Saturday Night Fever (1977) | John Travolta | John Badham
**Saturday Night Fever (1977)**, Directed by John Badham. *You **can** tell by the way he walks.*
Aug 02, 2019•40 min•Season 2Ep. 33
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First Blood (1982) | Rambo | Sylvester Stallone | Brian Dennehy | Richard Crenna | Vietnam | War |
**First Blood (1982)**, Directed by Ted Kotcheff. *Yeeeaaaarrrrrrgggggghhhhh!!!!!*
Jun 16, 2019•48 min•Season 2Ep. 32
They Live (1988) | John Carpenter
**They Live (1988)**, Directed by John Carpenter. *Take Philip K. Dick style paranoia, fear of Reaganomics, and one infamously long fight scene -- Now stir.*
May 24, 2019•46 min•Season 2Ep. 31
Full Metal Jacket (1987) Part 2 (Vietnam) | Stanley Kubrick
**Full Metal Jacket (1987)**, Directed by Stanley Kubrick. *Me Love You Longtime!*
May 05, 2019•47 min•Season 2Ep. 30
Full Metal Jacket (1987) Part 1 (Boot Camp) | Stanley Kubrick
**Full Metal Jacket (1987)**, Directed by Stanley Kubrick. *Disappear, scumbag! Sir, aye aye, sir!!*
Apr 28, 2019•45 min•Season 2Ep. 29
Vertigo (1958) | Alfred Hitchcock | James Stewart
**Vertigo (1958)**, Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. *A Beautiful Remastered Print of the Psychological Thriller. And Sex, Obsession, and Anxiety.*
Apr 20, 2019•43 min•Season 2Ep. 28
Triple Frontier (2019) | Ben Affleck | Oscar Isaac | Military adventure | Narcoterrorism |
Oceans 11 meets American Sniper or Heat meets Narcos or Unforgiven meets Sicario
Mar 28, 2019•7 min•Season 2Ep. 27
Apollo 11 (2019). Apollo 11 Lunar Landing Documentary. Directed by Todd Douglas Miller.
The first moon landing as it was experienced by the astronauts and the world in 1969.
Mar 25, 2019•12 min•Season 2Ep. 26
Nightcrawler (2014) | Movie Review | Jake Gyllenhaal | Rene Russo | Dan Gilroy
**Nightcrawler (2014)**, Directed by Dan Gilroy. *Jake Gyllenhaal may be a psychopath -- but so are you, news-viewer.* Links: Nightcrawler Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1uP_8VJkDQ Network Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cSGvqQHpjs Lou and Nina https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5srYR6oGJ_k Car chase scene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVPocfP-qaI Home invasion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oesEUFty2qU
Mar 23, 2019•28 min•Season 2Ep. 25
They Shall Not Grow Old (2018) | Peter Jackson | World War I | Documentary |
The Great War as the soldiers experienced it!
Mar 23, 2019•12 min•Season 2Ep. 24
The Notorious Bettie Page (2005) | Bettie Page Biopic | Gretchen Mol | Mary Harron
The Notorious Bettie Page. Bangs and all!
Mar 14, 2019•6 min•Season 2Ep. 23
Apocalypto (2006) | Mel Gibson | Mayan Culture | Mesoamerica | Historical Drama
Apocalypto (2006) Can anyone pull off a 2 hour movie in the Mayan language?
Feb 24, 2019•11 min•Season 2Ep. 22
Altered States (1980) | Movie Review | William Hurt | Ken Russell | Paddy Chayefsky
**Altered States (1980)**, Directed by Ken Russell. *Australopithecus Dork-icus.* [Final Transformation](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkPM4M6bnB4) [A-Ha: Take On Me Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djV11Xbc914) [Alien Brent Death Scene](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YTIMGmZUr4) [Geico Caveman](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H02iwWCrXew)
Feb 18, 2019•48 min•Season 2Ep. 21
The Fly (1986) | Jeff Goldblum | Geena Davis | David Cronenberg | Movie Review
**The Fly (1986)**, Directed by David Cronenberg. *File Under: 80s SciFi Horror That Holds Up.* [The Fly (1986) Original Trailer, YouTube.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-V3X963DRI) [The Fly (1986) Wikipedia.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fly_(1986_film))
Feb 06, 2019•45 min•Season 2Ep. 20
Platoon (1986)| Oliver Stone | Charlie Sheen | Tom Berenger | Willem Dafoe | Johnny Depp | Vietnam War
Platoon (1986) Directed by Oliver Stone. Does it stand the test of time?
Jan 05, 2019•16 min•Season 2Ep. 19
Doug's Top 10 Films of 2018
Doug's Best and Worst Films of 2018, with some honorable mentions and the films that let him down.
Dec 26, 2018•27 min•Season 2Ep. 18
The Mule (2018) | Clint Eastwood | Bradley Cooper | Laurence Fishburne | Michael Pena| Andy Garcia | Drug Trafficking |
The Mule. Directed by Clint Eastwood. Is this Eastwood's swan song?
Dec 19, 2018•12 min•Season 2Ep. 17
The Catcher Was a Spy (2018) | Paul Rudd | Moe Berg | Paul Giamatti | Sienna Miller | Mark Strong | Ben Lewin |
The Catcher Was a Spy (2018) Directed by Ben Lewin. A Boston Red Sox player in search of a Nazi scientist in World War II.
Dec 03, 2018•10 min•Season 2Ep. 16
The Front Runner (2018) | Hugh Jackman | Vera Farmiga | Jason Reitman | Gary Hart | Political Drama
The Front Runner (2018) Directed by Jason Reitman. The Candidate done in 2018 style...set in 1988!
Nov 23, 2018•10 min•Season 2Ep. 15
From the Earth to the Moon (1998) | HBO Miniseries | Tom Hanks | Ron Howard | Apollo Program | Moon Landing | Astronauts |
From the Earth to the Moon (1998). Giving the space program the A list treatment.
Nov 18, 2018•16 min•Season 2Ep. 14
Apollo 13 (1995) | Movie Review | Ron Howard | Tom Hanks | Bill Paxton | Gary Sinise | Kevin Bacon
**Apollo 13 (1995)**, Directed by Ron Howard. *Houston, Ron Howard does NOT have a problem.*
Nov 11, 2018•56 min•Season 2Ep. 13
Source Code (2011) | Duncan Jones | Jake Gyllenhaal | Michelle Monaghan | Vera Farmiga | Jeffrey Wright | Time Travel |
Source Code (2011) Directed by Duncan Jones. Time travel done right!
Nov 10, 2018•13 min•Season 2Ep. 12
The Right Stuff (1983) | Movie Review | Tom Wolfe | NASA | Philip Kaufman | John Glenn | Chuck Yeager | Sam Shepard | Ed Harris |
**The Right Stuff (1983)**, Directed by Philip Kaufman. *Hey Ridley, you got any Beemans?*
Oct 28, 2018•51 min•Season 2Ep. 11
Die Hard (1988) | Movie Review | Bruce Willis | Alan Rickman | John McTiernan
**Die Hard (1988)**, Directed by John McTiernan. *Yippee-ki-yay, Mother****er!!*
Oct 22, 2018•39 min•Season 2Ep. 10
First Man (2018) Movie Review | Ryan Gosling | Claire Foy | Neil Armstrong | Buzz Aldrin | Lunar Landing | Apollo 11 | NASA | Moon
**First Man (2018)**, Directed by Damien Chazelle. *An intimate look at the inscrutable astronaut's Right Stuff'.*
Oct 15, 2018•56 min•Season 2Ep. 9
Unforgiven | Clint Eastwood | Morgan Freeman | Gene Hackman | Richard Harris | Transformative Western | Movie Review |
Unforgiven (1992) Directed by Clint Eastwood. The reinvention of the western genre.
Sep 30, 2018•12 min•Season 2Ep. 8
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) | Movie Review | Jennifer Jason Leigh | Judge Reinhold | Sean Penn | Phoebe Cates | Amy Heckerling | High School |
**Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)**, Directed by Amy Heckerling. *Hey, Bud... Let's Party!!*
Sep 19, 2018•42 min•Season 2Ep. 7
Operation Finale (2018) | Oscar Isaac | Ben Kingsley | Nazi War Criminal | Adolf Eichmann | Mossad | Israel | Espionage | Movie Review |
Operation Finale (2018). Directed by Chris Weitz. A Real Mission Impossible.
Sep 11, 2018•11 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Star Wars: Ep I - The Phantom Menace | George Lucas | Liam Neeson | Ewan McGregor | Natalie Portman | Review
**Star Wars: Ep I - The Phantom Menace (1999)**, Directed by George Lucas. *Hand me my Lightsaber -- It's the one that says 'Bad Motherf___er'.*
Sep 04, 2018•48 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Alpha (2018) | Cavemen | Wolf | Adventure | Drama | Albert Hughes | Kodi Smit-McPhee | Movie Review |
Alpha (2018) Directed by Albert Hughes. Boy meets wolf...
Aug 19, 2018•25 min•Season 2Ep. 4
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