This time around, I’m looking at Japanese crime movies. Sonny Chiba’s inimitable Streetfighter series, Hanzo The Razor where a Japanese cop with unusual methods is explored in detail and take a quick swim in a sea of weirdness with Seijun Suzuki’s Tokyo Drifter and Branded To Kill.

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This time around, I’ll be suggesting movies to watch with children. Not necessarily childrens’ films but movies that might generate a passion for cinema in the minds of the young, so they don’t grow up to say things like “Rob Schneider Is A Genius” or “I don’t like black and white movies, I can’t get into them” or other things that would make people doubt the integrity of their genetic structure. I offer this as a public service to the children of the world.*

*Tongue in cheek, of course

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Okay I’m going out on a limb this time, looking at three of the most popular Paleo-Cinematic movies of all time and trying to think of something original to say about them. Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane, Michael Curtiz’s Casablanca and Federico Fellini’s La Dolce Vita. Also, don’t forget to vote for Paleo-Cinema over at Podcast Alley.

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In this ‘cast I’m doing something different. A mixtape of sorts where I share some of my favourite movie music. Not much else to say, but enjoy it Back to a full podcast next week.

Terry

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Okay, in this pre-Easter season we look at three movies about making a deal with the Devil. First off, a baseball fan with a mid-life crisis cuts a contract with Ray Walston in Damn Yankees - only to have Gwen Verdon thrown at him. (They’re thinking about remaking this with Jake Gyllenhaal in the Tab Hunter role and Jim Carrey in the Ray Walston one).

Next we look at the comedy classic, Bedazzled (and if you don’t like this movie, you fill me with inertia) and move on to Brian De Palma’s rock and roll iteration of Faust, The Phantom of the Opera and The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1974’s Phantom of the Paradise.

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This time I take a look at three movies about lethal children from the early 1960s. The first is Village of the Damned, starring George Sanders and Barbara Shelley. The second is the sequel cum remake of it, Children of the Damned from 1963 starring Ian Hendry and Alan Badel and finally, an unrelated film: Joseph Losey’s 1961 (released in 1963) Hammer film (These Are) The Damned. All have lethal children in them, all three take a different approach to the subject.

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This time around we have one movie from the 40s, one from the 50s and one from the 60s. To start with, Road House (1948), then Secret of the Incas from 1954 and The Thomas Crown Affair (1968).

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This time around, I take a look at Eurospy movies - European espionage movies from the 1960s which range from absurd comedies to dark and deadly thrillers, so put on your tux, mix martinis, load your Walther PPK and enjoy!

A Link To A Gallery Of Eurospy Movie posters on David J. Deal’s site

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This time around I’m looking at five movies made by Robert Aldrich between 1954 and 1956. They are Apache starring blue eyed Burt Lancaster as Massai, the last Apache warrior, Vera Cruz where Lancaster buddies up with Gary Cooper… for a while, Kiss Me Deadly which merges private eye film noir with Atomic Era McCarthy paranoia, The Big Knife which shows the disintegration of a movie star and Attack! which takes a raw look at the politics of war on a small scale.

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In this annual Newtonmas podcast I look at three musicals. The Gang’s All Here from 1943, Kismet from 1955 and One Touch of Venus from 1949. Happy holidays people, and happy movie viewing.

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