Arthouse Legends Podcast

In 1997, just after the massive success of his adaptation of Sense and Sensibility, director Ang Lee set off to make his follow-up American film about 2 well-off families in 1973 Connecticut who are trying to reconcile their family dysfunctions during Thanksgiving as the weather turns dangerous. With a star-studded cast, based on a novel by Rick Moody, The Ice Storm would be one of Lee's most critically beloved films while being one of the filmmaker's greatest box office flops. But does the film deserve a fresh perspective or does it deserve ridicule? MovieDude Eric, Kent & Lobster exit the train to find out.

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*CORRECTED* In 1962, director John Frankenheimer and pop star Frank Sinatra joined forces to turn a biting indictment of Cold War paranoia and McCarthyism politics known as The Manchurian Candidate into a film which would launch both actor and filmmaker into the highest strata of celebrity and coining a political term that would last beyond their lifetimes. But does the film deliver the goods or should it jump into the lake? MovieDude Eric, Kent & special guest Cody play a game of solitaire to find out.

* Note: While the discussion is primarily focused on the 1963 classic, there are spoilers for the 2004 remake starring Denzel Washington and Merryl Streep as well. 

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In 2006, writer-director Mike Judge created his follow-up film to his cult favorite Office Space titled Idiocracy about an average guy who was sent far into the future to find himself now the smartest man on the planet that is ravaged by pollution, famine and advertising, ran by a maniacal former wrestler turned reality television host. 10 years later, this satire has taken a turn towards the prophetic in places. But does the film deserve the cult status it has also recieved or should it be buried under the Great Garbage Avalanche of 2505? Lobster, Kent & MovieDude Eric find out.

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Continuing the theme of politics in film comes the story of a man with a bombastic and charismatic personality who creates his name through the media to become the dubious voice of the masses. That man is Larry "Lonesome" Rhodes as played by Andy Griffith in Elia Kazan's 1957 film A Face in the Crowd. While the film didn't find an audience for nearly 20 years after the release, it has since become one of the prophetic films that showed a vision of American politics that seems to cut closer to reality the older it gets. But does this film deserve the seat at the top or should it be shown the shaft? MovieDude Eric, Kent & Lobster check in to find out.

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In 1996, a Time Magazine writer named Joe Klein penned a novel based off events surrounding the 1992 Democratic national primary and it's eventual presidential nominee. In 1998, director Mike Nichols, re-teaming with longtime collaborator Elaine May, adapted the novel into a feature film, Primary Colors. The film garnered great attention due to the content and the critics raved over the performances from John Travolta and Kathy Bates, but has since become little-discussed. Does the film go down as one of the most underrated political comedies of all time or is it just blowing smoke (or perhaps something else)? MovieDude Eric, Kent & Lobster follow the campaign to find out.

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In 2012 coming off the critical success of Coraline, Laika Studios released their follow-up feature about a young boy who communicates with the dead tasked with dealing with an angry spirit and the horde of zombies at its call. ParaNorman once again captured the hearts of critics but could at best create a cult following. But does the film deserve better or should it be put back to rest for an eternal slumber? MovieDude Eric, Kent & Lobster investigate.

Music: "Long Note Four" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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After the massive success of Star Wars, science fiction became the go-to genre in Hollywood. But while other filmmakers were trying to make grand space epics, director Phillip Kaufman opted to adapt a seminal 1950s classic horror film Invasion of the Body Snatchers to modern times. The result was a remake that would arguably be considered better than the original. But does it stand the test of time with MovieDude Eric, Kent, Lobster and special guest Anthony Bachman of All Things Good and Nerdy Podcast, or does it put them to sleep and turn them into veggiepods?

Music: "Long Note Four" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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In 1931, Universal Studios released two horror films that would become immediate box office smashes and would start the first cinematic universe and a whole new genre of horror. One of those films was James Whale's Frankenstein. With such success, Universal ordered a sequel to be made (a very rare thing at the time), bringing back the director along with actors Colin Clive and the breakout star of the original film, Boris Karloff. While the sequel is considered the more iconic of the two films, based off one of literature's first gothic horror novels, do these films hold up as worthy of their iconic status or should the torches and pitchforks be at the ready? MovieDude Eric, Kent & Lobster weather the lightning storm to find out.

Music: "Long Note Four" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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In 2014, New Zealand comedians Taika Watiti and Jermaine Clement, after achieving success internationally through television and film, retunred to a short they made nearly a decade before and turned into a feature-length mockumentary about a group of vampire flatmates who are trying to survive in the modern age in Wellington. The result is a wildly beloved cult film called What We Do In The Shadows. But is the film hypnotic or does it just... well... suck? MovieDude Eric, Kent, Lobster and special guest Lauren from Legends of SHIELD Podcast find out.

Music: "Long Note Four" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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In 1983 cult director David Cronenberg, fresh off the success of Scanners, created his most ambitious horror film of his career, following a sleezy television executive who after pickup a rogue transmission starts down rabbit hole of sex, violence, paranoia and the grotesque. Starring James Woods and Debbie Harry, Videodrome has maintained a cult status through the years but has been considered to the critics as a cornerstone of Cronenberg's mastery of cinema. But does it deserve the acclaim or should it be Death to Videodrome and long live the new flesh? MovieDude Eric, Kent & Lobster return to Arthouse of Horror to find out.

Music: "Long Note Four" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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