Mike talks with Mark Shapiro about the documentary he co-directed with Douglas Brian Miller, Downwind, a searing documentary about the over 900 nuclear tests that took place in Nevada over a half century and the affects they've had on the generations of people that live downwind from the radiation.


Downwind has its premiere at Slamdance on Jan 23, 2023.




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We’re confronting some of our biggest fears and learning that maybe what we’re running from… maybe we’re just running from ourselves. Yes, of course, we’re talking about Orgazmo. Released in 1997 the film was directed by and stars Trey Parker who plays Joe Young, a Mormon on his mission in the big bad city of Los Angeles where he happens upon a porn shoot and gets recruited to play an adult superhero, the titular Orgazmo.

David Rodgers and Brad Jones join Mike to discuss the movie while Toddy Walters and Jason McHugh talk about the making of Orgazmo (as well as the other early Parker/Stone films).

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Uwe Boll unofficially "retired" in 2016 but now he's back with a few films underway and a few more in pre-production. Hear what Dr. Boll has been up to and what he has planned.

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Mike talks with Paul Farber, the host of WHYY's podcast The Statue and Monument Lab's Co-Founder and Director, about The Statue -- a limited-series about the statue of Rocky Balboa and its storied history as a movie prop and source of inspiration.


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Maurice Bursztynski joins Mike in the latest self-indulgent exercise in ego wherein Mike answers listener questions and goes off on meandering tangents.

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We’re discussing the 1984 film from Stewart Raffill, The Ice Pirates. The film stars Robert Urich as Jason and Michael D. Rhodes as Roscoe. They’re two of titular Ice Pirates, intergalactic privateers who try to rob the ships of the Templars of their most precious cargo, Ice. Fresh water is at a premium and government overreach is at a maximum. Along with more of their crew and some really awful robots, the ice pirates cross paths with Mary Crosby as Princess Karina who eventually gives them a quest to find the mysterious Seventh Water where the water flows like wine…

Duane Swierczynski and Chris Stachiw join Mike to take a trip down memory lane with this film while writer/director Stewart Raffill and Bruce Vilanch shed light on the making of this space adventure/comedy.

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We’re revisiting a movie we talked about ten years ago, Eyes Wide Shut. The final film from director Stanley Kubrick, we’re checking in on the film some 23 years after its release. We’ll be discussing the film, an interesting fan edit of the movie, and a 2019 book about the film from authors Robert P. Kolker and Nathan Abrams.

Matthew Asprey Gear and Rob St. Mary join Mike to see how they've changed and how it's affected their opinions of Eyes Wide Shut.

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We wrap up 2022 with a look at Mario Bava’s 1968 pop sensation Danger: Diabolik. Based on the fumetti by Angela and Luciana Guisanna, the film stars John Phillip Law as the titular Diabolik, an atomic age superthief who gets the girl, gets the gold,, and spoils the lives of every policeman in Italy including Michel Piccoli as Inspector Ginko.

Father Malone and Samm Deighan join Mike in discussing the film as well as the '90s cartoon and recent film trilogy that's currently underway.

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We’re looking at the 1951 film from Alexander Mackendrick, the Man in the White Suit. The film stars Alec Guinness as Sidney Stratton, an inventor who comes up with a fabric that will never wear out and never get dirty. He soon comes to the attention of both the bosses at the textile mills as well as the workers, and quickly learns that his good intentions are not appreciated in the least, with the possible exception of Daphne Birnley, his boss’s daughter.


AJ Black and Mark Begley join Mike to discuss the film while Robert Sellers speaks about his book, The Secret Life of Ealing Studios: Britain's Favourite Film Studio.



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We’re looking at Nic Roeg and Donald Cammell Performance (1970), the story of a gangster (James Fox) who kills an old friend and goes into hiding at the chateau of a rock star (Mick Jagger).

Ben Slater and Maitland McDonagh join Mike to discuss the film and its themes of duality while Professor Sam Umland talks about Donald Cammell and Keiron Pim shines a light on David Litvinoff.

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