This week, we honor Peter Watkins by looking at one of his most famous works, The War Game (1966). The film was funded by the BBC but later shelved due to the film's depiction of nuclear fallout being too horrifying. Regardless, the film was still able to be shown and praised due to its simulation of nuclear fallout through Cinéma vérité style.
Next Week's New Release: Die My Love (Ramsay, 2025)
**As a sidenote, we're working on a side project for the podcast, which we'll be happy to share in the future! For this reason, we're going to switch back to one episode a week! We'll be back soon to our normal schedule!
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This week, we look at a man we can't see, again! AHHHHHH! We are covering Joe May's Invisible Man sequel that treads somewhat familiar techniques.
Next Week's New Release: Shelby Oaks (Stuckmann, 2024)
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This week, we look at a man we can't see! AHHHHHH! We are covering James Whale's 1933 masterpiece!
Next Picks from the Shelf Episode: The Invisible Man Returns (May, 1940)
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https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Universal-Classic-Monsters-The-Essential-Collection-Blu-ray/35661/
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This week, we look at satanic curses that are life-threatening to those who act selfishly in Sam Raimi's Drag Me to Hell!
Next Week's New Release: TBD!
Next Picks from the Shelf Episode: The Invisible Man (Whale, 1933)
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This week's release: https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-Chant-of-Jimmie-Blacksmith-Blu-ray/244899/https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-Chant-of-Jimmie-Blacksmith-Blu-ray/244899/
Join us this week as we talk about Luca Guadagnino's new film After the Hunt (2025) with special guest, Pate Duncan!
Next Week's New Release: TBD!
Next Picks from the Shelf Episode: Drag Me to Hell (Raimi, 2009)
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This week, we travel to a cemetery where two lovers speed run a relationship over one night in The Iron Rose.
Next Week's New Release: After the Hunt (Guadagnino, 2025)
Next Picks from the Shelf Episode: Drag Me to Hell (Raimi, 2009)
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This week's release: https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-Chant-of-Jimmie-Blacksmith-Blu-ray/244899/https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-Chant-of-Jimmie-Blacksmith-Blu-ray/244899/
Join us this week as we talk about a criminal who you can't help but have a soft spot for in Roofman!
Next Week's New Release: After the Hunt (Guadagnino, 2025)
Next Picks from the Shelf Episode: The Iron Rose (Rollin, 1973)
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This week, we cover a film based on the real-life events of Jimmy Governor. The film The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith (Schepisi, 1978) is a cold drama that examines and ruminates on violence and systematic racism.
Next Week's New Release: Roofman (Cianfrance, 2025)
Next Picks from the Shelf Episode: The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (Schepisi, 1978), releasing on October 10th!
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Join us this week as we talk about the directorial debut of Eva Victor!
Next Week's New Release: Roofman (Cianfrance, 2025)
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Join us this week as we talk about the return of Paul Thomas Anderson with his star-studded new release!
Next Week's New Release: Sorry, Baby (Victor, 2025)
Next Picks from the Shelf Episode: The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (Schepisi, 1978), releasing on October 11th!
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Five years in the making, we revisit a classic that just happens to be the first film we ever discussed in the podcast.
Next Week's New Release: One Battle After Another (Anderson, 2025)
Next Picks from the Shelf Episode: The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (Schepisi, 1978) - Eureka! release
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Join us this week as we talk about the faith-based "Angel" Studios and their new release, The Senior.
Next Week's New Release: One Battle After Another (Anderson, 2025)
Next Picks from the Shelf Episode: The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (Schepisi, 1978)
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This week, an film history oddity as we discuss what is and what could've been of Bruce Lee and Company's Circle of Iron. The particular release we are discussing comes from Blue Underground and is the DVD version.
Next Week's New Release: The Senior (Lurie, 2023)
Next Picks from the Shelf Episode: Robocop (Verhoeven, 1987) - Arrow Release
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Join us this week as we talk about how Reiner and crew all reunite to return to the rockumentary mold to bring heart and slightly poke at aging rock stars in this sequel that comes 41 years after the original film.
Next Week's New Release: The Senior (Lurie, 2023)
Next Picks from the Shelf Episode: Robocop (Verhoeven, 1987)
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This week, another great film helmed by Ford and Fonda.
Next Week's New Release: Spinal Tap 2: The End Continues (Reiner, 2025)
Next Picks from the Shelf Episode: Circle of Iron (Moore, 1978) - Blue Underground DVD release
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Link to Cahiers du Cinema text on Young Mr. Lincoln:
https://openeclass.panteion.gr/modules/document/file.php/TMF226/Young%20Mister%20Lincoln.pdf
Join us this week as we go all in on the second film in the Covino and Marvin Collaboration. We talk about this new screwball comedy and how it would make Bogdanovich and Hawks proud. We also pull on the similarities the film shares with the duo's prior film, The Climb (Covino, 2019)
Next Week's New Release: Spinal Tap 2: The End Continues (Reiner, 2025)
Next Picks from the Shelf Episode: Circle of Iron (Moore, 1978)
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This week, we look at one of Gus Van Sant's oddities. That being his intensely faithful remake of Psycho.
Next Week's New Release Episode: Splitsville (Covino, 2025)
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Link to release details:
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Steven Soderbergh's Psychos Cut:
https://extension765.com/blogs/soderblog/psychos
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This week, we look at the film that is cited to have put Marlene Dietrich on the map and started to build her star persona. We are covering the Indicator release of Morocco (von Sternberg, 1930).
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Join us this week as we go all in on the second film in the Cooke & Coen lesbian b-film trilogy. We are covering Honey Don't! and how it's a pleasant film with some shortcomings. We also talk about how it compares to the previous film in the trilogy, Drive Away Dolls.
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This week, we look at one of Sammo Hung Kam-Bo's best films, Eastern Condors, put out on Criterion.
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Link to release details:
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