Forbidden Films

"Venice may as well be deemed one large floating brothel." On today's episode of Forbidden Films , Wayne Kramer and Barry Germansky welcome a very special guest: Oscar-nominated writer-producer-director Marshall Herskovitz, the man behind cultural TV landmarks such as Thirtysomething and My So-Called Life and such hit films as Legends of the Fall , Traffic , The Last Samurai , and Bl...

"We are a incestuous race. We can only make love with our own, otherwise we transform. And before we can become human again, we must kill." Wayne Kramer and Barry Germansky are joined by legendary writer-director Paul Schrader for this very special episode. Schrader takes our duo behind the scenes of the sexiest horror film of the 1980s, and, like his films, he doesn't hold back. Way...

"She's a friggin' suspect. Walk away. Frankie? Just walk away." Wayne Kramer and Barry Germansky are braving the erotically-charged tide of Harold Becker's 1989 neo-noir police procedural, Sea of Love , written by Wayne's favorite writer, Richard Price, and starring Al Pacino in his post- Revolution comeback film, alongside Ellen Barkin in the role that solidified her sul...

"You know what I am? I'm your worst fuckin' nightmare, man. I'm a n***** with a badge which means I got permission to kick your fuckin' ass whenever I feel like it!" Wayne Kramer and Barry Germansky are starting the clock on Walter Hill's classic 1982 buddy-cop action film, 48 Hrs. , starring Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy in his star-making feature debut. This is the one that pretty much started it...

"I'd have to be pretty stupid to write a book about killing and then kill him the way I described in my book. I'd be announcing myself as the killer. I'm not stupid." On today's episode of Forbidden Films , Barry Germansky welcomes a very special guest: legendary producer Mario Kassar. They'll be discussing everything you could want to know about BASIC INSTINCT, one of the most controversial films...

"Sometimes you just gotta say, 'What the fuck, make your move.'" Wayne Kramer and Barry Germansky are engaging in some Risky Business with Paul Brickman's 1983 surreal, erotic, and Salingerian coming-of-age masterpiece that lit the fuse on Tom Cruise's stardom. Joel Goodson is looking to get laid, looking to get into Princeton, and looking for a whole lot of trouble when his parents go out of town...

"You aren't too smart, are you? I like that in a man." Wayne Kramer and Barry Germansky are getting under the sheets with Body Heat , writer-director Lawrence Kasdan's 1981 revamping of the film noir genre. Everything old is new again — this time with a sultry femme fatale for the ages, Matty Walker, played by the combustible Kathleen Turner in her screen debut, who seduces William Hurt's small to...

"It's showtime, folks!" Wayne Kramer and Barry Germansky are hopping on a Greyhound bus to Broadway to revisit Bob Fosse's semi-autobiographical and tragically prescient All That Jazz . It's a phantasmagorical, warts-and-all look at the life of Joe Gideon, a tortured Broadway director and filmmaker choreographing his way into oblivion. Joe is at war with his second-guessing financiers, his pursuit...

"I didn't know there was a pool down there." Join us for part two of our Bond retrospective as Wayne Kramer and Barry Germansky keep their Walther PPKs firmly lined up on 007's most threatening villains: the henchmen of political correctness. Our hosts continue to opine on what the Bond movies used to do so well in the 1960s and 1970s and what's missing from the current mission directive: F.U.N. P...

"The name is Bond. James Bond." Wayne Kramer and Barry Germansky invite you on a mission to redeem the reputation of 1960s and 1970s James Bond films from 007's most dangerous nemesis ever: O.U.T.R.A.G.E. While our hosts concede that these early Bond films can seem a bit out of step with modern sensibilities, they're still the best in show for pure escapism and wish fulfillment, as well as deliver...

"Come. It is time to keep your appointment with the Wicker Man." Wayne Kramer and Barry Germansky head to Summerisle to celebrate May Day with Christopher Lee and his merry band of pagans. We kneel before the acting prowess of Edward Woodward, fantasize about losing our virginity to Britt Ekland, and rage at the clueless executives that disemboweled director Robin Hardy and writer Anthony Shaffer'...

"Go get the butter." In the inaugural episode of Forbidden Films , writer-director Wayne Kramer and producer Barry Germansky celebrate the patron saint of controversial cinema, Bernardo Bertolucci, with a deep dive into a pair of the filmmaker's most notorious works, Last Tango in Paris and The Dreamers , as well as a sidebar into one of his earlier films, Partner . Wayne and Barry are on a missio...

"I like to watch." Wayne Kramer and Barry Germansky celebrate peak De Palma: the controversial 80s, where the provocative director and self-appointed heir to Hitchcock takes on Woman Against Pornography, fragile critics, nervous financiers and the MPAA with a foursome of classic films: Dressed to Kill , Blow Out , Scarface , and Body Double . The master of the lurid and the extended female walk-an...

"Viddy well, little brother, viddy well." It's time for a little ultra-violence and the old in-out, in-out as Wayne Kramer and Barry Germansky take a deep dive into Stanley Kubrick's dystopian masterpiece A Clockwork Orange , a film that brought about global condemnation, moral panic, and snapping censor's shears in response to the legendary filmmaker's adaptation of Anthony Burgess' satirical nov...

"Al Pacino! Attica! Attica! Attica!" It's time to put on your dancing shoes because Wayne Kramer and Barry Germansky are heading to the 2001 Odyssey disco to get down with controversial youth classic, Saturday Night Fever , 1977's breakout hit and star-making vehicle for John Travolta. While the Bee Gees' soundtrack to SNF remains evergreen, the tone and raunchiness of the film hasn't fared as wel...