Fabulous Film & Friends

Send us Fan Mail Our 2024 Top 5 (ish) round up.  Plus Everybody's "Worst of."  With David Johnson, DDS, Burton Brown, Joe Field & Alex Robertson Watch the video version https://youtu.be/7_TmPHcVsCk

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to our FFF Christmas mash-up where we are going to look at the two important titles released on the 25th of December in the year of  Our Lord 2024: Nosferatu, directed by Robert Eggers and starring Lily Rose Depp, Nicholas Hoult, Aaron Taylor Johnson, Emma Corrin, Ralph Ineson, Bill Skarsgard, and Willem Dafoe up against A Complete Unknown directed by James “Walk the Line/...

Send us Fan Mail   This week on Fabulous Film & Friends, we’re going to scale down and take a look at the freakin’ sweet indie filmmaking skills of director Jared Hess with his 2004 quirky sleeper hit, Napoleon Dynamite starring Jon Heder, John Gries, Aaron Ruell, Efron Ramirez, Tina Majorino, Haylie Duff, Trevor Snarr, Shondrella Avery, and Diedrich Bader alongside the even quirkier and sleep...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to another blockbuster episode of Fabulous Film & Friends , our 95th to be precise, and I do apologize for the delay in production. But kids, I’m a working man and if you want a more reliable and steady stream of FFF episodes, be sure to like and subscribe to the channel on Youtube or Buzzsprout, et al.  And by all means tell your friends about us!  So! This week!...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Fabulous Film & Friends it’s time to embrace our inner sap as we compare two seminal historically-themed weepie romances that have managed to endure, despite being laden with copious amounts of kettle corn, enough to fill two silos full really: 1980’s Somewhere in Time , written by Richard Matheson directed by  Jeannot Szwarc starring Christopher Reeve, Jane Seymo...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Fabulous Film & Friends we’re taking on the monumental challenge of dissecting Francis Ford Coppola’s sprawling, controversial and somewhat divisive 2024 opus, Megalopolis starring Adam Driver, Giancarlo Esposito, Nathalie Emmanuel, Aubrey Plaza, Shia LeBeouf, John Voight, Laurence Fishburne, Talia Shire, Jason Schwartzman, Grace Vanderwaal , Kathryn Hunter, and D...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Fabulous Film & Friends we’re going to back to the late 1950’s early 1960’s when men smoked heavily, recklessly enjoyed sophisticated cocktails and liked their women the way they wore their suits: skinny and tight! A time when spies and cold wars were the talk of the town, and all the cool cats admired two preeminent and influential thrillers. We’re talking 1959’s...

Send us Fan Mail As we blast off into our 4th Season here at Fabulous Film and Friends, and with the recent release of Alien Romulus , we thought it only fitting to take a look at ALL the Alien movies, minus the execrable Alien v. Predator films, starting with 1979's Alien directed by Ridley Scott and starring Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, Harry Dean Stanton, Yaphett Koto, John Hurt, Veroni...

Send us Fan Mail On this 90th episode and Season 3 finale of Fabulous Film & Friends we’re going to dig into 2024’s Wildcat , centering around the life and works of Great American Author Flannery O’ Connor and directed by Ethan Hawke, starring the director’s daughter Maya Hawke, Laura Linney, Phililip Ettinger, Cooper Hoffman, Steve Zahn, Rafael Casal, Alessandro Nivola Christine Dye, Vincent...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Fabulous Film & Friends it’s the moment all yall cowpokes been watin’ fer .   We’re biting the bullet and comparing the two star-studded “Gunfight at the OK Corral” epics, pitting 1993’s Tombstone directed by George Pan Cosmatos starring Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer, Sam Elliot, Bill Paxton, Powers Boothe, Michael Biehn, Stephen Lang, Dana Delany, Dana Wheeler-Nichols...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Fabulous Film & Friends we’ve jumped on that bandwagon and got a full fledged case of Deadpool-mania! That means we’re going to discuss all three of Ryan Reynolds happy little R-rated capers which started in 2016 with Deadpool directed by Tim Miller, starring Ryan Reynolds, TJ Miller Morena Baccarin, Brianna Hildebrand, Stefan Kapicic,  Ed Skrein, Leslie Uggams, K...

Send us Fan Mail On our 87th episode we’re looking back at the year 1996, a simpler time when humanity came together and made big hits out of unsophisticated and unabashedly emotional sci-fi adventures. We’re talking Independence Day directed by Roland Emmerich and starring Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum, Judd Hirsch, Margaret Colin, Mary McDonnell, Robert Loggia, James Rebhorn, Brent Spi...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Fabulous Film & Friends we’re giving our first impressions of Kevin Costner’s Horizon An American Saga Part 1. The actor/director headlines the production along with Sienna Miller, Sam Worthington, Luke Wilson, Michael Rooker, Danny Huston, Will Patton, Abbey Lee, Jena Malone, Tatanka Means, James Russo, John Beavers, Jamie Cambpell, Michael Angarano, Dale Dickey...

Send us Fan Mail On this 85th episode of Fabulous Film and Friends we are going to connect the dots between three seminal cautionary tales from the 80’s: 1984’s Repo Man directed by Alex Cox and starring Emelio Estevez, Harry Dean Stanton, Olivia Barash, Jennifer Balgobin, Dick Rude, Tracey Walter, Sy Richardson, Vonetta McGee, Richard Foronjy, Tom Finnegan, Eddie Velez, Del Zamora, Zander Schloss...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode of Fabulous Film and Friends we are looking back at two middling, lackluster sci-fi adventures from 1994 that have mysteriously stood the test of time: Stargate, directed by Roland Emmerich and starring Kurt Russell, James Spader, John Diehl, Jaye Davidson, Viveca Lindfors, Erick Avari, Alexis Cruz, Mili Avital, Leon Rippey, French Stewart, and Djimon Hounsou, whic...

Send us Fan Mail On our 83rd episode of Fabulous Film & Friends we’re driving headfirst into the maelstrom as we discuss ALL of director George Miller’s post-apocalyptic Mad Max movies including the newly released Furiosa . What’s that you say? Didn’t you just review The Road Warrior on your recent Australian Apocalypse podcast? True enough! But! We glossed over an important ingredient in the...

Send us Fan Mail Why you so lonely, Sofia? Follow FF&F on Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/fabulousfilmandfriends  On this 82nd episode of Fabulous Film & Friends we’re going to discuss the finer points of being a misunderstood celebrity sequestered in first-rate hostelries  as we discuss three of director Sofia Coppola’s notable tales of privileged isolation: 2003’s Lost in Tran...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Fabulous Film & Friends we’re going to wrestle with divisions among our ranks as we tackle 2024’s controversial Civil War , directed by Alex Garland and starring Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Maura, Calliee Spaeny, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Nick Offerman and Jesse Plemons. I’m joined this week by a blockbuster crew consisting of Utah IT Tech and film lover Burton Brown,...

Send us Fan Mail On our 80th episode of Fabulous Film & Friends what better way to follow up a Road House podcast than by looking at the highlights of pioneering gay director John Schlesinger? We’re talking about 1969’s Midnight Cowboy starring Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Brenda Vaccaro, John McGiver, Sylvia Miles, Bob Balaban and Barnard Hughes as well as 1971’s Sunday, Bloody Sunday starring...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Fabulous Film & Friends we’re leaping head first into the bone-cracking, tooth-spitting, throat-ripping and monster-trucking action of the Road House movies! Both of them! That’s the original 1989 version directed by Rowdy Herrington and starring Patrick Swayze, Sam Elliot, Kelly Lynch, Ben Gazzara, Kevin Tighe, Marshall Teague, Julie Michaels, Red West, Kathleen...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Fabulous Film and Friends we’re covering a trio of Neo Noir films set in the city of…where else? Los Angeles, as we discuss 1998’s The Big Lewbowski , directed by Joel and Ethan Coen and starring the extraordinary Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Steve Buscemi, Julianne Moore, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, David Huddleston, John Tutturo, Ben Gazara, David Thewlis, Tara Reid, Pe...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Fabulous Film and Friends the wait is over and in an exciting change of pace, no negativity. We’re going to slaver and spaz all about 2024’s Dune Part 2 directed by Denis Villanueve and starring Timotheé Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Javier Bardem, Zendaya, Josh Brolin, Stellan Skarsgaard, Austin Butler, Florence Pugh, Dave Bautista, Charlotte Rampling, Lea Seydoux, Chr...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Fabulous Film and Friends with the glow of our 75th episodeebbing, it’s time to pick up the empty champagne bottles, sweep the floor and go back to discussing one measly film, o’ but what a film it is: 2023’s Killers of the Flower Moon , directed by the legendary Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert DeNiro, Lily Gladstone, Jesse Plemons, John Lithgow...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Fabulous Film and Friends we are pointing our compasses southward to the land of doom and gloom: Australia! Don’t be fooled by the likes of Paul Hogan, Yahoo Serious and Thor, underneath that loopy, whimsical Australian charm, lies an unparalleled grim and sober yet prophetic outlook about life on Earth as evidenced by 1971’s Walkabout directed by Nicholas Roeg, thoug...

Send us Fan Mail  This week on Fabulous Film and Friends   I’m both chasing butterflies and swatting at hornets whilst forcing my friends to watch and analyze the films of director S. Craig Zahler a filmmaker who couldn’t have a more awkward professional name than if he had gone with "E. Marvin Bummington." But are his films worth discussing? We’re talking 2015’s Bone Tomahawk starring t...