BOO! Or rather, CHEER for Cinematic Omniverse’s Hallowe’en special! SCREAM with joy along with Marty, Scott, and special GHOST – er, guest – Abbey Schwartz! Core Connections:House of 1,000 Corpses (2003, Dir. Rob Zombie)Spider Baby (1967, Dir. Jack Hill)Trilogy of Terror (1975, Dir. Dan Curtis)  Connective Cameos:A Clockwork OrangeBeetlejuicePoltergeistThe Texas Chainsaw MassacreThe RingFriday the 13th The Rocky Horror Picture ShowEd WoodPlan 9 From Outer SpaceThe AristocratsClerksScreamThe MunstersNight of the HunterThe GolemLord of the RingsDjango UnchainedNashvilleVertigoDr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the BombBatmanThe HangoverArachnophobiaThe PatsyThe Addams FamilyFoxy BrownThe Fear ChamberSwitchblade SisterThe Snake PeoplePolice AcademyThe ExorcistThe ShiningChild’s PlayHouse…

Kirsten Dunst: Permanently prepubescent bloodsucker, or time-hopping beauty queen?Also in this ep: Scott and Marty deliver their Box Office Gold and Box Office Poison pitches! Core Connections: Interview with the Vampire (1994, Dir. Neil Jordan)Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999, Dir. Michael Patrick Jann)The Power of the Dog (2021, Dir. Jane Campion)  Connective Cameos: Bram Stoker’s DraculaNosferatuDraculaWhat We Do in the ShadowsLegends of the FallTrue RomanceThe Addams FamilyThe Iceman ComethThe Tree of LifeBeing John MalkovichRashomonFight ClubBonfire of the VanitiesNew York StoriesPlan Nine from Outer SpaceFargoThe PianoCity Slickers1917The HobbitDoctor Strange12 Years a SlaveWar HorseSpider-Man1984BatmanAustin Powers: International Man of MysteryAustin Powers: The Spy Who…

Film frontiersmen Scott & Marty can spot the most character-istic of character actors — and even in a room full of Roberts, it’s Ryan every time. Core Connections: Crossfire (1974, Dir. Edward Dmytryk) Bad Day at Black Rock (1955, Dir. John Sturges) The Iceman Cometh (1973, Dir. John Frankenheimer) Connective Cameos: Act of Violence Rashomon It’s A Wonderful Life It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans The Great Escape Gunfight at the OK Corral The Magnificent Seven Marty Back to the Future Die Hard The Princess Bride Idle Hands Greed Leaving Las Vegas…

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Movie mavens Scott and Marty enter the (Radio)head of Stephen Tobolowsky, a character actor you’ll never forget… unless you have anterograde amnesia, that is. Have we already had this conversation? Core Connections: Mississippi Burning (1988, Dir. Alan Parker) The Grifters (1990, Dir. Stephen Frears) Memento (2000, Dir. Christopher Nolan) Connective Cameos: The Patsy Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans Groundhog Day Spaceballs True Stories Monty Python’s Life of Brian Pink Floyd’s The Wall Child’s Play One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Nashville The Big Easy The Visitor aka Stridulum Goodfellas Saw Super Mario Bros Dark City Labyrinth The Dark…

In their most audacious act of interconnectedness yet, Marty and Scott travel from the Silent Age to the cusp of New Hollywood, on the trail of the moustachioed “Snub” Pollard. Core Connections: By the Sea (1915, Dir. Charlie Chaplin) Billy Blaze, Esq. (1919, Dir. Hal Roach) It’s a Gift (1923, Dir. Hugh Fay) Singin’ in the Rain (1952, Dir. Gene Kelly) The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962, Dir. John Ford) Connective Cameos: Casablanca Last Night in Soho Scarface Intolerance Safety Last Red River It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World Goodfellas A Hard Day’s Night Monty Python’s Life of…

Marty and Scott are doing the Lord’s work – and by “the Lord” they mean Franco Nero, aka Django Jesus. Join the crusade! Core Connections: Red River (1948, Dir. Howard Hawks) The Big Heat (1953, Dir. Fritz Lang) Django Unchained (2012, Dir. Quentin Tarantino) Connective Cameos: Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid The Visitor aka Stridulum The Night of the Hunter Cleopatra Jones Rio Bravo The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Go West Blazing Saddles She Done Him Wrong Twelve O’Clock High The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance The Celluloid Closet Superman Gilda It’s A Wonderful Life Without Love North…

From the Gay Nineties to the Noir Eighties, gumshoes Scott and Marty unravel the threads of cinema’s greatest seamstress, Edith Head. Core Connections: She Done Him Wrong (1933, Dir. Lowell Sherman) Notorious (1946, Dir. Alfred Hitchcock) Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid (1982, Dir. Carl Reiner) Connective Cameos: Casablanca The General Intolerance Dracula The Patsy Without Love Go West It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World North by Northwest The Incredibles The Manchurian Candidate No Way Out The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes Zelig Airplane! Give My Regards to Broad Street F/X Ball of Fire Sorry, Wrong Number The Spanish Prisoner The…

Scott and Marty pay an oblique and pointless tribute to the world’s greatest soul-funk supergroup as they continue their deep dive into cinema’s secret continuity. Core Connections: The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976, Dir. Nicolas Roeg) A Mighty Wind (2003, Dir. Christopher Guest) Ball of Fire (1941, Dir. Howard Hawks) Connective Cameos: Fast Times at Ridgemont High Sweet Sweetback’s Badasssss Song That’s the Way of the World Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band Don’t Look Now Performance Walkabout Catch-22 Pork Chop Hill The Third Man The Rocky Horror Picture Show This is Spinal Tap Waiting for Guffman Best in…

How high can Scott and Marty get, as they consider the concept of time in the omniverse? Core Connections: Twelve O’Clock High (1949, Dir. Henry King) Three O’Clock High (1987, Dir. Phil Joanou) Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982, Dir. Amy Heckerling) Connective Cameos: Die Hard Dangerous Minds Lean on Me Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope King Creole The Gunfighter Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Titanic Pulp Fiction Pork Chop Hill The Patsy Airplane! Back to the Future Young Guns Stand by Me Throw Momma From the Train The Terminator…

Marty, Scott, and guest John Hudson spend a super-sized episode discussing merkins, zithers, and precious bodily fluids. Core Connections: Dr. Strangelove, or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Bomb The Third Man Strange Brew Connective Cameos: The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans Barbarella Easy Rider The Magic Christian Barry Lyndon A Clockwork Orange 2001: A Space Odyssey Airplane! Idle Hands Metropolis Silence of the Lambs Fail Safe Catch-22 MASH The Hunt for Red October It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World Lost Highway The Magic Christian A Shot in the Dark The World of Henry…

Glavin! In a classic-crammed episode, Marty and Scott trace the weird career of career weirdo, Peter Lorre. Core Connections: M (1931, Dir. Fritz Lang) Casablanca (1942, Dir. Michael Curtiz) The Patsy (1964, Dir. Jerry Lewis) Connective Cameos: Batman Returns The Grand Illusion O Z Q Citizen Kane Star Wars Jaws Birth of a Nation The Story of Mankind Goodfellas Nosferatu Dracula Play It Again, Sam 1941 How I Won the War Cleopatra Anatomy of a Murder The Grand Illusion Catch-22 The Bellboy Arsenic and Old Lace The Obscure Object of Desire Lady Sings the Blues One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s…

In this episode, itinerant cinephiles Marty and Scott invite you to join them on a triptych of trips to New Orleans! Core Connections: Panic in the Streets (1950, Dir. Elia Kazan) The Big Easy The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans Connective Cameos: The General A Streetcar Named Desire The Bad Sleep Well Spaceballs Batman Batman Returns City Slickers Shane The Wizard of Oz The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes Beverly Hills Cop The Buddy Holly Story Great Balls of Fire! Broadcast News Nashville Silver Streak Rain Man Bad Lieutenant The Shape of Water Take Shelter One Flew Over the…

Marty and Scott scrutinize the career of Dick Warlock, Hollywood’s coolest (and coolest named) stunt double. Core Connections: The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969, Dir. Robert Butler) The Stunt Man (1980, Dir. Richard Rush) Spaceballs (1986, Dir. Mel Brooks) Connective Cameos: Terminator 2: Judgement Day Escape From New York The Absent-Minded Professor North by Northwest It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World The Story of Mankind The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1995, Dir. Peyton Reed) Tron Tron: Legacy Lassie 48 Hours Beverly Hills Cop Lethal Weapon Freebie and the Bean Color of Night The Godfather Nashville Night of the Hunter…

Scott and Marty turn their red, unfocused eyes towards Roger Deakins, one of the greatest living cinematographers. Directors of photography? Whatever. Core Connections: 1984 (1984, Dir. Michael Radford) A Serious Man (2009, Dir. Joel and Ethan Coen) 1917 (2019, Dir. Sam Mendes) Connective Cameos: Citizen Kane The Big Lebowski Brazil Pink Floyd’s The Wall Snowpiercer Logan’s Run The Comedians Westworld V for Vendetta Alien Melancholia King Ralph Splash Max Headroom Barton Fink The Hudsucker Proxy Fargo Call Me By Your Name Burn After Reading Raising Arizona Crimes and Misdemeanors Throw Momma From the Train Spaceballs Lady Sings the Blues Hedwig…

After noticing the prevalence of train films in the omniverse, Marty and Scott go full steam ahead on three loco-motion pictures. Core Connections: The General (1926, Dir. Clyde Bruckman) Throw Momma From the Train (1987, Dir. Danny DeVito) SnowPiercer (2013, Dir. Bong Joon Ho) Connective Cameos: Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World  How I Won the War The Fugitive Strangers on a Train War of the Roses Death to Smoochy The Goonies One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Batman Returns The Addams Family Catch-22 Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot Broadcast News…

Scott and Marty hopscotch through the variegated career of American actor William Hurt (1950-2022). Core Connections: The Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985, Dir. Hector Babenco) Broadcast News (1987, Dir. James L. Brooks) Dark City (1998, Dir. Alex Proyas) Connective Cameos: Body Heat The Big Chill The Panic in Needle Park Addams Family Values Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery Short Circuit True Lies The Shawshank Redemption Moon Over Parador As Good As It Gets Raising Arizona Network All the President’s Men The Tree of Life One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Being John Malkovich Rocky Nosferatu Batman Begins The…

Cinephile conspiracy fabulists Marty and Scott take a cross-Pacific holiday to inaugurate three classic Japanese films into the omniverse. Core Connections: The Bad Sleep Well (1960, Dir. Akira Kurosawa) Ran (1985, Dir. Akira Kurosawa) Late Spring (1949, Dir. Yasujirô Ozu)

Cinephiles Scott and Marty welcome fellow Fab Four fanatic A.J. Richardson for a super-sized tour through the Beatles’ solo film careers.  Core Connections: How I Won the War (1967, Dir. Richard Lester) The Magic Christian (1969, Dir. Joseph McGrath) Monty Python’s Life of Brian (1979, Dir. Terry Jones) Give My Regards to Broad Street (1984, Dir. Peter Webb) Join the conversation on our Slack and Slash Pod Discord server!

Enter a vertiginous labyrinth of interconnected films, as Scott and Marty pay tribute to Dame Maggie Smith and Margaret Nolan in a devilishly fun fashion. Core Connections: Evil Under the Sun (1982, Dir. Guy Hamilton) Last Night in Soho (2021, Dir. Edgar Wright) A Hard Day’s Night (1963, Dir. Richard Lester) Connective Cameos: North by Northwest Goldfinger Diamonds are Forever Live and Let Die The Man With the Golden Gun Knives Out Sleuth Rashomon Spartacus The Comedians Logan’s Run Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery The Great Muppet Caper Repulsion Old Boy Doctor Zhivago Mulholland Drive Vertigo Zoolander Midnight in…

Join Marty and Scott in a wacky universe of symmetry and kitsch, where all the movies tell one story, and that story is… elaborate. Core Connections: The Darjeeling Limited (2007, Dir. Wes Anderson) Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989, Dir. Woody Allen) North by Northwest (1959, Dir. Alfred Hitchcock) Connective Cameos: Scott Pilgrim vs The World The Tree of Life The Addams Family Addams Family Values Bottle Rocket Fantastic Mr. Fox Scarface Annie Hall Virgin Spring Persona Through a Glass Darkly The Tenant One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Frances Prizzi’s Honor Pork Chop Hill Rosemary’s Baby Manhattan The Sweet Smell of…

Join Marty Schwartz (a great examination of a collapsing psyche) and Scott Sharplin (his milkshake brings all the boys to the yard) as they upend cinema history… Canadian style! Core Connections: Mean Girls (2004, Dir. Mark Waters) Waydowntown (2000, Dir. Gary Burns) Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (2010, Dir. Edgar Wright) Connective Cameos: Run Lola Run (1998, Dir. Tom Tykwer) Road to the Lemon Grove (2018, Dir. Dale Hildebrand) Encino Man (1992, Dir. Les Mayfield) Easy A (2010, Dir. Will Gluck) American Pie (1999, Dir. Paul Weitz) Legally Blonde (2001, Dir. Robert Luketic) Black Christmas (2006, Dir. Glen Morgan) Catch-22…

Follow cinephiles Marty and Scott as they scamper irreligiously through 125 years of movie history.

Join Scott and Marty as they careen quixotically through more than a century of cinema!

Scott & Marty welcome retro-futurist fashionista Christine Sokaymoh Frederick to discuss a seminal sci-fi classic, plus its secret prequels & sequels! This Podcast Begins Where Imagination Ends!

Join Marty Schwartz (“He Was a Bashful Bride!”) and Scott Sharplin (“He Walks in his sleep!”) as they presumptuously pioneer new ways of looking at cinema.

Marty Schwartz and Scott Sharplin: Who are they? What are they? Who moved the rock?!? Core Connections: Addams Family Values (1993, Dir. Barry Sonnenfeld) Idle Hands (1999, Dir. Rodman Flender) Silver Streak (1976, Dir. Arthur Hiller) Connective Cameos: Intolerance (1916, Dir. D.W. Griffith) The Panic in Needle Park (1970, Dir. Jerry Schatzberg) The Addams Family (1991, Dir. Barry Sonnenfeld) Ghostbusters II (1989, Dir. Ivan Reitman) One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975, Dir. Milos Forman) The Opposite of Sex (1998, Dir. Don Roos) Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998, Dir. Terry Gilliam) The Matrix Resurrections (2021, Dir. Lana Wachowski)…

Join Marty Schwartz (classic MacGuffin) and Scott Sharplin (overcooked drug cliché) as they ponder the interconnectivity of all movies great and small. Core Connections: The Spanish Prisoner (1997, Dir. David Mamet) Goodfellas (1990, Dir. Martin Scorsese) The Panic in Needle Park (1971, Dir. Jerry Schatzburg) Connective Cameos: Anatomy of a Murder (1959, Dir. Otto Premnger) Super Mario Bros (1993, Dir. Annabel Jankel and Rocky Morton) State and Main (2000, Dir. David Mamet) Pulp Fiction (1994, Dir. Quentin Tarantino) Glengarry Glen Ross (1992, Dir. David Mamet) Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988, Dir. Frank Oz) Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal…

Join prurient puppeteer Marty Schwartz and merciful dinosaur Scott Sharplin as they BS their way through 500,000 interconnected films. Core Connections: The Tree of Life (2011, Dir. Terence Malick) Being John Malkovich (1999, Dir. Spike Jonze) Anatomy of a Murder (1959, Dir. Otto Premnger) Connective Cameos: Super Mario Bros (1993, Dir. Annabel Jankel and Rocky Morton) Days of Heaven (1978, Dir. Terence Malick) The Thin Red Line (1998, Dir. Terence Malick) 12 Monkeys (1995, Dir. Terry Gilliam) Fight Club (1999, Dir. David Fincher) Interview With the Vampire (1994, Dir. Neil Jordan) Boyhood (2014, Dir. Richard Linklater) Con Air (1997, Dir.…

Join Marty “Nursed on a Witch’s Venom” Schwartz and Scott “Twisted by Endless Orgies” Sharplin as they brazenly pioneer new ways of looking at cinema. Core Connections: Go West (1940, dir. Edward Buzzell) The Story of Mankind (1957, dir. Irwin Allen) Super Mario Brothers (1993, dir. Annabel Jankel and Rocky Morton) Connective Cameos: Intolerance (1916, Dir. D.W. Griffith) The Night of the Hunter (1955, dir. Charles Laughton) Goodfellas (1990, Dir. Martin Scorsese) Taxi Driver (1976, Dir. Martin Scorsese) The King of Comedy (1982, Dir. Martin Scorsese) Lost Highway (1997, Dir. David Lynch) Duck Soup (1933, Dir. Leo McCarey) Go West…

Join Marty Schwartz, interstellar mew-tant, and Scott Sharplin, a Sun-Play for the Ages, as they BS their way through 125 years of cinema history. Core Connections: The Visitor AKA Stridulum (1979, dir. Michael J. Paradise) The Night of the Hunter (1955, dir. Charles Laughton) Intolerance (1916, dir. D.W. Griffith)  Connective Cameos: Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze (1894, Dir. Thomas Edison) Scarface (1983, Dir. Brian De Palma) Airplane! (1980, dir. Zucker, Abrahams, and Zucker) Piranha II: The Spawning (1981, dir. James Cameron and Ovidio G. Assonitis) Lethal Weapon (1987, Dir. Richard Donner) The Omen (1976, Dir. Richard Donner) Django (1966,…

In this special episode, Marty & Scott are joined by Jorden Dupe, spaghetti Maritimer and professional musketeer, to integrate a bona fide film masterpiece into the omniverse. Core Connections: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966, Dir. Sergio Leone) Winter Kills (1979, Dir. William Richert) Shaft in Africa (1973, Dir. John Guillermin) 

Join jive-lingual translator Marty Schwartz and raccoon truther Scott Sharplin as they BS their way through 500,000 interconnected films. Core Connections: Wakefield (2016, dir. Robin Swicord) Big Trouble (1986, dir. John Cassavetes) Airplane! (1980, dir. Zucker, Abrahams, and Zucker) Connective Cameos: American Beauty (1999, dir. Sam Mendes) Rear Window (1954, dir. Alfred Hitchcock) Falling Down (1993, dir. Joel Schumacher) Taxi Driver (1976, dir. Martin Scorsese) Before Sunrise (1994, dir. Richard Linklater) Before Sunset (2004, dir. Richard Linklater) National Lampoon’s Vacation (1983, dir. Harold Ramis) Big Trouble (2002, dir. Barry Sonnenfeld) Big Trouble in Little China (1986, dir. John Carpenter) The…

Join Marty Schwartz, “Black Don’t Crack” proselytizer, and Scott Sharplin, unconfirmed Billthazar, as they BS their way through 500,000 interconnected films. Core Connections: Lost Highway (1997, Dir. David Lynch) Pork Chop Hill (1959, Dir. Lewis Milestone) Repo Man (1984, Dir. Alex Cox) Connective Cameos: Brewster’s Millions (1985, Dir. Walter Hill) Mannequin (1987, Dir. Michael Gottlieb) Mannequin: On the Move (1991, Dir. Stewart Raffill) Apocalypse Now (1979, Dir. Francis Ford Coppola) Dunkirk (2017, Dir. Christopher Nolan) Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1953, Dir. Charles Lamont) Sid and Nancy (1986, Dir. Alex Cox) Cannonball Run (1981, Dir. Hal…

Join Marty Schwartz, human organ grinder/gatling gun, and Scott Sharplin, Scatman phat stan, as they BS their way through 500,000 interconnected films. Core Connections: Batman Returns (1992, Dir. Tim Burton) One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975, Dir. Milos Forman) Lady Sings the Blues (1972, Dir. Sidney J. Furie) Connective Cameos: The Dark Knight (2008, Dir. Christopher Nolan) John Wick (2014, Dir. Chad Stahelski, David Leitch) Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016, Dir. Zach Snyder) Scarface (1983, Dir. Brian De Palma) Dangerous Minds (1999, Dir. John N. Smith) It’s a Wonderful Life (1946, Dir. Frank Capra) Batman (1989, Dir.…

Join sagacious cinema meshugganah Marty Schwartz and uber-groovy movie goober Scott Sharplin as they BS their way through 500,000 interconnected films. Core Connections: Dracula (1931, Dir. Todd Browning) Plan 9 From Outer Space (1957, Dir. Edward J. Wood, Jr.) Scarface (1983, Dir. Brian De Palma) Connective Cameos: Frankenstein (1931, Dir. James Whale) The Mummy (1932, Dir. Karl Freund) The Invisible Man (1933, Dir. James Whale) Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man  (1943, Dir. Roy William Neill) Abbot and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff (1949, Dir. Charles Barton) Midnight Run (1988, Dir. Martin Brest) First Wives Club (1996, Dir. Hugh Wilson)…