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Although produced in Spain, 1973's The Corruption of Chris Miller, has all the earmarks of a traditional Italian giallo - sexual tension in an isolated country house, bad dubbing and, most importantly, a black clad killer. The film is directed by J.A..Bardem, uncle of Oscar winner Javier Bardem. The lush cinematography is by Juan Gelpi and the grand score is from Waldo de los Rios. Jean Seberg stars as Ruth, living with her estranged stepdaughter Chris in that country home. Into their strained relationship enters Barney, a British drifter played by Barry Stokes who may also be the killer murdering locals for their money.

Yout Hot Date hosts discuss the film along with a ton of recently seen. At the movies, there's MEG3HAN, A Man Called Otto, and Bill Nighy in Living. Streaming and video DVD finds include The Pale Blue Eye, RRR, Peacock's Sick, The Menu, and 1959's Complusion.

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A starry cast brings 1949's The Bribe to life. Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner, Charles Laughton, Vincent Price and John Hodiak are all on a fictitious Caribbean island together falling in love and scheming to steal leftover ammunition parts. This somewhat forgotten noir was written by Marguerite Roberts, whose career was put on hold when she was blacklisted in 1951 for refusing to testify in front of the House Unamerican Activities Committee. It was nine years before she would resurface and write several award nominated screenplays, including the one that would win John Wayne his only Oscar, True Grit.

Dan and Vicky discuss the off beat noir along with plenty of recently seen including The Sadness, Sissy, Tar, The Fablemans, and more films off of the Sight and Sound best films of all time list.

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The Burning Plain was the directorial debut of screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga, who took cues from his screenplays for Amores Perros, 21 Grams and Babel to weave the intergenerational story of two families, one white and one Mexican, colliding and seeking redemption. The film stars Charlize Theron, Kim Basinger, Jennifer Lawrence, and Joaquim de Almeida.

Dan and Vicky discuss the little seen drama from 2009 along with lots of recently seen films, including Vicky's attempt to watch all the films she hasn't seen off of Sight and Sound's recent list of the best films of all time.

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When it came time make the film of Arthur Laurents successful play The Time of the Cuckoo, the natural casting choice was Shirley Booth, who won a Tony for the Broadway production and had an Oscar for the 1952 film Come Back Little Sheba. But producers felt she was too old and not enough of a box office draw. Director David Lean was determined to get Katherine Hepburn and the star needed little convincing. As her love interest, he cast Italian Rossano Brazzi. Future Night Stalker star and suffering Dad in A Christmas Story Darren McGavin made his film debut in the small role of a philandering artist.

Dan and Vicky discuss the classic romance along with a lot of recently seen, including Idris Elba in Beast, Glass Onion, She Said, 1996's Eye for an Eye, and American Horror Story: NY.

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We've reached our next Top Ten episode (something we do here at Hot Date when we reach every tenth show) and this time we're picking our favorite mysteries and whodunnits. From Poirot to Parker, giallo to slasher, we're choosing the films that kept us guessing, made us gasp and even gave us some chuckles.

Along with our main topic, you'll hear about plenty of recently seen including new takes on Hellraiser, Halloween, Fletch and Black Panther and plenty of TV and live theater. You'll hear about Dan's new off-Broadway show, A Sherlock Carol, and get five favorite whodunnits from a very special guest!

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Dan and Vicky offer a special Halloween episode of Hot Date covering the 1982 Canadian slasher Humongous. It was Vicky's idea to find a horror film from the 80's that she hadn't seen and Dan had. They were almost successful - after all Vicky's seen ALOT of movies.

Humongous, directed by Prom Night's Paul Lynch and written by The Changeling's William Gray, has been a mostly forgotten slasher only recently finding an audience after being cleaned up for DVD and blu ray.

Along with the main feature, your hosts cover plenty of recently seen, including Netflix's The Midnight Club, Criterion Channel's 80's horror lineup, Blonde, Hocus Pocus 2, Triangle of Sadness, and Broadway's Cost of Living.

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Director Stuart Gordon, known for creating the body horror classics Reanimator and From Beyond, reunited with writer David Mamet to direct the film adaptation of the controversial playwright's one act play Edmond. Gordon and Mamet were colleagues in the Chicago theater scene and first collaborated on the original staging of the writer's Sexual Perversity in Chicago. In Edmond, William H. Macy plays the title character, a misanthropic bigot being put through a dark night of the soul on his way to elightenment. The cast includes Julia Stiles, Joe Mantegna, Rebecca Pidgeon, Denise Richards, and Bokeem Woodbine.

Dan and Vicky discuss the film along with lots of recently seen including Barbarian, Don't Worry Darling, Bros, 1973's The Last of Sheila, See How They Run, the Goodnight Mommy remake and Hulu's Reboot.

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1951's Three Husbands and 1949's A Letter To Three Wives share screenwriter Vera Caspary but also similar storylines. In Three Husbands, the title characters receive letters about their wives' possible infidelity and in Three Wives the ladies recieve missives from a woman announcing she is running away with one of their husbands. Caspary specilaized in stories about strong women, having also penned Laura, The Blue Gardenia (a Hot Date pick at Episode 118), and I Can Get it For You Wholesale.

Dan and Vicky discuss the film and their love of stars Eve Arden and Ruth Warrick. Also on deck is plenty of recently seen including Watcher, Three Thousand Years of Longing, Marvel's She Hulk, Orphan: First Kill, Hulu's Prey, The Good Boss, and 1949's A Holiday Affair.

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With Shakespeare's King Lear as it's source material, both the book by Jane Smiley and the film adaptation directed by Jocelyn Moorehouse of A Thousand Acres sets the action on an Iowa farm. In the 1997 film, Jason Robards plays the raging patrirach of the Cook family, whose bequest of his land to his three daughters, played by Jessica Lange, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Jennifer Jason Leigh, raises tensions and unearths long hidden family secrets.

Dan and Vicky discuss the star studded melodrama along with lots of recently seen including Bullet Train, BJ Novak's Vengeance, Jordan Peele's Nope, modern slaher They/Them, and the Netlix series Uncoupled.

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Tigon British Film Productions, founded in 1966 as counter programming to the more well known Hammer Studios, nonetheless took a page from the Hammer playbook by making horror and exploitation films. Tigon films, however, are often marked by a low budget mean streak and grittiness. Successes for the company included 1967's The Sorcerers, 1968's The Witchfinder General, and 1971's Blood on Satan's Claw. 1969's The Blood Beast Terror stars Peter Cushing, Robert Flemyng, Wanda Ventham, and Vanessa Howard.

Dan and Vicky have a "moth"-ful to say about the strange and quirky film along with lots of recently seen including 1972's The Flesh and Blood Show, HBO Max's Tokyo Vice and DMZ, Lelsey Manville in Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris, and 1964's Viva Las Vegas.

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