The Super 70 Podcast

Danny Gaylord from Film is Lit came on the pod a few weeks ago to talk about Mission Impossible: Final Reckoning. I had so much material on that I decided to cut some out and present it here. Literature and film go together, and Film is Lit is catered to that idea. Much like David Fincher’s perfect film Zodiac is factually based on Robert Greysmith’s exhaustively researched book on the infamous murderer. Film is Lit is the podcast that breaks down these narratives the best. Check them out wherever you find podcasts.

You can find the Super 70 Podcast wherever you find podcasts. You can find me, my book, and my blog at www.thatdylandavis.com and @thatdylandavis on threads, Letterboxd, and blusky. You can find Roziland MacPhail on Soundcloud and Facebook.

What can we say that hasn’t already been said about the last Mission Impossible film? And why can’t we just go through it all again? Just because we love cinema, love Tom Cruise, and every tangent in between. Danny Gaylord joins us from the Film is Lit Podcast as we fawn over and shake our head at this very, very flawed film.

You can find the Super 70 Podcast wherever you find podcasts. You can find me, my book, and my blog at www.thatdylandavis.com and @thatdylandavis on threads, Letterboxd, and Blusky. You can find Roziland MacPhail on Soundcloud and Facebook.

It started on our first Kino Day of 2025. I slipped in an 80’s movie while we camped out and did fuck all but watch films for as long as we could. That movie was Turk182!, and it led to us watching an 80’s movie every weekend. Luke sat down with me the weekend before he flew to Berlin to talk about the strange era that made cinema so good.

You can find the Super 70 Podcast wherever you find podcasts. You can find me, my book, and my blog at www.thatdylandavis.com and @thatdylandavis on threads, Letterboxd, and blusky. You can find Roziland MacPhail on Soundcloud and Facebook. You can find Luke at Berlin Alexanderplatz on a Friday night.

I don’t know what you savages do in the rest of the world, but here in the fourth largest city in America, most theatres discount movie tickets on Tuesday night. The result, the Davis family has butts in seats, usually by five thirty, watching whatever it is we didn’t see the previous Friday. Tightwad Tuesday is a Davis family tradition to keep our cinemas alive. My son Luke and I made an astonishing amount of them since he got back from Deutschland, and we go over those 2024 releases here.

You can find the Super 70 Podcast wherever you find podcasts. You can find me, my book, and my blog at www.thatdylandavis.com and @thatdylandavis on threads, Letterboxd, and blusky. You can find Roziland MacPhail on Soundcloud and Facebook. You can find Luke across the street from Tempelhof Airport, probably in a Canadian Bar.

My friend and frequent guest on the show, Dave Anderson, went to go see Sinners opening weekend. I saw it that following Tightwad Tuesday. Dave messaged me and it read ‘let’s try that zoom thing because Sinners is so good.’ And that’s what this is. On the backside we discuss the recent Academy rule change, A24 aesthetics, BBS, and the morality of playing podcasts back at faster speeds.

After recording the Adventures of Ford Fairlane Commentary, Paul Emig, Warren Hayes, and myself discussed misogyny, jingoism, comedy, cinema, and the comedian trends in Hollywood.

Mega-controversial comedian Andrew Clay Silverstein got his big break on Rodney Dangerfield’s 1988 HBO special and soon thereafter was playing arenas. His comedy album The Diceman Cometh went gold and following a live set on MTV, he was banned from that network. His next album, The Day the Laughter Died, went gold in seven weeks, and eventually went platinum. He then hosted the most controversial episode of SNL ever which led to cast boycotts and huge controversy. 1990 saw the release of this film, earning the infamous Golden Raspberry for the worst film of the year and Clay the worst actor of the year. Join Warren Hayes, Paul Emig and me for a scene by scene retching of what could possibly be the most misogynistic film Hollywood has ever made.

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You can find the Super 70 Podcast wherever you find podcasts, and most recently on YouTube! You can find me, my books, and my blog at www.thatdylandavis.com I’m @thatdylandavis on Threads, Letterbxd, and Blu Sky. You can find Rozalind MacPhail and her music on Soundcloud.

If any of you have been following along then you know that my son Luke spent his fall semester in Berlin. In between trips to European capitals, taste testing the continent’s best beer, and understanding the dangers of the AfD, he also took a German Film Class that spanned the 20th Century. He also saw a few flicks over there and we compared notes. This is our conversation.

You can find the Super 70 Podcast wherever you find podcasts, and most recently on YouTube! You can find me, my books, and my blog at www.thatdylandavis.com I’m @thatdylandavis on Threads, Letterbxd, and Blu Sky. You can find Rozalind MacPhail and her music on Soundcloud. I’m Dylan Davis and we’ll meet next time probably in L.A.

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After Rear Window, Dave and I decided to find out how long into the night we could go drinking beer, talking about Hitchcock, and discussing his 2024 Letterbxd, David Lynch, Beavers, the nature of God, the duality of man. The meaning of life. Is wrestling fixed? What is Martinizing and why does it only take an hour?

You can find the Super 70 Podcast wherever you find podcasts, and most recently on YouTube! You can find me, my books, and my blog at www.thatdylandavis.com I’m @thatdylandavis on Threads, Letterbxd, and Blu Sky. You can find Rozalind MacPhail and her music on Soundcloud. I’m Dylan Davis and we’ll meet next time probably in L.A.

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In one of the most magnificent careers in cinema history, Alfred Hitchcock outdid himself with a run from 1951 to 1960 that encapsulated not only some of the best Hollywood films of the decade, but of all time. In the middle of this impressive flex is Hitch’s complex ode to gender roles, gender relationships, and expectations. Hitchcock, who already had gone everywhere and done everything for film, challenged himself by limiting everything except his imagination. Rear Window was shot on one set with minimal actors, and included his lead actor not just staying in one room, but staying in one chair for the entire film. Casting Jimmy Stewart, America’s all town boy, against type as a voyeur, Hitchcock uses a high form of the Kuleshov Effect to tell an insidious tale of murder in the big city. Join Dave Anderson and I as we muse scene by scene through the Master’s use of light, incredible technicolor camera panning, and do I need to mention Grace Kelly, to create a subtext describing the phases, levels, and intricacies of being in love and being human. Along the way we discuss Stewart’s role as the first Redditor, De Palma’s aping of the master, and how even Die Hard rips off Hitchcock.

You can find the Super 70 Podcast wherever you find podcasts, and most recently on YouTube! You can find me, my books, and my blog at www.thatdylandavis.com I’m @thatdylandavis on Threads, Letterbxd, and Blu Sky. I’m Dylan Davis and we’ll meet next time probably in L.A.

Works Cited

Belton, John. Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window. Limelight. 2004

Fawell, John. Hitchcock's Rear Window: The Well-Made Film The Well-Made Film. Southern University Press. 2001.

Sharff, Stefan. The Art of Looking in Hitchcock’s Rear Window. Cambridge University Press. 1999.