Description: This is the third chapter of our Coming of Age Journey, and we really dived deep into Dazed and Confused. We also discussed Rohmer's The Green Ray, and the pairing worked well because there's a clear connection between the work of Rohmer and Linklater. The Green Ray …
We are excited to embark on what we expect will be a lengthy and permanent Journey. Read Her to Heaven (a cheeky take on the John M. Stahl 1945 noir film, Leave Her to Heaven, an adaptation of the Ben Ames Williams novel of the same name) …
Description: Ryan Verrill joins the podcast to announce that we are joining Someone's Favorite Productions network. We also get into the November 2024 announcements on the heels of having already reacted (somewhat critically) to the CC40 boxset. We are pleased with this month, and we show a different …
We are beyond excited to announce that we are joining the "Someone's Favorite Productions" network. This is the brainchild of Ryan Verrill, who you might know as the guy keeping physical media alive with Disc-Connected and keeping physical media print alive with "The Physical Media Advocate" which …
We are excited to launch our upcoming Classic Suspense Journey. You can register for it here. We had to make a programming change. Anthony Mann's The Tall Target was the perfect choice for Genre Suspense. Unfortunately, it is no longer available to stream, so we have replaced it …
Now that we are about midway through Coming of Age films, we have four monthly Journeys remaining for 2024. We now have official dates and plans for all of these, including some events around the holiday seasons, which we hope will not conflict with too many of …
Description: Jill and Aaron take a look at the recently announced Criterion Collection 40 box set, which was based on the selections of guests who have visited their closet and recorded a video. We think this was a bad idea and strays from their vision, and we are …
Jill and Aaron have some strong opinions about the new 40th anniversary boxset from Criterion. We're not fans. This is the video version of the podcast. The audio will hit podcast players soon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ov3BQBscL0
In the early 1960s, in the midst of a rapidly changing social and political landscape in the United States, director John Frankenheimer explored the tension, fear, and anxiety that was bubbling just under the surface in three films: The Manchurian Candidate (1962), Seven Days in May (1964), …
Since the winter months can drag on longer than we'd like, we've decided to break things up with a little fun. Last February we embarked on our MartinReinerHeimer Journey (Steve Martin and Carl Reiner films) and had a blast. In February 2025, we will spend the month …