Special Guests: Mike Werb, Michael Colleary Guest Co-Hosts: Samm Deighan, AJ Black
In John Woo's Face/Off (1997), Sean Archer (John Travolta), a FBI Agent whose son was killed by his enemy, Castor Troy (Nicolas Cage ). Six years later Troy has planted a bomb somewhere in L.A. and, after he’s accidentally put into a coma, Archer must put on Troy’s face in order to find where the bomb is at.
Samm Deighan and A.J. Black join Mike to discuss this landmark action film while screenwriters Michael Colleary and Mike Werb talk about the long, strange history of the movie.
Special Guest: Joseph McBride Guest Co-Hosts: Keith Gordon, Rob St. Mary
We wrap up a month of discussion around comedic film with one of the best, The Coen Brothers's second film, Raising Arizona (1987). It's the story of repeat offender H.I. McDunnough (Nicolas Cage) and his wife Ed (Holly Hunter ), a childless couple who steal one of the quintuplets from Nathan Arizona (Trey Wilson) and, hell, you know who he is.
Released in 1974, Gone in Sixty Seconds was directed, written by, and stars H. B. Halicki as Maindrian Pace. He’s an accident investigator by day… and a car thief by day too. He gets charged with stealing 48 cars for the unscrupulous Mr. Villas. All of the cars are given female nicknames and it’s the car named Eleanor that seems to haunt him as he and his crew get to work filling a very tall order.
El Goro (Talk Without Rhythm) and Chris Stachiw (The Kulturecast) join Mike to discuss Halicki's movie empire and the 2000 Dominic Sena remake starring Nicholas Cage.
Wings of Desire, the 1987 film from Wim Wenders, stars Bruno Ganz as Damiel and Otto Sander as Cassiel, two angels out of many that watch over Berlin. They are immortal observers, watching the goings-on of the myriad people around them. Yet, they can never experience the full world in which the humans live. They know not taste, touch, feeling, or love...
Small Screen Cinema's Joe Yanick joins Mike to discuss Peter Falk, the sequel Faraway, So Close!, and the American remake City of Angels on this episode.
Special Guests: Jon Schnepp & Holly Payne Guest Co-Host: Chris Cummins
The fifth feature Superman film took a dozen years and millions of dollars to come to fruition. Along the way the film was almost made as Superman Lives written by Kevin Smith, Wesley Strick, and Dan Gilroy, directed by Tim Burton and starring Nicolas Cage.
The documentary The Death of "Superman Lives": What Happened? digs into the production, from conception to the camera almost rolling. It's a wild tale of creativity, rampant egos, and one of the most eccentric producers Hollywood boasted.
We're joined by nerdlebrity Chris Cummins along with the producer and director of TDOSLWH, Holly Payne and Jon Schepp.
Music:
"O Superman" - Laurie Anderson
"Kryptonite" - 3 Doors Down
"Superman" - The Clique
"Superman" - Ides of March
"Superman's Song" - Crash Test Dummies
"Official Suburban Superman" - Suzi Quatro
"Superman Theme" - Chris Joss
"Superman Theme" - Petra Haden
"Superman" - Boyce Avenue
As mentioned on our recent EGO FEST III show, Mike led a couple of Q&A sessions at FanExpo Canada 2015. The second was with Danny Trejo. Mr. Trejo discusses his work on Con Air, Breaking Bad, Runaway Train, and more.
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Hear more about Eddie Bunker on our Straight Time episode
Special Guests: Edward Pressman, William M. Finkelstein Guest Co-host: Patrick Bromley
This week we're talking about Bad Lieutenant - the original and the sort of loose re-make by filmmakers Abel Ferrara and Werner Herzog. The 1992 original stars Harvey Keitel as the Bad Lieutenant in question who gets in over his head with drugs, prostitutes and a gambling debt. The 2009 The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans stars Nicolas Cage as the Bad Lieutenant in the days around and after Hurricane Katrina. He plays a cop who gets in over his head with drugs, prostitutes and a gambling debt.
Our guests are producer of both films – Edward Pressman and the screenwriter of The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, William Finkelstein
Guest co-host this week is Patrick Bromley of the F This Movie podcast.
Thanks to Filip Önell for the Werner Herzog impersonation!
Music:
"Pledging My Love" - Johnny Ace
"Signifying Rapper" - Schooly-D
"Old Lost John" - Sonny Terry
"Release Me" - Johnny Adams
Author and real life femme fatale Christa Faust joins The Projection Booth this week to talk about John Dahl's 1994 neo-noir, The Last Seduction. Dahl talks about his early days in the business, including Kill Me Again and Red Rock West.
We're looking at John Woo's landmark action film The Killer; examining its origin and impact. Our special guest, Kenneth Hall, has written the book on Woo -- John Woo: The Films.
We also look at the influences on The Killer from Frank Tuttle's This Gun For Hire to Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Samourai as well as the films that took inspiration from Woo's work such as the two Pang Brothers versions of Bangkok Dangerous.
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