Comedian Tom Smith joins host Steve Mazan to dissect Paddy Chayefsky and Sidney Lumet's "Network" from 1976.

Is UBS a joke?

Was Dunaway's character pro or anti-feminist?

What does "Sunset Blvd" have to do with all?

Was Robert Duvall ever a teenager?

Is Chayefsky a modern-day Nostradamus?

All these questions and more get answered on this week's Mazan Movie Club podcast.

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Sylvester Stallone's breakthrough hits the podcast and Comedian Steve Mazan and co-host Denise Mazan give it a fresh watch. Plus boxing expert Chris Strait chimes in.  

Is this the greatest sports film of all-time?

Is this the greatest film of all-time?

Could the "first kiss" scene be filmed today?

Is there a more recognizable gesture from a film?

Is there a movie-going experience like a Rocky movie?

All these questions and more get answered on this week's Mazan Movie Club podcast. 

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A man and a woman get together to discuss "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" and  no one yells, screams or insults each other. What the hell? Comedian Heather Hurst joins Steve Mazan to discuss it all.

Why was this in B&W?

Were Taylor and Burton worse onscreen or off?

Is the gunbrella still shocking?

Did reality TV transcend all this?

Is this obviously a play brought to the screen?

Who acts the best like a drunk?

All these questions and more get answered on this week's Mazan Movie Club podcast.

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Host Steve Mazan gets current Grunt Aaron Yankosky to come back on the show and talk all about Oliver stone's 1986 Best Picture winner: Platoon.

Was this a false introduction to Charlie Sheen?

Is this the first real anti-war film?

How recognizable is the famous Dafoe arms to heaven gesture?

Who is best in a film of great performances?

Was this a false introduction to Willem Dafoe?

Is there one small false note at the end?

All these questions and more get answered on this week's Mazan Movie Club podcast. 

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Comedian Mark Pitta joins Steve Mazan to discuss a film he has a lot of ties to: "Raging Bull" from 1980. Boxing expert Chris Strait pops in to offer some perspective as well. 

Is this Deniro's best acting ever?

Is this film rewatchable?

Was the real Vickie LaMotta even hotter than Catherine Moriarity?

Why is the sound all over the place?

Can you imagine heckling Pesci and Frank Vincent?

Is this the 4th greatest movie ever?

All these questions and more get answered on this week's Mazan Movie Club podcast. 

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Photojournalist and fellow podcaster Matt Santos joins comedian Steve Mazan to discuss the legendary film and legendary shoot of "The African Queen" from 1951.

Was the film secondary for John Huston?

How good is this screenplay?

Why did Bogart NOT deserve his Oscar? 

Was this the first movie turned into a theme park ride?

How many movies stole from this?

What does Fonzie have to do with all of it?

All these questions and more get discussed on this week's Mazan Movie Club podcast.

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Comedian Calvin Murata joins host Steve Mazan to discuss "Annie Hall"...Calvin has never seen a Woody Allen film and gives a fresh millennial take on this Oscar winner.

Was "Star Wars" robbed?

Is this a love story?

Is Diane Keaton crazy and playing herself?

How influential is this movie?

Did Woody start the "guy with chick out of his league" trend?

What was Jeff Goldblum's Mantra?

All these questions and a whole lot more get answered on this week's Mazan Movie Club podcast. 

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Comedian Steve Mazan is joined by his co-host Denise Mazan, who had never seen the film, to discuss "Midnight Cowboy" along with multiple time viewer The Irish Critic.

Is this a top 100 film?

Should it have been X-rated?

Is Hoffman's cab thumping scene not dissected enough?

What the hell is Joe Buck's truth?

Is Joe Buck the baseball announcer worse?

Does anyone miss this NYC?

Is this blacklist redemption?

All these questions and more get answered on this week's Mazan Movie Club podcast

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Sam Peckinpah's revolutionary 1969 film "The Wild Bunch" hits the club and comedian Mark Pitta, fresh off a book about it, joins us to discuss it all.

Is this the greatest Western ever?

How come so many great Westerns can out in the late 60's when the genre was dying?

Do we have anyone like Ernest Borgnine today?

How much older than 51 does William Holden look?

Is the bridge explosion the greatest stunt ever?

Does Vietnam have anything to do with what's on screen? Do audiences only like violent Peckinpah 

All these questions and a lot more get answered on this week's Mazan Movie Club podcast. 

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Host Steve Mazan gets joined by velvety-voice fellow comic Chris Strait to discuss the Oscar champ of 1961 "West Side Story" from co-directors Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins...and an uncredited Shakespeare. 

How well does this hold up?

Are Immigration & Police Corruption just as timely today?

Is it's influence bigger than it's actual value?

Is two and a half hours too much ballet fighting?

Is the cinematography the forgotten star?

Is it ok to play another race if they dub your voice?

Is a musical rape scene as ambitious as it gets?

All these questions and more get answered on this week's Mazan Movie Club Podcast.

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