203. 'Hackers' (1995)

'Grease' is the word, it's got groove it's got feeling, and so does this in-depth podcast about the 40-years-and-counting worldwide phenomenon.  Why does this weird movie (and it's deeply weird) stand the test of time?  Easy: TRAVOLTA, SONGS, and KITSCH.  And so many other reasons. So yes; we'll get into Sandy and Danny and the gang and the great performances from Didi Conn, Stockard Channing, and others, but we'll ALSO dive into the fascinating origin story of Grease as a counter-culture artifact springing out of Chicago's experimental theater scene.  And we'll play all the iconic songs and comment upon them in a manner designed to make a fair-use argument for playing them.

2 Maj 20191h 14min

James L. Brooks' feature directorial debut 'Terms Of Endearment' has been soiling hankies for 36 years.  ELEVEN Academy Award nominations.  Stellar performances from Jack Nicholson, Shirley MacClain, Debra Winger, and John Lithgow.  We also get into the haunting brilliance of the theme to Brooks' tv masterpiece 'Taxi', his surprising involvement in some of the most distinctive American film comedies of the 20th Century, and the rumored feud between the leading ladies of Terms.  Also, our new segment This Week In TV Guide revisits some head-scratching log lines from 1980's after-school tv lineup. Plus Chris raves from his Ivory Tower about the charming artists enclave of Westport, CT, Headlines, the theme song from "In Search Of", how we're not waiting for Ted Jessup to record our "Mask" episode...and MORE.

24 Apr 20191h 22min

We revisit the brilliant, still-vital "Heathers", THE definitive American High School movie, whose biting satire only barely covers the sensitive, beating, romantic heart that lies within.  Featuring star-making performances from Christian Slater and a 16-year-old Winona Ryder, "Heathers" is a dark, pulls-no-punches social satire that aims arrows in every direction, including at the misguided teenage hearts and minds populating the hallways and leafy subdivisions of Sherwood, Ohio's Westerberg High School.  We dive down the FCAC rabbit hole's of Slater, Ryder, we discuss the sad and tragic deaths of a couple of key cast members.  ALSO: Syd Straw, Sly Stone, Rants n Raves, Headlines, and the debut of THIS WEEK IN TV GUIDE, our dynamic not-at-all fusty segment where we read unintentionally hilarious tv guide show descriptions from the 1980's, in which we hit Via Allegre, a horror anthology about cats, Gilligan's Island, and the mystery of the Garfield Phones.

18 Apr 20191h 24min

Keanu. Swayze.  Busey. Bodhi. Utah. Two.  There's simplistic poetry in Katharine Bigelow's 'Point Break' that, sure, you could miss if you were some kind of cinephile or something. But that would be to willfully deprive yourself of the many joys, expected and otherwise, of this fantastic, genre-busting actioner.  Swayze is simply iconic. It's a movie about chemistry, and we don't just mean the surf-wax and ocean-pollutant chemistry analysis going on in the LAPD Bank Robbery offices.  We also talk about our own experiences working with Gary Busey and his cheeseburger requirements prior to shoot days, shout out the great James LeGros, Swayze's rumoured appearance in Toto's classic early-MTV music video for "Rosanna", Headlines, Rants N Raves and MORE!

11 Apr 20191h 21min

Terry Gilliam's 1986 masterpiece 'Brazil' has been called an Orwellian retro-futurist fantasy; a Political cartoon writ large; a Science-fiction masterpiece; not at all Science-fiction more like a documentary; a treatise on the unthinking rigidity of middle-management bureaucracy; a selfish landmark and memento of a life gone terribly wrong; a viking musical;  about the impossibility of escaping reality; like lifting the top off Terry Gilliam's skull and looking inside; and like Franz Kafka meets Walter Mitty.  SO with all those excellent takes already taken, Chris and Jason discuss the movie's wardrobe department. (JUST KIDDING!)

4 Apr 20191h 19min

It's a #tbt of sorts here at FCAC as we release our episode  on Spike Lee's (now) Oscar-winning feature, BLACKKKLANSMAN, which we recorded a few weeks ago. We discuss Spike, his career, the real Ron Stallworth, yacht rock, a couple movies we seem to have trouble remembering names of, and how this is an antidote for GREEN BOOK. Plus our reactions to the Oscar Noms, as well as Rants and Raves. Why are you reading this when you could be listening and finding out for yourself? E-mail: fullcastandcrewpod@gmail.com TWITTER: @fullcastandcrew INSTAGRAM: fullcastandcrew

28 Mars 20191h 7min

This week Jason and Chris are joined by guest co-host Gordon Ramsey (not the one you're thinking of ...) to discuss John Boorman's 1974 overstuffed, peerlessly ambitious, and deeply considered passion project, Zardoz! We address the question that has dogged viewers of the film as well as anyone who casually came across a still of Sean Connery's costume: What the hell is this about? Nihilism, generational strife, class warfare, testosterone, as well as Eros and Thanatos. All that plus Rants and Raves and Entertainment News Headlines!!

21 Mars 20191h 11min

Oh What A Tangled Web Of 'Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse' Hot Takes We Weave!   Is it the greatest Spider-Man movie ever? Is it the greatest animated superhero movie ever?  Is it the greatest Marvel movie ever?? Look Out/Here Come The Hot Takes! Charles Mingus, Ralph Bakshi, all sorts of unexpected connections spring forth, which, if you know anything about us, is kind of our raisin detra, which is totally how you spell that.

14 Mars 20191h 9min