Cinema Smorgasbord

RSS / iTunes / Spotify Check out all the episodes of CINEMA SMORGASBORD SELLS OUT right here . We’re selling out again.. and much faster than usual! On this explosive episode of CINEMA SMORGASBORD SELLS OUT we’re surviving on wild boar and coconut water with the help of Sam Raimi in 2026’s SEND HELP, his return to low-budget thrills starring Rachel McAdams and Dylan O’Brien...

RSS / iTunes / Spotify Check out all the episodes of CINEMA SMORGASBORD SELLS OUT right here . WHAT’S THE BUZZ?! TELL ME WHAT’S A-HAPPENIN! On this episode we’re SELLING OUT FOR THE LORD as we tackle Norman Jewison’s adaptation of the Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice rock opera JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR featuring (wussy) Ted Neeley as Jesus and (bad-ass) Carl Anderson as Judas. Do...

RSS / iTunes / Spotify Check out the Praising Kane archive right here . We like to have fun here on PRAISING KANE, the world’s finest chronological Carol Kane-themed podcast, but occasionally – rarely – even Carol Kane’s charms are not enough to lift up a film, and that’s certainly the case with Joyce Chopra’s misguided misfire THE LEMON SISTERS from 1989 (thoug...

RSS / iTunes / Spotify Check out the full Wild in the Streets archive right here Three well-to-do young men go on a crime and killing spree for KICKS while Tomas Milian is.. uh.. kinda on their trail in Romolo Guerrieri’s YOUNG, VIOLENT, DANGEROUS from 1976! Milian is sort of wasted, but the trio are a hoot (and there’s plenty of homoerotic under(?)current as well, because of course th...

RSS / iTunes / Spotify Check out the full HOW DO YOU DO, FELLOW KIDS? archive right here On a brand new episode of HOW DO YOU DO, FELLOW KIDS? we’re finding a stranger in the alps with THE DUDE and all his funny pals in The Coen Brothers’ neo-noir cult favorite THE BIG LEBOWSKI from 1997. Featuring Jeff Bridges as the dude, John Goodman as his pal Walter Sobchak and – of course &...

RSS / iTunes / Spotify Check out the full We Do Our Own Stunts archive right here Before we get to the sublime (POLICE STORY) we need to experience the ridiculous, and it doesn’t get much more ridiculous than 1985’s HEART OF DRAGON which features Jackie taking care of his developmentally delayed brother (played by Sammo Hung) even though he really just wants to be on the SWAT Team.. or...

RSS / iTunes / Spotify Check out all the episodes of CINEMA SMORGASBORD SELLS OUT right here . On a returning CINEMA SMORGASBORD SELLS OUT we’re talking about Bradley Cooper’s divorced dad energy mid-life crisis comedy-drama IS THIS THING ON? for some reason. Will Arnett plays a RICH BASTARD who divorces former volleyball star Laura Dern and turns to stand-up comedy to discover insight...

RSS / iTunes / Spotify Check out the Further Reeding archive right here . On a brand new episode of FURTHER REEDING (the world’s finest Oliver Reed-themed podcast) you can SEE US, FEEL US, TOUCH US and HEAL US as we check out Ken Russell’s all-star film adaptation of The Who’s classic rock opera TOMMY starring Roger Daltrey, Ann-Margret, Elton John, Eric Clapton, Jack Nicholson,...

RSS / iTunes / Spotify Check out our Eric Roberts is the Man archive right here . On an UNPRECEDENTED new episode of Eric Roberts is the Man, we’re covering a film.. FOR THE SECOND TIME! Due to a series of unfortunate events (and fading memories) The Catered Quiz host (and Family Feud veteran) Rick Katschke joins us for our second kick at the all-star counterfeit money crime caper LUCK OF TH...

RSS / iTunes / Spotify Check out the full Wild in the Streets archive right here What if you witnessed a murder but the ACTUAL murderer goes to the cops first and accused YOU of being the killer? UH OH! That’s what happens to Enzo Cerusico’s hapless Fabio Santamaria in 1973’s comically titled NO, THE CASE IS HAPPILY RESOLVED where Fabio’s attempts to not get involved in the...

RSS / iTunes / Spotify Check out the Serpent’s Path archive right here . Kiyoshi Kurosawa is coming off a rough patch after controversies around SWEET HOME in 1989 and the financial failure of THE GUARD FROM UNDERGROUND in 1992, but after retreating into television work he’s about to be given a new lifeline in the 90s: V-CINEMA! This straight-to-VHS trend focusing on genre fare ended u...

RSS / iTunes / Spotify We’re going GUESTLESS and UNTETHERED on this episode of YOU DON’T KNOW DICK, and what a long, strange trip it is! We’re checking out the Roger Corman-directed 1967 film THE TRIP starring Peter Fonda, Bruce Dern and Dennis Hopper – and written by Jack Nicholson – and it’s full of surreal visuals, mind-expanding dialogue and hippy nonsense!...

RSS / iTunes / Spotify Check out the full HOW DO YOU DO, FELLOW KIDS? archive right here Steve Buscemi.. the CROONER? It happened! In this episode of HOW DO YOU DO, FELLOW KIDS? we’re checking out Stanley Tucci’s throwback comedy THE IMPOSTORS from 1998 where Tucci teams with Oliver Platt as a pair of struggling actors/con-artists who find themselves in the middle of MANY plots when th...

RSS / iTunes / Spotify Check out the entire Do You Otaku? archive right here . Cinema Smorgasbord host Liam O’Donnell is an anime/manga-loving man in his 40s while his Cinema Smorgasbord co-host Doug Tilley is an anime skeptic (and grumpy old man). On DO YOU OTAKU? Liam is going to force Doug to watch popular anime TV shows and movies and RECORD THE RESULTS. On this PREMIERE episode Liam mak...

RSS / iTunes / Spotify You can listen to the entire JodoWOWsky archive right here: https://www.cinemasmorgasbord.com/the-podcasts/jodowowsky/  After a lengthy break we’re celebrating the holiday season with some fresh-from-the-oven JODOWOWSKY featuring now only a SLEW of new Alejandro Jodorowsky news (including a surprising celebrity admirer), but also a TRIO of documentaries featuring Jodo&...

RSS / iTunes / Spotify DASHING THROUGH THE SNOW here comes the Cinema Smorgasbord HOLIDAY SPECIAL! And this time it really IS a holiday special, because we’re talking about the 2023 time loop Hallmark Hanukkah film ROUND AND ROUND (featuring Dropout comedy sensation Vic Michaelis) before getting cozy with the 2024 nostalgia-tinged comedy-drama CHRISTMAS EVE IN MILLER’S POINT. All that...

RSS / iTunes / Spotify Check out the Praising Kane archive right here . Ding dong merrily on high! PRAISING KANE returns again.. and much quicker than usual because we just happened to have the Holiday classic SCROOGED next up in our chronological look at the life and work of Carol Kane! You know SCROOGED, right? Bill Murray, Richard Donner, modern adaptation of A Christmas Carol.. You get it. Wha...

RSS / iTunes / Spotify Check out all the episodes of CINEMA SMORGASBORD SELLS OUT right here . All aboard! We choo-choo-choose you on this episode of CINEMA SMORGASBORD SELLS OUT and we’re checking out the 2025 drama TRAIN DREAMS starring Joel Edgerton, with Felicity Jones, Kerry Condon, and William H. Macy! Based on the beloved novella Denis Johnson, we follow 80 years of the life of Robert...

RSS / iTunes / Spotify Check out the Praising Kane archive right here . On the latest PRAISING KANE we’re diving into the fraught history of the two Coreys (Haim and Feldman) with the 1988 teen comedy classic(?) LICENSE TO DRIVE, featuring car chases, a hip drive-in restaurant, scary driving tests (/w James Avery), Richard Masur, Billy Ocean’s “Get Outta My Dreams, Get into My Ca...

RSS / iTunes / Spotify Check out the full Wild in the Streets archive right here We’re getting WILD IN THE STREETS with Henry Silva (/w some other guy’s voice) in Mario Caiano’s WEAPONS OF DEATH from 1977. Trying desperately to seem like a sequel to the previous year’s VIOLENT NAPLES, this one has Leonard Mann as Commissioner Belli, a cop on the edge trying to track down ro...

RSS / iTunes / Spotify Check out the full We Do Our Own Stunts archive right here It’s the 300th(!!!!) episode of Cinema Smorgasbord! Now, normally we would do a big, special celebratory episode, but.. uh.. I forgot it was coming up so instead we’re back with those pervy Lucky Stars goofballs as they travel to Thailand for some trademark misadventures/sexual harassment. Thankfully thes...

RSS / iTunes / Spotify Check out the full HOW DO YOU DO, FELLOW KIDS? archive right here On a returning HOW DO YOU DO, FELLOW KIDS? (the world’s finest Steve Buscemi-themed podcast) we’re heading back to the past with Bill Sherwood’s gay romantic drama PARTING GLANCES from 1986, featuring Steve Buscemi’s breakout performance as Nick, an HIV-positive rock musician. Two strai...

RSS / iTunes / Spotify Check out our Halloween Horror Special archive right here . It’s the 2025 Cinema Smorgasbord HALLOWEEN HORROR SPECIAL and as usual we’re taking a look at two underloved horror (or, in this case, horror adjacent) films that deserve a little more attention. We start with the Serbian 2023 socio-political satire WORKING CLASS GOES TO HELL from LIFE AND DEATH OF A POR...

RSS / iTunes / Spotify Find the entire George Kennedy is my Copilot archive right here On the last stirring episode of GEORGE KENNEDY IS MY COPILOT we covered the first half of the George Kennedy-penned mystery novel MURDER ON LOCATION and on this episode.. WE REACH THE END! Who is the killer? What is their motivation? Does George Kennedy get an Oscar? All will be revealed! And then we talk about...

RSS / iTunes / Spotify Check out all the episodes of CINEMA SMORGASBORD SELLS OUT right here . When Paul Thomas Anderson drops one of the year’s most anticipated movies you know THE BOYS gotta get their opinions down on.. uh.. tape, so on this episode of CINEMA SMORGASBORD SELLS OUT we’re watching the lengthy action thriller ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER! But this three hour epic about an e...