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Movie Nights & Matinees

Bill Groves

Tv & Film

Arts

Tv & Film

Frequency: 1 episode/16d. Total Eps: 35

Discussions of movies remembered from the days when it was necessary to actually go to the movies. Most guests have written books on the subjects under discussion.

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🇺🇸 USA - Film History
24/12/2025
#97
🇨🇦 Canada - Film History
12/12/2025
#89
🇨🇦 Canada - Film History
11/12/2025
#93
🇬🇧 Great Britain - Film History
02/04/2025
#100
🇬🇧 Great Britain - Film History
01/04/2025
#87
🇬🇧 Great Britain - Film History
31/03/2025
#79
🇬🇧 Great Britain - Film History
30/03/2025
#55
🇬🇧 Great Britain - Film History
29/03/2025
#44
🇬🇧 Great Britain - Film History
28/03/2025
#34
🇬🇧 Great Britain - Film History
27/03/2025
#27

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Episode 33 - Godzilla vs Gojira

Episode 33

Sunday, July 14, 2024 • Duration 56:20

Jim and I are joined by filmfest master Bill Shaffer to talk about Japan's biggest movie star and now Oscar-winner, Godzilla (or Gojira, depending on your preference). Listen in as we discuss the various eras, his many monstrous foes, and his appearances in Legendary's Monsterverse, as well as his recent prestige picture Godzilla Minus One, which brought the big guy his first Academy Award.

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Episode 32 - All About WB (No, the Other One)

Episode 32

Sunday, June 9, 2024 • Duration 57:42

Film historian Dan Van Neste joins me to discuss one of Hollywood's unjustifiably forgotten leading men as chronicled in Dan's latest book, The Accidental Star: The Life and Films of Warner Baxter. Listen in as we chat about Baxter's life, personal struggles, and roles in such pictures as 42nd Street, the Crime Doctor series, and Baxter's first, Oscar-winning outing as the big screen's Cisco Kid in In Old Arizona.

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Episode 31 - Kids and Classics

Episode 31

Sunday, May 12, 2024 • Duration 50:41

Jim and I chat with radio host and author Jennifer Churchill about her book Movies are Magic, as well as her other media appearances activities designed to foster of love of classic films across new generations.

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Episode 30 - Here Comes the Cavalry

Episode 30

Sunday, April 28, 2024 • Duration 58:35

Author Michael F. Blake returns to chat with me and Jim about his latest book, The Cavalry Trilogy: John Ford, John Wayne, and the Making of Three Classic Westerns. Ride along as we talk about the men and the movies; spotlighting Fort Apache, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon and Rio Grande, with a few others getting mentions along the way.

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Episode 29 - Weaving Worlds

Episode 29

Sunday, April 14, 2024 • Duration 52:23

I'm joined by author Cathy Whitlock to talk about the subject of production design as chronicled in her gorgeous book Designs on Film: A Century of Hollywood Art Direction. Among the films discussed are Citizen Kane, Top Hat, Things to Come, The Wizard of Oz, Cleopatra, Lawrence of Arabia and You Only Live Twice, to name a few.

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Episode 28 - Scene Me a Song

Episode 28

Sunday, March 31, 2024 • Duration 48:49

Author Gary May joins me to talk about the career of M.K. Jerome, whose songs enhanced many a golden age Hollywood film, especially during his tenure at Warner Bros. Moe, as he was known to friends, family and colleagues, is the subject of Gary's book The Tunesmith, The Musical Journey of M.K. Jerome. Gary has significant insight into Moe's life and career, given that Moe was Gary's grandfather. Listen in as we discuss Moe's contributions to film in a variety of genres, and in support of stars such as Greta Garbo, Bette Davis, Errol Flynn and James Cagney. Oh, and there's also that movie you might have heard mentioned once or twice called Casablanca.

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Episode 27 - Writ Large Screen: Agatha Christie

Episode 27

Sunday, March 3, 2024 • Duration 01:12:34

Agatha Christie scholar and author Mark Aldridge joins me to discuss movies adapted from the writings of the famed mystery writer, as chronicled in Mark's book Agatha Christie on Screen. Gather with us in the virtual parlor as we discuss, among other films, Love From a Stranger, And Then There Were None, Witness for the Prosecution and Murder on the Orient Express.

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Episode 26 - Abbott & Costello Meet Biffle & Shooster

Episode 26

Sunday, February 18, 2024 • Duration 01:00:31

Jim and I are joined by the multi-talented Nick Santa Maria, co-author of The Annotated Abbott and Costello and the alphabetically first half of the retro comedy team Biffle and Shooster. We chat about Bud and Lou, and what made them and their comedy formula so special, then segue into the creation and assemblage of the neo-vintage (seriously?) short comedies produced and compiled into The Misadventures of Biffle and Shooster.

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Episode 25 - Maltin on Maltin

Episode 25

Sunday, February 4, 2024 • Duration 52:41

As our first guest of 2024, Jim and I are thrilled to welcome the one and only Leonard Maltin, whose tenure as the movie critic for Entertainment Tonight spanned three decades, and whose books are a staple of any respectable movie reference library, in addition to his highly informative and entertaining autobiography. Join us as we discuss his career, his books, and here and there a specific movie.

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Episode 24 - Mixed Bag Musings

Episode 24

Sunday, January 21, 2024 • Duration 50:23

With the first anniversary of the launch of Movie Nights & Matinees coming this week, co-host Jim Reid and I have a casual conversation that includes reflections on the first year of the podcast, as well as discussions of specific movies we've been watching or that are personal favorites. Popping up in the discussion are comedians Laurel & Hardy, Wheeler & Woolsey, Edgar Kennedy and Eddie Cantor, in addition to Fred Astaire and film historian David Shepard. Among the films we chat about are 1916's Sherlock Holmes, the Columbia serial Mandrake the Magician, Champagne for Caesar, the Crime Doctor mystery series, and even Gertie the Dinosaur. Jim also recounts the formation of his Dallas Classic Film Group.

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