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S1 Ep 3535. Silence Of The Lambs (1991)

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Jonathan Demme's 1991 'Silence Of The Lambs' is one of only three films to ever win "The Big Five" Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Adapted Screenplay. It was an unconventional film in so many interesting and unique ways: female protagonist navigating two violently dangerous serial killers but also the male-populated world that looks down on and is dismissive of her even as it dangles her as bait. Anthony Hopkins' Hannibal Lecter is iconic, maybe the most beloved film villain of all time. Ted Levin's performance as Buffalo Bill was criminally overlooked for a Best Supporting Actor nod in one of the most egregious snubs in Oscar history. On the pod this week, we're joined by Friend Of The Pod Amanda Charlton, who was present for the filming of some of the jail scenes between Hopkins and Jodi Foster and tells us some fascinating anecdotes about the vibe on the set and some unexpected realities of filming movies that the average person might not know.

Jun 6, 20191h 21m

S1 Ep 3434. Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1978)

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Jack Finney's 1955 science-fiction novel 'The Body Snatchers' is maybe the only underlying intellectual property (aside from, like, the Bible or Shakespeare) to inspire FOUR feature film versions across 6 decades. So we start at the beginning with the fantastic Don Siegel (Escape From Alcatraz, Dirty Harry, Charlie Varrick) directed 1956 version, morph into uncanny likenesses of ourselves as we go deep 70's with Sutherland, Leonard Nimoy, Brooke Adams, and Jeff Goldblum, with appreciative asides for Abel Ferarra's 1990's version starring Gabrielle Anwar and less appreciative asides for a 2000's debacle starring Nicole Kidman and Jeremy Northam. ALSO: the least-believable nosebleed in movie history, the great Meg Tilly, and we're joined by Friend Of The Pod Paul Kaup to hear his amazing story of a diffident childhood cat and to dive into Tati v. James Charles, speaking of pod people. And In Defense Of Keanu might have to become a thing, b/c Paul and Jason are suitably moved by Keanu's excellent answer on Colbert while Chris remains stone-hearted.

May 30, 20191h 31m

S1 Ep 3333. Jaws (1975)

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It's been called "a perfect movie. I can't think of literally one thing that could be changed or improved". OK, our guest Frank DeRuggiero said that, but he has only one tattoo and its a Jaws tattoo so he knows from whence he speaks. Not only do we get into all the great moments from THE iconic scare-movie of all time, but we also discuss the waterlogged giant paperback of Jaws every family on vacation in the 70's had, we play the ENTIRETY of Quint's USS Indianapolis because you simply have to, we take a visit to the Columbo Cinematic Universe, do latch-key TV picks from the 80's AND MORE on the fascinatingly complicated, over-schedule and over-budget Martha's Vineyard location shoot of Jaws. You're gonna need a bigger set of headphones for this one.

May 23, 20191h 27m

S1 Ep 3232. Ishtar (1987)

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Well now we got bad blood, cause CHRIS, see...he's one of those people who LOVES 'Ishtar' and thinks it's a misunderstood classic of epic comedic proportions, and Jason is one of those rational, thinking humans who understands intuitively (ok after watching only 45 minutes of it) that it's a colossal failure. Also, Chris quotes Hamlet in defense of the also-maligned 1970's failed musical '1776' on the occasion of its cynical rising-from-the-dead in forthcoming new production, we debut our awesome new Columbo Cinematic Universe sound effect, rave about how Slackers are back, and hear all about how Chris was able to attend a once-in-a-lifetime screening and discussion of 'Apocalypse Now: The I-Can't-Stop-Messing-With-This-Film-Edition' with Steven Soderbergh and Francis Ford Coppola while Jason went to a penguins movie with his daughter. ALSO: The return of '1776: The Musical', the childhood tv magic of '3-2-1 Contact' and more.

May 16, 20191h 16m

S1 Ep 3131. Clue (1985)

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When a movie pitch contains the words "Based on the popular board game" you KNOW you're either in for a debacle of 'Battleship' (sorry, Peter Berg) proportions OR for the brilliantly subversive 1985 film that has become a cult classic and features the brilliant comedy performances of Tim Curry, Madeline Kahn, Martin Mull, Christopher Lloyd, Eileen Brennan, Michael McKean, and Lesley Ann Warren. The Brits called it 'Cluedo' just because they gotta be Brits. ALSO: Rants N Raves, This Week In 1980's TV Guide, Headlines and how Marcus Welby, M.D. is like floating away on a sweet cloud of nitrous oxide in the dentists chair.

May 9, 20191h 15m

S1 Ep 3030. Grease (1978)

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'Grease' is the word, it's got groove it's got feeling, and so does this in-depth podcast about the 40-years-and-counting worldwide phenomenon. Why does this weird movie (and it's deeply weird) stand the test of time? Easy: TRAVOLTA, SONGS, and KITSCH. And so many other reasons. So yes; we'll get into Sandy and Danny and the gang and the great performances from Didi Conn, Stockard Channing, and others, but we'll ALSO dive into the fascinating origin story of Grease as a counter-culture artifact springing out of Chicago's experimental theater scene. And we'll play all the iconic songs and comment upon them in a manner designed to make a fair-use argument for playing them.

May 2, 20191h 14m

S1 Ep 2929. Terms Of Endearment (1983)

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James L. Brooks' feature directorial debut 'Terms Of Endearment' has been soiling hankies for 36 years. ELEVEN Academy Award nominations. Stellar performances from Jack Nicholson, Shirley MacClain, Debra Winger, and John Lithgow. We also get into the haunting brilliance of the theme to Brooks' tv masterpiece 'Taxi', his surprising involvement in some of the most distinctive American film comedies of the 20th Century, and the rumored feud between the leading ladies of Terms. Also, our new segment This Week In TV Guide revisits some head-scratching log lines from 1980's after-school tv lineup. Plus Chris raves from his Ivory Tower about the charming artists enclave of Westport, CT, Headlines, the theme song from "In Search Of", how we're not waiting for Ted Jessup to record our "Mask" episode...and MORE.

Apr 24, 20191h 22m

S1 Ep 2828. Heathers (1988)

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We revisit the brilliant, still-vital "Heathers", THE definitive American High School movie, whose biting satire only barely covers the sensitive, beating, romantic heart that lies within. Featuring star-making performances from Christian Slater and a 16-year-old Winona Ryder, "Heathers" is a dark, pulls-no-punches social satire that aims arrows in every direction, including at the misguided teenage hearts and minds populating the hallways and leafy subdivisions of Sherwood, Ohio's Westerberg High School. We dive down the FCAC rabbit hole's of Slater, Ryder, we discuss the sad and tragic deaths of a couple of key cast members. ALSO: Syd Straw, Sly Stone, Rants n Raves, Headlines, and the debut of THIS WEEK IN TV GUIDE, our dynamic not-at-all fusty segment where we read unintentionally hilarious tv guide show descriptions from the 1980's, in which we hit Via Allegre, a horror anthology about cats, Gilligan's Island, and the mystery of the Garfield Phones.

Apr 18, 20191h 24m

S1 Ep 2727. Point Break (1991)

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Keanu. Swayze. Busey. Bodhi. Utah. Two. There's simplistic poetry in Katharine Bigelow's 'Point Break' that, sure, you could miss if you were some kind of cinephile or something. But that would be to willfully deprive yourself of the many joys, expected and otherwise, of this fantastic, genre-busting actioner. Swayze is simply iconic. It's a movie about chemistry, and we don't just mean the surf-wax and ocean-pollutant chemistry analysis going on in the LAPD Bank Robbery offices. We also talk about our own experiences working with Gary Busey and his cheeseburger requirements prior to shoot days, shout out the great James LeGros, Swayze's rumoured appearance in Toto's classic early-MTV music video for "Rosanna", Headlines, Rants N Raves and MORE!

Apr 11, 20191h 21m

S1 Ep 2626. Terry Gilliam's Brazil (1985)

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Terry Gilliam's 1986 masterpiece 'Brazil' has been called an Orwellian retro-futurist fantasy; a Political cartoon writ large; a Science-fiction masterpiece; not at all Science-fiction more like a documentary; a treatise on the unthinking rigidity of middle-management bureaucracy; a selfish landmark and memento of a life gone terribly wrong; a viking musical; about the impossibility of escaping reality; like lifting the top off Terry Gilliam's skull and looking inside; and like Franz Kafka meets Walter Mitty. SO with all those excellent takes already taken, Chris and Jason discuss the movie's wardrobe department. (JUST KIDDING!)

Apr 4, 20191h 19m

S1 Ep 2525. Blackkklansman (2018)

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It's a #tbt of sorts here at FCAC as we release our episode on Spike Lee's (now) Oscar-winning feature, BLACKKKLANSMAN, which we recorded a few weeks ago. We discuss Spike, his career, the real Ron Stallworth, yacht rock, a couple movies we seem to have trouble remembering names of, and how this is an antidote for GREEN BOOK. Plus our reactions to the Oscar Noms, as well as Rants and Raves. Why are you reading this when you could be listening and finding out for yourself? E-mail: [email protected] TWITTER: @fullcastandcrew INSTAGRAM: fullcastandcrew

Mar 28, 20191h 7m

S1 Ep 2424. Zardoz (1974)

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This week Jason and Chris are joined by guest co-host Gordon Ramsey (not the one you're thinking of ...) to discuss John Boorman's 1974 overstuffed, peerlessly ambitious, and deeply considered passion project, Zardoz! We address the question that has dogged viewers of the film as well as anyone who casually came across a still of Sean Connery's costume: What the hell is this about? Nihilism, generational strife, class warfare, testosterone, as well as Eros and Thanatos. All that plus Rants and Raves and Entertainment News Headlines!!

Mar 21, 20191h 11m

S1 Ep 2323. Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse (2018)

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Oh What A Tangled Web Of 'Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse' Hot Takes We Weave! Is it the greatest Spider-Man movie ever? Is it the greatest animated superhero movie ever? Is it the greatest Marvel movie ever?? Look Out/Here Come The Hot Takes! Charles Mingus, Ralph Bakshi, all sorts of unexpected connections spring forth, which, if you know anything about us, is kind of our raisin detra, which is totally how you spell that.

Mar 14, 20191h 9m

S1 Ep 2222. Escape To Witch Mountain (1975)

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This week we dive into Disney's 'Escape To Witch Mountain', a superlative 1970's effort about telekinetic orphaned siblings fleeing the evil clutches of a business man determined to use their predictive abilities for financial gain. Ray Milland, Donald Pleasance, and Eddie Albert lend their distinctive abilities to the effort, and a roster of studio-system pro actors rounds out the cast. And lest we forget WINKY THE CAT? Plus Headlines, Rants 'n Raves and much much more!

Mar 7, 20191h 14m

S1 Ep 2121. Chameleon Street (1989)

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Wendell B. Harris, Jr won the Grand Jury Prize at the 1990 Sundance Film Festival with his debut independent feature "Chameleon Street", a fictional retelling of the incredible life of professional imposter William Douglas Street, a man who pretended to be lawyers, reporters, students and doctors, even performing 36 successful hysterectomies. "Chameleon Street" announced the arrival of a fully-formed cinematic auteur who had carved out a highly-specific mix of humor, drama, politics, and race relations and was seemingly presented with all the runway to fulfill the promise repped in his entirely self-funded, truly independent first feature. Instead, he never directed another film.

Feb 28, 20191h 9m

S1 Ep 21Bonus: Oscars 2019

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2019's Oscars played like a sequel to the 2017 Oscars ... but without the happy ending. Jason and Chris break down (sorta) the ceremony; the set, the winners, the losers, the songs, the snubs, and the question of why we're even talking about this stuff. Come for the praise of Billy Porter's tux-gown, stay for Olivia Coleman's speech!

Feb 25, 201940 min

S1 Ep 2020. Working Girl (1988)

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LETTTTTT THE RIVER RUNNNNNNN.....Teased hair, eye-shadow that matches your earrings, a 10 o'clock with Slater and lunch with Mr. Trask at 1 downtown. It's WORKING GIRL and it's got fantastic casting, superlative directing from Mike Nichols and, at the center, a singular performance from Melanie Griffith and another scene-stealing romp from Joan Cusack alongside excellent work from Alec Baldwin, Sigourney Weaver, Phillip Bosco and Amy Aquino. ALSO: F*ck Jerry! Pet Semetary rises from the dirt of remembrance and the graveyard of Stephen King adaptations, Chris dares to speak ill of "My Bodyguard", Rants n Raves, Headlines and more!

Feb 21, 20191h 14m

S1 Ep 1919. The Notebook (2004)

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Sometimes a film captures the public imagination because it expresses a universal truth in an of-the-moment way. Sometimes it's because its great artistry reframes a thing we thought we knew. And sometimes it's because it's pre-chewed, spiceless mush that spackles over the heart-spaced hole where consciousness used to sit before a militantly vapid consumerist culture eradicated humanity's desire – even ability – to truly feel. Which one is 2004's The Notebook? Listen to this very special, Valentine's Day episode of FULL CAST AND CREW to find out!

Feb 14, 20191h 5m

S1 Ep 1818. The Last Unicorn (1982)

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This week the FULL CAST AND CREW crew saddles up for THE LAST UNICORN, a 1982 animated feature which, depending on your age, either scared the crap out of you or you have yet to experience. 'The Last Unicorn' is a grandly bizarre spectacle mashing up incredible Japanese hand-drawn animation, voices from Mia Farrow, Alan Arkin, Brother Theodore, and Jeff Bridges, and surprisingly sophisticated takes on belonging and otherness. We talk about writing for children, animating for everyone, LOTS of music, a voice cast of unparalleled talent, including Jason's personal favorite, Brother Theodore … who Chris had never heard of (SHOCKER). PLUS: We are refuseniks with no celebrity friends, the movies of Jean-Pierre Melville, the Fyre Fest docs, and Matt the Engineer makes a restaurant recommendation. From the 1980's. I can't believe I ate the whole thing!

Feb 7, 20191h 12m

S1 Ep 1717. The Thing (1982)

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Across an arctic tundra, a lone sled dog runs, pursued by 2 men in a helicopter. One of them brandishes a rifle and begins shooting. Workers at a remote arctic research station watch as the helicopter crashes and explodes. They befriend the dog, welcoming him..and something else... into their kennel. Thus begins John Carpenter's classic icy masterpiece 'The Thing'. Featuring spot-on casting, spooky, wind-rattled interiors, dark humor, KURT RUSSELL, and a unique shape-shifting "Thing"...it seems insane now that this film almost ruined Carpenter's career upon release and damaged his relationship with the horror audience and the film community for years...all because of a movie he didn't really want to do in the first place.

Jan 31, 20191h 1m

S1 Ep 1616. Green Book (2018)

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'Green Book' tells white people that it's all good! Racism, man! Good thing that's over, amirite? From a shaky, ill-conceived premise comes a shaky, ill-conceived White Savior movie directed, of course, by "Dumb & Dumber" director Peter Farrelly. That said, Vigo and Mahershala do very good jobs with limited material. The movie itself is a by-the-numbers Odd Couple/Road Trip/Buddy Comedy with few surprises. But the clamor AROUND the movie is far more interesting and touches upon timely and topical themes like "who gets to tell what stories?" and "should you be faithful to a person's life and truth when making a movie at least in part about that person" and "Should we call this 'Green Book' even when it's about a white guy?". We also delve into the REAL Donald Shirley, play some of his music and listen to him talk about racism in America. ALSO HEADLINES (with our snappy theme-song): 'Green Book' Director Peter Farrelly and something else he pulled out of his lower region. Nick Vallelonga regrets his regrettable tweets. Jason suffers a real-time podcasting injury while making a joke about another man's physical challenges. Robot-on-robot crime and RANTS N RAVE, or at least Chris on the Go-Go's musical and a whole revealing section about Matt The Engineer.

Jan 24, 20191h 7m

S1 Ep 1515. Bird Box (2018)

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We start with Chris' uber-millennial French Press Coffee injury, which you have to hear to believe. Moving on to viewer comments, Jason is taken to the Woodshed for his previous-episode attempt to tamp down Chris' soliloquy on some obscure comic-book run of issues where blah blah blah....anyway, lesson learned. Moving onto Bird Box, we remove our critical blindfolds and dive into the where's and why's of the evil force which whatever you do you must not gaze upon but you CAN be safe from in a supermarket. Matt The Engineer also dives into the world of psycho-acoustics and celery as broken bones. LiLo's beach club stands in stark contrast to her genius in Parent Trap. Lin-Manuel buys the Drama Book Shop, but that doesn't excuse his turn in the otherwise fantastic Mary Poppins Returns.

Jan 17, 20191h 7m

S1 Ep 1414. Vice (2018)

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Christian Bale gained 50 pounds to play Dick Cheney in Adam McKay's 'Vice' so he MUST be good in it, right? AND he won a Golden Globe, and they don't just hand those out like House Select Committee Assignments, after all. So we get ourselves elected to figure out what's going on in this movie. Also: Withnail & I rears it's brilliant head again as Chris admits he didn't see 'American Psycho' and thus doesn't really understand when Jason makes any Huey Lewis & The News 'Sports' references. Plus: Headlines! And: RIP 'That Guy' Donald Moffat, whose passing garners two classic clips from 'The Right Stuff' and 'The Thing'.

Jan 10, 20191h 5m

S1 Ep 16Bonus: Golden Globes (2018)

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Who cares about the Golden Globes? Someone, I am sure. In this BONUS episode Jason and Chris react to this Oscar Night Dress Rehearsal, from the hosts, to the winners, to award shows in general. Did we like it? Did we hate it? Did we even WATCH?! Listen to this BONUS episode and find out! (Spoiler: the answer to all three is, "a little ...") E-mail: [email protected] Twitter: @fullcastandcrew Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Fullcastandcrew/ Instagram: @fullcastandcrew

Jan 7, 201945 min

S1 Ep 1313. Can You Ever Forgive Me (2018)

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Chris got new glasses. If Harold Ross could be seen wearing eyeglasses in the offices of the New Yorker in the 1920's...he'd knock them off his face in incredulous wonder at the chance to contemplate the films of Bruce Robinson that star Richard E. Grant, like "Withnail & I" and "How To Get Ahead In Advertising". Oh, and we discuss 'Can You Ever Forgive Me?", starring Melissa McCarthy and REG...to which Jason decidedly says NO and Chris says, yes, he can. In this way we are both true to form. Of all things, IRON MAIDEN comes into focus thanks to Matt The Engineer's trenchant observations and clarifications of Chris and Jason's confusion over Bruce's Davidson, Robinson and Dickinson. Also a NEW SEGMENT: Jason Reads Chris the Entertainment Headlines to hilarity and a little dead air. J Woww, Travis Scott, Green Acres, and a few choice words from Morgan Freeman, too.

Jan 3, 20191h 6m

S1 Ep 1212. Roma (2018)

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Alfonso Cuaron's 'Roma': if you've seen it, you know why the film has received unanimous critical acclaim, with reviewers calling it "achingly beautiful" and "engrossing". 'Roma' was chosen by Time magazine and the New York Film Critics Circle as the best film of 2018, and by the National Board Of Review as one of the top ten best films of 2018. It's earned Golden Globe nominations for Best Foreign Language Film, Best Director, and Best Screenplay. It was also selected as the Mexican entry for the Best Foreign Language Film for the 91st Academy Awards, making the December shortlist. No awards love as yet for Professor Zovek but there's always hope! Does it live up to the hype? Check out our latest episode and find out! Also; Rants 'n Raves, Engineer Matt, terrible Mexican pronunciations, and fried-chicken-scented fireplaces!

Dec 27, 20181h 4m

S1 Ep 1111. The Favourite (2018)

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Yorgos Lanthimos' aptly-named new film 'The Favourite' is gorging on every awards nomination like The Queen attacking a cake. Our intellectual discussion covers the towering brilliance of Olivia Culman, Lanthimos' genius other film 'The Lobster', and the career implications of being cast as "Wanking Man" in a movie. Chris shares his own actorly experience playing a man whose acne medication renders him impotent in an episode of 'The Good Wife'. Jason rants about another commercial, Chris raves about his parents (we think/hope?) and we shout-out great Rachel Weiss performances, Le Carre adaptations and MUCH MORE!

Dec 20, 20181h 11m

S1 Ep 1010. Widows (2018)

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'Widows' failed to make much of a mark at the box office. Critical acclaim hasn't YET translated into Awards Season loot, with so far only an ensemble acting nod from the Critics' Choice Awards. In other news The Critics' Choice Awards are apparently a thing. But there ARE things to celebrate and recommend in this flawed but often-compelling would-be action/heist/social commentary flick. We celebrate. We recommend. And we contemplate whether boating is a thing for Chicagoans and Chris' dysfunctional relationship with MoviePass. Also: we receive bonus pottery with Lance Henrikson, discuss The Art Of Not Interviewing Drew 'Barrimore', read Viewer Mail But From Listeners, do our Rants 'n Raves segment, AND MORE!

Dec 13, 20181h 6m

S1 Ep 99. Monkey Shines (1988)

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An athlete is rendered a paraplegic through a devastating jogging accident. A trained helper monkey arrives as his live-in assistant. A well-meaning but drugged out lab rat performs monkey-altering experiments. Some sort of Manimal transference takes place and the bodies and histrionics pile up from there. It's 1988's George A. Romero horror classic "Monkey Shines" starring Chicago P.D.'s pre-contractually-required-anger-management Jason Beghe, Janine Turner, John Pankow and the indispensable Stephen Root, as well as the greatest and most hilarious pair of little monkey arms-on-sticks ever designed by FX man Tom Savini. PLUS: Can you ever trust anyone whose favorite food is Linguine & Clam Sauce? New Segment "Rants 'n Raves". AND ALSO: Listener Mail, Jason has a big admission of guilt, and Chris introduces a new thing where he edits himself BACK into the podcast after his initial jokes fall flat. Finally, the boys torpedo any impending State Farm Insurance podcast sponsorship.

Dec 6, 20181h 7m

S1 Ep 88. The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs (2018)

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Is the new Coen Brothers movie the best Western of all time? Or is it more like FOR the Best Western Hotel chain? We root around in the prairie dust, the hoofprints, the majestic vistas and, in the simple finality of man's ruthless violence towards his fellow man, find some of life's imponderables answered. Also: James Franco, Tom Waits, and an excellent animal cast of equines, owls, trained fish, and Clancy Brown.

Nov 29, 20181h 4m

S1 Ep 77. Disney's The Parent Trap (1998)

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"White-lady aspirational materialism and a special kind of empty that feels warm", is the beating heart at the center of Nancy Meyers movies, says our guest Alex in this episode, and boy did she hit the nail on the head. It's an alternative universe where nothing is really wrong, except perhaps some of the basics of filmmaking. But let's not go into it with our eyes hooded in suspicion of California vineyard owners and London-based wedding-dress designers. We also cover the 1961 version of The Parent Trap, and the material's origin's in Nazi Germany (for real).

Nov 22, 20181h 8m

S1 Ep 66. Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)

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Is 'Bohemian Rhapsody' the Biopic that Freddy Mercury and Queen deserve? More urgently, is "I Love My Car" to this movie what "Why Did You Do That" is to "A Star Is Born"? Episode also features Jason's voice going up a Freddy-like 2 octaves when it's revealed that Chris never saw "Amadeus"...and Chris buries the lead on The Time He Co-Starred With Rami Malek. Also: the perils of 70'S wigs. And: what ARE the good or great music biopics? Plus: Viewer Mail But From Listeners.

Nov 15, 20181h 5m

S1 Ep 7Bonus: Excelsior, Stan Lee

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BONUS EPISODE! It's hard to capture in words the scope of the effect that Stan Lee had on the world of pop culture, or on the emotional development of co-host Chris. So we don't even try. Instead we stroll through the world of comics that Stan helped cultivate, flipping through a tattered old issue we had on hand, from the front cover and the opening splash to the ad for army men on the back. Thank you, Stan, for infusing the mythic with humanity. And vice versa. Excelsior! E-mail: [email protected] Twitter: @fullcastandcrew Facebok: https://www.facebook.com/Fullcastandcrew/ Instagram: @fullcastandcrew

Nov 14, 201841 min

S1 Ep 55. Superman II (1980)

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1978's SUPERMAN is one of the most beloved superhero movies ever made and Christopher Reeve is THE iconic Superman. How, then, did SUPERMAN II turn into such a cynical, inferior sequel, with the filmmakers snatching defeat from the jaws of certain victory? Hear how Brando suggested to the director that he appear as either a donut or a talking suitcase, and how the original creative team vanished from SUPERMAN II. E-mail: [email protected] Twitter: @fullcastandcrew Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Fullcastandcrew/ Instagram: @fullcastandcrew

Nov 8, 20181h 9m

S1 Ep 44. A Star Is Born (2018)

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Show Biz, Man...it's a bitch, and the drugs only work until they don't. SPOILER ALERT if you haven't seen ASIB, or fed the dog a steak lately. Loosen your belts and dig in, as we have two very different takes on this movie. Who is who and which is which? In this hotly-anticipated ripped-from-the-headlines episode, the boys break down Bradley Cooper's directorial debut, and dive deep into the performances of Gaga, Cooper, Sam Elliot, Andrew Dice Clay, Dave Chappell, Rafi Gavron, Barry Shabaka Henley, and Alec Baldwin's four-word cameo as Himself. Also: listener suggestions! Chris has seen shockingly few movies! Jason pronounces 'Objet d'art' and other words! And we premiere our new books podcast "Frontispiece"...or do we?

Nov 1, 20181h 5m

S1 Ep 4Bonus: The French Connection (2018)

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BONUS EPISODE! Not the movie THE FRENCH CONNECTION (which is great) but France-related material that came up when we tried to record about A STAR IS BORN with Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga (in the movie, not with us in the studio). This says nothing about the film but was too good to throw away. So sit back, open a Perrier, spread some brie on a poodle, and enjoy! E-mail: [email protected] Twitter: @fullcastandcrew Facebok: https://www.facebook.com/Fullcastandcrew/ Instagram: @fullcastandcrew

Oct 30, 201815 min

S1 Ep 33. Pumpkinhead (1988)

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In this week's SCAAARRRY Halloween episode, the fellas give their souls over to the directorial debut of legendary special-effects man Stan Winston: the hillbilly-horror-revenge-monster-classic PUMPKINHEAD, starring almost-the-Terminator Lance Henriksen. This leads to discussions of baroque kills, arithmetic, 80s jerks, the morally corrosive impulse toward revenge, Jason's glasses, acting school, actor headshots, showbiz-dog agents, and the convention circuit. All that plus poetry!

Oct 25, 20181h 4m

S1 Ep 22. A League Of Their Own (1992)

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Balls! Strikes! Jon Lovitz! In this grand slam episode, Chris and Jason find themselves on opposite teams when it comes to A League Of Their Own. Highlights: Chris's sunglasses and stolen bike are diversions as Chris wonders how you score a touchdown in baseball. Jason speculates as to the motives of screenwriters Babaloo Mandel and Lowell Ganz. And we both celebrate Laverne & Shirley, Lenny, Squiggy, Gary Marshall's cameo in 'Lost In America', 80's Madonna ballads, Tom Hanks as a grizzled baseball lifer who can't spit tobacco, Geena Davis, Lori Petty, Madonna and Rosie O'Donnell's great chemistry, Del Close, and whether you'd want your immediate family present at your induction into a Hall Of Fame. ALSO: Matt The Engineer saves us from litigious peril! Again! Subscribe for new episodes every Thursday and let us know what you like, don't like, want to hear about, how you're doing, wanna do this weekend, etc. E-mail: [email protected] Twitter: @fullcastandcrew Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Fullcastandcrew/ Instagram: @fullcastandcrew WE FIGURED IT OUT!!

Oct 18, 20181h 1m

S1 Ep 11. Saturday Night Fever (1977)

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WELCOME FRIENDS (because who else would roll the dice on a new podcast?)! In the inaugural episode of FULL CAST & CREW your hosts, Jason and Chris, examine SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER, the sociologically rich 1977 examination of tribalism and masculinity that's been reduced in the popular imagination to kitschy music and a funny suit. We go past its star turn by John Travolta to talk about the music, other actors, the video game that came from it, a show called ANGIE, and much, much more! Subscribe for new episodes every Wednesday and let us know what you like, don't like, want to hear about, how you're doing, wanna do this weekend, etc. E-mail: [email protected] Twitter: @fullcastandcrew Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Fullcastandcrew/ Instagram: I can't figure this one out.

Oct 5, 201851 min