Can beauty kill? Is Christmas a time for crime? Can vampires have their own reality TV show? The answers await, festooned with Scott-and-Marty-flavoured fun! Columbo S03E01: “Lovely But Lethal” (at 1:25) Moonlighting S02E10: “‘Twas the Episode Before Christmas…” (at 14:25) Forever Knight S01E17: “Unreality TV” (at 25:50)
Marty and Scott continue to survey and salute the Voice of Vader. This episode takes them through the nineties, a decade known for its Hollywood cannibals. What has James Earl been jonesing for..? Listen for answers!* If you build it, commentary on the following films will come: Field of Dreams (1989, Dir. Phil Alden Robinson) at…
In one of our most contentious episodes yet, we travel to the fabled realms of Zamunda, Hyboria, and France in pursuit of James Earl Jones’s early film roles. If you’re not coming with us, you’re either suffering from catatonia or else you’re just a baboon. BABOON!! James Earl Joints: The Great White Hope (1970, Dir.…
Columbo does a cooking show! Maddie meets the head of Network 23! Nick Knight pouts like a jealous teen! Scott and Marty are here to help you through it all. Columbo S2E8 “Double Shock” at 2:18 Moonlighting S2E9 “Atlas Belched” at 17:58 Forever Knight S1E6 “Only the Lonely” at 29:30 Follow us on Spotify, Apple…
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:…
