
246. Robert Redford & 'All Is Lost' (2013)
JC Chandor's 2nd feature film after 'Margin Call' was 2013's sailing-catastrophe film 'All Is Lost', and it's a unique film in that it has virtually no dialogue and a single cast member in Robert Redf...
24 Sep 202558min

245. Robert Redford is Dead at 89
I'm joined by Charles Fleming, LA-based writer, author and returning FCAC guest to talk about todays news of the death of Robert Redford. We discuss Redford's extraordinary career and difference-makin...
16 Sep 202555min

244. Empathy and Revisiting 'Brother's Keeper' (1992)
Recent events have gotten me thinking about Roger Ebert's quote about movies being empathy machines, bringing us closer to people we might think we have nothing in common with. When I first saw the Be...
16 Sep 202539min

243. 'Making Monsters' With KNB FX Founder Howard Berger and co-author Marshall Julius
Howard Berger and Marshall Julius have a brilliant new book out called 'Making Monsters: Inside Stories From The Creators of Hollywood's Most Iconic Creatures'. It's an indispensable oral history and...
9 Sep 20251h 24min

242. 'Videodrome' (1983)
David Cronenberg's 'Videodrome' remains a shockingly prescient vision of the world we're living in now: technology overlords using computerized developments for their own nefarious means...except in t...
3 Sep 202558min

241. Just Kids
I recently learned of the senseless death of a friend from elementary school—someone I hadn't seen in over forty years. His name was Joe Kane. The news reached across all that time and unexpectedly...
24 Aug 202558min

240. 'A Civil Action' (1998)
Here's the next episode in a little courtroom-drama jag I've been on; it's about the second of screenwriter Steven Zaillian's three directorial efforts, 'A Civil Action', from Zaillian's adaptation of...
12 Aug 20251h 23min

239. Dead & Company 60th Anniversary Shows, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA
Dead & Company's 60th Anniversary three-show stand is an opportunity to talk about about the living history that the band's music represents, the ongoing and still-vital multi-generational pull of the...
5 Aug 20251h 15min




















