Cinema Smorgasbord

RSS / iTunes / Spotify Check out the full We Do Our Own Stunts archive right here On a landmark episode of WE DO OUR OWN STUNTS, Jackie Chan has signed a huge contract with Golden Harvest which promises creative and financial freedom, and he kicks things off with the 1980 kung-fu comedy THE YOUNG MASTER! While at the same time his old boss Lo Wei wants his now-bankable star back and is willing to...

RSS / iTunes / Spotify Check out our Eric Roberts is the Man archive right here . On this episode of ERIC ROBERTS IS THE MAN we’re going all in on Damien Chazelle’s overstuffed ode to the silent era BABYLON, which stars Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Diego Calva, Tobey Maguire and – of course – the man himself Eric Roberts! Filled with spewing bodily fluids, orgies, murder, rat...

RSS / iTunes / Spotify Check out the full You Don’t Know Dick archive right here On this episode of YOU DON’T KNOW DICK (the world’s finest Dick Miller-related podcast) we’re joined by writer/editor Christine Makepeace to discuss John Mellencamp’s cover of Van Morrison’s “Wild Night” (/w Me’Shell Ndegeocello), music videos, mallrats, late stage...

RSS / iTunes / Spotify Find the entire George Kennedy is my Copilot archive right here We’re getting heist-y on a brand new episode of GEORGE KENNEDY IS MY COPILOT with Michael Cimino’s terrific buddy crime comedy THUNDERBOLT AND LIGHTFOOT from 1974! Clint Eastwood and a (shockingly handsome) Jeff Bridges grow a friendship over their shared love of women and thievery, with Geoffrey Lew...

RSS / iTunes / Spotify Check out the full Bartel Me Something Good archive right here On this episode of Bartel Me Something good we’re checking out Paul Bartel’s inauspicious 1984 screwball comedy NOT FOR PUBLICATION, starring Nancy Allen, David Naughton and Laurence Luckinbill! Allen plays Lois Thornedyke, a tabloid reporter aiming to go clean, while simultaneously working for the ma...

RSS / iTunes / Spotify On this premiere episode of the world’s greatest Oliver Reed-themed podcast FURTHER REEDING, host Leslie Hatton helps Liam and Doug break down their individual Oliver Reed fandoms, ponders a world with Oliver Reed as James Bond and goes deep on the campy 1969 action film THE ASSASSINATION BUREAU /w Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas, and – of course – Oliver Reed. J...

RSS / iTunes / Spotify You can listen to the entire JodoWOWsky archive right here: https://www.cinemasmorgasbord.com/the-podcasts/jodowowsky/  JodoWOWsky returns with a deep dive on Louis Mouchet’s career-spanning Alejandro Jodorowsky documentary THE JODOROWSKY CONSTELLATION from 1994, featuring interviews with legendary mime Marcel Marceau, the incredible Jean ‘Moebius’ Giraud,...

RSS / iTunes / Spotify Check out the full HOW DO YOU DO, FELLOW KIDS? archive right here On this episode of HOW DO YOU DO, FELLOW KIDS? we’re checking out the Pete Docter-directed Pixar classic MONSTERS, INC. starring (the voices of) John Goodman, Billy Crystal and – of course – Steve Buscemi. We talk about our complicated relationship with computer animated films, our struggles...

RSS / iTunes / Spotify Check out the full Wild in the Streets archive right here On this episode of WILD IN THE STREETS we’re going long with the late Ruggero Deodato’s one and only eurocrime film, the absolutely bizarre buddy-cop action classic LIVE LIKE A COP, DIE LIKE A MAN. Featuring plenty of homoeroticism, quarry target practice, straight up murder and EXPLOSIONS, it takes the te...

RSS / iTunes / Spotify Check out our Cinema Fantastica archive right here . On this episode of CINEMA FANTASTICA were traveling to the 2014 edition of the Panic Film Festival in Kansas City, Missouri! While early in the festival’s life, this year was packed with genre films and our hosts have chosen two to BATTLE TO THE DEATH. First up is the darkly comedic Israeli thriller BIG BAD WOLVES, a...

RSS / iTunes / Spotify Check out the full WHATEVER HAPPENED TO VIC DIAZ? archive right here We’re back wondering WHATEVER HAPPENED TO VIC DIAZ? and this time we’re looking at one of Vic’s most memorable and outstanding roles, playing THE DEVIL in Eddie Romero’s 1971 creature feature THE BEAST OF THE YELLOW NIGHT. Diaz’s Satan has brought John Ashley’s Joseph Lan...

RSS / iTunes / Spotify Check out the Praising Kane archive right here . LISTEN UP, JERKS. On this episode of PRAISING KANE we’re bringing the funny with the 1982 horror spoof PANDEMONIUM from director Alfred Sole (ALICE SWEET ALICE). Starring Tom Smothers as the intrepid Mountie Cooper (accompanied by Paul Reubens as Johnson), the gag-filled comedy follows a group of students at a cheerleadi...

RSS / iTunes / Spotify Check out the full You Don’t Know Dick archive right here Get higher baby! On a brand new You Don’t Know Dick we’re joined by That Shelf’s Will Perkins to discuss Jonathan Kaplan’s 1975 trucker action film WHITE LINE FEVER starring Jan Michael Vincent, Slim Pickens, Kay Lenz, L.Q. Jones, and Dick Miller as the uniquely named “Birdie”...

RSS / iTunes / Spotify Check out the full We Do Our Own Stunts archive right here After a lengthy, contentious working relationship, Jackie Chan’s time with Lo Wei finally comes to an end (sort of!) with 1979’s DRAGON FIST, a film that had been sitting on the shelf since well before Jackie’s SNAKE IN THE EAGLE’S SHADOW kung-fu breakthrough. The film features a very stoic Ja...

RSS / iTunes / Spotify Check out the full Bartel Me Something Good archive right here On this episode of Bartel Me Something Good we’ve reached Paul Bartel’s Criterion Collected classic EATING RAOUL featuring Mary Woronov, Robert Beltran and Paul Bartel himself as Paul Bland. A darkly comedic social satire (/w cannibalism), it remains a gem in the Bartel filmography, and we’re de...

RSS / iTunes / Spotify Check out the full HOW DO YOU DO, FELLOW KIDS? archive right here I’M A WRITER, YOU MONSTERS! On this episode of HOW DO YOU DO, FELLOW KIDS? we’re getting down with The Coen Brothers’ Cannes-dominating pitch-black comedy BARTON FINK from 1991. Starring John Turturro as a Hollywood neophyte struggling with writer’s block (and everything else), it&#8217...

RSS / iTunes / Spotify Check out our Eric Roberts is the Man archive right here . After an interminable wait, “Lord of the Dance” Michael Flatley’s passion/vanity spy thriller BLACKBIRD is FINALLY HERE, and it’s really something! On this episode of ERITFM we’re joined by writer/podcaster Matti Price to discuss the ins and outs of Flatley’s folly, including a vil...

RSS / iTunes / Spotify Check out the full Wild in the Streets archive right here On this episode of WILD IN THE STREETS we’re getting back to basics with Tomas Milian in the revenge thriller EMERGENCY SQUAD from 1974. Milian plays Tomas Ravelli, an Interpol agent who is hell-bent on tracking down the criminals who (inadvertently) murdered his wife, and is – unsurprisingly – willi...

RSS / iTunes / Spotify Check out the Praising Kane archive right here . On this episode of PRAISING KANE we’re once again doubling up, starting with an episode of the eighth season of LAVERNE & SHIRLEY which is without Shirley, Lenny or Squiggy.. but we do have dog murder, Charles Fleischer and not much else, except Carol Kane as a streetwise fortune teller. We follow that with the 1981...

RSS / iTunes / Spotify Find the entire George Kennedy is my Copilot archive right here LISTEN UP, MULLETHEADS! On this episode of GEORGE KENNEDY IS MY COPILOT we’re finally covering the film that nabbed George Kennedy his Oscar: it’s 1967’s COOL HAND LUKE! Featuring a slew of recognizable faces (Strother Martin! Dennis Hopper! Harry Dean Stanton! Joe Don Baker!), an unforgettable...

RSS / iTunes / Spotify You can listen to the entire JodoWOWsky archive right here: https://www.cinemasmorgasbord.com/the-podcasts/jodowowsky/  JodoWOWsky returns in 2023 with an episode devoted to the decade long comic book collaboration between Alejandro Jodorowsky and Juan Giménez tracing the family history of one of The Incal’s most notorious (and mysterious) characters: The Metabaron Sag...

RSS / iTunes / Spotify It’s the 150th episode(!) of Cinema Smorgasbord, and we’re celebrating the end of 2022 with a HOLIDAY SPECIAL! And what better way to say goodbye to another banner year than with two relatively-seasonal, shockingly different movie picks? We start with the coming-of-age comic strip adaptation FEAST OF THE SEVEN FISHES  (aka A HOLIDAY FEAST) (starring Skyler Gisond...

RSS / iTunes / Spotify Check out the full HOW DO YOU DO, FELLOW KIDS? archive right here The world’s most beloved Steve Buscemi-themed podcast returns with an episode all about Terry Zwigoff’s adaptation of Daniel Clowes’ GHOST WORLD, starring Thora Birch, Scarlett Johansson and – of course – Steve Buscemi! We talk about the difficulties of adapting (non-superhero) co...

RSS / iTunes / Spotify Check out the full WHATEVER HAPPENED TO VIC DIAZ? archive right here On this episode of WHATEVER HAPPENED TO VIC DIAZ? we’re heading into the jungle with Filipino thespian Vic Diaz in the 1978 Vietnam war drama THE BOYS IN COMPANY C, starring Stan Shaw, Andrew Stevens, and Craig Wasson. Similar in structure to Full Metal Jacker (and featuring R. Lee Ermey in a very sim...

RSS / iTunes / Spotify Check out the full We Do Our Own Stunts archive right here On this episode of WE DO OUR OWN STUNTS Jackie Chan’s relationship with Lo Wei comes to an end.. sort of.. with Jackie’s directorial debut THE FEARLESS HYENA! Filled with fights (choreographed by Jackie), and featuring perhaps his best performance of the era, it’s a film that owes a lot to his recen...