Special Report: Patty Farmer on Starring the Plaza
On this special episode, Mike talks with author Patty Farmer about her work including her latest books, Starring the Plaza and Playboy Laughs. Find out more at www.patty-farmer.com.Learn more about yo...
15 Sep 201733min
Episode 340: Case for a Rookie Hangman (1970)
Czechtember continues with a look at Pavel Jurácek's Case for a Rookie Hangman (AKA Prípad pro zacínajícího kata) from 1970. Very loosely based on the third part of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels...
12 Sep 20172h 15min
Special Report: The Running Man (1987)
Set in the distant year of 2017, The Running Man (1987) is set in a dystopian world where reality television rules the airwaves and the most popular show pits criminals against muscle-bound, spandex-c...
10 Sep 20173h 55min
Episode 339: Closely Watched Trains (1966)
We kick off the first annual "Czechtember" with a look at the most-easily accessible films of the Czech New Wave, the charmingly disarming 1966 film Closely Watched Trains (AKA Ostre Sledované Vlaky o...
5 Sep 20172h 33min
Episode 338: The Swimmer (1968)
The 1968 film by Frank and Eleanor Perry, The Swimmer (based on the John Cheever short story of the same name), stars Burt Lancaster as Ned Merrill, a Connecticut executive who decides to head back ho...
29 Aug 20174h 45min
Episode 337: Intacto (2001)
We're up all night to get lucky as we discuss the 2001 film from director and co-writer Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, Intacto which stars Leonardo Sbaraglia as Tomás, a man who survives a plane crash and w...
22 Aug 20171h 55min
Special Report: Michael Lucker on Crash! Boom! Bang!
On this special episode, Mike talks with writer Michael Lucker about his career in Hollywood (including co-writing the screenplay for A Vampire in Brooklyn) as well as his recent book, CRASH! BOOM! BA...
21 Aug 201733min
Special Report: Albert Pyun on Interstellar Civil War (2017)
On this special episode, Mike talks with writer/director Albert Pyun about his latest film, the sci-fi epic Interstellar Civil War: Shadows of the Empire (2017). They also discuss Pyun's dementia and ...
18 Aug 201727min
