A man and a woman get together to discuss "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" and no one yells, screams or insults each other. What the hell? Comedian Heather Hurst joins Steve Mazan to discuss it all.
Why was this in B&W?
Were Taylor and Burton worse onscreen or off?
Is the gunbrella still shocking?
Did reality TV transcend all this?
Is this obviously a play brought to the screen?
Who acts the best like a drunk?
All these questions and more get answered on this week's Mazan Movie Club podcast.
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Host Steve Mazan gets current Grunt Aaron Yankosky to come back on the show and talk all about Oliver stone's 1986 Best Picture winner: Platoon.
Was this a false introduction to Charlie Sheen?
Is this the first real anti-war film?
How recognizable is the famous Dafoe arms to heaven gesture?
Who is best in a film of great performances?
Was this a false introduction to Willem Dafoe?
Is there one small false note at the end?
All these questions and more get answered on this week's Mazan Movie Club podcast.
Comedian Mark Pitta joins Steve Mazan to discuss a film he has a lot of ties to: "Raging Bull" from 1980. Boxing expert Chris Strait pops in to offer some perspective as well.
Is this Deniro's best acting ever?
Is this film rewatchable?
Was the real Vickie LaMotta even hotter than Catherine Moriarity?
Why is the sound all over the place?
Can you imagine heckling Pesci and Frank Vincent?
Is this the 4th greatest movie ever?
All these questions and more get answered on this week's Mazan Movie Club podcast.
Photojournalist and fellow podcaster Matt Santos joins comedian Steve Mazan to discuss the legendary film and legendary shoot of "The African Queen" from 1951.
Was the film secondary for John Huston?
How good is this screenplay?
Why did Bogart NOT deserve his Oscar?
Was this the first movie turned into a theme park ride?
How many movies stole from this?
What does Fonzie have to do with all of it?
All these questions and more get discussed on this week's Mazan Movie Club podcast.
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Comedian Calvin Murata joins host Steve Mazan to discuss "Annie Hall"...Calvin has never seen a Woody Allen film and gives a fresh millennial take on this Oscar winner.
Was "Star Wars" robbed?
Is this a love story?
Is Diane Keaton crazy and playing herself?
How influential is this movie?
Did Woody start the "guy with chick out of his league" trend?
What was Jeff Goldblum's Mantra?
All these questions and a whole lot more get answered on this week's Mazan Movie Club podcast.
Comedian Steve Mazan is joined by his co-host Denise Mazan, who had never seen the film, to discuss "Midnight Cowboy" along with multiple time viewer The Irish Critic.
Is this a top 100 film?
Should it have been X-rated?
Is Hoffman's cab thumping scene not dissected enough?
What the hell is Joe Buck's truth?
Is Joe Buck the baseball announcer worse?
Does anyone miss this NYC?
Is this blacklist redemption?
All these questions and more get answered on this week's Mazan Movie Club podcast
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Sam Peckinpah's revolutionary 1969 film "The Wild Bunch" hits the club and comedian Mark Pitta, fresh off a book about it, joins us to discuss it all.
Is this the greatest Western ever?
How come so many great Westerns can out in the late 60's when the genre was dying?
Do we have anyone like Ernest Borgnine today?
How much older than 51 does William Holden look?
Is the bridge explosion the greatest stunt ever?
Does Vietnam have anything to do with what's on screen?
Do audiences only like violent Peckinpah
All these questions and a lot more get answered on this week's Mazan Movie Club podcast.
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Host Steve Mazan gets joined by velvety-voice fellow comic Chris Strait to discuss the Oscar champ of 1961 "West Side Story" from co-directors Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins...and an uncredited Shakespeare.
How well does this hold up?
Are Immigration & Police Corruption just as timely today?
Is it's influence bigger than it's actual value?
Is two and a half hours too much ballet fighting?
Is the cinematography the forgotten star?
Is it ok to play another race if they dub your voice?
Is a musical rape scene as ambitious as it gets?
All these questions and more get answered on this week's Mazan Movie Club Podcast.
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Host Steve Mazan is joined by comedian Mark Pitta to discuss everything about Arthur Penn's trendsetting film "Bonnie and Clyde" with the best looking people on the planet at that time Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty.
How much of this is true?
Is Dunaway's back as sexy as her rack?
Did Gene Hackman ever look young?
How violent was this for 1967?
Did Vietnam play a role in the action?
Who knew Willy Wonka was such a scoundrel?
All these questions and more get answered on this week's Mazan Movie podcast.
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Host Steve Mazan is joined by fellow comedians Brian McDaniel & Paul Douglas Moomjean to discuss the classic "Chinatown" noir from the 70's and its place in history.
Is this a top 25 film all-time?
Can you separate art from artist?
How much of this film was happening offscreen?
Was Nicholson's real life just as strange?
Is Faye Dunaway hot?
Is your nose sensitive after watching this?
All these questions and more get answered on this week's Mazan Movie Club podcast.
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Western Author Wes Rand talks to host Steve Mazan about the classic Gary Cooper/Howard Zinneman film "High Noon"...a film that would win Cooper an Oscar and possibly send the screenwriter to Europe.
Was this whole story an allegory for the Red Scare?
Did John Wayne wanna be in this movie or not?
What does this film have to do with the Wilhelm Scream and a Flying Purple People Eater?
Is there anything dirtier than a Quaker who turns?
How influential is this movie...even today?
All these questions and more get answered on this week's Mazan Movie Club podcast.
Host Steve Mazan is joined by fellow comedian Aaron Yankosky to discuss one of his favorites the genre-bending "JAWS" from 1975.
Is this a Horror film? Drama? Action?
Who had the bigger jumpstart Spielberg or John Williams?
Is a New York City Cop always better than an expert?
What's up with the shooting stars?
Did Pippin the Dog become an appetizer?
How did Robert Shaw no get nominated?
All these questions and more get answered on this week's Mazan Movie Club!
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The Marx Brothers make their first appearance on the podcast with their most complete film "A Night at the Opera" from 1935. Radio DeeJay Gerrie Burke joins us to discuss this favorite of his. The Irish Critic gives us a review of the Brothers themselves.
Is this Chico's shining moment?
Where is Zeppo?
Do kids know any of these guys?
Is Groucho a misogynist?
Is Margaret Dumont the greatest straightman of all-time?
All these questions and a lot more get answered on this week's podcast.
What a fun revisiting of Mike Nichols second film "The Graduate"...thought of as a youth classic is it even better as it (and you) get older? Comedian Paul Morrissey joins us to discuss it as well as an extended visit with the Irish Critic.
Do we have a movie without the soundtrack?
Is Mrs. Robinson really that bad?
Did Norman Fell get typecast from this?
Is this movie and Mike Nichols career underrated?
Was Benjamin a virgin?
Is the ending a Shymalan-worthy twist?
All these questions and more get answered on this week's Mazan Movie Club podcast.
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Host Steve Mazan is joined by comedian Paul Morrissey to discuss 1967's Norman Jewison racially-charged Best Picture winner "In the Heat of the Night"
Is this even the best film of 1967 let alone #75 ever?
Did Poitier nail the "Mr Tibbs" line?
Is the real racial injustice Steiger winning Best Actor?
Did Quincy Jones metaphorically slap Sam the Sham in the face?
What was worse the police corruption or the police incompetence?
All these questions and more get answered on this week's Mazan Movie Club podcast.
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John Brune comes back to the podcast to discuss one his favorites with host Steve Mazan: "Blade Runner" from 1982. Number 97 on the AFI list.
Which version is the best?
Is Deckard a replicant?
Is Everyone a replicant?
Were we owed more Rutger Hauer?
Is Ridley Scott at the top of his game here...or on the way?
Do they need a better replicant test?
Are Andies too cute a name?
All these questions and more get answered on this week's Mazan Movie Club podcast.
Host Steve Mazan is joined by comedian Jeff Johnson to discuss the second Billy Wilder/Jack Lemmon teaming in a row--1960's Best picture winner "The Apartment"
Is this a romantic comedy?
Is this better than "Psycho" and "Spartacus"?
Who is today's Shirley Maclaine?
Did "When Harry Met Sally" borrow heavily from this?
What's with all the slapping?
Was Jack Lemmon a stalker?
All these questions and more get answered on this week's Mazan Movie Club podcast.
Host Steve Mazan is joined by fellow comedian JR Berard to discuss everything about Billy Wilder's 1959 highly regarded comedy "Some Like it Hot"
Is Marilyn Monroe the sexiest woman to hit the big screen?
Who is hotter Daphne or Josephine?
Is Billy Wilder in the Kubrick category?
Is this the best comedy ever?
What does this have to do with the mechanical bull in "Urban Cowboy"?
Does Tom Hanks owe this movie his life?
All these questions and more get answered on this week's Mazan Movie Club podcast.
The Irish Critic joins host Steve Mazan for a full breakdown of the 1976 Watergate drama "All the President's Men."
Is it Woodward & Bernstein or vice-versa?
Is Alan J. Pakula not getting enough respect?
Was investigative journalism this silly?
How lucky are these guys to be played by Redford & Hoffman?
Was it Forrest Gump who really called in the burglary?
Did we get shortchanged on Jason Robards?
All these questions and more get answered on this week's Mazan Movie Club.
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Dr./Comedian/Traveler/Shoe Enthusiast Laura Hayden is back to discuss the movie that made Meryl Streep MERYL. 1982's "Sophie's Choice" from director Alan J Pakula.
Does everyone know what a Sophie's choice is now?
Is anyone even close to Meryl Streep as an actor?
How unique is Kevin Kline's introduction?
Does Sophie really make two gut-wrenching decisions?
Does the Irish Critic have a favorite child?
Is Meryl Streep hot to men or just women?
All these questions and more get answered on a surprisingly light and funny episode of the Mazan Movie Club.
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Host Steve Mazan is joined by comedian Benari Poulten to discuss the Film Noir Classic from 1949 "The Third Man" with Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles and behind the camera Carol Reed.
Is this the quintessential noir?
Was Welles still thin?
Can you ever get enough Zither?
Do the car scenes stick out?
Did Valli make the right choice?
Which is better...Orson's entrance OR his speech?
All these questions and more get answered on this week's Mazan Movie Club.
Host Steve Mazan interviews himself about D.W. Griffith's 1916 groundbreaker "Intolerance"
Was this made because Griffith was intolerant with his previous film?
Are the special effects some of the best considering the era?
What does all that cradle rocking signify?
How does Ray Bradbury play into all this?
Can you have a silent-era podcast?
All these questions and more get answered on this week's Mazan Movie Club podcast.
On to the AFI list! This week we twist again like we did last summer (when we did Psycho)...this time it's M. Night Shyamalan's "The Sixth Sense" from 1999. When M. was killing it and Bruce still had some hair.
Is this the greatest twist in film history?
Is Donnie Wahlberg's acting the bigger twist?
What is ASMR and was Osment a pioneer?
Do we deserve a "Seventh Sense" sequel?
How angry is that prospective boyfriend?
All these questions and more get answered on this week's episode.
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Host Steve Mazan is joined by his childhood movie friend Ralph Riske to play a game and discuss the best uses of songs in film. Whether it be an original song written for the film OR an old favorite perfectly placed to set a vibe, what are the best uses of tunes in movies?
What song is the most inseparable from its film?
How many films were made because of a song?
Where are "I Will Always Love You" and "My Heart Will Go On?"
Is Patrick Swayze the greatest singing actor of all time?
Favorite Stallone? Frank or Sly?
All these questions and more get answered on this week's Mazan Movie Club podcast.
Host Steve Mazan brings back frequent guest, friend, comedian and cinephile Rick Ramos to discuss the IMDb list itself in the aftermath of finishing the countdown of it's top 100 films on the podcast.
What's the IMDb list got going for it?
What makes it suck?
How can a top 100 list not include "The Wizard of Oz"?
Did Zemeckis' "Used Cars" get shunned?
Can a Comedy get some respect up in here?
How many of these movies would YOU include in your top 100?
All these questions and more get answered on this week's Mazan Movie Club Podcast.