Host and Comedian Steve Mazan goes "Back to School" and then discusses it with fav returning guests Rick Ramos and Cal Murata.
Is this Rodney's best movie?
Does Rodney deserve more respect for his acting?
How bad is Rodney's son?
Was Robert Downey Jr. underused?
What's Alice Cooper got to do with it?
All these questions and more get answered on this week's Mazan Movie Club Podcast.
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What is Comedian Alex Elkin's damage? Why does he love 1989's "Heathers" so much? He discusses it with Host & Corporate Comic Steve Mazan.
Could this film be made today?
What if Slater channeled Christopher Walken?
Is this a cult classic?
Why didn't the writer and director do more?
Is this Winona and Slater's best?
All these question and more get answered on this episode of the Mazan Movie Club podcast.
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A man named LOVE joins Host & Corporate Comedian Steve Mazan to discuss a film they both (but not everybody does) love... "Highlander" from 1986
Is this the epitome of a Cult Classic?
Did Connery ever play someone Scottish?
Why not more neck armor?
Is it well done? Or poorly done?
Who should remake this?
How can you get cast to grab breasts?
All these questions and more get answered on this week's Mazan Movie Club podcast.
Screenwriter Charlie Kaufman teams up with Director Spike Jonze to create one of the most original and unique movies ever. "Being John Malkovich" from 1999. Host & Corporate Comedian Steve Mazan discusses it with Heidi Llovet and the Irish Critic.
Is this Spike Jonze's best?
Is it Charlie Kaufman's best?
Should Malkovich have won an Oscar?
How is the fantastical so matter of fact?
What does it all mean? All these questions and more get answered on this week's Mazan Movie Club Podcast.
This week Host and Corporate Comedian Steve Mazan gets to talk about one of his favorite screenwriters who hit the big screen strong with the charming 1994 film "Four Weddings and a Funeral"
Could it be any more charming?
Has Hugh ever been better?
Has Andie MacDowell ever been worse?
Did it have any chance at the '94 Best Picture?
Does the author even write great titles?
All these questions and more get answered on this week's Mazan Movie Club podcast.
Comedian Danny Villapando joins Host and Corporate Comedian Steve Mazan to discuss a banner movie from a banner year in film: "Election" from 1999.
Is this Reese Witherspoon's best?
Did this put Alexander Payne on the map?
What's Ed Rooney got to do with it?
Is Pepsi for losers?
Did this predict "cancel culture"?
Should Broderick have been driving a car in this?
All these questions and more get answered on this week's Mazan Movie Club podcast
Host and Corporate Comedian Steve Mazan talks to comic Calvin Murata about his favorite film: 1984's "The Karate Kid"
Was Avildsen making "Rocky" for teens?
Did Pat Morita get robbed of an Oscar?
Was Elizabeth Shue the greatest HS GF on film?
Does this film quietly have one of the greatest plot twists ever?
How great is the soundtrack?
Was Miyagi terrible at his real job?
All these questions and more get answered on this week's Mazan Movie Club podcast.
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"Clue" a movie based on a board game hits the club (not one of the weapons). From 1985. Host Steve Mazan discusses it with co-host Denise and Comic Calvin Murata.
Which ending is the best?
Is this a cult-classic?
Can this be compared to "My Cousin Vinny"
Which gag is the best?
Is it hilarious or stupid? Or Both?
Did this get us "Knives Out"?
All these questions and more get answered on this week's Mazan Movie Club podcast.
Host and Comedian Steve Mazan is joined by Hollywood Insider Piper Moretti to discuss one of her favorite movies "The Birdcage" from '96.
Was this a comeback for Mike Nichols?
Was Azaria scene stealing from scene-stealers?
Who was miscast?
How much was improvised?
But do gay people like it?
All these questions and more get answered on this week's Mazan Movie Club podcast.
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Host and Corporate Comedian Steve Mazan watches "The Naked Gun" with Sonja Frolek, Actor Matt McDonald and Comedian Garrett Clark and discusses everything about this laughfest.
Was there anyone better in a spoof than Leslie Nielsen?
What's the best gag?
Is this better than "Airplane"?
What happened to Priscilla?
Is it ok to assassinate a real leader in a film?
Is this an underrated trilogy?
All these questions and more get answered on this week's Mazan Movie Club podcast.
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Larry Cabrera Jr. Fell asleep in the theater when he saw "Donnie Brasco"... but it still became one of his favorites of all time. He joins Host and Corporate Comedian Steve Mazan to discuss it all.
Who was cast more against type, Pacino or Depp?
Has there been a more empathetic film?
Film Crush: Madsen or Heche?
Why did Lefty leave the drawer open?
Was the diamond fuggazi?
All these questions and more get answered on this week's Mazan Movie Club podcast.
Host Steve Mazan has found someone who is a bigger fan of this movie than the Solitanos are fans of the Eagles. Comedian Jamie Ward joins us to discuss it all.
Is this a screwball comedy about Mental Illness?
Did David O. Russel have one of the great trifectas in film?
Did this film change our perceptions of Lawrence and Cooper?
Who is the best actor in a film of great performances?
Did the football announcer ruin it?
Would Jurassic Park stay open during the pandemic?
All these questions and more get answered on this week's Mazan Movie Club podcast.
Dennis Hopper creates a villain for the ages in 1986's "Blue Velvet" from the man who brought strange to the mainstream David Lynch.
Was Frank Booth Covid ready?
Who breathes harder Booth or Vader?
Is it all a dream?
What does all the red mean?
Did Rosselini pull a Sharon Stone a decade early?
Is Lynch one of the best Directors on history?
All these questions and more get answered on this week's Mazan Movie Club podcast.
Comedy Magician Chipper Lowell joins the club and host Comedian Steve Mazan to discuss all the magic in 1971's "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory"
Why isn't it "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"?
Have we ever replaced Gene Wilder?
Who is English and who isn't?
Did Charlie's mom get snubbed?
What's the best song?
How did Wilder test the director?
All these questions and more get answered on this week's Mazan Movie Club podcast
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Illustrator Sean Comitz joins Host & Corporate Comedian Steve Mazan to discuss an incredible debut film from Neil Blomkamp and Sharlto Copley "District 9" from 2009.
Whose debut was more impressive Copley or Blomkamp?
How was this Tri-Star's first Best Picture nominee?
Do we need a sequel?
How was so much done with a relatively small budget?
Is it even timelier today?
All these questions and more get answered on this week's Mazan Movie Club podcast.
Michael Ortlieb joins Host & Corporate Comedian Steve Mazan to discuss Barry Levinson's 1984 baseball fantasy "The Natural"
Are Redford and Close too old for their roles?
Is this the Odyssey or King Arthur?
Was Redford still a heartthrob at this point?
Was this the first Tri-Star picture?
Did Hobbs get shot or corrupted?
All these questions and more get answered on this episode.
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Fellow podcasters Tom Smith & Joe Voth join Corporate Comedian/Host Steve Mazan to discuss the film that many hold up as the best baseball movie ever made. Joe waited 30 years to watch it...was it worth the wait?
Is this Costner's peak?
Is it more Rom-Com than Sports film?
Is there a bad Orion film?
Was Sarandon's character ahead of it's time?
Do Crash and Annie stay together?
All these questions and more get answered on this week's podcast.
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Ang Lee comes to the MMC with his 2000 film that won Best Foreign Film "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" comedian Steve Mazan interviews Sonja Frolak about this magical movie.
Can Ang Lee do any genre?
Was it tough to read?
Did the name or poster set up wrong expectations?
What's it got to do with The Matrix?
Was it fighting OR dancing?
All these questions and more get answered on this week's podcast.
Host and Corporate Comedian Steve Mazan interviews Sonja Frolak who is a big fin of this Jim Carrey/Peter Weir outing from 1998.
Was Jim Carrey perfectly cast?
Is this Carrey's best?
What's Dennis Hopper have to do with it?
How much religion is in there?
How dark was it originally?
All these questions and more get answered on this week's podcast?
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Michael Rabehl the Programming Director of the Cinequest Film Festival joins Corporate Comedian Steve Mazan to discuss a story Fincher and Sorkin's collaboration "The Social Network" from 2010.
In a slew of great young actors who is the best?
Is this Sorkin or Fincher's film?
How much is true... AND what IS truth?
Is Sorkin obsessed with Citizen Kane?
What about Reznor's score?
All these questions and more get answered on this week's Mazan Movie Club podcast.
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Finally we get a Paul Thomas Anderson film on the Mazan Movie Club...it's 1999's star-studded headscratcher "Magnolia". Host Corporate Comedian Steve Mazan interviews first time watcher Cathy Mazan Murata.
Is this Anderson's most ambitious film?
Is this out of or IN character for Tom Cruise?
What does the title mean?
Is it a musical?
Which actor shines the brightest?
What do the frogs and eights mean?
All these questions and more get answered on this week's podcast.
Cameron Crowe and his Oscar winning script come to the Mazan Movie Club podcast with 96's "Jerry Maguire"--Comedian Steve Mazan is joined by co-host Denise and The Irish Critic join in to discuss the genre bending film.
Was Tom Cruise miscast?
What's with all the repeated lines?
Who's best in the stellar supporting cast?
Do we like this Springsteen?
Are these two together 10yrs later?
All these questions and more get answered on this week's Mazan Movie Club podcast.
Comedian and film lover Rick Ramos is back! This time to join Host and Corporate Comic Steve Mazan to discuss the start of a hot streak for Richard Donner with 87's "Lethal Weapon"
Is this basically a rom-com?
Was Shane Black reined in?
Could anyone else have pulled off the Gibson role?
Is Murtaugh/Glover's badass-ness under appreciated?
How many great lines/scenes are in this?
Can Gibson run or just act like it?
Is this the real Christmas movie?
Comic Lawrence Thomas watches Polanski's 1968 suspense classic for the first time and discusses it all with Host and Corporate Comedian Steve Mazan.
Can we separate art from Artist?
Was this shoot and those involved cursed?
Was MIa Farrow snubbed?
Was the building cursed in real life?
What do Jordan Peele, Kubrick and Gwyneth Paltrow have to with it all?
All these questions and more get answered on this week's Mazan Movie Club podcast.
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Take that panty off your head and listen to the Coen Brothers storm back into the Mazan Movie Club with 1987's influential "Raising Arizona" a sign of things to come from them and lots of imitators.
Is this Cage's best?
Where does this fall in the Coen Brother's resume?
How good is the supporting cast?
What's Costner got to do with it?
Were Cage and Smalls the same?
Is round a funny shape?
Was it Utah?
ALL these questions and more get answered.
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