The novel on which 1950's film Kind Hearts and Coronets is based treated the story of an entitled royal reject who goes to murdeous lengths to secure his place in the lineage deadly serious. The film, however, written and directed by Robert Hamer, turns it into a pitch black comedy, perhaps the first of it's kind made in England. The Ealing Studios release stars Dennis Price, Valerie Hobson, Joan Greenwood, and in a tour-de-force, Alec Guinness playing eight characters.

Dan and Vicky discuss the film, ranked as one of the best British films ever made, along with lots of recently seen including If I Had Legs I'd Kick You, Send Help, 28 Years Later: Bone Temple, Luc Besson's Dracula, Good Luck Have Fun Don't Die, Train Dreams, and Wuthering Heights.

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The final film in director Roger Corman's Edgar Allan Poe cycle, The Tomb of Ligeia marked the second collaboration for Corman and screenwriter Robert Towne. Towne would go on to be one of the hardest working and respected writers and script doctors in Hollywood (The Last Detail, Shampoo, Mission: Impossible, The Firm, Personal Best and Tequila Sunrise) and collect an Academy Award for writing Chinatown. Towne is quoted, however, as saying that his adaptation for The Tomb of Ligeia was the hardest he'd ever worked on.

Dan and Vicky discuss the horror film along with plenty of recently seen like films Marty Supreme, Rosemead, Dead Man's Wife, The Lost Bus, Griffin in Summer, Twinless, Is This Thing On?, and TV series Heated Rivalry and Kaos.

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The late 2000's were chock-a-block with Winnie-the-Pooh projects. In addition to this week's Hot Date 2017 film Goodbye Christopher Robin starring Domhnall Gleason, Margot Robbie and Kelly Macdonald, there was another biopic with Ewan McGregor, several animated features and numerous documentaries.

Dan and Vicky discuss the Simon Curtis directed biopic on writer A. A Milne's creation of the Winnie-the-Pooh stories and the toll it took on his family along with some recently seen items like Primate, The Plague, The Secret Agent, and Harlan Coben's Run Away on Netflix.

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1995's Little Odessa is a look inside a Russian American family and their ties to the mob in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. Shot over two months in the brutal cold of a 1994 New York winter, Little Odessa stars two Oscar winners, Vanesaa Redgrave and Maximilian Schell, one nominee, Tim Roth, and fresh from his success in Terminator 2, Edward Furlong.

Dan and Vicky discuss the feature film debut of director James Gray as well as lots of recently seen including 2025's meta sequel Anaconda, Paul Feig's The Housemaid, Marty Supreme, The Testament of Ann Lee with Amanda Seyfried, No Other Choice, Coyotes, We Bury the Dead, and Netflix series The Beast in Me and Stranger Things Season 5.

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For her directorial debut, comedienne and writer Elaine May chose to adapt the short story The Green Heart by Jack Ritchie into A New Leaf - the story of a rich playboy who loses all his money and schemes to marry and murder a rich woman. Walter Matthau plays the entitled Henry Graham and May herself plays the ditzy but lovable Henrietta Lowell. The film went over budget and time, necessitating a couple extra million dollars and 40 extra shooting days. Paramount took the final edit away from May, winnowing her original 3 hour cut into the existing 90 minute theatrical cut. The films boasts a bevy of comedic character stars including Jack Weston, Doris Roberts, Renne Taylor and James Coco.

Dan and Vicky discuss the oddball romantic dark comedy along with alot of recently seen including 2025's Silent Night Deadly Night, Hamnet, Fackham Hall, Nouvelle Vague, Jay Kelly, The Running Man and Equalizer 2.

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Four times a year, Hot Date goes to the actual movies to bring you a film playing right now! Vicky could not let the release of Wicked: For Good go by without discussing it so we bring you the continuing saga of Elphaba Thropp and Galinda Upland, Glinda the Good and The Wicked Witch of the West respectfully, of the Land of Oz. Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande Butero star along with Jonathan Bailey, Michelle Yeoh, and Jeff Goldblum.

Also catch up on your hosts recently seen like Rental Family, Wake Up Dead Man: Knives Out, Zootopia 2, Caddo Lake, I Don't Understand You, Netflix series Adolescence, and NBC's DMV.

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Leslie Goodwins, director of 1943's Ladies' Day, a farcical comedy set in the world of baseball, needed a lead actress that woluld believably cause players to throw games and lose focus. Stunning Mexican beauty Lupe Velez was just that actress; and luckily, Goodwins and Velez had a good working relationship. She was the star of his Mexican Spitfire films, a series with Velez as the recurring lead. This would be their last collaboration as Velez would tragically end her own life only a year later.

Dan and Vicky discuss the forgotten comedy along with lots of recently seen including Del Toro's Frankenstein, Oz Perkins' Keeper, Edgar Wright's The Running Man, Predator Badlands and Bugonia.

You'll also hear about Vicky's trip to Disney, Dan's own stay in Florida and an AI machine who's feelings get hurt?

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Based on the story of his own mother's fight with cancer, director/writer Josh Mond made the lead character of 2015's James White a caregiver with his own addiction and commitment issues. He enlisted up and comer Christoper Abbott to play the lead and Sex and the City's Cynthia Nixon as his mother. Set and shot in New York City, Mond scored the film with music from Kid Cudi and gave the singer a supporting role.

Dan and Vicky discuss the indie drama along with lots of recently seen like Shelby Oaks, Tron:Ares, Black Phone 2, Richard Linklater's Blue Moon, and Luca Guadagnino's After the Hunt.

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We've reached another Top Ten episode and this time Dan and Vicky discuss their hottest top ten actor comebacks. Every actor has a lull in their career, either intentional or not, and Dan and Vicky are paying tribute to actors who stuck it out and came back bigger and better. Dan takes the theme in his own direction so you'll be excited to hear how your hosts have added their own spin it.

You'll also get thoughts on plenty of recently seen movies and TV like Bone Lake, Challengers, Him, One Battle After Another, Anemone, Kiss of the Spider Woman and Alien: Earth.

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1999's The Corruptor was the second attempt by an American film studio to make an international star out of Chow Yun Fat. The Replacement Killers a year before with Mira Sorvino failed to thrill audiences and The Corruptor, about a New York Chinatown war between two rival gangs, didn't exactly make waves. Ironically, it took a Tiawanese filmmaker, Ang Lee, to bring Fat world recognition a year later with hit Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

Dan and Vicky discuss the Mark Wahlberg co-starring buddy cop actioner along with some political talk and lots of recently seen including The Conjuring: Last Rites, The Long Walk, A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale, and the plays Gene and Gilda and Blood Orange.

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