Judgement Day: T2 VS Cinema

While Judgement Days' first holiday episode is baking in the oven, I'm excited to share this conversation I had with singer/songwriter/filmmaker Matt Farley of Motern Media about the Motern Media Christmas Special from 2017.

After nearly 20 years of making under the radar regional horror-comedies in New England The Motern Media franchise is now beginning to be recognized outside of Manchester, New Hampshire for it's witty and bizarre series of movies. 'Freaky Farley,' 'Monsters, Marriage and Murder in Machvegas' and the seminal 'Don't Let The Riverbeast Get You' are labors of love made with an infectious sense of fun.

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FILMS DISCUSSED: The Motern Media Christmas Special (2017)

Directed by 

Charles Roxburgh

Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)  

Matt Farley...(screenplay)

Matt Farley...(story by)

Charles Roxburgh...(screenplay)

Cast (in credits order)  

Matt Farley...Matt Farley - Earl of Christmas

Chris Peterson...Chris Peterson / Jandek Claus

Michelle Briand...Joyce

Phil Cote...Mike

Jon Cross...Danny

Ryan Desmarais...Texas Tom

Terry Dugan...Man Who's Known Chris A Long Time

Phil Klenhofer...Sure Shot

Tiffany L'Heureux...Amy

Jay Mayo...Comedian Extraordinaire / Unscrupulous Locksmith

Kevin McGee...Sheriff

Jim McHugh...Man-on-the-Street

Elizabeth M. Peterson...Christmas Card Commercial Wife

Sharon Scalzo...Jeri

Tom Scalzo...Tommy Adirondack

Chris Sleison...Sleison

Produced by 

Matt Farley...executive producer

Music by 

Matt Farley

Tom Scalzo

Cinematography by 

Charles RoxburghFilm Editing by 

Charles RoxburghVisual Effects by 

Charles Roxburgh...motion graphic design

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This week Holiday season is here and my friend Caroline and I talk about all those nostalgic feels. Be it the rose tinted nostalgia of older generations, the bizarre misfired nostalgia in a punk rock passion project, and an old melancholic stand-by. I get to talk to T2 with my friend who watched the film for the very first time this week. How does the film hold up sans a nostalgic glow?

FILMS DISCUSSED: Meet Me in St. Louis 1944, Punk's Dead: SLC Punk! 2 2016, and The Royal Tenenbaums 2001

Music by Johnny Ampersand: https://jonnyampersand.bandcamp.com/

Contact me: [email protected]

MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS 1944

Directed byVincente Minnelli

Produced byArthur Freed

Screenplay byIrving Brecher

Fred F. Finklehoffe

Based onMeet Me in St. Louis

by Sally Benson

Starring

Judy Garland

Margaret O'Brien

Mary Astor

Lucille Bremer

Tom Drake

Marjorie Main

Music byGeorge Stoll

Cinematography

George J. Folsey

PUNK'S DEAD: SLC PUNK! 2 2016

Directed byJames Merendino

Produced byAndrea Kreuzhage

Written byJames Merendino

Starring

Ben Schnetzer

Hannah Marks

Machine Gun Kelly

Sarah Clarke

Devon Sawa

Michael A. Goorjian

Adam Pascal

James Duval

CinematographyThomas L. Callaway

Edited byJames Merendino

THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS 2001

Directed by

Wes Anderson

Produced by

Wes Anderson

Barry Mendel

Scott Rudin

Written by

Wes Anderson

Owen Wilson

Starring

Danny Glover

Gene Hackman

Anjelica Huston

Bill Murray

Gwyneth Paltrow

Ben Stiller

Luke Wilson

Owen Wilson

Music by

Mark Mothersbaugh

Cinematography

Robert Yeoman

TERMINATOR 2: JUDGEMENT DAY

Directed byJames Cameron

Produced byJames Cameron

Written by

James Cameron

William Wisher

Starring

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Linda Hamilton

Edward Furlong

Robert Patrick

Music byBrad Fiedel

CinematographyAdam Greenberg

Edited by

Conrad Buff

Mark Goldblatt

Richard A. Harris

Production

company

Carolco Pictures

Pacific Western Productions

Lightstorm Entertainment

Le Studio Canal+ S.A.

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This week, in observance of Noir-vember, I unpack Film Noir with my guest, Mike Caravella... or do we? Is it a film genre, an artistic movement, a motif? We try to wipe some of the dust off this old conversation, probably not very successfully BUT we do discuss some solid and not so solid examples. And, PLOT TWIST is Terminator 2 a Film Noir?

Oh and at some point we struggle to recall a movie about the IRA from the guy who made The Third Man and it's Odd Man Out by Carol Reed. Don't get annoyed when we can't remember things we're on a podcast to discuss, that's ageist of you.

FILMS DISCUSSED: 99 RIVER STREET, RAW DEAL (1948) and BLADE RUNNER 

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99 RIVER STREET 1953

Directed by

Phil Karlson

Produced by

Edward Small

Screenplay by

Robert Smith

Story by

George Zuckerman

Based on

"Crosstown" (short story, in Cosmopolitan, October 1945) by George Zuckerman

Starring

John Payne

Evelyn Keyes

Music by

Arthur Lange

Emil Newman

RAW DEAL 1948

Directed byAnthony Mann

Produced byEdward Small

Screenplay byLeopold Atlas

John C. Higgins

Story byArnold B. Armstrong

Audrey Ashley

StarringDennis O'Keefe

Claire Trevor

Marsha Hunt

Music byPaul Sawtell

CinematographyJohn Alton

Edited byAlfred DeGaetano

BLADE RUNNER 1982

Directed by

Ridley Scott

Produced by

Michael Deeley

Screenplay by

Hampton Fancher

David Peoples

Based on

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

by Philip K. Dick

Starring

Harrison Ford

Rutger Hauer

Sean Young

Edward James Olmos

Music by

Vangelis

Cinematography

Jordan Cronenweth

Edited by

Terry Rawlings

Marsha Nakashima

TERMINATOR 2: JUDGEMENT DAY

Directed byJames Cameron

Produced byJames Cameron

Written by

James Cameron

William Wisher

Starring

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Linda Hamilton

Edward Furlong

Robert Patrick

Music byBrad Fiedel

CinematographyAdam Greenberg

Edited by

Conrad Buff

Mark Goldblatt

Richard A. Harris

Production

company

Carolco Pictures

Pacific Western Productions

Lightstorm Entertainment

Le Studio Canal+ S.A.

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This week has been some bullshit. If you need to relax here's a fun conversation between two friends about movies involving bicycles, riding bicycles, what makes us happy, whether we could beat up our respective fathers and finding actor Bill Allen (Cru Jones in Rad) on cameo. Stay strong out there, listeners!

FILMS DISCUSSED: BREAKING AWAY, RAD, BMX BANDITS

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Bill Allen on Cameo: https://www.cameo.com/aliens02

BREAKING AWAY 1979

Directed byPeter Yates

Produced byPeter Yates

Written bySteve Tesich

StarringDennis Christopher

Dennis Quaid

Daniel Stern

Jackie Earle Haley

Barbara Barrie

Paul Dooley

Robyn Douglass

Music byPatrick Williams

CinematographyMatthew F. Leonetti

Edited byCynthia Scheider

RAD 1986

Directed byHal Needham

Produced byRobert L. Levy

Written byGeoffery Edwards

Sam Bernard

Starring

Bill Allen

Lori Loughlin

Talia Shire

Ray Walston

Music byJames Di Pasquale

CinematographyRichard Leiterman

Edited byCarl Kress

BMX BANDITS 1983

Directed byBrian Trenchard-Smith

Produced byTom Broadbridge

Paul F. Davies

Written byPatrick Edgeworth

Based ona screenplay

by Russell Hagg

StarringDavid Argue

John Ley

Nicole Kidman

Angelo D'Angelo

James Lugton

Bryan Marshall

Music byColin Stead

Frank Strangio

CinematographyJohn Seale

Edited byAlan Lake

TERMINATOR 2: JUDGEMENT DAY

Directed byJames Cameron

Produced byJames Cameron

Written by

James Cameron

William Wisher

Starring

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Linda Hamilton

Edward Furlong

Robert Patrick

Music byBrad Fiedel

CinematographyAdam Greenberg

Edited by

Conrad Buff

Mark Goldblatt

Richard A. Harris

Production

company

Carolco Pictures

Pacific Western Productions

Lightstorm Entertainment

Le Studio Canal+ S.A.

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This week - COVID Halloween continues with a series of films that feel extremely Of The Moment and also there's a movie about Yugoslavia behind the Iron Curtain. What do they have in common? We're talking about living that bunker life and we are so fortunate to be accompanied by New York Public Libraries' Peter Jubinsky who makes a personal plea for his job security. Super exciting!

FILMS DISCUSSED: 10 CLOVERFIELD LANE, TAKE SHELTER, UNDERGROUND

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10 CLOVERFIELD LANE 2016

Directed byDan Trachtenberg

Produced by

J. J. Abrams

Lindsey Weber

Screenplay by

Josh Campbell

Matt Stuecken

Damien Chazelle

Story by

Josh Campbell

Matt Stuecken

Starring

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

John Goodman

John Gallagher Jr.

Music byBear McCreary

CinematographyJeff Cutter

Edited byStefan Grube

TAKE SHELTER 2011

Directed byJeff Nichols

Produced bySophia Lin

Tyler Davidson

Written byJeff Nichols

StarringMichael Shannon

Jessica Chastain

Shea Whigham

Katy Mixon

Kathy Baker

Music byDavid Wingo

CinematographyAdam Stone

Edited byParke Gregg

UNDERGROUND 1995

Directed byEmir Kusturica

Screenplay by

Dušan Kovačević

Emir Kusturica

Story byDušan Kovačević

Starring

Miki Manojlović

Lazar Ristovski

Mirjana Joković

Slavko Štimac

Music byGoran Bregović

CinematographyVilko Filač

Edited byBranka Čeperac

TERMINATOR 2: JUDGEMENT DAY

Directed byJames Cameron

Produced byJames Cameron

Written by

James Cameron

William Wisher

Starring

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Linda Hamilton

Edward Furlong

Robert Patrick

Music byBrad Fiedel

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This week we celebrate the hair-raising, spine-tingling films about the spookiest, creepiest menace plaguing our cities and towns today: ISOLATION! No but seriously, though Content Warning for discussions about suicide, self-harm and despair. These are very lonely times we're all living through and I'd like to take an unguarded moment to say that I love you all for reading this. Take care.

FILMS DISCUSSED: OLDBOY (2003), CAST AWAY, ALL IS LOST, ANIARA

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OLDBOY 2003

Directed byPark Chan-wook

Produced byLim Seung-yong

Screenplay by

Hwang Jo-yun

Lim Jun-hyung

Park Chan-wook

Based on

Old Boy

by Garon Tsuchiya

Nobuaki Minegishi

Starring

Choi Min-sik

Yoo Ji-tae

Kang Hye-jung

Music byCho Young-wuk

CinematographyChung Chung-hoon

Edited byKim Sang-bum

CAST AWAY 1999

Directed byRobert Zemeckis

Produced by

Steve Starkey

Tom Hanks

Robert Zemeckis

Jack Rapke

Written byWilliam Broyles Jr.

Starring

Tom Hanks

Helen Hunt

Nick Searcy

Music byAlan Silvestri

CinematographyDon Burgess

Edited byArthur Schmidt

ALL IS LOST 2013

Directed byJ. C. Chandor

Produced by

Justin Nappi

Teddy Schwarzman

Neal Dodson

Anna Gerb

Written byJ. C. Chandor

StarringRobert Redford

Music byAlex Ebert

CinematographyFrank G. DeMarco

Edited byPete Beaudreau

ANIARA 2018

Directed byPella Kagerman

Hugo Lilja

Produced byAnnika Rogell

Screenplay byPella Kagerman

Hugo Lilja

Based onAniara

by Harry Martinson

TERMINATOR 2: JUDGEMENT DAY

Directed byJames Cameron

Produced byJames Cameron

Written by

James Cameron

William Wisher

Starring

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Linda Hamilton

Edward Furlong

Robert Patrick

Music byBrad Fiedel

CinematographyAdam Greenberg

Edited by

Conrad Buff

Mark Goldblatt

Richard A. Harris

Production

company

Carolco Pictures

Pacific Western Productions

Lightstorm Entertainment

Le Studio Canal+ S.A.

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This week: It's my sisters 40th birthday and she told on me to my mom until I allowed her to be on my show to talk about some girl movie, but I got my revenge by making her watch movies about men who are sad, ha! Anyway, getting old sucks.  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Films Discussed: Nebraska, Humpday, Beaches

Music by Johnny Ampersand: https://jonnyampersand.bandcamp.com/

NEBRASKA

Directed byAlexander Payne

Produced by

Albert Berger

Ron Yerxa

Written byBob Nelson

Starring

Bruce Dern

Will Forte

June Squibb

Stacy Keach

Bob Odenkirk

Music byMark Orton

CinematographyPhedon Papamichael

Edited byKevin Tent

HUMPDAY

Directed byLynn Shelton

Produced byLynn Shelton

Written byLynn Shelton

Starring

Mark Duplass

Joshua Leonard

Alycia Delmore

Music byVince Smith

CinematographyBenjamin Kasulke

Edited byNat Sanders

BEACHES

Directed byGarry Marshall

Produced by

Bonnie Bruckheimer-Martell

Bette Midler

Margaret Jeuth

Written byMary Agnes Donoghue

Based onBeaches

by Iris Rainer Dart

Starring

Bette Midler

Barbara Hershey

Music byGeorges Delerue

CinematographyDante Spinotti

Edited byRichard Halsey

TERMINATOR 2: JUDGEMENT DAY

Directed byJames Cameron

Produced byJames Cameron

Written by

James Cameron

William Wisher

Starring

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Linda Hamilton

Edward Furlong

Robert Patrick

Music byBrad Fiedel

CinematographyAdam Greenberg

Edited by

Conrad Buff

Mark Goldblatt

Richard A. Harris

Production

company

Carolco Pictures

Pacific Western Productions

Lightstorm Entertainment

Le Studio Canal+ S.A.

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This week my wife and I talk Dolly Parton. You love Dolly Parton, don't be a liar, listen to the damn episode! And then we mix it all up at the end and ask who Cameron should have cast Dolly as in T2, is your mind blown yet? 

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Filmd Discussed:

9 TO 5

Directed byColin Higgins

Produced byBruce Gilbert

Written by

Colin Higgins

Patricia Resnick

Starring

Jane Fonda

Lily Tomlin

Dolly Parton

Dabney Coleman

Elizabeth Wilson

Sterling Hayden

Music byCharles Fox

CinematographyReynaldo Villalobos

Edited byPembroke J. Herring

RHINESTONE

Directed byBob Clark

Produced byHoward Smith

Bill Blake

Sandy Gallin

Richard Spitalny

Written byPhil Alden Robinson

Sylvester Stallone

Starring

Sylvester Stallone

Dolly Parton

Richard Farnsworth

Ron Leibman

Music byDolly Parton

Larry Weiss

CinematographyTimothy Galfas

Edited byStan Cole

John W. Wheeler

Tim Board

Gregory M. Gerlich

Richard Cadger

STEEL MAGNOLIAS

Directed byHerbert Ross

Produced byRay Stark

Andrew Stone

Victoria White

Screenplay byRobert Harling

Based onSteel Magnolias

by Robert Harling

Starring

Sally Field

Dolly Parton

Shirley MacLaine

Daryl Hannah

Olympia Dukakis

Julia Roberts

Tom Skerritt

Dylan McDermott

Kevin J. O'Connor

Sam Shepard

Music byGeorges Delerue

CinematographyJohn A. Alonzo

Edited byPaul Hirsch

TERMINATOR 2: JUDGEMENT DAY

Directed byJames Cameron

Produced byJames Cameron

Written by

James Cameron

William Wisher

Starring

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Linda Hamilton

Edward Furlong

Robert Patrick

Music byBrad Fiedel

CinematographyAdam Greenberg

Edited by

Conrad Buff

Mark Goldblatt

Richard A. Harris

Production

company

Carolco Pictures

Pacific Western Productions

Lightstorm Entertainment

Le Studio Canal+ S.A.

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This week, on a very special musical episode, I'm joined by Viktor Maco (IG: @evokist_) to discuss the impact of Vince DiCola and Stan Bush in cinema. Listen in as I discover that I'm actually a coward who needs to walk back everything I've ever said and VIktor and I drone on and on as we make the argument for a childhood fave. Movies discussed: BLOODSPORT, ROCKY IV and TRANSFORMERS: THE MOVIE

Music by Johnny Ampersand: https://jonnyampersand.bandcamp.com/

BLOODSPORT

Directed byNewt Arnold

Produced by

Mark DiSalle

Screenplay by

Christopher Cosby

Mel Friedman

Sheldon Lettich

Story bySheldon Lettich

Starring

Jean-Claude Van Damme

Donald Gibb

Leah Ayres

Norman Burton

Forest Whitaker

Bolo Yeung

Music byPaul Hertzog

CinematographyDavid Worth

Edited byCarl Kress

ROCKY IV

Directed bySylvester Stallone

Produced by

Irwin Winkler

Robert Chartoff

Written bySylvester Stallone

Starring

Sylvester Stallone

Talia Shire

Burt Young

Carl Weathers

Brigitte Nielsen

Dolph Lundgren

Music byVince DiCola

CinematographyBill Butler

Edited by

Don Zimmerman

John W. Wheeler

TRANSFORMERS: THE MOVIE

Directed byNelson Shin

Produced by

Joe Bacal[1]

Tom Griffith[1]

Screenplay byRon Friedman

Based onThe Transformers

by Hasbro & Takara

Starring

Eric Idle

Judd Nelson

Leonard Nimoy

Robert Stack

Lionel Stander

Orson Welles

Narrated byVictor Caroli

Music byVince DiCola

CinematographyMasatoshi Fukui

Edited byDavid Hankins

TERMINATOR 2: JUDGEMENT DAY

Directed byJames Cameron

Produced byJames Cameron

Written by

James Cameron

William Wisher

Starring

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Linda Hamilton

Edward Furlong

Robert Patrick

Music byBrad Fiedel

CinematographyAdam Greenberg

Edited by

Conrad Buff

Mark Goldblatt

Richard A. Harris

Production

company

Carolco Pictures

Pacific Western Productions

Lightstorm Entertainment

Le Studio Canal+ S.A.

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What movie’s better than Terminator 2?

And why do we all agree this one movie is so good?

Wait, do we even all agree that it’s so good?

How committed are you to your comfort movies?

What are the movies that deeply touch you?

And have you seen anything good lately?

Each episode a different guest discusses a series of movies with a theme or a topic they’re passionate about.

Then we ask them: “are these movies better than T2?”

It’s a stupid premise for a podcast

but it’s stupid on purpose.

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This week: Shitty White Suburbanites. Annie Rose of the Girls, Guts and Giallo podcast joins me as we process that strange enviroment we both grew out of. Films discussed: WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE, Suburbia, subUrbia and GHOST WORLD

Music by Johnny Ampersand: https://jonnyampersand.bandcamp.com/

Filmd Discussed:

WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE

Directed byTodd Solondz

Produced byTodd Solondz

Written byTodd Solondz

Starring

Heather Matarazzo

Brendan Sexton III

Eric Mabius

Matthew Faber

Music byJill Wisoff

CinematographyRandy Drummond

Edited byAlan Oxman

Production

company

Suburban Pictures

Suburbia

Directed byPenelope Spheeris

Produced byBert Dragin

Roger Corman

Written byPenelope Spheeris

Starring

Bill Coyne

Chris Pedersen

Jennifer Clay

Timothy Eric O'Brien

Wade Walston

Mike B. The Flea

Music byAlex Gibson

CinematographyTimothy Suhrstedt

Edited byRoss Albert

Production

company

Suburbia Productions

subUrbia

Directed byRichard Linklater

Produced byAnne Walker-McBay

Screenplay byEric Bogosian

Based onSubUrbia

by Eric Bogosian

Starring

Jayce Bartok

Amie Carey

Nicky Katt

Ajay Naidu

Parker Posey

Giovanni Ribisi

Samia Shoaib

Dina Spybey

Steve Zahn

Music byStewart Copeland

CinematographyLee Daniel

Edited bySandra Adair

Production

company

Castle Rock Entertainment

GHOST WORLD

Directed byTerry Zwigoff

Produced by

Lianne Halfon

John Malkovich

Russell Smith

Screenplay by

Daniel Clowes

Terry Zwigoff

Based onGhost World

by Daniel Clowes

Starring

Thora Birch

Scarlett Johansson

Brad Renfro

Illeana Douglas

Steve Buscemi

Music byDavid Kitay

CinematographyAffonso Beato

Edited by

Carole Kravetz-Aykanian

Michael R. Miller

Production

companies

Advanced Medien

Granada Film

Jersey Shore

Mr. Mudd

TERMINATOR 2: JUDGEMENT DAY

Directed byJames Cameron

Produced byJames Cameron

Written by

James Cameron

William Wisher

Starring

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Linda Hamilton

Edward Furlong

Robert Patrick

Music byBrad Fiedel

CinematographyAdam Greenberg

Edited by

Conrad Buff

Mark Goldblatt

Richard A. Harris

Production

company

Carolco Pictures

Pacific Western Productions

Lightstorm Entertainment

Le Studio Canal+ S.A.

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