Apr 25, 2018
Today on the podcast, Dan recommends a movie to Bob for once, and Bob hates it! Every ten episodes or so, Dan will screen a movie he believes is underrated, and wait for Bob to rip it shreds. Here's our first round! A Thousand Clowns is about a comedy writer who quit his TV job to spend more time screwing around with...
Apr 18, 2018
Bob and Dan discuss the first movie Bob ever recommended to Dan, Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970), a movie about an invincible supercomputer put in charge of America's nuclear arsenal. We talk about The Cold War, Frankenstein, atheism, The Terminator, happy endings, and the inevitable end of the human species. Don't...
Apr 11, 2018
Dan and Bob discuss Sam Peckinpah's bizarro road trip movie Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974). Benny, a bartender and piano player living in Mexico, learns that the man a mob boss wants executed has already died in a car crash. Benny travels with his girlfriend to retrieve the head of Alfredo himself and...
Apr 4, 2018
This week, Bob and Dan discuss Kiss Me Deadly (1955), a movie that seems like it might be another run-of-the-mill noir but turns out to be a meditation on the Atom Bomb, Pandora's Box, and the imminent apocalypse. Other topics: Tarantino's homage to this film, the beginnings of cinema, beatniks, dirtbags, Los Angeles,...