Cinematic Omniverse

Dust off your ruffs and merkins! It's time for Scott and Marty and You to screw your courage to the sticking place, and check out some of Shakespeare's weirdest cinematic outings. Feast thine ears: Chimes at Midnight   (1966, Dir. Orson Welles) at 2:48 Throne of Blood  (1957, Dir. Akira Kurosawa) at 20:27 Prospero's Books (1991, Dir. Peter Greenaway) at 35:20 10 Things I Hate About...

Criminals have overrun Scott and Marty's television sets! Maybe some vampires too. There's only one thing to do: call in the gumshoes! In this episode, we scrape the gum off the shoes of these fine televisual offerings: Columbo S2E5 "Requiem for a Falling Star" at 1:55 Moonlighting S2E6 "Knowing Her" at 15:20 Forever Knight S1E13 "Father Figure" at 30:00 Plu...

A civil rights crusader. Wife of Ossie Davis. An Oscar nominee with a career spanning EIGHT DECADES. It's the incredible Ruby Dee! Scott and Marty scrutinize the tenacious Dee's first, last, best, and worst movies: The Jackie Robinson Story (1950, Dir. Alfred E. Green) at 2:44 1982 (2013, Dir. Tommy Oliver) at 16:28 Do The Right Thing (1989, Dir. Spike Lee) at 30:00 and *heavy sigh* Baby...

By the pricking of my thumbs, something DICK FILLED this way comes! We're talking, of course, about TV detectives, and gadzooks! There are a lot of them in this week's episode. Scott and Marty stake out the following serials: Columbo S2E4 "A Dagger of the Mind" at 2:55 Moonlighting S2E5 "My Fair David" at 15:50 Forever Knight S1E12 "Dead Issue" at 27:20 Plus...

This week on Cinematic Omniverse... It's David f*****g Lynch. Heads are scratched over: Eraserhead (1977) at 4:13 The Elephant Man (1980) at 23:49 Wild at Heart (1990) at 42:09 The Straight Story (1999) at 1:00:30 Also in this super-sized episode: Continuity Boulevard at 1:17:52 Lightning Round at 1:35:25 Follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or Amazon Music. Visit us at slac...

DO NOT ADJUST YOUR SET... just leave it alone, and instead use your favourite podcasting device to dig into the ear-tickling antics of Marty and Scott, as they discuss, critique, and riff on... Columbo S2E3 "The Most Cruicial Game" (at 2:25) Moonlighting S2E4 "The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice" (at 14:15) Forever Knight S1E11 "Hunters" (at 28:05) ...and for Elite...

For the first podcast of 2025, Marty and Scott study the unorthodox filmography of John Cazale, who starred in FIVE Best Picture-nominated films in the 1970s... and that's it. Your listening options are twofold: play straight through, or hop around: The Godfather (1972, Dir. Francis Ford Coppola) at 2:20 The Godfather Part II (1974, Dir. Francis Ford Coppola) at 17:17 Dog Day Afternoon (1975,...

If you have been contemplating cold-blooded murder, DON'T DO IT! Or at least, check out this collection of TV detective reviews before you act. If nothing else, it will help you decide in which decade (and city) to kill. Skewered in this installment: Columbo S2E2 "The Greenhouse Jungle" at 2:10 Moonlighting S2E3 "Money Talks... Maddie Walks" at 19:47 Forever Knight S1E10 &...

Marty and Scott continue their deep dive into Rowlands's fifty-eight year filmography. After the death of her husband, auteur John Cassavettes, Rowlands... wait, what am I doing? You need to listen to the episode to get the story! Dissected within: Night on Earth  (1991, Dir. Jim Jarmusch) at 1:26 The Mighty  (1998, Dir. Peter Chelsom) at 18:55 The Notebook (2004, Dir. Nick Cassavettes) at 31...

With a film career spanning 56 years, there's no easy way to encapsulate a class act like Gena Rowlands... so Scott and Marty dedicate a two-parter to this luminous lady, whose filmography threads the careers of some of cinema's most maverick auteurs. Didja get all that? It's Gena time. Shadows (1958, Dir. John Cassavetes) at 2:20 A Woman Under the Influence (1974, Dir. John Cassave...

Only two men are brave enough to ask the hard questions: What's up with all these 30-, 40-, and 50-year-old detective shows these days?? And those two men are Marty and Scott... and the answers they find can be time-logged as follows! Columbo S2E1 "Etude in Black" at 02:25 Moonlighting S2E2 "The Lady in the Iron Mask" at 15:45 Forever Knight S1E9 "I Will Repay" a...

Are you ready for an entertainment experience more invasive than Feel-Around? More devastating than bespoke porn? More transcendent than live organ transplants? Marty and Scott return to the omniverse of film with four sketch comedy anthologies. That's, like, 60 movies for the prize of... well, it's all free! Sketchy flicks we excoriate: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * B...

Columbo digs deep! David squares off against his own flesh & blood! And Nick Knight meets his match in Chinatown. Who knew you could immobilize a vampire with basic acupuncture? Scott and Marty did NOT. Rehashed in this episode: Columbo S1E7 "Blueprint for Murder" at 2:05 Moonlighting S2E1 "Brother, Can You Spare a Blonde?" at 15:30 Forever Knight S1E8 "Cherry Blossoms...

It's still the spooky season, and we've got your vampires right here. COP VAMPIRES! Also, Detective Columbo and Maddie and David, who are not vampires... AS FAR AS WE KNOW. Cue the spooky music! Columbo S1E6: "Short Fuse" at 1:50 Moonlighting S1E6: "The Murder's in the Mail" at 19:00 Forever Knight S1E7: "False Witness" at 31:20 Follow us on Spotify, Ap...

Movies are back! And just in time for Halloween! Scott and Marty celebrate in the best way possible: welcoming back horrorcore guest star Abbey Schwartz, to discuss three stone cold classics, each of which is a BRAND NEW WATCH for at least one of the three! WILL THEY SURVIVE? WILL YOU?!? Movies Vivisected: John Carpenter's Halloween (1978) at 2:50 John Carpenter's The Thing (1982) at 24:...

Would you, could you, murder somebody on a train? You both would and could if you were legendary character actor Vincent Schiavelli! If you don't know who that is, or what is Schiavelli's connection to Moonlighting's Allyce Beasley, then this ep will be a real learning experience for you. If you DO know all that, you're probably already listening! Commentary on the following ep...

In this episode, we learn about Marty's sacred Moonlighting viewing ritual. All this plus a Lightning Round for the ages! Find our commentary on the episodes here: "Suitable for Framing" - 1:54 "The Next Murder You Hear" -  15:22 "Dance By the Light of the Moon" - 27:55 Follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or Amazon Music. Visit us at slackandsl...

Marty and Scott sift through a heap of half-baked mysteries, desperately seeking hints of greatness. You've seen the shows... now watch the podcast!! In this episode, we roast: Columbo S1E3 "Dead Weight" (starting at 1:35) Moonlighting S1E3 "Read the Mind, See the Movie" (starting at 15:13) Forever Knight S1E4 "Last Act" (starting at 29:45) Plus Continuity Blvd a...

Toronto has a serial killer problem! Cops and former cops face off! And the world's greatest assassins... can't aim worth a damn? Detectives Marty and Scott are on the case(s)! Check out our commentary of the following hard-to-track-down episodes! Columbo S1E2: "Death Lends a Hand" - 2:20 Moonlighting S1E2: "Gunfight at the So-So Corral" - 14:15 Forever Knight S1E3: &...

Tubeheads Marty and Scott return with a very special (that is, absurdly esoteric) maxi-series on three detective shows from three different decades: 1) The 1970s' bumbling lieutenant, COLUMBO! 2) Reigning screwballs of the 1980s, Maddie and David from MOONLIGHTING! 3) FOREVER KNIGHT, a mostly forgotten 1990s series about a vampire cop! In this debut episode, we review the pilots. Check out ou...

In a supersized season finale podcast, cinewizards Scott and Marty cast _filmography levioso_ upon British baritone Alan Rickman, conjuring up two of Marty's all-time favourite films as well as a bonafide hidden gem. Don't miss it! Die Hard (1988, Dir. John McTiernan) The January Man (1989, Dir. Pat O'Connor) Dogma (1999, Dir. Kevin Smith) Eye in the Sky (2015, Dir. Gavin Hood) Foll...

Scott and Marty may not know nothin' 'bout birthin' no babies, but thanks to this week's movies, they know all about trailblazing actress Butterfly McQueen. And so, good listeners, shall you! Gone With the Wind (1939, Dir. Victor Fleming) Mildred Pearce (1945, Dir. Michael Curtiz) Amazing Grace (1974, Dir. Stan Lathan) The Mosquito Coast (1986, Dir. Peter Weir) Follow us on Spo...

The boys get frisky with this golden opportunity to explore the career of 80s golden boy Val Kilmer. Top Secret! (1984, Dir. Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker) Heat (1995, Dir. Michael Mann) Moscow Zero (2006, Dir. María Lidón) Top Gun: Maverick (2022, Dir. Joseph Kosinski) Follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or Amazon Music. Visit us at slackandslashpod.com Email us at s...

Would Ms. Wood have wanted us to revisit even her most wretched films? I warrant Ms. Wood would! The Searchers (1956, Dir. John Ford) Tomorrow is Forever (1946, Dir. Irving Pichel) Meteor (1979, Dir. Ronald Neame) Brainstorm (1983, Dir. Douglas Trumbull) Follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or Amazon Music. Visit us at slackandslashpod.com Email us at slackandslash@gmail.com

Like any strapping heterosexual men, Marty and Scott find lots to love about Italian bombshell Sofia Loren. But they are equally impressed by her acting chops in this quartet of unorthodox flicks. Saluti! NOTES: The audio for this ep gets dodgy on occasion. Sorry 'bout that. Quo Vadis (1951, Dir. Mervyn LeRoy) Two Women (1960, Dir. Vittorio De Sica) Firepower (1979, Dir. Michael Winner) The L...