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Stardate 2025.111: Joint Captains Scott and Marty of the USS Omniverse set course for a curious cluster of Star Trek-adjacent systems. Sensors are detecting the following lifeforms:

• Dark Star (1974, Dir. John Carpenter) at 2:19
• Enemy Mine (1985, Dir. Wolfgang Petersen) at 19:59
• Free Enterprise (1998, Dir. Robert Meyer Burnett) at 35:23
• Galaxy Quest (1998, Dir. Dean Parison) at 50:54

Plus sonic bidets, Continuity Boulevard (1:06:53), the Lightning Round (1:16:22), and the universe-spanning threat of the Anti-Monk!

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It's a mystery-filled world, but lucky for Scott and Marty, there are dicks aplenty to make sure justice is done.

Sleuthed in this episode:

• Columbo S3E2: "Any Old Port in a Storm" at 1:48
• Moonlighting S2E6: "The Bride of Tupperman" at 19:38
• Forever Knight S1E18: "Feeding the Beast" at 29:48
• Plus Continuity Boulevard (43:38) and the Lightning Round (57:18)

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Scott and Marty hop a train to one of the Big Apple's most cinematic locations: Grand Central Terminal. Amid the hustle of the daily commute, dreams and nightmares are born. But will these four films make their connections, or are they fated to go off the rails?

Listen for these important announcements:

• Seconds (1966, Dir. John Frankenheimer) at 6:06
• The French Connection (1971, Dir. William Friedkin) at 25:07
• Falling in Love (1984, Dir. Ulu Grosbard) at 41:03
• The Fisher King (1991, Dir. Terry Gilliam) at 55:06
• Continuity Boulevard at 1:18:30
• Lightning Round at 1:28:51

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Can beauty kill? Is Christmas a time for crime? Can vampires have their own reality TV show? The answers await, festooned with Scott-and-Marty-flavoured fun!

• Columbo S03E01: "Lovely But Lethal" (at 1:25)
• Moonlighting S02E10: "'Twas the Episode Before Christmas..." (at 14:25)
• Forever Knight S01E17: "Unreality TV" (at 25:50)

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Marty and Scott continue to survey and salute the Voice of Vader. This episode takes them through the nineties, a decade known for its Hollywood cannibals. What has James Earl been jonesing for..? Listen for answers!*

If you build it, commentary on the following films will come:

• Field of Dreams (1989, Dir. Phil Alden Robinson) at 2:36
• The Hunt for Red October (1990, Dir. John McTiernan) at 24:38
• The Sandlot (1993, Dir. David Mickey Evans) at 40:37
• Coming 2 America (2021, Dir. Craig Brewer) at 1:01:34
• Also Continuity Boulevard (1:28:11) and Lightning Round (1:36:36)

Man, do those boys know how to talk!

*answers not likely

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In one of our most contentious episodes yet, we travel to the fabled realms of Zamunda, Hyboria, and France in pursuit of James Earl Jones's early film roles. If you're not coming with us, you're either suffering from catatonia or else you're just a baboon. BABOON!!

James Earl Joints:

• The Great White Hope (1970, Dir. Martin Ritt) at 3:08
• End of the Road (1970, Dir. Aram Avakian) at 15:50
• Conan the Barbarian (1982, Dir. John Milius) at 32:04
• Coming to America (1988, Dir. John Landis) at 51:58

What is good in life? Continuity Boulevard (1:12:06) and the Lightning Round (1:23:13).

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Columbo does a cooking show! Maddie meets the head of Network 23! Nick Knight pouts like a jealous teen! Scott and Marty are here to help you through it all.

• Columbo S2E8 "Double Shock" at 2:18
• Moonlighting S2E9 "Atlas Belched" at 17:58
• Forever Knight S1E6 "Only the Lonely" at 29:30

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In the Golden Age of Hollywood, there was one star so bright, they kept casting her in films with "STAR" in the title! Scott and Marty provide you with the necessary cinematic pinhole box required to view Janet Gaynor's career (without permanent vision loss)!

Featuring these flashes of brilliance:

• Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927, Dir. F.W. Murnau) at 2:47
• Lucky Star (1929, Dir. Frank Borzage) at 18:06
• A Star is Born (1937, Dir. William A. Wellman) at 30:07
• Bernardine (1957, Dir. Henry Levin) at 45:23
• Plus the usual gang of Continuity (1:00:40) and Lightning (1:07:50)

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A good detective show is like a chess match... or maybe it's like a blonde bombshell obsessed with her own portrait... or else it's like, um... vampires at Woodstock? Scott and Marty take their best shot with these unconventional episodes:

• Columbo S2E5: "The Most Dangerous Match" at 2:10
• Moonlighting S2E6: "Portrait of Maddie" at 14:55
• Forever Knight S1E13: "Dying for Fame" at 28:30
• Plus, we got yer Continuity Boulevard (42:58) and yer Lightning Round (47:45)

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After a dynamite run in the 1970s, working under luminaries like Altman, Kubrick, Allen, and Gilliam, Shelley Duvall's career went... other places. Here, Marty and Scott scour the back half of this great actor's filmography... mostly so that you don't have to.

Films we pressed against our eyeballs this week:

• Roxanne (1987, Dir. Fred Schepisi) at 2:51
• Suburban Commando (1991, Dir. Burt Kennedy) at 21:35
• Twilight of the Ice Nymphs (1997, Dir. Guy Maddin) at 40:00
• The Forest Hills (2024, Dir. Scott Goldberg) at 55:43
• Plus! Continuity Boulevard at 1:20:21
• And! The Lightning Round at 1:27:10

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CINEMATIC OMNIVERSE is back, with one of our favourite leading ladies! How did Shelley Duvall first become an actor? Which 1930s starts inspired her performance as Olive Oyl? Why do Scott & Marty find the word "coerced" hilarious? You'll find the answers (such as they are) in this, the first of two Duvall retrospective episodes!

We cover DuvALL the following:

• Brewster McCloud (1970, Dir. Robert Altman) at 3:17
• The Shining (1980, Dir. Stanley Kubrick) at 21:10
• Popeye (1980, Dir. Robert Altman) at 47:48
• Time Bandits (1981, Dir. Terry Gilliam) at 1:05:44
• Continuity Boulevard at 1:25:27
• Lightning Round at 1:35:57

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Words cannot describe how monumental this, our 100th Episode, truly is... but we can't figure out how to make a silent podcast, so we're sticking with the talkies as we wrap up our series on self-reflective cinema. Join Marty and Scott as they scope out these four funky films:

• Tropic Thunder (2008, Dir. Ben Stiller) at 6:39
• The Artist (2011, Dir. Michael Hazanavicius) at 24:17
• Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019, Dir. Quentin Tarantino) at 39:20
• The Fall Guy (2024, Dir. David Leitch) at 1:07:07

Plus the long and winding Continuity Boulevard (1:19:58) and the pyroclastic Lightning Round (1:35:43)!

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Marty and Scott's centuries-spanning survey of filmic navel-gazing reaches an especially gaze-worthy era: the 80s and 90s. How did the Dream Factory imagine itself? And how do you even know it's a dream, unless you put a dwarf in it? Don't look into the camera! Just join us.

The cinematic octopi we wrestle this week:

• Cinema Paradiso (1988, Dir. Guiseppe Tornatore) at 2:39
• The Player (1992, Dir. Robert Altman) at 18:24
• Ed Wood (1994, Dir. Tim Burton) at 37:10
• Living in Oblivion (1995, Dir. Tom DiCillo) at 49:18

Plus a hubristic stab at continuity (58:50) and a humbling round of lightninging (1:17:52).

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Scott and Marty continue their chronological deep dive into self-reflective filmmaking. Tune in as they brave monkey ghosts, talking mimes, and the occasional crotch muppet in their tireless quest to answer the question: When you gaze into the camera's lens, does the camera also look into you?

Films we chase down on our motorized wheelchairs:

• Sullivan's Travels (1941, Dir. Preston Sturges) at 1:52
• Sunset Boulevard (1950, Dir. Billy Wilder) at 19:26
• 8 1/2 (1963, Dir. Federico Fellini) at 34:54
• Silent Movie (1976, Dir. Mel Brooks) at 49:13

And don't forget Continuity Boulevard (1:06:36) and the lascivious Lightning Round (1:26:30)!

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Scott and Marty go back -- WAYYY BACK -- to the nudists, clock goblins, and rarebit fiends of silent cinema -- as they launch an unprecedented FOUR PART series on how FILM SEES ITSELF! It's so exciting, it requires ALL CAPS and LOTS of exclamation points!!!

Covered this week (Holy Monkeyshines!):

• Meta-movies of the 19th century at 4:00
• A Trip to the Moon (1902, Dir. George Méliès) at 30:09
• The Great Train Robbery (1903, Dir. Edwin S. Porter) at 39:21
• Dream of a Rarebit Fiend (1906, Dir. Edwin S. Porter) at 50:56
• Behind the Screen (1916, Dir. Charles Chaplin) at 55:34
• The Extra Girl (1923, Dir. F. Richard Jones) at 1:05:16
• Movie Crazy (1932, Dir. Clyde Bruckman and Harold Lloyd) at 1:14:51

All this, plus Continuity Boulevard (at 1:29:52) and the illustrious Lightning Round (at 1:35:15). Whew!

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He's the paragon of character actors, and the podcast's unofficial mascot: Harry Dean Stanton. It's a labour of love as Marty and Scott ramble through his long filmography. Check it out!

• The Wrong Man (1956, Dir. Alfred Hitchcock) at 4:18
• Paris, Texas (1984, Dir. Wim Wenders) at 18:37
• Man Trouble (1992, Dir. Bob Rafelson) at 36:04
• Lucky (2017, Dir. John Carroll Lynch) at 50:56
• Continuity Boulevard at 1:11:04
• and the barely-legal Lightning Round at 1:22:23

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It takes all sorts of people to make an underworld. Like... Vulcans? Leprechauns?! Canadian mayoral campaign managers?!? Scott and Marty circulate amongst a very odd rogue's gallery, and return to share all the results with you.

In this episode, our televisual exposes include:

• Columbo S2E6 "A Stitch in Crime" at 2:12
• Moonlighting S2E7 "Somewhere Under the Rainbow" at 14:36
• Forever Knight S1E14 "Spin Doctor" at 25:55

Plus our regular amazeballs features: Continuity Boulevard (at 41:50) and the ever-lovin' Lightning Round (at 45:35).

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Dust off your ruffs and merkins! It's time for Scott and Marty and You to screw your courage to the sticking place, and check out some of Shakespeare's weirdest cinematic outings. Feast thine ears:

• Chimes at Midnight  (1966, Dir. Orson Welles) at 2:48
• Throne of Blood (1957, Dir. Akira Kurosawa) at 20:27
• Prospero's Books (1991, Dir. Peter Greenaway) at 35:20
• 10 Things I Hate About You (1999, Dir. Gil Junger) at 56:30
• PLUS! Continuity Boulevard at 1:12:58, and the Lightning Round at 1:24:14

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Criminals have overrun Scott and Marty's television sets! Maybe some vampires too. There's only one thing to do: call in the gumshoes!

In this episode, we scrape the gum off the shoes of these fine televisual offerings:

• Columbo S2E5 "Requiem for a Falling Star" at 1:55
• Moonlighting S2E6 "Knowing Her" at 15:20
• Forever Knight S1E13 "Father Figure" at 30:00

Plus other stuff!

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A civil rights crusader. Wife of Ossie Davis. An Oscar nominee with a career spanning EIGHT DECADES. It's the incredible Ruby Dee!

Scott and Marty scrutinize the tenacious Dee's first, last, best, and worst movies:

• The Jackie Robinson Story (1950, Dir. Alfred E. Green) at 2:44
• 1982 (2013, Dir. Tommy Oliver) at 16:28
• Do The Right Thing (1989, Dir. Spike Lee) at 30:00
• and *heavy sigh* Baby Geniuses (1999, Dir. Bob Clark) at 45:40

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By the pricking of my thumbs, something DICK FILLED this way comes! We're talking, of course, about TV detectives, and gadzooks! There are a lot of them in this week's episode. Scott and Marty stake out the following serials:

Columbo S2E4 "A Dagger of the Mind" at 2:55
Moonlighting S2E5 "My Fair David" at 15:50
Forever Knight S1E12 "Dead Issue" at 27:20

Plus! Trusty ol' Continuity Boulevard (40:05) and the ever-lovin' Lightning Round (46:30)!

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This week on Cinematic Omniverse...

It's David f*****g Lynch.

Heads are scratched over:
Eraserhead (1977) at 4:13
The Elephant Man (1980) at 23:49
Wild at Heart (1990) at 42:09
The Straight Story (1999) at 1:00:30

Also in this super-sized episode:
Continuity Boulevard at 1:17:52
Lightning Round at 1:35:25

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DO NOT ADJUST YOUR SET... just leave it alone, and instead use your favourite podcasting device to dig into the ear-tickling antics of Marty and Scott, as they discuss, critique, and riff on...

Columbo S2E3 "The Most Cruicial Game" (at 2:25)
Moonlighting S2E4 "The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice" (at 14:15)
Forever Knight S1E11 "Hunters" (at 28:05)

...and for Elite Listeners only (that's you!), there's Continuity Boulevard (at 43:55) and our patented Lightning Round (at 50:22)!

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For the first podcast of 2025, Marty and Scott study the unorthodox filmography of John Cazale, who starred in FIVE Best Picture-nominated films in the 1970s... and that's it.

Your listening options are twofold: play straight through, or hop around:
The Godfather (1972, Dir. Francis Ford Coppola) at 2:20
The Godfather Part II (1974, Dir. Francis Ford Coppola) at 17:17
Dog Day Afternoon (1975, Dir. Sidney Lumet) at 29:40
The Deer Hunter (1978, Dir. Michael Cimino) at 42:00
Continuity Boulevard at 56:54
Lightning Round at 1:22:45

NOTE: Cazale's fifth Best Picture-nominated film was The Conversation, about which we conversed in Episode 52, our Gene Hackman ep!

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If you have been contemplating cold-blooded murder, DON'T DO IT! Or at least, check out this collection of TV detective reviews before you act. If nothing else, it will help you decide in which decade (and city) to kill.

Skewered in this installment:
Columbo S2E2 "The Greenhouse Jungle" at 2:10
Moonlighting S2E3 "Money Talks... Maddie Walks" at 19:47
Forever Knight S1E10 "Dead Air" at 33"00

Plus Continuity Boulevard (44:51) and the ever-lovin' Lightning Round (49:30)!

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Marty and Scott continue their deep dive into Rowlands's fifty-eight year filmography. After the death of her husband, auteur John Cassavettes, Rowlands... wait, what am I doing? You need to listen to the episode to get the story!

Dissected within:
Night on Earth (1991, Dir. Jim Jarmusch) at 1:26
The Mighty (1998, Dir. Peter Chelsom) at 18:55
The Notebook (2004, Dir. Nick Cassavettes) at 31:25
Parts Per Billion (2014, Dir. Brian Horiuchi) at 44:51

Plus! Continuity Boulevard kicks in at 57:58, and Lighting (Round) strikes at exactly 1:03:00. Heads up!

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With a film career spanning 56 years, there's no easy way to encapsulate a class act like Gena Rowlands... so Scott and Marty dedicate a two-parter to this luminous lady, whose filmography threads the careers of some of cinema's most maverick auteurs.

Didja get all that? It's Gena time.

Shadows (1958, Dir. John Cassavetes) at 2:20
A Woman Under the Influence (1974, Dir. John Cassavetes) at 15:50
Gloria (1980, Dir. John Cassavetes) at 33:40
Another Woman (1988, Dir. Woody Allen) at 33:40

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Only two men are brave enough to ask the hard questions: What's up with all these 30-, 40-, and 50-year-old detective shows these days?? And those two men are Marty and Scott... and the answers they find can be time-logged as follows!

Columbo S2E1 "Etude in Black" at 02:25
Moonlighting S2E2 "The Lady in the Iron Mask" at 15:45
Forever Knight S1E9 "I Will Repay" at 26:00

And there's more! Continuity Blvd and a yawn-suppressing Lightning Round!

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Are you ready for an entertainment experience more invasive than Feel-Around? More devastating than bespoke porn? More transcendent than live organ transplants? Marty and Scott return to the omniverse of film with four sketch comedy anthologies. That's, like, 60 movies for the prize of... well, it's all free!

Sketchy flicks we excoriate:
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask (1972, Dir. Woody Allen) at 2:00
Kentucky Fried Movie (1977, Dir. John Landis) at 19:00
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983, Dir. Terry Jones) at 34:20
Amazon Women on the Moon (1987, Dir. Joe Dante, Carl Gottlieb, Peter Horton) at 47:50

Followed by a bajillion omniverse connections, and a lightning round that will send your afro flying in all directions!

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Columbo digs deep! David squares off against his own flesh & blood! And Nick Knight meets his match in Chinatown. Who knew you could immobilize a vampire with basic acupuncture? Scott and Marty did NOT.

Rehashed in this episode:
Columbo S1E7 "Blueprint for Murder" at 2:05
Moonlighting S2E1 "Brother, Can You Spare a Blonde?" at 15:30
Forever Knight S1E8 "Cherry Blossoms" at 28:12

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It's still the spooky season, and we've got your vampires right here. COP VAMPIRES! Also, Detective Columbo and Maddie and David, who are not vampires... AS FAR AS WE KNOW. Cue the spooky music!

Columbo S1E6: "Short Fuse" at 1:50
Moonlighting S1E6: "The Murder's in the Mail" at 19:00
Forever Knight S1E7: "False Witness" at 31:20

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Movies are back! And just in time for Halloween! Scott and Marty celebrate in the best way possible: welcoming back horrorcore guest star Abbey Schwartz, to discuss three stone cold classics, each of which is a BRAND NEW WATCH for at least one of the three! WILL THEY SURVIVE? WILL YOU?!?

Movies Vivisected:
John Carpenter's Halloween (1978) at 2:50
John Carpenter's The Thing (1982) at 24:50
The Lost Boys (1987) at 41:50

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Would you, could you, murder somebody on a train? You both would and could if you were legendary character actor Vincent Schiavelli! If you don't know who that is, or what is Schiavelli's connection to Moonlighting's Allyce Beasley, then this ep will be a real learning experience for you. If you DO know all that, you're probably already listening!

Commentary on the following episodes, at the following timestamps:
Columbo S1E5: "Lady in Waiting" at 1:30
Moonlighting S1E6 "Next Stop Murder" at 12:00
Forever Knight S1E6 "Dying to Know You" at 23:20

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In this episode, we learn about Marty's sacred Moonlighting viewing ritual. All this plus a Lightning Round for the ages!

Find our commentary on the episodes here:
"Suitable for Framing" - 1:54
"The Next Murder You Hear" -  15:22
"Dance By the Light of the Moon" - 27:55

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Marty and Scott sift through a heap of half-baked mysteries, desperately seeking hints of greatness. You've seen the shows... now watch the podcast!!

In this episode, we roast:
Columbo S1E3 "Dead Weight" (starting at 1:35)
Moonlighting S1E3 "Read the Mind, See the Movie" (starting at 15:13)
Forever Knight S1E4 "Last Act" (starting at 29:45)

Plus Continuity Blvd and our notorious Lightning Round!

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Toronto has a serial killer problem! Cops and former cops face off! And the world's greatest assassins... can't aim worth a damn? Detectives Marty and Scott are on the case(s)!

Check out our commentary of the following hard-to-track-down episodes!
Columbo S1E2: "Death Lends a Hand" - 2:20
Moonlighting S1E2: "Gunfight at the So-So Corral" - 14:15
Forever Knight S1E3: "...For I Have Sinned" - 26:20

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Tubeheads Marty and Scott return with a very special (that is, absurdly esoteric) maxi-series on three detective shows from three different decades:
1) The 1970s' bumbling lieutenant, COLUMBO!
2) Reigning screwballs of the 1980s, Maddie and David from MOONLIGHTING!
3) FOREVER KNIGHT, a mostly forgotten 1990s series about a vampire cop!

In this debut episode, we review the pilots. Check out our commentary at the following points:
Columbo S1E1: "Murder by the Book" - 11:00
Moonlighting S1E1: "Moonlighting: Pilot" - 24:40
Forever Knight S1E1&2: "Dark Knight" - 42:50
Check out the original episodes... uh... somewhere online? Best of luck!

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In a supersized season finale podcast, cinewizards Scott and Marty cast _filmography levioso_ upon British baritone Alan Rickman, conjuring up two of Marty's all-time favourite films as well as a bonafide hidden gem. Don't miss it!

Die Hard (1988, Dir. John McTiernan)
The January Man (1989, Dir. Pat O'Connor)
Dogma (1999, Dir. Kevin Smith)
Eye in the Sky (2015, Dir. Gavin Hood)

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Scott and Marty may not know nothin' 'bout birthin' no babies, but thanks to this week's movies, they know all about trailblazing actress Butterfly McQueen. And so, good listeners, shall you!

Gone With the Wind (1939, Dir. Victor Fleming)
Mildred Pearce (1945, Dir. Michael Curtiz)
Amazing Grace (1974, Dir. Stan Lathan)
The Mosquito Coast (1986, Dir. Peter Weir)

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The boys get frisky with this golden opportunity to explore the career of 80s golden boy Val Kilmer.

Top Secret! (1984, Dir. Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker)
Heat (1995, Dir. Michael Mann)
Moscow Zero (2006, Dir. María Lidón)
Top Gun: Maverick (2022, Dir. Joseph Kosinski)

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Would Ms. Wood have wanted us to revisit even her most wretched films? I warrant Ms. Wood would!

The Searchers (1956, Dir. John Ford)
Tomorrow is Forever (1946, Dir. Irving Pichel)
Meteor (1979, Dir. Ronald Neame)
Brainstorm (1983, Dir. Douglas Trumbull)

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Like any strapping heterosexual men, Marty and Scott find lots to love about Italian bombshell Sofia Loren. But they are equally impressed by her acting chops in this quartet of unorthodox flicks. Saluti!

NOTES: The audio for this ep gets dodgy on occasion. Sorry 'bout that.

Quo Vadis (1951, Dir. Mervyn LeRoy)
Two Women (1960, Dir. Vittorio De Sica)
Firepower (1979, Dir. Michael Winner)
The Life Ahead (2020, Dir. Edoardo Ponti)

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While tracking a trailblazing filmmaker through the wilds of Newfoundland, Scott and Marty stumble on a film that blends their favourite sub-genres into one Blacktacular film! All this, plus floating houses, talking bears, and windmills of the mind.

John and the Missus (1987, Dir. Gordon Pinsent)
The Thomas Crown Affair (1968, Dir. Norman Jewison)
Blacula (1972, Dir. William Crain)
Two Lovers and a Bear (2016, Dir. Kim Nguyen)

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In the 1950s, Tim Barlow lost his hearing while testing artillery for the British Army. 20 years later, he became an actor! Marty and Scott check out Tim's best, worst, last, and first films in a strictly audio medium. Ironic? Perhaps. Awesome? Always.

My Cousin Rachel (2017, Dir. Roger Michell)
The Eagle Has Landed (1976, Dir. John Sturges)
Privates on Parade (1983, Dir. Michael Blakemore)
Hot Fuzz (2007, Dir. Edgar Wright)

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Marty and Scott rub elbows with Bollywood! You've heard of Genghis, and Noonien Singh, now join us as we celebrate one of the great unsung Khans!

Salaam Bombay! (1988, Dir. Mira Nair)
Slumdog Millionaire (2008, Dir. Danny Boyle)
Hisss (2010, Dir. Jennifer Lynch)
The Lunchbox (2013, Dir. Ritesh Batra)

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Marty and Scott take you to the Land of the Rising Sun, where they sample ramen, crime, dementia, and death. The ramen tastes great!

High and Low (1963, Dir. Akira Kurosawa)
Tampopo (1985, Dir. Juzo Itami)
Departures (2008, Dir. Yojiro Takita)
A Long Goodbye (2019, Dir. Ryota Nakano)

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On this week's film-stuffed episode, Marty and Scott pay their respects to stage and screen legend Angela Lansbury. Whodunnit, we ask? And by "it" we mean "bowled us over and won our hearts." And the answer is... well, Lansbury. I maybe set that up wrong. But join us!

Gaslight (1944, Dir. George Cukor)
Mutiny (1952, Dir. Edward Dmytryk)
The Manchurian Candidate  (1962, Dir. John Frankenheimer
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022, Dir. Rian Johnson)

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It's hard not to be fonda this Classic Hollywood actor, even when he appears in abominable Jaws ripoffs. Join Marty and Scott for a dubious tour of Henry Fonda's first, best, worst, and last movies!

Farmer Takes a Wife (1953, Dir. Henry Levin)
Twelve Angry Men (1957, Dir. Sidney Lumet)
Tentacles (1977, Dir. Ovidio G. Assonitis)
On Golden Pond (1981, Dir. Mark Rydell)

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Cinephiles Marty and Scott are back, unearthing the last, first, best, and worst entries in the fabulous filmography of the actor whose spit takes knew no equal: Alan Arkin!

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Scott and Marty return after a long hiatus… or was it a vacation?? It turns out your favourite cinephiles have been kicking around the great city of Los Angeles, and they’ve brought back four souvenirs to share: the City of Angels’s first, worst, best, and last appearances on film!

Safety Last! (1923, Dir. Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor)

1941 (1979, Dir. Steven Spielberg)

L.A. Story (1991, Dir. Mick Jackson)

Destruction Los Angeles (2017, Dir. Tibor Takács)

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