Cinematic Omniverse

Scott and Marty get acquainted with “that guy from that thing,” aka Lance Henriksen. You know who we’re talking about!   Core Connections : Network (1976, Dir. Sidney Lumet) Aliens (1985, Dir. James Cameron) Modigliani (2004, Dir. Mick Davis)   Connective Cameos : The Terminator Near Dark The Visitor, aka Stridulum The Right Stuff Dr. Strangelove, or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the...

Get into the Christmas (and Hanukkah!) spirit with Scott and Marty! Core Connections : Santa Claus (1898, Dir. George Albert Smith) Miracle on 34th Street (1947, Dir. George Seaton) Ernest Saves Christmas (1988, Dir. John R. Cherry III) The Hebrew Hammer (2003, Dir. Jonathan Kesselman)   Connective Cameos : Car Wash Plan 9 From Outer Space Scarface Blazing Saddles The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance...

Scott loves Paris, so Marty agrees to follow him to the City of Lights, where it turns out several decades’ worth of weirdos lie in wait. Core Connections : L’Atalante (1934, Dir. Jean Vigo) Band of Outsiders (1964, Dir. Jean-Luc Godard) Holy Motors (2012, Dir. Leos Carax)   Connective Cameos : The Lavender Hill Mob 12 Angry Men On the Waterfront The City of Lost Children Alien: Resurrection Shoot...

Madness. MADNESS! Join Scott and Marty on a rollicking ride through Ealing, up the river, and into the Castle with the Old (Jedi) Knight himself, Sir Alec. Core Connections : The Lavender Hill Mob (1951, Dir. Charles Crichton) Bridge on the River Kwai (1957, Dir. David Lean) Kafka (1991, Dir. Steven Soderbergh) Connective Cameos : Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope Star Wars Episode V: The Empire St...

Scott and Marty skip a groove again, but end up landing comfortably on Madeline Kahn, the Teutonic Tit-willow.   Core Connections : Paper Moon (1973, Dir. Peter Bogdanovich) Blazing Saddles (1974, Dir. Mel Brooks) The Muppet Movie (1979, Dir. James Frawley) Connective Cameos: Clue Nixon Judy Berlin Midnight Run Silver Streak The Darjeeling Ltd. Leon: The Professional Rain Man The Last Picture Show...

Scott and Marty use a wide lens to capture a broad 'bent in three of Sir Jim’s finest film outings. (NOTE: In 2002, Jim Broadbent actually declined a knighthood. But he’ll always be “Sir” in our hearts!)  Follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or Amazon Music. Visit us at slackandslashpod.com Email us at slackandslash@gmail.com

You don’t have to be an expert sleuth to find three excellent films featuring Sir Michael Caine. Even Scott and Marty could do it! Core Connections: Sleuth (1972, Dir. Joseph P. Mankewicz) Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988, Dir. Frank Oz) Youth (2015, Dir. Paolo Sorrentino)  Connective Cameos: Austin Powers in Goldmember Alfie Evil Under the Sun The Godfather Psycho Get Carter A Hard Day’s Night Ruthl...

Guest star and Hep-Cat Danielle Paradis leads feckless call-boys Marty and Scott on a romp through the beloved 60s (dark?) comedy Breakfast at Tiffany’s and… two other… things. Core Connections: Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961, Dir. Blake Edwards) Viva Zapata! (1952, Dir. Elia Kazan) A Comedy of Terrors (1963, Dir. Jacques Tourneur) Connective Cameos: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story The Graduate West Si...

BOO! Or rather, CHEER for Cinematic Omniverse’s Hallowe’en special! SCREAM with joy along with Marty, Scott, and special GHOST – er, guest – Abbey Schwartz!   Core Connections: House of 1,000 Corpses (2003, Dir. Rob Zombie) Spider Baby (1967, Dir. Jack Hill) Trilogy of Terror (1975, Dir. Dan Curtis)  Connective Cameos: A Clockwork Orange Beetlejuice Poltergeist The Texas Chainsaw Massacre The Ring...

Kirsten Dunst: Permanently prepubescent bloodsucker, or time-hopping beauty queen? Also in this ep: Scott and Marty deliver their Box Office Gold and Box Office Poison pitches! Core Connections: Interview with the Vampire (1994, Dir. Neil Jordan) Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999, Dir. Michael Patrick Jann) The Power of the Dog (2021, Dir. Jane Campion)  Connective Cameos: Bram Stoker’s Dracula Nosferatu D...

Film frontiersmen Scott & Marty can spot the most character-istic of character actors -- and even in a room full of Roberts, it’s Ryan every time. Core Connections: Crossfire (1974, Dir. Edward Dmytryk) Bad Day at Black Rock (1955, Dir. John Sturges) The Iceman Cometh (1973, Dir. John Frankenheimer) Connective Cameos: Act of Violence Rashomon It’s A Wonderful Life It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Wor...

Is it possible to have a successful career AND be a mom? What about if you’re an 18th century mute mail-order bride? Scott and Marty have opinions! Do YOU? Core Connections: Raising Arizona The Piano The Big Sick Connective Cameos: Lady Sings the Blues A Mighty Wind The Harder They Fall The Harder They Come Casablanca A Serious Man Inside Llewyn Davis The Hudsucker Proxy Bad Lieutenant: Port of Ca...

Movie mavens Scott and Marty enter the (Radio)head of Stephen Tobolowsky, a character actor you’ll never forget… unless you have anterograde amnesia, that is. Have we already had this conversation? Core Connections: Mississippi Burning (1988, Dir. Alan Parker) The Grifters (1990, Dir. Stephen Frears) Memento (2000, Dir. Christopher Nolan) Connective Cameos: The Patsy Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call N...

In their most audacious act of interconnectedness yet, Marty and Scott travel from the Silent Age to the cusp of New Hollywood, on the trail of the moustachioed “Snub” Pollard. Follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or Amazon Music. Visit us at slackandslashpod.com Email us at slackandslash@gmail.com

Marty and Scott are doing the Lord’s work – and by “the Lord” they mean Franco Nero, aka Django Jesus. Join the crusade! Core Connections: Red River (1948, Dir. Howard Hawks) The Big Heat (1953, Dir. The Big Heat) Django Unchained (2012, Dir. Quentin Tarantino) Connective Cameos: Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid The Visitor aka Stridulum The Night of the Hunter Cleopatra Jones Rio Bravo The Good, the Bad...

From the Gay Nineties to the Noir Eighties, gumshoes Scott and Marty unravel the threads of cinema’s greatest seamstress, Edith Head. Core Connections: She Done Him Wrong (1933, Dir. Lowell Sherman) Notorious (1946, Dir. Alfred Hitchcock) Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid (1982, Dir. Carl Reiner) Connective Cameos: Casablanca The General Intolerance Dracula The Patsy Without Love Go West It’s a Mad, Mad,...

Scott and Marty pay an oblique and pointless tribute to the world’s greatest soul-funk supergroup as they continue their deep dive into cinema’s secret continuity. Core Connections: The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976, Dir. Nicolas Roeg) A Mighty Wind (2003, Dir. Christopher Guest) Ball of Fire (1941, Dir. Howard Hawks)   Connective Cameos: Fast Times at Ridgemont High Sweet Sweetback’s Badasssss Song...

How high can Scott and Marty get, as they consider how time works in the omniverse? Core Connections: Twelve O’Clock High (1949, Dir. Henry King) Three O’Clock High (1987, Dir. Phil Joanou) Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982, Dir. Amy Heckerling)   Connective Cameos: Die Hard Dangerous Minds Lean on Me Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope King Creole The Gunfighter Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to...

Marty, Scott, and guest John Hudson spend a super-sized episode discussing merkins, zithers, and precious bodily fluids.   Core Connections: Dr. Strangelove, or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Bomb The Third Man Strange Brew   Connective Cameos: The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans Barbarella Easy Rider The Magic Christian Barry Lyndon A Clockwork Orange 2001: A Space Odysse...

Glavin! In a classic-crammed episode, Marty and Scott trace the weird career of career weirdo, Peter Lorre.   Core Connections: M (1931, Dir. Fritz Lang) Casablanca (1942, Dir. Michael Curtiz)  The Patsy (1964, Dir. Jerry Lewis)   Connective Cameos: Batman Returns The Grand Illusion O Z Q Citizen Kane Star Wars Jaws Birth of a Nation The Story of Mankind Goodfellas Nosferatu Dracula Play It Again,...

In this episode, itinerant cinephiles Marty and Scott invite you to join them on a triptych of trips to New Orleans! Core Connections: Panic in the Streets (1950, Dir. Elia Kazan) The Big Easy The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans Connective Cameos: The General A Streetcar Named Desire The Bad Sleep Well Spaceballs Batman Batman Returns City Slickers Shane The Wizard of Oz The Computer Wore...

Marty and Scott scrutinize the career of Dick Warlock, Hollywood’s coolest (and coolest named) stunt double. Core Connections: The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969, Dir. Robert Butler) The Stunt Man (1980, Dir. Richard Rush) Spaceballs (1986, Dir. Mel Brooks)   Connective Cameos: Terminator 2: Judgement Day Escape From New York The Absent-Minded Professor North by Northwest It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, M...

Scott and Marty turn their red, unfocused eyes towards Roger Deakins, one of the greatest living cinematographers. Directors of photography? Whatever. Core Connections: 1984 (1984, Dir. Michael Radford) A Serious Man (2009, Dir. Joel and Ethan Coen) 1917 (2019, Dir. Sam Mendes)   Connective Cameos: Citizen Kane The Big Lebowski Brazil Pink Floyd’s The Wall Snowpiercer Logan’s Run The Comedians Wes...

After noticing the prevalence of train films in the omniverse, Marty and Scott go full steam ahead on three loco-motion pictures.   Core Connections: The General (1926, Dir. Clyde Bruckman) Throw Momma From the Train (1987, Dir. Danny DeVito) SnowPiercer (2013, Dir. Bong Joon Ho)   Connective Cameos: Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World  How I Won the War The Fugitive St...

Scott and Marty hopscotch through the variegated career of American actor William Hurt (1950-2022). Core Connections: The Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985, Dir. Hector Babenco) Broadcast News (1987, Dir. James L. Brooks)  Dark City (1998, Dir. Alex Proyas) Connective Cameos: Body Heat The Big Chill The Panic in Needle Park Addams Family Values Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery Short Circui...