Latest Ibrahimchavez Podcast Episodes
#496 - Face/Off - WatchThis W/RickRamos
Watch This With Rick Ramos - June 03, 2024 04:26 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 89 ratingsLike Looking in the Mirror, Only Not: John Woo's Face/Off This week Mr. Chavez and I continue our look at blockbusters with this 1997 John Woo Classic of stylized violence, ridiculous plotting, and unbridled overacting . . . we are - of course - talking about Woo's Face/Off. There's no way t...
#495 - Jaws - WatchThis W/RickRamos
Watch This With Rick Ramos - May 29, 2024 20:14 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 89 ratingsLike a Doll's Eyes: Steven Spielberg's JAWS This week, a classic . . . in 1975 Steven Spielberg changed the face of cinema with his adaptation of Peter Benchley's 1974 novel Jaws. The story of a man-eating shark terrorizing a small island community, Jaws would usher in a new era of moviegoing...
#494 - Con Air - WatchThis W/RickRamos
Watch This With Rick Ramos - May 23, 2024 03:57 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 89 ratingsMake a Move and the Bunny Gets It: Simon West's Con Air This week Mr. Chavez & I celebrate bad cinema with a look at the 1997 Simon West Action/Comedy/Prison/B-Movie Character Actor Extravaganza Con Air. Based on a real-life judicial system prison transport program, Con Air is an embarassing...
#493 - The Rock - WatchThis W/RickRamos
Watch This With Rick Ramos - May 15, 2024 04:49 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 89 ratingsObvious Action, Patriotic Porn: Michael Bay's The Rock This week Mr. Chavez & I dive into the world of 1990s Big Budget, Over-Hyped & Underwritten, Garbage Cinema with one of the best that would come out of the Don Simpson/Jerry Bruckheimer Machine, Michael Bay's 1996 opus The RockFeaturing Ni...
#492 - It's a Wonderful Life - WatchThis W/RickRamos
Watch This With Rick Ramos - May 08, 2024 18:57 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 89 ratingsThe Bailey Effect: Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life This week Ibrahim & I re-watch a classic (Thank You - Anonymous Donor, Someone), Frank Capra's 1946 Jimmy Stewart/Donna Reed Classic It's a Wonderful Life. Few films have captured the public's hearts and imaginations like Capra's look at t...
#491 - RockyIII/Rocky Balboa - WatchThis W/RickRamos
Watch This With Rick Ramos - May 01, 2024 06:20 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 89 ratingsA Fighter's Journey: The Rocky Saga & Legacy This week Mr. Chavez & I continue our look at Sylvester Stallone's 1976 Oscar-Winning creation, Rocky Balboa. For nearly five decades Stallone's Balboa has captured the hearts of the American public. An underdog character that has appeared seven tim...
#490 - Rocky/Rocky II - WatchThis W/RickRamos
Watch This With Rick Ramos - April 23, 2024 07:35 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 89 ratingsAmerica's Underdog: John G. Avildsen's Rocky & Sylvester Stallone's Rocky II Jumping into the world of underdogs (last week's Popeye), Mr. Chavez & I look at one of the great American Cinematic creations - Rocky Balboa. The Balboa character's screenplay origin rivals that of the character's st...
#489 - Popeye - Watch This W/RickRamos
Watch This With Rick Ramos - April 16, 2024 08:41 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 89 ratingsComic Strip Underdog: Robert Altman's Popeye This week we look to the fans with a special episode dedicated to WatchThis supporter, Jorge Saucedo. Mr. Saucedo asked that we take a look at the much-maligned 1980 Robert Altman comic strip adaptation, Popeye. This was a great time re-visiting a c...
#488 - Lawrence of Arabia - WatchThis W/RickRamos
Watch This With Rick Ramos - April 10, 2024 06:21 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 89 ratingsWe'll Always Have Aqaba - David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia Few films are able to live up to the label of "epic". In 1962 David Lean created one of the great epic masterpieces of cinema, Lawrence of Arabia. Based on the life of British archaeologist, army officer, diplomat, and write, T.E. Lawr...
#487 - Dune Part 2 - WatchThis W/RickRamos
Watch This With Rick Ramos - April 02, 2024 03:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 89 ratingsFrank Herbert's Burden: Denis Villeneuve's Dune Part 2 This week Mr. Chavez & I return to Planet Arrakis for the conclusion (a lie) of Frank Herbert's Sci-Fi Classic, Dune. We partly imagined that this would be more of our previous look at this film (Episode #353), however we were able to find...
#486 - Inland Empire - WatchThis W/RickRamos
Watch This With Rick Ramos - March 26, 2024 03:58 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 89 ratingsWoman in Trouble; Audience Perplexed: David Lynch's Inland Empire Few filmmakers can live up to the title "auteur" . . . David Lynch almost requires the use of it. From daring soundtracks through troubling narratives and controversial story elements, fascinatingly over the top performances an...
#485 - Black Swan - WatchThis W/RickRamos
Watch This With Rick Ramos - March 20, 2024 05:56 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 89 ratingsBroken Mirror: Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan Fun talk . . . This week Mr. Chavez and I continue to look at the films of Darren Aronofsky with this discussion of his 2010, Five Time Oscar Nominated (Including Best Picture and Director, and Winner for Best Actress - Natalie Portman) look at the ...
#484 - Requiem for a Dream - WatchThis W/RickRamos
Watch This With Rick Ramos - March 14, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 89 ratingsSouls Dead, Eyes Dilated: Darren Aronofsky's Requiem for a Dream On this week's episode Mr. Chavez & I sit down for a re-watch of Darren Aronofsky's second feature, Requiem for a Dream, based on the 1978 novel by Hubert Selby Jr. Aronofsky's adaptation is a tragic and often times painful viewi...
#483 - Perfect Blue - WatchThis W/RickRamos
Watch This With Rick Ramos - March 05, 2024 04:13 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 89 ratingsMima's Room: Satoshi Kon's Perfect Blue This week we thank long time listener and Buy Me a Coffee supporter, Cornelius Burroughs with a viewing and discussion of Satoshi Kon's Perfect Blue. Mr. Burroughs was kind enough to gift me a blu-ray copy of this Classic Japanese Anime many years ago ....
#482 - Gremlins & Gremlins 2: The New Batch - WatchThis W/RickRamos
Watch This With Rick Ramos - February 27, 2024 09:03 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 89 ratingsFrom Cute & Cuddly to Killer: Joe Dante's Gremlins and Gremlins 2: The New Batch This week Mr. Chavez & I continue our stroll through the 1980s with a look at a stange kind of Comedy/Puppetry/Action/Horror hybrid, Joe Dante's Gremlins (1984). Dante - a graduate of the Roger Corman School of Lo...
#481 - Alien & The Thing - WatchThis W/RickRamos
Watch This With Rick Ramos - February 21, 2024 06:04 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 89 ratingsWhat's Out There: Ridley Scott's Alien and John Carpenter's The Thing This week we take a look at two of the greatest Science-Fiction/Horror films in the History of Cinema: Ridley Scott's Alien (1979) and John Carpenter's The Thing (1982) We've talked about both of these films throughout the h...
#480 - E.T. The Extra Terrestrial - WatchThis W/RickRamos
Watch This With Rick Ramos - February 14, 2024 09:02 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 89 ratingsA Safe Alien for the Box Office: Steven Spielberg's E.T. The Extra Terrestrial This week Mr. Chavez & I shift our focus from the dangers of extra terrestrial life to the cute and cuddly alien that captivated audiences in 1982 - Steven Spielberg's E.T. The Extra Terrestrial. At the time, the bi...
#479 - Alien: Covenant - WatchThis W/RickRamos
Watch This With Rick Ramos - February 06, 2024 08:10 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 89 ratingsParadise Lost - Ridley Scott's Alien: Covenant This week brings us to the end of our look into the Alien franchise with a discussion of Ridley Scott's final journey into the world he introduced audiences to in 1979. 2017's Alien: Covenant did a great deal to explain the origin of the xenomorph...
#478 - Prometheus - WatchThis W/RickRamos
Watch This With Rick Ramos - January 31, 2024 08:34 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 89 ratingsF*cked Around and Found Out: Ridley Scott's Prometheus It's rare that a director can tell a story, go on to fabulous critical and commercial success, and return to his origins, answering questions that have hovered around a franchise for decades, while doing so in an exciting and innovative w...
#477 - Alien Resurrection - WatchThis W/RickRamos
Watch This With Rick Ramos - January 27, 2024 02:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 89 ratingsDead on Arrival: John-Pierre Jeunet's Alien Resurrection Closing in on the end of the month brings us to the end of the original Alien franchise. 1997s Alien Resurrection is a ridiculous mess of a film that is a final disappointing period to one of the greatest Horror/Sci-Fi franchises in the ...
#476 - Alien 3 - WatchThis W/RickRamos
Watch This With Rick Ramos - January 18, 2024 19:56 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 89 ratingsDragon, Mother, Queen: Not David Fincher’s Alien 3 Continuing our descent into the world created in 1979's Alien and continued with 1986's Aliens, this week Mr. Chavez & I find ourselves crash landing on Fiorina "Fury" 161 - a foundry and maximum-security planet prison. David Fincher (in ...
#475 - Aliens - WatchThis W/RickRamos
Watch This With Rick Ramos - January 11, 2024 03:42 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 89 ratingsUnfinished Business: James Cameron's Aliens This week Ibrahim & I return to LV-426. 57 years later - but feeling more like seven - James Cameron takes over the reins for the masterpiece created by Sir Ridley Scott. 1979's Alien would change the Sci-Fi genre. An incredibly influential work of ...
#474 - Alien - WatchThis W/RickRamos
Watch This With Rick Ramos - January 04, 2024 06:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 89 ratingsCrew Expendable: Ridley Scott's Alien Might as well not screw around and start 2024 with a bang . . . This month Mr. Chavez and I dive into the world of Ellen Ripley and the Xenomorphs. At this point it's been nearly 45 years since we were first introduced to the crew of the Nostromo: Tom Ske...
#473 - Nightcrawler - WatchThis W/RickRamos
Watch This With Rick Ramos - January 01, 2024 23:29 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 89 ratingsL.A. After Midnight: Dan Gilroy's Nightcrawler Finishing December and starting 2024. (Sorry, we're a bit late getting this one out.) A continuation and closing out of Ibrahim Chavez's Los Angeles. We've talked James Ellroy, Charles Bukowski, Thom Andersen, and Paul Schrader's Los Angeles. This...
#472 - Charles Bukowski: Tales of Ordinary Madness - WatchThis W/RickRamos
Watch This With Rick Ramos - December 27, 2023 08:06 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 89 ratingsBukowski's Drunken Streets: Marco Ferreri's Tales of Ordinary Madness Continuing our exploration of The City of Angels, Mr. Chavez & I dive into the great Los Angeles novelist, short story writer, poet, and "Dirty Old Man" Henry Charles Bukowski (1920 - 1994). Bukowski holds a special place in...
#471 - James Ellroy: Feast of Death - WatchThis W/RickRamos
Watch This With Rick Ramos - December 19, 2023 01:02 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 89 ratingsDown These Dark Streets: James Ellroy - Feast of Death Continuing our travels through Los Angeles, Mr. Chavez & I focus our discussion on the great LA Crime (Historical Crime) Novelist, James Ellroy. Famous for his LA Quartet - including The Black Dahlia, L.A. Confidential, The Big Nowhere, an...
#470 - Hardcore - WatchThis W/RickRamos
Watch This With Rick Ramos - December 11, 2023 07:37 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 89 ratingsAnother Lost Angel: Paul Schrader's Hardcore This week we continue our descent into Ibrahim Chavez's Los Angeles with a look at Taxi Driver screenwriter, Paul Schrader's blunt and brutal examination of the Los Angeles/San Diego/San Francisco sex trade of the late 1970s. Schrader's upbringing i...
#469 - Los Angeles Plays Itself - WatchThis W/RickRamos
Watch This With Rick Ramos - December 05, 2023 09:11 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 89 ratingsAt Night and From a Distance: Thom Andersen's Los Angeles Plays Itself We're starting the month of December (and ending 2023) with a dive into Los Angeles in a month of programming curated by our own Ibrahim Chavez. Our first episode of December is a look at film critic and teacher, Thom Ander...
#468 - Richard Pryor: Live in Concert & Live on the Sunset Strip - WatachThis W/RickRamos
Watch This With Rick Ramos - November 28, 2023 08:46 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 89 ratingsBeyond Laughter: Richard Pryor - Live in Concert & Live on the Sunset Strip This week Mr. Chavez & I close out November with a look at - arguably - the greatest stand-up comic the craft has ever produced, Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor, Sr. I have been an admirer of Mr. Pryor for nearly...
#468 - Richard Pryor: Live in Concert & Live on the Sunset Strip - WatchThis W/RickRamos
Watch This With Rick Ramos - November 28, 2023 08:46 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 89 ratingsBeyond Laughter: Richard Pryor - Live in Concert & Live on the Sunset Strip This week Mr. Chavez & I close out November with a look at - arguably - the greatest stand-up comic the craft has ever produced, Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor, Sr. I have been an admirer of Mr. Pryor for nearly...
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