Released in 1994, The Coen Brothers' The Hudsucker Proxy stars Tim Robbins as Norville Barnes, a graduate of Muncie Indiana’s business school. He gets a job at Hudsucker Industries whose CEO, Waring Hudsucker (Charles Durning), happens to join the great hereafter the day Norville begins work. After a mix-up, Barnes goes all the way from the mail room to the boardroom and becomes the new interim head of the corporation.
Rahne Alexander and David Kittrredge join Mike to discuss the ins, the outs, and the what-have-yous about this oft-overlooked tribute to classic screwball comedies told only in the way that the Coen Brothers (and Sam Raimi) could tell it.
Special Guests: Bruce Joel Rubin, Adrian Lyne Guest Co-Hosts: Stephen Scarlata, Yaniv Eidelstein
Yaniv Eidelstein and Stephen Scarlata join Mike to look at Adrian Lyne's 1990 film Jacob's Ladder It’s the story of Jacob Singer (Tim Robbins) who’s platoon in Vietnam is attacked by unknown forces. He suffers from flashbacks of this horrific event in 1970s New York where he’s left his wife and is living with his co-worker, Jezebel (Elizabeth Pena). He is plagued, as well, by horrific visions of demons. Is Jacob going mad? Is he a victim of a government plot? Or is it something else entirely?
Special guests writer Bruce Joel Rubin and director Adrian Lyne discuss the making of the film and its fate.
Special Guests: Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Andrew Eaton Guest Co-Hosts: Jedidiah Ayres, Dylan Davis
Directed by Michael Winterbottom, written by Frank Cottrell-Boyce, and produced by Andrew Eaton, Code 46 (2003) stars Tim Robbins as William Geld, a fraud investigator who travels to Shanghai to interview the employees of The Sphinx, a company that produces letters of transit. Meanwhile, Samantha Morton plays Maria Gonzalez, the forger of these papers. The two have a connection... a very deep connection... which will eventually doom their relationship.
Special Guests: Herschell Gordon Lewis & Harry Lennix Guest Co-Host: Josh Gravel
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With Election Day right around the corner, we're talking about three films of guitar-toting demagogues, A Face in the Crowd from Elia Kazan, Year of the Yahoo from Herschell Gordon Lewis and Bob Roberts from Tim Robbins.
Special Guests: Bill Fishman, Peter McCarthy Guest Co-Host: Skizz Cyzyk
Let's get into trouble, baby! It's time to look at the 1988 film Tapeheads starring John Cusack, Tim Robbins, and a whole heck of a lot of other people in remarkable cameo roles (Mike Nesmith, Jello Biafra, King Cotton, Susan Tyrell, Courtney Love, etc). Follow as Josh (Robbins) and Ivan (Cusack) form Video Aces, a video production company that makes its bones shooting funerals, pet seances, wills, commercials and, inevitably, music videos.
Mike talks to the Tapeheads director Bill Fishman and co-writer Peter McCarthy. Along for the ride this week is commentator Skizz Cyzyk, a real live video ace.
Guest Co-Hosts: Rahne Alexander, David Kittredge
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