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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 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'...
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'...
Sunday Mar 22, 2015
Sunday Mar 22, 2015
For this one, I look at Burt Lancaster's first swashbuckling movie, the Jacques Tourneur directed The Flame and The Arrow also starring Virginia Mayo and Nick Cravat, then we go to film noir territory for Joseph Losey's The Prowler starring Van Heflin and Evelyn Keyes. Both good movies in their own way, but very different.
Monday Mar 09, 2015
Monday Mar 09, 2015
This time it's glorious technicolor, breathtaking cinemascope and stereophonic sound with Ernst Lubitsch's 1939 comedy of politics and manners, Ninotschka starring Greta Garbo and Melvin Douglas and then the musical remake of it, 1957's Silk Stockings starring Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse and Peter Lorre.
Sunday Feb 22, 2015
Sunday Feb 22, 2015
It's time to look at autobiographical movies and two of the best are Federico Fellini's 1963 masterwork Otto E Mezzo, (8 1/2) starring Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale and Sandra Milo. and Bob Fosse's 1979 musical autobiopic All That Jazz starring Roy Schneider, Jessica Lange, Anne Reinking and Leland Palmer.
Sunday Feb 08, 2015
Sunday Feb 08, 2015
Just for a change I've decided to do two French films together and both feature murdering women. First off there is the 1968 Francoise Truffaut adaptation of Cornell Woolrich's novel The Bride Wore Black starring Jeanne Moreau then we go right to 1990 for the cinema de look action classic, Nikita (a.k.a. La Femme Nikita) starring Anne Parillaud and Jean Reno.
Monday Jan 26, 2015
Monday Jan 26, 2015
For Australia/ Invasion Day I look at a couple of iconic Australian films - 1949's Eureka Stockade and Phillip Noyce's 1987 Newsfront. Both great looks at Australian history and both worth your attention.