listen now Download show The very last installment of the program known as The Naked Lunch will be more like the Last Supper, as it takes on its new timeslot of Monday 9-11 one hour early for a year-end three-hour blowout of epic proportions, and gets ready to take on a new, more ambitious form [...]
Listen now Download show Darren Aronofsky – he may look like an accountant, but you couldn’t call his career boring. First he unveils his debut picture, Pi, a sci-fi thriller made for sixty grand, and launches his career in auspicious style. He follows it up with one of 2000′s most hotly debated films, the Hubert [...]
listen now Download show BRYAN SINGER: A Hollywood standby over the last decade and a half, Bryan Singer first came to the attention of most moviegoers with his third film, the labyrinthine crime thriller The Usual Suspects, in 1994. Since then, he’s tried on Stephen King, the X-Men and Superman, and now he’s decided to [...]
5- Stations of the Elevated It’s as if you are riding the rails in 79′ while listening to Mingus on your walk man. Eye candy up the wazzoo from graffiti to Nylon paisley shirts but there are no characters per say; except for the subways themselves. 4- Scratch But one new instrument has been growing [...]
Top 20 films about writers films about writers 20- Infamous 19- Throw Mama From The Train 18- Deathtrap 17- Deconstructing Harry 16- Morvern Callar 15- Where The Buffallo Roam 14- Misery 13- In The Mouth Of Madness 12 – Wonderboys 11- American Splendor 10 – The Hours 9- Adaptation 8- My Left Foot 7- Before [...]
With Bruce Willis rumored to be in the new A- Team movie as Col. Hannibal Smith, we were inspired to come up with a top 10 list of characters he has played in the past. 10- Four Rooms – LEo 9- Death Becomes Her – Dr. Ernest Menville 8- Planet Terror – Lt. Muldoon 7- [...]
listen now Download show In episode 79 we will review the film Hunger starring Michael Fassbender as Bobby Sands, of the Provisional Irish Republican Army who led the 1981 Irish hunger strike and participated in the no wash protest (led by Brendan “The Dark” Hughes) in which Republican prisoners tried to win political status. It [...]
Download the show in a new window Download One of Britain’s most celebrated breakthrough talents of the ’90s, director and producer Danny Boyle made his name with his acclaimed 1996 adaptation of Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting. An angry, funny and groundbreaking film about a group of heroin addicts that took a non-judgmental approach to drug use, [...]
listen now Download show Way back in Episode 28, we discussed Krzystzof Kieslowski’s seminal Three Colors trilogy with our resident European film expert, Eduardo Lucatero, and promised to return to discuss the revered Polish master’s earlier work. Well it’s taken forever, but we finally got our act together to discuss A Short Film About Love, [...]
listen now Download show A director who is capable of crafting both deeply unconventional independent films and mainstream crowd-pleasers, Gus Van Sant has managed to carve an enviable niche for himself in Hollywood. Since debuting in 1985 with Mala Noche, Van Sant has become one of the premiere bards of dysfunction, populating his films with [...]
listen now Download show Episode 75: Gays Gone Wild This week sees the arrival of the twenty-first edition of Montreal’s Image+Nation fest, featuring a wide-ranging survey of new films that touch on LGBT themes. To celebrate, we’ll be tackling a few of them, including XXY, (which served as Argentina’s submission for the Academy Awards last [...]
listen now Download show Rumours spead that the the new film by Baz Lurhmann, Australia, may be a box office disaster with squabbles over the length of the movie and even its ending. That is until Oprah went on her show raving about how it was the best film she had seen in years. Studio [...]
listen now Click here to listen using your program of choice… Episode 73: I Was a Teenage Vampire Teenage girls everywhere are frothing at the mouth over Twilight, the Vampire teen-romance flick adapted from Stephanie Meyer’s best-selling books. Ricky and Simon are in rough terrain here, being completely outside of the film’s target audience, so [...]
listen now Download show In recent years there has been a flood of movie remakes and reboots. The majority of these films have been seen in the Horror genre. However action films are not too far behind in numbers, with recent reinventions of Get Smart, Charlie’s Angels, The Terminator series and even Indiana Jones. Most [...]
listen now Download show With 1964′s Goldfinger, the third James Bond story to reach the screen, the “Bond formula” had reached maturity. Screenwriter Richard Maibaum, a participant in the scripting of the previous two movies, Dr. No and From Russia with Love, had identified those elements of the series that audiences liked. So, for this [...]
The American: Visions of damnation
A look back at “Wings Of Desire”
Abre los ojos (Open Your Eyes)
8: The Mormon Proposition
This Movie is Broken
The Last Exorcism: A surprisingly invigorating horror film
A Look Back At Spielberg’s Masterpiece “Jaws”
Fausta: The Milk of Sorrow
MIFF2010: The Illusionist
Piranha 3d
The Switch
Afterschool
Rampage
Stonewall Uprising
Toronto After Dark 2010: Doghouse (Review #1)
The Expendables
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