steven Bochco's 'Cop Rock' and Lee convincing the director he didn't blow a take (01:28:45), doing 'Beverly Hills Buntz' (01:35:17), Lee tells us what he'd watch on tv in our 'Latch Key TV' segment (01:38:59), having Thanksgiving dinner with Gary Oldman and Dennis Hopper but not M. Emmett Walsh, sadly, on the set of Mick Jackson's 'Chattahoochee' (01:42:10), meeting Cary Grant in 1985 (01:45:00), Watching "Ghoulardi" as a kid growing up in Cleveland (01:49:20), On not being cast in the movie version of 'Little Shop Of Horrors' (01:51:00). Connect with Lee online: @leewilkof on Instagram Check Out Lee's IMDB Page: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0929502/ Watch Lee's Directorial Debut 'No Pay, Nudity': https://www.amazon.com/No-Pay-Nudity-Francis-Conroy/dp/B01MQU3H9M The 'Hart To Hart' Stanley Friesen Comp Reel we play in this episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MecYgXiEfaY Chuckler Comedy on Facebook. Share this podcast with your Twitter followers using this Click To Tweet link: https://ctt.ac/0dtX3+ Subscribe to the podcast.

This week on the Full Cast And Crew Podcast we cruise the rain-slicked early 90's NYC streets and track down Paul Schrader's (Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, American Gigolo) 1992 film 'Light Sleeper'. Fittingly, we're releasing this one at 2:43am on a Thursday morning, with our ears still ringing from the sound system at Area and our noses numbed with bad decisions. A Manhattan drug dealer with a wealthy clientele, John LeTour (Willem Dafoe) reevaluates both his trade and his life after discovering that his supplier, Ann (Susan Sarandon), is planning on quitting the business. When John runs into his old flame Marianne (Dana Delany), he sees reconnecting with her as a way to change for the better, but she is reluctant to rekindle the romance. Complicating John's life further is a series of drug-related murders that has the police pegging him as a suspect. Schrader called 'Light Sleeper' the last of his "Man In A Room' movies, along with Taxi Driver and American Gigolo; movies about isolated, alienated men occupying their single-room apartments and going slowly crazy with the dawning awareness of the dissatisfaction and ennui they are feeling. Despite that wrist-slitting description, 'Light Sleeper' features some pitch-perfect performances from Willem Dafoe, Sarandon, David Clennon, Victor Garber, Delaney, Mary Beth Hurt, Jane Adams, a young Sam Rockwell, and David Spade as "theological cokehead". 'Light Sleeper' is like transporting yourself back to NYC in the late 80's and early 90's. The restaurants, the coke, the bullshit clothes. But all that is viewed, almost in real time, with an acerbic, probing eye that lets no one off the hook. Featuring a soundtrack from The Call's Michael Been (1983's MTV-staple 'The Walls Came Down'), 'Light Sleeper' might not be a movie you're familiar with unless you came of age in the movie theaters of the 80's and 90's, but it's a perfect period piece and prescient about the downfalls and lies at the center of a life among "the beautiful people", with a sense of possible redemption at the end in the most unexpected of places. More about Light Sleeper here. Paul Schrader's IMDB page here. Light Sleeper Full Cast & Crew page here Cinematographer Ed Lachman's IMDB page here Full Cast And Crew Podcast page here.

Accompanied by their children (Dana Barron, Anthony Michael Hall), Clark Griswold (Chevy Chase) and his wife, Ellen (Beverly D'Angelo), are driving from Illinois to a California amusement park. As Clark increasingly fixates on a beautiful woman driving a sports car, the Griswolds deal with car problems and the death of a family member...and a dog. They reach Los Angeles, but, when Clark worries that the trip is being derailed again, he acts impulsively to get his family to the park. Vacation's IMDB Page: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085995/ Chevy Chase Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevy_Chase Harold Ramis Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Ramis Subscribe to Full Cast And Crew Podcast here.

The understated, minimalist 'Flash Gordon' showed admirable restraint in scenery, costuming, and acting. JUST KIDDING, it's a completely over-the-top circus spectacle of indulgence and various aspects of a film crew working on movies with vastly different tones except they're all working on the same movie. But FLASH means a lot to a lot of people, notably middle-aged white men who were 6 in 1980 and who embrace this movie tighter than they clutch their ticket to Autograph Alley at ComicCon to get a signed pic of the guy who played '3rd Hawkman In Attack Scene' for $25. So we try and plumb the depths, such as they are.

Local Hero is a 1983 Scottish comedy-drama film written and directed by Bill Forsyth and starring Peter Riegert, Denis Lawson, Fulton Mackay and Burt Lancaster. Up-and-coming Houston oil executive "Mac" MacIntyre (Peter Riegert) gets more than he bargained for when a seemingly simple business trip to Scotland changes his outlook on life. Sent by his colorful boss (Burt Lancaster) to the small village of Ferness, Mac is looking to quickly buy out the townspeople so his company can build a new refinery. But after a taste of country life Mac begins to question whether he is on the right side of this transaction.

We turned 40! OK, 40 episodes but still, from the comfortable vantage point of wisdom and jaded experience, we look back on Bob Fosse's groundbreaking autobiographical takedown of the myths of himself, 1979's 'All That Jazz'. Featuring the innovative "Fosse Time" editing, more iconic imagery (or "pretty pictures" as Fosse would call snapshots of his choreography) than you can shake a bowler hat at, and and unforgettable, iconic performance from Roy Scheider in yet ANOTHER role he lucked into (See our Jaws episode for the other). ALSO: Rants n Raves, Headlines, and Latch Key TV for your listening pleasure.

More cigarettes were consumed during the filming of Barbet Schroeder's 'Reversal Of Fortune' than during the filming of George Clooney's 'Goodnight And Good Luck'. And that's saying something! Also: WOW that Felicity Huffman cameo hasn't aged well, has it? Oh the irony. Ron Silver acts the hell out of a pair of eyeglasses, and Glenn Close is unreasonably good in a movie that's often as odd as its subject matter. Ginger Prawns for everyone. We still can't figure out who Bill Camp is in this movie; making Uta Hagen play the Maid role; and Fisher Stevens in the Ur-Fisher Stevens role, Julie Hagerty steps out of the Airplane! Cinematic Universe and MUCH MORE!

Public Enemy's churning, propulsive 'Fight The Power" was like a Batman logo swirling in the air across America in 1989 as Spike Lee's 3rd feature 'Do The Right Thing' hit theaters to the kind of fearful white fright and tut tutting from "thinkers" and reviewers too hidebound in their own bubble to receive this transmission from a filmmaker perfectly formed to speak in his films in a way no mainstream writer and director had to date. Hugely popular, controversial, conversation-starting 'Do The Right Thing' is a landmark American movie. But it's also hilariously funny, remarkably even-handed and without conclusive answers in a way that still feels incredibly brave and realistic. Pitched in a heightened color-scape and with indelible performances from a fantastic cast, 'Do The Right Thing' more than holds up today; it reminds us just how far we haven't come as a Nation in subsequent years.

1987's 'Robocop' is a brilliantly dark and funny social satire about a far-off time when powerful corporations have undue influence over society and overly-militarized police forces terrorize innocent civilians. GOOD THING THAT NEVER HAPPENED! We dive into Paul Verhoeven before Joe Ezsterhas got his hooks in him and 'Showgirls' became synonymous with 'career-ending bomb', and not in a good way.

2004's 'Mean Girls' was a 'Heathers' for a new generation and was directed by the brother of the guy who wrote 'Heathers' which is so weird, right? Featuring a star performance by LiLo, SNL alum Tim Meadows' best film work, and Tina Fey's brilliant script, 'Mean Girls' redefined the High School Movie and we give it its due with return Friend Of The Pod Alex Potter, who comes back for her 2nd LiLo film (catch her on our The Parent Trap episode) and also gives us her Latch Key TV takes and much more.