Check the Gate: An AFI Deep Dive

Wilkommen, Bienvenue, welcome in cabaret, au cabaret, to cabaret! In this week’s episode, the fellas dive right into the Kit Kat Klub and take on “the musical for people who hate musicals” Cabaret. Starring Liza Minnelli, Joel Gray, and Michael York. Directed by Bob Fosse.

In this week’s episode the “Droogs” dive into the 1971 cult classic A Clockwork Orange. Starring Malcolm McDowell and directed by Stanley Kubrick. They discuss the controversial topics around the movie and how they felt about its portrayal of the dystopian near future. Will they have an appreciation for the operant conditioning or will they succumb to the ultraviolence.

This week's episode has the guys “Mad As Hell” as they dive deep into the 1976 film Network starring Peter Finch and once again Faye Dunaway directed by Sidney Lumet. Having won four Academy Awards the guys talk about why this is considered one of the greatest screenplays in the history of cinema and why it stands up to the test of time, and how it predicted the future of television and media.

This week I think the guys are going to need a bigger boat or… will they brave the water and take a deep dive into the 1975 Steven Spielberg hit JAWS. They stare down the beast and discuss what it took to make this movie and how this movie almost was a complete failure. The dynamics between the characters, the influence the iconic score has on the movie, and also why it became so popular in pop cu...

DISCLAIMER: “ It is the stated position of the US Airforce that their safeguards would prevent the occurrence of such events as are depicted in this film.” In this week’s episode, we take a deep dive into Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 film Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb starring Peter Sellers, George C. Scott and good ol’ Slim Pickens. We discuss the nightmarish come...

On this week’s episode the guys take a deep dive into their first movie off the AFI top 100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) the 1967 film Bonnie and Clyde starring Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway and directed by Arthur Penn. They discuss the controversies around the movie for the time period and how it also helped pave the way for action movies.