Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
188 episodes - English - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsYour hosts Dan and Vicky take you on a hot date through movie history. They'll choose a random month, day and year and pick a favorite movie released on or near that date. It could be a love fest, it could get heated or it could turn into a threesome! Take a wild and funny ride in Dan and Vicky's movie time machine. You're invited on their Hot Date!
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Paper Lion (Episode 187) - Hot Date with Dan & Vicky
April 20, 2024 12:00 - 49 minutes - 91.6 MBAlan Alda plays George Plimpton in Paper Lion, the 1968 film based on Plimpton's book of the same title. The book and film chronicle his attempt at joining the Detroit Lions during pre-season training for a story in Sports Illustrated. Several real life football players appear as themselves in the film inlcuding Alex Karras (who starred two more times on film with Alda in Springtime and M*A*S*H*), Frank Gifford, Joe Schmidt, and Lem Barney. In the shortest Hot Date to date and after man...
Hammett (Episode 186) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
March 29, 2024 12:00 - 1 hour - 161 MBWhen Francis Ford Coppola hired German auteur Wim Wenders to direct his first American film, little did he suspect the difficulty that film would have getting to screens. The movie was Hammett, a fictionalized account of the mystery writer Dasheill Hammett's second career as a private investigator. In real life, Hammett stuck to penning noirs but in Wenders' film he's enlisted to solve the disappearance of a San Francisco woman. The film was entirely reshot on sound stages after Orion Pic...
Stolen Face (Episode 185) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
March 15, 2024 12:00 - 1 hour - 143 MB1952's Stolen Face was an early Hammer Films production. The British studio, which would later become synonymous with thrillers and horror films, also churned out it's fair share of melodramas and comedies. This film, about a heartbroken plastic surgeon who physically transforms a prisoner into the woman who jilted him, stars Lizabeth Scott, Paul Henreid, Andre Morell and Mary Mackenzie and set the stage for films like Vertigo, Eyes Without a Face and The Skin I Live In. Dan and Vicky d...
No Escape (Episode 184) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
February 23, 2024 13:00 - 1 hour - 134 MBActor Ray Liotta was coming off crtitical acclaim for his star making turn in Martin Scorcese's Goodfellas and was looking for a vehicle that would turn him into a bonafide movie star. For others that path was paved by action movies so Liotta signed on to 1994's No Escape hoping it would catapult him to international acclaim. As the stoic, brooding J. T. Robbins, Liotta was able to not only show brawn, but also brains as he attempts to escape the island penal colony of Absolom and it's vio...
The Tamarind Seed (Episode 183) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
February 09, 2024 13:00 - 1 hour - 145 MB1974's The Tamarind Seed was considered a departure for star Julie Andrews. After a break to raise her family, Andrews was looking for a role that would reintroduce her to audiences in a new light. As the 70's were rife with political and paranoid thrillers, she jumped at the chance to play Judith Farrow - a woman reeling from personal tragedy who gets embroiled in a Cold War bait and switch. It helped that Andrews was being directed by husband Blake Edwards (who also adapted the script f...
The Gorilla (Episode 182) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
January 18, 2024 13:00 - 1 hour - 141 MB1939's horror comedy The Gorilla was meant to be another 20th Century Fox showcase for the talents of The Ritz Brothers - three Newark born and Brooklyn raised brothers snatched from vaudeville by the studio in hopes they would bring Marx Brothers or Three Stooges size audiences. The film, however, was plagued with false starts, lawsuits and bad blood. It's failure effectively ended the trio's time at 20th and after one more film at Universal, they returned to the stage and nightclub circu...
Saving Grace (Episode 181) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
December 08, 2023 13:00 - 1 hour - 146 MBA very special episode of the Hot Date Podcast with Dan & Vicky. There's drama, there's tears, there's nausea inducing popcorn. And, oh yeah, a movie to discuss. This time it's 2000's Cornwall shot Saving Grace starring Brenda Blethyn and Craig Ferguson in the charming tale of a woman on the verge of bankruptcy with a plan to save her home by growing weed. But truth be told, the movie isn't really the main feature this time - that would be our two hosts who maybe show a side of them...
Top Ten Creepy Performances (Episode 180) - Hot Date with Dan & Vicky
November 28, 2023 13:00 - 1 hour - 180 MBWe've reached another tenth podcast which means Dan and Vicky give you their Top Ten! This time, your hosts are counting down to their favorite top ten creepy performances! Man, woman and children are eligible. Try and guess which actor appears on both lists, which actor has two performances highlighted. What made-for-TV film makes the list!? Have a listen and see if you agree. Send us some of your favorite unsettling performances Follow us here: hotdatepod.com FB: Hot Date Po...
Aenigma (Episode 179) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
November 10, 2023 13:00 - 1 hour - 136 MBItalian horror director Lucio Fulci's 1988 Aenigma seems to have been inspired by films as varied as Carrie and Patrick, with a dash of Argento madness and 80's slasher thrown in for good measure. Shot in Serbia standing in for Boston, the film features make up effects by Guiseppe Ferrante, cinematography from Luigi Ciccarese and a score by Carlo Maria Cordio. Dan and Vicky discuss the film along with some recently seen like Exorcist: Believer, Meg 2: The Trench, Taylor Swift: The Eras To...
Illusion Travels By Streetcar (Episode 178) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
October 23, 2023 02:09 - 1 hour - 123 MBTake a trip on decommissioned Streetcar 133 in Luis Bunuel's surreal and sweet 1954 film Illusion Travels By Streetcar (La Ilusión Vaja en Tranvía). When two mechanics learn their favorite streetcar is being taken off the line for good, they take it for one last drunken joyride that turns into an existential examination of life in a big city. The film stars Carlos Navarro and Fernando Soto as the hapless mechanics and Lilia Prado as their female foil and potential love interest. Along ...
Sleep, My Love (Episode 177) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
October 06, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 163 MB1954's Sleep, My Love was an early directorial effort from German born emigre Douglas Sirk. Sirk would later become recognized as an auteur - by, of course, the French - for his work with melodramas (Magnificent Obsession, All That Heaven Allows). Sleep, My Love, starring Claudette Colbert, Robert Cummings, Don Ameche and Hazel Brooks, was his attempt at a domestic thriller. Dan and Vicky discuss the gaslighting noir along with alot of recently seen including A Haunting in Venice, Talk ...
Chilly Scenes of Winter (Episode 176) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
September 19, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 167 MBActors Griffin Dunne, Mark Metcalf, and Amy Robinson were looking for film projects for their fledgling production company and all agreed that Ann Beattie's novel Chilly Scenes of Winter was ripe for adaptation. Indie director Joan Micklin Silver came on board with John Heard and Mary Beth Hurt leading the cast. The film struggled at the box office in 1979 under the new United Artists imposed title Head Over Heels. When it was re-released in 1982 as Chilly Scenes of Winter, the film fared...
Year of the Dog (Episode 175) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
August 25, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 157 MBMike White's (White Lotus, Enlightened, Chuck and Buck) directorial debut Year of the Dog tells the story of Peggy Spade, a mild mannered people pleaser who's life is upended when she loses her dog Pencil in a poisoning accident. Or was it an accident? Molly Shannon plays Peggy with a strong supporting cast that includes Peter Saarsgard, John C. Reilly, Regina King, Laura Dern, Josh Pais and Tom McCarthy. Apropos to the film, Vicky discusses her love affair with dogs while Dan talks of...
Gunfight at the OK Corral (Episode 174) - Hot Date with Dan & Vicky
August 11, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 164 MBDan and Vicky head back to the old west for a Gunfight at the OK Corral. The 1957 film directed by John Sturges and starring Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas tells the oft told tale of the legendary, albeit short, gun battle between the Earps and the Clantons and the violence, greed and passions that lead up to it. In a wide ranging conversation, your hosts talk about the recent actors strike, Dan's show at the Bay Street Theater and lots of recently seen including Insidious: The Red Doo...
Crimewave (Episode 173) - Hot Date with Dan & Vicky
July 21, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 151 MB1985's Crimewave was the sophmore effort for Evil Dead director Sam Raimi, actor and producer Bruce Campbell and producer Bob Tapert. The film started as the script The XYZ Murders by Joel and Ethan Coen. Raimi and genre friendly production company Avco-Embassy agreed the script was a winner and started shooting on a 2.5 million dollar budget. And that's when the problems started. With really young and relatively inexperienced fillmmakers at the helm, the budget balllooned, actors starte...
Shock Corridor (Episode 172) Hot Date with Dan & Vicky
July 07, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 173 MB1963's Shock Corridor was director/writer/provocateur Sam Fuller's depiction of the search for truth in a hostile society bent on obfuscating and distorting it. Set in a mental institution, Fuller's story of a Boston Globe journalist who gets himself committed to solve a murder gets at the hypocrisy and violence that can occur when that search butts up against racism, sexism and preservation of the status quo. It stars Peter Breck, Conctance Towers, James Best, Gene Evans and Hari Rhodes. ...
Watch On The Rhine (Episode 171) - Hot Date with Dan & Vicky
June 16, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 160 MBAt a time when there was considerable United States naivete and even support around Hitler's domination of Europe, Warner Bros. took the calculated risk of releasing the fervently antifascist 1943 film adaptation of Lillian Helman's Tony award winning play Watch on the Rhine. Aiding them in delivering the important message was outspoken liberal Bette Davis, Hungarian born leading man Paul Lukas (who ended up winning the Oscar for Best Actor), Dashiell Hammett (taking over writing duties fr...
Top Ten Remakes (Episode 170) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
May 28, 2023 15:41 - 1 hour - 156 MBWe're back with another Top Ten! Every tenth show we try to pick a fun and engaging topic that'll yield a list of our favorite top tens. This time it's Top Ten remakes. Vicky's criteria was films that are better or just as good as the original. Dan didn't really stick to that criteria as you'll hear but the lists are eclectic, cover several genres and span the globe! Have a listen, enjoy and send us your Top Ten Remakes! You can get tickets to Dan's show at Bay Street Theater, Ta...
Pin (Episode 169) - Hot Date with Dan & Vicky
May 05, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 149 MBDan and Vicky discuss the 1998 Canadian psychological thriller Pin from writer/director Sandor Stern starring David Hewlett, Cynthia Preston, Terry O'Quinn and the voice of Breaking Bad actor Jonathan Banks. Stern is most famous for penning The Amityville Horror from 1979. Your hosts discuss the cult favorite along with plenty of recently seen including the horror docuseries In Search of Darkness, 1965's Red Beard, the Michael Jordan biopic Air, Shudder's The Apology, and several classic...
The Double Life of Veronique (Episode 168) Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
April 14, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 139 MBOn Hot Date episode 168, Dan and Vicky discuss the French-Polish film The Double Life of Veronique starring Irene Jacob, Philippe Volter, Sandrine Dumas and Claude Duneton. This was the breakthrough film of Polish auteur KRZYSZTOF KIESLOWSKI, who went on to make the acclaimed Color Trilogy and the Dekalog series. Your hosts also discuss dog sitting, Steve Guttenberg and give a shout out to a Hot Date Facebook fan! Some films and TV covered in the recently seen section include Scream VI, ...
Paid In Full (Episode 167) - Hot Date with Dan & Vicky
March 24, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 132 MBDan and Vicky discuss the randomly chosen 1950 melodrama Paid In Full starring Lizabeth Scott, Diana Lynn, Robert Cummings and Eve Arden. Your hosts also discuss some recently seen including Cocaine Bear, All Quiet on the Western Front, Top Gun: Maverick, and the series Fleischman is in Trouble and History of the World Part II. hotdatepod.com FB: Hot Date Podcast Twitter: @HotDate726 Insta: hotdatepod
Easy Come, Easy Go (Episode 166) Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
March 10, 2023 13:00 - 1 hour - 140 MBAlthough stuntmen did most of the underwater work, Elvis Presley, cast as Navy frogman Ted Jackson, whose job it was to diffuse sunken mines, still had alot of scenes in and around water in 1967's Easy Come, Easy Go. This necessitated being clothed head to toe in scuba gear and getting wet occasionally - two things Elvis was not a fan of. Also appearing in this film, one of the last of Elvis' movie career, were an off shore treasure subplot, a yoga class musical number, hippies in full bod...
Crime Story (Episode 165) - Hot Date with Dan & Vicky
February 24, 2023 13:00 - 1 hour - 147 MBBased on the true kidnapping story of wealthy Hong Kong businessman Teddy Wang, 1993's (although shot in 1993, it wasn't released in the US until 1996) Crime Story was an attempt by Jackie Chan to expand his dramatic acting range. Audiences, and Chan himself, were not completely happy with the results. The film didn't make much of a box office impression and Chan resented director Kirk Wong for pushing the film to be darker. Your Hot Date hosts discuss the Asian actioner along with alot ...
The Corruption of Chris Miller (Episode 164) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
February 03, 2023 13:00 - 1 hour - 187 MBAlthough produced in Spain, 1973's The Corruption of Chris Miller, has all the earmarks of a traditional Italian giallo - sexual tension in an isolated country house, bad dubbing and, most importantly, a black clad killer. The film is directed by J.A..Bardem, uncle of Oscar winner Javier Bardem. The lush cinematography is by Juan Gelpi and the grand score is from Waldo de los Rios. Jean Seberg stars as Ruth, living with her estranged stepdaughter Chris in that country home. Into their st...
The Bribe (Episode 163) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
January 20, 2023 13:00 - 1 hour - 146 MBA starry cast brings 1949's The Bribe to life. Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner, Charles Laughton, Vincent Price and John Hodiak are all on a fictitious Caribbean island together falling in love and scheming to steal leftover ammunition parts. This somewhat forgotten noir was written by Marguerite Roberts, whose career was put on hold when she was blacklisted in 1951 for refusing to testify in front of the House Unamerican Activities Committee. It was nine years before she would resurface and w...
The Burning Plain (Episode 162) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
December 30, 2022 13:00 - 1 hour - 136 MBThe Burning Plain was the directorial debut of screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga, who took cues from his screenplays for Amores Perros, 21 Grams and Babel to weave the intergenerational story of two families, one white and one Mexican, colliding and seeking redemption. The film stars Charlize Theron, Kim Basinger, Jennifer Lawrence, and Joaquim de Almeida. Dan and Vicky discuss the little seen drama from 2009 along with lots of recently seen films, including Vicky's attempt to watch all the f...
Summertime (Episode 161) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
December 17, 2022 14:00 - 1 hour - 137 MBWhen it came time make the film of Arthur Laurents successful play The Time of the Cuckoo, the natural casting choice was Shirley Booth, who won a Tony for the Broadway production and had an Oscar for the 1952 film Come Back Little Sheba. But producers felt she was too old and not enough of a box office draw. Director David Lean was determined to get Katherine Hepburn and the star needed little convincing. As her love interest, he cast Italian Rossano Brazzi. Future Night Stalker star and...
Top Ten Whodunnits (Episode 160) - Hot Date with Dan & Vicky
December 02, 2022 13:00 - 1 hour - 154 MBWe've reached our next Top Ten episode (something we do here at Hot Date when we reach every tenth show) and this time we're picking our favorite mysteries and whodunnits. From Poirot to Parker, giallo to slasher, we're choosing the films that kept us guessing, made us gasp and even gave us some chuckles. Along with our main topic, you'll hear about plenty of recently seen including new takes on Hellraiser, Halloween, Fletch and Black Panther and plenty of TV and live theater. You'll hea...
Humongous (Episode 159) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
October 31, 2022 12:00 - 1 hour - 153 MBDan and Vicky offer a special Halloween episode of Hot Date covering the 1982 Canadian slasher Humongous. It was Vicky's idea to find a horror film from the 80's that she hadn't seen and Dan had. They were almost successful - after all Vicky's seen ALOT of movies. Humongous, directed by Prom Night's Paul Lynch and written by The Changeling's William Gray, has been a mostly forgotten slasher only recently finding an audience after being cleaned up for DVD and blu ray. Along with the m...
Edmond (Episode 158) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
October 28, 2022 12:00 - 1 hour - 156 MBDirector Stuart Gordon, known for creating the body horror classics Reanimator and From Beyond, reunited with writer David Mamet to direct the film adaptation of the controversial playwright's one act play Edmond. Gordon and Mamet were colleagues in the Chicago theater scene and first collaborated on the original staging of the writer's Sexual Perversity in Chicago. In Edmond, William H. Macy plays the title character, a misanthropic bigot being put through a dark night of the soul on his ...
Three Husbands (Episode 157) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
September 23, 2022 12:00 - 1 hour - 145 MB1951's Three Husbands and 1949's A Letter To Three Wives share screenwriter Vera Caspary but also similar storylines. In Three Husbands, the title characters receive letters about their wives' possible infidelity and in Three Wives the ladies recieve missives from a woman announcing she is running away with one of their husbands. Caspary specilaized in stories about strong women, having also penned Laura, The Blue Gardenia (a Hot Date pick at Episode 118), and I Can Get it For You Wholesal...
A Thousand Acres (Episode 156) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
September 16, 2022 12:00 - 1 hour - 148 MBWith Shakespeare's King Lear as it's source material, both the book by Jane Smiley and the film adaptation directed by Jocelyn Moorehouse of A Thousand Acres sets the action on an Iowa farm. In the 1997 film, Jason Robards plays the raging patrirach of the Cook family, whose bequest of his land to his three daughters, played by Jessica Lange, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Jennifer Jason Leigh, raises tensions and unearths long hidden family secrets. Dan and Vicky discuss the star studded melodr...
The Blood Beast Terror (Episode 155) - Hot Date with Dan & Vicky
August 05, 2022 12:00 - 1 hour - 138 MBTigon British Film Productions, founded in 1966 as counter programming to the more well known Hammer Studios, nonetheless took a page from the Hammer playbook by making horror and exploitation films. Tigon films, however, are often marked by a low budget mean streak and grittiness. Successes for the company included 1967's The Sorcerers, 1968's The Witchfinder General, and 1971's Blood on Satan's Claw. 1969's The Blood Beast Terror stars Peter Cushing, Robert Flemyng, Wanda Ventham, and V...
Sister, Sister (Episode 154) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
July 22, 2022 12:00 - 1 hour - 137 MBDirector/screenwriter Bill Condon has since become an Oscar winning filmmaker with credits ranging from writing 2002's Chicago to directing two films in the Twilight series. But his directorial debut came with 1987's Sister, Sister, a Gothic thriller set in Louisiana and starring Judith Ivey, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Eric Stoltz. Dan and Vicky discuss the film, which mixes horror and the supernatural into it's arguably over-cooked mix. They also talk about some recently seen, including ...
The Undying Monster (Episode 153) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
July 08, 2022 12:00 - 1 hour - 138 MBIn response to the success Univeral was having with it's monster series, 20th Century Fox endeavored to bring their own monster movies to the big screen. Taking cues from the mix of horror and comedy Universal had begun to explore, The Undying Monster has a scary castle, a family curse, a pair of funny Scotland investigators and visual style to spare. It's directed by John Brahm and stars Heather Angel, John Ellison, John Howard and Heather Thatcher. Dan and Vicky discuss the light horror...
A Wedding (Episode 152) - Hot Date with Dan & Vicky
June 24, 2022 12:00 - 1 hour - 149 MBRobert Altman's Chicago set A Wedding from 1978 tells the story of two families and the lavish and chaotic day they marry off young Dino (Desi Arnaz Jr.) and Muffin (Amy Stryker). An all star cast of 70's luminaries, including Carol Burnett, Paul Dooley, Mia Farrow, Lillian Gish, Dina Merrill, Vittorio Gassman and Geraldine Chaplin, is joined by some background players who would later become stars in their own right. Look closely for Windy City actors Laurie Metcalf, John Malkovich, Jeff ...
Purple Noon (Episode 151) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
June 10, 2022 12:00 - 1 hour - 151 MBThe Patricia Highsmith novel The Talented Mr. Ripley has been adapted twice for the screen - most recently in 1995 in a star studded version by director Anthony Minghella. But the novel's first filmed version came in 1960 from two time Oscar winning director Rene Clement. Called Purple Noon in an ode to the vibrant Italian sky over Sicily where the story was set and shot, Clement's version casts Alain Delon as the sinister Tom Ripley and Maurice Renot as rich playboy Dickie (called Philipp...
Picture It! - Top Ten Best Picture Winners (Episode 150) - Hot Date with Dan & Vicky
May 20, 2022 12:00 - 1 hour - 161 MBFor our milestone 150th show, we offer our Top Ten lists of our favorite Best Picture Winners of all time. From ribald comedies to dark thrillers to ripped from the headlines dramas, Dan and Vicky honor those honored with the most prestigious film award in the world. But our hosts don't stop there! They talk about some recently seen including Nic Cage's The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, Finnish horror movie Hatching, Amazon's sci-fi show Outer Range, Netflix's The Guilty and som...
Red Lights (Episode 149) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
May 06, 2022 12:00 - 1 hour - 149 MBOff of the critical success of his 2010 film Buried (which trapped star Ryan Reynolds inside a coffin for 90 minutes) director Rodrigo Cortes had the clout to attract Sigourney Weaver, Robert DeNiro, Cillian Murphy, Toby Jones and Elizabeth Olsen to his next project. 2012's Red Lights is the story of a duo of supernatural debunkers who meet their match in a celebrity psychic with a dangerous past. Dan and Vicky discuss the Spanish/Canadian thriller along with some recently seen. Hear what ...
Dawn of the Mummy (Episode 148) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
April 22, 2022 12:00 - 1 hour - 132 MBFilmmaker Frank Agrama, mostly known today as the producer of family friendly fare like the Robotech TV and video game series and a Heidi miniseries, got his start with more adult material like the 1981 horror film Dawn of the Mummy. Taking over direction from fired original director, Armand Weston, Agrama shot the grisly feature in his home country of Egypt with mostly American actors and an Italian crew. Dan and Vicky discuss the mummy/zombie hybrid thriller along with lots of recently se...
Picnic (Episode 147) Hot Date with Dan & Vicky
April 01, 2022 12:00 - 1 hour - 138 MB1956's Picnic, adapted from the Pulitzer and Tony award winning stage play by William Inge, gave director Joshua Logan the chance to realize the grand picnic of the title on actual locations in Kansas. But the filming was not without it's headaches. With two insecure lead actors, tornadoes that threatened to shut production down, and thousands of extras to corrall, Picnic could have been mess. But it went on to be a box office success and win two Academy Awards. Dan and Vicky discuss the...
Cronicas (Episode 146) Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
March 18, 2022 12:00 - 1 hour - 139 MBWith the powerhouse producing team of Guillermo Del Toro and Alfonso Cuaron behind it, 2004's Ecuadorean drama Cronicas had an easy time being chosen as that country's submission for the Best Foreign Language film at the Academy Awards. It didn't get that honor but still had the star power to guide it to international acclaim. John Leguizamo, performing fully in Spanish for the first time in his career, leads a stellar cast that includes Leonor Watling, Damian Alcazar, Jose Maria Yazpik an...
Who Killed Teddy Bear (Episode 145) Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
March 04, 2022 13:00 - 1 hour - 135 MB1965's Who Killed Teddy Bear mixes spasmodic dance sequences, lewd phone calls, predatory lesbians, incest, and Sal Mineo in short shorts to create one of the strangest films to come out of the swingin' sixties. It's directed by Joseph Cates and stars Mineo, Juliet Prowse, Jan Murray, and Elaine Stritch. Dan and Vicky discuss this odd film along with lots of recently seen like 2022's Death on the Nile, Marry Me, 1983's The Keep, Spielberg's Bridge of Spies from 2015 and the Showtime doc W...
So Dark The Night (Episode 144) Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
February 18, 2022 13:00 - 1 hour - 165 MBThe unique 1946 film noir So Dark The Night gave actor Steven Geray his first and only chance to play the lead in a film. Up until then, and for years after, he was a reliable and memorable supporting player in films like Spellbound, Gilda and All About Eve. Geray had fled his homeland of Hungary after his pointed impersonations of Hitler and Mussolini on the European theatre circuit drew the threatening attention of the Italian and German governments! Your hosts Dan and Vicky discuss th...
Dr. Jekyll And Sister Hyde (Episode 143) Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
February 04, 2022 14:30 - 1 hour - 161 MBIn the early 70's Hammer Studios, Britain's premier production house for horror and fantasy films, was at a crossroads. The Hammer name connoted class, style and a certain elegance but the new wave of horror was grittier and more explicit. Playing against The Exorcist and Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Hammer films could almost appear quaint. So Hammer pivoted and started making films like 1972's Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde in response. Still using trained British talent and adapting classic tex...
The Commitments (Episode 142) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
January 21, 2022 18:00 - 1 hour - 169 MB1991's The Commitments was a departure for filmmaker Alan Parker. Traditionally an explorer of the darker reaches of human interaction (Angel Heart, Mississippi Burning), the film was instead a serio-comic look at the making of a band in working class Dublin. Based on the novel by Roddy Doyle, Parker and his casting team scoured Ireland for actors who could convince as musicians or musicians who could carry the dramatic demands of the script. He came up with a motley crew of actual singer...
Putney Swope (Episode 141) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
December 31, 2021 18:00 - 1 hour - 151 MBFor our final Hot Date of 2021, we chose Putney Swope, written and directed by Robert Downey Sr. As an indictment of corporate greed, the advertising business and race, the film was Downey's reaction to working for years in a production company whose main client was a powerful ad agency. There were no takers for the movie from the major studios so Downey turned to independent producer and distributor Don Rugoff, who placed the film in his art houses across the country and turned it into a ...
Bad To The Bone: Top Ten Movie Villains (Episode 140) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
December 03, 2021 18:00 - 1 hour - 152 MBWe're back again with another of our famous Top Ten List episodes. This time we're looking at our favorite movie villains. Those despicable, pathetic, misguided, attractive movie characters - some based on real people - we love to hate from films spanning the last century. Dan and Vicky also check in on some recently seen like The Eternals, Nobody, The Deep House, Antlers, tick...tick...Boom, and Red Notice. Have a listen and come up with your own list of movie villains. Send them t...
Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn (Episode 139) Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
November 20, 2021 18:00 - 1 hour - 136 MBA negative pickup for Universal Pictures to cash in on the 3D trend partially initiated by the company's own Jaws 3, low budget sci fi epic Metalstorm failed to spark at the box office. Of the many quirky elements of the film, it's bombastic orchestral score sticks out as belonging to a different movie. Composed by Band's brother Richard, the music gives the film a gravitas that the chintzy special effects, languid pace and bad acting don't. The film stars soap star Jeffrey Byron, Austral...
Brighton Rock (Episode 138) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
October 29, 2021 22:34 - 1 hour - 141 MB1948's Brighton Rock, based on the novel by Graham Greene, was a controversial hit in England where critics felt it reached new levels of depravity and on screen violence. It also met the ire of novelist Greene himself, who was denied the opportunity to adapt his own book - that task fell to playwright Terrence Rattigan - and given zero influence in casting decisions. Greene was vocal about his dislike of Richard Attenborough in the lead role of Pinkie Brown and Hermione Baddeley as crusad...