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Friday Film Showcased (FFS) returns with the second and final part of our two-part special on adaptations of Kenneth Fearing’s novel The Big Clock, ostensibly in tribute to the late Gene Hackman. That is borne out in this episode, as Ciara Moloney and Conor Hogan discuss a film Gene Hackman is actually in: No Way Out (1987), in which he stars opposite Kevin Costner.

Ciara and Conor discuss topics including: bad alternate titles, Mel Gibson and Roger Donaldson re-enacting Who’s On First, remakes vs readaptations, limo-based coitus, inaccurate IMDb trivia, Cold War paranoia, Will Patton’s Smithers energy, magic computers, Iran-Contra, bad music, great twists, and whether Kevin Costner could play baseball in the Old West.

Mentioned in the podcast:

Kevin Costner on Oprah: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4gHNGa2sCs

Richard Schickel’s review of No Way Out for Time: https://web.archive.org/web/20080408202708/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,965232,00.html

Paul Haspel, Agency Games in Cold War Washington: Politics and Gender in No Way Out, Journal of Popular Film and Television, 38(3), pp. 133–142. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01956051003725236

Kevin Costner on baseball movies vs westerns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDbEYJ9Mbtk

Heart and Souls. We fell in love with this film: Heart and Souls. We fell in love, except Dean thought... that it was just okay. Now with the soothing sounds of a crackling fireplace!

Things discussed:

• The 1990s' VHS rental market
• The van-based secondary market for VHS in the form of Video Van Men
• Film tricking you into feeling things or into perceiving motion
• Insanely bad marketing campaigns: When Counterprogramming Goes Wrong
• Robert Downey Jr: a vaudeville kid unstuck in time?
• Ron Underwood, or A Modern Icarus
• How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love '90s Comedy Scores
• Beethoven (the dog)

Song title: Autumn Mvt 1 Allegro (Tony Vivaldi) / Artist: John Harrison with the Wichita State University Chamber Players / Source: Free Music Archive / License: CC BY-SA

From the FFS archives, a bite-sized edition looking at the rise and rise of sports gambling, a horrifying epidemic that has taken over the USA and the world, as predicted in the Tony Scott / Shane Black Christmas classic The Last Boy Scout.

Whether you're a FFS connoisseur revisiting the hits, or a new listener who finds our full episodes too daunting, this one's for you. You could bet on it, but you shouldn't.

Theme Music: Bach J.S. Christmas Oratorio. BMV 248. Part 4.

Ciara Moloney and Conor Hogan host Friday Film Showcased (FFS), a podcast about films seasons they have programmed.

From the archives, a bite-sized edition looking at Brian De Palma's American giallo Dressed to Kill. Or is it a giallo? Yes. Is it transphobic? Probably. Is it a great film? Definitely. What's Brian De Palma's deal? I guess we'll never know.

Whether you're a FFS connoisseur revisiting the hits, or a new listener who finds our full episodes too daunting, this one's for you. Put on your best clothes… to kill?

Friday Film Showcased (FFS) returns with part one of a two part special on adaptations of Kenneth Fearing's novel The Big Clock. We are doing this as a tribute to the late Gene Hackman, who is not in the movie discussed in this episode, but was alive when it came out. But was he a child? Listen and find out!

Ciara Moloney and Conor Hogan discuss topics including: Ray Milland (man), ray-millanding (verb), The Powerhouse Charles Laughton, queer coding and the Hays Code, clocks of various sizes and mechanisms, comedic genius Elsa Lancaster of Bride of Frankenstein fame, Maureen O'Sullivan who surely is only in this as a favour to her husband John Farrow (father of Tia, Mia, and this film, if directing is fatherhood), how much can you actually fit behind a bar, President McKinley, and the existential quest to find one's self. Literally!

Hey hey, we’re Friday Film Showcased, and people say we showcase around, but we’re too busy editing to load any podcasts up… 

From the archives, a bite-sized edition looking at Bob Rafelson’s almost-forgotten existential Monkees movie, Head (1968), written by Jack Nicholson!

Whether you’re a FFS connoisseur revisiting the hits, or a new listener who finds our full episodes too daunting, this one’s for you. So take the last train to Clarksville, you randy Scouse git: this is the podcast that will make you believe in daydreams.

Fun fact: Mike Nesmith’s mother invented Tipp-Ex.

See also: ⁠https://thesundae.net/2024/08/23/friday-film-showcased-episode-3-jack-nicholson-the-fortune-1975-five-easy-pieces-1970-about-schmidt-2002-more/

For the ninth day of Christmas, Friday Film Showcased gave to me: a podcast episode about The Last Boy Scout, written by Mr. Christmas himself, Shane Black!

Ciara and Conor talk about Ten-Camera Tony Scott, Hot Shot Jimmy "Cardigan" Carter, and the rise of sports gambling. Listen below or on your favourite podcast platform, and remember, Satan Claus is out there and only growing stronger.

Ciara and Dean take a Christmas journey to St. Louis, Missouri with Judy Garland. They talk about wonderfully horrible children, the history of world’s fairs and whether John Truett is a neurodivergent king.

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Our Die Hard episode: https://thesundae.net/2023/12/23/die-hard-the-sundae-presents-episode-33/

Ciara and Dean are joined by legendary friend of the show, Conor Hogan, co-host of Friday Film Showcased. They talk about video van men, set up and payoff, and Robert Downey Jr being a vaudeville kid unstuck in time.

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Following a hiatus, we at Spotify* are delighted to welcome Ciara and Conor back for season 2 of Friday Film Showcased. In this excellent episode, they set out their plans for the upcoming season.

Is this the first episode of the season they discuss? Is this the trailer/preview for said season? Though shorter than usual, we at Spotify* lean towards the former. Highly recommended. Five Stars.

Song title: Autumn Mvt 1 Allegro (Tony Vivaldi) / Artist: JohnHarrison with the Wichita State University Chamber Players / Source: Free Music Archive / License: CC BY-SA

*Full disclosure, the "we at Spotify" in this instance are Spotify for Creators contributors Ciara Moloney and Conor Hogan