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“The Power of the Dog” (2021): Westerns Done Right, Dusty Gay Benedict Cumberbatch, & Collaborating Couples Directed by Jane Campion, this film stars Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemmons. In this episode, I break down the film with fun facts and anecdotes, but also revisit my favorite Westerns. Links at bottom to all previous…

“LICORICE PIZZA” (2021) “BOOGIE NIGHTS” (1997) & “INHERENT VICE” (2014): Paul Thomas Anderson movies set in 1970’s California (he was born in 1970 and was raised in the Valley, so much of the content is pulled from his experience or adjacent to his personal upbringing). “THE NICE GUYS” (2016) is the other movie (NOT in…

“Last Night in Soho” (2021), directed by Edgar Wright, is about a young girl who heads off to fashion school in London (Thomasin Mckenzie) when she begins connecting with the past through an affection for the 1960s and dreams about a mysterious young dancer, Sandie (Anya Taylor Joye). Her whimsical transportation to this beloved decade…

“It Happened On 5th Avenue” (1947) directed by Roy Del Ruth is a holiday movie about a homeless man who squats in a mansion during the winter season pretending it’s his own, and how hi-jinx ensue when he “generously” takes in guests to stay with him. Screenwriters, Herbert Clyde Lewis and Frederick Stephani, were nominated for…

“The Family Stone” (2005), written and directed by Thomas Bezucha, is the story of what happens when Everett Stone (Dermot Mulroney) wants to bring his girlfriend, Meredith Morton (Sarah Jessica Parker), to meet his bohemian Connecticut family at Christmas. Straitlaced Meredith, feeling she needs backup, asks her sister Julie (Claire Danes) to come along. Hoping…

The hat I mentioned….^ Johnny Case & The Potters! Remake Discussions… Could You See It? (Respond via Instagram Poll) Sources/Further Reading & Listening: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_Sanford_Legendre

Holiday Hidden Gem #1: “While You Were Sleeping” is a 1995 classic Christmas rom-com, directed by Jon Turteltaub, who is responsible for Cool Runnings, National Treasure franchise, The Meg, & The Kid. Who Could Have Been? Lucy Moteratz (Sandra Bullock) could have been played by Demi Moore, Nicole Kidman, Julia Roberts or Meg Ryan. Jack…

“Knives Out” (2019) directed by Rian Johnson was the sneak attack stacked hit from a year that already was full of top tier highly anticipated features (“Once Upon A Time in Hollywood,” “The Irishman,” “1917” “Midsommar” “Hustlers” “Little Women” “Us” and “Parasite”). Stars Jamie Lee Curtis, Ana De Armas, Chris Evans, Katherine Langford, Don Johnson,…

“Gosford Park” (2001) directed by Robert Altman, written by Julian Fellowes (of “Downton Abbey”). “Gosford Park” was based on a French film that came out in Jean Renoir’s French classic, “La Règle du jeu” (“The Rules of the Game”) which came out in 1939. Development on “Gosford Park” began in 1999, when Bob Balaban asked…

Sources/Further Reading & Listening: The novel by Thomas Hardy https://variety.com/2015/film/reviews/far-from-the-madding-crowd-review-1201464632/ https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/10/travel/on-englands-coast-thomas-hardy-made-his-world.htmlPoldark Fancast Typecast Podcast NPR Interview with Carey Mulligan – clips used in episode