Episode 774: Cop (1988)

Episode 774: Cop (1988)

Noirvember closes with James B. Harris’s Cop (1988)—the first time James Ellroy’s feverish fiction hit the big screen. Mike teams with Andrew Nette and Rod Lott for a deep read of Harris’s adaptation, where James Woods’s unhinged Detective Lloyd Hopkins hunts a killer across eighteen years of buried violence.

The trio digs into Ellroy’s original novel Blood on the Moon and the wilder, abandoned incarnation that came before it—L.A. Death Trip, the unsold, manuscript that first birthed Hopkins. Using material from Ellroy’s own accounts and critical studies (including the brute-force early drafts, the rewrites demanded by Otto Penzler and Nat Sobel, and the shift to publishable structure), the conversation maps how a doomed finale turned into a tight serial-killer pursuit.

The episode also features a new interview with James B. Harris, who breaks down the challenges of translating Ellroy’s structure, keeping Hopkins’s mania intact, and staying faithful to the narrative rhythms of the novel. What emerges is a portrait of a filmmaker wrestling with source material born in chaos—reforged into the dark, abrasive thriller that helped spark decades of Ellroy adaptations.


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Episode 582: Morons from Outer Space (1985)

Episode 582: Morons from Outer Space (1985)

We conclude Sci-Fi July with a look at Mike Hodges’s Morons from Outer Space. Written by Griff Rhys Jones and Mel Smith, the film tells the tale of a quartet of less-than-bright intergalactic travele...

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Special Report: Jake Wachtel on Karmalink (2021)

Special Report: Jake Wachtel on Karmalink (2021)

Mike talks with director / co-writer Jake Wachtel about his feature film debut, Karmalink (2021), a Cambodian sci-fi film. The film is available now. Find out more at https://gooddeedentertainment.co...

1 Elo 202223min

Special Report: Bryan Mason on Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (2022)

Special Report: Bryan Mason on Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (2022)

On this special episode, Mike talks with filmmaker Bryan Mason about his work including the new film Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (2022) as well as earlier work including 52 Tuesdays, and Shut Up, Lit...

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Episode 581: The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)

Episode 581: The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)

We continue Sci-Fi July with a look at Jack Arnold’s The Incredible Shrinking Man. Based on the book by, and adapted by, Richard Matheson, the film tells the story of Scott Carey (Grant Williams), a ...

27 Heinä 20221h 35min

Special Report: Stacey Souther on Valerie (2019)

Special Report: Stacey Souther on Valerie (2019)

On this special episode, Mike talks with director Stacey Souther about his documentary, Valerie (2019). The film focuses on Valerie Perrine (Lenny, Superman, Can't Stop the Music), her career, and he...

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Special Report: The Authorized Biography of Rudy Ray Moore

Special Report: The Authorized Biography of Rudy Ray Moore

On this special episode, Mike talks to Mark Jason Murray, author of Thank You For Letting Me Be Myself: The Authorized Biography of Rudy Ray Moore AKA Dolemite. A book 30 years in the making, Murray d...

22 Heinä 20221h 26min

Episode 580: Code 46 (2003)

Episode 580: Code 46 (2003)

Written by Frank Cottrell Boyce and produced by Andrew Eaton, Code 46 stars Tim Robbins as William Geld, a fraud investigator who travels to Shanghai to interview the employees of The Sphinx, a compan...

20 Heinä 20222h 27min

Episode 579: Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)

Episode 579: Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)

Sci Fi July with the first entry in the Star Trek film franchise, Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979). After a decade without a live-action version of Star Trek the crew reunite to embark on a very ...

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