By Joe Curdy
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Welcome back to The Fixate & Binge Podcast, for the seventh episode of a new 10-part series on underappreciated films.
Spanning over 55 -years of forgotten Hollywood gems, join Joe for every episode as he discusses in depth his selection of five films that are worth rewatching or even viewing for the first time!
Part 8 of this 10-part series the following films are reviewed:
CONFESSIONS OF A DANGEROUS MIND (2002) Starring Sam Rockwell, Julia Roberts, George Clooney
THE BLIND SWORDSMAN: ZATOICHI (2003) Starring Takeshi Kitano, Tadanobu Asano
DEAD MAN'S SHOES (2004) Starring Paddy Considine, Toby Kebbell
LUCKY NUMBER SLEVIN (2006) Starring Josh Hartnett, Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, Ben Kingsley, Stanley Tuck, Lucy Lui
TELL NO ONE (2006) Starring François Cluzet, Marie-Josée Croze, Kristin Scott Thomas, Jean Rochefort, Guillaume Canet,
Joe Also provides a spoiler-free impression on the meaning of Yorgos Lanthimos' latest film KINDS OF KINDNESS that you won't want to miss!
The hope of this podcast is to engender a greater appreciation of the magic of moviemaking and how far the film industry has come in the preceding decades.
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Welcome back to The Fixate & Binge Podcast, for the seventh episode of a new 10-part series on underappreciated films.
Spanning over 55 -years of forgotten Hollywood gems, join Joe for every episode as he discusses in depth his selection of five films that are worth rewatching or even viewing for the first time!
Part 7 of this 10-part series the following films are reviewed:
NARC (2002) Starring Ray Liotta, Jason Patric, Busta Rhymes
DEATH TO SMOOCHY (2002) Starring Robin Williams, Edward Norton, Catherine Keener, Jon Stewart
PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE (2002) Starring Adam Sandler, Emily Watson, Philip Seymour Hoffman
WELCOME TO COLLINWOOD (2002) Starring Sam Rockwell, William H. Macy, Isaiah Washington, Michael Jeter, Luis Guzman, George Clooney
REIGN OF FIRE (2002) Starring Christian Bale, Matthew McConaughey, Gerard Butler, Izabella Scorupco
Joe also tackles the controversial decision by producers of FX/Hulu's award-winning series of THE BEAR to keep submitting it for the Emmys in the "comedy" categories and why this is subverting the notion of what television comedy is.
The hope of this podcast is to engender a greater appreciation of the magic of moviemaking and how far the film industry has come in the preceding decades.
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Welcome back to The Fixate & Binge Podcast, for the sixth episode of a new 10-part series on underappreciated films.
Spanning over 55 -years of forgotten Hollywood gems, join Joe for every episode as he discusses in depth his selection of five films that are worth rewatching or even viewing for the first time!
Part 6 of this 10-part series the following films are reviewed:
THE 13TH WARRIOR (1999) Starring Antonio Banderas, Omar Sharif
DANCER IN THE DARK (2000) Starring Björk, Catherine Deneuve, David Morse
BILLY ELLIOT (2000) Starring Jamie Bell, Julie Walters, Gary Lewi
SEXY BEAST (2000) Starring Sir Ben Kingsley, Ray Winstone, Ian McShane
FRAILTY (2001) Starring Bill Paxton, Matthew McConaughey, Powers Boothe
Joe also gives **SPOILER-FREE** reactions to SPEAK NO EVIL -- Apple TV's SLOW HORSES (now in its 4th brilliant season) and the new BAD MONKEY series.
The hope of this podcast is to engender a greater appreciation of the magic of moviemaking and how far the film industry has come in the preceding decades.
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Welcome back to The Fixate & Binge Podcast, for the fifth episode of a new 10-part series on underappreciated films.
Spanning over 55 -years of forgotten Hollywood gems, join Joe for every episode as he discusses in depth his selection of five films that are worth rewatching or even viewing for the first time!
Part 5 of this 10-part series the following films are reviewed:
THE GAME (1997) Starring Michael Douglas, Sean Penn, Deborah Kara Unger
FESTEN (or, THE CELEBRATION) (1998) Starring Ulrich Thomsen Henning Moritzen, Thomas Bo Larsen
A SIMPLE PLAN (1998) Starring Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton, Bridget Fonda, Brent Briscoe
WAKING NED DEVINE (1998) Starring Ian Bannen, David Kelly, Fionnula Flanagan
THE LIMEY (1999) Starring Terence Stamp, Peter Fonda, Luis Guzman
Joe also gives a **SPOILER-FREE** reaction to Tim Burton's latest -- BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE -- and also offer his impressions on Netflix's latest viral actioned, REBEL RIDGE .
The hope of this podcast is to engender a greater appreciation of the magic of moviemaking and how far the film industry has come in the preceding decades.
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Welcome back to The Fixate & Binge Podcast, for the fourth episode of a new 10-part series on underappreciated films.
Spanning over 55 -years of forgotten Hollywood gems, join Joe for every episode as he discusses in depth his selection of five films that are worth rewatching or even viewing for the first time!
Part 4 of this 10-part series the following films are reviewed:
The Madness of King George (1994) Starring Nigel Hawthorne, Helen Mirren, Ian Holm, Rupert Everett
The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996) Starring Gene Davis, Samuel L Jackson
The Ghost and the Darkness (1996) Starring Val Kilmer, Michael Douglas
Brassed Off (1996) Starring Pete Postlethwaite, Ewan McGregor, Tara Fitzgerlad
Grosse Pointe Blank (1997) Starring John Cusack, Minnie Driver
Joe also gives a **SPOILER-FREE** reaction to Amazon Prime's new animated series, BATMAN: CAPED CRUSADER -- and the runaway, feel-good comedy THELMA starring nonagenarian June Squibb, in a career best performance that will warm your heart.
The hope of this podcast is to engender a greater appreciation of the magic of moviemaking and how far the film industry has come in the preceding decades.
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Welcome back to The Fixate & Binge Podcast, for the third episode of a new 10-part series on underappreciated films.
Spanning over 55 -years of forgotten Hollywood gems, join Joe as every episode he discusses in depth his selection of five films that are worth rewatching or even viewing for the first time!
Part 3 of this 10-part series the following films are reviewed:
THE QUIET EARTH (1985) Starring Bruno Lawrence, Alison Routledge
ENEMY MINE (1985) Starring Dennis Quaid, Louis Gossett, Jr
THE NAME OF THE ROSE (1986) Starring Sean Connery, Christian Slater, F. Murray Abraham
ROSENCRANTZ & GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD (1990) Starring Tim Roth, Gary Oldman, Richard Dreyfus
REALITY BITES (1994) Starring Winona Ryder, Ethan Hawke, Janeane Garofalo, Steve Zahn
Joe also gives a **SPOILER-FREE** reaction to the psychological, runaway hit, STRANGE DARLING (2023) -- starring Willa Fitzgerald currently in theaters now!
The hope of this podcast is to engender a greater appreciation of the magic of moviemaking and how far the film industry has come in the preceding decades.
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Welcome back to The Fixate & Binge Podcast, for the second episode of a new 10-part series on underappreciated films.
Spanning over 55 -years of forgotten Hollywood gems, join Joe as every episode he discusses in depth his selection of five films that are worth rewatching or even viewing for the first time!
Part 2 of this 10-part series the following films are reviewed:
NEVER CRY WOLF (1983) Starring Charles Martin Smith, Brian Dennehy
THE DEAD ZONE (1983) Starring Christopher Walken, Martin Sheen
GREYSTOKE: THE LEGEND OF TARZAN, LORD OF THE APES (1984) Starring Christopher Lambert, Ian Holm, Ralph Richardson, Andie MacDowell
THE LAST STARFIGHTER (1984) Starring Lance Guest, Robert Preston
LADYHAWKE (1985) Starring Rutger Hauer, Michelle Pfeiffer, Matthew Broderick
Joe also gives a **SPOILER-FREE** reaction to Fede Alvarez's ALIEN: ROMULUS (2024) currently in theaters now.
The hope of this podcast is to engender a greater appreciation of the magic of moviemaking and how far the film industry has come in the preceding decades.
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Welcome back to The Fixate & Binge Podcast, for the first episode of a new 10-part series on underappreciated films.
Spanning over 55-years of forgotten Hollywood gems, join Joe as every episode he discusses in depth his selection of five films that are worth rewatching or even viewing for the first time!
Part 1 of this 10-part series the following films are reviewed:
WHERE EAGLES DARE (1968) Starring Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood
HAROLD & MAUDE (1971) Starring Ruth Gordon, Bud Cort
PAPILLON (1973) Starring Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman
THE MAN FROM SNOWY RIVER (1982) Starring Kirk Douglas, Tom Burlinson
WARGAMES (1983) Starring Matthew Broderick, Ally Sheedy
The hope of this podcast is to engender a greater appreciation of the magic of moviemaking and how far the film industry has come in the preceding decades.
For this new season, special thanks to our new composer from Sweden for the gracious use of the song Breach and Sink by AVYSAE -- whose Spotify page can be found here.
We'll see you for next week's Part 2, discussing a new set of five films.
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Tighten up your straight jacket, exfoliate your funny bone, and get ready for the Ultimate List of Cinema's Greatest Comedies of the Last 80 years!Thank you for listening! You can find and follow us with the links below!
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A Venn Diagram of perfection, Michael Mann's HEAT presents a mid-1990s Los Angeles as a sprawling concrete jungle of conformity that neither the cops or the robbers want any part of. Three masters at the height of their careers -- Mann, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, converging to make this masterpiece is the stuff of cinephile dreams.
Join Joe on this deep-dive into all things HEAT -- how the story came to be, what events inspired Mann to make this masterpiece, and where the story will go from here for the upcoming HEAT 2 soon-to-be-announced!
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