The Jack Nicholson Pantheon

'High Fidelity'

RC Fill, film editor extraordinaire, chats with Dan about what should be called the 'classic' film High Fidelity. Lots of music talk, John Cusack, Chicago, and the explosion of Jack Black. Listen and hear about Jack Black exploding! Then have your friends listen, not together though because that only counts as one 'listen'. I need listens to survive. We all do. K, bye.

The Week Watched 7.31.24

Talkin' Timmy C as Bob Dylan, James Mangold, Robert Downey Jr, August Movie Releases. And the week watched: Axel F, Brute Force, and The Third Man. Special shout-out for Sidney Lumet.

New Cult Classics: Cop Land

Michael Patrick Thornton of Chicago's Gift Theatre, Private Practice, and currently on BROADWAY (Macbeth)! We talk about the excellent and underrated Cop Land. A incredible film about systematic corruption with a insane emsemble: Stallone, Keitel, Deniro, Liotta, Sciorra, and many more! We talk acting. We talk Ronald Reagan. We do Robert Deniro impressions. Don't blow it, listen now! It's the final episode of the season, or final episode full stop!

The Jack Nicholson Pantheon

Ed Flynn is the returning champion as we go through Jack's filmography and pick 8 films for his Pantheon. There are Jack impressions and John Huston shows up! Is Chinatown in the Pantheon? As Good as It Gets? What about Terms of Endearment? Mars Attacks? About Schmidt? You are going to have to listen to find out. And don't forget: "we are the motherf#*king shore patrol!

New Classics: The Phantom Thread

Ed Flynn is the guest and we talk about Paul Thomas Anderson's Phantom Thread.  This gets nerdy for film and PTA, but also there is a clip of Ed singing Melissa Ethridge. We talk Daniel Day Lewis, the perfect casting of Vicky Krieps and how Lesley Manville can perform a monologue with a shift of her eyes. There's impressions, we raise the question how young is too young to see Die Hard, and I make the case that the Phantom Thread is just as much of a comedy as it is a drama. Listen, share, water your plants.