December 21st, 2020
- 20 Bucks/
- Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny/
- Red Violin/
3 flicks with a fancy for focus. Feast your follicles on this festival of films as we finish with the flames of 2020. Finally.
Links: Hateful 8.
December 7th, 2020
It is what is says: listen if you've seen the show. If not - the previous episode is a non-spoiler discussion of the series.
November 16th, 2020
Join Matt this episode for one of his favorite recent horror shows. A 9-layer bean dip of dread, this series rules all by putting so much into every character you see. Hear the slobber through your ear pieces! Do it!
Links: Doctor Sleep, Gerald's Game, Suicide Kings, E.T., Sin City,
August 17th, 2020
We already covered the mini-series, so we are overdue in considering how the films rounded out. So, uh, here we are. BTW, the flicks are rated 73% & 65% on IMDB. Matt says more like 83/75.
Links: IT miniseries, Stranger Things s1 (also s1 spoiler-sode) & s2, The Help, Atomic Blonde (has 2 X-men links), Adventureland.
July 6th, 2020
GUEST HOST: THE BOB!!!
The good doctor graces our 2nd mic to wax on & off about some Stephen King, both on screen & on the page. Possibly breaking a record for the longest recording session to date, this had to be broken up into 2 episodes. The discussion of Dr. Sleep will follow in 2 weeks.
Guess what? - the lazy scene transition we mentioned, turns out the scene itself took over 100 takes!!! Guess that's where the focus was. Here's a vid about it.
June 22nd, 2020
Another visit to Fincher Corner brings about a movie we've long wanted to cover. Not necessarily your typical murder mystery, it dramatizes an actual killer & his actual pursuers. Um, played by actors of course, but a tremendous amount of effort was involved
to include some of the real folks as consultants. Check it out!
Links: David Fincher: Fight Club, Se7en, Social Network, James Vanderbilt: Basic, Rundown, David Shire: Short Circuit, Jake Gyllenhaal: Donnie Darko (also spoiler episode), Soloist (has all RDJ links), Mark Ruffalo: Spotlight, Dermot Mulroney: Young Guns, Phillip Baker Hall: Magnolia
YouTube vids - When Truth is Stranger than Fiction, Infographics.
May 25th, 2020
- Throne of Blood/
- Dersu Uzala/
- Sanjuro/
A tasty batch of film delights from Japan, with one venturing beyond to tell a Russian tale.
Links: 2019 Kurosawa Episode (has links to his previous films).
May 14th, 2020
- Parasite (Korea)
- Wandering Earth (China)
- The Good, The Bad, & The Weird (Korea)
Honoring Asian/Pacific Islander American Heritage Month, we look at some amazing things offered to us in recent years from filmmakers outside the U.S. Have at it, people!!
April 21st, 2020
- Dive, 2010 (Bonus - Just Eat It 2015)/
- Craigslist Joe/
- Forks Over Knives/
After putting it off for a long time, we finally talk about documentaries, and they're all old! Yet still hauntingly relevant. Did Tiger King incite this episode? Darn Tootin' it did! We spend a few minutes waxing about that as well. Eat the episode up & careful with the salt shaker..
March 9th, 2020
- The Transporter
- The Foreigner
- Layer Cake
Something we haven't done for an episode in quite a while, here's a trio to watch INSTEAD of The Gentlemen, which does not get our stamp of super approval. Passable, but not quality Guy Ritchie. Through the details, we found some interesting connections between this seemingly random assortment.
Note: the meanie face dude in Transporter was in 2 of the Blade flicks (as 2 different characters) & a few of the Fast & Furious movies also, so many may know him though Matt does not.
January 28th, 2020
- Widows/
- Alita: Battle Angel/
- Wonder Woman/
Our 1st shuffle-sode of the decade!! With varying levels of financial success, all 3 of these movies are tremendous to us. May they all gain the notoriety they deserve as quality entertainment.
- The Sia song is actually from Wonder Woman, not Alita, so watch THOSE credits with your kids!
December 23rd, 2019
- A Quiet Place
- Mother!
- Raging Bull
Do you hear what I hear? What sound are we talkin' aboot? Listen in, get it sorted! 2 amazing movies, and a 3rd one that is very popular... (grin)
December 9th, 2019
- The Misguided (Katherine Langford)/
- The Ice Man (Michael Shannon)/
- Logan Lucky (Daniel Craig)/
Behold! Another venture fanning out from a movie in the theaters to see what else the actors have been in. Plenty o' Bond films, but did you SEE Logan Lucky?! Maybe you should - see what Matt has to say aboot it.
ALSO - go see Knives Out with the fam: a hilariously good experience.
October 28th, 2019
- Gerald's Game/
- In the Tall Grass/
- 1922/
Stephen King is so legendary that you'll waste your time seeking a person that doesn't know who he is. Lately, seeing everything of his produced on screen is becoming very difficult - too many to keep track of for a mere mortal. Clearly Netflix likes his stuff, and clearly the Sluts like Netflix, so it just made sense to do this episode as we round out October. A variety of horror style flavors with good performances all around.
September 30th, 2019
- Maze Runner
- Simpsons Movie
- The 'Burbs
Have no fear of something new - it's just another way to say "Shuffle-sode." This time the flicks were truly grabbed out of a bag, so it seemed appropriate. As we hope to start fires in your mind for movies to shove in your eyes, Matt enjoyed a newly kindled flame this episode. See how these 3 decades brought their entertainment game...
Links: Gremlins, Memoirs of an Invisible Man, Poltergeist, Basic Instinct, Secret of NIMH, Total Recall, Executive Decision, Mulan, Cloud Atlas, *League of Their Own (*has links for Big, Explorers, L.A. Confidential*), Blues Bros, Goonies, Lost Boys, Last Unicorn, Magnolia.