Yes, it's Network. Could you expect anything else after Medium Cool? Maybe. But you'd be wrong. It's Network. Let's look at this documentary... errr fictional satire from the mind of Paddy Chayefsky and executed with the deft touch of Sidney Lu

Medium Cool

May 24th, 2023 37m

If you have the opportunity to watch this prior to listening, I would want that for you. But it's probably not streaming anywhere. I mean, someone might have uploaded the entire film to YouTube but you never know. Yeah, I'm just digging throug

Your Highness

May 10th, 2023 34m 48s

Yeah, it's back. It's an episode. Check it out. Definitely had a hot take on this one.

2022 Wrap Up

Dec 25th, 2022 10m 58s

Hey everyone, just looking back on 2022 for a second. Just taking a breath. "Late Night Radio"Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/I think I only menti

Grosse Pointe Blank

Dec 17th, 2022 31m 58s

The squad from High Fidelity are at it again? in what is the kinda prequel, in a meta production sense, and a really great movie in my eyes. It makes me feel good. The cast really brings it, the movie is fun, and I think it set up some conventi

High Fidelity

Oct 3rd, 2022 42m 30s

Top 5 hackiest tropes in media analysis and presentation:* Cribbing aspects of the media itself* Talking about how you can do a thing but haven't and then, in the edit, do the thing.* Not actually organizing thoughts into coherent and struct

I.Q.

Aug 16th, 2022 29m 5s

What could go wrong when you convince a mathematician at a prestigious university that you're a genius, with the help of geniuses, just to go on a date with her? Not much, right? Right. This is I.Q. and, when I write it out this way, it seems w

Bull Durham

Jul 16th, 2022 1h 37m

This is it. This is the pinnacle of baseball movies. As it is the pinnacle of baseball movies, it is the pinnacle of sports movies. Not in a sports way but in a movies way. This, like THE SANDLOT (which you listened to that episode, right? It's

Major League 2

Jun 13th, 2022 14m 8s

Yeah, this one didn't stand the test of time. It's unfortunate but it happens. You can tell just from the poster. See what this Cleveland baseball team is up to, again! Wow. My lack of enthusiasm is apparent. But it's 1994's Major League 2 and

Major League

May 13th, 2022 48m 59s

Let's dig into one of the most influential sports movies of... the history of movies, I guess. Major League was a stone whose ripples in the pond of American culture are still seen to this day. The late 80's, but especially the early 90's, were

Dazed and Confused

Apr 14th, 2022 53m 13s

What do you do with 24 young actors? You make a movie, of course. This is Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused and it's capping off the American Graffiti Sequel Trilogy (that is two episodes) that kicked off Season 4 of Mark's Movies. I said

More American Graffiti (1979)

Feb 27th, 2022 40m 30s

Revisiting things a few years later can be perilous and More American Graffiti is maybe a very good example of this. Even lacking most of the creative team from the first movie American Graffiti still manages to spawn a weird alternate reality

The Long Goodbye

Nov 29th, 2021 47m 48s

The final entry into Noirvember 2021. Private Investigator? I barely even know her! The 1973 entry into the annals of detective movies by Robert Altman starring Elliott Gould. There's a lot to talk about and I won't mention any of it. I'll try

The Maltese Falcon

Nov 13th, 2021 1h 10m

The Maltese FalconThat's all I wanted on the first line. If you don't know, now you know. Definitely watch this one before listening. Housekeeping stuff:Yes, I didn't mention Arthur Edeson at all. I mentioned the cinematography but the cinem

Cast A Deadly Spell

Oct 31st, 2021 1h 36m

Yeah, the way this movie was advertised is a bit different from how I took it. That happens. This is a detective x magic crossover event that might get you your fill of both (or not!) and it's called "Cast A Deadly Spell". My DVD copy is "Hechi

Last Action Hero

Sep 16th, 2021 1h 17m

1993 was a transitional period. We were slowly, ass a country, shedding the action movie template of the 70's and 80's while experimenting with some headier notions on how we relate to media. Last Action Hero was, is, seeming, a product of this

Tango & Cash

Jul 27th, 2021 25m 54s

1989 saw Stallone and Russell team up as Tango & Cash. Let's talk about this movie as there is a lot of hidden depth here. Sounds intriguing, yes? That's how I get you. Description bait. If you want the link for the Kevin Smith video I mention

Marnie

Jul 7th, 2021 39m 29s

Sometimes you're looking for the heat but you get the breaking ball. This was one of those times. Marnie was not what I expected and this episode travels down some roads that may be upsetting to some people. Sometimes The Greats aren't all that

The Manhattan Project (1986)

Jun 27th, 2021 39m 41s

Speak "friend" and build an atomic bomb with a precocious genius in this 1986 movie that, from the poster, looks like a paranoia thriller--and it almost is! Or it is, partly. But yeah this is another Saturday TV matinee movie from my youth and

House and House 2: The Second Story

Jun 2nd, 2021 32m 30s

Hey, sometimes we say the wrong words. This time I said a few wrong words. No, I did not go back in and pick those up. Let me know if I need corrections. House and House 2 are, apparently, comedy horror "cult" movies from the mid-80's that liv

Bonus

James Bond Franchise

Apr 29th, 2021 7m 52s

Hey, everybody. Mark D. IT Guy. Generally bad spy here. Just talking for a few minutes about what's to come on the podcast. We will be jumping into the prolific James Bond franchise but not all at once and not right away.

My Science Project

Mar 19th, 2021 27m 39s

Let's take it back to the good ol' days and grab some UFO parts to turn in as our science project. Yep. That's the movie. I'm pretty sure I had things to say about this here but I can't think of what they are presently--I reserve the right to

Friday Night Lights

Mar 8th, 2021 1h 10m

Lucas Black is not from Arkansas. The roar of the crowd. The thrill of the cliché and the agony of defeat. These are just a few things I've typed into this episode's show notes. This isn't the first sports movie I've done but it is the first (

Forgetting Sarah Marshall

Feb 15th, 2021 1h 40m

2008's Apatow-produced Segel-written Segel-acted adult comedy hit me like a guided missile. In this third calendar year of this podcast I've really come to just pick movies that I like and, by golly, do I enjoy this movie. I genuinely think I c