Documenteers: The Documentary Podcast

Documenteers: The Documentary Podcast

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  • Captain Blood (1935)
    We end our vintage selections for our month’s theme of ADOLESCENT POWER FANTASY with a pirate picture that also stars Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland and our main man Basil Rathbone. That shit-assed King James sent the good Dr. Blood and a bunch of scalawags to Port Royal to be slaves. It just so happened that all of these guys have experience manning some type of a ship and they all free themselves from the clutches of captivity and sail the dirty seas until that governors niece, Olivia de Havilland, is abducted back into Captain Blood’s life. A historical drama that is more adventure than facts but Michael Curtiz knows how to shoot it in the 1935 classic “Captain Blood”. Dude was pretty chill for having that last name. Get Rathboned one more time with us.
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    35 min
  • Batman: Mask Of The Phantasm (1993)
    We’re sneaking in one more Batman movie for our month’s theme of ADOLESCENT POWER FANTASY and we’re doing it in homage to the late Kevin Conroy who voiced Batman/Bruce Wayne in the beloved 90s Batman cartoon “Batman: The Animated Series” The series had a theatrical venture in a critically well regarded animated movie done in the “Animated Series” style and it might the most well crafted Batman story to ever hit the big screen. We’re talking about “Batman: Mask of the Phantasm” featuring the voice work of the great Kevin Conroy, Dana Delaney & Mark Hamill in yet another legendary Joker performance. Truly the character of Joker really makes actors go for it. Especially the greatest Joker of all time and we are, of course, talking about the Jared Leto Joker who had those awesome tattoos that said things like “Damaged” and “Ha Ha Ha Ha”. God he was so fucking cool.
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    20 min
  • Oliver Twist (2005)
    It’s that time of the month. You know what we’re talking about. It’s time for our RANDOMLY GENERATED REVIEW and at the end of our last randomly generated episode we selected and movie we didn’t even know existed based on the Charles Dickens classic. We’re talking the 2005 film “Oliver Twist” and it’s not directed by Kenneth Branagh like we so confidently, and blindly, assumed. No, this perfectly fine and well executed film was directed by Roman “Meet me in Jack’s hot tub” Polanski. Yep, the infamous and influential director that can’t come back tot he United States unless he gets arrested for statutory rape. His victim forgave him a long time ago, but there is no “did he or did he not” hear. It’s pretty well acknowledged. You could say that Roman Polanski “artfully dodged” his ass to Europe to get away from these charges. That said, how does Polanski’s “Oliver Twist” stand out from the other many interpretations of the story? Ben Kingsley is pretty good, at least. We RANDOMLY GENERATE another movie at the end of the episode and we think your dad will be pleased.
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    35 min
  • The Adventures Of Robin Hood (1938)
    For this month’s theme of ADOLESCENT POWER FANTASY we’re going to the adventurous roots of characters and actors that inspired some later interpretations of costumed heroism. The spotlight is on Errol Flynn for the rest of this month’s vintage ADOLESCENT POWER FANTASY and we’re hitting up Errol’s most prolific hit film from 1938, “The Adventures of Robin Hood” directed by Michael Curtis of “Casablanca” fame. Also starring our boy Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains and Olivia de Havilland. A very mirthful and iconic take of the Robin Hood mythos done in bold Technicolor. The most expensive movie of its day, this flick made $4 million bucks at a time when going to the movies cost 25 cents and it wasn’t even the top three earning movies that year. Hear us tell of it. Let’s dive in and get RATHBONED.
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    26 min
  • Batman Returns (1992)
    We round out week two of our ADOLESCENT POWER FANTASY theme with “Batman Returns”, the most Burtonesque of the Tim Burton Batman films and there’s a lot of wacky, but also horny and disturbing, shit to behold here. It’s easily the horniest superhero movie of all time. Even the penguin is extremely horny. Will Catwoman ever find her Irving? Oh, and it’s a Christmas flick too. This stars Michael Keaton, Michelle Pfeifer, Danny DeVito, Christopher Walken and more. Meow.
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    33 min
  • Batman (1989)
    It can’t be overstated how much of a pop culture phenomenon Tim Burton’s 1989 “Batman” movie was. People were losing their bat-obsessed mind. The skepticism of the Michael Keaton casting quickly fell off. Jack Nicholson entrenched himself as a cinema icon. Airbrush T-shirt shops were popping up in strip malls hocking any article of clothing with the Batman logo on it. We couldn’t get enough. Unless you were my grandmother who, very quickly, had enough. We’re doing the Tim Burton Batman movies for week two of our ADOLESCENT POWER FANTASY theme this month so let’s reflect on the superhero movie that showed movie studios that perhaps there was something to this spandexed intellectual property. Hear us tell you all about it all over again.
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    32 min
  • The Mark Of Zorro (1940)
    For this month’s theme of ADOLESCENT POWER FANTASY we’re spending our Mondays looking at the film roots of today’s ADOLESCENT POWER FANTASY and the character of Zorro is a fine place to start. Dual identities, protector of everyday citizens, son of wealth. Hey, Zorro sounds like he might be kind of influential to that one guy in Gotham City with the ears. The sword on sword action goes pleasantly hard in Rouban Mamoulian’s 1940 adventure film “The Mark of Zorro” starring the super hunk Tyrone Power and the sneering swag of Basil Rathbone. Seriously, this movie might have the best sword fight we’ve ever seen. Seek it out and then seek out this discussion.
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    28 min
  • Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut (1980/2006)
    Week one of our theme, ADOLESCENT POWER FANTASY, ends with an obvious follow up to last Wednesday’s episode with “Superman II” but not just any Superman II. After Richard Donner got fired during production of Superman II, they brought in Richard Lester to reshoot some stuff and finish it off leading to the classic theatrical release of the movie. Twenty six years later, Richard Donner was backed up by a horde of demanding nerds on the internet and given the green light to recut Superman II into a movie that was as close to Richard Donner’s original vision as they could get. We’re doing this version to maintain the “Donner-ness” but some Lester shots and scenes were still used. There’s less “Superman and Lois in France” and more “Lois jumps out of a window and pulls out guns.”. A little less “flag waving” and a little more quick “shots of a crowd that is not from 1980”. It’s fun enough. Lois is wild in this one.
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    23 min
  • Superman (1978)
    We’re watching some of the earliest Superman movies for week one of our ADOLESCENT POWER FANTASY theme and we felt comfort but got all melancholy watching Richard Donner’s 1978 smash hit adaptation of the comic book icon, “Superman” starring the late Christopher Reeve and the late Margot Kidder. Hell, Gene Hackman and Marlon Brando are dead too. I guess Brando would definitely be gone by now. Mortality, man. Shit is heavy. If only we could fly off and turn back time. If I could find a way
    I'd take back those words that have hurt you and you'd stay. If I could reach the stars. I’d give 'em all to you. Then you'd love me, love me like you used to do. If I could turn back time.
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    33 min
  • Superman and The Mole Men (1951)
    August’s theme is “ADOLESCENT POWER FANTASY” which means we’re FINALLY getting to a Superhero movie theme, but we ain’t gonna be watching some “Age of Ultron” shit yet because we’re getting to the godfathers of where we’re at today as well as adventure film influences from even earlier times. It’s Superman week and we’re revisiting the classics and starting with the first ever Superman feature film outside of a serialized format. The iconic George Reeves dons the cape in the 1951 feature “Superman and the Mole Men” which led directly into the popular 50s TV show. Clark Kent and Lois Lane go to write up a story about the world’s deepest oil rig and it becomes a real story when little Mole Men pop out of a hatch and go peeping in windows and pissing off the townsfolk. Can Superman save these little dudes from a frothing mob? Nah. He fails actually. Then Superman gets murdered. SYKE
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    27 min

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Bob Sham and Angela (former Documenteers hosts)have expanded their film discussion into broader waters with MOVIEHUMPERS. This feed is the one stop shop for our classic and current shows.