We don't ever want to short-change you folks. That's why when we do a recording, we don't have just one auteur, but TWO, that's TWO AUTEURS! (ah-ah-ah says the Count). In one corner, a Swedish export that has galvanized art-houses for almost 50 years, and the film where Ingmar Bergman decided to just say 'f*** it' and do whatever he felt like doing. Did Andrew 'get it'? What's not to get about two of the greatest actresses, Liv Ullmann and Bibi Andersson?

In the other corner, Hollywood doing just another low-rent B-epic with Greek Mythology? Well... yeah, kinda, BUT, Mr. Ray Harryhausen, who was one of the few auteurs of his kind - stop motion animation, including here with the iconic skeleton fight that climaxes the picture.

1) Ingmar Bergman's PERSONA

2) Don Chaffey's JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS

Another day, another time where Jack and Andrew talk about a whole swarth of movies. In this collection there's some new ones like Alex Garland's directing debut Ex Machina, and the latest from Quentin Dupiex called 'Reality'. A focus is on surreal movies, and we'll be getting into that in the main segment. And Jack sees an Iranian feminist vampire hipster spaghetti western shot in black and white. Whew!

Our Daily Double this week are a TWO pack, with Jack and Andrew talking about surrealist shorts from the late 20's.

MOVIES: EX MACHINA - BLOOD OF A POET - BELLE TOUJOURS - THE KARATE KID (2010) - A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT - ROBIN AND MARIAN - THE STING - THE STARFISH and THE SEASHELL AND THE CLERGYMAN (DAILY DOUBLE) - DAS BOOT - ERASERHEAD - WRONG - REALITY - MESHES OF AN AFTERNOON

We finally return to a segment we started a couple months ago (sorry for the delay) called 'Local Vocal', where Jack interviews local filmmakers, actors, artists, etc (as of now around NYC/tri-state area).

On this second episode, the subject is MATT STEINER. Matt is an actor who has done some movies and TV pilot projects - one of the big ones currently making the rounds is LOSERS - but his passion and pride comes with THE REPRESENTATIVES, a theater project done with Stan Richardson where they put on apartment plays. A play, in an apartment, how does that work? Listen and find out the process, and Matt's stories of going to Cal Arts, Clown school and adventures in pushing the boundaries of theater and what a hybrid of TV and theater may look like in the near future.

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So... what's the consensus - what did the Wagers think this time? Yey? Ney? In the middle? Are there nitpicks? Oh, you betcha, but are they from the hosts or the guests? Oh, and SPOILERS (duh)

On this very special episode of The Wages of Cinema, we look at what looks to be one of the big movies of the year that involve robots and people with powers and the like. And this time we have SPECIAL GUESTS with Matthew Catania and Korey Hughes.

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It was only a matter of time before we got to The Master. I don't mean Philip Seymour Hoffman, I mean THE Master, of Suspense! Mr. Hitchcock. We talk about a wide variety of his films, and, specifically as part of the "Required Reading" we talk about one of THE essential books about making movies: Hitchcock by Truffaut.

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Almost sounds like a weird pulp comic from the days when IMAGE was all over the place, right? THE KARATE KID and LADRI DI BICICLETTA . Perhaps some day it will be a Vs. and it'll be about the year we spent as podcasters...

This week Jack and Andrew look at a box-office hit from 1984, and the film that many say defined "Neo-Realism" in post WW2 Italy:

John G. Avildsen's THE KARATE KID

Vittorio De Sica's THE BICYCLE THIEF

This episode features GOD. And I don't just mean Mr. Alfred P Hitchcock (is his middle name 'P'? Who knows)

LOTS of movies to talk about, but first Jack and Andrew spend the opening talking about the recent trailers for Star Wars & Batman v Superman - not so much the content as the entire air of expectations when it comes to such events.

The movies in the Two-Minute Movie Mile (including a block from The Master of Suspense): THE HUSTLER - MARLEY & ME - FRIDAY - MALEFICENT - THE PHILADELPHIA STORY - THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST - TRUE STORY - ROBIN HOOD: PRINCE OF THIEVES - UNFRIENDED - EXODUS: GODS & KINGS - THE BIRDS - THE PARADINE CASE - MURDER! - THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (34) - I CONFESS

And now for a GIGANTIC Summer Movie Preview for 2015. Primarily we're going over the big movies that'll be hitting, though one or two smaller choices will peek their heads in (i.e. right as we're in the midst of talking new Dinosaur and Pixar movies, we got a Jonathan Demme movie to look at). There are a TON of movies discussed here, at length or in brief, including a brief (but passionate) diatribe from Andrew about... John Green?

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*opening theme is from the VIDMARK video logo, end music is Syd Valentine's "Patent Leather Kids", which is public domain*

On this week's list of New Year's movies, Andrew checks out the 1946 Jean Cocteau magic-surreal version of Beauty and the Beast, and Jack knows what Klaatu means outside of Evil Dead. Also an attempt is made to do a timer for this segment as well.

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Welcome back to the Wages of Cinema, and this week we're trying something new, an experiment which, if it works, we may keep as a regular segment. It's called the 2-Minute Movie Mile (or as Jack calls it the 2-Minute Dash, but Andrew's title is probably better). The hosts each have two minutes to talk about the movies they've seen in the past two weeks. 2 fast, 2 furious you might say? Eh... not a good example.

The movies this week are many, and it's a race against the clock to talk about them in any kind of depth! Here they are, and it's an eclectic lot this week (as usual):

FURIOUS 7 - BATMAN & ROBIN - KLUTE - THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD - BIG HERO 6 - KIKI'S DELIVERY SERVICE - THE HARVEST - MIRROR MIRROR - HOOP DREAMS - THE SECRET OF NIMH - THE HUMAN TORNADO - GOING CLEAR - THREE COLORS: WHITE - THE JINX - LAURA

Jack also talks briefly about Netflix's Marvel collaboration, DAREDEVIL.

*Theme music as always is a rendition of the Duke Ellington classic 'Jubillee Stomp' and the end music this time comes from Strauss (both used via public domain)*