Old Fogies & Films

Shelly invites you to our next episode featuring her latest movie on the marquee, coming March 9!

If you spent this past Presidents’ Day lamenting that the world has gone to hell in a handbasket and foolishly yearning for the innocent, halcyon days of yesteryear, witness an 80-year-old story about a corrupt, capitalistic mogul with a penchant for Fake News who collects statues like Twitter followers, produced by a media-savvy, entitled 25-year-old. We’re talking about 1941’s Citizen Kane! The...

Fahad invites you to our next episode featuring one of his picks, coming February 23!

This Valentine’s Day, bask in the bromantic lovelight of two men riding the rails together, explaining their relationship to exes, struggling in handcuffs and roleplaying for money. That’s right, the Fogies celebrated by watching Midnight Run! Was 1988 a slow year at the Golden Globes? We get a little sidetracked by My So-Called Life—we had a good reason, promise.

Ruth invites you to our next episode featuring one of her picks, coming February 9!

Mix 1 cup of privilege, ½ cup youthful naïveté, a dash of exploitation gore, the zest of one Spy Kid’s dick, and a sprig of ethnocentricity, and you have quite the rub. The Fogies do a little roasting, but consider the value of the presentation too, in this episode on Eli Roth’s The Green Inferno. The culture shock is certainly, er, shocking.

Tikia invites you to our next episode featuring one of her picks, coming January 26!

Be honest, when Martin Luther King Jr. Day rolls around, do you usually spend the long holiday weekend observing the struggle and sacrifices of the, ONGOING, civil rights movement? A-ha! Caught you! Well, lucky for you, the Fogies have had some food for thought and we packed up the leftovers for you in our episode on Spike Lee’s Do The Right Thing. This is one pie with a lot of toppings. Grab a sl...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is almost here! Aric invites you to our next episode featuring his pick in anticipation of a long weekend we’re sure you’ll spend considering your civil liberties, coming January 12!

Remember snowstorms? Neither do we. Good luck describing those, or the meaning of this movie, to your kids, but we hope the Old Fogies’ discussion of Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining gives you plenty of talking points! In many cultures, winter signifies the end, the death of the world, or at least the end of a cycle of life, before rebirth. On many calendars, December is also the end, so we’ll see yo...

Get ready for the New Year! Shelly and guests invite you to our next episode covering her pick to bring another difficult year to a close, coming December 29!

Merry Christmas to some and Happy Holidays to all! The Old Fogies & Films panel are celebrating the season by watching Die Hard, and assessing its level of holiday spirit. Everyone always focuses on the murders and hostage-taking, instead of the beautiful fact that German, American, French, Italian, and Chinese people formed an international alliance to liberate millions of dollars from an all...

Ho Ho Ho! Fahad invites you to our next episode covering his pick for a Christmas classic, coming December 22!

In the United Kingdom, a book club is called a literary society - cuz they classy. In this episode, the Old Fogies find they can relate to a group of people using culture and camaraderie to survive a painful social upheaval (read: the current pandemic) in The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. We’ve never seen so many book-burners attend a book club . Two. A total of two attend.

Ruth invites you to our next episode covering one of her picks, coming December 15!

Two lies that some people believed in 1993: one, that gay conversion therapy works; and two, that an approximation of a bird's nest was a good hairstyle. Listen to the Fogies discuss The Miseducation of Cameron Post in this episode. In the House of Columbia there are ten thousand pennies ($50 bucks to the first person who gets that reference.)

Tikia invites you to our next episode covering one of her picks, coming December 8!

Does a company that invades people’s bodies to commit acts of sexual assault, violence, and murder, have an HR or ethics department?? The Old Fogies & Films panel forgot to ask ourselves this particular question, but we discuss many other important, existential conundrums in this episode on Brandon Cronenberg’s Possessor ... the office parties must get out of hand.

Aric invites you to our next episode covering one of his picks, coming December 1!

If God had intended us to run, he would have given us chafe-prone nipples. This episode the Fogies experience the full force of a mid-life crisis (or is that RE-experience) from watching Brittany Runs a Marathon. Is it emotional abuse to cheer someone on for an activity that can splinter your shins?

Shelly & Son invite you to our new episode covering one of her picks, arriving next week!

We watched Michael Douglas chase a woman 3/5ths his age, while playing a character 9/10ths his age, in a 24 year old movie - exactly the same age as the Fogies! Ahem. And if you believe all that, have a listen to our full, trustworthy assessment of David Fincher's The Game (1997) on this episode of Old Fogies & Films.

Fahad invites you to our new episode covering one of his picks, coming this week!

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Do you prefer a taco, or a sausage? Why not both?! Join the Fogies as we consider a young woman caught in the middle of such a profound question, in more ways than one, in Alice Wu’s 2020 film The Half Of It. If we give you $20 will you write the rest of our show notes for us??