Razor's Ink Podcast with Jonathan B. Ferrini

Boiler Room (Movie 2000) 15.01.2026 17:34 ↓

Ambition, Ethics, and the Cost of Belonging in Wall Street’s Get-Rich-Quick Culture

Seventies Cinema: Hollywood’s Golden Decade 08.01.2026 14:48 ↓

Creative Freedom; Cultural Shifts; Gutsy Studio Chiefs; and Rebel Filmmakers spark innovation.

Humor and Division: Lessons from 1970s Television 01.01.2026 16:26 ↓

All in the Family; The Jeffersons; Sanford and Son; Good Times; Chico and the Man.

Sidekicks of Subversion Inside Early Television 25.12.2025 14:29 ↓

How Eddie Haskell (Leave it to Beaver) and Maynard G. Krebs (Dobie Gillis) shaped American television of the fifties to early sixties.

“Lyrics, Life, and Legacy: My Trio of Timeless Albums” 18.12.2025 13:21 ↓

Simon and Garfunkel; Dylan; and Steely Dan.

The Bedford Incident (Movie. 1965) 11.12.2025 15:48 ↓

Brinkmanship at sea during the cold war offering enduring lessons for a world on edge.

The Andy Griffith Show (TV. 1963-68) 04.12.2025 19:15 ↓

The "Mayberry" sitcom providing escapism for the tumultuous sixties.

Once Upon A Time in Hollywood (Movie 2019) 27.11.2025 16:00 ↓

What the film got right and wrong about Hollywood of 1969.

Glengarry Glen Ross (Movie 1992) 20.11.2025 18:35 ↓

What does the character “Ricky Roma” teach us about dialogue?

“Best Actor” to character actor 13.11.2025 18:40 ↓

How did winning the OSCAR affect two acting careers?

Bac Sai “Physician” (Short Story) 06.11.2025 13:06 ↓

Listen to me “set the stage” from the opening pages of a dying surgeon’s tattered diary revealing an extraordinary life filled with love and loss.

Money “Madness” inside Songs 30.10.2025 16:30 ↓

What lyrics teach us about the “mean, mean, mean, mean, mean green.”

Hawaii Five-O (Television series 1968-1980) 23.10.2025 18:54 ↓

What the series got “right” about the cultural and ecological mosaic of the 50th state.

Lyrics Are The Calculus of Writing 16.10.2025 15:17 ↓

A redux of an early episode of The Razor's Ink Podcast, in which we explore the daunting task of writing music.

Apocalypse Now (Movie 1979) 09.10.2025 24:00 ↓

What’s the real reason Colonel Kurtz was assassinated?

Fail Safe (Movie 1964) 02.10.2025 21:25 ↓

Two movies about nuclear war were released in the same year: one farcical, the second, “deadly” serious. Join me as I discuss the latter.

Midnight Cowboy (Movie 1969) 25.09.2025 20:00 ↓

I describe the significance of this legendary movie which has nothing to do with its “X” rating.

A Clockwork Orange (Movie 1971) 18.09.2025 21:02 ↓

Let’s examine the socio-economic subtext to the movie and surmise why reprehensible Alex may appear sympathetic at film’s end.

The Limey (Movie 1999) 11.09.2025 19:48 ↓

My memorial to the death of British actor Terence Stamp (1938-2025) whose acting genius melded with exquisite filmmaking resembling the Vesper Martini.

British Film Studios 04.09.2025 17:43 ↓

Visiting marvels of movie magic; historic Shepperton and Pinewood studios.

Route 66 (Television 1960-64) 28.08.2025 27:25 ↓

Imagine reading Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road” inside a speeding Corvette.

Shaft (Movies 1971 & 2000) 21.08.2025 18:08 ↓

Two movies about a Black detective seeking justice thirty years apart with a new spin on racism.

Who Is Herb Alpert? 2.0 14.08.2025 14:01 ↓

Check out a music genre bending composer, musician and brilliant businessman at my podcast.

70's Network Television Detectives 07.08.2025 23:09 ↓

Let’s explore three very different detective shows who helped re-define an entire genre

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (Movie 1974) 31.07.2025 21:36 ↓

The 1970’s New York City subway system serves as a protagonist with a New Yorkers attitude: “Just another day inside the subway”.