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It's been called "a perfect movie. I can't think of literally one thing that could be changed or improved". OK, our guest Frank DeRuggiero said that, but he has only one tattoo and its a Jaws tattoo so he knows from whence he speaks. Not only do we get into all the great moments from THE iconic scare-movie of all time, but we also discuss the waterlogged giant paperback of Jaws every family on vacation in the 70's had, we play the ENTIRETY of Quint's USS Indianapolis because you simply have to, we take a visit to the Columbo Cinematic Universe, do latch-key TV picks from the 80's AND MORE on the fascinatingly complicated, over-schedule and over-budget Martha's Vineyard location shoot of Jaws. You're gonna need a bigger set of headphones for this one.

Well now we got bad blood, cause CHRIS, see...he's one of those people who LOVES 'Ishtar' and thinks it's a misunderstood classic of epic comedic proportions, and Jason is one of those rational, thinking humans who understands intuitively (ok after watching only 45 minutes of it) that it's a colossal failure. Also, Chris quotes Hamlet in defense of the also-maligned 1970's failed musical '1776' on the occasion of its cynical rising-from-the-dead in forthcoming new production, we debut our awesome new Columbo Cinematic Universe sound effect, rave about how Slackers are back, and hear all about how Chris was able to attend a once-in-a-lifetime screening and discussion of 'Apocalypse Now: The I-Can't-Stop-Messing-With-This-Film-Edition' with Steven Soderbergh and Francis Ford Coppola while Jason went to a penguins movie with his daughter. ALSO: The return of '1776: The Musical', the childhood tv magic of '3-2-1 Contact' and more.

When a movie pitch contains the words "Based on the popular board game" you KNOW you're either in for a debacle of 'Battleship' (sorry, Peter Berg) proportions OR for the brilliantly subversive 1985 film that has become a cult classic and features the brilliant comedy performances of Tim Curry, Madeline Kahn, Martin Mull, Christopher Lloyd, Eileen Brennan, Michael McKean, and Lesley Ann Warren. The Brits called it 'Cluedo' just because they gotta be Brits. ALSO: Rants N Raves, This Week In 1980's TV Guide, Headlines and how Marcus Welby, M.D. is like floating away on a sweet cloud of nitrous oxide in the dentists chair.

'Grease' is the word, it's got groove it's got feeling, and so does this in-depth podcast about the 40-years-and-counting worldwide phenomenon. Why does this weird movie (and it's deeply weird) stand the test of time? Easy: TRAVOLTA, SONGS, and KITSCH. And so many other reasons. So yes; we'll get into Sandy and Danny and the gang and the great performances from Didi Conn, Stockard Channing, and others, but we'll ALSO dive into the fascinating origin story of Grease as a counter-culture artifact springing out of Chicago's experimental theater scene. And we'll play all the iconic songs and comment upon them in a manner designed to make a fair-use argument for playing them.

James L. Brooks' feature directorial debut 'Terms Of Endearment' has been soiling hankies for 36 years. ELEVEN Academy Award nominations. Stellar performances from Jack Nicholson, Shirley MacClain, Debra Winger, and John Lithgow. We also get into the haunting brilliance of the theme to Brooks' tv masterpiece 'Taxi', his surprising involvement in some of the most distinctive American film comedies of the 20th Century, and the rumored feud between the leading ladies of Terms. Also, our new segment This Week In TV Guide revisits some head-scratching log lines from 1980's after-school tv lineup. Plus Chris raves from his Ivory Tower about the charming artists enclave of Westport, CT, Headlines, the theme song from "In Search Of", how we're not waiting for Ted Jessup to record our "Mask" episode...and MORE.

We revisit the brilliant, still-vital "Heathers", THE definitive American High School movie, whose biting satire only barely covers the sensitive, beating, romantic heart that lies within. Featuring star-making performances from Christian Slater and a 16-year-old Winona Ryder, "Heathers" is a dark, pulls-no-punches social satire that aims arrows in every direction, including at the misguided teenage hearts and minds populating the hallways and leafy subdivisions of Sherwood, Ohio's Westerberg High School. We dive down the FCAC rabbit hole's of Slater, Ryder, we discuss the sad and tragic deaths of a couple of key cast members. ALSO: Syd Straw, Sly Stone, Rants n Raves, Headlines, and the debut of THIS WEEK IN TV GUIDE, our dynamic not-at-all fusty segment where we read unintentionally hilarious tv guide show descriptions from the 1980's, in which we hit Via Allegre, a horror anthology about cats, Gilligan's Island, and the mystery of the Garfield Phones.

Keanu. Swayze. Busey. Bodhi. Utah. Two. There's simplistic poetry in Katharine Bigelow's 'Point Break' that, sure, you could miss if you were some kind of cinephile or something. But that would be to willfully deprive yourself of the many joys, expected and otherwise, of this fantastic, genre-busting actioner. Swayze is simply iconic. It's a movie about chemistry, and we don't just mean the surf-wax and ocean-pollutant chemistry analysis going on in the LAPD Bank Robbery offices. We also talk about our own experiences working with Gary Busey and his cheeseburger requirements prior to shoot days, shout out the great James LeGros, Swayze's rumoured appearance in Toto's classic early-MTV music video for "Rosanna", Headlines, Rants N Raves and MORE!

Terry Gilliam's 1986 masterpiece 'Brazil' has been called an Orwellian retro-futurist fantasy; a Political cartoon writ large; a Science-fiction masterpiece; not at all Science-fiction more like a documentary; a treatise on the unthinking rigidity of middle-management bureaucracy; a selfish landmark and memento of a life gone terribly wrong; a viking musical; about the impossibility of escaping reality; like lifting the top off Terry Gilliam's skull and looking inside; and like Franz Kafka meets Walter Mitty. SO with all those excellent takes already taken, Chris and Jason discuss the movie's wardrobe department. (JUST KIDDING!)

It's a #tbt of sorts here at FCAC as we release our episode on Spike Lee's (now) Oscar-winning feature, BLACKKKLANSMAN, which we recorded a few weeks ago. We discuss Spike, his career, the real Ron Stallworth, yacht rock, a couple movies we seem to have trouble remembering names of, and how this is an antidote for GREEN BOOK. Plus our reactions to the Oscar Noms, as well as Rants and Raves. Why are you reading this when you could be listening and finding out for yourself?

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This week Jason and Chris are joined by guest co-host Gordon Ramsey (not the one you're thinking of ...) to discuss John Boorman's 1974 overstuffed, peerlessly ambitious, and deeply considered passion project, Zardoz! We address the question that has dogged viewers of the film as well as anyone who casually came across a still of Sean Connery's costume: What the hell is this about? Nihilism, generational strife, class warfare, testosterone, as well as Eros and Thanatos. All that plus Rants and Raves and Entertainment News Headlines!!