Fabulous Film & Friends

Send us Fan Mail Heigh- Ho, western fans! This week on Fabulous Film and friends we’re going to circle back and discuss Jane Campion’s 2021 comeback effort and Oscar frontrunner, The Power of The Dog starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Jesse Plemons, Kirsten Dunst and Kodi Smit-McPhee. It was mentioned on our year in review last week as a top film, but no time was spent hunkering down on its finer poin...

Send us Fan Mail On this week’s Fabulous Film and Friends we’re going to look back at the year that was in motion pictures, 2021!  I and my panel had a challenge:  We had to scrape together not ten but a measly five films from last year that were worth seeing and may stand the test of time. Could we do it???  I’m guessing no!   Joining me on my panel of film loving regulars is my sister Roseanne C...

Send us Fan Mail A happy and healthy 2022 to all of you Fabulous Film Loving Friends out there! We’re ringing in the New Year by pandering to the masses and discussing the latest and biggest Marvel blockbuster to date, 2021’s Spider-Man No Way Home , directed by Jon Watts and starring Tom Holland as everyone’s favorite wisecracking wallcrawler.  Joining me today are two of the stalwart members of ...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Fabulous Film and Friends we’re fully embracing our inner ironic film geek by discussing one of our favorite Wes Anderson films, the 1998 Bill Murray Jason Schwartzman/Olivia Williams romantic and philosophical charmer, Rushmore, the film that put Mr. Anderson on the map and marked a career resurgence for Bill Murray.   I’m Gino Caputi, your host and joining me is Eas...

Send us Fan Mail Ho! Ho! Ho! And  a very Merry Christmas to you from all of us at Fabulous Film and Friends! With our yuletide spirit in maximum overdrive we’re going to spread the Holiday Cheer by discussing everyone’s favorite Christmas movie, the 1988 Bruce Willis/ John McTiernan action extravaganza, Die Hard!  Joining me on my panel of red-blooded, steak-eating, cigar chomping, gun toting manl...

Send us Fan Mail It’s westward ho! This week on Fabulous Film & Friends , as we discuss Clint Eastwood’s 1985 Guns, Gold, Ghosts and God spectacular Pale Rider, which was a return to form for Mr. Eastwood in the mid-80’s when the Western genre was considered on the way out.  My guest is Jeffrey Weissman who acted in the film as Teddy Conway, one of the gentle, kind-hearted gold mining brothers...

Send us Fan Mail It’s Rock N’ Roll week on Fabulous Film & Friends , and we’re going to bop our way through the 1987 Lou Diamond Phillips starring Luis Valdez directed low budget sleeper hit La Bamba!   My guest is Cinematographer and Camera guru Vance Piper returning once again after his riveting first podcast on Triple FFF where we talked about the making of The Terminator. La Bamba, like th...

Send us Fan Mail On this week’s Fabulous Film and Friends we are going to show that we’re tough enough when discussing Francis Ford Coppola’s 1983 cult classic The Outsiders. Starring a veritable Who’s Who of 80’s leading men and one woman, Matt Dillon, C. Thomas Howell, Ralph Macchio, Patrick Swayze, Tom Cruise, Emelio Estevez, Rob Lowe, dreamy Leif Garrett and the token female, future Oscar nomi...

Send us Fan Mail It’s a Star Wars prequel-style Jedi double team on this week’s  Fabulous Film & Friends , where two like minded movie fans will team up against a solo dissenter  in an epic duel over the worthiness of the 2015 Denis Villeneuve drug cartel potboiler Sicario My tag-team partner is David Johnson DMD, and joining us in the opposite corner for his first stint on Triple F is, is our...

Send us Fan Mail On this week’s Fabulous Film & Friends , we’re doing round two of "Face Your Fears" where we pluck up the courage to view a film that we've been hemming and hawing about watching, this time yet another Eric Roberts vehicle,  Bob Fosse’s 1983 controversial biographical drama, Star 80.     Joining me once again on this crazy quest to confront our apprehensions and...

Send us Fan Mail It’s a Guy-guy’s episode this week on Fabulous Film & Friends , where we tackle the 1987 Arnold Schwarzenegger/John McTiernan sci-fi action movie staple Predator!     Joining me in this online man cave is none other than the crossfit crown filler, Salt Lake City’s own David Johnson, DMD, and in the left square weighing in at a lean, donut, pie and booze free 200 lbs, the undis...

Send us Fan Mail On this week’s episode of Fabulous Film & Friends , the regular crew is all back to dissect and probe the often-misunderstood genius of Jerry Lewis with his seminal 1963 masterwork, The Nutty Professor, which he co-wrote, directed and starred in alongside a very easy on the eyes,  Stella Stevens.  Back once again for their invaluable insights on the matter are instructors and...

Send us Fan Mail It’s “Face Your Fears Week” on this blazingly fast-paced, pulse-pounding, edge of your seat, thrilling segment of Fabulous Film & Friends where my sister Roseanne and I are going to watch a film that we’ve been putting off since it came out in 1985, Andrei Konchalovsky’s Runaway Train starring Jon Voight and Eric Roberts.  Joining me again are teacher, thinker,  anti-horseplay...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Fabulous Film & Friends my wife is joining us at the roundtable to talk about the hilarious and whimsical Adam Sandler/Paul Thomas Anderson 2002 collaboration Punch Drunk Love.     Nyna Pais Caputi, my muse, my best friend, wife and soul mate, is gracing us for the first time with her presence because Punch Drunk Love was the first official date we went on after m...

Send us Fan Mail On this week’s Fabulous Film & Friends our roundtable will be completing the second part of a matched set we started with last episode’s discussion of Joel and Ethan Coen’s Hudsucker Proxy , as we review their other lavish, 1950’s-set extravaganza, 2016’s Hail Caesar!.     Returning for this thrilling follow up is a name over 200 podcast listeners trust, my younger sister Rose...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Fabulous Film & Friends we’re going to start in on the work of The Philosopher Kings of modern Cinema, Joel and Ethan Coen, beginning with one of their seemingly lesser and lesser-known efforts, 1994’s The Hudsucker Proxy.    Once again I’m joined by my younger sister Roseanne Caputi, Teacher, Tough Talking Career Gal,  one of the boys,  and easily as big a Coen B...

Send us Fan Mail On this week's action packed episode of Fabulous Film & Friends I  finally come clean and admit that the reason I probably started this podcast is so I could add my voice to the already mountain-high logpile of fanboys slavering and spazzing about STAR TREK! My number one sci-fi love.   I’m joined by familiar voices Roseanne Caputi, my kid sister, who was dragged to the t...

Send us Fan Mail On today’s exciting edition of Fabulous Film & Friends I’m talk with former Oakland Film Commissioner Ami Zins about The Matrix Reloaded , the blockbuster sequel to the 1999 genre busting, era-defining sci fi mind-bender, The Matrix .     I met Ami during the carefree days of the summer of 2000 on a an indie feature entitled Haiku Tunnel , the very first project I worked on as...

Send us Fan Mail On this week's edition of Fabulous Film & Friends I talk with my friend Bob Gitzen about Stanley Kubrick’s classic 1968 sci fi existential meditation 2001: A Space Odyssey.  Robert “Bob” Gitzen who is a production sound mixer, sci fi lover and all-around deep thinker, in fact he was at one-point a seminarian. And he’s also an inventive genius who created and patented The...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode of Fabulous Film & Friends I  talk with George Young, author of the forthcoming novel Time Blinked , about Robert Redford & Barry Levinson’s seminal 1984 love letter to baseball, The Natural , based on the novel by Bernard Malamud.   The multi-talented Mr. Young, whose exciting and varied career includes working as a professional dancer and then as an in-de...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode of Fabulous Film & Friends we’re going to do a deep-dive, as corporate folks love to say, into the mentality and megalomania of late 80’s Sylvester Stallone as evidenced by his 1988 rippling deltoids and rocket launcher extravaganza, Rambo III.  I’m joined  by David Johnson, D.M.D. He’s a Salt Lake City Area Dentist Supreme and a Crossfit Animal, which is why I...

Send us Fan Mail Today I'm joined by my kid sister Roseanne Caputi, who is a teacher in Eastern Oregon and holds a Masters Degree in English Literature from Oregon State University. We thought  it only fitting that we discuss Ang Lee & Emma Thompson’s superlative 1995 adaptation of Jane Austen’s Sense & Sensibility , for out money the all-time-all-time champ in the realm of English te...

Send us Fan Mail Vance Piper is a revered and respected  San Francisco Bay Area Film & Television  Director of Photography, Camera Operator, and Assistant Camera.  One of the nicest people I’ve ever worked with, our paths crossed in the early oughts on several commercials and independent films, but I didn’t consider him a true friend until 2017 when I was shocked that he not only agreed to wor...