"The film has always been a favorite of those who enjoy visual and dramatic flamboyance."

From probably our best known critic, Roget Ebert, and we agree! TOUCH OF EVIL is proof that even movies on all of these pretentious lists can actually be fun. We take a look at what amounts to a B movie, but with a great director at the helm. We also touch on the objectionable brownface of Charlton Heston (of all people) as a Mexican officer of the law, as well as the glorious acting ability and beauty of Janet Leigh.

Join us as we travel across the border and talk great endings, boring heroes and the fun of being a heel in TOUCH OF EVIL.

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"We deserved it. I mean, if you get a pummeling, you deserved it. But isn't it wonderful to remember a time that America was once so innocent that all we had to worry about was the next Batman movie?" - Joel Schumacher

Are we really wasting another weekend on a new release? Well it’s Batman (excuse me, THE BATMAN) and the whole world is watching so what do you expect? Your regular hosts, plus Derek, host of The Grand Gesture and Your List, My Command (kind of) joins the fray.

It’s strange, but for two guys who rail against comic book movies, our new release episodes seem to arrive back here. Derek tries (in vain?) to defend poor Battinson against an onslaught of jokes (some probably too personal) at his expense.

“There is something triumphant about Reeves The Batman, and I do like where the film leaves the character before the screen fades to black. But so many aspects dont come together, each refusing to resonate no matter how much I wished otherwise.”

Sara Michelle Fetters of Moviefreak.com hits the nail on the head for our hosts, noting that this is a mixed bag that leaves us wanting just a little bit more.

But what about our guest? The lone light in the darkness of Off Screen Death. Maybe he will appreciate this quote a bit more.

“Reeves loves these dead-end apocalyptic environments, and delights in tales that toy with the moral calculus of typical hero narratives. He has given us a Batman that he himself can believe in, not to mention a Batman that feels right for our times.”

Bilge Ebiri from New York Magazine might be angling hard for a spot on the poster, but hey, it sounds great.

Join us as we talk Batman history, rankings, hiding hot people, and…John Turturro?

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"HUSH is probably the best home invasion film since Adam Wingard's YOU'RE NEXT."

Shikhar Verma of High On Films is not exactly effusive in their praise, but we still agree.

Also, HUSH is much better than WAIT UNTIL DARK (sorry, Audrey).  We talk mean spirited movies, representation battles, and somehow, yet again, redheads.  This is definitely MIke’s fault. Despite this, we make short jokes, talk horror, and complain about Legolas.  Just listen. Please?

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"The apparent desire by the core creative team to break from their wilder, messier material by giving FALSE POSITIVE A24 gloss--is understandable. But for a movie with this much blood, it doesn't leave much of a stain."

We disagree, Katie Rife of the AV Club. For if we can't count on Pierce Brosnan as an evil gynecologist in a movie... what new releases can we count on? So get in your stirrups and prepare for the warm touch of our LAST Opening Weekend Wasted.

Until something really good comes out. BUT UNTIL THEN... we leave you with praise for Gretchen Mol as a dedicated employee and one host getting to blather on about ROSEMARY'S BABY for a bit. Enjoy.

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"The dumb parts of the movie are the best parts of the movie. I wish it had leaned into being more dumb."

We here at OFF SCREEN DEATH thought James Wan's AQUAMAN was plenty dumb, Amy Nicholson. PLENTY DUMB.

And we had a good time with it. Along the way Dave longs for Nicole Kidman (reasonable) and claims Venom as the one comic book character he would aspire to be (questionable) while Mike is complaining about Amber Heard... but just the shade of red they use for her wig. That's it, internet! Now enjoy your water movie that isn't AVATAR.

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"Throughout REMEMBER MY NAME the actors work hard to fulfill the surface requirements of scenes that have no dramatic foundation, and the results are often skittish and baffling."

Unlike Janet Maslin of the New York Times one host can't get enough Anthony Perkins so we return to him as a leading man in this episode. This produces troubling results as the other host thinks he's a "nice guy" in this somewhat hard-to-find film (unless you aren't an animal and have Turner Classic Movies) and that brings up questions that are best left unanswered about this host's dating life. What is not in doubt is that Geraldine Chaplin (not Paige) gives an all time performance about a persistent woman who is sex-positive and suffers no fools. We think that was the message here. Don't question us.

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"The scene where Sam imparts his wisdom to young buck Bottoms may be the saddest, loveliest moment in 1970s American cinema. And that's saying something."

Tom Huddleston of Time Out speaks much more elegantly about Sam than we do, but we have more fun. We invite guest Derek Stewart of The Grand Gesture and Your List, My Command to talk about a formative film for him, THE LAST PICTURE SHOW!  We talk about a little bit of everything; including the difference between big city and small town living, toxic adults, and our radically different tastes in women. Oh yeah, I guess this movie that is rated 100% on Rotten Tomatoes is pretty good, too.

Join us in our discussion of THE LAST PICTURE SHOW, one of the most heralded pictures of maybe the greatest decade in modern cinema.  No pressure.

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"Imagine David Mamet rewriting his political satire WAG THE DOG as a joke-free kidnap drama. Or don't imagine, just pony up for the glum spectacle of SPARTAN"

Peter Travers of ROLLING STONE does not share our sense of humor or our large audience but that's okay because we've got something most people don't:

SPARTAN on DVD.

Or at least one host does. And that's good enough for him as we go back to working without a list and instead the consumer decisions that were made pre-VERONICA MARS... though we get into the days of blind buying season of television as well in our latest episode, baby.

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To create... one must syndicate.

At our advanced age (when we are not falling asleep or contemplating our own mortality) we can look back with reverence (bitterness) at our misspent youth. What that means for you, dear listener, is a plan of action that requires a couple of months of inaction.

Episodes looking back at the films of Sofia Coppola... which also is a look back at our previous podcast A PODCAST DIRECTED BY. However... not only will we revisit those episodes but also the work that this director has since completed with ON THE ROCKS and the new release PRISCILLA. This will give us time to start recording our lists for 2024 which involve the years 1939, 1974, 1994 and 1999. It's going to be good. Maybe. Enjoy and have a happy Thanksgiving!

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"August is on solid ground when he's riffing on Stephen King and celebrities, but he's stretching when he tries to be David Lynch, which would require a distinctly different kind of brain damage."

Robert Davis of Paste Magazine manages to be both kind and extremely unkind in one sentence. But he's got nothing on our first featured Letterboxd user Emaann!

It takes about a half hour to do not much more than that as we discus John August's THE NINES. Some of the topics of concern:

• Ryan Reynolds faces failure. Fine. His genes grant him a few life beatings.
• Hope Davis is the quest giver NPC that doesn't really want you to solve the quest. Understandable.
• And Melissa McCarthy apparently was good friends with John August though after this movie... maybe no more.

And while John August may never be friends with us, we still have two commentary tracks on our DVD copy of THE NINES to keep us company. But probably not. Enjoy!

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At our advanced age (when we are not falling asleep or contemplating our own mortality) we can look back with reverence (bitterness) at our misspent youth. What that means for you, dear listener, is a plan of action that requires a couple of months of inaction.

Episodes looking back at the films of Sofia Coppola... which also is a look back at our previous podcast A PODCAST DIRECTED BY. However... not only will we revisit those episodes but also the work that this director has since completed with ON THE ROCKS and the new release PRISCILLA. This will give us time to start recording our lists for 2024 which involve the years 1939, 1974, 1994 and 1999. It's going to be good. Maybe. Enjoy!

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"Watching it, you have to wonder exactly what kind of movie anyone though they were making."

Alissa Wilkinson of Vox plainly states what we agree with, that this movie is a complete mess and a mishmash of poor choices.

Join Mike, Dave, and returning guest Web of TRILOGY IN THEORY (finally here for a movie with pasty white people) as we try to work through the convoluted story.  We fear that we won’t be much help.

• Web can barely recall the name of the movie after about 25 minutes of frustration.
• Dave can't resist making abuse jokes at the expense of Gary Oldman.
• Mike ends up defending musicals of all things!

We muddled through THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW (the actual title), but we manage to have more fun than we did while watching it!

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"UNFAITHFUL, yet another soon-to-be-forgotten Richard Gere vehicle..."

Well, not on OFF SCREAN DEATH you bastards at CNN.com in what some would describe as a film review of a 2002 new release but we would call a horrific attack on the world's greatest silver fox. For indeed regifting is worse than having an affair.

Also we should note that this is a Diane Lane vehicle as she was nominated for her role in yet another (not complaining) Adrian Lyne erotic thriller. We debate the merits of that BUT NEVER the merits of seeing Richard Gere on screen.

We aren't insane.

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A Trailer for Death Off Screen

As if 2020 wasn't bad enough here's a podcast from Michael Denniston and David Giannini contemplating how they are spending their time on earth and here's the worst part:

It's recording yet another film podcast.

But along the way they watch a bunch of movies although their starting points may be different. One man is a snob that nobody loves as he punishes himself for not having all of the Criterion Collection and hopes to one day see all of the 1001 movies that need to be seen before... well, you know.

Your other host is named Mike and everyone loves him because he has a subscription to STARZ. Welcome to OFF SCREEN DEATH.

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A wine maker compared to a beer pitchman from THE SIMPSONS...

...we think Francis Ford Coppola would be okay (ONLY in that context) of being paired with Troy Duffy of THE BOONDOCK SAINTS fame. In this episode both director's have a bout of madness with the promise of all of the toys in the sandbox being at their disposal. In HEARTS OF DARKNESS we see how the classic APOCALYPSE NOW came to be... though it didn't always look like it would. And in OVERNIGHT we get to point and laugh at the bully Duffy getting his comeuppance. Or did he? After all here we are talking about him and lamenting the state of podcasts. A sad episode for sad people!

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"These clothes are the boldest element of a movie that otherwise wears its supposed punk-rock influences like a kid discovering Hot Topic for the first time."

Angie Han of Mashable isn't wrong... but that's kind of mean. Although that may be keeping in the spirit of this cat fight (for the girls, calm down) between Emma Stone and Emma Thompson in the latest attempt from Disney to keep remaking the same story over and over.

Okay, so even our show notes are becoming a bit mean for a family film that two grown men without kids both enjoyed.

This whole episode is shameful and so are you, dear listener.

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"SOPHIE'S CHOICE is a rare film, literate, deeply moving, and gifted with an absolutely awe-inspire it performance by Meryl Streep."

Bob Thomas of the Associated Press really comes out swinging and he should probably calm down. We all agree that Meryl is great, but the rest of the movie... not so much.

"The way Streep inhabits Sophie, and brings her history to life whether she's explicitly talking about the past or carrying herself across the room with wounded grace, can't help but make parts of the rest of the film seem smaller by comparison."

There it is, Keith Phipps of The Dissolve. We have decided Streep is good, that it just might make the movie worse. Stingo, Stinko, whatever your name is, you have no business talking to this woman at all.

Mike and Dave talk accents, manslaughter charges, and if this movie would even get made in the days of Film Twitter (the answer, as always, is no.) Oh, also we talk about Debra Winger A LOT.

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A case of the old impotence.

When you are Warren Beatty even the charms of Faye Dunaway are not enough and while us MERE MORTALS may not be able to understand his plight.... we have Gene Hackman to represent us everymen in the classic BONNIE AND CLYDE. Forever looking forty and forever in our hearts. Never impotent!

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"Simon's not in a lighthearted mood, and so the silliness of the story gets bogged down in all sorts of gloomy neuroses, angry denunciations, and painful self-analysis."

Sounds like Roger Ebert is ALSO not in a lighthearted mood as he watched Neil Simon and Hal Ashby's THE SLUGGER'S WIFE.

Neither were we. BUT THEN... the pathetic antics of our toxic romantic lead just keep going and one host became charmed. The other can never be charmed and his name is Dave.

Enjoy Michael O'Keefe unbelievably play the home run king of 1985 and Rebecca De Mornay as the woman trying to escape from him as a 1985 Ashley Judd. Charming!

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"Squeezed in right after The Godfather and before Part 2, just two of the most treasured pieces of cinema, Coppola made another film that actually may be his best."

Sean Price of The Spool gets it just right according to both of our hosts. As is our habit on accepted classics, we veer off course a little bit to talk about THE CONVERSATION as science-fiction, Mike’s Mormon upbringing (?), and Judy Greer??

It will (mostly) make sense when you listen. But not to worry, we spend most of the time discussing how great this particular movie is, especially from a craft and perspective point of view.

We aim for you to listen to us just once on this episode, and not obsess over it like Gene Hackman in THE CONVERSATION.  But hey, if it makes you happy, knock yourself out.

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"Godfather sires weak son."

“Coppola’s ambitions THE GODFATHER PART TWO is a slow, aimless and annoyingly restless movie which purports to be about gangsterism but is, in fact, about the boredom of waiting.”

These two reviews from The Philadelphia Enquirer (Desmond Ryan) and Philadelphia Daily News (Joe Baltalke), respectively, are placed here for your mockery (seriously, what is going on in Philly??) Obviously, THE GODFATHER PART II is a piece of great American art. That being said, your hosts buck against the idea that it is better than its predecessor.

We talk Pacino’s career, Michael’s (lack of a) character arc, praising Diane Keaton, and editing issue. It is always a challenge to talk about the greats, but we had a great time talking THE GODFATHER PART II for New Year's Eve!

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We didn't get TENET 2 but we got bald Iron Man.

And now with yet another rousing success from the Nolanverse expect 28 YEARS LATER as the franchise victory lap. Which could also be improved with another pairing with Florence Pugh, Mr. Peaky Blinders. But what wouldn't?

What can not be improved (if you listen to the critics and not this podcast, shameful) is OPPENHEIMER. Although one host tries his best to do so by going to the only film preservation society one needs: Peacock. Enjoy!

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"All superhero movies are ridiculous. That's where the super part comes in. With good superhero movies, you don't notice the ridiculousness- or it doesn't matter. With ETERNALS, you notice."

While we are just now catching up to Mark Feeney of the Boston Globe (conveniently timed for its ultimate destiny as a square on Disney+) we find ourselves looking for more comforting ridiculousness in...

... sexy vampires. Not just any sexy vampires. Sexy vampires as played by Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie and Susan Sarandon. THE HUNGER as directed by Tony Scott. A real filmmaker! Not some Academy Award winning filmmaker playing with superheroes that no one has heard of. But vampires.

Sexy ones! I hope that this has helped our SEO and we hope you enjoy the episode.

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Release the Snyder Cut jokes.

That is one of many of the charming qualities of Greta Gerwig's BARBIE along with other universal treasures. Such as!

• Ryan Gosling going full CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE.
• As much of the color pink as your eyeballs can take (and take those IMAX screens back from that grump, Nolan.)
• At one point there is a merman. (Maybe that's just one of the show note author's universal treasures.)

However no film is perfect and one host doesn't much care for how the production of this film neglected the new and already forgotten season of PROJECT GREENLIGHT. This podcast can provide that criticism and probably only this podcast. Enjoy!

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"A rather simple love story about two experienced and jaded adults."

In a splat review, Janet Branagh’s of the Apollo Guide accidentally hits on what exactly there is to love about this movie! Mike and Dave talk about how refreshing it is to see two adults (each with their own problems) fall in love and build something together.

Join us as we do our best to “save” CLAUDINE from the unnecessarily mean film critics. Join us (and the Criterion collection) as we celebrate a truly underseen classic. 

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At our advanced age (when we are not falling asleep or contemplating our own mortality) we can look back with reverence (bitterness) at our misspent youth. What that means for you, dear listener, is a plan of action that requires a couple of months of inaction.

Episodes looking back at the films of Sofia Coppola... which also is a look back at our previous podcast A PODCAST DIRECTED BY. However... not only will we revisit those episodes but also the work that this director has since completed with ON THE ROCKS and the new release PRISCILLA. This will give us time to start recording our lists for 2024 which involve the years 1939, 1974, 1994 and 1999. It's going to be good. Maybe. Enjoy!

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Will PAST LIVES make the Sight & Sound 2032 list?

Who knows?! For one host is hoping he will be dead by then and the other tries to talk him out of such dark thoughts by quoting the wisdom of Ethan Hawke. That and plenty more references to the BEFORE trilogy in a PAST LIVES discussion dominated by the what-ifs of film festival darlings such as something starring Anton Yelchin and a Star Wars Englishwoman over a decade ago (spoiler alert: the clicking sounds is one host looking this up) and also what-if the sex comedy genre had been revived by Jennifer Lawrence?

Ah, that's where the aforementioned dark thoughts started. NO HARD FEELINGS... so much was expected of you. Enjoy!

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Dave attempts to give Mike a Valentine's Day gift better than two Gwyneth Paltrows...

We do not get emails on ancient computers, but we do get star crossed lovers, workplace drama that Michael Scott would be proud of, and…suicide. Again, Dave? Ok ignore the suicide attempt, this is actually a very sweet movie, minus the mean spirited fat phobia.

Bonus in this episode, there are no ugly Englishman, just underweight Jimmy Stewart and the Enemies of Judy. Just listen, you’ll get it.

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The two biggest award winners for All About movies!

Yes, we have a special treat for your Oscar season listening. We present a double episode, this time covering ALL ABOUT EVE and ALL ABOUT STEVE.  Despite the similar names, they are not in the least bit similar themselves. Following are two quotes from reviews, see if you can work out which is the classic.

“It has substance in virtually every dramatic and romantic mood, which have been given proper shading and projection by producer Darryl F. Zanuck and Mankiewicz. The segue from the commentary school of cinematurgy, to bridge the flashback sequences, into the vignettes is unobtrusive but an effective technique to tie up the entire package which ends with Miss Baxter hugging the coveted trophy–and a stranger to her friends.”

“If it didn't come from a major studio, I would think the film is a satire of romantic comedies, or at least some kind of avant-garde experiment in testing the limits of audience identification.”

Yeah, so they’re basically the same movie. Mike and Dave discuss the difficulties of fame, awful male friendship, how Bette Davis is the greatest female star in history, and how one of these movies is worse than THE BLIND SIDE.  Listen to find out all the details!

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"Navel-gazing malarkey."

Keith Ulich of Time Out cuts right to the chase for any octogenarian who has been sitting on Maya Rudolph and John Krasinski's parenting adventures in AWAY WE GO for thirteen years. Thankfully, we know our demo and are here to correct assertions such as this one from Deborah Ross of The Spectator:

"It's sweet, I suppose, but it's also oddly inconsequential, fake and annoying."

Well so is this podcast, Deb. So is this podcast.

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Two nights and three watches with the charming Miles Teller.

And perhaps the more generally accepted charms of a dancing Lio Tipton in the little discussed (except for in one host's mind) TWO NIGHT STAND from the lineage that brought you THE GRADUATE and WOLF.

When are we going to do an episode on Jack Nicholson urinating on James Spader by the way? Perhaps October???

Anyway ON THIS EPISODE we discuss the button combinations one must hit to perform a sexual finishing move on one's partner. And also this lovely romcom. Enjoy your education!

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"The best non-masterpiece of American cinema."

The above quote on THE APARTMENT comes from critic Mark Cousins and NOT the fine gentlemen of OFF SCREEN DEATH. No, we were too busy making fun of Jack Lemmon for trying on that silly hat. But we did learn how to strain spaghetti.

Initially divisive (The Saturday Review called it "a dirty fairy tale") it did go on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture of 1960 but has never climbed the lists like some of Billy Wilder's other films like SUNSET BOULEVARD (#12 on AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies) and SOME LIKE IT HOT (#14). However today it receives the honor of being the first selection for a podcast that likely no one is listening to.

Justice is served. Enjoy!

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"These are important stories that should be seen, but audiences need more than scripts that are primarily acting exercises."

Nell Minow of RogertEbert.com is a true professional in her distaste for awards chasing films like FOUR GOOD DAYS... but as amateurs talking into a tin can over a Zoom call we are free to get down into the mucky muck and not care much for Mila Kunis without teeth.

Even if one of us did pay discount Tuesday prices for the privilege.

Our guest on the other hand, Derek of The Grand Gesture and Your List, My Command podcasts paid full VOD rental price to essentially go to work again on a Saturday morning. He had as much fun as you will as we watch Glenn Close continue to not win awards in dull movies. Enjoy!

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"Were we supposed to have found it entertaining? There's more horror latent in this notion of the movie audience than in the film itself."

And if Pauline Kael's unkind words about Roman Polanski's REPULSION don't do it for you... how about Father Time Rex Reed for LAST NIGHT IN SOHO?

“Depraved, delirious, and downright stupid, Last Night in Soho is two hours of amateurish drivel by B-movie director Edgar Wright that pretends to be half-retro Swingin’ Sixties comedy and half-horror thriller.  It is neither, but for a two hour assault on the I.Q., it’s in a class by itself”

We also have some words, but you get to listen. No reading necessary at Off Screen Death (except here.)

Mike and Dave discuss the need (or lack thereof) for plot, the trials and tribulations of the beautiful, and a recommendation for heavy drinking for one of these films. As is our want, we focus more on REPULSION, which is probably for the best.

Join as we determine if we should root for movies with no plot, or those with so much plot that we struggle to track and pay attention. One thing we know for sure is, anything is better than another long Marvel nonsense movie, no matter who the director might be.

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Billy Wilder is compared to the comic stylings of Ace Ventura.

Which is just the start of our apology tour from your hosts as they get back to the greatest comedic director of all time. And one that introduces a good bit of sex into his now classic comedies.

No Sean Young. Which in some respects is better. And in others... much worse. STILL there's Marilyn Monroe who bring her iconic imagery to life for most of us as we figure out the plot behind that particular picture. It was fun research!

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Give us all the movie stars in an expensive romcom and we still want more Kathryn Hahn.

That's just one of the many complaints from one co-host as we celebrate the return of baseball this April with our own list of the sport as featured in film. "Instead of juicing it up with jokes, Brooks has inadvertently given us another story of the American condition, which is that of absolute and incorrigible self-centredness" was the take from Anthony Quinn of the Independent. And while not wrong... a little harsh for a movie where Owen Wilson hands out gift baskets like Derek Jeter and Paul Rudd makes a bet with his father that he can get Reese Witherspoon to fall in love with him, otherwise a prison sentence is in order. It's all very sporting and nice. A lovely episode!

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"Black Widow represents the MCU looking back when it should be moving forward. Everything about the movie seems small, even the big action set pieces."

James Berardinelli gives words to our comments but not our feelings. Mike and Dave talk about the small scale, road trip camaraderie between ScarJo and Florence Pugh, and touch on why it’s suddenly ok to make fun of superhero nonsense. We also briefly discuss why we are Team ScarJo in the lawsuit connected to this small scale, small profit movie.

We mostly had a good time with BLACK WIDOW, which of course is underperforming by Marvel/Disney conglomerate standards, but who cares? Watch it and have a good time too! Or don't!

Stimulate that ScarJo economy this Labor Day!

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"That Costner's antihero should be so fundamentally dislikable is entirely acceptable... but that he should also be deadly dull is far less tolerable."

Sounds like Anton Bitel of Little White Lies should focus more on important matters, like Kevin Costner's hairline, and less on the man's ability to banter. On this episode we keep our eye on the ball (a movie star's dome) and celebrate Earth Day with a non-4k screening of WATERWORLD. In this episode we learn that while now this movie may just be worth a stream, back in the summer of 1995 it was a curiosity begging to be seen at a midnight showing and designed to divide children from their families. Fun!

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"This is maybe one of the worst movies I've ever seen. It's just terrible, awkward, stiff, and never funny."

Filmweek’s Christy Lemire says in one sentence what we do in about 40 minutes. If you think details are important, listen to our show.  It’s better than reading, anyway.

Those details? Well...

• Billy Crystal is not funny.
• HERE TODAY is bad at manipulation.
• A discussion of whether or not a stick of butter is kinky.
• Billy Crystal is not hot enough to be in this movie.

We provide this service for you, so you don’t have to watch HERE TODAY.  It’s not even sticking around in theaters anyway!

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"Stone's film is hypnotically watchable. Leaving aside all of its drama and emotion, it is a masterpiece of film assembly."

Once again, Roger Ebert states succinctly what it takes podcasters near an hour to say, repeatedly. But yes, we agree with Roger. JFK is Oliver Stone’s one absolute masterpiece. And indeed, it is a movie you (and we) should watch (or rewatch) before you die. True to our usual selves, we also rate Kevin Costner’s attractiveness in one moment and seriously discuss why no one cares about JFK anymore in the next. Also, Seinfeld. We talk about Seinfeld.

Join our team as we try to prove that JFK is one of the greatest movies of any decade and we will fight any conspiracy trying to fight us!

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"The whole film... is not thrilling or moving; it is interesting, which is fine by me but will not make it a huge success."

Mark Steyn of The Spectator is washing his hands of this stalker film ENDURING LOVE starring Daniel Craig and Rhys Ifans but we are just getting into it as we learn many deep secrets about one host. Such as:

• Dave is afraid of balloons.
• Dave likes to see James Bond kissing another man.
• But be efficient about it; no lollygagging.

And Mike likes the movie but would honestly rather be watching NOTTING HILL again.

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This is not a happy story, it's probably Dave's fault.

Actually, it’s because of Sight and Sound and their ridiculous list. We had no choice, except not to do a podcast, and good luck getting that to happen. We take a look at a movie that one of us owns (nerd) but neither of us have seen.

This one gets a little serious when talking about representation and streaming, but we manage to still keep it light. After all, Mike is apparently the eponymous Black Girl. Who knew?

Join us as we talk for about half the runtime of BLACK GIRL (relax, the movie is only an hour.)

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One host gets married and decides to travel the globe like Keanu.

Maybe not exactly like Mr. Reeves does in the new release JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 4 but mostly the same. (In his mind.)

We play a little would you rather starting with Charles Bronson leading into Arnold in his COMMANDO days and debating on if we should chuck our format and just watch more Keanu in SPEED next week. The correct answer is alway SPEED so stick around to see what we film we punish ourselves (and you the listener) with next. Enjoy!

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The infinite Christmas Countdown begins here with a cupcake to your face.

One can't let July go by without a little Christmas which involves running out for ice for an Ugly Christmas Sweater party and DYING and later haunting your fiancee (but not really) over text as she watches another man smash his face with a Christmas cupcake.

That's what July is all about. This is Xmas Kills Us: Part One of Forever. Support this endeavor to the death at our Patreon.

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"Feels like SHOWGIRLS without the tits or dancing."

Joshua Rothkopf of TIME OUT is a fan of two things... but not Curtis Hanson's LUCKY YOU. Is Eric Bana to blame for this Diet Coke version of ROUNDERS? Can't be. For he was nominated for Australian Film Institute International Award for Best Actor. What about America's Sweetheart for decades in Drew Barrymore? Maybe. But it most certainly can't be Debra Messing's fault.

Even though she is the only reason this film was programmed on this podcast. Thanks, Deb!

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"Jordan's wonderful film does what Hitchcock's PSYCHO, a very different film, also did: It involves us deeply in its story, and then reveals the the story is really about something else altogether. We may have been fooled, but so was the hero, and as the plot reveals itself we find ourselves identifying more and more with him.:

Roger Ebert goes to bat for a classic that both of our host can actually agree on. But with one host watching this for the third time and another on a first time watch, will they actually meet in the middle?

Another issue we take a look at is, given when THE CRYING GAME was created, does it hold up in a woke world of 2021, or does it go down the path of SILENCE OF THE LAMBS and get the terrifying moniker of “problematic?”

We talk sweet romances, the desire for a world without international terrorists, oh and thinking about cricket while having sex.  We swear it makes sense.  Kind of.

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"A gaudy yet grim science-fiction horror movie of such surpassing silliness, humorless intensity and stylistic overkill that watching it may actually put you in a state of paranoia. Why are these moviemakers persecuting us?"

Michael Wilmington of the Chicago Tribune does not seem okay. However we are ESPECIALLY if it involves Richard Gere, America's greatest of the silver foxes. Pair him up for another entry in the Gere and Laura Linney two handers as they take on a giant bug that likes to make crank calls (and predictions) and what you've got is a film that Robert Altman only WISHES that he could have made.

But fortunately for us... Mark Pellington did. Enjoy!

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"I didn't find any great pleasure in seeing a story play out (the way) I knew exactly how it was going to play out."

Peter Rainer of FilmWeek seems like a bit of a grump and if you've listened to this podcast then YOU KNOW that WE KNOW of what we speak.

Look... we're not going to pick on DREAM HORSE. We are just happy that Toni Collette is not in HEREDITARY. Or something like it.

Although she does come a bit unglued about this horse.

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"This is, of course, a big-screen sitcom, and in fact I would love to see this material transplanted to the TV screen, where it belongs."

We use the words of the great Roger Ebert against him as a discussion on GRUMPIER OLD MEN leads into the effect of seeing something like DUNE on one's television at home. This has nothing to do with the fact that this episode is a year late NOR that perhaps technical difficulties delayed our recording of ANOTHER GREAT SEX COMEDY... 2014's SEX TAPE.

And yes, we here at OFF SCREEN DEATH consider the maligned sequel to GRUMPY OLD MEN a sex comedy. Because Sophia Loren. Enjoy!

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A Podcast Directed By... The Reunion.

Getting the band back together... or at least the old band name (The One-ders?) as we present a NEW Sofia Coppola episode as thankfully she kept making movies after getting the career push she needed on our old podcast A PODCAST DIRECTED BY. We talk mainly ON THE ROCKS and a little bit about the icky-ness of PRISCILLA before one host attacks Martin Scorsese and defends women while the other sits on his hands. Enjoy!

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"Except to add that we've seen THE FRONT PAGE under its own name and others so often before we've grown a little tired of it, we don't mind conceding HIS GIRL FRIDAY is a bold-faced reprint of what was once- and still remains- the maddest newspaper comedy of our times."

Frank Nugent of the New York Times gives one of the most backhanded compliments imaginable to a certified classic in HIS GIRL FRIDAY. Basically, it’s just like this other really good movie, but that’s fine, I guess!

Will our hosts be more impressed than grumpy Mr. Nugent? You’ll have to listen to find out because neither Mike nor Dave has seen this movie or talked about it until right this moment! 

Join us as we talk Cary Grant vs. George Clooney, yet more suicide attempts, fast talkers, and Weezy trapped in a cabinet…

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The Sight & Sound was wrong draft relies on Englishmen...

...and we realize that by the late nineties that Hugh Grant was not walking through that door every time. If only Gwyneth Paltrow could learn that lesson quicker as we travel with her in a romcom multiverse that somehow manages to be more depressing than Bill Murray in GROUNDHOG DAY. And the men less sexually appealing than Stephen Tobolowsky.

Who admittedly is a hard man to beat in that category. Alas... we are stuck with THE MUMMY's brother. Or something like that. Enjoy our episode on SLIDING DOORS!

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"The first American movie since TOUCH OF EVIL to stand in the same creative rank as the great European films"

“As Norman Bates, Vince Vaughn makes us better appreciate how much Anthony Perkins brought to the original project.”

Same title, same shots (mostly), slightly different results from the critic’s circle. In our Mother’s Day episode (get it? Sorry.), Mike and Dave take a close look at the classic, PSYCHO. To get a slightly different angle, Dave finally watches the remake from 1998, which Mike is weirdly obsessed with, and has been since 1998. 

Will any of this hold up? Is there any reason to watch the 1998 version? Listen and find out!

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"I now find Cruise tolerable only when he's in a movie that undercuts or ridicules his narcissism-- as EYES WIDE SHUT did and as this movie does even more noticeably."

Jonathan Rosenbaum is not nice to Tom Cruise... but he's not wrong here. FOR THAT... you must listen to one host (Dave) as he clearly makes poor dating decision one after the other and did not learn a SINGLE THING from Cameron Crowe's masterpiece VANILLA SKY. The lessons, such as they are:

• Cameron Diaz brings sustenance (and sex!)
• Penelope Cruze brings cute banter
• See which one you can survive on in the wilderness (or a desolate Times Square)

This is the single greatest film that has, or will EVER, appear on this feed. You are welcome.

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"It's at a certain point toward the finale that this SCREAM becomes almost as drearily repetitious as the reboot culture it skewers."

Pat Smith of Slant Magazine lines up SCREAM for a stab wound, and sadly, we mostly agree. One of our hosts is kind to the movie, and the other is Dave. We talk about waiting too long, the lack of difference between Scream 4 and 5, and how these kids never quite live up to noted thespians like Matthew Lillard and Jamie Kennedy.

But then we move on to a great movie! Right? Well…

“In the end, for all its pleasures, it's difficult to view Blade Runner 2049 as anything but an elaborate echo of the original, neither true sequel nor reboot, unclear of its own identity.” - Melissa Anderson, Columns

“Blade Runner 2049 honors the original in many ways - some small and some large - but it's not a soft reboot. It's a new story with new ideas and new purpose” - James Berardinelli, ReelViews

Two very different reviews here for what has been dubbed in cinephile circles as the movie we should have paid for, an underseen masterpiece.

But what will Dave and Mike think? That’s why you’re here. Listen in to hear about fantastic visuals, stupid sounds, and Inspector Gadget threesomes. Hell yeah, that’ll bring in the listeners (unlike stupid Marvel garbage)

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We double down on Oscars week just like that hack Coppola did for the Academy in 1974.

Or something like that. We struggle to say anything unkind about Sofia Coppola's father in his repeat performance for THE GODFATHER saga (that can wait for Part 3) but we do our best to separate this film from the rest in the series as it is now the first film representing 1974 in our series on The Greatest Years in Film.

I hope everything above comes across as pretentious as it did in my dreams. Enjoy and come back next week for our first entry from 1994!

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Not enough people watched Dracula 2023...

...and so now everyone (including your favorite podcast hosts) will suffer with a future episode on DRACULA 2000.

But until that cursed day we talk around the spoilers for what most will watch soon on video on demand platforms (or not!) and then we debate if one can spoil a film based on one chapter in the middle of Bram Stoker's Dracula? Apparently in international territories the title of this film lost the LAST part of the voyage but gave the Count himself top billing. As we long ago discovered based on our download numbers we can do nothing right. Enjoy!

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"Both lovers are duplicitous creeps -- in a perverse way they're made for each other."

Jonathan Rosenbaum of the Chicago Reader sounds fun at parties... but he's not wrong about Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey in HOW TO LOSE A GUY IN 10 DAYS. He's just wrong about how enjoyable it is to see Ms. Hudson take a wrecking ball to a man that one host calls "too pretty" and the other thinks is too picky about names for his penis. It's clearly an episode about CLASSIC CINEMA and as such we eventually work our way around to the Best Picture snub that this film received for the 2004 Academy Award ceremony and if a sprinkle of Kathryn Hahn is ever enough.

Also Katherine Heigl. Romcom talk is pointless without paying respect to The Queen. Even if she is not in this movie. Enjoy!

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"Venus and Serena Williams are the names we rightly remember, but KING RICHARD remains fixated on the male bravado that pushed for them to get their names out there in the first place."

Allegra Frank of Slate has no time for male bravado... whereas anyone who has listened to OFF SCREEN DEATH knows that is all this podcast is.

Toxic and potent masculinity.

So much so that for the failed but mostly well reviewed (ignore our chosen splat above) new Will Smith film we turned our podcasting eye to the not so well regarded tale of upper middle class white people with beachfront property in the Kevin Kline starring LIFE AS A HOUSE. The problem?

He is father to Anakin Skywalker. With piercings! Enjoy!

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The quest for another SUPERBAD continues but we are all just old now.

At least that's what we tell ourselves. But not YOU, dear listener. You are young. You are hip. On the cutting edge of podcast listening. For you are listening to OFF SCREEN DEATH and our episode on the latest "hit" comedy BOTTOMS. We liked it! We just don't like the state of theatrical comedy. It's sad. As are we. But not you!

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"The lack of story or purpose is annoying and at times, the film is too experimental. Topping things off is an abrupt and unsatisfying ending which doesn't leave us with good feeling towards the film."

Amy Curtis of We Got This Covered agrees with one of our hosts, especially regarding Malick’s lack of a story. We will call that host... the hero.

“If you truly give in to the beauty of this amazing film, you might even find yourself changed by it. How often can you say that at the cinema?”

Brian Tallerico of Hollywood Chicago, on the other hand, taps into our other host's focus on the art house and work of cinema. That host? The idiot.

Join us as we discuss both sides, but more importantly, discuss how on earth Sean Penn could possibly be the product of the loins of Brad Pitt and The Chastain. How Terence Malick, How?!?

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"It will warm the hearts of a lot of people, including a lot of Academy voters. Is it the best picture of the year? A) Too early to tell, and B) No, but, really, it's fine."

Ty Burr of Ty Burr's Watch List damning with faint praise... which is more than one host can muster for the latest throwback to Miramar Oscar schlock of the 90s. Instead he'd rather talk about how to use a random sequence of singing that involves Kristen Wiig and Maya Rudolph.

Not Kenneth Branagh. This movie is crap. Let's see what Carol Reed can do with Belfast in ODD MAN OUT instead. Spoiler alert: Joe Moore on Letterboxd says it's neat.

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"Once the buzz from the ending fades, you may find yourself resenting WELCOME HOME for not figuring out that it could've been a classic until it was too late to be one."

Matt Zoller Seitz of RogerEbert.com perhaps had more confidence in the monthly selection of STARZ than we did but we aspire to get to that level of film enthusiasm. Especially for this reverse home invasion movie which has your hosts welcoming each other back to podcasting with text messages that went without a response, movies unwatched (next week, WAIT UNTIL DARK) and the discovery that one host still uses TV GUIDE in his quest for cinema. Consider this our first housewarming gift for our returning listener(s)!

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"For all the empathy it expects of its viewers... the film is troublingly removed from human reality."

When in doubt... go to The New York Times when you need a solid Rotten Tomatoes splat to back up your argument. And what points does this episode contain?

• Netflix is the modern straight to video and we wish they would stop.
• But... Anna Kendrick.
• Is a Diet Coke version of APOLLO 13 and THE MARTIAN really a problem that needs solved?
• On the other hand... Anna Kendrick.
• And finally... is Anna Kendrick a movie star? Who cares; she's Anna Kendrick.

We hope the above will help illuminate whether or not you should have spent your weekend watching STOWAWAY.

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"A sage once advised being wary of movies in which the people on screen are having more fun than the people in the audience. MAMMA MIA, was that good advice."

Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times is a bit of a fuddy duddy when it comes to Meryl Streep dancing with her ladies and having sex with a few men in this jukebox musical... and no, one hose didn't know what that term was but he immediately imagines a similar adaptation of GOOD WILL HUNTING with the musings of Elliot Smith.

Pretty much the same thing we get here with Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth and Stellan Skarsgård vying for the title of Amanda Seyfried's father. Imagine Ben Affleck in this. I am. Right now.

Enjoy!

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"The corpse of Notting Hill is reanimated, frightfully, in this star-crossed rom-com about love across the fame divide."

Kevin Maher of The Times certainly seems to be a fan of that Julia Robert/Hugh Grant classic. Or at least very defensive about it. So are we! Which is why we feel slightly bad picking on Owen Wilson's battle between his youthful screen persona and the natural aging process in the new Peacock release (God, help us) MARRY ME. So we attempt to find a better romcom in his filmography and come up with...

Anaconda.

Coming soon to a future episode of OFF SCREEN DEATH!

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"A film that demonstrates that how you tell your story is just as important as what the story entails."

Matt Neal of ABC Radio Australia taps into exactly what makes Rashomon truly great. Sure, many films have cribbed from this style, but none have reached the heights of Akira Kurosawa.

But listen in to our discussion, because we talk not only about Rashomon and the Rashomon Effect; but also about the performances, and the outright cynicism of a beloved classic.

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If you can't remove all memories of your children and take the death leap into late stage capitalism when would be the appropriate time?

He's not the real David Puddy and there are no little Elaine kicks but there is an AWFUL LOT of information about sassafras candy canes... as well as a candy store heist as a romantic grand gesture but it's mostly deceit and horniness in our second episode of CHRISTMAS KILLS US!

Enjoy Christmas with us ALL YEAR LONG

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"It's a long and poorly paced and plays too loose with the facts. Oh well!"

"The bonkers true story that chronicles the unraveling of the Italian fashion empire is also first-class frothy and fun entertainment.”

This is from Mara Reinstein of US Weekly, but it might as well be from Mike. Whatever, who cares? It’s fun and dumb!

“House of Gucci isn't aggressively bad, but it is undeniably tedious, threadbare, and unengaging.”

Yes, Richard Whittaker of the Austin Chronicle! Dave agrees, either be really good or really bad, but don’t muck around in the middle and get on my nerves!

We delve into Gaga, her little monsters, and who could possibly make this into a fun movie (sorry, Ridley, it’s not you).

Oh yeah, and we talk about the Oscars, that thing that only gave one nomination to this Gucci nonsense…

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David Mamet sure knows how to write an ending...

... even if they don't really use it. But, BUT... there is one of the greatest final speeches in the history of film and that is why one host picked this as his first selection in the Sight & Sound Was Wrong draft.

Even though he didn't know it yet.

For he hadn't seen the movie.

And his co-host had.

But he didn't trust him,

Naturally.

Put your trust in Paul Newman's greatest performance as he boozes, has one-sided fisticuffs with Charlotte Rampling and impresses a young Bruce Willis in THE VERDICT!

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At our advanced age (when we are not falling asleep or contemplating our own mortality) we can look back with reverence (bitterness) at our misspent youth. What that means for you, dear listener, is a plan of action that requires a couple of months of inaction.

Episodes looking back at the films of Sofia Coppola... which also is a look back at our previous podcast A PODCAST DIRECTED BY. However... not only will we revisit those episodes but also the work that this director has since completed with ON THE ROCKS and the new release PRISCILLA. This will give us time to start recording our lists for 2024 which involve the years 1939, 1974, 1994 and 1999. It's going to be good. Maybe. Enjoy!

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"As small and specific as it is, EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!! feels improbably expansive, even universal. As Jake's endless Friday night turns into the inevitable Monday morning, it turns out that his lost weekend was all about being found."

Ann Hornaday of The Washington Post gets it and gets us. Mike and Dave finally get to talk about one of the great hangout movies of all time, from the master of the genre, Richard Linklater.

“It's as if Linklater is bound by a bro code that obliges him to present these guys in a basically uncritical light.”

We only provide the review of penal colony resident, Jake Wilson, to show you just how wrong critics can be. We also discuss the fact that there are not good or bad guys and literally no one is cool.

Join us as we talk about male friendship, the difference between toxic masculinity and just masculinity (not much), and who we think we are in the EWS universe.

Strangely, we also delve into Mike’s odd kink of being paddled by Ben Affleck (of Dazed and Confused fame, obviously).

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Happy Fourth of July!

To celebrate all that is America we present to you:

• George Clooney (a Kentuckian at that!)
• Big asses (no matter that state they are great!)
• And a picnic (between people who want to kill each other!)

Also with the numbers dwindling on this podcast we threaten our remaining listeners by switching from the Sight and Sound list of the greatest films ever made to... every hobbit movie ever made on the IMDb Top 250. Download this episode many times to stop this madness and to keep you away from family and friends that you perhaps don't much care for. Better yet show your appreciation for them by taking all of their devices and downloading this very episode. Happy birthday America!

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"Clubfooted but earnest, Pandya's movie never forgets about its second-gen issues, but never quite plumbs them, either."

"Clubfooted" is always a good way to start off describing a selection on OFF SCREEN DEATH. Which is why for most of the runtime of this episode we let our guest WEB BIST of TRILOGY IN THEORY explain this personal pick of his in AMERICAN DESI.

So personal that it may prove very hard to find. We don't make it easy for you, but the whites on this podcast do connect with this film the only way they know how... through the archetypes from which all cinema derives its characters: AMERICAN PIE.

Thank you and we tried. Try along with us and chase down AMERICAN DESI! You are already a fan of art that no one else has heard of... you found this podcast. Now follow us elsewhere:

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"There are forehead-smacking lapses of common sense and the conspiracy at the movie's core is just plain dumb."

This is one of many “splats” from the dumbass critics who didn’t like WITHOUT REMORSE as much as you very smart hosts of Off Screen Death.

Let’s go over this, shall we?

• Michael B. Jordan rules... again.
• Muscles are good, actually.
• It's a little predictable but who cares? Shut up.
• We like fun and no one else does.

Both hosts hope you listen to us and not the word of mouth and watch this WITHOUT REMORSE. If you do, maybe we get a sequel?  Make us happy.

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"ROAD TRIP is nothing more than a series of sight gags and put-down. It's often funny, but it never has anything smart to say."

So says stick-in-the-mud Bob Longino of the Atlanta-Journal Constitution. However, AS ALWAYS, the hosts of OFF SCREEN DEATH have the last word on cinema. And cinema is exactly what this Todd Phillips masterpiece is.

A sex tape gone missing!

A hero's journey to retrieve said sex tape!

Unfortunately we don't get to see said sex tape...

...but fortunately we are missing seeing Breckin Meyer naked!

Most fortunate of all... this is an audio only podcast!

Enjoy!

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"They don't make 'em like this any more, truly. For just a second, even those among you who won't be seeing this anyway might wish they did."

Danny Leigh of the Financial Times with a strangely threatening positive review for Jon M. Chu's film adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical IN THE HEIGHTS. We try not to threaten anybody but possibly each other and one host is bringing the film version of RENT as his weapon of choice. The other? He tries to understand the upset of Twitter and loses even more of his soul. Enjoy!

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"I just finished the worst picture in the world." Star Claudette Colbert upon finishing filming.

Geez, Claudette, what were you looking at? Both hosts, and our guest Erica had a great time with this one. Sure Mike still hasn’t opened his Criterion copy, but at least he stimulated the IHON economy by purchasing it on digital as well!

We cover a lot of ground here; including Matthew McConaughey movies, when it’s ok to tell a woman what to eat, and the best way to troll your rich boss. This one is a classic for a reason, so we are real positive. Don’t worry, ti won’t last.

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"Bull Durham is a treasure of a movie because it knows so much about baseball and so little about love."

Roger Ebert, who apparently has no faith in humanity, still finds a way to give Bull Durham a positive review.

We, at Off Screen Death, have a bit more hope but still enjoyed the same things that he did.

“The acting in Bull Durham cannot be faulted and should be remembered at Oscar time. Sarandon has one of the juiciest female roles in years and she makes you think no one could play it better.”

Meanwhile, his buddy Gene Siskel hits a home run, including the Oscars, quality acting, and a much needed sexual term to describe a performance. We made it, guys.

We talk Dave’s first watch (what??) and Mike’s maturity into actually liking this movie (finally!). We also talk about baseball movies in general, Tim Robbins’ complete lack of athleticism, and sex on screen.

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"The greatest Hollywood film that few people have seen."

We’re not sure if this was true when written in 2013 by Glenn Frankel, but given its spot high on many lists, it’s probably not true now. We take a look at a beloved western, THE SEARCHERS and find out if it holds up. Also we learn to just stay home and spit on a log.

Thankfully our guest did not stay put, Zita Short of The 300 Passions Podcast joins us so she can cross a classic movie off of her list. We are pretty sure there are no suicide attempts finally but this movie is not without its problematic moments. Join us as we talk John Wayne getting pushed around by big bully John Ford, masculinity, and our desire to not venture out into the great wide open spaces that our country has to offer.

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With the first selection in the SIGHT & SOUND Was Wrong draft...

...one can't go wrong with Sidney Lumet and Murphy Brown, right? RIGHT?

Well here at OFF SCREEN DEATH we can as we admit to being befuddled by the sheer amount of women on screen. And all of their majors! And hopes! And dreams! It's like dating in college again.

Which is to say mostly miserable. Enjoy the show as we stake our two dudes on a movie podcast claim to the 1966 film THE GROUP!

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"This is and always will be a perfect dark comedy."

William Thomas of Empire would definitely love our choice of movie...but maybe not our opinion of it. We discuss the idea of cult films and how it has changed just in the last few years. But WITHNAIL AND I took place many years before that, and it is possible that it is a product of its time. A 1987 film, set in the late 70’s, and we attempted to watch it in 2021.  If it is truly timeless, that shouldn’t matter, but we are putting that to the test. 

Much to Mike’s chagrin, we have gone away from sexy films once again, but maybe that’s good, given his opinion of these ugly, ugly people...

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At our advanced age (when we are not falling asleep or contemplating our own mortality) we can look back with reverence (bitterness) at our misspent youth. What that means for you, dear listener, is a plan of action that requires a couple of months of inaction.

Episodes looking back at the films of Sofia Coppola... which also is a look back at our previous podcast A PODCAST DIRECTED BY. However... not only will we revisit those episodes but also the work that this director has since completed with ON THE ROCKS and the new release PRISCILLA. This will give us time to start recording our lists for 2024 which involve the years 1939, 1974, 1994 and 1999. It's going to be good. Maybe. Enjoy!

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"One remains staggered that sentient human beings who walk upright and use cutlery believed this was a respectable use of their valuable time."

Donald Clarke of the Irish Times is harsh but fair in his assessment of yet another star vehicle that misuses the talents of one of your host's favorite leading ladies. You know... we are beginning to see a trend here of women in Hollywood not getting the best material befitting of their talents. Perhaps that's a trend someone should look into.

Not us though.

For we can not take another movie like WILD MOUNTAIN THYME.

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"The Godfather shows that there is still life in the massive production engineering which made Hollywood studios the wonder of the entertainment world in their great days."

Alexander Walker of the London Evening Standard unwittingly guides us in our conversation not only of THE GODFATHER, but of where studios should go from here. Mike and Dave both struggle to pinpoint The Godfather of streaming, but weirdly we land on SET IT UP (Mike) and MANCHESTER BY THE SEA (Dave).

Of course, yes, we talk about how great the movie is.  No hot takes here.  Except for maybe Dave’s oddly regressive discussion on women in THE GODFATHER… Also we have come up with a new podcast idea.  We’re sorry.

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At our advanced age (when we are not falling asleep or contemplating our own mortality) we can look back with reverence (bitterness) at our misspent youth. What that means for you, dear listener, is a plan of action that requires a couple of months of inaction.

Episodes looking back at the films of Sofia Coppola... which also is a look back at our previous podcast A PODCAST DIRECTED BY. However... not only will we revisit those episodes but also the work that this director has since completed with ON THE ROCKS and the new release PRISCILLA. This will give us time to start recording our lists for 2024 which involve the years 1939, 1974, 1994 and 1999. It's going to be good. Maybe. Enjoy and have a happy Thanksgiving!

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One host is schooled by the charms of Tom Hanks butt shots.

The other was already well educated in the greatness in LARRY CROWNE but if you missed it in 2011 OR even if you didn't and are pining for that definitive commentary track... here's a podcast on the Julia Roberts and Pam Grier buddy comedy. The few (and I do mean few) ideas we have for improvement on Mr. Hanks second time in the director's chair:

• Speaking of Ms. Grier why is there not a buddy comedy pairing with Judy Greer as THE BEST BEST FRIENDS?
• If you find yourself in a romantic pairing with Bryan Cranston's porn addiction does that make Tom Hanks ass more palatable? Further butt shots are needed.
• And is Rami Malek's performance in this more Oscar worthy than BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY? Likely.

Such is the greatness that is LARRY CROWNE that we will never have all of our questions (or concerns) answered but we keep rewatching it just for you the listener!

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March Madness of cinema starts with Cagney and Bogart!

Start a journey of OUR (and HISTORY's!) top ten lists from The Greatest Years in Film as we will spend the rest of 2024 on the 85th, 50th, 30th and 25th anniversaries of the films of 1939, 1974, 1994 and 1999. For the first month we will be discussing THE GODFATHER: PART TWO, HOOP DREAMS and 10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU (yes really.) But for now it's Cagney, Bogart and booze. The glory days of moviegoing!

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"You can see the stuff 'Million Dollar Arm' throws at you from miles away, but that doesn't stop this baseball movie from being genially enjoyable."

Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times goes for the obvious BALLS analogy... which we would never do.

In particular when talking about Jon Hamm or Lake Bell. No... we would never do that. Wouldn't even cross our deviant minds.

THANKFULLY we have a guest to get us back on the subject of balls of the sporting kind with Web Bist of TRILOGY IN THEORY. He also likes Jon Hamm and Lake Bell and you should too.

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We delve deeper into Sight and Sound... this time with no sound.

Well, kind of. Dave and Mike manage to compare one of the gems of silent film to both Avatar and Mean Streets. But they also talk about silent films in general and how unfair it is to compare. However, it’s no Terminator 2.

Life can be difficult for action filmmakers (keep an ear out for William Friedkin in this episode) but nowhere near as hard as Buster Keaton had it on this gigantic chase sequence.

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"Alas, it is Almodovar in my least favorite mode: As the man who crafts soap-operatic excuses for actresses like Cruz to weep at length."

Dennis Harvey of 48 Hills, like many critics in history, gets it absolutely wrong. Yes, we agree that there are soap opera dynamics at play here, but in our (MUCH BETTER) opinion, Cruz acts admirably and downright calm, as opposed to “weeping at length.

“Parallel Mothers is a movie of infinite tenderness, that rare ode to motherhood that acknowledges mothers as women first and mothers second.”

Stephanie Zacharek of TIME magazine apparently lets us know that we picked the right movie to start our month of mothers. Good job, us.

Even if Mike is lighter on the movie than Dave (how could he not be), they have a good conversation that covers Almodovar, movie stars, beautiful filmmaking, and Jessica Chastain, for some reason. Also Mike's dog loves nipples.

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A month when Kentucky beat Kang and Drax...

...but not MAGIC MIKE. Which is an understandable L to take. Especially with Steven Soderbergh and Salma Hayek along for the LAST DANCE. But before we get to that spectacle we make fun of Marvel's visual effects, defend M. Night Shyamalan's THE VILLAGE and think that Californians should pick up a book.

To hear all of these charming complaints give us a buck (just one dollar, people) and support us on Patreon along with other material from the movie podcasts of the not-so-magic-Mike. That was the required self-loathing to get your money. Enjoy!

Try out our fist MONTH OF MOVIES here on the PROJECTING FILM feed!

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“Once again, Allen has mistaken unfunny for serious.”

Rita Kempley of The Washington Post was not a fan of our film selection for this episode... and we have a feeling that we may lose what little listenership we have for this new movie podcast by praising Woody Allen's ability to write great roles for women, discussing the troubling aspects of Mia Farrow as a muse and ANOTHER WOMAN. But mostly it's about how great Gena Rowlands is and if honesty and hope makes for a happy ending. All of that and the promise (we mean it) of sex, LOTS OF SEX, on our very next episode.

But for now... eavesdropping and self-reflection. And we learn that Bilbo Baggins is a bit vanilla in the bedroom. Only then do you earn a Diane Lane in UNFAITHFUL!

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"This 1967 thriller draws its effectiveness less from the intelligence of the direction (by Terence Young) than from the unbridled sadism of the concept."

We think Dave Kehr of The Chicago Reader was a little mean to our director, but that doesn’t mean we liked WAIT UNTIL DARK.

Mike has finally watched an Audrey Hepburn performance and he is filled with deep regret. Dave should have recommended CHARADE instead. Or again, don’t use TV Guide to pick a movie. Despite these obstacles, we talk thrillers, stage plays, and great wigs!

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"It's a historical fantasia, a claustrophobic thriller and a dark comedy of manners, all poised on a knife's edge between tabloid trash and high art."

Justin Chang of the Los Angeles Times presumably would say the same thing about OFF SCREEN DEATH so we find ourselves in good company with Kristen Stewart in SPENCER. That's about the only comfort we can take away from this bit of holiday joy that has us questioning where this one will sit in the DIE HARD pantheon of Christmas movies. Certainly a lesser work than what Opie did with the Grinch. Certainly.

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"The film, directed and co-written by Paul Weitz, too often goes for the easy resolution, the syrupy payoff and the sense that every character in Matt's orbit is just, like, really really nice."

What's wrong with nice, Kevin Maher of The Times? Well... some things are wrong with what one host dubs ABOUT A BOY 2 (such is his fandom of The Auteur Paul Weitz) but the NICER host just wishes people would leave Kevin Hart alone.

Kevin Hart in this new release on Netflix, that is. Kevin Hart the real person is doing just fine. He has Netflix money. And we don't.

Give us money instead. There is a link below to do just that. Thanks.

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This episode ends with Aubrey Plaza mommy talk.

So you have that to look forward to. Before we get there though we talk about "mommy porn" as it relates to Kindles (yes) and if an excessive amount of body hair would allow us to take Jason Segal more seriously in sexual situations (not really.) These hard hitting topics required a guest as one host brings along his fiancee to hate watch the 2014 comedy hit SEX TAPE.

A lot of sighing takes place. And not the kind Cameron Diaz and company were hoping for. Enjoy!

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"It's refreshing to find a classic romance without meet-cutes and pathetic attempts to be clever, with two adults who know what is happening to them."

Michael Mirasol of RogerEbert.com throws the hammer down at basically the entire modern romance genre in his review of our movie, BRIEF ENCOUNTER. It will be interesting to hear our thoughts, because unlike Mean Michael here, we happen to like meet-cutes and out of control romances. And there is definitely some pressure here. From a great filmmaker (David Lean) and very high on the list of British Films throughout history, this movie has some high gates to clear. Also, unbeknownst to either of our hosts, they will have to talk about suicide...again.

But on the bright side, there are sexy trains! So... Happy Valentine's Day. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts/Spotify Twitter @offscreendeath Instagram @theoffscreendeath Letterboxd: @daveagiannini and @projectingfilm Artwork by Nathan Thomas Milliner Music by Joplin Rice

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We dive into the 2022 Sight and Sound list and find ourselves in The Sunken Place.

Not really. Although maybe it would be The Sunken Place of Film Twitter if Twitter was still a thing. Thankfully at the start of this ten year project (!) we all seem to be in agreement that Jordan Peele's GET OUT will not only make the 2032 list but will be cracking the top 100 of cinema decades from now. And while one host tries to maintain the sense of decorum for this show as we choose to focus on one list the other host focuses on the charms of Allison Williams. Naturally. Enjoy!

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