Host Comedian Steve Mazan watches Cagney's turn against type in 1942's "Yankee Doodle Dandy" with co-host Denise. The Irish Critic chimes in with her views and a story too.
Was Cagney a tough guy or a dancer?
How true is this BioPic?
Is the film as cocky as Cohan?
Is Cohan's influence still felt today?
What's your favorite song?
All these questions and more get answered on this week's Mazan Movie Club.
Playwright and Comic Leif Olson-Cormack joins host Steve Mazan to discuss Howard Hawk's screwball comedy from 1938 starring Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn.
Was Cary Grant an underrated comic actor?
Is this ironically the most attractive Hepburn was onscreen?
Did Grant's character make the right choice?
Did we need the leopard, let alone two?
What does it have to do with "Friends"?
All these questions and more get answered on this week's Mazan Movie Club podcast.
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Comedy Impresario Rich Davis joins host Steve Mazan to rewatch and discuss George Roy Hill's genre busting Western from 1969.
Is this the perfect Screenplay?
Is this the first real buddy picture?
Did we deserve more Newman and Redford?
Was that a bike ride a metaphor?
Should the Ken Burns Effect be called the George Roy Hill?
How many movie have stolen from this?
All these questions and more get answered on this week's Mazan Movie Club podcast.
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Host Steve Mazan interviews Freeway Farrell (yep that's his real name) about Robert Altman's "MASH" from 1970... one of Freeway's favs.
Could the movie be made today?
Could the song be made today?
How groundbreaking was this filmmaking?
Was Altman ahead of his time?
Did the TV show overshadow this?
What's with the football game?
All these questions and more get answered on this weeks Mazan Movie Club podcast.