Cinema Shame

Raquel Stecher joins James to complete their conversation about the Rocky series with bits and baubles about Rocky IV, Rocky V, and Rocky Balboa. How much of a role does nostalgia play in the enjoyment of the Rocky films? And does that even matter when sitting down to enjoy a film franchise? As we weave our way through the decline of Rocky, we talk Dolph Lundgren's unholy bench press, the inexplicable creative decisions behind Rocky V, and the sweet and sentimental coda to the franchise.

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Talking Heads:

James David Patrick - Host, 80's nostalgist with a Rocky IV soundtrack constantly spinning in his head.

Raquel Stecher - Classic movie blogger, workout and training aficionado.

Music Contained in this Podcast:

Clip from "Go For It" - Joey B. Ellis

"Shamedown" - Preacher Boy

Supplementary Links: Raquel's Out of the Past Classic Film Blog

Recorded in October 2017. Copyrights are owned by the artists and their labels. Negative dollars are made from this podcast.

David aka "the Cinemonster" joins James to discuss his monstrous creation, the Hooptober Horror Movie Challenge on Letterboxd.com. Our host and guest then give birth to a pair of "baby Hooptober" lists to demonstrate the ever-growing social media phenomenon and give a few horror viewing recommendations to populate your own Hooptober lists.

Cinema Shame's Halloween Special also flips the Shame script and places our host in the hot seat for his first viewing of Friday the 13th Parts 1 and 2 for a conversation and analyzes how a horror-loving child of the 1980's somehow avoided the grandaddy (or at least the Great Uncle) of the modern American slasher genre. The conversation then turns to the historical origins of the slasher within film, literature and contemporary popular culture.

Talking Heads:

James David Patrick - Host, lover of horror and crazy cinema challenges.

David the Cinemonster - Horror lover, expert and Cinema Shame's resident Dr. Frankenstein.

Music Contained in this Podcast:

Clip from "Friday the 13th Original Theme" - Harry Manfredini

"Haunted Shamedown" - Preacher Boy

Supplementary Links:

El Cinemonster's Hooptober 4.0 Rules and List on Letterboxd.com

James Patrick's Hooptober 4.0 Watchlist

Supplementary Materials:

Theatre of Fear & Horror: The Grisly Spectacle of the Grand Guignol of Paris, 1897-1962

So Deadly, So Perverse: 50 Years of Italian Giallo Films

Recorded in October 2017.

Copyrights are owned by the artists and their labels. Negative dollars are made from this podcast.

In our first ever Series Shame, Raquel Stecher (@quellelove) steps into the ring to tackle the entire six-film ROCKY series. In the first of two very special episodes, Raquel and James (@007hertzrumble, as always) discuss ROCKY I-III and in doing so gush over gooey love stories, sweaty workout montages and surf-laden bromances. As a fitness guru herself, Raquel goes as far to question the effectiveness of Rocky's training methods.

Talking Heads:

James David Patrick - Host, lover of crazy cinema challenges.

Raquel Stecher - Classic movie blogger at outofthepastblog.com, fitness guru, cocktail aficionado.

Music Contained in this Podcast:

Trace of "Gonna Fly Now" - Bill Conti

3-second clip from "Know How" - Young M.C.

Trace of "Eye of the Tiger" - Survivor

Supplementary Materials:

Tin Cup (1996, Ron Shelton)

The Set-Up (1949, Robert Wise)

Recorded in September 2017.

Copyrights are owned by the artists and their labels. Negative dollars are made from this podcast.

Greg Sahadachny (@mistergreggles) atones for his sins against classic comedy by watching not only one, but two Marx Brothers films -- Duck Soup and A Night at the Opera. Along the way to redemption, we also discuss the Marx Brothers entire showbiz career from vaudeville to their final films together at United Artists, the history of cinematic comedy, perils of intellectualism, and the fate of modern cinematic funnymen like Jim Carrey and Adam Sandler. Later on, Will McKinley (@WillMcKinley) answers our call to the Old Movie Weirdo Hotline to discuss his childhood connection to the Marxes (and scrambled pornography).

Talking Heads:

James David Patrick (@007hertzrumble) - Host, longtime Marx Brothers fan.

Greg Sahadachny (@mistergreggles) - Podcaster extraordinaire. Credits include The Debatable Podcast.

Will McKinley (@willmckinley) - Switchboard operator of the Old Movie Weirdo Hotline

Music Contained in this Podcast:

"Everyone Says I Love You" - written by Bert Kalmer, Harry Ruby

"Cosi-Cosa" - written by Ned Washington, Bronislaw Kaper and Walter Jurmann; performed by Allan Jones

"Hooray for Captain Spaulding" - written by Bert Kalmer, Harry Ruby

Supplementary Materials:

Groucho: The Life and Times of Julius Henry Marx

The Marx Brothers Silver Screen Collection Blu-ray

The Marx Brothers Collection (MGM/UA) DVD

Harpo Speaks by Harpo Marx, Rowland Barber

Brain Donors - Warner Archive DVD

Recorded on April 21, 2017 and May 5, 2017.

Copyrights are owned by the artists and their labels. Negative dollars are made from this podcast.

Carlin Trammel (@nerdlunch) confesses his sins against cinema. My guest today runs the SHAME! gauntlet to discuss his resistance to watching the Godfather and how he overcame that barrier with a little help from Cinema Shame. We talk about the film's cultural omnipresence, the state of the Godfather as a "man's movie," play the Shamely Feud and discuss the moral compass of Don Vito Corleone.

Talking Heads:

James David Patrick (@007hertzrumble) - Writer of fiction and non-, former entertainment journalist, host.

Carlin Trammel (@nerdlunch) - Podcast impresario. Credits include Nerd Lunch, Dragonfly Ripple and Pod, James Pod.

Music Contained in this Podcast:

Nino Rota - The Love Theme from the Godfather

Nino Rota - The Godfather Waltz

Big Daddy Kane - The Beef is On

Family Feud Theme

Recorded on March 1, 2017 and April 22, 2017.

Copyrights are owned by the artists and their labels. Negative dollars are made from this podcast.

Krissy Myers (@krissy_myers) and Jay (@007hertzrumble) discuss their shared Shame - Fatal Attraction - and contemplate the ways in which the film wrongs women, trades on peak Michael Douglas fame, and undermines its greatest asset (crazy Glenn Close) for the sake of ticket sales. Will McKinley drops in courtesy of the Old Movie Weirdo hotline to offer his hot take on Fatal Attraction and recommend a thematically-related classic film that's more deserving of your time. In the scorned women revenge genre, Fatal Attraction may have moved the bar, but it also broke the mold.

Talking Heads:

James David Patrick (@007hertzrumble) - Writer of fiction and non-, former entertainment journalist, host.

Krissy Myers (@krissy_myers) - Toronto-based pinball wizard, photographer and lifelong student of cinema.

Will McKinley (@willmckinley) - writer for Sony's getTV network and a self-proclaimed Old Movie Weirdo. willmckinley.com

Music Contained in this Podcast:

Diana Ross & the Supremes - I'm Gonna Make You Love Me

Maria Callas - Madame Butterfly: Act 2 "Un bel di vedremo"

Talking Heads - Psycho Killer

Originally recorded on March 1, 2017.

Copyrights are owned by the artists and their labels. Negative dollars are made from this podcast.

Will McKinley (@willmckinley) stops by the Shamequarters after first-time watching Police Academy to discuss the erosion of slapstick comedy and consider the factors that led to Police Academy becoming an American phenomenon in 1984 and beyond.

Talking Heads:

James David Patrick (@007hertzrumble) - host

Will McKinley (@willmckinley) - writer for Sony's getTV network and a self-proclaimed Old Movie Weirdo. willmckinley.com

Music Contained in this Podcast:

Police Academy March - Robert Folk

El Bimbo - Jean-Marc Dompierre

Originally recorded on March 1, 2017.

Copyrights are owned by the artists and their labels. Zero dollars are made from this podcast.