Episode 197: Death to Smoochy (2002)

Special Guests: Adam Resnick & Danny Woodburn
Guest Co-Host: Mike Sullivan

After Rainbow Randolph (Robin Williams) falls from grace, it's up to Sheldon Mopes (Edward Norton) as Smoochy, the singing rhino, to save the network. He quickly finds himself embroiled in the shady underworld of children's television in Death to Smoochy.

Links:
Buy Death To Smoochy on DVD
Visit the official Danny Woodburn website
Buy Will Not Attend
Listen to Adam Resnick talk about Will Not Attend
Listen to Adam Resnick on our Cabin Boy episode
Read reviews from Mike Sullivan in Shock Cinema magazine

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Music:
"Goomba Boomba" - Yma Sumac
"Malambo No.1" - Yma Sumac

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Episode 170: Manhunter (1986)

Special Guests: Tom Noonan, Chris Elliott, Adam Resnick, Jonathan Rayner

Have you ever seen blood in the moonlight? It appears quite black...

Michael Mann's Manhunter was a stylish serial killer film that has proved influential for decades. Other than being known as the first film appearance from Hannibal Lecter (a sublime Brian Cox), Manhunter helped give rise to the crime procedural ("C.S.I.", "Criminal Minds", "True Detective", etc.).

We talked to Tom Noonan about his role as Francis Dollarhyde along with Chris Elliott (and Adam Resnick) about his early appearances in mainstream films. We also discuss the cinema of Michael Mann with Professor Jonathan Rayner.

Our guest co-host is the mysterious Mister X; we discuss the entire "Hannibal Lec(k)tor Legacy".

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Bonus:
Mike was a guest on the Kulturecaset where Chris Stachiw and John Lein discussed the disjointed Hannibal Franchise.

Listen to "Hannibal Lecter Franchise" on Spreaker.

Links:
Buy Manhunter on DVD
Buy Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
Buy The Cinema of Michael Mann by Jonathan Rayner
Buy Red Dragon on DVD
Visit the official Tom Noonan website
Learn more about Tom Noonan's Paradise Theater
Visit a terrific Manhunter fansite
Read Mister X's analysis of Red Dragon and Manhunter at Film Threat
Watch That Guy with Glasses compare Manhunter and Red Dragon
Learn more about FBI Profiler John Douglas
Visit the official Thomas Harris website
Listen to us talk about serial killers and blind people on our Peeping Tom episode
Listen to the rest of our conversation with Chris Elliott and Adam Resnick on Cabin Boy
Visit the official Mister X website

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Recovering the Mindset from Matthew Morettini on Vimeo.

Special Report: Adam Resnick Will Not Attend

Special Guest: Adam Resnick

Mike spoke to writer/director Adam Resnick about his new book, Will Not Attend: Lively Stories of Detachment and Isolation, a collection of short stories from the misanthropic writer of Death to Smoochy.

Links:
Buy Will Not Attend
Listen to Adam Resnick on our Cabin Boy episode
Stay tuned to hear more of Mr. Resnick on our Manhunter and Death to Smoochy episodes...

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Episode 139: Cabin Boy (1994)

Special Guests: Chris Elliott, Adam Resnick
Guest Co-Hosts: Mike Sullivan

Hey... Wanna buy a monkey?

Cabin Boy (1994) is an absurdist comedy starring Chris Elliott as a snobbish "fancy lad" who makes a wrong turn, ends up on the wrong boat and heads out on the seas with a bunch of salty dogs aboard "The Filthy Whore." Get ready for hi-jinx on the high seas as we discuss the works of Elliott and writer/director Adam Resnick with writer Mike Sullivan.

Links:
Buy Cabin Boy on DVD
Watch episodes of Eagleheart on Adult Swim
Buy the first season on Eagleheart on DVD
Buy Get A Life on DVD
Buy Chris Elliott's The Guy Under the Sheets
Listen to Rob St. Mary's previous interview with Chris Elliott
Read Mike Sullivan's interview with Adam Resnick in Cashiers du Cinemart 16
Read more of Mr. Sullivan's work in Shock Cinema Magazine
Listen to Mike Sullivan on the Chicken Park episode

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Bonus Interview with Mike Starr:

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Music:
"Drunken Sailor" - The Irish Rovers
"Walkin' the Plank" - The Bump-N-Uglies

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Chris Elliott: Television Miracle