Old Fogies & Films

Shelly invites you to our next episode featuring her latest movie on the marquee, coming March 9!

If you spent this past Presidents’ Day lamenting that the world has gone to hell in a handbasket and foolishly yearning for the innocent, halcyon days of yesteryear, witness an 80-year-old story about a corrupt, capitalistic mogul with a penchant for Fake News who collects statues like Twitter followers, produced by a media-savvy, entitled 25-year-old. We’re talking about 1941’s Citizen Kane! The more things change, the more they stay the same! All that was missing was a diss track from Susan Alexander Kane.

Fahad invites you to our next episode featuring one of his picks, coming February 23!

This Valentine’s Day, bask in the bromantic lovelight of two men riding the rails together, explaining their relationship to exes, struggling in handcuffs and roleplaying for money. That’s right, the Fogies celebrated by watching Midnight Run! Was 1988 a slow year at the Golden Globes? We get a little sidetracked by My So-Called Life—we had a good reason, promise.

Ruth invites you to our next episode featuring one of her picks, coming February 9!

Mix 1 cup of privilege, ½ cup youthful naïveté, a dash of exploitation gore, the zest of one Spy Kid’s dick, and a sprig of ethnocentricity, and you have quite the rub. The Fogies do a little roasting, but consider the value of the presentation too, in this episode on Eli Roth’s The Green Inferno. The culture shock is certainly, er, shocking.

Tikia invites you to our next episode featuring one of her picks, coming January 26!

Be honest, when Martin Luther King Jr. Day rolls around, do you usually spend the long holiday weekend observing the struggle and sacrifices of the, ONGOING, civil rights movement? A-ha! Caught you! Well, lucky for you, the Fogies have had some food for thought and we packed up the leftovers for you in our episode on Spike Lee’s Do The Right Thing. This is one pie with a lot of toppings. Grab a slice!

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is almost here! Aric invites you to our next episode featuring his pick in anticipation of a long weekend we’re sure you’ll spend considering your civil liberties, coming January 12!

Remember snowstorms? Neither do we. Good luck describing those, or the meaning of this movie, to your kids, but we hope the Old Fogies’ discussion of Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining gives you plenty of talking points! In many cultures, winter signifies the end, the death of the world, or at least the end of a cycle of life, before rebirth. On many calendars, December is also the end, so we’ll see you in the hopefully brighter, definitely warmer future in 2022!