With a career as long, varied, and impressive as Denzel Washington's, it's almost inevitable that some great pictures are going to slip through the cracks of film history, so MG wants to shine a spotlight on two of the actor's most interesting, most forgotten films! First up, he's cool as hell in 1989's The Mighty Quinn, a seemingly breezy Jamaican mystery-adventure that mixes light 80's action comedy with a sinister colonial subtext - and next up, we have the should-have-been-a-franchise masterpiece Devil in a Blue Dress from 1995, featuring an all-time great team-up with the amazing Don Cheadle!

Since the 2010's, smart, slow-burn horror films have come steadily back into the spotlight, to the point where A24 has created a cottage industry for itself with arthouse-friendly hits like Midsommar, The Witch, and Saint Maud. But in reviewing Polanski's late-60's classic, MG feels there's still nothing like Mia Farrow in the spooky, funny, and weirdly upsetting Rosemary's Baby, which manages to both capture and criticize the zeitgeist of the decade in a way that is profoundly relevant even half a century later!

With The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and Killing Them Softly, it could be said that director Andrew Dominik specialized in making box-office bombs that were only later discovered to be works of genius. According to Netflix's numbers however, he broke that trend with his next film, gathering 37,340,000 viewing hours...but unfortunately, that movie was also the most widely hated, critically savaged release of the year: the Ana de Armas starrer Blonde!  Will MG go with the crowd on this one, or has Dominik made another secret classic?

It's a special day when we discover that one of us hasn't gotten around to seeing a true classic, but it's doubly sweet when it's a film as legendary as the movie we've got for you tonight! That's right, Chris has never seen David Lynch's masterful takedown of the film industry - the dreamy, mazelike, and heartbreaking Mulholland Drive starring Naomi Watts and Laura Harring! So get yourself a fancy espresso and settle in for his powerful initial impression on what might be the first great film of the 21st century!

There are two types of Adam Sandler fans: those who love raunchy, dumb, slapdash, quick-turnaround, cash-grab, overlit junk - like Hubie Halloween, Ridiculous 6, Jack & Jill,and Little Nicky, and those who enjoy brilliant acting, thoughtful screenplays, and artful direction - as seen in The Meyerowitz Stories, Hustle,and Punch Drunk Love. MG is in the latter camp, but even we were unprepared for the insane intensity, crazy filmmaking, and the tour-de-force central performance of the film we're taking on tonight: Uncut Gems!

As our listeners know, Martini Giant loves the films of the 1970s more than any other decade - and with tonight's double feature, we take a look at the one-two punch that saved the studios and changed our understanding of what movies could be: Arthur Penn's brutal, sultry, and utterly game-changing Bonnie & Clyde, starring Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty - and the elegiac counterculture masterpiece Easy Rider directed by and starring Dennis Hopper, with iconic performances by Peter Fonda and Jack Nicholson!

Now that's a lot of martinis! Join us as MG celebrates its 100th episode with the amazing DR. SCOTT ROSS, founder of legendary VFX house Digital Domain! We talk about the industry, his storied career, and of course we go deep on one of his very favorite films - one we can't believe we haven't covered yet, given that it's the culmination of everything we love about American cinema in the 1970s - Francis Ford Coppola's hallucinatory Vietnam masterpiece, Apocalypse Now!  This is an epic episode in every way, so ice up your favorite drink and raise a glass with us!

Fight Club was a bomb upon release, but has since worked its way so deeply into modern culture that it it's hard to imagine internet discourse itself, let alone film history, without it. But MG argues that even though it is an iconic point of reference for so many subjects, it's also one of the most profoundly misunderstood and misinterpreted films of all time, and it's subtle critiques (yep, it has 'em) have only gotten clearer as Fincher's filmography has grown more openly thoughtful and challenging. See what you may have missed as we get zen with David Fincher's masterpiece!

Charlie Kaufman has done what few screenwriters ever have: created a niche so unique - on display in strange masterpieces like Adaptation, Anomalisa, and Netflix's I'm Thinking of Ending Things - that when audiences see his name on the marquee, they know they're in for a special blend of funny, surreal and smart that it's hard to find in any other Hollywood film. So join us as MG takes on two of his very best: Jim Carey and Kate Winslet's dual career-best Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and John Malkovitch's legendary turn in Being John Malkovitch!

Hollywood has always had an originality problem: they'd always rather steal or repackage a successful foreign film than come up with something new - and the list of these junky remakes is a depressingly long one, from the slick genius of Luc Besson's La Femme Nikita being turned into the tapioca Point of No Return, or Spike Lee's ill-advised reimagining of Park Chan-wook's legendary Oldboy. But tonight's double feature suffers no such generational loss - join us as MG takes on the epic Indonesian actioner The Raid, and its brilliant sci-fi rehash: Karl Urban's Dredd!