Fabulous Film & Friends

Send us Fan Mail Continuing the discussion about Dracula v. Last Temptation of Christ with George Young,  Alex Robertson and Roseanne Caputi. 

Send us Fan Mail This week on Fabulous Film & Friends it’s round four of the seemingly endless Coppola v. Scorsese Film Battle, where we shift gears downward with two problematic, others might say misunderstood, passion projects in both maestros’ respective canons, as we compare Martin Scorsese’s 1988 semi-Biblical epic  The Last Temptation of Christ , starring Willem Dafoe, Harvey Keitel, Bar...

Send us Fan Mail This week the Round 3 bell rings loud on our Francis Ford Coppola vs. Martin Scorsese masters of cinema fight for the heavyweight crown of greatest American Filmmaker as we compare their two most extraordinary works, 1979’s Apocalypse Now starring  Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Frederic Forrest, Sam Bottoms, Laurence Fishbourne, Albert Hall, Harrison Ford, G.D. Spradlin and Dennis...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Fabulous Film and Friends I’m colluding with The Ken and Dante Show’s Kendrick Wright and Dante Oliviero as we discuss 2022’s Top Gun Maverick on their show.  No synopsis this week, because that's not how Ken and Dante roll. Just know that Pete Maverick Mitchell, after 36 years, still is the best of the best and feels the need for speed.  Is the film any good?  F...

Send us Fan Mail  We’re jetting towards the celebration of our nation’s independence this week on Fabulous Film and Friends we’ve decided to discuss and dissect the film that started it all, 1986’s Top Gun starring Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, Anthony Edwards, Meg Ryan, Val Kilmer, Tom Skerrit, Rick Rossovich, James Tolkan, John Stockwell and Tim Robbins.    I’m your host Gino Caputi and joining me...

Send us Fan Mail Continuing the Godfather v. Goodfellas discussion. 

Send us Fan Mail This Week on Fabulous Film and Friends, we’re ringing the Round 2 bell of our Francis Ford Coppola vs. Martin Scorsese masters of cinema fight for the crown of greatest American Filmmaker as we compare Mob Epics 1972/74’s Godfathers I &II starring Al Pacino, Marlon Brando, James Caan, Richard Castalleno, John Cazale, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, Abe Vigoda, Michael V. Gazzo an...

Send us Fan Mail Resuming our talk about Coppola v. Scorsese's iconic films from the 70's.  With Roseanne Caputi, Alex Robertson, Dante Oliviero and Kendrick Wright.

Send us Fan Mail This Week on Fabulous Film and Friends, we’re doing spectacularly new and exciting things to shake it all up as we discuss not one but two important films by two legendary grand masters of cinema in a head-to-head film matchup extravaganza.    Previously I had ironically referred to this series as the“Death Battle” but considering recent events, including the passing of actor Ray...

Send us Fan Mail This Week on Fabulous Film and Friends, we’re segueing from Todd Philips Joker back to one of its original “inspirations,"  1983’s The King of Comedy directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Robert DeNiro, Jerry Lewis, Sandra Bernhard, Dihanne Abbott and Ed Herlihy in what is easily my favorte Scorsese film. This podcast also serves as the prologue, a Hobbit  to the Lord of t...

Send us Fan Mail Picking up from Part 1 of our discussion of Todd Phillip's 2019 Joker , starring Joaquin Phoenix.

Send us Fan Mail It’s back to Gotham City this week on the Triple FFF as we follow up our review of Matt Reeves’ The Batman and discuss Todd Phillips’ 2019 gritty blockbuster Joker starring Joaquin Phoenix in his Oscar winning performance as the clown prince of crime, and co-starring Robert DeNiro, Zazie Beetz, Frances Conroy. Shea Wighham, Bill Camp,  Brett Cullen and a whole host of other “Oh, t...

Send us Fan Mail This week on the Triple FFF we’re busting out of the 50’s and landing squarely in the present day to discuss 2022’s The Batman directed by Matt Reeves and starring Robert Pattinson, Zoe Kravitz, Jeffrey Wright, Paul Dano, Jon Tuturro  and an unrecognizable and surprisingly good Colin Farrell.    My guests this week are Roseanne Caputi and David Johnson and the crown prince of crim...

Send us Fan Mail We’re back in the Old West again this week on Fabulous Film & Friends to discuss William Wyler’s 1958 Technorama Masterpiece The Big Country , starring Gregory Peck, Charleton Heston, Carroll Baker, Jean Simmons, Charles Bickford, Chuck Connors and Burl Ives in an Oscar winning role.  My guests today are Roseanne Caputi and Burton Brown. And now the synopsis: A tale of two riv...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Fabulous Film & Friends our run of great 1955 films comes to an abrupt and awkward end as we discuss Picnic, a time capsule dramatic weepie directed by Joshua Logan and starring everyone’s favorite red-eyed, clenched jawed everyman, William Holden, a nearly diffused and dowdy Kim Novak,  skinny and young Cliff Robertson, a suitably wild eyed Rosiland Russell and a...

Send us Fan Mail We’re going back in time to 1955 once again with Charles Laughton’s supreme tale of spine-tingling suspense: The Night of The Hunter starring the incomparable Robert Mitchum as Reverend Harry Powell and co-starring Shelly Winters, The First Lady of American Cinema Lillian Gish, a young, pre-Mission Impossible Peter Graves and child actors Billy Chapin and Sally Jane Bruce .  I’m j...

Send us Fan Mail Continuing where last week's West Side Story Comparison left off.  Who wins the rumble? Find out!

Send us Fan Mail In this first part of 2, it's an all out rumble  on Fabulous Film and Friends, as we compare and contrast the two visions of the classic musical West Side Story —the 1961 version directed by Star Trek The Motion Picture’s Robert Wise and the 2021 version directed by Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of The Crystal Skull’s Steven Spielberg. The first version starred Natalie Wood,...

Send us Fan Mail On this 30th episode of Fabulous Film and Friends, my sister and I are going to discuss the 2007 romantic war drama Atonement , directed by Joe Wright and starring James McAvoy, Keira Knightly, Saorsie Ronan, Benecict Cumberbatch, Romola Garai, Brenda Blethlyn, Harriet Walter and Vanessa Redgrave in what is arguably one of the finest war films ever made, second only to Apocalypse...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Fabulous Film and Friends, we’re going to pay homage to the noble everyman by discussing the 1955 drama Marty directed by Delbert Mann, written by Paddy Chayefsky and startring Ernest Borgine, Betsy Blair, Joe Mantell, Karen Steele, Esther Minciotti and Sergeant Carter himself, Frank Sutton.    Like all of us around the world for the past few weeks, I’m worried about ...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Fabulous Film and Friends we’re back to full on chip munching, beer swilling, fist-bumping battle mode as we take on James Cameron and Arnold Schwarzenegger’s 1994 Marital strife/Spies Fighing Evil Terrorists Action Comedy Extravaganza True Lie s. For this movie fan’s money the absolute BEST, most accomplished escapist  guns and explosions movie ever produced, easily...

Send us Fan Mail Because you demanded it!! Disney's The Love Bug!  This week on Fabulous Film and Friends we’re following our discussion about the violent and gruesome Braveheart with the equally violent and twisted 1968 Disney gutbuster, The Love Bug and starring Dean Jones, Michelle Lee, Buddy Hackett, David Tomlinson and Sacramento’s own Benson Fong.    I’m joined by my good friend Gordon...

Send us Fan Mail We’re keeping the spirit of 1995 alive on this week’s Fabulous Film and Friends where we will be following up our discussion about Ron Howard’s Oscar nominated historical drama Apollo 13 , with Mel Gibson’s Oscar-winning historical drama Braveheart starring himself in the title role as The Hammer of The Scots, William Wallace,  and co-starring Patrick McGoohan, Sophie Marceau, Cat...

Send us Fan Mail It’s back to the cosmos again on this week’s Fabulous Film and Friends where we will be analyzing Ron Howard’s triumphant 1995 historical drama Apollo 13 , starring Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, Kevin Bacon, Gary Sinise, Kathleen Quinlan, the mighty Ed Harris, and a whole battalion of bespectacled bit players  in one of the most effective films of its ilk.   Returning to the panel once...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Fabulous Film and Friends we’re transporting you into our largest, swankiest and most epic discussion panel yet, taking two full shows to dig deep into 1979’s Star Trek: The Motion Picture, directed by Robert Wise, Produced by Gene Roddenberry, creator of the late 1960’s TV show from which The Motion Picture’s premise originated, and starring William Shatner, Leonard...