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After a short hiatus, we're back with very special guest and CEO of Starlight Runner, Jeff Gomez. Join us as we jump into the first of two socially impactful film choices from Jeff and we start in New York City in the late 1960s with the John Schlesinger classic, "Midnight Cowboy." Listen in and find out why this film is still so important today.

If not the greatest musical of all-time, certainly the greatest musical, adventure-fantasy of all-time! 1939's "Wizard of Oz is quite simply, a wonder. I'd find it awful difficult to find someone who hasn't seen it, at the very minimum knows the story. Deirdre Brooks re-joins the team to discuss one of her, and our favorite films ever.

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Writer /actor Stephen Gevedon returns for a second part of our conversation about film. For the second half of the show we spent in rousing discussion about art and what that means exactly, as we dive into Michaelangelo Anonioni's valentine to London in the 60s, "BlowUp". We dig a little bit  into  'If a tree falls...' territory. Fun! Listen in for another rambunctious recording.

For this week's episode we are especially lucky to have made the acquaintance of actor/writer Stephen Gevedon who, amongst a long and varied career, co-wrote and starred in one of our favorite horror films "Session 9".  Stephen sat down with us to discuss that film and another of his favorites, the Francois Truffaut new-wave classic, "The 400 Blows".  Listen in as we pretend to know what the fuck we're talking about in the first half of a rousing film conversation with a consummate pro.

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For the second half of special guest Mike Wickliff's visit, he chose to introduce us to a film we had never even heard of, George C Scott's follow-up film to "Patton". A movie about a guy who thinks he's Sherlock Holmes and just so happens to run across a psychiatric doctor named Watson and they go on a little adventure. It also just so happens to be the source of a certain band from Minnesota that shares the same name. Crazy!

With one of the most  visually innovative concept films I've ever experienced, return guest Mike Wickliff brings us "Dave Made A Maze". Trust me when I tell you you have NEVER seen a  film like this.  All cinephiles should take the 89 minutes and watch this movie simply for the production design and concept alone. But what about it as a an actual movie? That, my friends, you have to listen in for!

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For the second part of our conversation with Writing/Artist power couple Jimmy Palmiotti & Amanda Conner, we address the directing debut of of screenwriter/director Shane Black, "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang". A modern L.A. noir with a spectacular cast and filled with Black's typical sing-song dialogue and delivery by a bunch of consummate professionals. Check out our takes on this very unique buddy/crime flick and find out if if it's worth your time or it should get the big kiss-off.

This weeks episodes feature a return guest and a brand new one. All in the same show! Entertainment powerhouses Jimmy Palmiotti and Amanda Conner join us for a deep dive (see what I did there) into the Irwin Allen classic, "The Poseidon Adventure".  We go bottom to top, (or is it top to bottom?) on this epic from the golden age of disaster films. We also discuss car shopping and porn.

In the second part of our visit with writer/artist Dennis Calero, with his guilty pleasure, he brings us quite possibly one of the most maligned films in cinematic history, "Xanadu". Join us as we chat about what exactly lies at the heart of this roller disco musical fantasy. Did we mention that Olivia Newton-John is in this? And Gene Kelly?

In this week's show we step into a world of adventure with Writer/Artist Dennis Calero as he explains to us why "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" is his favorite entry in this legendary series of films. Everyone we know has seen this one, so no one's gonna be shocked by anything we have to say, but listen in as we discuss the foundations and all of our own feelings about this action-packed epic & adventure featuring everyone's favorite fedora-wearing treasure hunter.