Fabulous Film & Friends

Send us Fan Mail Is Gen Z CRAZY?  Join the discush on the FFF FB page https://www.facebook.com/groups/fabulousfilmandfriends On this episode of Fabulous Film & Friends, we’re going to do our darndest to find out,  dissecting and disseminating two massive low-budget 2026 horror hits from Social Media influencers turned A-list directors starting with internet sensation Curry Barker’s 2026 Obsess...

Send us Fan Mail Is Weird Al Yankovic a sublime genius or just a pushy dork? '' Join the conversation on facebook.com/groups/fabulousfilmandfriends On our 122nd episode of the Triple FFF, you magnificent maniacs and fiendish friends of folly, we’re cranking up the crazy as we pay tribute to the madcap, manic, musical mayhem of one accordion-attacking, parody-packing, pop-culture-slapping...

Send us Fan Mail Gen X? Is it time to hang it up in Hollywood?  Follow FF&F on Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/fabulousfilmandfriends  Welcome to our 121st episode of the Triple FFF and our early summer confab about two big Hollywood tentpole entries that crashed and burned miserably at the box office in the wake of Gen Z’s love affair with indie influencer horror to the point where...

Send us Fan Mail Boy, it sucks to be stranded in space! On this 120th episode of the Triple FFF we’re going to chip away at the rock solid box office pairing of Author Andy Weir and screenwriter Drew Goddard as we discuss their two sci fi smash hits, 2015’s The Martian   directed by Ridley Scott and starring Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Kristen Wiig, Michael Peña, Sean Bean, Kat...

Send us Fan Mail How can women like this sh--?! On this episode -- #119 of the Triple FFF, we’re slipping into the world of prestige fashion,  passive aggressively cruel bosses and serious life lessons as we discuss The Devil Wears Prada and its long-awaited sequel The Devil Wears Prada 2.   Directed by David Frankel, the original 2006 film stars Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt, Stanley T...

Send us Fan Mail On this 118th episode of the Triple FFF we’re going to ease on down the road into my least favorite genre, the musical biopic as we discuss Antoine Fuqua’s 2006 tribute to the late great King of Pop, Michael Jackson, cleverly entitled Michael . The film stars Jaafar Jackson — Michael’s nephew and the son of Jermaine Jackson — alongside Juliano Krue Valdi as the adult and child ver...

Send us Fan Mail On this 117th episode of the Triple FFF we’re going descend into deep black comedy to discuss one of 2026 standout releases in a genre that is too often self-satisfied and weighed down by diminishing returns, The Drama , directed by Kristoffer Borgli and starring Zendaya, Robert Pattinson, Alana Haim, Mamadou Athie and Hailey Gates    Joining me this week, boot-clad, black army ja...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 116 –  The 3rd Person Narration/Paul Schneider/Nick Cave Standoff: The Assassination of Jesse Jame by the Coward Robert Ford v. Train Dreams.    All aboard episode 116 of the Triple F—chugging along the tracks laid by legendary filmmaker Terrence Malick, we’re discussing two noteworthy films that closely follow his style in recounting tales of the American experience star...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to our 115th episode!   All you lit snobs and library weirdos out there, have we got a treat in store!  This time on Fabulous Film & Friends we will be discussing not one, not two, not three but up to SEVEN filmed adaptations of Emilie Bronte’s classic 1847 tale of love, passion, class struggle, family trauma, REVENGE! And haunted winds ripping through the northern Eng...

Send us Fan Mail Happy New Year everyone ! And welcome to the 5th Annual Year End Review here at the triple FFF. We have a ginormous, star-studded show for you with an all star panel consisting of  a who’s who of series regulars Alex Robertson, Roseanne Caputi, David Johnson, Kendrick Wright and all the way from El Paso, Joe Field!  Welcome everyone.  We’re just going to get right into it. So righ...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Fabulous Film and Friends I’m doing something a little different and simply giving thoughts on a screening I attended of Star Trek II -The Wrath of Khan with William Shatner Live, a screening I was eagerly looking forward to because a) Wrath of Khan is one of my all-time favorite movies and b) William Shatner is my favorite actor of all time.  Why is Star Trek II the...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Fabulous Film and Friends we’re going to pay tribute to the late, great Robert Reford and analyze just why this Hollywood icon belonged on the top of Mt. Olympus long before vanity, sanctimony and crass commercialism ruined his artistry.  In other words, before he tarnished his legacy with offensive tripe like The Legend of Bagger Vance , the execrable Indecent Propos...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the launch of our epic 5th season on Fabulous Film & Friends! This is the big one! The one that everyone will be talking about for years to come.  Why? Because this is the episode where I finally get to trash the Barbie movie as we dive into the idea of “When Good Directors Go Bad.” Inspired by the recent release of 2025’s Paul Thomas Anderson/ Leonardo DiCaprio dom...

Send us Fan Mail On our season finale to our 4th blockbuster year in the podcast space,  we’re going to answer the burning question on everyone’s mind these days:  What’s the deal with Richard Lester?  In order to find the answer, we’re digging into the notable works from his four decades in show business, starting with 1964’s A Hard Day’s Night starring John Lennon Paul McCartney, George Harrison...

Send us Fan Mail As promised, this week on episode #109 of "Fabulous Film & Friends we’re going to weigh in on the two big ticket super hero extravaganzas from the Summer of 2025:  James Gunn’s Superman starring David Corenswet, Rachel Brosnahan, Skyler Gisando, Wendell Pierce, Edi Gathegi, Nathan Fillion, Isabela Merced, Sara Sampaio and Nicholas Hoult up against The Fantastic Four: Firs...

Send us Fan Mail This week, on our 108th episode of Fabulous Film & Friends we’re looking at Danny Boyle’s 2025 summer entry 28 Years Later as well as the two other films that led up to it, 2002’s 28 Days Later and 2007’s 28 Weeks Later. Mr. Boyle directed the segments one and three, and the second entry was directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, The stars of the first movie were Cillian Murphy,...

Send us Fan Mail On our 107th podcast, we here at the Triple FFF thought we’d try to once again attempt relevance and discuss a current big release, this time Wes Anderson’s 2025 father-daughter high stakes business and espionage caper The Phoenician Scheme starring Benicio Del Toro, Mia Threapleton, Michael Cera, Tom Hanks, Bryan Cranston, Riz Ahmed, Scarlet Johansson, Mathieu Amalric, Jeffrey Wr...

Send us Fan Mail Was there ever an era in cinema history when the obsession with cars, speed, and outrunning the law—whether you were a hick, a hippie, or a world-weary urbanite—captured the public’s imagination more than in the early 1970s? That’s what we aim to ponder on this, our 106th episode of the Triple FFF as we discuss not one, not 2 but THREE POWERHOUSE mainstream movies of muscle-car ma...

Send us Fan Mail Flashing back to episode #72 of Fabulous Film & Friends way back in 2023, we covered Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part 1 and so we here on FFF felt duty bound to our fans to give our take on its follow up and what could very possibly be the final sequel to the entire M:I franchise, 2025’s Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning directed by Christopher McQuarrie and s...

Send us Fan Mail We’re gargling out the taste of comic book fare on our 104th episode yet still swimming the turbulent oceans of their inspiration, the source of their epic power and mystery: Homer’s Odyssey! Yes we’re going to compare and contrast two versions of the Odyssey as seen through the eyes of Italian filmmakers starting with 1954’s Ulysses directed by Mario Camerini and starring Kirk Do...

Send us Fan Mail On this, our 103rd episode, Marvel demanded it and we delivered. Like good corporate citizens, we dutifully marched to the local cineplex and went to see 2025’s Thunderbolts* directed by Jake Schreier and starring Florence Pugh, Sebastian Stan, Wyatt Russell , David Harbour, Lewis Pullman, Hannah John-Kamen, Geraldine Viswanathan and Julia Louis-Dreyfus.  Why? Because well, what e...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to our 102nd Blockbuster Episode, The BEST of Jared Hess Part 2: Enter Jack Black where we will discuss and dissect the afore-mentioned actor and director pairings starting with 2006’s Nacho Libre starring Jack Black, Héctor Jiménez, Ana de la Reguera, Darius Rose and Peter Stormare compared to 2025’s megahit blockbuster A Minecraft Movie starring Black again, Jason Momoa,...

Send us Fan Mail It’s Episode 101 and while we’re gearing up to charge full speed ahead, we’re going to take a quick look back at the halcyon days of the fall/winter of 2024 when two earth-shattering comic book movie bombs were unleashed on the cinema going public.  We’re talking Todd Phillips’ Joker: Folie a Deux starring Joaquin Phoenix, Lady Gaga, Catherine Keener, Zazie Beets and Brendan Glees...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the monumental 100th Episode of Fabulous Film and Friends where we are going to discuss the TOP 3 Comedies of ALL TIME in this podcast host’s estimation. We’re talking about 1984’s Spinal Tap directed by Rob Reiner, starring Michael McKean, Christopher Guest, Harry Shearer, Tony Hendra, June Chadwick and Bruno Kirby then 1985’s Pee Wee’s Big Adventure, starring Paul Rue...

Send us Fan Mail Hello Loyal Film Fans, we’re busting out, shields first, with our 99th episode and wanted to do something both timely and topical so we’re going to look at Marvel’s Captain America films replete with the newly released Captain America Brave New World.  I’m your host Gino Caputi and I am joined by Joe Field, author, hypnotherapist and comic book store royalty, named after his Uncle...