Happy holidays, listeners! Every year, we take on an unconventional Christmas movie around the Yuletide season, and this time we (along with returning guest Mark Soloff of Blastropodcast) dip back to investigate Tim Burton's deeply strange, fas

CONNICKUH SPECIAL: Memphis Belle (1990)

Dec 14th, 2018 1h 5m

Every year, the Alcohollywood podcast takes the week before Christmas to celebrate the life and works of Sir Harry Connick Jr. - actor, musician, Renaissance Man. Harry Connickuh, listeners! For this episode, we take our appreciation for Harry

Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)

Dec 7th, 2018 1h 28m

We only had time for one episode last month, so we're double-dipping this week by extending 00-vember into 00-cember! We move from Timothy Dalton to Pierce Brosnan with the 1997 007 flick Tomorrow Never Dies! Sure, Goldeneye revitalized the Bon

The Living Daylights (1987)

Nov 30th, 2018 1h 21m

As a busy Thanksgiving month winds down, we realized that we haven't talked about a James Bond film for literally 200 episodes. To that end, we decided to get in a little 00-vember action with the severely underappreciated James Bond film The L

Interview with Olympia's Cast and Crew (Chicago International Film Festival)

Nov 7th, 2018 23m 3s

As we continue to wrap up our coverage of the Chicago International Film Festival, it's important to take a look at some of the smaller stuff that came out of the fest, especially those set in the city the festival calls home. Gregory Dixon's v

Episode 3 - True Grit

Nov 2nd, 2018 39m 32s

Howdy, listeners! Today we're saddling up and sucking back some moonshine to an old Western classic, 1969's True Grit! (NOTE: I have used my pun quota for this episode; the rest of this post is safe for consumption). Along with guest panelist G

HORROR OCTORBOR: Friday the 13th (1980)

Oct 31st, 2018 1h 4m

Happy Alcohol-loween! We close out our Seven Deadly Sins edition of Horror Octorbor by going old-school for Wrath - the vengeance-filled slasher Friday the 13th! Sure, this is the one that doesn't have Jason in it - see our Freddy vs. Jason epi

Interview with What They Had Writer/Director Elizabeth Chomko and Actor Robert Forster

Oct 30th, 2018 29m 14s

While dysfunctional family dramas are arguably a dime a dozen, Elizabeth Chomko's Chicago-centric debut What They Had stands out substantially from the pack. A touching, heartfelt tale of a woman (Hilary Swank) who returns home to help her brot

Interview w/The Price of Everything's Nathaniel Kahn

Oct 29th, 2018 27m 42s

The world of contemporary art is a wild, wild thing - millionaires bidding incredible amounts of money to collect works from modern artists based on reputation, potential future valuation, or even (on occasion) the actual aesthetic value of the

HORROR OCTORBOR: Single White Female (1992)

Oct 24th, 2018 1h

Horror Octorbor keeps a-chuggin' along this month, as we continue to break down the seven deadly sins! This week, we take a look at Envy in the context of 1992's erotic psychological thriller Single White Female! In the vein of other 90s domest

Interview with Beautiful Boy Writer/Director Felix van Groeningen

Oct 15th, 2018 36m 28s

Beautiful Boy is the latest brick in Amazon Studios' foundation of establishing itself as the new Miramax - the home of middlebrow American indies featuring sad white people going about their lives. Sometimes they're great, like Jim Jarmusch's

HORROR OCTORBOR: Species (1995)

Oct 14th, 2018 1h 1m

Horror Octorbor keeps on chugging, as we keep exploring the seven deadly sins with our entry for Lust, Species! This 1995 sexy-alien chiller (courtesy of Dante's Peak and The November Man's Roger Donaldson) features Ghosts of Mars' Natasha Hens

Interview with Trouble Writer/Director Theresa Rebeck

Oct 11th, 2018 20m 5s

Novelist, screenwriter and Pulitzer-nominated playwright Theresa Rebeck is a woman of many hats - the latest of which is the director of the independent ensemble comedy Trouble. A film with modest ambitions but no small amount of charm, its tal

HORROR OCTORBOR: Thinner (1996)

Oct 5th, 2018 55m 17s

(CONTENT WARNING: use of the word 'gypsy') We explain the full context of its usage in the episode, and its ubiquity in the film itself makes it relatively unavoidable as a term. However, we understand its seriousness as a pejorative to the R

Puss in Boots (2011)

Sep 28th, 2018 1h 17m

Hey, we're back! Clint's wedding and subsequent marriage has kept us busy, but now we're answering some mailbags (however indirectly) with the 2011 DreamWorks picture Puss in Boots! The Shrek spinoff wisely dispenses with a lot of the obnoxious

Interview with 3100: Run and Become Director Sanjay Rawal

Sep 20th, 2018 24m 11s

The Self-Transcendence Race in New York City is a grueling, unrelenting 3,100-mile race held every year around a single block in Queens - 60 miles a day, 52 days. There's no prize money, no corporate endorsements - each of the runners who trave

Interview with Searching's Aneesh Chaganty and Sev Ohanian

Aug 30th, 2018 22m 17s

For the latest On Tap minisode, we air an interview Clint conducted for the new John Cho computer-screen thriller SEARCHING - about a frantic father searching for his missing daughter by going through the clues on her laptop! Clint sits down wi

This Must Be the Place (2011)

Aug 11th, 2018 1h 4m

This week, we make a triumphant return to the mailbag, taking a listener request to discuss Paolo Sorrentino's ponderous arthouse quirk-fest This Must Be the Place! Consequence of Sound film editor Dominick Suzanne-Mayer joins us in this explor

SHARK WEEK SPECIAL: Shark Attack 3: Megalodon (2002)

Jul 27th, 2018 1h 9m

Happy Shark Week everybody! It's the most fin-derful time of the year, and since The Meg is foolishly coming out two weeks after Shark Week, we're celebrating instead with one of the craziest Sci-Fi Original Movie-level shark flicks out there -

Fantasia 2018: Interview with LIfechanger's Justin McConnell

Jul 20th, 2018 20m 29s

Lifechanger is a sneakier, more fascinating thriller than it might seem at first glance - the tale of a man doomed to feed off and inhabit the bodies of those he encounters to survive. His psychology twisted up in the memories of those he imper

InnerSpace (1987)

Jul 13th, 2018 1h 8m

The main podcast is back, baby! Since Ant-Man and the Wasp has us thinking about all things shrinking, we decided to look at 1987's fun-sized adventure comedy InnerSpace! Film critic for HollywoodChicago.com (and now Alcohollywood!) Jon Espino

All the Queen's Horses (feat. interview with Kelly Richmond Pope)

Jul 9th, 2018 22m 12s

(This review and interview originally ran as part of On Tap's previous run as its own separate feed. We're re-running it here in conjunction with All the Queen's Horses' release on Netflix.) This week for our On Tap minisode, Clint discusses t

The Misandrists: Interview with Director Bruce LaBruce

Jul 6th, 2018 26m 47s

Arthouse queer enfant terrible Bruce LaBruce has crafted an interesting career as an underground director of gory, sexy, splatter-ific screeds on radical topics like terrorism, feminism, and gay liberation. His latest, The Misandrists (read our

Upgrade: Interview with Writer/Director Leigh Whannell

May 29th, 2018 17m 16s

Alcohollywood's spinoff mini-cast On Tap returns! Every so often, we'll be providing you with exclusive interviews, reviews and festival coverage alongside the regular podcast. Hope you enjoy! To kick off our (semi-) inaugural installment, Clin

Dunston Checks In (1994) LIVE from Hotel Moxy Chicago

May 25th, 2018 1h 7m

For this episode, we crashed Hotel Moxy in downtown Chicago for their inaugural Moxy SoundOff Podcast Series, trapping ourselves in a little glass booth for the entertainment of our live audience. Since this live podcast took place in a hotel,