Special Report: Du-BEAT-e-o (1984)
On this special episode we’re looking at the 1984 film from director Alan Sacks, Du-Beat-E-O. It’s a movie as unusual as its name. It’s the multi-layered story of a director -- the titular Du Beat E O...
20 Marras 20202h 32min
Episode 494: The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973)
We continue Noirvember 2020 with a look at Peter Yates’s The Friends of Eddie Coyle. Based on the novel by George V. Higgins, the film stars Robert Mitchum as the titular Coyle, an over-the-hill small...
18 Marras 20201h 21min
Special Report: Glenn Kenny on Made Men - The Story of Goodfellas
On this special episode, Mike talks with author Glenn Kenny about his new book, Made Men, the Story of Goodfellas, a terrific tome all about Martin Scorsese's seminal 1990 gangster film.Get the book a...
17 Marras 202040min
Episode 493: Ride the Pink Horse (1947)
Noirvember 2020 continues with a look at Robert Montgomery’s Ride the Pink Horse. Adapted from the novel of the same name by Dorothy B. Hughes, the film also stars Montgomery as Lucky Gagin, a man who...
11 Marras 20201h 28min
Episode 491: The Big Clock (1947)
#Noirvember 2020 kicks off with a look at John Farrow's The Big Clock (1947). Based on the 1946 novel by Kenneth Fearing, it's the story of George Stroud (Ray Milland) an editor at Crimeways magazine ...
4 Marras 20201h 34min
Special Report: The Brood (1979)
We're looking at David Cronenberg's The Brood. It's the story of the Carveth family and how the sins of the past visit the children of the next generation. Frank Carveth (Art Hindle) and his wife Nola...
30 Loka 20202h 29min
Bonus Interview: Stephen Bissette on Comics
I couldn't speak to Stephen Bissette about his monograph on The Brood without also asking him about his decades working in the comic book industry. He dishes a bit about his beginnings, his work on Sw...
30 Loka 202036min
Episode 491: The Frighteners (1996)
We conclude #Shocktober2020 with a look at Peter Jackson’s The Frighteners. Made between Heavenly Creatures and the Lord of the Rings series, the film was a signal to Hollywood that Peter Jackson coul...
28 Loka 20202h 38min
