Uncut Gems Podcast
264 episodes - English - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsA weekly show about bringing attention to forgotten and orphaned movies where a bunch of like-minded individuals dive head first into the septic tank of cinema in search for disregarded masterpieces.
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Episodes
BONUS Tie-in 34 - Capricorn One (teaser)
May 15, 2024 05:37 - 15 minutes - 14.1 MBHere's a short teaser of our brand new Patreon-exclusive episode of Uncut Gems Tie-ins, a monthly series where we take a classic movie and connect it to a film discussed on our main show. This month we are tying into our main show conversations about Peter Hyams by talking about his arguably first hit, Capricorn One. Over the course of our conversation you will hear us talk about Hyams' background in TV carrying over into his movie, how much it owes to All the President's Men and whether i...
Episode 172 - Timecop
May 11, 2024 05:00 - 2 hours - 116 MBIn this episode of the show we are opening our May triptych of JCVD collaborations with Peter Hyams and we begin our deliberations by travelling back in time to 1994 to talk about Timecop. Over the course of our conversation you will hear us talk about Van Damme's drive to establish himself as an A-list action star, Ron Silver's villainous take owing a lot to Blue Steel and Peter Hyams leaning into inspirations drawn from James Cameron and Ridley Scott. We also talk about reasons why you wan...
Episode 171 - Clockers
May 04, 2024 05:00 - 2 hours - 123 MBIn this episode of the show we are again touching base with our hero of the year, Spike Lee, as we talk about his 1995 outing Clockers. Over the course of our conversation you will hear us talk about Lee taking his cinema close to Martin Scorsese, whether this movie is a continuation of film activism the filmmaker has been advancing his entire career and whether it attempts to have a difficult conversation with the viewer about the problem of fatherlessness in American communities. We also t...
BONUS Spike Lee's Major Joint 04 - Crooklyn (teaser)
May 01, 2024 05:00 - 15 minutes - 13 MBThis month we are devoting our Spike Lee conversation to Crooklyn, a semiautobiographical piece co-authored by Spike and his sisters. Over the course of our conversation you will hear us talk about whether this movie strays from Lee's mission of cinematic activism or if it indeed harbours a message of societal appeal, how much of what we see on screen is filtered through the optics of a young child and just how great Delroy Lindo's performance truly is. We also talk about fake dogs jumping o...
Episode 170 - Leave No Trace
April 27, 2024 05:00 - 2 hours - 118 MBIn this episode of the show we are joined by our good friend Hillary to talk about Leave No Trace, Debra Granik's drama about a man and his daughter living off the grid. Over the course of our conversation you will hear us talk about Granik's filmmaking being rooted in sociopolitical activism, Ben Foster's performance as a traumatized vet and Thomasin McKenzie's understated brilliance., as well as the fact the general audiences did not respond to this film as well as critics did. We also tal...
BONUS Kathryn Bigelow Marathon 04 - Point Break (teaser)
April 24, 2024 05:37 - 15 minutes - 13.8 MBIn the fourth episode of our 2024 Kathryn Bigelow Marathon, we look at her 1991 outing, Point Break. Over the course of our conversation you will hear us talk about how Bigelow's moody aesthetic translates into the movie and perhaps enriches it, whether Keanu Reeves could have been replaced by Brandon Lee and if Gary Busey eating a meatball sandwich is an iconic image full of meaning. We also talk about epiphanies sparked by seeing bare asses, Tom Sizemore's brief appearance, differences bet...
Episode 169 - Captain Fantastic
April 20, 2024 05:00 - 2 hours - 111 MBIn this episode of the show, we are continuing our trek off the grid as we talk the 2016 indie darling Captain Fantastic. Over the course of our conversation you will hear us talk about the quirky recipe for a Sundance drama, what the film is trying to say about parenting and whether it is interested in practicing what it preaches. We also talk about the unsettling quality of witnessing Viggo Mortensen having his morning coffee in the nude, upper middle class liberals going camping and the i...
BONUS Tie-in 33 - First Blood (teaser)
April 17, 2024 06:05 - 15 minutes - 12.4 MBHere's a short teaser of our brand new Patreon-exclusive episode of Uncut Gems Tie-ins, a monthly series where we take a classic movie and connect it to a film discussed on our main show. In this episode of the show tying into this month's theme of April Off The Grid, we are talking about Ted Kotcheff's First Blood. Joined by a special guest and friend of the show Rich Foster we are discussing how The New Hollywood invented the action hero, whether Stallone needs to be thanked for the 80s ...
Episode 168 - The Hunted
April 13, 2024 05:00 - 2 hours - 108 MBIn this episode of the show we are heading to the forest to begin our April Off The Grid together with William Friedkin's The Hunted. Over the course of our conversation you will hear us talk about possible reasons why Friedkin decided to direct this movie, what it possibly owes to First Blood and whether it has a metaphorical connotation with the culture at large. We also talk about it being a vestige of the 90s, Tommy Lee Jones' running skills and whether the story problems can get in the ...
BONUS Spike Lee's Major Joint 03 - Malcolm X
April 10, 2024 05:00 - 15 minutes - 13.8 MBIn this episode of our 2024 Spike Lee Joint-a-thon, we are gearing up for a serious discussion about Spike Lee's take on a prestige biopic, Malcolm X. Over the course of our conversation you will hear us talk about how Lee reinvents the biopic formula while adhering to it, how Denzel Washington embodies the titular character and how this movie had to be as long as it was to allow the filmmaker to bring his point home. We also talk about narrative shorthand, Malcolm X's journey from a crimina...
Episode 167 - Jungle Fever
April 05, 2024 05:00 - 2 hours - 128 MBIn this episode of the show, we are talking about Spike Lee's Jungle Fever, a dense societal diorama that begins with a premise of an elevated screwball rom-com and descends into deep and heavy thematic deliberations on race, relationships, drugs and familial sins. Over the course of our conversation you will hear us talk about Spike Lee finding his footing as a cinematic preacher, workplace racism, Wesley Snipes and Annabella Sciorra owning the screen, and Samuel L. Jackson spreading his wi...
Episode 166 - The Fan
March 29, 2024 06:00 - 2 hours - 117 MBIn this episode of the show, we are closing our Spring Clinging series with a homerun as we are talking about Tony Scott's The Fan! Over the course of our conversation you will hear us talk about how much Nine Inch Nails music is too much, whether this movie gets baseball right and if there is a point to it in the first place only a few short years after Cape Fear. We also talk about positioning this movie as Tony Scott's middle child, the logistics of shaving your body hair as a marketing p...
BONUS Kathryn Bigelow Marathon 03 - Blue Steel (teaser)
March 27, 2024 06:00 - 15 minutes - 13.7 MBIn the third episode of our 2024 Kathryn Bigelow Marathon we are entering the 90s together with her police procedural Blue Steel. Over the course of our conversation you will hear us talk about Jamie Lee Curtis and whether Roger Ebert was right to call her character the next iteration of Laurie Strode, Bigelow's continuing fascination with John Carpenter and James Cameron, and how her own personal life may have been reflected in the movie. We also talk about Clancy Brown's perm, Tom Sizemore...
Episode 165 - The Crush
March 22, 2024 06:29 - 2 hours - 125 MBIn this episode of the show, we are continuing our exploration of obsession and stalking, aka Spring Clinging, as we are talking about the 1993 The Crush. Over the course of our conversation you will hear us talk about Alan Shapiro as a filmmaker, his attempt at meshing real life experience with Lolita, his writing acumen or lack thereof, and whether he knew what to do with Cary Elwes's acting prowess... or lack thereof. We also talk about the logistics of building carousels in the attic, ho...
Episode 164 - The Fanatic
March 15, 2024 06:00 - 2 hours - 98.8 MBIn this episode of the show, we are continuing our conversations about obsession and lack of personal boundaries, as we talk about The Fanatic. Over the course of our conversation you will hear us wonder if this universally panned movie can be salvaged, whether John Travolta's performance is overblown, by how much and why, as well as what we think about Fred Durst as a filmmaker. We also talk about on-the-nose references to film-bro movies, the ego behind playing your own music in the car an...
BONUS Tie-in 32 - Misery (teaser)
March 13, 2024 06:00 - 15 minutes - 13.1 MBHere's a short teaser of our brand new Patreon-exclusive episode of Uncut Gems Tie-ins, a monthly series where we take a classic movie and connect it to a film discussed on our main show. In this show, which is tied into our month's conversations about obsession and people who don't know where the boundaries are, we are talking about one of the most iconic obsessed stalker fan movies of all time, Rob Reiner's Misery. Over the course of our chat you will hear us talk about Stephen King's un...
Episode 163 - Ingrid Goes West
March 08, 2024 06:00 - 2 hours - 111 MBIn this episode of the show, we are talking about Ingrid Goes West as we begin our March bout of Spring Clinging. Over the course of our conversation you will hear us talk about Aubrey Plaza's troll deadpan, the dangers of social media and how reality is warped by looking at carefully curated lives online. We also talk about Hollywood's fake-it-till-you-make-it toxicity, how the movie continues a much longer tradition, how nowadays teenage bullying is seemingly inescapable and whether asking...
BONUS Spike Lee's Major Joint 02 - Do the Right Thing (teaser)
March 06, 2024 06:00 - 15 minutes - 13.1 MBIn this episode of our 2024 Spike Lee Joint-a-thon, we are talking about Lee's magnum opus, Do the Right Thing. Over the course of our conversation you will hear us try to deconvolute the intricate cultural mosaic that is this movie, understand Lee's political convictions and map them over the cyclical nature of American history. We also talk about racial relations as depicted in the movie, the idea that the characters ought to be decoded as entire communities, police brutality and what exac...
Episode 162 - Mo' Better Blues
March 01, 2024 06:00 - 3 hours - 171 MBIn this episode of the show, making our monthly stop at the Spike Lee Station to talk about his fourth feature, Mo' Better Blues. Joined by our two great buddies, Jak and Carson, we dig into this dense movie to find out whether it should be faulted for its archetypal storytelling or applauded for its symbolic richness. We also talk about Lee's place in the pantheon of filmmakers at the time of its release, his potential anguish at the state of Hollywood, the problem with the film's bookends,...
BONUS Kathryn Bigelow Marathon 02 - Near Dark
February 28, 2024 06:00 - 15 minutes - 14 MBIn the second episode of our Kathryn Bigelow Marathon, we are talking about her vampire western sophomore, Near Dark. Joined by our great friend Hillary, we talk about Bigelow meshing genre, taking inspiration from James Cameron and John Carpenter, and wonder how much one can refresh the vampire canon. We also talk about her becoming an action director in the world dominated by men, the pros and cons of poaching the cast of Aliens and that any vampire who isn't wealthy is a failure. Tune in...
Episode 161 - The Hindenburg
February 23, 2024 06:00 - 1 hour - 86.3 MBIn this episode of the show, we are taking a slow and steady blimp trip as we talk about Robert Wise's The Hindenburg. Over the course of our chat you will hear us talk about the genre of disaster movies slowly reaching its climax and fizzling out towards the latter half of the 70s, how nice it is to see George C. Scott in shape and how the movie may have been built around a great idea for an ending. We also talk about whether James Cameron's Titanic does a better job at what The Hindenburg ...
Episode 160 - Airport Sequels
February 16, 2024 06:00 - 3 hours - 143 MBIn this jumbo jet-sized episode we are joined by our great buddy Jak to talk about the three movies that followed the 1970 Airport: Airport '75, Airport '77 and The Concorde... Airport 1979. Over the course of our conversation you will hear what we think about the early days of Hollywood franchising, how the Airport movies are either B-movies or Bond movies without Bond, and whether their titles reflect reality. We also talk about giving old stars stuff to do, Charlton Heston as a 60s Superm...
BONUS Tie-in 31 - Airport
February 14, 2024 06:00 - 15 minutes - 12.5 MBHere's a short teaser of our brand new Patreon-exclusive episode of Uncut Gems Tie-ins, a monthly series where we take a classic movie and connect it to a film discussed on our main show. In this show, tied to our February theme of Terror in the Sky, we are talking about the 1970 Airport! Over the course of our conversation you will hear us talk about how this movie paved the way for the disaster movie genre to come into existence, how in 1970 it looks a decade out of place, and how the ge...
Episode 159 - Skyjacked
February 09, 2024 06:00 - 1 hour - 82.8 MBIn this episode of the show we are getting jacked in the sky as we are talking Skyjacked to kick off our February theme of Terror in the Sky (or T-air-or?). Over the course of our conversation you will hear us talk about the ripples that Airport made in 1970, how the big studio heads grappled with the advent of The New Hollywood and how this movie maybe belongs in the 60s more than in the 70s. We also talk Charlton Heston's intimidating kissing regimen, airport security, the movie's many out...
BONUS Spike Lee's Major Joint 01 - School Daze (teaser)
February 07, 2024 06:00 - 15 minutes - 13.7 MBIn this inaugural episode of our Patreon side of the 2024 Spike Lee retrospective, we are looking at his sophomore feature School Daze. Over the course of our conversation you will hear us talk about the sophomore ego, the surprise of this movie being a musical and the perils of stuffing a musical template with too much content. We also talk about Spike Lee's acting chops or lack thereof, the movie as a conversation about intracommunal animosities, the college privilege and whether School Da...
Episode 158 - She's Gotta Have It
February 02, 2024 06:00 - 3 hours - 165 MBIn this episode of the show we are officially beginning our new long-term project where we will comprehensively go through the cinema of Spike Lee and there's only one way to begin such a journey, which is with his debut She's Gotta Have It. Over the course of our conversation you will hear us talk about how this movie, short as it may be, fosters a truly nuanced discussion, how it comments on different shades of feminism and how Spike Lee begins his lifelong mission of bringing the black ex...
Episode 157 - Non-Stop
January 26, 2024 06:00 - 1 hour - 81.7 MBIn this episode of the show we are concluding our brief journey through Liam Neeson movies confined to different modes of transportation and we are taking off into the skies to talk about Non-Stop! Over the course of our conversation you will hear us wonder why this movie was as successful as it was, the woes of making action movies in the Marvel era and the idea of staying busy in times of grief. We also touch on Jaume Collet-Serra's directorial proclivities, the implicit benefits of settin...
BONUS Kathryn Bigelow Marathon 01 - The Loveless (teaser)
January 24, 2024 06:00 - 15 minutes - 12.9 MBThe time has come for us to get on our bikes and launch a brand new director marathon and for this year we decided to shadow Kathryn Bigelow and chart the course of her career as she went from indie obscurity to genre re-invention and all the way to the highest echelons of prestige filmmaking! We begin our escapade by talking about her indie debut The Loveless! Over the course of our chat you will hear us talk about biker movies, how this movie homages (or doesn't) The Wild One, how Jim Jarm...
Episode 156 - The Ice Road
January 19, 2024 06:00 - 1 hour - 89.4 MBIn this episode of the show we are going on a road trip with Liam Neeson while trying not to be left out in the cold, as we talk The Ice Road! Over the course of our conversation you will hear us try to understand what makes this movie work way better than it perhaps should, how important it is to anchor an action movie in the classics of the genre and whether it would have worked even half as well without the film's central character dynamic. Surprisingly enough, in a conversation about a d...
BONUS Tie-in 30 -Taken (teaser)
January 17, 2024 06:00 - 15 minutes - 13.2 MBHere's a short teaser of our brand new Patreon-exclusive episode of Uncut Gems Tie-ins, a monthly series where we take a classic movie and connect it to a film discussed on our main show. This month we are talking about Taken, the movie which recalibrated Liam Neeson's career and transformed him from an aging prestige thespian into a latter-day superhero. Over the course of our conversation you will hear us talk about this surprising late-career shift, the meme of Bryan Mills, the legacy o...
Episode 155 - The Commuter
January 12, 2024 06:00 - 1 hour - 261 MBIn this episode of the show we are beginning our January theme of Liam Neeson's Planes, Trains and Automobiles (transitioning from our recent chat on Terror Train) and we begin with his train-bound thriller The Commuter. Over the course of our conversation you will hear us talk about Neeson fully embracing his action stardom, the question whether this movie is perhaps too complex for its own good and if it is a good idea to hire Patrick Wilson for what looks like a cameo. We also talk guitar...
Episode 154.5 - Steven Soder-noument
January 10, 2024 06:00 - 1 hour - 97.4 MBIn this episode of the show we are finally coming to an end of our epic journey through the cinema of Steven Soderbergh we have been on for the last thirteen months! We are also plugging a few blind spots here by discussing the two Spalding Gray movies he made (Gray's Anatomy and And Everything Is Going Fine), just to make sure we have covered his entire feature output. We also share our reflections on this journey, opine on what we learned about Soderbergh, how our appreciation for this man...
BONUS Cutting into Soderbergh 13 - Magic Mike's Last Dance (teaser)
January 08, 2024 06:00 - 15 minutes - 16.9 MBHere's a short teaser of our Patreon-exclusive podcast series where we will be examining the cinema of Steven Soderbergh. On our main show we are going through his more underrated works, while on our Patreon we are talking about Soderbergh's most prominent movies. This is it! We have come to the end of our Soderbergh project and on this occasion we are discussing the last movie he directed thus far, Magic Mike's Last Dance. Over the course of this chat you will hear us talk about the mindb...
Episode 154 - Kimi
January 05, 2024 06:00 - 2 hours - 143 MBIn this episode of the show we are inching ever closer to the end of our Steven Soderbergh journey as we talk about one his most recent efforts, Kimi. Over the course of our conversation you will hear us talk about how reliant Soderbergh has become on the quality of the scripts he directs, David Koepp's magic touch, and how a well-paced story can hide a lot of exposition using visuals alone. We also talk about pandemic cinema, know-it-all youngsters, the idea of bugging your own house and th...
Episode 153 - Terror Train
December 29, 2023 06:00 - 2 hours - 133 MBIn this episode of the show we close the year with a New Year's Party aboard the Terror Train! Over the course of our conversation you will hear us argue the question if this movie is more a slasher or a whodunnit, if its central gimmick of "Halloween on a train" is enough to set the film apart from other movies in the genre and if there is anything special about Jamie Lee Curtis' run as the 1980s Scream Queen. We also talk about magic, David Copperfield's acting, the many opportunities this...
John Cassavetes 12 - Big Trouble (teaser)
December 27, 2023 06:00 - 15 minutes - 36.1 MBHere's a short teaser of the twelfth and final episode of the 2023 edition of Uncut Gems Marathons where we will - one by one - re-trace the directorial career of John Cassavetes. We are finally coming to a close of our year-long journey through the cinema of John Cassavetes and we finish with Big Trouble. Over the course of our conversation you will hear us talk about this movie being a job for hire, whether it carries some Cassavetes DNA in it, if Alan Arkin and Peter Falk had enough che...
Episode 152 - Anna and the Apocalypse
December 22, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 220 MBIn this episode of the show we are getting ready for a Christmas zombie apocalypse together with the cast of Anna and the Apocalypse. Over the course of our chat you will hear us talk about the many ways one could execute a gimmick, the idea of mashing up genres, how much this movie owes to Edgar Wright and whether it would have been better off if it had committed to either of the elements it was trying to mash together! Merry Zombie Christmas! Tune in and enjoy! Hosts: Jakub Flasz & Randy...
Episode 151 - Krampus
December 15, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 82.9 MBIn this episode of the show we are continuing our December theme of Holiday Horror with the 2015 Krampus. Over the course of our conversation you will hear us wonder if this movie is a Christmas film, a dark fairy tale, a horror or a combination of all three, how much it owes to Joe Dante and Guillermo Del Toro, whether it is actually scary and if if even matters in the first place. We also talk about the film's dysfunctional family dynamic, the woes of raising bilingual children, Toni Colle...
BONUS Tie-in 29 - Black Christmas (teaser)
December 13, 2023 06:00 - 15 minutes - 12.8 MBHere's a short teaser of our brand new Patreon-exclusive episode of Uncut Gems Tie-ins, a monthly series where we take a classic movie and connect it to a film discussed on our main show. This month we are talking about Black Christmas in connection to the theme of Holiday Horror we are exploring on the main show. Joined by our great friend Jak, we are exploring the boundaries of the slasher template, wondering how Bob Clark draws from Hitchcock and giallo, and how his movie was an inspirat...
Episode 150 - Silent Night, Deadly Night
December 08, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 90.9 MBIn this episode of the show we are beginning our December theme of Holiday Horror with the 1984 Silent Night, Deadly Night. Over the course of our chat you will hear us go into the controversy that saw this movie pulled from cinemas, the many ways it induced a moral panic, the idea of using a Christmas icon as an axe murderer, church methods for raising orphans, the legacy of this movie and much more! Tune in and enjoy! Hosts: Jakub Flasz & Randy Burrows Intro: Infraction - Cassette Outr...
BONUS Cutting into Soderbergh 12 - No Sudden Move (teaser)
December 06, 2023 06:00 - 15 minutes - 13.4 MBHere's a short teaser of our Patreon-exclusive podcast series where we will be examining the cinema of Steven Soderbergh. On our main show we are going through his more underrated works, while on our Patreon we are talking about Soderbergh's most prominent movies. This month we are digging into Steven Soderbergh's quite recent outing, No Sudden Move. Over the course of our conversation you will hear us talk about whether Soderbergh is looking to break new ground or if he is happy revisitin...
Episode 149 - Let Them All Talk
December 01, 2023 06:00 - 2 hours - 118 MBIn this episode of the show we are catching up once more with one of the heroes of our 2023 conversations, Steven Soderbergh, as we talk about Let Them All Talk. Over the course of our chat you will hear us come back to the old questions of whether Soderbergh is making movies on autopilot, if he's revisiting modes of his youth, how the movie works as a film critic's film, what it says about the responsibilities of a storyteller and more. We also talk about biological clocks, the etiquette of...
John Cassavetes 11 - Love Streams (teaser)
November 29, 2023 20:26 - 15 minutes - 12.7 MBHere's a short teaser of the eleventh episode of the 2023 edition of Uncut Gems Marathons where we will - one by one - re-trace the directorial career of John Cassavetes. In this episode of our 2023 John Cassavetes Marathon, we are talking about arguably the last great movie John Cassavetes directed, Love Streams. Over the course of our conversation you will hear us talk about the finality of this movie, its relationship with the filmmaker's entire body of work, Gena Rowlands climbing to n...
John Cassavetes Marathon 10 - Gloria
November 29, 2023 20:20 - 15 minutes - 12.5 MBHere's a short teaser of the tenth episode of the 2023 edition of Uncut Gems Marathons where we will - one by one - re-trace the directorial career of John Cassavetes. In this episode of our 2023 John Cassavetes Marathon, we are talking about Gloria. Over the course of our conversation you will hear us talk about Cassavetes brushing shoulders with mainstream Hollywood, operating on the fringes of the New Hollywood, how the movie inspired Leon: The Professional and many other films, how Gen...
Episode 148 - Star 80
November 24, 2023 06:00 - 2 hours - 119 MBIn this episode of the show we are closing our November Bob Fosse retrospective with Fosse's final film, Star 80. Over the course of our conversation you will hear us talk about why Fosse would make a movie like that, the symmetry between Dorothy Stratten and Sharon Tate. Eric Roberts' turn as a sleazy psychopath, the sleaze of Hollywood, the 80s iconography and much, much more! Tune in and enjoy! Hosts: Jakub Flasz & Randy Burrows Featuring: Jak-Luke Sharp (sort of) Intro: Infraction - ...
Episode 147 - All That Jazz
November 17, 2023 06:00 - 3 hours - 152 MBIn this episode of the show, we gather to celebrate a momentous occasion, Randy's birthday, and as luck would have it, we are talking about his favourite film ever - All That Jazz! Flanked by a duet of very special guests, Sarah and Jak, we discuss Bob Fosse's New Wave ways, Roy Scheider's phenomenal acting range and the movie's many meta-musical moments. We also spare a thought or two on the subject of film critics not being able to recognize Fosse's genius, the film's many metaphorical pla...
BONUS Tie-in 28 - Cabaret (teaser)
November 15, 2023 06:00 - 15 minutes - 12.4 MBHere's a short teaser of our brand new Patreon-exclusive episode of Uncut Gems Tie-ins, a monthly series where we take a classic movie and connect it to a film discussed on our main show. This month we are gathering to talk about Cabaret, arguably Bob Fosse's most universally acclaimed directorial effort. Over the course of our conversation you will hear us wonder if it is a musical, an evolved musical or an anti-musical, how it comments on world history and whether it is still just as timel...
Episode 146 - Sweet Charity and Lenny
November 10, 2023 06:00 - 3 hours - 167 MBIn this episode of the show, we assemble as The Fosse Posse to gallop through the cinema of one Bob Fosse. We begin with Sweet Charity, his 1969 musical with Shirley MacLaine, and Lenny, his 1974 new wave biopic of Lenny Bruce and his crusade against censorship. Over the course of our conversation you will hear us talk about Fosse needing to fail in 1969 to become the master that he needed to be, his inability to kill his darlings in 1969 as well as his acute sense of the visual art just a f...
BONUS Cutting into Soderbergh 11 - High Flying Bird
November 08, 2023 06:00 - 15 minutes - 12.9 MBHere's a short teaser of our Patreon-exclusive podcast series where we will be examining the cinema of Steven Soderbergh. On our main show we are going through his more underrated works, while on our Patreon we are talking about Soderbergh's most prominent movies. This month, as we are slowly nearing completion of our year-long journey through Steven Soderbergh's movies, we are talking about his 2019 movie High Flying Bird. Over the course of our chat you will hear us talk about whether So...
Episode 145 - The Laundromat
November 03, 2023 06:00 - 2 hours - 94.5 MBIn this episode of the show, we add another notch to our Soderbergh belt as we talk The Laundromat. Over the course of our conversation you will hear us try to find something to latch onto in this string of vignettes, make fun of Mossack and Fonseca, stipulate that the movie would have been better if Meryl Streep played all the roles and that Soderbergh and Scott Z. Burns maybe just couldn't decide if they wanted to make a serious investigative thriller or a me-too The Big Short. Tune in a...