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A podcast about movies: all kinds of retro, cult, grindhouse, forgotten and interesting movies, childhood favourites and things I have just discovered.
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Sunday Aug 09, 2015
Sunday Aug 09, 2015
This time around it's time for two movies starring and directed by Jose Ferrer. First 1955's The Shrike also starring June Allyson and The Great Man co-starring Jim Backus, Julie London, Dean Jagger and Keenan Wynn.
Sunday Jul 26, 2015
Sunday Jul 26, 2015
For 166 I look at a couple of good crime dramas. 1970's adaptation of John D, MacDonald's Darker Than Amber starring Rod Taylor, Theodore Bikel, Suzy Kendall and William Smith, then to 1981 for the neo-noir drama Cutter's Way a.k.a. Cutter and Bone starring Jeff Bridges, William Heard and Lisa Eichhorn.
Monday Jul 13, 2015
Monday Jul 13, 2015
This time we have two actors in Oscar winning roles. First, Alan Arkin in the 1968 adaptation of Carson McCuller's first novel, The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter also starring Sondra Locke, Stacey Keach and Percy Rodriguez, then on to the second movie in Alan J Pakula's paranoia trilogy, the 1971 crime thriller Klute starring Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland. Plus, feedback and a little Bobby Darin.
Monday Jun 29, 2015
Monday Jun 29, 2015
This time, it's airplane disaster movies starting with 1954's The High And The Mighty starring John Wayne and a DC4 and then the first of the 1970s disaster movie cycle, 1970's Airport starring Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin and a Boeing 707.
Friday Jun 19, 2015
Friday Jun 19, 2015
While Sally and I are living la dolce vita in Perth for a couple of weeks, I have recorded this music show during a thunderstorm while ensconced in a high rise hotel in South Perth. We go from Claudine Longet to Scott Walker, Carmen McRae to Tom Jones and Boris Vian to Betty Hutton. Normal programming will resume next time.
Sunday May 31, 2015
Sunday May 31, 2015
Misunderstood teenagers and evil corporations this time. We go from Nicholas Ray's 1955 classic Rebel Without A Cause starring James Dean, Natalie Wood and Sal Mineo to the 1974 world of political assassination and conspiracy for The Parallax View starring Warren Beatty and Paula Prentiss.
Sunday May 17, 2015
Sunday May 17, 2015
This time Sherlock Holmes goes under the magnifying glass with a look at a couple of atypical Holmes movies from the 1970s. First we have Billy Wilder's The Private Life Of Sherlock Holmes starring Robert Stephens and Colin Blakely then we go to 1976 for The Seven Percent Solution starring Nicol Williamson and Robert Duvall. The game is afoot!
Sunday May 03, 2015
Sunday May 03, 2015
Brainwashing and 1960s supercomputers. Who doesn't like those things? This time around, years after looking at the second Harry Palmer movie, Funeral In Berlin, I take a look at the first and third of the series.: The Ipcresss File (1965) and Billion Dollar Brain (great title- 1967) starring Michael Caine. Working class spy, gourmet, treated like shit by his upper-class bosses, Harry Palmer is the everyman secret agent.
Sunday Apr 19, 2015
Sunday Apr 19, 2015
For this episode, I'm looking at a couple of classic American movies. First the 1974 detective classic directed by Roman Polanski and starring Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway and John Huston... Chinatown. The back to 1968 for a western that always makes me cry, Will Penny, directed by Tom Gries and starring Charlton Heston, Joan Hackett and Donald Pleasance.
Monday Apr 06, 2015
Monday Apr 06, 2015
So it's serial killers and drug dealers this time around. We go from 1968's The Boston Strangler starring Henry Fonda and Tony Curtis to the road movie classic, Easy Rider starring Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper. Get your motor runnin'...