First Aired February, 2024 David Hast and Scott Vander Werf talk about movies that changed cinema. They look at six movies that range from classic Hollywood to the French New Wave and some contemporary examples. The movies they discuss are: Breathless, Citizen Kane, Psycho, 2001, A Space Odyssey, Jaws and Marvel's Iron Man

First Aired January, 2024 David Hast and Scott Vander Werf discuss Man on Wire, the Academy Award-winning documentary about Phillip Petitt, who walked a high-wire between the World Trad Center buildings in 1974. Directed by James Marsh, it’s presented as a heist film

First Aired January, 2024 David Hast and Scott Vander Werf talk about The Conversation. Written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Gene Hackman, the film that was ahead of its time looking at privacy and surveillance

First Aired December, 2023 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love The Bomb is one of the greatest American cold war movies. David Hast talks with Scott Vander Werf talk about the Stanley Kubrick classic, as well as several other movies directed by Kubrick

First Aired November, 2023 David Hast and Scott Vander Werf discuss the Spike Lee classic, Do the Right Thing. Released in 1989 it stars Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Danny Aiello, Samuel L. Jackson, Giancarlo Esposito and Rosie Perez

First Aired October 2023 David Hast and Scott Vander Werf talk about the seminal hard-boiled detective film The Big Sleep starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. They also discuss other movies directed by Howard Hawks, including, Bringing Up Baby, His Girl Friday, Ball of Fire, Scarface, Only Angels Have Wings, The Thing from Another World, Red River, and Rio Bravo

First Aired October 2023 David Hast and Scott Vander Werf talk about the 1947 film The Man I Love starring Ida Lupino and directed by Raoul Walsh. It’s a film noir that mixes family and jazz. They also discuss The Roaring Twenties, White Heat, They Drive by Night, High Sierra, and Colorado Territory

First Aired September 2023 David Hast and Scott Vander Werf talk about the Werner Herzog modern classic Aguirre, The Wrath of God starring Klaus Kinski. It’s a film that set the precedent for Herzog’s vision of humankind and nature

First Aired August 2023 Beauty and the Beast was originally a French fairy tale published in 1740 by Villeneuve but it’s best known today as the animated Disney movie from 1991. On this episode David Hast and Scott Vander Werf take a look at the original adaptation, the live-action Beauty and the Beast from poet and filmmaker Jean Cocteau that was made in 1946

First Aired August 2023 David Hast and Scott Vander Werf talk about The Asphalt Jungle starring Sterling Hayden and directed by John Huston. It’s a proto-heist film, a police procedural, and a classic crime film