Silver Screeners

It's Al Pacino and John Cazale in Brooklyn facing off against Ben Affleck and Jeremy Renner in Boston as two worthy films, 1975's Dog Day Afternoon and 2010's The Town, dive into the messy business of bank heists. Plus, behind-the-scenes fun facts, poll results, interactive trivia, and listener shout-outs!

Silver Screeners celebrates Pride Month with a look at two comedy-dramas, both, ironically, with a lead character named Simon. From singles clubs and wedding banquets to Ferris wheels and first kisses, these stories come straight from the heart. Plus, behind-the-scenes fun facts, poll results, interactive trivia, and listener shout-outs!

Timid, hopeless romantic Joan Wilder meets swashbuckling wiseass Jack Colton in the mountains of Colombia while trying to save her abducted sister from a comically angry Danny DeVito. Less than a year later (screen time), the trio find themselves in Egypt to unlock the mystery of the Jewel of the Nile. Will they survive a rain-soaked mudslide? Will they travel safely on a train rooftop? Will their love find a way? And what happens when a crocodile gulps down a human hand clutching an emerald the size of a softball? Plus, behind-the-scenes fun facts, poll results, interactive trivia, and listener shout-outs!

Lord Almighty, you'll feel your temperature risin' in this episode that takes a look at two acting roles of the one and only King of Rock N' Roll himself, Elvis Presley. From rocking out with inmates in a prison to a more dramatic turn as a medical doctor in an inner-city neighborhood who falls for a nurse who's an incognito nun, he threw himself into film performances that prove he's more than just a hunka-hunka-burnin' love. Plus, behind-the-scenes fun facts, poll results, interactive trivia, and listener shout-outs! "Thank you, thank you very much..."

Some apples bring poison to the fairest in the land, and others are pre-attached to your bow and arrow to fool army generals into thinking you're a perfect shot. Regardless, a look at the 85th anniversary of (the general release of) Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the first full-length Technicolor animated feature film in English, and the 25th of Mulan, based on the ancient Chinese poem. Plus, the usual behind-the-scenes fun facts, poll results, interactive trivia, and listener shout-outs!

A pair of charismatic bank robbers in the Great Depression era of the 30s out to screw the system ("We rob banks.") and a pair of drug-dealing, anti-Establishment motorcycle riders traveling cross-country in pursuit of the ever-elusive American Dream in 1969 ("I'm goin' down to Mardi Gras!") ... two landmarks of the so-called "New Hollywood" of the late 60s/70s that contributed to the redefinition of cinematic storytelling! Plus, behind-the-scenes fun facts, poll results, interactive trivia, and listener shout-outs!

The legend that is Jimmy Stewart was Oscar-nominated for a whimsical comedy-drama about a man with an imaginary 6-foot-plus tall friend of the Oryctolagus cuniculus persuasion, while former Mouseketeer Ryan Gosling plays a troubled loner who conjures up in his imagination a relationship with a life-sized plastic doll. Confused? You won't be after hearing about these films that explore the themes of love and loss, guilt and fear, and ultimately, the power of the self. Plus, the usual behind-the-scenes fun facts, poll results, interactive trivia, and listener shout-outs!

"Uh-uh-uh, nobody says the 'B' word." Will Winona Ryder become the bride of Beetlejuice? Will Ricky Gervais stop seeing see dead people? Two wacky comedies about the hereafter interacting with the living feature in this episode that celebrates the 35th anniversary of Tim Burton's twisted tale and pays tribute to the late, great Harry Belafonte. Plus, behind-the-scenes fun facts, poll results, interactive trivia, and listener shout-outs! "Senora dances calypso, left to right is de tempo, and when she gets the sensation, she go up in the air, come down in slow motion, jump in de line, rock your body in time..."

In one film, Polly wants more than a cracker as deadly bird attacks plague Bodega Bay, California in Alfred Hitchcock's now-60-year-old aviary-like nightmare that blends thrills with Hitch's trademark sardonic humor. Who's in the cage now? In the second film, more people earn the nicknames of "lunch" as an unfortunate bear goes wild after devouring untold amounts of ... title tells all in this outrageous, over-the-top schlock-fest full of absurd comedy and gobs of bloodshed. Plus, a sweet story of a baby gorilla and the woes of working in Woolworth's. It all comes together, along with the usual poll results, interactive trivia segment, and listener shout-outs!

On April 21, 1880, a sea vessel off the coast of Antonio Bay, CA met with a terrible fate. 100 years later, will the deceased return in ... the fog? Chris of the Movie Psycho Podcast returns for what unintentionally became the third film with Janet Leigh (after 1960's Psycho and 1958's Touch of Evil) that we discussed on this show. We talk favorite scenes from this supernatural horror film, exchange fun facts, and extol the talents of John Carpenter and Debra Hill. Plus, the usual poll results, interactive trivia segment, and listener shout-outs! "Enough time for one more story..."