Old Fogies & Films

The Fogies followed a well-planned yet circuitous path and found themselves suddenly at the slaughterhouse. Our final regular film is about that wonder, that legend, Temple Grandin! Film fans see in pictures too, Temple. Thanks for taking us out of the world on a wave of serenity. Temple Grandin - dir. Mick Jackson - 2010

She’s ‘bout that diamond —that baseball diamond. But also buyin’ —the cow, by lyin’.  She’s feelin’ matrimonial.  Her friends all bitch and moan, y’all.  But one’s been bidin’ —his time, not tryin’.   Players - dir. Trish Sie - 2024

Stop making sense! Who hasn’t been simultaneously charmed and terrified of Nicolas Cage at some point? The Fogies weren’t sleepin’ on this movie. But in this difficult modern world, perhaps we have all forgotten how to dream.  Dream Scenario - dir. Kristoffer Borgli - 2023

Kylie Minogue plays a One Boy Girl in a one horse town, and this Impossible Princess meets a greaser twink with big city lights in his eyes. Of all the bad influences, is Love the worst one? The Delinquents - dir. Chris Thomson - 1989

From being tagged in a photo, to a toe tag. You never know who may be literally Following you—you’ll be saying OOMF as they bash in your head. Influencer - dir. Kurtis David Harder - 2022

We need a sequel—call it “Blood Run Cold”—that follows Gavey, now obviously a serial killer known as The Subtractor, making calculated kills that slowly corner Oliver until the only person who can keep him out of prison is Gavey himself. And they live together in stalemate at Saltburn, forever. Saltburn - dir. Emerald Fennell - 2023

Are you an Italian who Italians everything Italian, and Italian Italian until it Italians? Then Italian Italian Italian! But some Lesbians Italian too. Alto - dir. Mikki del Monico - 2015

NEW EPISODE: “Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.” – Marcus Aurelius, Meditations. The perfect gift for everyone on your Christmas list! The Holdovers - dir. Alexander Payne - 2023

Just because you’re buried, doesn’t mean you’re dead. As the Wyrm turns, he shifts the ground slightly under his friends and family. The Fogies were charmed by this oddball survivor!  Wyrm - dir. Christopher Winterbauer - 2019

Otto, like Auto, as in all by yourself, under your own power, no help! The Fogies watched a movie about a very lonely and self-sufficient man with strong views on AUTOmobiles, whose community said ‘Won’t you be our neighbor?’ A Man Called Otto - dir. Marc Forster - 2022

Happy holiday! Not the one you’re thinking of. The San Gennaro Festival that happened on those Mean Streets in 1973! The movie completes a theme with Shelly’s first movies of S1 & S2, Captain Fantastic and For Your Consideration. A 50th Anniversary for our 50th episode! Mean Streets - dir. Martin Scorsese - 1973

The Fogies watched Million Dollar Baby! This is what Aric thought Boxing Helena was about. Boy, was he wrong. Not exactly a “title” “match.” Except for that one scene. The movie completes a theme with Ruth’s first movies of S1 & S2, The Intouchables and Me Before You.   Million Dollar Baby - dir. Clint Eastwood - 2004

He just wants to camp with young boys in peace! The Fogies get civic-minded in terrified anticipation of the coming presidential election, with Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. The movie completes Fahad’s itinerant theme with his first movies of S1 & S2, Ingrid Goes West and Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris.  Mr. Smith Goes to Washington - dir. Frank Capra - 1939

Sin-Dee Rella has a Prince, but he’s not what you might picture. And technically her romantic rival is the one that loses a shoe. The Fogies got into the holiday spirit, or at least learned to better appreciate what we have, with Tangerine! The movie completes a tasty theme with Aric’s first movies of S1 and S2, A Clockwork Orange and The Fruit Machine.   Tangerine - dir. Sean Baker - 2015

School may be out for the holiday, but the Fogies are back in session with our first episode of Season 3: Teacher! Connecting back to her first movies of S1 and S2, The Kindergarten Teacher and We Need to Talk About Kevin, Tikia completes a theme about disturbed students and teachers, inappropriate relationships between the two, and school violence.  Teacher - dir. Adam Dick - 2019

Bonus episode! See the world—or at least airport-gift-shop-postcard versions of it—with the Fogies and our special guests, Max and Violet! The mischievous Chipmunks and Chipettes get carried away, literally, into a global diamond-smuggling ring. But we wouldn’t trade these cuddly critters for all the cash-stuffed dolls in the world. The Chipmunk Adventure - dir. Janice Karman - 1987

SEASON FINALE: Like syphilis, Florence’s joie de vivre is contagious. The Fogies were dazzled, charmed, and swept away in a crescendo of cringe. Florence Foster Jenkins - dir. Stephen Frears - 2016

Tar is a quagmire. And the titular TÁR’s life has become one. The truth will out: “Time is the thing” as Lydia Tár herself says. Ironically, *runtime* is what most Fogies took issue with. TÁR - dir. Todd Field - 2022

They gave each other just enough to hang themselves with. The Fogies watched Rope! Inviting a third into the relationship is often more than a couple can survive, especially if they murder him together. Rope - dir. Alfred Hitchcock - 1948

People usually put on a pervy mustache to go incognito, but this guy shaved his off! That’s right, it’s Donnie Brasco, the cutest member of the boy band known as The Mob. He sang like a canary though, or rather a stool pigeon, and that’s all he wrote. (Based on a book.) Donnie Brasco - dir. Mike Newell - 1997

Bad taste can be hard to swallow, if you still have a gag reflex like most of the Fogies. We were hoisted with our own petard watching Tromeo & Juliet! The Fogies subjected themselves to many beasts with two backs, and a couple children with three faces. To thou and thine who perpend this ravin endeavor, we wish you luck. Tromeo & Juliet - dir. Lloyd Kaufman - 1997

The Fogies watched Mike Flanagan’s Hush! Let’s be fair, if you move to an isolated house in the woods alone, you’re asking for it, right?? Sorry, we don’t mean to blame the victim. NB: The irony is not lost on us that this is a podcast episode for a movie with a deaf main character.  Hush - dir. Mike Flanagan - 2016

Billy, don’t be a hero. Nah, forget it, Billy is the GOAT. Disaster may have been averted in the movie, but the Fogies had a BLAST with this one! If you’re a terrorist, these students are gonna school ya.   Toy Soldiers - dir. Daniel Petrie Jr. - 1991

We do a deep dive into our ratings history courtesy of Tableau data vizzes! The Hateful Rate, Rate Crazy Nights, Rate Legged Freaks, Butterfield Rate, Rate-a-touille, Rate and Leopold, Rate Night, The Wedding Rate, Enemy of the Rate, The Rate-est Showman, Rate Balls of Fire, The Rate Stuff… that’s right, we didn’t cover ANY of these terrible puns! https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/fahad.qures...

When GoodFellas was first released on DVD in March 1997, it was a single disc that you had to flip over for viewing the second half. Please feel free to flip yourselves in the middle of this extra long episode, to avoid bed sores. A saga for a saga. GoodFellas - dir. Martin Scorsese - 1990