REEL RIFF RAFFS: Movie Podcast

This week we check out the movie that put Martin Scorcese on the map with his first mainstream movie Mean Streets. This also kicked off the careers of Harvey Keitel and Robert Deniro. Loosely based on the director's life, this a gritty look at the streets of 1970s NY. Don't be a mook, Check it out!!

This week we look back at the polarizing but undeniably classic, A Clockwork Orange. Love it or Hate it this was one to talk about. We talk about the behind the scenes along with general reactions now and back when it was initially released. Check it out!

This week we watched and talked about the Oscar winner for Best Picture, The Sting. Starring the late, great Robert Redford and his partner in crime Paul Newman, this Con job comedy was a treat for those who never saw it and great time talking about the behind the scenes. So check it out!!

This week we talk Sam Peckinpah's Western classic The Wild Bunch. Mainly known for the first time a western depicted violence in bloody battles. We highly enjoyed this one and had a fun time talking about it and going behind the scenes. So Check it out!!!

This week we revisit the horror classic George A Romero's Night of the Living Dead. The movie that changed the way zombies would be interpreted for almost 60 years. This drive-in hit spawned multiple sequels including one of the greatest zombie movies "Dawn of the Dead". Check out where it all started.

This weeks episode is the beginning of the "New Hollywood" era. Bonnie and Clyde starring Warren Beaty and Faye Dunaway. The musicals and light hearted films ran by the studio heads now started taking a darker albeit artistic movement from Directors and Actors. America was also going through a rough time and it showed throughout the movies of the late 60s to the later 70s. Join us as we go through these films that helped change the way we see movies today and how they were made. Check it out

This week's episode we go back to the old west for a comedy/adventure full of gun slinging, Poker playing and lots of swindling. Directed by Richard Donner of the Lethal Weapon movies and starring Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster and James Garner. Based on the old TV show of the same name. Check it out!!

https://youtu.be/i7VZ3fr-AA8

After the success of our Above the Law episode we decided to test the waters with another Steven Seagall vehicle, Marked for Death. While we're just as harsh on the "actor" we are less harsh on the movie. Where else can you get lines like "One thought he was invincible, the other thought he could fly...They were both wrong!" Check it out!

https://youtu.be/tGiEngqvhrg

In our second episode of Season 2 we go back to a movie that constantly played on cable and was watched everytime. Me and brother can quote this movie from begining to end. Its the hilarious Damon Wayons, straight out of In Living Color, with Major Payne. Check it out!!

We are finally back with our season premiere of Season 2: The 90s!! We start it off with the a bang as we discuss the Oscar winning movie that put the Coen Bros on the map, Fargo. We get into a lot of behing the scenes and making of this Crime thriller based on a true story...Or was it? Find out in the premiere episode with more episodes dropping every week.

https://youtu.be/Ak29i6pWZtE