Mike talks to writer/director Jon Spira about his latest film, The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee. It's a documentary about the Lee's life and career that features a great array of interviews and a fascinating visual style.
Special Guests: John Landis, Stuart Margolin, Gavin MacLeod Guest Co-Hosts: Samm Deighan, Bill Ackerman
We're not gonna hit you with any negative waves about the odd, star-studded heist/war film, Kelly's Heroes. Samm Deighan and Bill Ackerman join Mike to discuss this Brian G. Hutton film from 1970 wherein Clint Eastwood leads a band of soldiers behind enemy lines in order to pilfer a cache of Nazi gold.
On this episode you'll hear the rest of our interview with John Landis as well as interviews with Gavin MacLeod (Moriarty) and Stuart Margolin (Little Joe).
Special Guests: John Landis, Steven Williams, Laila Nablusi Guest Co-Hosts: Brad Jones, Suzen Tekla Kruglnska
Musical month continues with a look at John Landis's The Blues Brothers (1980). It's the story of Jake (John Belushi) and Elwood Blues (Dan Aykroyd), two musicians who need to get $5,000 in order to pay the back taxes on the orphanage where they grew up learning to be white blues singers.
Suzen Tekla Kruglnska (Rosemary's Baby 6:66) and Brad Jones (The Cinema Snob) join Mike for a discussion of The Blues Brothers (and Blues Brothers 2000) along with special guests Laila Nablusi (president of The Blues Brothers), Steven Williams (Trooper Mount), and co-writer/director John Landis.
Music:
"Groove Me" - The Blues Brothers
"Soul Man" - The Blues Brothers
"Everybody Needs Somebody to Love" - The Blues Brothers
"Quando Quanto" - Murph & the Magic Tones
"Sink the Bismark" - The Blues Brothers
"Rubber Biscuit" - The Blues Brother
Special Guest: Daniel Petrie Jr.,
Steven Berkoff, Ronny Cox, John Ashton,
Harold Faltermeyer, Steven E. de Sousa Guest Co-Host: Elric Kane, Chris Cummins
In Martin Brest's Beverly Hills Cop (1984), Eddie Murphy stars as Detroit police officer Axel Foley. He pursues the killers of his childhood friend to Beverly Hills where the local constabulary find his methods questionable.
We talk to screenwriter Daniel Petrie Jr, actors John Ashton, Ronny Cox, and Steven Berkoff along with composer Harold Faltermeyer. As an added bonus, we talk to the original writer of Beverly Hills Cop III, Steven E. de Sousa.
Mike's joined by Chris Cummins and Elric Kane to discuss the Beverly Hills Cop series as well as the Sylvester Stallone offshoot, Cobra.
Music:
"Axel F" - Harold Faltermeyer
"Axel F" - Clock
"Axel F - Miami Vice" - The Ventures
"Foley Finds Mikey" - Harold Faltermeyer
"The Heat is On (Original Demo)" - LateNight@Oasis
"Zach Shoots" - Harold Faltermeyer
"Axel F" - Crazy Frog
"The New Team" - Harold Faltermeyer
"Party All the Time" - Eddie Murphy
Special Guest: Jon Spira
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