In the Golden Age of Hollywood, there was one star so bright, they kept casting her in films with “STAR” in the title! Scott and Marty provide you with the necessary cinematic pinhole box required to view Janet Gaynor’s career (without permanent vision loss)! Featuring these flashes of brilliance: Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927,…
A good detective show is like a chess match… or maybe it’s like a blonde bombshell obsessed with her own portrait… or else it’s like, um… vampires at Woodstock? Scott and Marty take their best shot with these unconventional episodes: Columbo S2E5: “The Most Dangerous Match” at 2:10 Moonlighting S2E6: “Portrait of Maddie” at 14:55…
After a dynamite run in the 1970s, working under luminaries like Altman, Kubrick, Allen, and Gilliam, Shelley Duvall’s career went… other places. Here, Marty and Scott scour the back half of this great actor’s filmography… mostly so that you don’t have to. Films we pressed against our eyeballs this week: Roxanne (1987, Dir. Fred Schepisi)…
CINEMATIC OMNIVERSE is back, with one of our favourite leading ladies! How did Shelley Duvall first become an actor? Which 1930s starts inspired her performance as Olive Oyl? Why do Scott & Marty find the word “coerced” hilarious? You’ll find the answers (such as they are) in this, the first of two Duvall retrospective episodes!…
Words cannot describe how monumental this, our 100th Episode, truly is… but we can’t figure out how to make a silent podcast, so we’re sticking with the talkies as we wrap up our series on self-reflective cinema. Join Marty and Scott as they scope out these four funky films: Tropic Thunder (2008, Dir. Ben Stiller)…
Marty and Scott’s centuries-spanning survey of filmic navel-gazing reaches an especially gaze-worthy era: the 80s and 90s. How did the Dream Factory imagine itself? And how do you even know it’s a dream, unless you put a dwarf in it? Don’t look into the camera! Just join us. The cinematic octopi we wrestle this week:…
Scott and Marty continue their chronological deep dive into self-reflective filmmaking. Tune in as they brave monkey ghosts, talking mimes, and the occasional crotch muppet in their tireless quest to answer the question: When you gaze into the camera’s lens, does the camera also look into you? Films we chase down on our motorized wheelchairs:…
Scott and Marty go back — WAYYY BACK — to the nudists, clock goblins, and rarebit fiends of silent cinema — as they launch an unprecedented FOUR PART series on how FILM SEES ITSELF! It’s so exciting, it requires ALL CAPS and LOTS of exclamation points!!! Covered this week (Holy Monkeyshines!): Meta-movies of the 19th…
He’s the paragon of character actors, and the podcast’s unofficial mascot: Harry Dean Stanton. It’s a labour of love as Marty and Scott ramble through his long filmography. Check it out! The Wrong Man (1956, Dir. Alfred Hitchcock) at 4:18 Paris, Texas (1984, Dir. Wim Wenders) at 18:37 Man Trouble (1992, Dir. Bob Rafelson) at…
It takes all sorts of people to make an underworld. Like… Vulcans? Leprechauns?! Canadian mayoral campaign managers?!? Scott and Marty circulate amongst a very odd rogue’s gallery, and return to share all the results with you. In this episode, our televisual exposés include: Columbo S2E6 “A Stitch in Crime” at 2:12 Moonlighting S2E7 “Somewhere Under…
