Through Podcast Like It's... writers Phillip Iscove (Co-Creator of FOX's Sleepy Hollow), Kenny Neibart (Entourage, Hindsight) and now Emily St. James explore some of the best years in film, music and television. It all started in 1999, then 1989, then 2009 and now 1992! Follow Phil, Kenny and Emily as they dive into some of your favorite movies, TV shows and musicians!
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Another year, another 52 in Review. Join us as Phil and Kenny look back at our last 52 episodes of Podcast Like It's 1999 and continue to determine which are our favorite performances, movies, and moments of 1999. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This week writer Anne T Donahue joins us as we talk about Freak Show, the third episode of Sex and the City season 2. We talk about Men (ugh amirite folks), the continuing evolution of Samantha's hornyness, the specificity of New Yorker's self obsession and our relationship with the show. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Cue the ironic Hip Hop, bust out the baseball bats. This week, comedian Zack Bornstein (Saturday Night Live, Jimmy Kimmel Live, My Least Favorite Thing) joins us to talk about Mike Judge's cult comedy classic Office Space. We talk about its reception at the time and the litany of marketing mistakes that surrounded it, Mike Judge's weird idiosyncratic (sort of a pun intended) career and Jennifer Aniston's movie career. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
This week on Sex and the City Saturdays, TV Critic Jen Chaney (Vulture) joins us to get to the bottom of "THE AWFUL TRUTH", the second episode of Sex and the City Season 2. We talk about leaving your lover, Carrie running her mouth and interfering with the people around her, Samantha's size shaming, and analyze the effect the ladies have on the people around them. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This week we are busting out the whiteboard, checking tier lists and double checking who is available cause folks, we are drafting. Clay Keller of the Screen Drafts podcast joins us to draft some of our favorite stars of 1999 based on the Vanity Fair's 1999 Hollywood Issue Cover. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Welcome to SEX AND THE CITY SATURDAY! For the next few months we will be talking about Season 2 of Sex and the City as well as its cultural legacy. This week we welcome TV Critic at The New Yorker, Emily Nussbaum, to talk about Take Me Out to The Ballgame, the season 2 premiere. We introduce our relationships with the show, talk about Carrie and Mr. Big, and what makes this crew of ladies so compelling. Check out Emily Nussabaum's New Yorker piece on Sex and the City: https://www.newyorker.com/m...
This week we are jamming and keeping the good times rolling as our guest comedian Erin Lampart takes us on a journey through the world of Phish. We talk about Erin's journey with the band, what they were up to in 99, and how one would describe the music they make. Songs included in the episode: Julius from the album HOIST and Free from the album BILLY BREATHES Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
This week we are looking at the stars and sitting faithfully with THE ASTRONAUT'S WIFE. Guest Haliegh Foutch (Senior Editor @ Collider) joins to talk about Johnny Depp's weird 1999, the rise of Theron, the film's insane plot, and its critical and commercial failure. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This week we welcome journalist/filmmaker Chandler Levack (We Forgot To Break Up) on the podcast to talk about GUINEVERE, the 1999 romantic drama starring Canadian legend Sarah Polley and Stephen Rea. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This week writer/director Morgan Dameron (the namesake of a famous Star based character) joins us to talk about My Favorite Martian, another strange classic TV adaptation with a bounty of weird character actors (Christopher Lloyd, Michael Lerner, Wayne Knight and Wallace Shawn), one of the most 1999 actors around (Elizabeth Hurley) plus Jeff Daniels and Daryl Hannah to keep it grounded. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
This week we are lacing up our skates and getting ready to root those plucky underdogs as we welcome writer Bart Nickerson (Narcos, Dispatches from Elsewhere) on the podcast to talk about Mystery, Alaska. We talk about Jay Roach directing this AND The Spy Who Shagged Me in the same year, another interesting career pivot from David E. Kelly, Russell Crowe's interesting 99' between this and The Insider and much more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Raise your fists and bang your head cause this week we welcome Rich Monahan (Writer and Host of the THAT REMINDS ME live show) to talk about Rage Against the Machine's seminal 1999 album Battle of Los Angeles. We get to dive deep into our history with the band, the album's political context and more than anything just how hard it goes. Songs Featured in the Episode: Testify by Rage Against the Machine (Battle of Los Angeles) Wake Up by Rage Against the Machine (Rage Against the Machine/Self Titl...
If you let Robert Downey Jr., Jared Leto, Scott Caan, Gaby Hoffman, and members of the Wu Tang Clan show up to an apartment and improvise you are bound to get something interesting right? Well this week we have the brilliant actress/filmmaker/playwright Kemiyondo Coutinho on to figure that out as we talk about BLACK AND WHITE. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In 1999 Kwesi Mfume was the president of the NAACP in July 1999 and saw that none of the 26 new comedies and dramas being launched had a minority performer in a leading or prominent role and said "When the television viewing public sits down to watch the new prime-time shows scheduled for this fall's lineup, they will see a virtual whitewash in programming." With this in mind this week we brought together a Roundtable of TV Writers to discuss if 1999 brough more diversity to TV and what work sti...
This week we go back to basics as Kenny and Phil go undercover and take on THE MOD SQUAD, the film reboot of the 70's TV Show starring Claire Danes, Omar Epps and Giovanni Ribisi. They talk about the all the 60s and 70s TV Show revivals to come of the back of the success of Mission: Impossible, why this version of The Mod Squad just doesn't work in a modern context, and try to figure out Claire Danes' career. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Friend of the show Bryan Cogman (Game of Thrones, Amazon's Lord of the Rings) returns this week to rock the cradle and talk about Tim Robbins' CRADLE WILL ROCK. We get all into Robbins' fictionalized account of the production of The Cradle Will Rock, where the movie lies politically/its thoughts on communism, art and the labor movement in the early 20th Century, Tim Robbins as an auteur and performances based on real life figures like Orson Welles! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more...
Put on your fancy suits and dresses, crack open a bottle of champagne and join us and AWARDS WATCH Founder Erik Anderson as we talk about the 1999 Golden Globes! We talk about the beginning of the American Beauty Oscar momentum, Toy Story 2 winning Musical or Comedy as animated feature, favorite speeches and talk about the ceremony as a whole and our favorite characters within it! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
This week, writer and horror head Louis Peitzman (The New York Times, Vulture, Buzzfeed) joins us to talk about supernatural, horror movie, STIGMATA. We talk about Patricia Arquette, Gabriel Byrne's interesting relationship to horror movies and his Razzie Nominated performance in this movie, the weird space of being a financial success but a critical failure and all the strange twists and turns STIGMATA takes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Have you ever been the very best? Like no one ever was? Well if you have then you have arrived at the correct episode of Podcast Like its 1999, as this week we welcome Mike Natale (Writer for Comic Book Resources and host of the upcoming You're Missing Out podcast) onto the podcast to talk about the ominously titled POKEMON: THE FIRST MOVIE. We get to talking about Pokemon as a multimedia phenomenon in the late 90s and how it just missed some of us age wise, card based box office boosts, how peo...
We aren't quite done! This week as our final FELICITY FRIDAY, Phil interviews a couple of FELICITY's key creatives. First off we have Executive Producer and TV Veteran John Reims about his role on Felicity, what makes Felicity different from all the other shows he's worked on in his career, and what it was like to work with the cast. And then we bring back Director and Producer on Felicity, Lawrence Trilling to talk about what it was like to say goodbye to Felicity, his thoughts on the ending an...
In the 90s we all loved lasers and we all loved Catherine Zeta Jones. Put them together and you have an all time memorable teaser trailer and ... an absolutely terrible movie?? This week we welcome back Jessica Ellis (Host of Distant Socials Podcast) to the podcast to talk about Entrapment, a movie as far as anyone is concerned is just Catherine Zeta Jones dodging lasers with sexy movements and also Sean Connery is in it. We talk about the movie beyond the trailer, Sean Connery as a 60 year old ...
It's so hard to say goodbye, but sometimes we must put away Ben and Noel and wrap up talking about one of the best shows of all time. This week we welcome back Vanity Fair Senior Writer and Podcaster Extraordinaire Joanna Robinson (Storm of Spoilers, Little Gold Men) to talk about the final episodes of Felicity. We talk about Felicity's journey from mid season 2 (the end of its 1999 run) to its end in 2002, the craziness of the twist of the final 5 episodes (TIME TRAVEL!), where Joanna and Phil ...
Ally McBeal, Big Little Lies, Boston Legal. We all know David E. Kelley is a TV Legend but did you know that in 1999 he wrote and produced a horror movie about a 30 foot killer crocodile starring Bill Pullman, Bridget Fonda and features Betty White. Wait what? We welcome writer Delondra Mesa (Step Up: High Water, Z Nation) to give us some of her Camp Sci-Fi expertise to talk about LAKE PLACID, and all of its twists, turns, laughs, groans and moans. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more...
It is the middle ground between Ben and Noel, and it lies after the 1999 run of episodes but before the end. This is a special bonus episode. It is an area which we call the Twilight Zone episode of FELICITY. This week Meg Masters (Netflix Publicity) returns to FELICITY FRIDAYS to talk about Help for the Lovelorn, a special episode of Felicity season 2, as one of our bonus episodes cause we just can't quit this fantastic series. And as a bonus on a bonus we also have an interview with actor Robe...
Get ready cause this is going to be a messy one. Phil, Kenny and special guest Brianna Zigler (Film Critic, Slashfilm, Little White Lies, etc) talk about Takashi Miike's bloody and intense horror film AUDITION. We get to talk about our experiences first being exposed to the twists and turns of Audition, Japanese horror movies like Audition and The Ring making their way to America in the late 90s early 00s, and finally get to start to rate the movie out of 99 if such a thing is even possible for ...
Will Felicity and Noel get back together once more???!!!! This week on FELICITY FRIDAYS we welcome ARROW Showrunner Beth Schwartz on the podcast to talk about PORTRAITS, a dramatic approaching mid-season episode of FELICITY Season 2. We, of course, get to talk about the Felicity(Keri Russell)/Noel(Scott Foley) dynamic following their dramatic kiss in the previous episode, Julie (Amy Smart) getting stuck in the middle of this potential rekindling, Julie maybe getting a record contract???, and we ...
We have a message for you and that message is that maybe Luc Besson wasn't the right person to tell the story of Joan of Arc. This week we welcome Joe Reid of This Had Oscar Buzz to talk about the big prestige follow-up to The Fifth Element in THE MESSENGER: THE STORY OF JOAN OF ARC. We get into all the nitty gritty about its development process (including Katheryn Bigelow being the original director attached), Milla Jovovich's wild and interesting career, and get to talk 1999 Oscar Buzz with on...
Bust out the gravy and the carving knife cause we are talking Thanksgiving a little early this week as Sarah Pitre and Meredith Borders (Creators of the Blog "Forever Young Adult") join us this week to talk about "Family Affairs" the eighth episode of season 2 of FELICITY. We talk about the joys of seasonal episodes, Felicity's (Keri Russell) parents meeting David(Charlie Sherwood), Noel(Scott Foley) and Felicity kissing and how much fun the supporting cast gets to have in this episode. Hosted o...
Tell him we're podding! We hop on a flight from London to LA this week with Blank Check Host and Atlantic Film Critic David Sims to talk about Steven Soderbergh's THE LIMEY. We talk about Soderbergh's insane Hot Streak in the late 90s/early 00s between this Out of Sight and Ocean's Eleven, the contentious relationship between screenwriter Lem Dobbs and Soderbergh, Terrence Stamp's importance in britain and how this movie plays with his legacy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more info...
This Friday we talk to Micheal Tedder (Entertainment Reporter for Esquire) about GETTING LUCKY the 7th episode of FELICITY season 2. We talk about his relationship with the show, picking up stray dogs/other forms of too much responsibility one tries to take on as a college kid, and as always get his take on the Ben v Noel situation. And speaking of "Getting Lucky" we are grateful to have Greg Grunberg as a guest this week to talk to us all about what it was like working on Felicity, his favorite...
