100 Things we learned from film

This week we're delving in to the murky world of Drug dealing... Not literally, but with Guy Ritchie's Questionable The Gentlemen.

We'll be debating bad writing, terrible cardigans and how many cigarettes a day is too many?

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The Gentlemen is a 2019 action comedy film[5][6][7] written, directed and produced by Guy Ritchie, who developed the story along with Ivan Atkinson and Marn Davies. The film stars Matthew McConaughey, Charlie Hunnam, Henry Golding, Michelle Dockery, Jeremy Strong, Eddie Marsan, Colin Farrell, and Hugh Grant. It follows an American cannabis wholesaler in England who is looking to sell his business, setting off a chain of blackmail and schemes to undermine him.

The Gentlemen premiered at the Curzon Mayfair Cinema on December 3, 2019,[8] and was released theatrically in the United Kingdom on January 1, 2020, by Entertainment Film Distributors, and in the United States on January 24, 2020, by STXfilms. It received generally positive reviews from critics and was also a commercial success, grossing $115 million worldwide against its $22 million budget.

This week we're talking Peru's best soft drink, Fake Boxers and which coutries are the biggest ersholes as we take a look at the first big screen outing for Paddington.

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Paddington is a 2014 live-action animated comedy film written and directed by Paul King. It was developed from a story by King and Hamish McColl, which was based on the stories of the character Paddington Bear created by Michael Bond. Produced by David Heyman, Paddington stars Ben Whishaw as the voice of the title character, with Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins, Julie Walters, Jim Broadbent, Peter Capaldi, and Nicole Kidman in live-action roles. The film tells the story of Paddington, an anthropomorphic bear who migrates from the jungles of "Darkest Peru" to the streets of London, where he is adopted by the Brown family. Kidman plays a taxidermist who attempts to add him to her collection.

A British and French venture produced by StudioCanal UK, TF1, and Heyday, Paddington's principal photography began in September 2013 and wrapped up in June 2014. Colin Firth was originally set to voice Paddington, but dropped out in post-production and was replaced by Whishaw.

Paddington was released in the United Kingdom on 28 November 2014 to critical acclaim for Whishaw's vocal performance, humour, screenplay, visual effects and appeal to children and adults. It grossed $268 million worldwide on a €38.5 (~$55) million budget. It received two nominations at the BAFTAs: Best British Film and Best Adapted Screenplay. A sequel, Paddington 2, was released in 2017, with King and much of the cast returning.

This week it's the final episode of Films about films month and we are talking dthe Patron's choice, Who Framed Roger Rabbit. 

You'll learn about Bob Hoskins' process, The 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers, Looney Toons and why Walt Disney was a bad 'un.

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Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a 1988 American live-action/animated comedy mystery film directed by Robert Zemeckis, produced by Frank Marshall and Robert Watts, and loosely adapted by Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman from Gary K. Wolf's 1981 novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit?. The film stars Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, Charles Fleischer, Stubby Kaye, and Joanna Cassidy. Set in a 1947 version of Hollywood where cartoon characters (commonly referred to as "toons") and people co-exist, the film follows Eddie Valiant, a private investigator hired to help exonerate Roger Rabbit, a toon who has been framed for the murder of the Acme Corporation's owner.

Walt Disney Pictures purchased the film rights for the film's story in 1981. Price and Seaman wrote two drafts of the script before Disney brought in executive producer Steven Spielberg and his production company, Amblin Entertainment. Zemeckis was brought on to direct the film while Canadian animator Richard Williams was hired to supervise the animation sequences. Production was moved from Los Angeles to Elstree Studios in England to accommodate Williams and his group of animators. While filming, the production budget began to rapidly expand and the shooting schedule ran longer than expected.

The film was released through Disney's Touchstone Pictures banner on June 22, 1988. It received acclaim from critics, who praised its visuals, humor, writing, and performances (particularly Hoskins), with critics and audiences considering it to be "groundbreaking". It grossed over $351 million worldwide, becoming the second-highest-grossing film of 1988. It brought a renewed interest in the Golden age of American animation, spearheading modern American animation and the Disney Renaissance.[7] It won three Academy Awards for Best Film Editing, Best Sound Effects Editing and Best Visual Effects and received a Special Achievement Academy Award for its animation direction by Williams.

In 2016, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[8][9]

This week the boys welcome 'Proper Podcaster' Stig from Modern escapism to talk The amazing Crash Dummies, Travelling around the Mid-West and Idiot Circus Boys.

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Debuting in August 2020, Modern Escapism was created as an outlet for our team to get together and discuss their hobbies, interests and passions in life.

Before we started, none of the team had ever met in person, only via the internet. It was our host Oodles, who had previously done other podcasts who put a call out in a discord group to see if any like-minded people fancied getting creative to start a new podcast.

With a ragtag team of people with similar interests and creativity, ideas soon flowed. The shows format was decided, logos were created and soon after Modern Escapism was born. Over the months we became close friends, tightened up our format and even added an additional member when Candy joined the crew in May 2021. We've gone from strength to strength, building a passionate audience and honing our craft.

In June we successfully launched our Patreon and our sister podcast, a Dungeons & Dragons actual play podcast called 'Do Dragons Dream of Scorched Sheep?'

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Tommy Boy is a 1995 American buddy adventure comedy film directed by Peter Segal, written by Bonnie and Terry Turner, produced by Lorne Michaels, and starring former Saturday Night Live castmates and close friends Chris Farley and David Spade. This was the first of many films that Segal has filmed with former SNL castmates. It tells the story of a socially and emotionally immature man (Farley) who learns lessons about friendship and self-worth, following the sudden death of his industrialist father.

The film was shot primarily in Toronto and Los Angeles under the working title "Rocky Road". Tommy Boy grossed $32.7 million on a budget of $20 million. The film received mixed reviews from critics.[3] Since its release, Tommy Boy has become a cult classic and been successful on home video.[4][5]

Tommy Boy and the 1994 horror film Wes Craven's New Nightmare are dedicated to Gregg Fonseca (1952–1994), who died eight months before the release of Tommy Boy. While Fonseca did not work on either film, he served as production designer on the first two Nightmare on Elm Street films, as well as Coneheads and both Wayne's World films which, like Tommy Boy, were produced by Lorne Michaels.

This week we're back in School and being Student Body Snatchers with The Faculty.

Learning about the worst College Football team names, loads of behind the scenes and alternate Casting as well as what a piece of dirt Harry Knowles was and we assume still is.

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full episode Auto transcription:

Hey, guys, are the sure? We're looking at harness usher, Stuart Jansen, Patrick, hi, heartnet Edward. We're looking at years the faculty. Hello everyone, and welcome to another action packed episode of a hundred things we learned from film. I'm one of your host my name's plenty and I'm a body snatcher. Oh and I'm John. I'm the JOCK. You absolutely are, quarterback prick. Very well, very well indeed. I was gonna say it's gorgeous outside, pishing it down raining just now and it's still red. Well, I would have had my taps off, but for the very first time we are recording in video for our patrons. So if you fans, only fans, only pals, more like. So, if you want to see John's beautiful new kitchen behind him, potentially some Colin Robinson later on, as he likes to jump in, and my big fat face, you can get involved by giving us a quid a month. It is not going to be a permanent thing, but we're going to throw it up completely unedited, so you get to hear what a fucking pigs here. John just waits of the of the preamble. Anyway. It is what it is, John What what was happening that year? Well, Lord, just what was happening that year, and I'll tell you what. As that, you can't addit, any of it out. When it's the video, patrons are getting all this. Yeah, be fair. I think we've done nine. Hit Me, but I'll go to it again. Oh God, lords of crackers, the Truman show, and that's good. I know you love it. You love it, roaring, Robert, Robert, you maybe need to watch it again. Sort of a plane I wasn't on board with. I just didn't don't like it. Snake eyes, where you're Nicholas? All right, yeah, very good. For List Cage. You don't know. A few of them didn't. The city avengers, biggest pointless fellow I've ever seen in life. Nick Nicholas Cage, the Crow, the crow, five patch Adams, oh Jesus, yeah, because because cancer can be cured with laughter. Exactly, exactly, and you know this. You know this. And Fallen, which is about a weird one. I remember watching this way Denzel, and it's about a sort of mother that sort of goes between bodies. Nope, you have that's absolutely lost on that one night. John Goodman is good crack. John Goodman. Yeah, court John Goodman and of them. That's what that's you. I'll meet John Black, Claire Flanni, though, true, and you get to see Brad Peck getting run over, don't you? Yeahie Hopkins, Athone Hopkins, round the horn. Anyway, by the bye, I saw this in ninety nine, so that's got a release in I want to say, February ninety nine in Australia. To cinema in Australia see this and had a great time. I think I might have seen this as part of a double bill with the First Guy, Ritchie film lock stock, is part of a double bill, and with lock stock, which is pretty good double bill. Anyway. You know, listeners, you don't want to hear about through the miss of time with an old hey everyone, an old man's talking should be the alternate name for this podcast. Anyway, right with the podcast that tries to an hundred things. John's got a list of things, I've got a list of things. I'm going to talk us through the film. John's gonna add some funny bits and we're gonna go from there. Happy to go, Big Fella, I'm happy brilliant stuff. Okay, so we start with Mirrormax and dimension films. Now, we did to mension films before, didn't we? So we're not gonna do it again. But I've certainly can tell you a little bit about mirrormax films. Their first film was good year, called Rock Show, Paul McCartney and Wings Concert Film. Jesus, who are Mirrormax Youn? Only the distributor paramount could have been right. Now this year Mirrormax, and this blew me away, have got a fletch film coming out. Remember fletch ship? Yeah, but it's John Hamm. I mean I loved John Hamm. Jesus, he makes some ship decisions. to WHO's standing for fletching? Two, like there's surely nobody going. Do you know what film I really liked? Fletch lives. I dug him wrong. I loved him, but I can you recreate that? Can? You wouldn't have thought so, mate. You wouldn't have thought anything for money. We open with this really angry coach, that always brilliant Robert Patrick, and again he's in on this and he he knows what a kind of film he's in. He screaming, scimming Blue Eyes. Yeah, absolutely, he doesn't look much older here and we're what six years on, seven years on from judge mcday? Yeah, absolutely screaming at his team and stand his quarterback and it's proper heart attack behavior, this, isn't it? Yeah, did you catch the song in the background? Oh God, no, I was. It was the next but I was blew me. Was Really, really annoyed it the next. The song was the kids aren't all right by the offspring from that American album which I've got CD somewhere behind. Meeting in the car tomorrow and I got CD player again. I'M gonna throw it in the car. It September one. It's high was eleventh in the US and the UK, Sixty nine in Australia, nice and forty three in Belgium's alter a pub, fifty wiland there. I don't know what then that is. It went gold in the UK, Platinum in Italy and the USAF. So we did alright. It's done, all right. They were they were big, weren't they? They were really big at that point. I went to see them, I want to say in two thousand, a couple of days after my birthday, so like the next year. Um, and there were great, fantastic and it's Colin Robinson. Fella. Um Again, listeners, if you want to see Colin Robinson walking all over the laptop, my notes, yeah, then you're gonna need to making techniques. Yeah, yeah, so they were. They were huge chill children at the time and a great zone. Yeah, there were a green deal of time. Yeah, yeah, arguably better anyway. So what's the what? What's the next song? That that got you going? As soon as I heard the REF coming in, I'm like what they're doing? I see right, yeah, we'll come to that. Yeah, we will come to that. Yeah, that fucked with me. You know what I'm talking about? Yeah, yeah, yeah, and he's approached by this unseen character. He's like, what do you want? And we fade out. That night there's a meeting of staff. There's no money for Ms Brummel. Miss Brummels just about million years old, the Blair which, no money for her computers, no money for Mr Take's trip to NYC. Now, Mr Take, the actor that played Mr Tate, we have seen in a number of things, but on this podcast he was the opposing COP chief two, Brian Cox's COP chief. Yeah, yeah, Johnny chimpo brilliant in this as well. And again. I know I mentioned every time the bad guy in masters of illusion. Oh God, yeah, yeah, yeah, I forgot about that. Actually, yeah, that's who's WHO's the WHO's the good guy? WHO's the good magician in that? Scott Bacula, is it? Is it a master of illusion? I'm making that. Yeah, as long as it's no masters universe. That's no, that's a very but the bad guy, that's skeletor it's friend. Yeah, anyway. Um, and they can't get this money. He wants stay to New York and Mrs Olsen wants to do a mute Zical, but there's no money, because I'm sure the football team will get get their kit. Yeah, and she's like they will get whatever town. You've seen what it's like on a Friday night here. Principal Drake, maybe new with by the way, you know who she is. Big Fan of cheers Lilith. Yeah, brilliant, Foxy Ist. fucking this, by the way. Yeah, appeal, complained and no, does it for me, mate, does it? Does it for me? Your Scotty, she's got to do it for you and she's my hands are tied. So No, guys and dolls. Use last year's set from our town. Now a couple of things. Guys and dolls. It was a nineteen fifty Broadway show by Frank Losser. It won the Tony that year and got a film version in nineteen in Frank soon after Marlon Brando and Gene Simmons, not the sticking out yeah, sticking out face makeup love gun one. Obviously, the famous song that we all know from it, of course, is guys and dolls were just a bunch of crazy guys and dolls. It's not. It's an episode of the Simpsons, but you get the idea. Just the joke here is, by the way, using the set from our town. Our town famously doesn't have a set, and kind of budge the joke, you know. Yeah, I liked that. I liked it. Yeah, it's good, isn't it? Yeah, and there's a lot of kind of there's a lot of funny little bits in this. I think this is probably going to be quite a long episode because I think we both love this, didn't we? Yeah, I think it's aged brilliantly well, except for some of the CG which will come to they're leaving. She says she's forgot her keys and she needs to go back into the darkened school because all the lights are off and you can't put lights back on. Apparently. Oh yeah, that's that's a rule. Yeah, she figured she she goes into her office, gets the keys and coach Willis Robert Patrick's there. He won't let it leave without a pencil. It's like, you look really pretty and I really want to borrow a pencil. Yeah, okay, and do you know what, here's your pencil. Why don't you and your pens are going to sleep it off. And what does he do? Text through her hand. Plunges it right through her hand. I looked this up. Good, I'm glad you did, because, well, just to see if I was looking at and since we're people, put pencils through hands. The only thing I can find recently, because there was an an eight year old in California's hospitalized after a billy stabbed a pencil through his knee. She that's that's just the idea of broken knees and ship is no good. I would not be a good mob enforce I couldn't find any. What all I found was bloody assholes doing magic tricks on Youtube, and I stand by this. It's not magic if you could edit a video. Yeah, to Piss off. Yeah, you need to see it in the flash if you did bud upon but what I thought was, and again for the video, this works like there's bones there, there's like there's a is there a? Yeah, yeah, there's Ale. Yeah, all right, fucking Jesus God. Yeah, alright, in the hands and fenails. And it's a good effect though, this putty hand. I liked it. She needs him in the plums and runs for it. Finds the door chained. Where is the door? The doors chained out of nowhere, and you kind of like, I don't know how's that happened, and we can kind of guess in a moment or two. She knocks coach the ground and escapes the set of scissors once again, finds that she's keyless. She's fucking useless. She makes it out and locks coaching, losing the scissors. Ms Olsen picks them up and stabs at the death of them. Is fucking slow motion. What's wrong with the face thing, Pretty Graham? Yeah, now this massive long opening scene. You had an issue with the music. Yes, what's the crack? I just there's bad enough for we're trying to get pink floyd to put music on streaming media and stuff like that. They can. They completely take a cracking song like breaking the wall and just ref it and just and get other people to sing. Don't they like it? Leave it alone. It's a perfect piece of music. Yet, Hey, class of ninety nine, leave that song along, that song on your class of night in night. John. I'm looking at it because I didn't write it down. So what's the point? Short term, American alternate rock Super Group, Super Group bunny ears, inverted commas right, consisting of members of notable rock bands. Okay, and there's a couple of notable rock bands here and some ship Lane Staley of Alice in change, I don't know, Tom Morrello, raged against some machine. You know him, Stephen Perkins, Anthony to his mates from Jay's addiction, Martin Lynn, noble novel, from the Novel Porno for Pyros, I don't know, and Matt Serlick, from one of Rachel's favorite bands, matchbox twenty. Water load of fucking bollocks they are. And that is it. They got together for that, just giving rap. Yeah, and in fact it's so good, such a good song, John. I'm gonnaice to get some facts about it. Another brick and all. Part two is the one that we know of the three parts, written as a protest song against corporate punishment, which was out ard in state schools in the UK, nine six and private schools in which explains so much of what is wrong with our current government. Yeah, it was number one in deep breath, Australia, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, New Zealand, Norway, Portugals said it again, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, USA, and sold four million copies worldwide. Not Too Shabby. That's that's physical copies. Yeah, well, yeah, yeah, would have all been physical copies, but none of this streaming bollocks here. Mate. So it was three part of composition by Pink Floyd from nineties, seventy nine, and it was classed as a rock opera. Yeah, I love that. Have you? Have you seen another brick in the what have you seen? Is it another brick in the world the film? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, horrifying stuff. It really was going to back in the day. I love that. Scary, scary Shite. A little bit of background on this school, by the way. Harrington high not real. Herrington as a town also not real. Filmed in western Lockhart, Texas, which is known as the barbecue capital of Texas, which I assume that's the next town along from Cowboyville and ship larger county. Probably definitely come at me, Texans, because you wear those healed boots, don't you either, Go Ching, Ching Ching everywhere you walk, sports pose, Tottingham Hotspurs. Yeah, but I like the fact that it's not a real place. Yep, right, this bit we go through here with with the kids. You kind of meet them all and you get their names, which is brilliant if you're doing a podcast about this, because he gets it right down who they are. Number one is Zeke Josh Hartnett and written in his Mustang, and I'm fucking wrong. I know it's not a Mustang. Now I've written it down, but nice one, pacy, I mean Casey Elijah. Would he gets rammed at this post ball's first Danny. Yeah, it's kind of like Shit. That is pretty nasty. testical trauma is a great name for a band. Is when testicles are hurt by force, the cover gets torn or shattered and blood can leak into the scrotum until it becomes tense, which can lead to infection. God, just don't keep seeing it. Stop saying testical trauma. This Delilah, my least favorite character this whole yes, yes, Georgana bet brewster, right, good looking lassie, which is on about these stay Lorder lips take seventy two hours to apply. Could not find anything state Lawder Lips, by the way. However, I did find out State Lawder was found in New York City by the woman of the same name. She was the only female to feature in the twenty most influential business geniuses of the twentieth century, as published by Time magazine. What. Yeah, so everybody else? That's amazing. Probably trump was in that. I assumed so. And she she was a sister. In the fast few days, didn't she state Lauder fucking else, she did Jordans in front of all my bowels. Of all you're paying friends, and that's the thing, John, nothing about paying. But you know she was the sister because, as we noticed, all about firmly ward, firmly, this leaders a Zi family and respect. Get my pub stand is the quarterback that we saw before and Delilah's boyfriend. Yeah, stokely clear devalt go, kind of bit bit goth kids. You know, like really low budget out of the fact of the craft. Yes, yeah, I always forget her name and listeners are screaming boys in water boys. She isn't water boy. Yeah, and that Nicholas Cage Um port of call, you know, the Fred Lieutenant bad lieutenant potkole rotten, absolute piece of ship, that film. Anyway. Elijah Wood was the first person, apparently, to cross Niagara Falls by rope as part of an adrenaline challenge. Went. Don't ask. Josh Hartnett turned down the following rolls. whoever. This kid's brilliant spider man, Super Man and Batman. Do you know what he didn't turn down, though? A film about a haircutting competition in Keith Lee, West Yorkshire. I think it's called blow dry or blow job or something. Seriously, yeah, Alan Rickman's Dad Jesus because, yeah, yeah, when we do a Yorkshire Month we'll do that. Cleared about is named after the last volume in author Lawrence de Moles, the Alexandria Quartet novels. I don't know what they are. I didn't look into them, I was busy looking at the other books. Jordana Brewster, the faculty was the first film yet know what facts, but sorry, mate. Yeah, we've got to get that, we've got to get right. And then there's this new kid, Mary Beth something, something, something's got about seven hundred names and she yeah, yeah, God, and a new kid. I've got a clue. KLEX Klan Sense Zeke, selling fake ID of the brother from that seventies show. Yeah, yeah, I was. I was looking up by misdemeanors or possession of fake ideas in America, Da up to one year's jail term, summary Probation, community service and or money toor finds up to you a thousand dollars. They'll put you in prison for fucking out, won't they? Because it's a business loving, loving. I smoked cigarettes and then everything, just sitting there smoking, just getting it on. So I'll double checked this as well, because I was unsure to this. Remember that you used to be able to smoke around about hospitals, and then he stopped all that. Yes, apparently it was the same in schools. Adults could smoke in around schools and then my support portion of the districts prohibited it from the short of phased out from sixte Al Right. Well, it was the same sort of idea, because I was. I was always wondered that. I was like, I don't actually they smoke rear schools, but apparently not. You could. You could smoke in our school staff room when I was a kid. I think it's just must be the American ones, because it just comes. So you can't smoke. You text many guns in as you want. Yeah, yeah, you have to, you can. Need to protect us over the smokers. I'm gonna Kill Cancer, I'm gonna Kill Cancer, I'm going to shoot it in the fucking face. And basically all the kids in the background are absolute pricks, all fighting, arguing, these lasses, crashing the car. And we learned that Zeke is selling this stuff. He's throwing in this drug, isn't he? Inside? Yeah, Scat, he calls it, which makes anything else any other name other than like ship. Yeah, go on, anything else. But they were in Blue Biros. In fact, I'm waving at the screen now, a green one and a black one, blue one big crystal, which I'm using to keep track of. The hanks introduced nine and in two thousand and six they sold their hundred billion. One Jesus crazy that the best selling pen in the world and the Manhattan Museum of Modern Art has made it a permanent fixture because this fuck all else going on. And I guess there are six types of point with eighteen coors. There you go. And, as I say, Black Green, I think that might be. That's a purple one. It's not a blue one anyway. But using all my wife's good pens, kicking off right in the faculty room, there's this teacher, Harry Ah and you we're gonna me all the teachers as we go on, all the faculty, and I'll kind of cover them when we cover them, but Harry was one that I was particularly interesting. Did you recognize this guy? Is that? Is that the guy with the Gender Big Fat Guy? Yeah, so it was. I felt it was a film critic when he well, yeah, kind of. Yeah, Harry Knowles, he's called. So he was. He was in the Austin Film Critic Association and you go and kicked it for sexual harassment and correct. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, AIn'tick. Cool news was his website and yeah, he got he got kicked out for assault, sexually assaulting Jasmine Baker in two thousand at the Alamo drafthouse in Austin. Apparently he was also very easily bought by studios for...

This week we are covering our first ever Patron's choice. Picked for us by people that throw us coins! 1995's Get Shorty.

Let us enlighten you with tales of Danny DeVito's hight, Rene Russo's film making class mate and the way the Academy did over the late great Dennis Farina.

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Get Shorty Cast and Synopsis

Ernesto "Chili" Palmer, a Miami loan shark, mobster, and movie buff, gets his leather jacket and car keys taken from a restaurant coat room by rival mobster Ray "Bones" Barboni. Going to Bones', he breaks his nose and takes them back.

Days later, Bones attacks Chili in revenge. Expecting him, he grazes Bones' forehead non-fatally, intentionally leaving a scar. Bones unsuccessfully calls for a hit on Chili, as the bosses of their crews don’t want a mob war and his boss Jimmy Cap realizes Bones provoked him.

A month later, Chili's Miami mob boss in NYC 'Momo' dies of a heart attack, making Bones his direct boss. 'Inheriting' Chili, and his Miami list of outstanding loans, which has to be handed over to him updated and paid. A debt Chili wrote off as the client, dry cleaner Leo Devoe died in a plane crash, he is sent to check with his widow Faye if he had life insurance. She surprises Chili with the news that he left the plane after boarding. Scamming the airline out of $300,000 in life insurance, Leo is enjoying it alone in Las Vegas.

As Chili tracks down Leo at Las Vegas casino 'The Mesas', it's director of gaming asks him to help collect a large debt from well-known B horror movie director Harry Zimm in LA. Quickly locating him in actress Karen Flores' home, he wakes him and calmly explains he must pay his casino debt. He then pitches the dry cleaner’s mob debt and the plane crash story as a unique idea for a movie, seeing an opportunity to get into a better line of business--the movies.

Harry sees Chili as a tough guy to help him delay movie work with a $200,000 investment from Bo Catlett (owner of a limo service, a front for drug dealing). Harry cannot make the movie he has planned, as he gambled away the production money. He reveals the film he really wants to make, one with a great script, 'Mr. Lovejoy'. Both mobsters decide it’s their chance to become movie producers. The scriptwriter, Murray Saffron, recently died of a heart attack, so his widow, Doris controls his estate.

Bo has left the payment for a large drug deal in a LAX locker, but the Colombian sent to collect it, Yayo, fears DEA agents. That night, Yayo tells Bo that if he is arrested with the cash, he will squeal on him, leading Bo to shoot him dead. Soon after, he is visited by Colombian drug lord, Mr. Escobar, who demands both his money and Yayo -- his nephew.

With Karen Flores' help, Chili gets a meeting with A-list Hollywood actor, her ex Martin Weir, who loves the role. Harry becomes jealous of Chili and Karen's partnership, fearing they'll steal his project.

Feeding Harry's suspicions, Bo offers the locker money to him as an investment in the film, suggesting he send Chili to get it so the DEA get him. Sensing a trap, Chili rents a nearby locker as a test, and is interrogated by agents. Bo's henchman Bear jumps him in the parking garage, demanding the key. Chili winds him and then chats with him, fascinated by Bear's former work as a Hollywood stunt man.

After being intimate with Doris, Harry drunkenly calls Bones about Leo Devoe's scam. Bones immediately flies to LA, seeking the money from Leo. Surprising Harry at his office, when Bones is sure he doesn't know where the money is, he brutally beats him. Bo's partner, drug dealer Ronnie Wingate then confronts Bones, and gets shot.

Desperate, Bo kidnaps Karen telling Chili to bring the dry-cleaner's money as ransom. When he arrives with it, Chili seems to fight with Bear, during which Bo falls through the deck railing to his death, set up by Chili and Bear.

Returning to his hotel room, Chili is surprised by Bones, who demands the money from Leo. Searching his pockets, he finds the airport locker key, and Chili tells him the locker is in LAX locker (still being watched by DEA agents). As he is surrounded suddenly, the entire scene switches to the movie version of the story. 'Get Shorty', starring Martin Weir and Harvey Keitel, produced by Chili and Karen and directed by Harry Zimm. When the prop gun fails, Harry halts filming for the day.

As they leave, Chili comments to Martin's agent that he is too short to play him, and then he and Karen Flores and the stars of the film leave the studio lot for the day.

Cast

John Travolta as Chili Palmer:

A Miami mobster, loan shark, and film buff who gets involved in the film industry.

Gene Hackman as Harry Zimm:

A debt-ridden B movie film director and producer.

Rene Russo as Karen Flores:

A B movie scream queen actress dissatisfied with her career. Karen is the ex-wife of famed actor Martin Weir.

Danny DeVito as Martin Weir:

A successful and two-time Academy Award nominated actor, whom Chili and Karen pursue to star in his film.

Dennis Farina as Ray "Bones" Barboni, Chili's new mob boss.

Delroy Lindo as Bo Catlett, a Los Angeles limo company owner and drug dealer

James Gandolfini and Jon Gries as Bear and Ronnie Wingate, two members of Bo's crew.

David Paymer and Linda Hart as Leo and Faye Devoe, a couple who commit insurance fraud.

Miguel Sandoval as Mr. Escobar, a Colombian mobster and high level drug dealer.

Jacob Vargas as Yayo Portillo, Escobar's nephew.

Bette Midler as Doris Saffron, Murray Saffron's widow and Harry's new girlfriend.

Martin Ferrero as Tommy Carlo, the key member of Chili's Miami crew.

Renee Props as Nicki, Martin's live in musician girlfriend. Nicki is the woman who broke up Karen's marriage to Martin Weir.

Bobby Slayton as Dick Allen

Ron Karabatsos as Momo

Jack Conley as Agent Dunbar

Bernard Hocke as Agent Morgan

Vito Scotti as Manager at Vesuvio's

Rino Piccolo as Waiter at Vesuvio's

Alfred Dennis as Ed the Barber

Ralph Manza as Fred the Barber

Patrick Breen as Assistant Doctor

Barry Sonnenfeld as Doorman

Rebeca Arthur as Las Vegas Waitress

Leslie Bega as Vikki Vespa (uncredited)

Marlene Dietrich as Tanya (archive footage) (uncredited)

David Groh as Buddy Lipton (uncredited)

Charlton Heston as Mike Vargas (archive footage) (uncredited)

Harvey Keitel as Harvey Keitel (uncredited)

David Letterman as David Letterman (archive footage) (uncredited)

Penny Marshall as Penny Marshall (uncredited)

Dean Martin as Dude (archive footage) (uncredited)

Alex Rocco as Jimmy Capp (Ray Bones' Boss) (uncredited)

John Wayne as Sheriff John T. Chance (archive footage) (uncredited)

Orson Welles as Police Captain Hank Quinlan (archive footage) (uncredited)

Get Shorty also features an appearance from the real Ernest "Chili" Palmer, a Miami loan shark and mob-connected man who inspired the original character.[4]

This week the boys are trying to earn some extra scratch by spending the night in a Hauted mansion. Join them as they learn about The history of Scalpels and pencil Sharpners as well as William Castle's tricks to scare film-goers. See if you can beat Jon's Score in an Asylum films quiz too!

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House on Haunted Hill is a 1999 American supernatural horror film directed by William Malone and starring Geoffrey Rush, Famke Janssen, Taye Diggs, Ali Larter, Bridgette Wilson, Peter Gallagher, and Chris Kattan. The plot follows a group of strangers who are invited to a party at an abandoned insane asylum, where they are offered $1 million each by an amusement park mogul if they are able to survive the night. Produced by Robert Zemeckis and Joel Silver, it is a remake of the 1959 film of the same title directed by William Castle, and features special effects by famed make-up artists Gregory Nicotero and Dick Smith.

House on Haunted Hill marked the producing debut of Dark Castle Entertainment, a production company that went on to produce numerous other horror films, including additional remakes. House on Haunted Hill premiered on Halloween weekend in 1999. In the tradition of William Castle's theater gimmicks, Warner Bros. supplied promotional scratchcards to cinemas showing the film, offering ticket buyers a chance to win a money prize, similar to the movie's characters. The film received middling reviews from major critics, but was a commercial success, opening number one at the box office and grossing $41 million domestically.

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This week John and Planty are back to talk Big Brother... Errrr... No, Father in 2002's Dystopian action thriller Equilibrium. 

The boys are learing about Distribution deals, The Mona Lisa, Tyrannical Despots and what films Sean Bean dies in.

This week the boys got together to record for the first time in John's spare room and are talking SFX Masterpiece The Fly. Expect facts about vomit, Jamiroqui and a big pile of behind the scenes!

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The Fly is a 1986 American science fiction-horror film directed and co-written by David Cronenberg. Produced by Brooksfilms and distributed by 20th Century Fox, the film stars Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis and John Getz. Loosely based on George Langelaan's 1957 short story of the same name and the 1958 film of the same name, The Fly tells of an eccentric scientist who, after one of his experiments goes wrong, slowly turns into a fly-hybrid creature. The score was composed by Howard Shore and the make-up effects were created by Chris Walas, along with makeup artist Stephan Dupuis.

The Fly was released on August 15, 1986, to massive acclaim by critics and audiences, with praise mainly regarding the special effects and Goldblum's performance. It grossed $60.6 million at the box office against its nine-million-dollar budget, becoming the largest commercial success of Cronenberg's career. Walas and Dupuis' work on the film resulted in their winning an Academy Award for Best Makeup, the only Oscar won by a film directed by Cronenberg. A sequel, directed by Walas, was released in 1989.