Fabulous Film & Friends

Send us Fan Mail Happy New Year everyone, and as we begin another year of Fabulous Film and Friends we’re doing something no one else is doing at this time and looking back at the films of 2023, our 3rd such recap since this show’s inception.  My guests are series regulars Roseanne Caputi and Alex Robertson, the only people I know who have the patience to sit through 2023’s bum crop of films.  My...

Send us Fan Mail On this final week of 2023 we’re going run and run and run with Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt in 2023’s Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning – Part 1, one might even say Dead Reckoning Part Run  directed by Christopher McQuarrie and starring Mr. Cruise, Ving Rhames, Hayley Atwell, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Vanessa Kirby, Pom Klementieff, Cary Elwes, Esai Morales Shea Whigham, Greg Ta...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Fabulous Film & Friends we’re going to analyze a trio of “cult classics” from the actor/director pairing of Kurt Russell and John Carpenter. Starting with 1981’s Escape From New York starring Mr. Russell, Donald Pleasance, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine, Harry Dean Stanton, Adrienne Barbeau, Isaac Hayes and Season Hubley, on to 1982’s The Thing starring Russell, D...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Fabulous Film & Friends we’re going to groove to a tryptic of cool Elmore Leonard adaptations. Why? Because we’re that cool. We be talkin’ 1995’s Get Shorty directed by Barry Sonnenfeld and starring John Travolta, Rene Russo, Gene Hackman, Danny DeVito, Dennis Farina, Delroy Lindo, James Gandlafini, David Paymer and Bette Midler up against 1997’s Jackie Brown , di...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the 3rd Season kickoff of Fabulous Film and Friends where this week we’re going to pit a pair of beloved personal  favorites from the 80’s against each other in an epic duel of characterization, star power and cinematic moxie. We’re talking about 1984’s The Pope of Greenwich Village directed by Stuart Rosenberg and starring Eric Roberts, Mickey Rourke, Burt Young, Daryl...

Send us Fan Mail   This week on Fabulous Film & Friends we are going to delve into the obsessions of the auteur with this past Summer’s Oppenheimer directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Cillian Murphy, Robert Downey Jr., Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, Florence Pugh, Alden Eherenreich, Casey Affleck, Tony Goldwin, and a whole host of blink and you’ll miss them celebrity walk-ons, the most since...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Fabulous Film & Friends we are going to discuss the 2023 film Nefarious, directed by Chuck Konzelman and Cary Solomon and starring Sean Patrick Flanery, Jordan Belfi, Glenn Beck, Tom Ohmer, Daniel Martin Berkey and Reverend Father Darrin Merlino, who was also the Spiritual Advisor on the film and who just happens to be our special guest this week.   We are also jo...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Fabulous Film and Friends, we’re concluding our look into the paranoid, dystopian lens of 70’s sci-fi by discussing three of the four versions of Invasion of the Body Snatchers.  We’re talking the 1956 version directed by Don Siegel and starring Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter, King Donovan, Carolyn Jones, Larry Gates and Sam Peckinpah in a cameo, comparing it to the 1978...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Fabulous Film and Friends,  we're going to review and discuss 2023’s Sound of Freedom , directed by Alejandro Gomez Monteverde, and starring Jim Caviezel, Bill Camp, Mira Sorvino, Eduardo Verástegui, Yessica Barrote Perryman, Kurt Fuller and Jose Zúñiga. My guest today are regulars, Alex Robertson, David Johnson, DMD. And in her first Triple F appearance, fearles...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Fabulous Film and Friends, we’re leaping onto the Indiana Jones bandwagon with a quick review of 2023’s non-Spielberg directed Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny , helmed by James Mangold and starring Harrison Ford, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Mads Mikkelson, Antonio Banderas, Toby Jones, Thomas Kretschmann, Boyd Holbrook and John Rhys Davies.    My guests today are two...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Fabulous Film and Friends it’s Spider-verse vs. Snyder-verse as we’re boldly entering the portal of current comic book summer movie multiverses and discussing the latest animated Marvel feature Spider-Man, Across the Spider-verse featuring the voices of Shamiek Moore, Hailey Steinfeld, Oscar Isaac, Karan Soni, Daniel Kaluuya and Jason Schwartzman and we’re seeing how...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Fabulous Film and Friends we’re maintaining course on our dark path down creepy 70’s  sci fi as we explore two trailblazers in the world of robotics and AI: 1973’s Westworld starring Yul Brynner, Richard Benjamin, James Brolin, Dick Van Patten, Steve Franken and Star Trek’s Majel Barrett  up against 1975’s The Stepford Wives starring Katherine Ross, Paula Prentiss, Pe...

Send us Fan Mail   With the sugary Fruit Loops of Summer movie fare already upon us, this week on Fabulous Film & Friends we are going to fortify our intellectual palate with some meaty, heavy-duty late 60’s early/70’s sci fi and compare Franklin Schaffner’s 1968 masterpiece Planet of The Apes , starring Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowell, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans, Linda Harrison and James Whitm...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Fabulous Film and Friends I’m taking the time on our special 60th episode to come clean and admit I was wrong.    Joining me as witnesses to my admission of guilt are series regulars David Johnson D.M.D. and erstwhile screenwriting collaborator, camera assistant, film editor lifelong gamer and creator of an unfinished and unknown role playing game entitled Swords and...

Send us Fan Mail Just in time for Mother's Day, this week on Fabulous Film and Friends we’re putting the brakes on the testosterone-fueled man vs. man combat of our last few episodes by diving headfirst into an intense congress of girl power and warmhearted thoughts and feelings as we pit the 1949, 1994 and 2019 versions of Little Women against each other in an uncompromising evaluation of ci...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Fabulous Film and Friends we’re concluding our discussion of the Rocky/Creed franchise with a full discussion of not one, not two but three Rocky Sequels and spinoffs: 1982‘s Rocky III directed by and starring Sylvester Stallone, along with Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers, and in a star-making role, Mr. T.  as well as 1990’s Rocky V , directed by John G. Advils...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Fabulous Film and Friends we’re continuing our discussion of the Rocky/Creed franchise with an in-depth comparison of the two Russian-themed sequels in the series: 1985’s Rocky IV directed by and starring Sylvester Stallone, along with Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers, Tony Burton, Brigitte Neilsen and Dolph Lundgren with 2018’s Creed II, directed by Steven Capl...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Fabulous Film and Friends we’re giving it the “ole one-two” with a match- up between 1976’s classic, Oscar winning underdog boxer sensation Rocky directed by John G. Avildsen and starring Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers and Burgess Meredith and its 2015 spin-off reboot, Creed, directed by Ryan Coogler and starring Michael B. Jordan, Sylveste...

Send us Fan Mail Happy New Year, Fabulous Film Fans!  Like a loud and well placed cherry bomb, we’re blasting into 2023 with a lively discussion of 2022's highlights and lowlights.   The line up is a who’s who of past superstars and regulars including Dr. David Johnson, DMD, Roseanne Caputi and Alex Roberston, Kendrick Wright and George Young.   In a sea of box checking mediocrities, the tric...

Send us Fan Mail Happy Belated Thanksgiving, Fabulous Film Fans!    We meant to get this talk in the can sooner but alas! External forces including the mighty Holiday itself prevented us from discussing two seminal works highlighting the struggles of early colonial Americans, with special emphasis on their relationships to the Native American tribes who either assisted or were rebuffed by them: we...

Send us Fan Mail It’s another exciting match-up this week on Fabulous Film & Friends as we compare the works of two L.A. showbiz-loving poets cum grand masters with Quentin Tarantino’s 2019 magnum opus, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Emile Hirsch, Bruce Dern, Margaret Qualley, Dakota Fanning, Mike Moh, a pre-Elvis Austin Butler, Kurt Russell...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Fabulous Film & Friends,  we’re celebrating Halloween by following last episode’s duel between Robert Eggers’ The Northman and David Lowry’s The Green Knight   by a looking at and comparing two low-budget genre creepfests from these two up-and-coming masters of modern cinema:  2015’s The Witch starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie, and three unsung m...

Send us Fan Mail On this very special 51st episode of Fabulous Film & Friends we’re making good on our promise to pit 2022’s The Northman written and directed by Robert Eggers and starring Alexander Skarsgard, Nicole Kidman, Claes Bang, Anya Taylor-Joy, Ethan Hawke, Bjork and Willem Dafoe  against 2021’s The Green Knight, written and directed by David Lowry and starring Dev Patel, Alicia Vikan...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to Fabulous Film & Friends after a seemingly endless break, which couldn’t be helped as this podcaster doesn’t pay the mortgage with podcasting dollars. It’s been nothing but work and more of it and no time for the finer things in life. Anyway, it’s our 50th episode and we had planned on something really special, a real barnburner between The Northman and The Gree...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Season 2 opener of Fabulous Film and Friends where this week we will be throwing down with a Battle of the Blade Runners , as we compare Ridley Scott’s 1982 sci fi giant Blade Runner starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Darryl Hannah, William Sanderson, M. Emmet Walsh, Joanna Cassidy, Edward James Olmos, Brion James, Joe Turkel and James Hong with Denis...