Forbidden Films

"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...