This is part of a series about movies based on comic books. *** Referenced media: “Superman” (Richard Donner, 1978) “Adventures of Superman” (Whitney Ellsworth and Robert J. Maxwell, 1952-1958) “Batman” (Bob Kane and Bill Finger, 1939-now) “Wonder-Woman” (William Moulton Marston, 1941-now) “Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut” (Richard Donner, 2006) “Spider-Man” (Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, 1962-now) “Dr. Strange” (Steve Ditko, 1963-now) “The Incredible Hulk” (Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, 1962-now) “M...
Sep 26, 2024•28 min
This is part of a series about movies from 1971. *** Referenced media: “The Big Doll House” (Jack Hill, 1971) “A Beautiful Mind” (Ron Howard, 2001) “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” (Mike Nichols, 1966) Audio quotation: “Carnal Knowledge” (Mike Nichols, 1971)
Sep 18, 2024•26 min
This is part of a series about movies from 1971. *** Referenced media: “The Big Doll House” (Jack Hill, 1971) “Song of the South” (Harve Foster and Wilfred Jackson, 1946) “The Birth of a Nation” (D.W. Griffith, 1915) “Drum” (Steve Carver, 1976) “Mandingo” (Richard Fleischer, 1975) “Django Unchained” (Quentin Tarantino, 2012) “Gone with the Wind” (Victor Fleming, 1939) “Dirty Harry” (Don Siegel, 1971) “Pig” (Michael Sarnoski, 2021) “The Beguiled” (Sofia Coppola, 2017) “Fury” (David Ayer, 2014) “F...
Sep 06, 2024•25 min
This is part of a series about movies from 1971. *** Referenced media: “The Big Doll House” (Jack Hill, 1971) “The Wild Bunch” (Sam Peckinpah, 1969) “Jules and Jim” (Francois Truffaut, 1962) “Brokeback Mountain” (Ang Lee, 2005) “Red Dead Redemption” (Steve Martin, Josh Needleman, and David Kunkler, 2010) “A Fistful of Dollars” (Sergio Leone, 1964) “For a Few Dollars More” (Sergio Leone, 1965) “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly” (Sergio Leone, 1966) “Once Upon a Time in the West” (Sergio Leone, 196...
Aug 16, 2024•22 min
This is part of a series about movies from 1971. *** Referenced media: “The Big Doll House” (Jack Hill, 1971) “The Devils” (Ken Russell, 1971) “Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom” (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1975) “Arabian Nights” (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1975) “The Original Kings of Comedy” (Spike Lee, 2000) “Big Love” (Mark V. Olsen and Will Scheffer, 2006-2011) “Last Temptation of Christ” (Martin Scorsese, 1988) “The French Connection” (William Friedkin, 1971) “The Decameron” (Kathleen Jordan, 2024) “Stra...
Aug 01, 2024•22 min
This is part of a series about movies from 1971. *** Referenced media: “The Big Doll House” (Jack Hill, 1971) “The Omega Man” (Boris Sagal, 1971) “The Last Movie” (Dennis Hopper, 1971) “The French Connection” (William Friedkin, 1971) “The Last Picture Show” (Peter Bogdanovich, 1971) “The Big Boss” (Lo Wei, 1971) “Duck, You Sucker!” (Sergio Leone, 1971) “Fiddler on the Roof” (Norman Jewison, 1971) “Duel” (Steven Spielberg, 1971) “The War Game” (Peter Watkins, 1966) “THX 1138” (George Lucas, 1971)...
Jul 19, 2024•29 min
This is part of a series about movies from 1971. *** Referenced media: “The Big Doll House” (Jack Hill, 1971) “Crimes of Passion” (Ken Russell, 1984) “Deep Throat” (Gerard Damiano, 1972) “Behind the Green Door” (Artie Mitchell and Jim Mitchell, 1972) “Whore” (Ken Russell, 1991) “E.T.” (Steven Spielberg, 1982) “Pretty Woman” (Garry Marshall, 1990) “The Transformers: The Movie” (Nelson Shin, 1986) “Elmer Gantry” (Richard Brooks, 1960) “Blue” (Derek Jarman, 1993) “Citizen Kane” (Orson Welles, 1941)...
Jul 02, 2024•27 min
This is part of a series about movies from 1971. *** Referenced media: “The Big Doll House” (Jack Hill, 1971) “Benson” (Susan Harris, 1979-1986) “First Cow” (Kelly Reichardt, 2019) “Dances with Wolves” (Kevin Costner, 1990) “Unforgiven” (Clint Eastwood, 1992) “Bonanza” (David Dortort, 1959-1973) “Gunsmoke” (Charles Marquis Warren, 1955-1975) “M*A*S*H” (Robert Altman, 1970) “Nashville” (Robert Altman, 1975) “Deadwood” (David Milch, 2004-2006, 2019) “The Searchers” (John Ford, 1956) “American Graf...
Jun 17, 2024•30 min
This is part of a series about movies from 1971. *** Referenced media: “The Big Doll House” (Jack Hill, 1971) “The Deuce” (George Pelecanos and David Simon, 2017-2019) “Halloween” (John Carpenter, 1978) “Friday the 13th” (Sean S. Cunningham, 1980) “Red Dragon” (Brett Ratner, 2002) “Manhunter” (Michael Mann, 1986) “The Silence of the Lambs” (Jonathan Demme, 1991) “The Godfather” (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972) “Rear Window” (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954) “Shaft” (Gordon Parks, 1971) “Cruising” (William Fr...
May 31, 2024•26 min
This is part of a series about movies from 1971. *** Referenced media: “The Big Doll House” (Jack Hill, 1971) “The Muppet Show” (Jim Henson, 1976-1981) “The Benny Hill Show” (Benny Hill, 1955-1989) “Saturday Night Live” (Lorne Michaels, 1975-now) “The Critic” (Al Jean and Mike Reiss, 1994-1995) “The Simpsons” (Matt Groening, 1989-now) “Manhattan” (Woody Allen, 1979) “Monty Python’s Flying Circus” (Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, and Terry Gilliam, 1969-1974) “...
May 16, 2024•17 min
This is part of a series about movies from 1971. *** Referenced media: “The Big Doll House” (Jack Hill, 1971) “Jurassic Park” (Steven Spielberg, 1993) “The X-Files” (Chris Carter, 1993-2002, 2016-2018) “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb” (Stanley Kubrick, 1964) “Wag the Dog” (Barry Levinson, 1997) “Natural Born Killers” (Oliver Stone, 1994) “Citizen Kane” (Orson Welles, 1941) “Magnificent Ambersons” (Orson Welles, 1942) “It’s All True” (Orson Welles, 1941-1942)...
May 03, 2024•25 min
Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa learn something new about the birds and the bees: avoid “the Great Imitator”. *** Referenced media: “Johnny Dangerously” (Amy Heckerling, 1984) “Gone with the Wind” (Victor Fleming, 1939) “Leave it to Beaver” (Joe Connelly and Bob Mosher, 1957-1963) “High School Confidential” (Jack Arnold, 1958) “Reefer Madness” (Louis J. Gasnier, 1936) “The Explosive Generation” (Buzz Kulik, 1961) “Teenage Mother” (Jerry Gross, 1967) “Teenage Father” (Taylor Hackford, 1978) “S...
Apr 04, 2024•26 min
Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa glory in Mae West as the avatar of Pre-Code Hollywood *** Referenced media: “Looney Tunes” (Leon Schlesinger, Hugh Harman, and Rudolf Ising, 1930-now) “Angels with Dirty Face” (Michael Curtiz, 1938) “I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang” (Mervyn LeRoy, 1932) “Call Her Savage” (John Francis Dillon, 1932) “Safe in Hell” (William A. Wellman, 1931) “Footlight Parade” (Lloyd Bacon, 1933) “Scarface” (Howard Hawks, 1932) “Tarzan the Ape Man” (W.S. Van Dyke, 1932) “The St...
Mar 21, 2024•26 min
Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa embrace a soap opera in the sky. *** Referenced media: “Airplane!” (Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker, 1980) “Zero Hour!” (Hall Bartlett, 1957) “One on Top of the Other” (Lucio Fulci, 1969) “Stunt Rock” (Brian Trenchard-Smith, 1978) “The Twilight Zone” (Rod Serling, 1959-1964) “An Officer and a Gentleman” (Taylor Hackford, 1982) “All the President’s Men” (Alan J. Pakula, 1976) “Hud” (Martin Ritt, 1963) “Cool Hand Luke” (Stuart Rosenberg, 1967) “M*A*S...
Mar 06, 2024•27 min
Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa visit where the eagles cry, on a mountain high, far from the world we know, where the clear winds blow. *** Referenced media: “Police Academy” (Hugh Wilson, 1984) “Top Gun” (Tony Scott, 1986) “Entertainment Tonight” (Al Masini, 1981-now) “Conan the Barbarian” (John Milius, 1982) “The Road Warrior” (George Miller, 1981) “Annie” (John Huston, 1982) “Rocky III” (Sylvester Stallone, 1982) “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan” (Nicholas Meyer, 1982) “Poltergeist” (Tobe ...
Feb 23, 2024•31 min
Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa assess prestige kitsch and consider carrying a spathae to defend a London-born Egyptian matriarch. *** Referenced media: “My Fair Lady” (George Cukor, 1964) “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” (Mike Nichols, 1966) “Rome” (John Milius, William J. MacDonald, and Bruno Heller, 2005-2007) “All in the Family” (Norman Lear, 1971-1979) “Kill Bill: Volume 1” (Quentin Tarantino, 2003) “Kill Bill: Volume 2” (Quentin Tarantino, 2004) “National Velvet” (Clarence Brown, 1944) ...
Feb 08, 2024•30 min
Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa consider Johnny Cash, a man with many chapters in his book of life, and wonder if they got to see the right one get made into a movie. *** Referenced media: “Terminator 2: Judgment Day” (James Cameron, 1991) “Ray” (Taylor Hackford, 2004) “Happy Days” (Garry Marshall, 1974-1984) “Bohemian Rhapsody” (Brian Singer, 2018) “A History of Violence” (David Cronenberg, 2005), “Brokeback Mountain” (Ang Lee, 2005) “Munich” (Steven Spielberg, 2005) “Harry Potter and the Go...
Jan 24, 2024•28 min
Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa examine one middle brow entertainment that earned an inflation-adjusted box office gross of over $1,000,000,000 in North America. *** Referenced media: “The Bridges of Madison County” (Clint Eastwood, 1995) “Indecent Proposal” (Adrian Lyne, 1995) “Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope” (George Lucas, 1977) “In the Heat of the Night” (Norman Jewison, 1967) “On the Waterfront” (Elia Kazan, 1954) “Fitzcarraldo” (Werner Herzog, 1982) “My Best Fiend” (Werner Herzog, 19...
Jan 11, 2024•36 min
Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa analyze the sleeper hit of summer 2023. *** Referenced media: “The Passion of the Christ” (Mel Gibson, 2004) “Law & Order: SVU” (Dick Wolf, 1999-now) “God’s Not Dead” (Harold Cronk, 2014) “First Blood” (Ted Kotcheff, 1982) “Columbiana” (Olivier Megaton, 2011) “The Equalizer” (Antoine Fuqua, 2014) “Survivor” (Charlie Parsons, 2000-now) “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” (Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, and Justin K. Thompson, 2023) “The Flash” (Andy Musc...
Dec 21, 2023•21 min
Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa consider whether it’s worth having the best-paid, part-time job in the history of movies. *** Referenced media: “Saturday Night Live” (Lorne Michaels, 1975-now) “Gran Torino” (Clint Eastwood, 2008) “A Star is Born” (Bradley Cooper, 2018) “Bohemian Rhapsody” (Brian Singer, 2018) “Green Book” (Peter Farrelly, 2018) “The Favourite” (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2018) “American Sniper” (Clint Eastwood, 2014) “Scent of a Woman” (Martin Brest, 1992) “Unforgiven” (Clint Eastwood...
Dec 15, 2023•26 min
Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa discuss Alma, a high school girl boiling over with sexual curiosity in a small Norwegian town. *** Referenced media: “Top Gun” (Tony Scott, 1986) “The Hunger Games” (Gary Ross, 2012) “American Pie” (Paul Weitz, 1999) “American Reunion” (Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg, 2012) “The Avengers” (Joss Whedon, 2012) Audio quotation: “Turn Me On, Goddammit!” (Jannicke Systad Jacobsen, 2011) “Take Me Breath Away”, composed by Giorgio Moroder and Tom Whitlock and perf...
Oct 21, 2023•19 min
Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa consider how Herman Melville’s novella, “Billy Budd”, was translated into a movie that the 2022 “Sight and Sound” poll of the greatest films of all time maintains is the seventh greatest ever. *** Referenced media: “Dune: Part One” (Denis Villeneuve, 2021) “Blade Runner 2049” (Denis Villeneuve, 2017) “Chocolat” (Claire Denis, 1988) “High Fidelity” (Stephen Frears, 2000) “American Psycho” (Mary Harron, 2000) “Gladiator” (Ridley Scott, 2000) “Trouble Every Day” (...
Oct 11, 2023•20 min
Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa feel the weight of what really is the most intense horror story ever made. *** Referenced media: “Band of Brothers” (Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, 2001) “Eddie Murphy Raw” (Robert Townsend, 1987) “The Day After” (Nicholas Meyer, 1983) “Avatar” (James Cameron, 2009) “Kill Bill: Volume 1” (Quentin Tarantino, 2003) “Kill Bill: Volume 2” (Quentin Tarantino, 2004) “Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.” (Errol Morris, 1999) Audio quotation: “Shoah”...
Sep 27, 2023•51 min
Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa sink into the first half of what might be the “greatest” horror story ever made. *** Referenced media: “Parks & Recreation” (Greg Daniels and Michael Schur, 2009-2015) “To Be or Not to Be” (Alan Johnson, 1983) “To Be or Not to Be” (Ernst Lubitsch, 1942) “The Twilight Zone” (Rod Serling, 1959-1964), Season 3, Episode 9: “Deaths-Head Revisited” (Rod Serling, 1961) “Sophie’s Choice” (Alan J. Pakula, 1982) “Schindler’s List” (Steven Spielberg, 1993) “Monty Pyth...
Sep 11, 2023•1 hr 9 min
Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa respond to a moody and twisted police procedural. *** Referenced media: “Sicario” (Denis Villeneuve, 2015) “La La Land” (Damien Chazelle, 2016) “The Shape of Water” (Guillermo del Toro, 2017) “Zodiac” (David Fincher, 2007) “The Sixth Sense” (M. Night Shyamalan, 1999) “Happy Days” (Garry Marshall, 1974-1984) “Little Miss Sunshine” (Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, 2006) “The Elephant Man” (David Lynch, 1980) “Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace” (George ...
Aug 30, 2023•28 min
Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa mourn the decline of theatrical movie-going and celebrate sentimental entertainment. *** Referenced media: “Belfast” (Kenneth Branagh, 2021) “Don’t Look Up” (Adam McKay, 2021) “Drive My Car” (Ryusuke Hamaguchi, 2021) “Dune: Part One” (Denis Villeneuve, 2021) “King Richard” (Reinaldo Marcus Green, 2021) “Licorice Pizza” (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2021) “Nightmare Alley” (Guillermo del Toro, 2021) “Power of the Dog” (Jane Campion, 2021) “West Side Story” (Steven Spie...
Aug 21, 2023•24 min
Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa ponder old cowboys. *** Referenced media: “The Simpsons” (Matt Groening, 1989-now) “The Terminator” (James Cameron, 1984) “Barry Lyndon” (Stanley Kubrick, 1975) “Blood Simple” (Joel Coen, 1984) “Psycho” (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960) “Batman Begins” (Christopher Nolan, 2005) “The Dark Knight” (Christopher Nolan, 2008) “The Dark Knight Rises” (Christopher Nolan, 2012) “Iron Man” (Jon Favreau, 2008) “The Kingdom” (Peter Berg, 2007) “3:10 to Yuma” (James Mangold, 2007) ...
Jul 18, 2023•27 min
In this idiosyncratic history of post-World War II movies, we conclude with “Summer of Soul” and Nostalgia. Past podcasts in this series: “Rome, Open City” (Robert Rossellini, 1945) “The Killers” (Robert Siodmak, 1946) “Rashomon” (Akira Kurosawa, 1950) “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” (Howard Hawks, 1953) “The Seventh Seal” (Ingmar Bergman, 1957) “North by Northwest” (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959) “Midnight Cowboy” (John Schlesinger, 1969) “The 36th Chamber of Shaolin” (Lau Kar-leung, 1978) “The Castle of C...
May 31, 2023•17 min
In this idiosyncratic history of post-World War II movies, we continue with “Parasite” and Commentary. Future podcasts in this series: “Summer of Soul” (Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, 2021) Past podcasts in this series: “Rome, Open City” (Robert Rossellini, 1945) “The Killers” (Robert Siodmak, 1946) “Rashomon” (Akira Kurosawa, 1950) “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” (Howard Hawks, 1953) “The Seventh Seal” (Ingmar Bergman, 1957) “North by Northwest” (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959) “Midnight Cowboy” (John Schlesin...
May 31, 2023•22 min
In this idiosyncratic history of post-World War II movies, we continue with “Persepolis” and Memoir. Future podcasts in this series: “Parasite” (Bong Joon-ho, 2019) “Summer of Soul” (Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, 2021) Past podcasts in this series: “Rome, Open City” (Robert Rossellini, 1945) “The Killers” (Robert Siodmak, 1946) “Rashomon” (Akira Kurosawa, 1950) “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” (Howard Hawks, 1953) “The Seventh Seal” (Ingmar Bergman, 1957) “North by Northwest” (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959) “M...
May 30, 2023•14 min
