Dec 20, 2022
As we wrap up the Full Cast and Crew year, I'm sharing some off-beat Christmas cheer with you all in this, our first-ever Weird Christmas Spectacular. Frequent listeners to the pod have heard me say "weird is good" many times, and the picks in today's episode reflect not films or tv shows or songs that are weird...
Dec 6, 2022
A heartfelt appreciation about how good and truthful Steven Spielberg's deeply personal, funny, and moving film 'The Fabelmans' is.
Go and see this film in a theater. It's hard for the film's trailer to capture the unique and intelligent tone of the film, so I position this episode towards those of you who judge...
Nov 22, 2022
Thrilled to finally deep-dive into the making-of David Fincher's brilliant newspaper movie/police procedural/serial killer obsession film 'Zodiac'.
Topics:
The insane detail that went into preproduction.
Praise for producer Brad Fischer and screenwriter Jamie Vanderbilt.
Soundbites from Fincher's obsessive attention to...
Nov 8, 2022
I originally recorded this episode as a dry-run for a forthcoming and entirely separate-from-FCAC limited-run podcast seriesI'm going to be doing in 2023 about Dead & Company's final tour (SPINOFF!), but my conversation with my friend and guest Geoff Weed was so illuminating about so many things: the nature of enduring...
Oct 31, 2022
Joined by frequent guest Frazer Rice (links to previous eps below), this week I dive into the fascinating backstory of the making-of John Carpenter's 1978 horror flick 'Halloween', a genre-busting/genre-defining/genre-expanding piece of forever in the movie business and in the popular imagination.
From its roots in...