Sneaky Dragon

Ciao, cinemaphiles! This week we look at a film that doesn’t seem to be getting much attention: Motherless Brooklyn – a film celebrating hard-boiled detective films and civil engineering directed, written for the screen, and starring Edward Norton.

As per usual, one host liked the movie while the other wasn’t so keen on it. Who liked it and who didn’t?

Well, we’ll let Ian and Dave fansplain it for you.

Thanks for listening.

Hola, Sneakers! Welcome to Episode 416 – and THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF OUR CONTEST WINNER! So that’s pretty exciting.

This week on the show: a bard beginning; the big come on; burgers, eggs and potatoes; Dave guests; the genesis of the Bible; a disgusting sandwich; best plug ever; gritty milkshakes; the German potato salad list; Germans hate their food; smelly sandwich etiquette; fish boat food; grandparents love; narrowed lives; stretch your life muscles; bizzy, bizzy; the gift that keeps on gifting; back down The Black Hole; Question of the Week – Sneakers respond; eat the Nazis; scary hat; it’s the flying monkeys; kittlers; Halloween Scrooge; more scary movies; Ian reaches into the prize pants; and, finally, thematic.

Question of the Week: Tell us about something you’ve won. Sub-question: What’s your favourite sci-fi novel?

Thanks for listening.

Here is the official image of the word cloud created by Brent Tannehill from the audio he carefully scanned of our show since its beginnings in the mid-1960s:

This is for Ian and you:

Hello, partygoers! Well, as Dave said during this bi-week’s episode, it’s always a little sad when we reach the end of a listener’s mixtape.

This week finish up Dylan O’Connell’s segment of the Sneaky Dragon Mixtape Project with the second side of his second mixtape. Hey, when you’re sending CD-Rs all the way from Australia, make it count!

This episode’s “side” is a little short as Side One got a bit over-full when the disc was being put together. But no matter, the songs are still great, and we threw in a couple of extra ones to make up for it!

We hope you’ll enjoy Dave’s choice of songs:

* The Scenics – “Do the Wait” – In the Summer – Studio Recordings 1977-78, 2009* Stephen Malkmus and the jicks – “Cold Sun” – Real Emotional Trash, 2008* The Pretty Things – “Walking Through My Dreams” – Double A-sided single, “Talking About the Good Times” b/w “Walking Through My Dreams, 1968* The Three O’Clock – “Tomorrow” – Sixteen Tambourines. 1983* Stereolab – “Strobo-Acceleration” – Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night, 1999* White Denim – “Bess St” – D, 2011* No Fun – “These Women Are My Enemy –Snivel, 1984* Love – “You Set the Scene” – Forever Changes, 1967

And we also played:

* The Pretty Things – “Eagle’s Son” – More of the Electric Banana, 1968* Terry Callier – “Ordinary Joe” – Occasional Rain, 1972

Thanks for joining us in the rumpus room. Rock on!

Hola, Sneakers! Welcome to episode of 415 – the episode before 416!

This week on the show: who is who; Heaven’s car crash; Ryan Reynold came so close; who’s to blame; beware the script in the desk; so many questions about Hardcastle and McCormick; list of the week: Stephen J. Cannell; bee rules; sexy crimes; what was J.J. Starbuck about; Magnum’s ghost; a new Fantasy Island; Saturday night’s alright; background jiggle; slow porn; bad Superman; our overlords; nostalgia is what it ain’t to be; when the cats away, the mice watch TV; hairiest movie; the real mystery; a tennis shoe wearing computer; a hoodie is not a jacket; a strange choice; exploring the black hole; lonely days; nerd-dar; 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea; Kurt Russell’s first film; good double bill; how to be a shaggy dog; where are all the black holes; Question of the Week – Sneakers respond; scary movies; some poetry; bothering God; exploding blimp; overwhelming films, Dave fixes Full Metal Jacket; and, finally, Chick Talk™ returns!

Question of the Week: Did you subscribe to Disney Plus? What are looking forward to watching? Sub-question: Have you ever saved an animal’s life? Sub-sub-question: Is there a film that needs fixing? Fix it!

And remember, this the last week of our contests: Do the impossible: describe Sneaky Dragon in thirty words or less as though you’re describing the show to your friend (or mortal enemy) and win a Sneaky Dragon grab bag!

Thanks for listening.

Ciao, cinemaphiles! Welcome to a special episode of The Fansplainers Film Cast: Ian and Dave agree!!!

This week the guys watched the newest film from New Zealand director Taika Waititi – Jojo Rabbit, a sad, funny, scary story of Jojo, a young boy growing up in WWII Germany and his imaginary friend, Hitler. It might sound glib, but it’s not – it’s heartfelt and touching and funny and…

Well, we’ll let Ian and Dave fansplain it for you.

Thanks for listening.

Hola, Sneakers! Welcome to Episode 414 of the most post-Halloween haunted podcast on the internet!

Thia week: off-mike chewing; gross bodies; beautiful sex; gross babies; you don’t need to know; unfair maternity; gestational fun; craw danger; ineffective horrifying images; terrifying teens; who’s who; how to ghost; bunkum artists; occult museum; a one-haunted doll show; demonic banquet; Joe Pesci vs. a doll; studied ignorance; a one movie marathon; Netflix peril; Dexter Reilly trilogy; TV shows that were simultaneously movies; weak Halloween showing; Question of the Week – Sneakers respond; Ian’s dream chocolate bars; where’s the dance party?; borrowed transoms; creepy, unsettling, disturbing David Lynch; Dave “loves” spoilers; and, finally, no joke.

Question of the Week: What’s the scariest movie you’ve ever seen? Sub-question: Has there been a movie with a scene that, for you, overwhelmed the movie?

And remember, our contest continues: Do the impossible – describe Sneaky Dragon in thirty words or less as though you’re describing the show to your friend or mortal enemy and win a Sneaky Dragon grab bag!

Thanks for listening.

Ian demanded it, and here it is: follow this link to the quaintly humorous Warren’s Occult Museum.

A video tour with Annabelle the killer doll:

Dave won’t watch it!

Welcome, partygoers! We’re so glad you’ve joined Dave and Mary as they sit around the old gramophone and spin some discs. As always, there’s lots of room in the Listening Party Rumpus Room so pull up a comfy chair and settle down to hear this week’s selection of great tunes!

On this episode, things get a little quieter after the noisy, punkish mid-90s Canadiana of the last two episodes. For Dylan O’Connell’s second mixtape, Dave seems to have unconsciously chosen a more sedate group of songs to counteract his selection of songs on Dylan’s first mixtape.

We hope you’ll enjoy Dave’s choice of songs:

* Super Furry Animals – “Tradewinds” – Rings Around the World, 2001* The Shins – “Kissing the Lipless” – Chutes Too Narrow, 2003* Drive By Truckers – “Danko, Manuel” – The Dirty South, 2004* Prefab Sprout – “Bonny” – Steve McQueen, 1986* Sharon Van Etten – “Nothing Will Change” – Are We There, 2014* Rita Lee and Tutti Frutti – “O Toque” – Fruito Proibido, 1975* Death Vessel – “Bruno’s Torso” – Nothing Is Precious Enough for Us, 2008* Air – “Run” – Talkie Walkie, 2003* Richard Hell and the Voidoids – “Walking on the Water” – Blank Generation, 1977* Low – “Silver Rider” – The Great Destroyer, 2005

Also played on this bi-week’s episode:

* Creedence Clearwater Revival – “Walk on the Water” – Creedence Clearwater Revival , 1968 (The cover of this song by 1970s art punkers Richard Hell and the Voidoids uses the original title of the song when CCR recorded it in 1966 under their previous name The Golliwogs. This single – credited to John and Tom Fogerty under the nom de tunes Toby Green and Rann Wilde – uses a slightly different arrangement and doesn’t feature the longer instrumental work out of the later album cut. a curiously deep cut of a choice by a supposedly scorched earth-everything sucks before 1970-something or other punk act.)

Here is the original version of The Golliwogs “Walking on the Water”:

This week on the show: en français; Stan the man; underappreciated puma; the good Paris; his kind of town; supplementary mop; Crazy Guggenheim; foley work; plus un; nerds français; Parisian hot dog controversy; hot dogs of the world; indiscreet hotel; l’amour dans un ascenseur; trop soon, trop soon; a phone call to the past; old comedy always dies; too much stuff; born not funny; on your wavelength; sunburned porn; phenomenal porn; just porns; armed spider; plot victim; prize shock; coconut troubles; Nilsson schmillson; and, finally, Popeye schmopeye.

Thanks for listening.

Question of the Week: Do the impossible: describe Sneaky Dragon in thirty words or less as though you’re describing the show to your friend or mortal enemy.

And remember: Enter for the chance to win a Sneaky Dragon grab bag!

Fabulous Popeye!

Not so fabulous Popeye! (And yet…and yet…)

Yikes!

Ciao, cinemaniacs! And welcome to to another episode of The Fansplainers – a spoiler-enriched film cast!

This week Ian steps off an airplane and walks right into to the studio to face off with Dave over the action spectacle Gemini Man, featuring director Ang Lee’s obsession with high frame rate film technology. As the trailers have made clear, it’s old Will Smith versus young Will Smith – age and guile versus youth and a bad haircut as PJ O’Rourke once said.

It should be a win-win situation, but…well, we’ll let Ian and Dave fansplain it to you.

Thanks for listening.

Hola, Sneakers! Welcome to Episode 412 of a Sneaky Dragon podcast! “FOUR_TWELVE!?! WHAT’S A FOUR-TWELVE!?!”

This week: sneak legal; apologies; adult milk chocolate; Great movies; Baz movies; old; health advice; rock the vote; joke-splaining; Oscar bait; living in memory; de-planning; hags; ghost girls; getting The Shining; let’s rate Stephen King movies; and, finally, Children of the Corny.

Thanks for listening.

Question of the Week: Do you have any notes for our polanned re-write on the tenth film in the popular(?) series Children of the Corn? Sub-question: What’s your favourite Stephen King book? (Not story, book.)

Run-run-run-run-runaway!