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The Wages of CinemaEpisode 184: SUSPIRIA (1977) VS SUSPIRIA (2018)SUSPIRIAAA-AAAA-AAAAA.... And some of you are saying "wait, didn't you guys *do* a Suspiria episode?" And by some of you, yes, we mean you, Timmy. But really, that was so long ago (our "Cinema Immersion Tank" series, which we will link below in the description), some of you weren't born yet! Okay, some of you were, but did you know what it meant then to be under the spell of a coven of witches out to make their dastardly plans come true through... a Dance studio and major Dance department putting on a show with elaborate avant-garde choreography all to...2023-04-0456 min
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 182.5: 2023 Oscar Nominees & our top 10 of the Year (part 2)And now for the.... well, you gotta listen to hear one of Jack's all time major blunders (which he kept in the final recording, for the record!) Here are the top 10 films of the year for Jack and Korey (featuring time-stamps if you'd like to jump to a particular part of the talk); there ARE SPOILERS FOR SALE! SPOILERS FOR SALE! Okay we'll stop now....
JACK:
10) FIRE OF LOVE (6 mins in)
9) THE NORTHMAN (10:10)
8) Guillermo del Toro's PINOCCHIO
7) GLASS ONION (1 min 12 seconds in, first film discussed)
6) MARCELL THE SHELL WITH SHOES ON (36:36)
5) THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN (1:34:02, last film discussed)
4) TAR (51:56)
3) ALL...2023-02-051h 47
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 182: 2023 Oscar Nominees & our top 10 of the Year (part 1)Whoa! This past year went by pretty fast, eh? Seems like it went the speed of a Lydia Tar musical concerto - or a Pete Mitchell flight (who's he? Look it up, it's easy to do)- or an Elvis wiggle - or an Evelyn dildo hot-dog finger fight! Or... okay, we didn't go with the obvious of women talking so fast (which they don't really don't do, that's not our problem with that movie, or do we have one...) Point is, we finally come to look at the nominees for Best Picture of the year for the upcoming 95th...2023-02-0554 min
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 177: FIRESTARTER (1984) vs FIRESTARTER (2022)Because we at the esteemed Wages of Cinema podcast are all about having the most timely and topical of uh topics, we just watched the new FIRESTARTER (cue up Prodigy song maybe you remember if you're under 30- but not older than 54), the new movie that is burning up the box office charts! And by burning up, we mean that they burned up their entire budget worth of money because they're not making that back!
Now, you may have some questions, like, firstly, 'Jack, why are you making me read this, I have better things to do like water my...2022-05-1951 min
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 176: DOCTOR STRANGE IN THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNESSIs it Animal, Mineral or Vegetable? Is it a Sam Raimi film or a Marvel production? As it is in this universe or another universe or the other one where the fingers typing this are actually sentient poodles, it's a combination of the two. The question of course comes as this: does Marvel Studios, the most successful company currently working within the Hollywood studio system, let a filmmaker who previously made a rival (but sort of friendly rival) studio so successful with their own franchise of Spider-Man movies and kicking into gear the Blockbuster era we still reckon with today...2022-05-081h 05
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 175: EVERYTHING, EVERYWHERE, ALL AT ONCEYou see a group of Podcasters, but I see a story.... of recording a podcast. But maybe in another universe we are playing Bridge or in another one we are all fighting on a hockey rink or our very own Guest Star Matt has become Emperor and makes decrees with his Cat Advisor, or maybe there's another where Jack and Korey are.... I don't even want to go there!
Anyway, Everything, Everywhere All At Once is a spectacle, a science fiction mind-(bleep), a story keeping a relationship together and understanding (for a mother) what having a daughter can truly...2022-04-0357 min
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 174: THE BATMANRiddle us this, listeners: What is a thing that flies around and never comes down? It's.... ah, screw it, we were never good at riddles anyway. But what we are pretty good at at the Wages of Cinema is breaking down a franchise that has been retrofitting and reformatting and re-suiting (and re-taping as it turns out) a story and characters and world that's been going since 1939! What does Bob Kane have to say about how deeply dankly dark his creation has become? Or.... nah, screw that, too, how about Bill Finger? He may be the one seeking vengeance in...2022-03-081h 05
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 173.5: 2022 Academy Award Nominations and Best of the Year (Part 2)MAMBO! LISTO! GO!
As Poe Dameron might say... *Somehow*, the Wages of Cinema ranking of the best of the year/Oscar nominations talk... has returned(!)
Jack and Korey knew this would be one of the longer episodes, but certainly THIS long? Where's the eggplant emoji when you need it? But when you have such a wonderful crop of films, from all across the world and over so many genres, from Japanese contemplative Chekhov character drama to epic Spielberg-Kushner musical to Nicolas Cage making us (i.e. Korey) cry, to everything Bradley Cooper and Tom Waits did in Licorice Pizza, when...2022-03-032h 03
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 173: 2022 Academy Award Nominations and Best of the Year (Part 1)It's here! At last! Were you.... even asking for it? Well, it comes but once a year, at any rate (though in this case it's an Oscar/awards season that technically takes films from March 2021 to December of 2021, so no Judas and the Black Messiah even though that was 2021 February oh hell go listen to our last year podcast for that one, episode... you can figure it out pretty easy, we think). We, Jack and Korey, dissect and look at the films that got nominated for Best Picture of the year - and, as sometimes is the case, Jack saw...2022-02-281h 40
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 171: Marvel's SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOMEOrganic and/or Mechanical Web-shooter SPOILERS will be springing out this way and that from many parts of the body you don't even know you had at 23:30 minutes in. Good? Cool! Friendly Neighborhood Podcasting continues!
So, how to make sense of a world where characters from the multi-verse(s) of Spider-Man films come into play in one big blow-out Reunion special like No Way Home? Is there any sense to be made, or should we all just come in and coast on the vibes that come with Alfred Molina and Willem Dafoe going to their fullest acting selves(and yes...2021-12-191h 10
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 170: Sam Raimi's SPIDER-MAN TrilogyWho am I? Actually, that's the wrong personage? Who are WE?! No, sorry, that's too strong, what are we, Venom? No, who we are exactly should be no mystery - have we have secret disguises all this time... maybe we have, mwa-ha-ha... - but for real, we are Jack and Trash Panda Korey, and with the upcoming release of the third Spider-Man movie (and just a nostalgia for 2000's New York pizza prices and cameos that include Joel McHale AND Hal Sparks, in one movie, nache), we decided to revisit all three, count em THREE, of the Sam Raimi directed...2021-12-061h 59
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 169: Marvel's ETERNALSWhat's bigger than Why are we Here? Who created the Earth and Heavens and those weird Beast Wars characters we take for granted (here called uh looks at notes ah yes Deviants)? And what is up with the Bollywood career of that one actor who looks like his father-grandfather-great-grandfather?
We saw Eternals! This being the full crew - Jack, Andrew, Trash-Panda Korey and "Guest-Star" (Uni-Mind) Matt - we go into everything about this new gigantic piece of pop culture ephemera from a title that was once upon a time not a success for Marvel (or Jack KING Kirby's return to...2021-11-061h 20
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 156: Fincher's MANKEverybody's always talking about Mank! Mann- Mank- Mank!! Actually, not really, but in this latest episode, Jack and Korey watch the new film from director David Fincher (and his late father, writer Jack) about the man who had a hand in crafting what many call the greatest American film ever made (as the poster said more simply of Citizen Kane: "It's Terrific!" and that's truth in advertising right there). Starring Gary Oldman, Amanda Seyfried and Tywin Lannister in an aptly cast role (and... yep that is Bill Nye as Upton Sinclair, also, what), we look at old Hollywood, the politics...2020-12-061h 09
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 152: TENET (& Nolan & Theaters Return)::NOLAN BLAAAAAMMMM::
Spoilers at... they abound.
Cutting to the chase (as the car goes backwards in inverse time loops), Jack saw Tenet, the 11th feature film from Christopher Nolan, and Korey did not. Why that is has much to do with Covid 19 ... but it also may have to do with the movie itself. why that is? is that why? backwards and forwards we go again. And meanwhile, the question remains: why "The Protagonist"? Did he just forget to name him, or is it part of the time melding story fabric that is this movie? or maybe it's...
Our conversation also...2020-09-051h 06
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 150: Josephine Decker's SHIRLEY & Spike Lee's DA 5 BLOODSEpisode 150: Josephine Decker's SHIRLEY & Spike Lee's DA 5 BLOODS by Jack Gattanella2020-06-141h 20
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 149: The Quarantine CinemaEpisode 149: The Quarantine Cinema by Jack Gattanella2020-04-021h 08
The Wages of CinemaREDUX Episode 83: Marvel's GUARDIAN'S OF THE GALAXY Vol. 2(THIS IS A RE-UPLOAD - the episode was previously featured in May of 2017, but for some reason became no longer available in the United States. This is the same episode with very minor tweaks to music)
70's rock soundtrack = check
Very weird but highly colorful filmmaking and creatures and designs = oh yes a check
Dave Bautista having the time of his life as Drax? = check
the cutest piece of tree bark in a major motion picture = double check
Kurt Russell with a flowing mane of hair and charisma to burn? = triple check
another Marvel home run = well... you need to...2020-01-131h 02
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 147.2: The Best Films of 2019 (Part 2)And now for part the second, wherein the two parties of the Wages of Cinema share the same fifth, third, second and first entries, but number four for Jack and Korey is different. The running theme of these movies? What does one do with that fragile thing called LIFE?
email - wagesofcinema@gmail.com2020-01-131h 43
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 147: The Best Films of 2019 (Part 1)Sometimes the end of a decade brings a whole lot of amazing/great/groundbreaking films (see 1969, 1979 or 1999 for more on that). 2019 may... not be quite that. But there were enough major works of artistic achievement that struck us at the Wages of Cinema as worth discussing, and it turned out to be such a fecund topic that we went for TWO PARTS! Of course, there may be some spoilers abound so proceed with some caution. To assist you all wanting to keep score, here are the films discussed in this part; stay tuned for part 2 to hear numbers Five to...2020-01-121h 20
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 146.5: A LONG STAR WARS RANKING GOODBYEHave your fill from Christmas dinner? Or from latkes at Hannukah? Or your meal at Kwanza? How about that giant Bantha from your Life Day celebratory feast? We have just the ticket for you with one of our most MASSIVE episodes (in length and hopefully in scope of conversation).
We break down our rankings of all 11 Star Wars movies (technically there is a twelfth, but only Jack saw that, and we don't get into the side Ewok movies or dare we even bring up the Holiday Special, shrug). We know, Star Wars has been talked ad nauseum online... but WE...2019-12-262h 25
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 146: STAR WARS: EPISODE XI - THE RISE OF SKYWALKERPlease note: SPOILERS start at 39 minutes (well, really at 40, but at 39 we feature a clip from a vintage 1983 Return of the Jedi toy commercial, so maybe tune in to that, but we digress).
So... we come to the end. Not THE end, but the end of this cycle, the finale of this series, the 'End Game' if you will... actually, come to think of it, it may not be the best idea to bring that up. But wait, you say: does this mean The Rise of Skywalker, the ninth movie in the office "Episode" series of George Lucas's once auteurist...2019-12-211h 16
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 142: JOKERWhat can be talked about with a movie that is made by a filmmaker (in Todd Phillips, of War Dogs and School for Scoundrels, and some other movies I'm leaving out) who doesn't really give a damn about comic books, that takes (to put it mildly) liberally from Scorsese's Taxi Driver and The King of Comedy, and features Joaquin Phoenix so skinny that one may want to reach out to Christian Bale so he can give some advice about not becoming TOO gaunt for a role? Turns out, quite a lot! Is it good? Not good? We'll have to find...2019-10-061h 07
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 141: RAMBO - LAST BLOODJack drew first blood AND last... so he has to tell Korey about the movie.
email is wagesofcinema@gmail.com2019-09-2140 min
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 140: BLINDED BY THE LIGHT and WHERE'D YOU GO BERNADETTEAh, two movies that aren't based on a giant mega-corporate blockbuster (though they are connected to IP's, both being book adaptations as well), and meant for more "grown-up" audiences (not that they are rated R either, but, um... hey, no tights, far as we could tell, and no scenes where Brie Larson flies around the world with her hair on fire or something!) But the other question remains: Are these two late-summer offerings any *good*? Will this new film by the director of Bend it Like Beckham and the latest notch in the nothing-if-not idiosyncratic and dynamic career of Richard...2019-08-171h 08
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 139: Quentin Tarantino's ONCE UPON A TIME IN... HOLLYWOODOh my god you, guys, did you know this is the NINTH Quentin Tarantino film? No? Then no sweat, he'll make sure to remind you of it on the poster, in the trailers, just about everywhere... even though he really may have directed ten. And let's put aside his CSI two-parter that is basically a movie, and Four Rooms, and his student film My Best Friend's Birthday, and... damn it, we're so pedantic!
Anyway, Jack and Korey saw Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood. Did they agree on it? Listen to find out about this wild (or not so wild...2019-07-281h 07
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 138: YESTERDAY - TOY STORY 4 - CHILD'S PLAY (2019)Hey, how about some full blown MOVIE REVIEWS! YEAH! (that may have been just said in an Al Pacino fulseto, but anyway) - Jack and Korey take a look in this episode at three new releases (and some of the other movies associated with them):
Danny Boyle's YESTERDAY
Josh Cooley's TOY STORY
Lars Klevberg's CHILD'S PLAY
Spoilers abound; Jack only saw Yesterday, while Jack + Korey saw the others (including the other Child's Play sequels, which are discussed)
- email us any time wagesofcinema@gmail.com2019-07-061h 30
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 137: Marvel's SPIDER-MAN - FAR FROM HOMELet's go on a vacation everyone! Summer time! And yet... Marvel is still here, serving up food after we already ate till we turned into Mr. Creosotes all over the place (will Far From Home be the final mint?) But wait, this movie has MYSTERIO! Has anyone been waiting for Mysterio to pop up in Spider-Man? Certainly one of our special guests today has - to find out, you need to listen in - and all four of the regular bunch - Jack, Korey, Andrew and Matt - are here to dig in to the latest blockbuster featuring your friendly...2019-07-0345 min
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 136: GODZILLA - KING OF THE MONSTERS (2019)Hey, I gotta make sure everyobody knows that it's the new one, right? What if some dude or gal decides they want to listen to us take apart Raymond Burr as Steve Martin in the hallowed original? Eh? Alright, no, takers, but the year remains. ANYWAY....
It's time the Wages of Cinema returns to take on some GIANT DAMN MONSTERS! We have done many episodes on this - look back in our archives, especially with former co-host Andrew (who sadly couldn't be on this episode) - but now we return to the new WB/Legendary franchise proper. And Jack is...2019-05-301h 02
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 134: The JOHN WICK TrilogyOh my goodness! As it turns out, we have discovered the Pym particles and can manage to travel to time to before we recorded the Endgame episode, hence number 134! Or.... we messed up and skipped an episode number and are going back now to fill in the gap missing. Don't judge us, we're all human! Whadda we look like, John Wick? (If that indeed is his name, sir!)
Although John Wick previously was discussed on the Wages of Cinema (or Jack previously did) - the first one is on episode 48, and possibly part 2 as well somewhere in time - with...2019-05-181h 10
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 135: Marvel's AVENGERS - ENDGAMEAfter the events of Infinity War, we knew we had to come back for part two (well, at any rate, we have this podcast, what else would us four Wagers - Jack, Korey, Andrew and Guest Star Matt - have to do on opening weekend?) How would it turn out after that big fat Thanos snap? How would the characters overcome and have that vengeance part of their name? Could they? And hey, what's Scott Lang doing here?
This is the Endgame, people! All four of the regular group have assembled, so check it out all here (SPOILERS at 22 minutes...2019-04-281h 15
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 122: BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY (and Other Music Biopics)Episode 122: BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY (and Other Music Biopics) by Jack Gattanella2018-11-041h 03
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 116: Marvel's ANT-MAN AND THE WASPHow BIG can this review get? This isn't a very SMALL movie is it? How many times will Jack straighten his non-existent tie as he makes bad small-thing jokes? How does a Steven Universe song figure into all of this.
Jack, Korey, the OG co-host Andrew and Guest Star Matt (of https://mattthecatania.wordpress.com) are all on this episode for the THIRD Marvel Cinematic Universe entry in 2018, and this time it appears to be a lighter, less OMG THIS IS EVERYTHING entry than Infinity War... it also leaves room, in case you were wondering why this is over an...2018-07-061h 05
The Wages of CinemaLocal Vocal #16: DEVIN KLOS RETURNS!If you go a little ways back into the podcast - on Soundcloud we have the helpful Playlist that has all of our Local Vocal episodes - you can find that episode 5 was a talk with writer, actor and now director Devin T Klos. It was a good conversation, but we had to have Devin back on the podcast as he has directed his first feature: IDOL WORSHIP. We talk how the idea came to being, the challenges of shooting a film in seven days, the beauty of Inwood and the horror of making a movie during the election week...2018-03-111h 04
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 108: The 90th Academy AwardsWHO WON! WHO LOST! YOU DECIDE!
... woops, wrong show. Sorry, ERB. Anyway, here were the 90th academy awards ceremony. As if with a movie shoot, now we got take TWO of Jimmy Kimmel AND Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway presenting best picture. Did they screw it up this time? Well.. find out on the podcast Jack and Korey did to discuss it.
We also talk Guillermo del Toro and the Shape of Water, why Get Out winning best screenplay is actually a "cool" thing, what about those montages and the #MeToo #TimesUp segment, what a "Inclusion Rider" is, and we...2018-03-061h 20
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 106.1: The 90th OSCAR NominationsJack's wife Korey (aka "Wifely Duties" Korey, as you can find on the playlist on Soundcloud, or as she's known now as "Co-Host Duties Korey") joins us on the first official episode as regular co-host!
This is a long, meaty discussion of the 90th Oscar nominations.
HEAR! Jack's theory about why The Post could get best picture as a way to spite Harvey Weinstein (or make a correction, you pick)
- Korey sigh upon hearing the mere mention of Call Me By Your Name
- Guillermo del Toro for best director(?)
- Korey's thoughts (and they are many) about Meryl...2018-01-301h 14
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 105.3: More LAST JEDI Talk - SHAPE OF WATER - WONDERFUL LIFE 3D - GILDAAndrew has more to say The Last Jedi, and both hosts have a lot to say about internet hype (Jack goes into a tangent on Bob Dylan) and about audience expectations, then Jack sees a woman fall in love with a fish man, Andrew talks about It's a Wonderful Life for the 800th time (or so), and Jack sees Bill Murray and Rita Hayworth at their peaks (and Michael Shannon... sometimes).
Films Discussed:
STAR WARS: EPISODE VIII: THE LAST JEDI
THE SHAPE OF WATER
POTTERSVILLE
IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE
SCROOGED
GILDA (1946)
THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION
"Put the Blame on Mame" sung...2017-12-291h 02
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 105.2: What the Devil is That #11: ENDANGERED SPECIESFor some strange reason, Jack listens to other podcasts sometimes, and when he does he tries to find movies he hasn't heard of before for a little series now in its penultimate outing: What the Devil is That? In this case, the excellent 80's All Over (check your local listings via Scott Weinberg and Drew McWeeny on Twitter and so on) mentioned it in their September of 82 episode... and Jack conveniently blocked out whatever else they said after those two words came forth.
Should their words of warning not gone on deaf ears? Hear us now speak for a ludicrous...2017-12-2948 min
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 104: CALL ME BY YOUR NAMENow, we didn't quite intend to do an entire episode, let alone one going past an hour long, about the new Luca Guadagagno film "Call Me By Your Name" (there are still many other films Jack has seen that could/will be talked about from 2017 that haven't yet). But Jack didn't see this with Andrew, Jack saw this his wife Korey, and... well, if you want to know more about her thoughts on the movie, just imagine everything Rotten Tomatoes is telling you with its 96% score... and reverse that. Jack didn't quite see it that way, but did he love...2017-12-231h 01
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 102: JUSTICE LEAGUE"Shall we?"
It's finally here! How many of you were so aching to see Justice League? Did Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice whet your appetite (or as our usual/special guest star Matthew Catania of the https://mattthecatania.wordpress.com blog says phonetically, Beavis Dodge, maybe our next Scotus)? How about Cyborg? Or Steppenwolf? Or... no, no wake up, we're still podcasting here!
Jack and Andrew were talking about this movie for a while. How did we find this epic team up of Batman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, Aquaman, Cyborg and... hey someone's missing, right? No way they were...2017-11-191h 04
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 100.2: What the Devil is That #10: TRANSYLVANIA TWISTAnd now we go into that most terrifying and horrifying genre of all: HORROR COMEDIES!
Nah, just kidding, but this is one neither Jack nor Andrew heard before (which is strange considering Jack's deep-dive into the works of Roger Corman over the summer, an act Andrew found absurd, but no matter). This is a movie "from the producer of Little Shop of Horrors" as it says on the poster, which may be (in 1989 when this came out) a case of someone telling the truth AND kind of not being truthful at the same time (one might think, 'oh hey, I...2017-10-3142 min
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 100.1: CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON - FAITHFUL ADAPTATIONS - PROFESSOR MARSTONHey... WE MADE IT! 100 friggin' episodes! This is wonderful news, and more importantly we couldn't have come this far without the support and plays from all of YOU out there in the Wages-World. Thank you, and we are pleased to bring you a giant 3-Part episode 100 for your listening pleasure.
In this first segment, Jack and Andrew read a listener posting on social media (don't forget you can always do the same, wagesofcinema@gmail.com, plus find us on Facebook and Twitter) asking about the most faithful adaptations of books to screen; Jack catches up (around 22 minutes in) on a...2017-10-311h 14
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 97.1: THE VIETNAM WAR - DR MABUSE - NAUSICAA - GERALD'S GAMEThis episode Jack and Andrew travel the world, from America to Vietnam to Germany to Japan and back to America again. There are certainly a fair share of enemies of the US in history, but that doesn't mean we can't look back at the history and see what is there to... well, be seen and experience! The large part of this episode, for about the first 40 minutes (after an initial discussion of Happy Meal toy tie-ins to movies), is about Ken Burns & Lynn Novick's THE VIETNAM WAR epic 10-part event and looking at all of the things that make this...2017-10-041h 09
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 93.1: GOOD TIME - STAR WARS Culture - TEXAS CHAINSAW (35mm) - LOGAN LUCKYWe start of with Dali, of course, because he is DALI! This leads Jack to remember LITTLE ASHES, which brings to another detour to talk about LITTLE BUDDHA, and somehow we wrap back around to GOOD TIME which stars Pattinson (he plays Dali in Ashes); Andrew brings up how tired he is of STAR WARS in popular culture and how it may be *dangerous* after all this time (ROGUE ONE comes up again especially, with a shout-out so to speak to RED LETTER MEDIA's reviews); Jack talks about seeing THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE in the worst 35mm print ever...2017-09-091h 20
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 92.1: RIP George Romero - ENDLESS POETRY - SDCC TRAILERS - BABY DRIVER - ROGER CORMANWelcome back! After a somewhat-long hiatus (we explain why, sort of), we get right into it and talk about some things that have happened and movies Jack and Andrew have seen since the last FULL recording (as in, before episodes 90 and 91 on Spider-Man and Dunkirk, which we hope you've heard and enjoyed by now.
1st - Jack brings up some people who have passed on since last recording, and while Martin Landau, John Heard and Sam Shephard get some notice, it's the father of the "Zombie" movie, GEORGE A. ROMERO, who gets a spotlight in discussion here and about his...2017-08-071h 25
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 86.1: More non DC/MARVEL COMIC BOOK MOVIES - MEN IN BLACK - DICK TRACY - THE PHANTOMFirst, in this end-of-May episode 3 part blow-out, Andrew and Jack read some messages from some listeners (one of whom you may know as a certain Guest Star who's name rhymes with 'Hat'). A lot of this concerns the Alien movies, most especially Covenant which we reviewed episode 85. This ends at 21:55
Then, Jack and Andrew talk MORE Comic book movies that are NOT adapted from DC or Marvel comics - remember, there are more comic book movies out there that aren't the big two (we previously talked about this in episode 48.3 last year). We go from talking sources that were comic...2017-05-291h 32
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 82.3: HORROR In April 3D (Pt 3)So here we come to the third part of this episode, #82, and also the third in this return to HORROR in APRIL! And sure it may technically be now May, but a) we recorded this in April, gosh-darn-it, and b), hey, it's still April *somewhere* at the moment (thank you, west coast!) And one day if one finds this and they have no idea what month is which, this can fit in just fine....
Anyway, now Jack and Andrew simply talk about a whole host of horror fare, and it's all movies that have come out in the past ten...2017-05-011h 28
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 82.1: RIP JONATHAN DEMME - YOUR NAME - FREE FIRE - LOST CITY OF Z - STALKERTonight we begin the 82nd Wages of Cinema Podcast extravaganza on... a sad note, as the wonderful filmmaker (and more importantly a good person) Jonathan Demme passed away and Jack takes some stock of how he could be taken for granted as a great filmmaker (and once again Jack and Andrew debate if Silence of the Lambs is a true "horror" film). Then, Jack discusses some new movies he's seen that are out from all over the world (Japan, England, South America, Hollywood), along with a classic Russian mind-bender from the 70's.
1) Jonathan Demme
2) THE LOST CITY OF Z
3) FREE...2017-05-0151 min
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 80.3: FIVE EASY JACKS (Nicholson)Pick a movie, any movie, I won't look... now your Jack Nicholson movie has to be.... astonishing, brilliant, revelatory, mad, insane, dramatic, heartbreaking, quiet, angry, brash, crude, mischievous, deranged, p*ssed, scary, funny, amused, amusing, delirious, fearful, masculine, critical of masculinity, normal, over-the-top, SMILEY!?
Jack Nicholson is a favorite actor of the Wages of Cinema, and April will mark the 80th birthday of the iconic "Shark Grin" himself. But instead of simply doing a career overview of every single film, we took the nearly impossible task of narrowing FIVE films that Nicholson acted in that have left an impact on...2017-04-021h 33
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 80.1: FUTURE OF MOVIE THEATERS - BABY JANE - TICKLED - KING KONG (05) - TRAINSPOTTING 2After a discussion for roughly the first 20 minutes where Jack mentions the latest Cinema-Con, where the National Association of Theater Owners (or, and don't laugh, NATO), get together with the studios for a trade/industry convention to check out what's going on with new movies (Jack and Andrew also briefly talk about the latest JUSTICE LEAGUE trailer), and in this discussion a major component being how studios may decide to go to a faster streaming/on-demand service system for new titles and what that means, WE TALK ABOUT MOVIES! Of course we do! That's all we do! That's all we'll...2017-04-021h 07
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 77.2: What the Devil is That #2 - BACK STREET (1961)Susan Hayward. John Gavin. Vera Miles. You remember then, don't you? No? Good! Because Jack and Andrew are here to tell you about what they did once when, under the direction of David Miller (don't remember him much either), acted in the THIRD adaptation of Hurst's BACK STREET, a classic tale of love gone awry in the midst of bad timing and a bad wife. How does it all turn out for these people, and do they fall in love in the end? Uh.... Well, about that....
Jack and Andrew sat down and checked out this melodrama, recommended by Jack's...2017-02-2743 min
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 77.1: RIP Bill Paxton - GET OUT - I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO - A CURE FOR WELLNESS - ELSTREE 1976We return with a full 3 part episode! We begin with some sad news as, just as of this past weekend, the wonderful and always dependable character actor and movie STAR Bill Paxton (gotta use caps for the man) passed away, so we take a brief look back at some of his most memorable roles (including a bit at the end of this episode from his role of Hicks in ALIENS).
Then, Jack tells tale of new releases, also some Oscar nominees he caught up on (or did they WIN by the time this posts?! Actually... yes, but you'll have to...2017-02-2740 min
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 74.2: What the Devil is That #1 - DEAD RINGER (1964)This year for 2017, Jack and Andrew take on a new year-long challenge; first there was "The List", where one host gave the other a film to watch that the other hadn't seen, and visa-versa, a sort of year-long film school; the "Cinema Immersion Tank" was about diving literally into one film for a week through revisiting five times, until every crevice of a frame could be inspected and absorbed. Now for this year, Jack and Andrew try something a little different: the final frontier. What in the HELL is that movie?
Jack and Andrew are going see movies that not...2017-02-0134 min
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 74.1: JOHN HURT - SPLIT - 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEYSo what do chest-bursters, James McAvoy, early turn of the century vibrators, and the Hal 9000 computer all have in common? Nothing! Absolutely nothing! But God knows that doesn't stop the Wages of Cinema from trying!
This week on this first part of the latest installment of the Wages of Cinema, Jack and Andrew pay tribute to the career of actor John Hurt, who passed away recently, but more importantly came up on this show many times. Then, Jack talks about the latest from M. Night Shyamalan (SPOILERS are from 34:43 to 44:18) and Andrew sees a rather... interesting documentary. And there's a...2017-02-011h 05
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 73.1: DEADPOOL @ OSCARS? - HIDDEN FIGURES - LIVE BY NIGHT - ONE EYED JACKS - THE FOUNDERFirst of all, you may be seeing this already by the time the Oscar nominations are announced, which is 8 AM Tuesday morning (EST). By then, you will know for sure if DEADPOOL, the foult-mouthed, ultra-violent, hard-assed satirical passion project for Ryan Reynolds gets nominations... yes, really, and Jack explains why this could happen(!) Then Andrew brings up something on his mind - what's a worse sequel: Batman and Robin, or X-Men: Apocalypse? Or X-Men: Origins - Wolverine? Is that a trick question?
And then Jack does the movie run-down from what he's seen the past few weeks, which range from...2017-01-241h 04
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 71.4: Cinema Immersion REFLECTIONSNow, sadly, we do come to the end of this 2016 year of the Cinema Immersion Tank, where the hosts of the Wages of Cinema went through 11 movies - and one together - five times in five days over the course of a year. Jack and Andrew reflect on the experiences of seeing these films, some for the very first time, others for the first time since childhood, what changed, what got better or worse or what it means for Russ Meyer to be a heartfelt filmmaker. No, seriously, people, this is not a drill! Check out this long, free-form conversation...2016-12-301h 05
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 71.2: MORE ROGUE ONE - BATMAN (Adam West Returns!) - FENCES - COLLATERAL BEAUTY - JACKIEWe end the year on our spectacular... 71st episode! Sure, why not! 71 is a number, so we'll take it!
On this episode, we bounce around topics and films like what the implications (both good and bad) could come from the certain A New Hope actor being in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story; why Wonder Woman won't be good (according to Andrew); Jack catches up on two films Andrew's talked about in previous episodes; Andrew sees for the 800th millionth time It's a Wonderful Life; Jack sees the best (and one of the very worst) this year has to offer...2016-12-301h 03
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 69.1: ALLIED - JUDEX - RULES DON'T APPLY - BREAKFAST AT TIFFANYS - TROLLS - HACKSAW RIDGELet's talk about some movies, shall we?
It's right after Thanksgiving and Jack and Andrew have seen some movies, boy howdy! Jack goes through a number of new releases, and also goes back to the birth of cinema to talk about silent short films that you should all see. Andrew meanwhile checks out a slightly obscure French pulp thriller and a classic Robert Redford espionage film from 1975.
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MOVIES:
1) Trolls (2016)
2) The Handmaiden (2016)
3) Judex (1963)
4) Rules Don't Apply (2016)
5) Allied (2016)
6) Three Days of the Condor (1975)
Silent...2016-11-301h 06
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 68.1: ARRIVAL - XTRA-TALK on HEAVEN'S GATE & DOCTOR STRANGE & MARVEL - HAUSU - EXORCIST 2On this episode 68:
HEAR! Andrew bring up an issue that's bugged him in the weeks since recording the episode (Dr. Jack & Dr. Andrew's Case Files #3) on Heaven's Gate, and then he also brings up to Jack what it means that Marvel is into this 'origin story' formula and what it means for their movies (also expanding on their review, ep 66)
HEAR! Jack catching up with a little more old-school Godzilla, a notoriously WTF horror sequel (among other hit or miss horror movies, mostly miss sadly), the new Denis Villeneuve/Amy Adams science fiction film, and Rebecca Hall in the (not...2016-11-151h 04
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 65.2: Dr. Jack & Dr. Andrew's Case Files #3- Michael Cimino's HEAVEN'S GATEThough this was actually, technically, talked about this waaay back at episode 8.4 of the podcast (correction: Jack said episode 4 or 5 in the recording), it's always worth going back again to one of those notorious films that shook up the industry despite the fact that, as irony would have it, at the time not too many people saw Michael Cimino's doomed follow-up to The Deer Hunter: HEAVEN'S GATE. Starring Kris Kristofferson, (then relatively unknown) Isabelle Huppert, and recent Oscar winner Christopher Walken, and written and directed by Cimino fresh off his triumphs for 'Hunter', what started as a mid-level production, about 10...2016-10-3157 min
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 65.1: MORE GIANT MONSTERS (Redux GODZILLA) - DEATH SPA - MOONLIGHT - INTO THE INFERNOSo in the most important news you'll see all week: Jack finally watched a bunch of Godzilla monster movies (plus Rodan)! Meanwhile, Andrew watched Captain America: Civil War again and has some new nitpicks; Jack goes to a horror movie marathon; arthouse audit with Herzog and one of the best new independent films in years.
1) GODZILLATHON:
Godzilla Raids Again (1955)
Mothra vs Godzilla (1964)
Ghidorah, The Three-Headed Monster (1964)
Godzilla vs Hedorah (1971)
Godzilla vs Mecha-Godzilla (1974)
2) CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR (2016)
3) THE GATE (1987)
4) DEAD OF NIGHT (1974)
5) DEATH SPA (1989)
6) EVENT HORIZON (1997)
7) INTO THE INFERNO (2016)
8) MOONLIGHT (2016)
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The Wages of CinemaEpisode 64.1: THE BEATLES - GRAND HOTEL - TRAIN TO BUSAN - ROADHOUSE - THE BIRTH OF A NATIONAnd now let's talk MOVIES! Jack kind of dominates this one - Andrew talks about Grand Hotel, though he's seen a couple other films Jack has so he chimes in - and it's the wide variety we like to bring to Wages of Cinema, from Japanese monster movie to resistance war movie to broad parody to Patrick Swayze kicking everyone's ass and the latest from Tim Burton, Mark Wahlberg, and that guy who stirred up that little dust over at Sundance about that movie named after that other movie but it's not a remake, gee what was it called....
1) GODZILLA...2016-10-1942 min
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 61.1: THE MARVEL MUSIC - HR GIGER - WHEN THE BOUGH BREAKS & LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANSWELCOME BACK!!
We open with a response to a listener question on our facebook page! (check www.facebook.com/wagesofcinema for the full question). Next, Jack asks what is up with (the brilliant) Tony Zhou and his critique of Marvel's cinematic movie scores. Andrew brings up a video too - about HR Giger and the Alien design. And then Jack discusses two films that served a double feature he dubbed "Wombhouse" (When the Bough Breaks and The Light Between Oceans, both from 2016).
References:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vfqkvwW2fs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4Zzag7MusM
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The Wages of CinemaEpisode 60.3: ALL HAIL THE MARX BROTHERS! (Pt. 2)We now continue with our regular scheduled Porpoise... Sorry, what, oh, Purpose, but the Porpoise can stay too. So what happened when the Marx brothers went to MGM via the figurehead Irving J Thalberg? A little known comedy called A Night at the Opera came to be, and then A Day at the Races. Then Thalberg died. What were the brothers to do? Do you sense we have too many questions going on here?
Jack and Andrew continue and conclude their discussion on the oeuvre of Julius, Leonard and Adolph (or, sorry, Groucho, Chico and Harpo) in their eight films...2016-09-091h 05
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 59.1: THIS SUMMER IN MOVIES - KUBO & THE TWO STRINGS - DW GRIFFITH - WAR ROOM - LIFE AQUATICFirst, Jack and Andrew take a look back at this summer of movies for 2016... and why it was so thoroughly mediocre and forgettable (and we also quote and mention an article written by Jessica Ritchey, "Hollywood Gave Up on You", which you can read at the link below.
Then, Jack and Andrew talk about the movies they've seen in the three weeks(!) since the past full three-part episode, and the movies stretch from the new releases from Werner Herzog and Laika animation studios (the makers of Coraline and Paranorman), to the beginning of feature epics with D.W. Griffith's films...2016-08-251h 02
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 58: SUICIDE SQUAD"Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality..." (some Warners exec right now, probably)
So tonight, Jack, Andrew, and Guest Star Matt(TM) bring you a review of the classic 1935 classic that's all about the brave firemen of the world and the women they love, SUICIDE SQUAD! (Well, this movie does exist, but wait, no, wrong version, right, it's 2016, gotcha, let's correct that).
By now a lot of words have been written about the movie - and a little known aggregator called Rotten Tomatoes had been blamed for a lack of...2016-08-051h 12
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 57.2: STAR TREK BEYOND - BATMAN: THE KILLING JOKE - CAFE SOCIETY - PLANET OF THE APESFirst, Jack and Andrew talk about some sad and good news about the current state of VCR's and VHS (in brief, they're dead, Jim), and Terry Gilliam's long-gestating Don Quixote film (which is finally in production!) Then, Jack talks about movies that he watched since the last episode, ranging from a sequel in another Hollywood franchise, an adaptation of Alan Moore, and Woody Allen's once-a-year offering.
(please note, there was a slight audio issue around 7:50 to 8:10 in the podcast due to a technical issue, we apologize for the snafu)
films discussed:
1) CAFE SOCIETY (2016)
2) STAR TREK: BEYOND (2016)
3) BATMAN: THE KILLING JOKE (2016)
4...2016-08-0359 min
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 55.3: THE BFG and ROALD DAHL MOVIESWhat do Steven Spielberg, Henry Selick, James Bond, Nicolas Roeg, Tim Burton, Wes Anderson and Gene Wilder all have in common? Probably not much, but we can tell you all about how they all played in the wheelhouse that Roald Dahl created through his delightful children's books and screenplays (yes, he wrote a couple), many of which helped to warp minds with his playful but twisted visions and stories. Jack and Andrew explore the adaptations of his works, how they compare with one another, as Jack sees Spielberg's new release while Andrew talks about the musical Chitty Chitty, Bang Bang.
...2016-07-081h 29
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 55.2: VIDEO GAME MOVIES - SWISS ARMY MAN - THE SHALLOWS - THE RED SHOES - RISKY BUSINESSFirst Jack and Andrew get on a tangent, as they're wont to do, about video game movies and why there aren't really any good adaptations of video games (and on the flip-side why there aren't too many good games based on video games, with one exception), and there's a pitch Jack makes for a Katamari Damacy movie that should be directed by Japan's wildman Takashi Miike.
Then it's movie talk as Jack sees some new movies that involve sand, surf and Daniel Radcliff's private parts, one of the late Anton Yelchin's best performances, and Andrew sees a Powell & Pressburger classic...2016-07-081h 03
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 52.3: Dr. Jack & Dr. Andrew's Case Files #1 - MYRA BRECKINRIDGEWhat can you say about a movie that is based on a Gore Vidal book and is somehow more f***ing insane and terrible than Caligula? Well... look no further than Myra Breckinridge starring Raquel Welch, John Huston, Rex Reed(!), Farrah Fawcett and John Carradine in the biggest pile of WTF that it makes Beyond the Valley of the Dolls - released in the same year and by the same studio, 20th Century Fox - look like a walk in the satirical park by comparison. But is it ALL bad? Well...
Dr. Jack and Dr. Andrew, trained in the field...2016-06-0650 min
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 51: THE LOBSTERI'm sure some of us (no, let's admit it, all of us) have asked oruselves or others, possibly when we're stoned, if we could be any animal which would we pick? A dog? Most of us might choose a dog, they're so lovable and cuddly and want to be for their masters. But what about a turtle? Or a lobster? Or a parrot? What kinds of existential questions come with becoming something... else?
This might be the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the premise of The Lobster, about a man in a society where people have...2016-06-011h 00
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 47: Marvel's CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR(PLEASE NOTE: Spoilers begin at 26:11 into the podcast, right after the audio clip from the movie)
Imagine this, fellow listeners: a comic book movie with people who have special abilities and powers and can punch and kick and move and flip and fly really fast and awesomely... with stakes? What happens when the philosophies of characters get challenged by the world in ways that feel impactful? Civil War, the latest film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe which acts as a sequel-cum-culmination of what's been set up in the Iron Man, Captain America and Avengers movies, looks to asking some moral...2016-05-081h 16
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 46.1: DISNEY'S JUNGLE BOOK - PRINCE & PURPLE RAIN - ELVIS & NIXON - AMC THEATERSFirst up on this new episode of the Wages of Cinema Jack and Andrew discuss the brief but (thank goodness) aborted plan by AMC to allow texting in theaters; a brief talk about The Magnificent Seven (remake) trailer and Westerns in popular culture; and then at 26 minutes in, Jack talks about some movies he watched in the past couple of weeks. What sort of movies? The range goes from a (sadly late) pop icon to Disney once again going into their collection for a new franchise, a lost piece existentialist despair, and a documentary on cine-maniacs.
(Jack's movies):
1) DISNEY'S THE...2016-04-2556 min
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 38.3: Cinema Immersion Tank #3 - A SERIOUS MANJack takes a dip into the CINEMA IMMERSION TANK (1 film, 5 times in 5 days) with the Academy Award nominated existential 1960's Jewish dark comedy of what's life the universe and everything else A SERIOUS MAN. Will Jack find the answers to which he seeks? And what about the Goy and his teeth?
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The Wages of CinemaEpisode 36.2: Cinema Immersion Tank #1 - BLOW OUTWelcome to a brand-spanking-new series for 2016: this is called the CINEMA IMMERSION TANK (inspired by the Welcome to the Basement series on YouTube), and in this Jack and Andrew will watch a movie once a day or night five days or nights in a row. How's THAT for commitment! By the end of this we very well may be just that!
On this first episode, Jack dives deep into the dark thriller-satire from Brian De Palma at the height of his powers: BLOW OUT starring John Travolta and Nancy Allen.2016-01-1839 min
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 32.1: 2MMM (w: CREED, CHI-RAQ & THE WINTER SOLDIER)Before we get to the TWO MINUTE MOVIE MILE, Jack and Andrew talk about the latest trailer for Batman v Superman and (hot off the presses) Independence Day Resurgence.
Here is the latest (Jack has a marathon starting with Room:
1) CREED (2015)
2) CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER (2014)
3) THE GOOD DINOSAUR (2015)
4) SKYFALL (2012)
5) TRUMBO (2015)
6) AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON (2015) (Andrew rewatch)
7) ROOM (2015)
8) BY THE SEA (2015)
9) CHI-RAQ (2015)
10) SGT. KABUKIMAN: NYPD (1990)
11) THE HELP (2011)
12) LISTEN TO ME, MARLON (2015)
13) MAPS TO THE STARS (2014)
14) KUMIKO, THE TREASURE HUNTER (2014)
15) ALIEN FROM LA (1988)
Clips from Duke Ellington and Chopin (remix)
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The Wages of CinemaEpisode 31.1: 2MMM (w: SPOTLIGHT, MOCKINGJAY 2, BROOKLYN)Before the 2MMM, we talk about some comments regarding our previous 'List' episode and what we (or Jack) got wrong with the Man for All Seasons Christian-mythology.
With the Two Minute Movie Mile, Jack sees a lot of new movies (plus two maybe not-so-great Nicolas Cage ones), and Andrew watches a Lucio Fulci movie and a Spike Jonze movie and... not too much else (it's one of those months with little time). Oh, and things like Nathan Fillion in a non-sci-fi and Tippi Hedren getting (almost) eaten by a lion round out the discussion:
1) SPOTLIGHT (2015)
2) ZOMBIE (1979)
3) THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY...2015-11-2437 min
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 30.1: 2MMM (w: PEANUTS, THE RAID & JEM AND THE HOLOGRAMS)We get right into it with the movie this week, as there have been a LOT to talk about: new releases go really to Jack and Andrew talks some horror (as Jack does too, this was covering the last week of October, after all), but then some animation (of varying qualities), a documentary about a making-of movie, the weirdest time travel movie ever, two or three French films (viva la France!) including one more dip into Luis Bunuel, and Jack and Andrew share their thoughts on one of the biggest bombs in recent memory.
And Jack opens the show with...2015-11-151h 04
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 29.1: 2MMM (w: CRIMSON PEAK, A BUCKET OF BLOOD, & BUNUEL)So, let's get back to what we love talking about - MOVICINEFILMOGRAPHIA! Sorry, we sometimes do make up words...
First, the guys start off with a discussion on the 3rd (and final) Star Wars trailer for Episode 7, and other episodes and their special editions. Then it's time for the 2 minute movie mile, where Jack and Andrew talk about the films they've seen in the past two weeks - some new releases from acclaimed/award-winning auteurs, horror movies that are obscure and well-regarded (and not), plus Andrew does a block of films directed by Luis Bunuel, and Jack looks at things...2015-10-2648 min
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 28.3: The List - THE INNOCENTS & FITZCARRALDOThis week on this episode of 'The List', Jack and Andrew ask some important questions of their movies. Such as: are all British children creepy? Is Klaus Kinski the most intense actor in the history of cinema? What does sex have to do with the Governess Miss Giddens and the little boy Miles? Did these native people in South America work for scale? What does it mean to really frighten and to really inspire some sense of awe? Also, Herzog, tell us how you REALLY feel about the jungle. Hmm?
Jack Clayton's THE INNOCENTS (1961)
Werner Herzog's FITZCARRALDO (1982)
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The Wages of CinemaEpisode 27.1: 2MMM (w: SICARIO, KOYAANISQATSI, & 2 by WES CRAVEN)Jack and Andrew return, once again, NOT for the last time (far as we know, we don’t control the sponsors…)
Time for more movie talk, but before the movies that they saw this week, Jack brings up the latest sound-bytes that seem to be coming out of that fount of movie-geekdom, Quentin Tarantino, and his comments about streaming and taping from TV on VHS in ‘I Lost it at the Video Store’.
The 2-Minute Movie-Mile this week, meanwhile (starting at 13:35 in), is once again an eclectic mixture – you want em, we got em, folks: new releases, documentaries, horror films by a late...2015-09-2944 min
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 26: THE ANIMATION SHOW (Live #1)It only took 26 episodes (give or take a few), but Jack Gattanella and Andrew Birchenough present their very first LIVE presentation!
Here's a question: what are THE important animated movies ever made? Or more specifically, how many came from Walt Disney studios alone? Are they only for kids - what about adults? Over the course of an hour (and then some), Jack and Andrew look to find the 10 (really 11) feature films that have changed the medium of animation forever - from silent-era Germany, to Japanese anime, independent films from the UK and France, and a foray into the medium for...2015-09-241h 14
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 25.1: 2MMM (w: THE VISIT, DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL, & TOY STORY)Before the intrepid hosts get into the Two-Minute Movie-Mile, Andrew is upset about Pacific Rim 2 being shelved indefinitely, and Jack recounts his trip to Retro Con in Oaks, PA, and his purchase of an unusual NES (movie-related) game from 1986.
Then, the movies on tap for this week are… dominated by Jack, who else, but there’s some good talk for animation (80’s robot action, Spielberg mo-cap and Disney classics abound), a faith-based nightmare, and movies featuring Oscar-winners, tragic deaths and sexual encounters of the bizarre and strange kind. Also, Jack may have discovered the black Klaus Kinski in an otherwise forget...2015-09-1746 min
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 24.2: 'The List' - NASHVILLE & PACIFIC HEIGHTSCountry music in Nashville. Yuppies in San Francisco. Henry Gibson. Michael Keaton. So many other things to list - what do they have in common? Well, probably not much, except they are Andrew and Jack's LIST movies of the week!
Robert Altman's NASHVILLE (reviewed by Andrew)
John Schlesinger's PACIFIC HEIGHTS (reviewed by Jack)2015-09-0135 min
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 24.1: 2MMM (w: COMPTON, GASLIGHT & SNOW WHITE)This week, Andrew saw.... almost nothing. This leaves Jack to carry nearly all of the load of the 2 Minute Movie Mile, and he saw a bunch of new releases and a couple of classics. The two hosts come together to talk about a film they watched together: Walt Disney's first feature film (and the first ever in animation with synchronized sound).
Movies: STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON - BOYZ N THE HOOD - THE END OF THE TOUR - SHAUN THE SHEEP - AMERICAN ULTRA - PAPILLON - CASINO JACK - GASLIGHT (1944) - MISTRESS AMERICA - SNOW WHITE & THE SEVEN DWARFS
Email...2015-09-0126 min
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 23.2: 'The List' - JULIUS CAESAR & BARRY LYNDONWhat do William Shakespeare and Stanley Kubrick have in common? Aside from being two of the top people in their respective plains of theater and cinema? How about men's rise to power? How to get it, how to hold on to it? What it means to *be* something? Here, Jack and Andrew take a look at stories involving men like Redmond Barry (cum Barry Lyndon), Marc Antony and Brutus, who looked at where they were and thought, 'Hmm... what to do now...'
Oh, and by the way, we have a returning director - the only one on both of...2015-08-1535 min
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 23.1: 2MMM (w: APOCALYPSE NOW, FANTASTIC MR. FOX & THE GIFT)PARENTAL ADVISORY NOTICE (fy) for Explicit Language...
Check out the big-movie-watching brain on Andrew! This time, for the first time since the first Two-Minute-Movie-Mile, Andrew sees more movies than Jack, but altogether the movies discussed go from auteurist spectacles in blockbuster form (Coppola and Nolan) to animated films (Wes Anderson and Miyazaki). Before this, Jack and Andrew discuss the Fox's FAN4TASTIC fiasco, and the trailer for Tarantino's HATEFUL EIGHT.
Films discussed: THE VANISHING (1988) - THE GIFT (2015) - FANTASTIC MR. FOX - THE DARK KNIGHT - RUSSIAN ARK - TRAINWRECK - THE ILLUSIONIST (2010) - HOW THE WEST WAS WON...2015-08-1559 min
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 22.1: 2MMM (w: SOUTHPAW, CALIGULA & 36th CHAMBER OF SHAOLIN)This week, Jack and Andrew start off taking on a listener comment about the previous episode on movie scores (looking at you John Williams and Dvorak), and then go right into the movies the hosts saw, together and separate, ranging from Hollywood product, new the not-so-new, and some independent and documentary fare, too. Once again Jack hogs the mic, but only after the 34:15 mark into ‘Marathon’ mode. As for the films Jack and Andrew saw together, it’s both the highest and lowest of cinematic tastes…
Two-Minute-Movie-Mile:
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – ROGUE NATION – HOUSE OF WAX (1953) – CALIGULA – SOUTHPAW – THE ADVENTURES OF PRINCE ACHMED – THE STANF...2015-08-0350 min
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 19.2: 'The List' - KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE & FIVE EASY PIECESMen at the crossroads. Lancelot of the Lake. Robert Dupea. Worlds involving the Round Table with daring-do in England, and the existential desolation of oil and cold south-north-west coast. Sword fights and disagreements over toast. Chivalry and piano. CINEMASCOPE and BBS.
Here we got a film that may have not been seen like Sword in the Stone or Excalibur, but it's worth talking about another Arthurian cinematic adaptation nonetheless for Jack. Meanwhile, Andrew takes in Jack Nicholson's breakthrough as a leading man in this character drama.
1) KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE (1954) directed by Richard Thorpe
2) FIVE EASY PIECES (1970) directed by...2015-06-2433 min
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 19.1: 2MMM (w: JURASSIC WORLD, CADDYSHACK & APU TRILOGY)We start off with a talk about the very departed James Horner (Aliens, Wrath of Khan, so many more). Then at around the 8 minute mark we get to talking about new/classic movies we've seen with two minutes a piece. We go across from new blockbusters to Harold Ramis comedies to Charles Laughton, to Bela Tarr, James Gunn and Satyajit Ray (the latter gets 4 mins). Jack, as usual, gets into marathon mode at the 28 minute mark.
IN ORDER: JURASSIC WORLD - CADDYSHACK - WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION - OSS: 117- NEST OF SPIES - ROMAN HOLIDAY - GROUNDHOG'S DAY...2015-06-2346 min
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 16.3: WOMEN in ACTIONBecause Mad Max Fury Road won't leave our heads - and because of how much Charlize Theron kicked our asses up and down the wastelands - we'd like to take a look at some of the major action heroes (or is it heroines, will that be something that can be clarified) including the likes of Pam Grier's characters, Ellen Ripley, Sarah Connor, Beatrix Kiddo and many more. Also, the question comes up for Jack: what IS an action hero for women? Does Catwoman count?
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The Wages of CinemaEpisode 14.1: 2MMM (w: EX MACHINA, DAS BOOT & ERASERHEAD)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...2015-05-1544 min
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 11.1: The 2-Minute Movie Mile (w: FURIOUS 7, KLUTE & NIMH)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...2015-04-1538 min
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 10.4: HORROR in AprilFor our BIG Segment this week... Carpenter... Argento... Hooper... Mitchell... wait, who? David Robert Mitchell? Who's that? You'll know soon, oh yes...
Jack does a 'horror block' and looks at a new independent horror thriller, the 'latest' (as of 5 years ago) by John Carpenter, and a classic 1982 'Giallo' by Dario Argento.
Then Jack AND Andrew talk about the movie that has been pointed to as kicking off much of the horror we see today.
From Detroit to Rome to Texas, strap in for some SPOOKTACULAR SAVINGS (and it's not even Halloween... yet)
(And lastly, Jack and Andrew talk about what...2015-04-061h 06
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 9.4: A Long Day's Journey into RIDLEY SCOTTJack and Andrew, mostly Andrew, have a bone to pick with Ridley "Rid" Scott. The director of several iconic and award-winning films - Alien, Blade Runner, Gladiator, American Gangster, The Duellists (this one Jack just watched) - and rather unwieldy flops - Legend, The Counselor, 1492 - is looked at in a long retrospective. We really get into it, folks, the good-the-bad-and-the-ho-hum.
(featuring clips from Ridley Scott interviews and music by Vangelis)2015-03-271h 58
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 8.1: Badassdom, Years & JackWelcome back! We take you into (briefly) some almost-shelved comedy-horror hijinks, a best picture Oscar winner which Jack loves (mostly), and an HBO movie about Jack Kevorkian starring Al Pacino.
1) Knights of Badassdom
2) The Best Years of Our Lives (7 mins in)
3) You Don't Know Jack (24 mins in)2015-03-1133 min
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 7.4: 'The List' - MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON & MOONSTRUCKWhat's this? Moonstruck? AGAIN!? We did that on the first episode, you say. Well, Jack didn't see it and it was on 'The List', the movies that Jack and Andrew are watching from beginning to year's end that the other has seen and the one reviewing hasn't. So Jack watches it, there's talk of Nicolas Cage and John Patrick Shanley, and the Andrew waxes not-too-poetic about Mr. Smith.
Oh, and a movie called The Hitler Gang is brought up. Yeah... Listen to this.
(Clips of films used under fair use. Podcast is run by us)2015-02-2745 min
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 7.2: KINGSMAN, MILK, Loy/Powell Block & Mo' Marvin,This may seem like quite the combination, but here at the Wages of Cinema we like putting our movies together like a warped smoothie - in this case it's full of machismo, gay rights, and that classic screwball couple from the 1930's your mom (and Jack) loves)
So here we have a block of more Myrna Loy & William Powell movies, Andrew watches The Dirty Dozen, Jack gets hooked up with another Vaughn/Millar comic book flick, and both hosts get into a discussion on Gus van Sant's Oscar-winning 2008 film MILK (and also Dan White in particular)
1) Loy & Powell Block (After...2015-02-2651 min
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 6.5: 'The List' - 42ND ST & THE THIN MANJack and Andrew talk about their next couple of films from their respective lists (of movies to see over the year) and dig into classic 1930's Hollywood: for Andrew it's Lloyd Bacon and Busby Berkeley's 42nd Street and for Jack it's the Dashiell Hammett adaptation, The Thin Man.2015-02-1644 min
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 2: THE BIG SLEEP, DO THE RIGHT THING & DARK OF THE MOON (+more)Welcome back to the Wages of Cinema! Once again the podcast is SO BIG we had to put it in two parts - PLEASE tune in this upcoming Thursday for part TWO of the podcast!
This first one up, Jack and Andrew talk about movies they've seen the past week - and some other things, like who would be the ideal director for a Katamari Damacy movie - and they're a varied bunch of new films, documentaries, and a few contemporary classics (and one certainly that is not):
Do the Right Thing
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
The Testament of...2014-12-151h 41
The Wages of CinemaEpisode 1: Movies & Trailers & Top 5 Of All TimeHere it is! The debut episode of the WAGES OF CINEMA podcast. In this first time out, Jack and Andrew (the hosts) talk about the movies seen in the past week, new trailers, and, as the main segment, discussion about their top five favorite films - ever. And this is such a BIG episode that we actually have split it in two! Check in later this week for part two.
(for those looking to go straight to the top 5 discussion it's at 43 minutes in - also, apologies for any sound issues with any hisses or scratches) Movies and Trailers discussed:
...2014-12-012h 03