Film critic Cole Smithey discusses Bertrand Tavernier's ROUND MIDNIGHT (staring the great Jazz legend Dexter Gordon) with CHRIS CUZME, head brewer and owner of FIFTH HAMMER BREWING in Long Island City, New York. It helps that CUZME (as we affec

BILL SCURRY — WHORE

Jul 3rd, 2018 58m 47s

"I Don't Get It!" podcast co-host BILL SCURRY lifts a glass of ARROGANT BASTARD from STONE BREWING to discuss KEN RUSSELL'S kooky retort to PRETTY WOMAN. And no, Therese Russell is not related to Ken Russell.

BERNARD FEINSOD — THE SHAPE OF WATER

Jun 28th, 2018 59m 48s

NYC filmmaker Bernard Feinsod chats with Cole about Guillermo Del Toro's THE SHAPE OF WATER over a can of STONE BREWING'S FEAR. MOVIE. LIONS DOUBLE IPA!

CHICO LEO — 30 DAYS OF NIGHT

Jun 22nd, 2018 55m 40s

Podcast personality Chico Leo brings David Slade's 30 DAYS OF NIGHT to THE BIG FEAST. We drink Sierra Nevada's TORPEDO IPA as men facing down a bunch of fearless vampires in the dead of an Alaskan blackout might do. Bon appétit!

TED RALL — LETHAL WEAPON

Jun 15th, 2018 45m 24s

Longtime Gen X pals Cole Smithey and Ted Rall discuss Richard Donner's Lethal Weapon over a couple of bottles of CAPTAIN LAWRENCE HOP COMMANDER IPA.

PHIL HOLT — FIRST REFORMED

Jun 8th, 2018 1h 1m

Dramatist and LA GRANDE BOUFFE (THE BIG FEAST)regular Phil Holt returns to the podcast to discuss PAUL SCHRADER'S FIRST REFORMED over a glass of BUNKER'S BROWN ALE.

THEODORE BOULOUKOS — THE LAST OF SHELIA

Jun 1st, 2018 1h 1m

New York City actor Theodore Bouloukos joins the FEAST to drink a BELLS TWO HEARTED and discuss THE LAST OF SHELIA — co-written by Anthony Perkins and Stephen Sondheim. Long before Bret Easton Ellis reveled in the narcissism of the entitled, Pe

JAMES HANCOCK — DANGER DIABOLIK!

May 25th, 2018 47m 23s

Wrong Reel Podcast co-host James Hancock joins the Feast to talk about Mario Bava's kooky anti-superhero love fest DANGER DIABOLIK with film critic Cole Smithey over a couple bottles of Bear Republic Racer 5.

NEIL COHEN — THE FRENCH CONNECTION / CHIEF ZABU

May 18th, 2018 51m 45s

CHIEF ZABU co-writer & co-director Neil Cohen graces the BIG FEAST to talk about William Friedkin's THE FRENCH CONNECTION over a mid-day beer. Naturally, Neil brought along some show-and-tell stuff, including Luis Bunuel's drivers license and g

RICK CROM — YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN

May 11th, 2018 58m 38s

Veteran film critic Cole Smithey hosts LA GRANDE BOUFFE (THE BIG FEAST) podcast series with a different guest co-host every week. In this episode, legendary stand-up comic Rick Crom joins the FEAST to talk about Mel Brooks's YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN

MAI MASRI — THE THICK-WALLED ROOM

May 4th, 2018 38m 28s

Palestinian filmmaker Mai Masri discusses Masaki Kobayashi's THE THICK-WALLED ROOM in the context of her own film 3000 NIGHTS, about a Palestinian woman who gives birth while imprisoned inside an Israeli jail.

MAI MASRI — THE THICK-WALLED ROOM

May 4th, 2018 38m 28s

PERSONAL PROBLEMS — BILL GUNN

Apr 27th, 2018 36m 36s

Episode #100 gives Mike a send-off with WHAT WE ALL WANT IPA from FOREIGN OBJECTS BREWING. I suppose the film could have been titled BROKEN PROMISES just because that's what I keep calling it. Either way, it's really two parts of a would-be soa

LAST TANGO IN PARIS — BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI

Apr 20th, 2018 43m 27s

Mike broke out Wavy Tropics Guava Pale Ale from Kills Boro Brewing for our discussion of Bertolucci's LAST TANGO IN PARIS even if we had planned to do Lars von Trier's MANDERLAY for this, our 99th episode. Check out my silent shout-out to THE S

1900 — BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI

Apr 13th, 2018 41m 26s

SIERRA NEVADA'S BOUBLE BULLET DOUBLE IPA gave us the craft beer inspiration needed to dive into Cole's favorite film of all time, Bernardo Bertolucci's epic set in Parma, Italy. Donald Sutherland, Gerard Depardieu, Burt Lancaster, Robert De Nir

NATURAL BORN KILLERS — OLIVER STONE

Apr 2nd, 2018 30m 44s

Mike baits Cole with a film Cole has never been able to get through until now. What's drinking you might ask. Cole picked HOP STOOPID FROM Lagunitas Brewing Company. Is this Oliver Stone's worst film? Cole thinks so.

BLACK PANTHER — Ryan Coogler

Mar 24th, 2018 1h 2m

Cole and Mike did a superhero film for the first time on the podcast and the results were mixed.

IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES — Nagisa Oshima

Mar 16th, 2018 36m 20s

Not one to watch with the kids, your mother, or really anyone you wouldn't want to visit a sex club with, IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES shocked audiences so much that's it's rarely been seen in public since its 1977 debut. Here is a beautiful, Ja

THE RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD — Dan O'Bannon special guest Co-Host Grady Hendrix

Mar 10th, 2018 54m 37s

Special Guest Co-host Grady Hendrix, horror author ("Paperbacks from Hell") brought us this 1985 zombie classic with plenty of humor and wit. No surprise that it's the movie that gave the canonical zombie line "Braiiiiiiiins!"

LADY BIRD — Greta Gerwig

Mar 2nd, 2018 51m 19s

In time for Oscar season, it's the film that made Cole trend briefly on Twitter, the critical darling (for ALMOST ALL critics at least) LADY BIRD.

THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE OF EBBING, MISSOURI — Martin McDonagh

Feb 23rd, 2018 43m 2s

The Oscar Buzzy revenge flick replete with ball kicking, police abuse, and the "C" word used in a very Martin McDonaugh type way.

VIVRE SA VIE — Jean-Luc Godard

Feb 16th, 2018 40m

Goddard's wife goes from aspiring starlet to sex worker in this edgy, episodic experiment from 1962.

DOGTOOTH — Yorgos Lanthimos

Feb 2nd, 2018 39m 31s

Words aren't what they seem in this cult favorite from Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos.

THE YAKUZA — Sydney Pollack with Special Co-Host Jeremy Workman

Jan 26th, 2018 48m 52s

Director Jeremy Workman ("Who Is Henry Jaglom?", "The World Before Your Feet") was randomly assigned this movie that he actually totally digs — Sydney Pollack's Robert Mitchum samurai revenge WWII fallout action old men talking vehicle where a

GOING PLACES — Bertrand Blier

Jan 19th, 2018 53m 41s

Even the grandest of Bouffers are gonna have a hard time swallowing this 1974 nihilist sexual assault romp with Gérard Depardieu and Miou-Miou. An interesting but uncomfortable look at the French post-new wave sex revolution through the story o