Deep Dive Film School

Here it is folks!  The best of year three.  More complaining about Star Wars, Sherlock making fun of Braveheart, Palcher gossiping about how Roger Waters likes his lasagna, and plenty of guests trying to get a word in edgewise.  Enjoy!

I've got one word for you, kid.  Podcasts!  Welcome to our 150th episode!  This week we review the movie you guys voted for, The Graduate.  Then we get into a little bit of talk about our show, and try not to get too sappy.  We round things out with our top 5 movies that spoke to the generation that went to see them.  Thanks for downloading and send us feedback!

Daddy, look! Every time a podcast is downloaded, an Adam gets his wings!  Ah yes.  This week we take a look at the holiday classic by Frank Capra and Jimmy Stewart, It's A Wonderful Life.  Suicide, drunken rage, squandered dreams and forclosure grief, it's the feelgood movie for the whole family.  Then we delve into the worst holiday movie cliches we could dredge up.  Light the log and spike the n...

I know what you're thinking, is it episode 148 or 149?  Well, to tell you the truth, in all of this excitement, I kind of lost track myself.  But being as this is A Damn Movie Podcast, the most powerful podcast in the world that would blow your ears clean off, you gotta ask yourself, do you feel lucky?  This week, we look at two gritty action films from 1971, Dirty Harry and Shaft.  Along with an...

Sometimes you're flush and sometimes you're bust, and when you're up, it's never as good as you think it is, and when you're bust, you never think you'll be up again, but podcasting goes on.  This week we take a look at the 2001 Johnny Depp drug smuggling film, Blow.  Then it's time for our second installment of our blaxsploitation festival with Superfly.  We round things out with our Top 5 Last J...

There are two types of people.  Those that talk the talk and those that walk the walk.  People who walk the walk sometimes talk the talk but most times they don't talk at all, 'cause they podcastin'.  This week, the Adams find out how hard it is out there for a pimp with the 2005 film Hustle and Flow.  We then begin our Blaxploitation festival with 1973's The Mack.  To tie it all together, we go w...

Happy Halloween everybody!  Join the Adam's this week when they are joined by Sherlock's lovely wife to review one of the best haunted house movies out there, Toby Hooper's 1982 Poltergeist.  Then, we take a look at this year's offering, James Wan's Insidious.  We also take a look at the some of the history of horror, and what it takes to scare us.  Hope you enjoy! 

While the world they inhabit is, in some respects, counterfeit, there's nothing fake about the Adams themselves.  No scripts, no cue cards.  It isn't always Shakespeare, but it's genuine.  It's a podcast.  This week we wrap up our Peter Weir festival with the 1998 groundbreaking The Truman Show.  Then we take a closer look at what 24 hour media coverage can do to a life in the documentary We Live...

I'm going to paraphrase Thoreau here... rather than love, than money, than fame, than fairness.....give me a podcast.  Join the Adams as they take a journey through some of the best man vs. nature films out there.  We start with Sean Penn's 2007 Into The Wild, and then look at Peter Weir's The Mosquito Coast.  Then, top 5 movies where nature is a character. Music this week from the brand new Mark...

She was a junkie for a good podcast.  Lucky for me, I manufactured her drug of choice.  This week we swoon over the quiet genius of Curtis Hanson's Wonder Boys .  Along with that is the third installment of our Peter Weir festival, Dead Poets Society .  Then it is all brought together when we look at our top 5 writers and movies about writing.  Almost two hours of gold here, folks.  Enjoy!

They tell us God is dead. And now the Party, they call the uncle, will provide everything for us. The Enemy is inside us. No one can be trusted.  This week, we travel to the far side of the world for a look at foreign correspondants and the challenges they face on the job.  First is Roland Joffe's 1984 harrowing true story of Pol Pot's Cambodia, The Killing Fields. Then we take a look at our secon...

Nothing is written!  This week, we begin our Peter Weir festival with the dreamy Russell Crowe sailing the seven seas in 2003's Master and Commander - The Far Side Of The World.  To tie in with that, we have reviewed the classic Middle Eastern battle epic, Lawrence Of Arabia.  Then, we hope we don't lose any listeners when we reveal our top 5 classic films we have never seen.  Send in feedback!

But this podcast goes to 11!  This week we are joined by Andy Patterson for a serious heavy metal episode as we review the mother of all mockumentaries, This Is Spinal Tap!  Then, we delve into the hilarious and at times heartbreaking true story behind the best heavy metal band you've never heard of, Anvil - The Story Of Anvil.  To tie it all together, our top 5 soundtracks in a film.  Send us som...

Sometimes when you win, you really lose, and sometimes when you lose, you really win.  And sometimes when you win or lose, you actually tie. And sometimes when you tie, you actually make a podcast about a stupid movie. This week, the boys are joined by Mr. Levi Lebo to review the 1992 Ron Shelton basketball comedy, White Men Can't Jump .  Along with the sports theme, we move into Steve James heart...

This week, join the Adams for a special review and interview segment of Jee-Woon Kim 's 2010 South Korean revenge thriller, I Saw The Devil . First, Sherlock and Palcher delve into the plot and tone of the film itself, and then Palcher shares an exclusive interview with the director Jee-Woon Kim , as well as actor Byung-Hun Lee who plays the protagonist (sort of?) in the film.  Enjoy this short bo...

When you're young, not much matters.  When you find a podcast that you like, that's all you got.  Welcome to the corrupted youth episode! This week we spend a sweaty, dirty summer day in New York City with Larry Clark's KIDS.  Along with that, we delve into the riveting Amish documentary, The Devils Playground.  Then, our top 5 Movies That Occur In A Single Day.  Enjoy!  Send Us Feedback!

That boy's got the devil in him. This week the theme is the best of the worst as we "grind" out two reviews. Starting the show with Robert Rodriguez 's 2007 multi-parody Planet Terror . For the festival we review the humbling Utah-based documentary about the underground cult of Troll 2 the one, the only Best Worst Movie , and predictably we give you our top 5 favorite worst movies. It's a good'un...

The story of how an eccentric French shop keeper and amateur film maker attempted to locate and befriend Banksy gets hashed to bit as we review 2010's Exit Through The Gift Shop . We also begin our documentary fest with Orsen Welles glorious performance in his essay documentary from 1973 F For Fake. Then to continue the theme we give you are top 5 films that question or challenge art. Boo ya.

Love is betrayal. Love is anguish. Love is sin. Love is selfish. Love is hope. Love is pain. Love is death. What is love? Love's a bitch. This week we delved deep into the multi themed and layered Amores Perros from Mexican director  Alejandro González Iñárritu . We match it up with Sherlock's last time of giving it to Palcher as he offers up one of the strangest films in the fest yet Peter Greenw...

Do you know what a metaphysical can of worms this podcast is? This week we go inside of the brain of John Malcovich and Charlie Kaufman as we review 1999's Being John Malcovich . We continue to give it to Palcher as Sherlock makes him watch  Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead. It all ties up with our top 5 movies that play with reality. Thanks, please donate! 

I'm gonna open his hole like this. Please excuse my French. I'm gonna make him suffer. I'm gonna make his mother listen to this podcast. This week we converse about one of the all time great American films, Scorsese's Raging Bull. We keep giving it to Palcher as we review The World According To Garp and give the top 5 biopics we'd like to see to round out the show. Great conversations in the episo...

Fear lulls our minds to sleep on this week's podcast where we go all foreign animation on your ass. Starting with the biopic and adapted Academy Award nominated French animation film Persepolis . Then we continue to give it to Palcher as Sherlock presents his 3rd choice in the fest with The Triplets Of Belleville . To round it out we give you our top 5 movie rebels. Thanks for listening!

I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is ending up with people who make you feel all alone. This week we review highly underrated Bobcat Goldthwait film World's Greatest Dad , then we start 'Giving It To Palcher' with Sherlock's first choice of 1965's The Loved One . Then we come full circle with our top 5 obnoxious kids in movies. Pleas...

Adam hoped the listeners would write again. He'd always wanted a friend. A friend that wasn't invisible, a pet or rubber figurine. This week we go down under and review 2 Australian beauties with 2009's Mary & Max and our last movie in the Listener feedback festival The Castle from 1997. Everything is summed up when we give our top 5 stop animation movies. Please donate or Jesus will be mad at you...

Momma always said that you should listen to A Damn Movie Podcast . In anticipation of the Oscars this week we delay our last listener feedback episode and give an Oscar filled good time as we review the 1994 Robert Zemeckis Oscar winner the classic dummy-tale Forrest Gump .  And fresh off her win for Best Foreign Picture for In A Better World you can listen to my interview with the one the only Ms...