Dudes on Cinema

Send us Fan Mail the Dudes are on fire this week as Jeff compare Widow's Bay to other, better horror tv shows. Zander sees Scary Movie 6 and is charmed by North By Northwest  Cary Grant gets laughs. Jeff loves Arachnophobia! Train To Busan is awesome, isn't it? Backrooms is discussed. The Drama asks an important question. This week's deep dive is Peter Bogdanovich's superb The...

Send us Fan Mail join the Dudes this week as they talk about their high hopes for the new Scary Movie. YouTube influencers make it big in horror. We love the Golden Girls and other sitcoms. Jeff liked Chunking Express. Movie novelizations. Michael Crichton made us smarter. Zander does theatre in LA and Jeff watches it. Theatre chat. Jeff revisits E.T. and "wow"! And Dee Wallace stories....

Send us Fan Mail the Dudes welcome back magician/writer/entrepreneur, Jason Bird who has been watching Palm Royale and Zander is watching Widow's Bay. Zander loved Hokum as much as Jeff.  Chekhov's Knife. Rosario Dawson is awesome. We all love Broadcast News and James L Brooks. Hollywood Babylon is bullshit. Charles Gemora plays apes. Then we hit the homework with a Woody Allen double fe...

Send us Fan Mail The Dudes have personal issues. The merits of jaywalking. Jeff makes meatloaf and Zander scoots. Vegas theatre chat. Zander recommends Remarkably Bright Creatures. Jeff enjoyed Ready or Not 2. Hokum and Obsession keep horror alive. Knights of Baddassdom. Corrider Crew helps Jeff. LA Confidential vs Zodiac. Shane Black entertains us. Kramer vs Kramer holds up beautifully. Dustin is...

Send us Fan Mail The Dudes have surgeries. Jeff loves Popstar finally! "Cringesploitation" We wanted to like Redux Redux, but...Top 5 Woody Allen flicks. Jeremy Saulnier and S Craig Zahler test our mettle..Jim Cummings again. And the the Dudes tackle this week's homework, Norman Jewison's "true" story, the Denzel Washington classic, The Hurricane. Don't "BLO...

Send us Fan Mail Zander passes a kidney stone so of course we talk about Gilbert and Sullivan operettas! Dark City > The Matrix. Roger Ebert Fan Club. Coen Bros Fan Club. The Lonely Island guys direct. Jeff loved Hokum. Zander loved Balls Up. Spiderverse is next level great! Apex is good on Netflix. Then we hop in the Wayback Machine for this week's deep dive, Norman Jewison's comedy...

Send us Fan Mail The Dudes welcome back producer/writer/editor David Martinez as they discuss the virtues of new horror like The Bride and The Bone Temple. David makes racy videos. Watch Trailers From Hell. What makes a "Bad" movie bad? Acting jobs in Vegas. Zander and David love ALF. We all love Tucker and Dale. Parents is a cool movie. Jonah Hill directs. Then we deep dive this week&ap...

Send us Fan Mail This week the Dudes talk about the movie posters they have owned/lost. The great movie poster artists. The Big Lebowski--the Dudes say hello to The Dude! Chinatown is still awesome. Todd Phillips invented comedy. Burt Reynolds 70s comedies. The Drama with Zendaya really impressed Jeff. LA Confidential rocks! Time to rewatch Nobody's Fool. The syndicated sitcoms we grew up on....

Send us Fan Mail This week the Dudes welcome Zander's old buddy actor/director/father Jeff Dresbeck.  Jeff D turns us on to The One and Only and we continue on Carl Reiner movies. Jeff G  raves (probably too much) about Cold Storage. CGI animals suck. We loved Todd Fields' Little Children. Then we turn our attention to this week's homework, the 70s classic Bad News Bears. Don't...

Send us Fan Mail Join the Dudes as they welcome writer/producer/director Davey "Wolf" Perez who starts on a chat about the late director, Stuart Gordon's flms. Jeff follows Zander's advice to watch Knight and Day. How old serials affect modern action flicks. Best exposition in films. Iconic Indiana Jones. Turn your kids onto older movies!. Wolf recommends Andor. We all love Ani...

Send us Fan Mail This week the Dudes talk about the weather in Vegas (it's hot btw) The Campaign, Jeff loves Project Hail Mary and they love Drew Goddard's movies, James Mangold's movies, HBO's Big Little Lies and others with Nicole Kidman, Ileana Douglas, VEEP,  Midsummer Night's Dream and other Shakespeare plays on film, Friends of Eddie Coyle and Peter Yates films. And...

Send us Fan Mail Join the Dudes as they welcome lovely actress, Sara Collins Martinez. as they share their love of the late Phil Hartman and Paul Reubens. The Housemaid gets the Dudes treatment. Sara tells us what's new at Universal Studios. Chat about The Running Man, Ex-Machina, Jeff loved Hoppers, Zander loved A Chorus Line, Sara loved Roofman. Zander gives us a list of movies with controv...

Send us Fan Mail This week the the Dudes talk about comedies about actors like Tootsie and Bowfinger (both great!) Jeff rewatches Terminator 2 and realizes that the first one is so much better! So we can talk about James Cameron's filmography. We have another movie term as Zander teaches us about the "Dolly Zoom". Jordan Peele is awesome! As is James Wan. And we dissect this week&ap...

Send us Fan Mail Zander performs improv with The Mutiny and Jeff watches. Jeff gives Thunderbolts a try and loved Florence Pugh. Jeff  finally watches Dumb and Dumber. Zander quizzes Jeff--is it a remake/homage/ripoff? 2D animation fades out. And for homework: Peter Bogdanovich's sensational comedy: What's Up, Doc? This episode is "Eunice Burns Approved"! Edited and Produced by...

Send us Fan Mail Join the boys for a far-ranging chat as Jeff is on a comedy kick removing Clue from his Shamelist and watching his fave rom-com The Goodbye Girl leading to reminiscing about their love of Neil Simon plays they have done. How does farce work?  Some of the character actors who work constantly. Zander explains "Chekhov's Gun". RIP Robert Carradine. Jeff's "co...

Send us Fan Mail Dudes in the wild had a busy week with a rewatch of The Grey. The Housemaid is a melodrama. Peter Sellers is so funny in Blake Edwards slapstick classic The Party. Jeff raves (again) about Dolemite Is My Name! with Eddie Murphy at his best. We try to pass the Bechtel Test. Zander tells Jeff how independent movies get funded. We are on an Alfonso Cuaron kick with a deep dive for hi...

Send us Fan Mail Just the Dudes this week as we discuss rewatches of The In-Laws (Serpentine!) and Taxi Driver (sleazy) The brilliance of Elaine May and Barry Sonnenfeld. The heartbreak of The Sweet Hereafter and Affliction.  Zander loves Doug Limon. And John Landis gives us 2 of his best for this week's homework: Kentucky Fried Movie (which for some reason leads us to talk about nudity in fi...

Send us Fan Mail This week the Dudes welcome back one of our favorite guests, writer/photographer, Scott Fritz. We talk about Zemickis flicks and Jeff rewatches Used Cars, Eastern Promises (jeez!) and Jackie Brown (that cast!). Sam Raimi's Send Help. Zander likes Paul Fieg films and Scott loves Euphoria. Zander and Scott enlighten Jeff on the merits of Not Another Teen Movie. Nicholas Cage mo...

Send us Fan Mail The Dudes discuss the merits of the least exciting heist movie ever made and why we like Channing Tatum. Zander enjoyed Him but Jeff turned it off. James Bond films. We love George Lazenby (Google him). Other podcasts we love. Key and Peele are awesome, aren't they? Deep dives of the Spike Jonez/Charlie Kaufman masterpiece, Adaptation and also Be Kind Rewind for all you movie...

Send us Fan Mail Another 2-hander this week as we talk about competing podcasts that we love and Jeff is reminded of a great 1995 tv show called Murder One. We discuss No Other Choice and other Asian action movies. Castaway vs Forrest Gump. Sam Raimi tells jokes. Straight to video sequels can be good but we all know Asylum films suck. Velocipastor and we enjoyed The Rip and others by Joe Carnahan....

Send us Fan Mail This week the Dudes talk about what their Top 100 films would be and Jeff loves Korean movies and we both love Jim Cummings. Also Blue Moon and "Monkey Murder Flicks". We have a very sweet appearance from a surprise guest. We both watched Paul Schrader's grimy sleazy Bob Crane classic, Auto-Focus (we feel so dirty) and wind up with a great talk about our homework mo...

Send us Fan Mail It's the Dude's 50th episode this week!!! And we welcome back fan favorite, Brandon DeLany! We have all made our list of Top 10 films of 2025! What films were your favorites last year? Compile your list and compare notes with the Dudes. We made a list, we checked it twice and yes, we love movies!

Send us Fan Mail The Dudes welcome actor John Haegele this week for a juicy discussion of topics such as: Wilfred Brimley, Wallace Shawn, The Bedroom Window, Short Circuit and Sam Shepard vs Tracey Letts. Zander enjoyed Eternity, Jeff enjoyed Good Boy and wants to talk about Marty Supreme. We ask John to help us continue showing our love for Rob Reiner with deep dives for 2 of his classics, The Su...

Send us Fan Mail Join Jeff and Zander this week as we discuss Wake Up Dead Man, and Play Date. The stand-up comedians we love, comparing Breathless with Nouvelle Vague and The Room with The Disaster Artist, we enjoyed Don't Worry, Darling and love Florence Pugh. Jeff meets Frank Gorshin (Google him) and Zander gives us his Top 5 Christmas movies!.Finishing up with this week's homework, o...

Send us Fan Mail This week the Dudes say farewell to Rob Reiner and discuss his films that the whole world loves. Also Michael Mann's Collateral, Time Trap, Ex-Machina, Jay Kelly and how we love acting and how we love actors like George Clooney and Kyle Bornheimer. The deep dive this week is Alan Parker's sensational Mississippi Burning with many other actors we love including the late g...