Bonus Episode: The Screening Room – Blue Collar
This week in the Screening Room we’re talking about factory lines, automobiles, unions, blackmail, Dizzy Gillespie for President, and the 1978 film ‘Blue Collar.’ Plus the return of the Hypothetical T...
12 Jun 37min
Bonus Episode: Blaze on, ‘Blazing Saddles’
We’re gonna need a sh*tload of dimes cuz Zeth is talking about the 1974 film ‘Blazing Saddles,’ why it endures 52 years later, and its recent appearance at the top of two separate best-of lists online...
10 Jun 59min
Richard Pryor: Stabbing, Shooting, F***ing, Burning, and Freebasing
Richard Pryor was one of the funniest people who ever lived. He elevated stand-up comedy to an art form. But the real life that informed his stand-up – a life of pool halls, brothels, stabbings, shoot...
8 Jun 31min
Bonus Episode: The Screening Room – Licorice Pizza
This week we’re talking waterbeds, pinball machines, hot dog stands, full desert sleds out on the eighth hole by the sand trap, and Paul Thomas Anderson’s 2021 film ‘Licorice Pizza.’ Become an All Acc...
5 Jun 39min
Bonus Episode: The Blacklist and Other Unprecedented Moments in Hollywood
On this week’s Wrap Party, Zeth is talking about the Hollywood Blacklist, the Hollywood Ten, Dalton Trumbo, and Lucille Ball. Later, inspired by the recent success of the films ‘Backrooms’ and ‘Obsess...
3 Jun 53min
Lucille Ball: Gun Wounds, Refugees, and the Redhead Who Survived the Red Scare
Lucille Ball might have been a natural boundary-pusher, but America's top TV comedienne had some ‘splaining to do when a damning news broadcast unveiled her former ties to the Communist Party. The hys...
1 Jun 36min
Bonus Episode: The Screening Room – The Unbelievable Truth
This week we’re talking gossip and rumors, priests and mechanics, the end of the world, and Hal Hartley’s 1989 film ‘The Unbelievable Truth.’ Plus we make a mixtape inspired by the film including song...
29 Mai 37min
