After a brief two-year hiatus, Simon, Mat, and Jon are back to meander in chat about three films linked in the ever-evolving grandbag chain. In this episode, we’re dissecting: Last Embrace (1979): A Jonathan Demme "Hitchcock homage" that feels more like a student film with a "leathery" Roy Scheider running around after buses in some truly questionable pants. We dig into the production's secret…
Simon Jon and Mat are back with a deep dive into SciFi Restoration, Nihilism and Literature with 3 film classics: The Empire Strikes Back, RoboCop 2 and Naked Lunch.... *Disclaimer* Leigh Brackett's Star Wars 2 First Draft
After a 2 year hiatus, Simon Jon and Mat are back with a deep dive into Terrorism, Racism and War with 3 film classics: Twilight's Last Gleaming, White Dog and The Big Red One....
The boys are back to examine 3 more classics in the Grandbag's chain that takes us down rabbit holes featuring Big Willie, Gonch, The Batman and starting the chain with Bonnie & Clyde! This week we are joined (or rudely interupted) by Lord Salford from Warner Bros, Stockport.
After a 9 month sabbatical for no good reason, the boys are back to dissect and examine 3 more classics in the Grandbag's chain that takes us down rabbit holes featuring Orville the Duck, Gruey and Psycho Biddies. We start the chain with Kiss Me Deadly.
In this episode Simon, Jon, and Mat discuss A Town Called Bastard, The Silencers and The Cannonball Run through a series of tenuous links. We explore how Tinker from Lovejoy shot someone 5 times with a shotgun, how Simon acquired his Matt Helm's Lounge boxset, how seatbelts got their name and Aqua's Barbie Girl's connection to Titanic. All this and more for your listening pleasure.
In this episode Simon, Jon, and Mat discuss Catch 22, City Heat, and Kelly's Heroes through a series of tenuous links. Arye Gross gives us some feedback, Simon explains his love of tanks, Mat's Kingmaker snare drum and Liam Gallagher's Tiger Shark. All this and more for your listening pleasure.
In this episode Simon, Jon, and Mat discuss Full Metal Jacket, Hexed, and Coupe De Ville through a series of tenuous links, why does Val Kilmer miss all the roles, were the Kubricks a kooky family, is Hexed the funniest overlooked film of the century and how do you pronounce Arye Gross's name? All this and more for your listening pleasure.