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Episode 232 - The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh (1979)
Pittsburgh's basketball team is the worst in the league, so their 14-year-old towel-boy goes to an astrologer and convinces the team to only have players who are Pisces, while twin brothers battle…
Hollywood Avalon, ep. 35 - "The Queen's Knight"/"Maid of Somerset"
We return to the 1950s tv series The Adventures of Sir Lancelot with two episodes: Episode 3, "The Queen's Knight", which takes some inspiration from Chretien de Troyes' Lancelot, le Chevalier de la…
Episode 231 - The Unbelievable Truth (1989) - with Stephen Cooke
We welcome Canadian film critic and journalist Stephen Cooke to the show to talk about indie director Hal Hartley's debute film, the story of a misanthropic girl who falls in love with a mysterious…
Episode 230 - Manhunter (1986)
An FBI criminal profiler is on the trail of a serial killer, and enlists the help of a dangerous psychopath to track him down. No, it's not Silence of the Lambs, it's Michael Mann's thriller based on…
Episode 229 - Local Hero (1983)
An American oil company offers to buy a Scottish village, but things don't go as planned in this comedic fairy tale about lonlieness, community, and the wonders of the natural world. Starring Peter…
Episode 228 - All That Jazz (1979) - with Julie Klausner
Grab the Visine and Dexedrine, folks, it's showtime! We welcome writer, actress, and comedian Julie Klausner to the show to discuss Bob Fosse's autobiographical exploration of death, sex, and…
Hollywood Avalon, ep. 34 - Apocalypse Now (1979)
Francis Ford Coppola's epic about the Vietnam War draws as much from J.G. Frazer's The Golden Bough and Jessie Weston's landmark Arthurian study From Ritual to Romance as it does from Joseph Conrad's…
Episode 227 - Network (1976)
Never mess with the money. Newscaster Howard Beale has been fired from television, but not before he has a mental breakdown live on-air. What could be better for ratings? One of the great satires of…
Episode 226 - The NeverEnding Story (1984)
A bullied boy finds a magic book, bringing him into a fantastical world under threat of annihilation. Dennis Vs the Movies month continues with the movie that scarred millions of millennials.…
Episode 225 - An American Tail (1986)
The story of a young Russian-Jewish mouse who emigrates to America, is separated from his family, and has to find his way in 1880s New York City is a lushly-animated, sometimes grim story about…
Episode 224 - Mannequin (1987)
Dennis Versus the Movies month kicks off with a favorite from Mary's childhood, the Philadelphia-set romantic comedy about a department-store window-dresser and the five-thousand-year-old Egyptian…
Episode 223 - The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
We're back watching James Bond, this time teaming up with a sexy Russian spy to take down a deranged Swedish shipping magnate who wants to blow up the world so that he can live under the sea. Also,…
Episode 222 - Cool Runnings (1993)
The story of the Jamaican bobslead team is a family-friendly comedy that hits all the hoary old sports movie underdog beats. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing, though it means they have to…
Episode 221 - Animalympics (1980)
It's sports! It's animals! It's animation! It's celebrity voices! It's... a weird riff on Lost Horizon and I guess Saturday Night Fever with an alligator? It's Animalypics! From the creator of Tron!…
Episode 220 - The Man from Snowy River (1982)
A young man loses his father and home, is forced to work for a land baron, falls in love with his boss's daughter, and captures a rogue horse in this drama based on an Australian ballad. It's corny…
Episode 219 - Chilly Scenes of Winter (1979/1982)
A bland office drone has an affair with his married coworker and becomes obsessed with her, while juggling his suicidal mother and unemployed best friend; did we mention it's a comedy? Starring John…
Hollywood Avalon, ep. 33 - Parsifal (1912)
A silent film of an opera sounds like a joke, but no, it's quite real--and honestly pretty disjointed and dull, playing more like highlights of Wagner's opera about the Holy Grail than a film in its…
Episode 218 - Missing (1982)
An American journalist goes missing during the 1973 Chilean coup, and his family naively expects the U.S. government to help recover him, not realizing that they're behind the coup. Based on a true…
Episode 217 - Walker (1987)
An Acid Western about a 19th century American mercenary overthrowing the government of Nicaragua is one of the angriest farces ever committed to film, reflecting on not only the historical…
Episode 216 - The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians (1981) - special guest Josh Seybert
We finally welcome our special guest Josh Seybert to talk about a Czech comedy based on a gothic Jules Verne novel about a singing count, his missing girlfriend, and a strange castle in Transylvania.…
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