Episode 54 - "Predator"
Director John McTiernan hit an incredible trifecta, having helmed the action classics “Die Hard” (1988) and “The Hunt for Red October” (1990)...but it all started with 1987’s “Predator,” a muscular ac...
29 Aug 20251h 20min
Episode 53 - "Get Shorty"
The massive success of “Pulp Fiction” created an arms race for talky crime films. Producers flocked to the genre master himself, author Elmore Leonard. After decades of failed adaptations, Hollywood o...
15 Aug 20251h 27min
Episode 52 - "Keep the Bottle Close"
Amazing how a random dinner with a total stranger can quickly turn into a fulfilling friendship, one fueled by a mutual pursuit of creative exploration. Serendipity came calling when Nick Malone first...
17 Juli 20251h 45min
Episode 51 - "Jaws"
Fifty years ago producers Richard Zanuck and David Brown handed the directing reins of a best-selling novel to a young, upcoming filmmaker named Steven Spielberg. Moviegoers, the motion picture indust...
20 Juni 20251h 44min
Episode 50 - "Back to the Future"
Several weeks into production of "Back to the Future," screenwriter Bob Gale and director Robert Zemeckis had a huge problem: Eric Stoltz was not giving them the performance their Spielberg backed fil...
23 Maj 20251h 48min
Episode 49 - "Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood"
A love letter bidding farewell to the 'Golden Age of Cinema,' Quentin Tarantino's "Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood" revisits a world you fully want to live in. A magnificent recreation - and readjustm...
17 Maj 20251h 35min
Episode 48 - "Glengarry Glen Ross"
A richly deserved Pulitzer cemented the legacy of David Mamet's 1983 play "Glengarry Glen Ross," but that legacy evolved during the opening minutes of James Foley's 1992 film adaptation. Alec Baldwin'...
27 Apr 20251h 20min
Episode 47 - "Unforgiven"
In 1984 a trusted production executive desperately tried to convince Clint Eastwood to pass on “The Cut-Whore Killing,” stressing that the screenplay was not worth his time. Eastwood placed it in a dr...
8 Apr 20251h 37min
