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We revisit the brilliant, still-vital "Heathers", THE definitive American High School movie, whose biting satire only barely covers the sensitive, beating, romantic heart that lies within.  Featuring star-making performances from Christian Slater and a 16-year-old Winona Ryder, "Heathers" is a dark, pulls-no-punches social satire that aims arrows in every direction, including at the misguided teen...

Keanu. Swayze.  Busey. Bodhi. Utah. Two.  There's simplistic poetry in Katharine Bigelow's 'Point Break' that, sure, you could miss if you were some kind of cinephile or something. But that would be to willfully deprive yourself of the many joys, expected and otherwise, of this fantastic, genre-busting actioner.  Swayze is simply iconic. It's a movie about chemistry, and we don't just mean the sur...

Terry Gilliam's 1986 masterpiece 'Brazil' has been called an Orwellian retro-futurist fantasy; a Political cartoon writ large; a Science-fiction masterpiece; not at all Science-fiction more like a documentary; a treatise on the unthinking rigidity of middle-management bureaucracy; a selfish landmark and memento of a life gone terribly wrong; a viking musical;  about the impossibility of escaping r...

It's a #tbt of sorts here at FCAC as we release our episode  on Spike Lee's (now) Oscar-winning feature, BLACKKKLANSMAN, which we recorded a few weeks ago. We discuss Spike, his career, the real Ron Stallworth, yacht rock, a couple movies we seem to have trouble remembering names of, and how this is an antidote for GREEN BOOK. Plus our reactions to the Oscar Noms, as well as Rants and Raves. Why a...

This week Jason and Chris are joined by guest co-host Gordon Ramsey (not the one you're thinking of ...) to discuss John Boorman's 1974 overstuffed, peerlessly ambitious, and deeply considered passion project, Zardoz! We address the question that has dogged viewers of the film as well as anyone who casually came across a still of Sean Connery's costume: What the hell is this about? Nihilism, gener...

Oh What A Tangled Web Of 'Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse' Hot Takes We Weave!   Is it the greatest Spider-Man movie ever? Is it the greatest animated superhero movie ever?  Is it the greatest Marvel movie ever?? Look Out/Here Come The Hot Takes! Charles Mingus, Ralph Bakshi, all sorts of unexpected connections spring forth, which, if you know anything about us, is kind of our raisin detra, whic...

This week we dive into Disney's 'Escape To Witch Mountain', a superlative 1970's effort about telekinetic orphaned siblings fleeing the evil clutches of a business man determined to use their predictive abilities for financial gain.  Ray Milland, Donald Pleasance, and Eddie Albert lend their distinctive abilities to the effort, and a roster of studio-system pro actors rounds out the cast. And lest...

Wendell B. Harris, Jr won the Grand Jury Prize at the 1990 Sundance Film Festival with his debut independent feature "Chameleon Street", a fictional retelling of the incredible life of professional imposter William Douglas Street, a man who pretended to be lawyers, reporters, students and doctors, even performing 36 successful hysterectomies.   "Chameleon Street" announced the arrival of a fully-f...

2019's Oscars played like a sequel to the 2017 Oscars ... but without the happy ending. Jason and Chris break down (sorta) the ceremony; the set, the winners, the losers, the songs, the snubs, and the question of why we're even talking about this stuff. Come for the praise of Billy Porter's tux-gown, stay for Olivia Coleman's speech!

LETTTTTT THE RIVER RUNNNNNNN.....Teased hair, eye-shadow that matches your earrings, a 10 o'clock with Slater and lunch with Mr. Trask at 1 downtown.  It's WORKING GIRL and it's got fantastic casting, superlative directing from Mike Nichols and, at the center, a singular performance from Melanie Griffith and another scene-stealing romp from Joan Cusack alongside excellent work from Alec Baldwin, S...

Sometimes a film captures the public imagination because it expresses a universal truth in an of-the-moment way. Sometimes it's because its great artistry reframes a thing we thought we knew. And sometimes it's because it's pre-chewed, spiceless mush that spackles over the heart-spaced hole where consciousness used to sit before a militantly vapid consumerist culture eradicated humanity's desire –...

This week the FULL CAST AND CREW crew saddles up for THE LAST UNICORN, a 1982 animated feature which, depending on your age, either scared the crap out of you or you have yet to experience.  'The Last Unicorn' is a grandly bizarre spectacle mashing up incredible Japanese hand-drawn animation, voices from Mia Farrow, Alan Arkin, Brother Theodore, and Jeff Bridges, and surprisingly sophisticated tak...

Across an arctic tundra, a lone sled dog runs, pursued by 2 men in a helicopter. One of them brandishes a rifle and begins shooting.  Workers at a remote arctic research station watch as the helicopter crashes and explodes.  They befriend the dog, welcoming him..and something else... into their kennel.  Thus begins John Carpenter's classic icy masterpiece 'The Thing'.  Featuring spot-on casting, s...

'Green Book' tells white people that it's all good! Racism, man!  Good thing that's over, amirite?  From a shaky, ill-conceived premise comes a shaky, ill-conceived White Savior movie directed, of course, by "Dumb & Dumber" director Peter Farrelly.  That said, Vigo and Mahershala do very good jobs with limited material.  The movie itself is a by-the-numbers Odd Couple/Road Trip/Buddy Comedy with f...

We start with Chris' uber-millennial French Press Coffee injury, which you have to hear to believe.  Moving on to viewer comments, Jason is taken to the Woodshed for his previous-episode attempt to tamp down Chris' soliloquy on some obscure comic-book run of issues where blah blah blah....anyway, lesson learned.  Moving onto Bird Box, we remove our critical blindfolds and dive into the where's and...

Christian Bale gained 50 pounds to play Dick Cheney in Adam McKay's 'Vice' so he MUST be good in it, right? AND he won a Golden Globe, and they don't just hand those out like House Select Committee Assignments, after all.  So we get ourselves elected to figure out what's going on in this movie.  Also: Withnail & I rears it's brilliant head again as Chris admits he didn't see 'American Psycho' and...

Who cares about the Golden Globes? Someone, I am sure. In this BONUS episode Jason and Chris react to this Oscar Night Dress Rehearsal, from the hosts, to the winners, to award shows in general. Did we like it? Did we hate it? Did we even WATCH?! Listen to this BONUS episode and find out! (Spoiler: the answer to all three is, "a little ...") E-mail:  fullcastandcrewpod@gmail.com Twitter: @fullcast...

Chris got new glasses.  If Harold Ross could be seen wearing eyeglasses in the offices of the New Yorker in the 1920's...he'd knock them off his face in incredulous wonder at the chance to contemplate the films of Bruce Robinson that star Richard E. Grant, like "Withnail & I" and "How To Get Ahead In Advertising".  Oh, and we discuss 'Can You Ever Forgive Me?", starring Melissa McCarthy and REG......

Alfonso Cuaron's 'Roma': if you've seen it, you know why the film has received unanimous critical acclaim, with reviewers calling it "achingly beautiful" and "engrossing".  'Roma' was chosen by Time magazine and the New York Film Critics Circle as the best film of 2018, and by the National Board Of Review as one of the top ten best films of 2018.  It's earned Golden Globe nominations for Best Fore...

Yorgos Lanthimos' aptly-named new film 'The Favourite' is gorging on every awards nomination like The Queen attacking a cake. Our intellectual discussion covers the towering brilliance of Olivia Culman, Lanthimos' genius other film 'The Lobster', and the career implications of being cast as "Wanking Man" in a movie. Chris shares his own actorly experience playing a man whose acne medication render...

'Widows' failed to make much of a mark at the box office. Critical acclaim hasn't YET translated into Awards Season loot, with so far only an ensemble acting nod from the Critics' Choice Awards.  In other news The Critics' Choice Awards are apparently a thing.  But there ARE things to celebrate and recommend in this flawed but often-compelling would-be action/heist/social commentary flick.  We cel...

An athlete is rendered a paraplegic through a devastating jogging accident.  A trained helper monkey arrives as his live-in assistant.  A well-meaning but drugged out lab rat performs monkey-altering experiments.  Some sort of Manimal transference takes place and the bodies and histrionics pile up from there.  It's 1988's George A. Romero horror classic "Monkey Shines" starring Chicago P.D.'s pre-...

Is the new Coen Brothers movie the best Western of all time? Or is it more like FOR the Best Western Hotel chain?  We root around in the prairie dust, the hoofprints, the majestic vistas and, in the simple finality of man's ruthless violence towards his fellow man, find some of life's imponderables answered.  Also:  James Franco, Tom Waits, and an excellent animal cast of equines, owls, trained fi...

"White-lady aspirational materialism and a special kind of empty that feels warm", is the beating heart at the center of Nancy Meyers movies, says our guest Alex in this episode, and boy did she hit the nail on the head.  It's an alternative universe where nothing is really wrong, except perhaps some of the basics of filmmaking.  But let's not go into it with our eyes hooded in suspicion of Califo...

Is 'Bohemian Rhapsody' the Biopic that Freddy Mercury and Queen deserve? More urgently, is "I Love My Car" to this movie what "Why Did You Do That" is to "A Star Is Born"? Episode also features Jason's voice going up a Freddy-like 2 octaves when it's revealed that Chris never saw "Amadeus"...and Chris buries the lead on The Time He Co-Starred With Rami Malek.  Also: the perils of 70'S wigs.  And:...