Scott and Marty return after a long hiatus… or was it a vacation?? It turns out your favourite cinephiles have been kicking around the great city of Los Angeles, and they’ve brought back four souvenirs to share: the City of Angels’s first, worst, best, and last appearances on film!

Safety Last! (1923, Dir. Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor)

1941 (1979, Dir. Steven Spielberg)

L.A. Story (1991, Dir. Mick Jackson)

Destruction Los Angeles (2017, Dir. Tibor Takács)

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Meet the many faces of the man who plays God… with our hearts! It’s Easy Reader’s first, best, worst, and last (so far) films!

The Pawnbroker (1964, Dir. Sidney Lumet)
The Shawshank Redemption (1994, Dir. Frank Darabont)
Vanquish (2022, Dir. George Gallo)
A Good Person (2023, Dir. Zach Braff) 

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Marty & Scott follow a jazz singer, watch Huey Lewis delivering the News, and learn what happens when the Devil doesn’t wash his face.

Presenting Lily Mars (1943, Dir. Norman Taurog)

Witchery aka La Casa 4 et al. (1988, Dir. Fabrizio Laurenti)

Pump Up the Volume (1990, Dir. Allan Moyle)

Short Cuts (1993, Dir. Robert Altman) 

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"It's like if a tree could act."

The Virgin Spring (1960, Dir. Ingmar Bergman)

The Seventh Seal (1957, Dir. Ingmar Bergman)

Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977, Dir. John Boorman)

Echoes of the Past (2021, Dir. Nicholas Dimitropoulos)

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Did the Big O blow his cinematic wad on his first try? Did his last, unfinished project hint at greater glory? Scott and Marty ponder these and other unanswerables in this plus-sized episode

Citizen Kane (1941, Dir. Orson Welles)

Touch of Evil (1958, Dir. Orson Welles)

Necromancy (1972, Dir. Bert I. Gordon)

The Other Side of the Wind (2018, Dir. Orson Welles)

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Four films you’ve never heard of, featuring stellar supporting performances by an actress you’ve also never heard of! It’s Cinematic Omniverse at its most nerdy and esoteric!

Reds (1981, Dir. Warren Beatty)

Lonelyhearts (1958, Dir. Vincent J. Donehue)

On the Right Track (1981, Dir. Lee Philips)

Addicted to Love (1997, Dir. Griffin Dunne) 

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This week, Scott and Marty survey the WAY-too-brief career of our generation’s inimitable radioactive, narcoleptic, time-and-space-hopping Casanova. That's right, Gen Xers: it’s River time. 

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Scott and Marty peek into the campy closets of one of cinema history’s greatest frightmeisters, and discover that Vincent is great at any Price!

 Featuring real talk about:

The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939, Dir. Michael Curtiz)

Edward Scissorhands (1990, Dir. Tim Burton)

Laura (1944, Dir. Otto Preminger)

Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (1965, Dir. Norman Taurog) 

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Is Hoggle an anti-Semitic stereotype? For some reason, this question and many others are raised during an episode dedicated to glam rock legend David Bowie’s eclectic film career.

 Core Connections:

Il Mio West aka Gunslinger’s Revenge (1998, Dir. Giovanni Veronesi)

Just a Gigolo (1978, Dir. David Hemmings)

Labyrinth (1986, Dir. Jim Henson)

Bandslam (2009, Dir. Todd Graff) 

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Scott and Marty unearth the first, last, best and worst films of cinema’s greatest hagiographic man-child, Robin Williams.

Can I Do It ‘Till I Need Glasses? (1977, Dir. I. Robert Levy)

Dead Poets’ Society (1989, Dir. Peter Weir)

Toys (1992, Dir. Barry Levinson)

The Angriest Man in Brooklyn (2014, Dir. Phil Alden Robinson)

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