Special Report: Andrew Rausch on My Best Friend's Birthday

Special Guests: Andrew Rausch

Mike speaks with Andrew J. Rausch about his 2019 book, My Best Friend's Birthday: The Making of a Quentin Tarantino Film. It's a look at Quentin Tarantino and Craig Hamann's first feature film from the early '80s. Told as an oral history, the book features the voices of Hamann, Tarantino, Roger Avary, Rand Vossler, and more.

Learn about how this "lost" film came to be and how it can be seen as a Rosetta Stone for Tarantino's themes and career.

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Music:
"I Think I Love You" - Paranoiacs

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Special Report: Timon Singh on Born to Be Bad

Special Guest: Timon Singh

Timon Singh of the Bristol Bad Film Club joins Mike to talk about his book, Born To Be Bad: Talking to the Greatest Villains in Action Cinema and the documentary, In Search of the Last Action Heroes, which he's producing and Oliver Harper is directing.

Pre-Order your copy of In Search of the Last Action Heroes

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Special Report: In Search of Lost Films

Special Guest: Phil Hall

Mike talks with author Phil Hall about his book, In Search of Lost Films, an invaluable resource for fans of film history. Published by BearManor Media, Hall writes about a few of the better-known lost films but, moreover, delves into dozens of obscure titles as well as several sequences of better-known films that have yet to be recovered.

The book is now available!

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Buy In Search of Lost Films by Phil Hall
Hear more of Phil Hall at the Online Movie Show
Learn more about Finding Kukan

Music:
"Out of the Races and Onto the Tracks" - The Rapture
"Running Up That Hill (Instrumental Version)" - Kate Bush