Film Fanatic Commentaries

An Audio-Only Commentary on the 2001 film HANNIBAL by John Doe. Starring Anthony Hopkins, Julianne Moore, Gary Oldman, Ray Liotta, Frankie Faison, Giancarlo Giannini, Francesca Neri. Directed by Ridley Scott. Living in exile, Dr. Hannibal Lecter tries to reconnect with now disgraced F.B.I. Agent Clarice Starling, and finds himself a target for revenge from a powerful victim. #commentary #ridleysco...

An Audio-Only Commentary on the 1976 film TAXI DRIVER by John Doe. Starring Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd, Albert Brooks, Diahnne Abbott, Frank Adu, Victor Argo. Directed by Martin Scorsese. A mentally unstable veteran works as a nighttime taxi driver in New York City, where the perceived decadence and sleaze fuels his urge for violent action. #taxidriver #robertdeniro #martinscors...

An Audio-Only Commentary on the 1986 film BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA by John Doe. Starring Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall, Dennis Dun, James Hong, Victor Wong, Kate Burton, Donald Li. Directed by John Carpenter. A rough-and-tumble trucker and his side kick face off with an ancient sorcerer in a supernatural battle beneath Chinatown. #commentary #cultclassic #johncarpenter #deancundey #kurtrussell #ki...

An Audio-Only Commentary on the 2003 film LOVE ACTUALLY by John Doe. Starring Hugh Grant, Martine McCutcheon, Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, Bill Nighy, Colin Firth, Emma Thompson. Directed by Richard Curtis. Follows the lives of eight very different couples in dealing with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London, England. #lovea...

An Audio-Only Commentary on the 2012 film PROMETHEUS by John Doe. Starring Noomi Rapace, Logan Marshall-Green, Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron, Idris Elba, Guy Pearce, Sean Harris. Directed by Ridley Scott. Following clues to the origin of mankind, a team finds a structure on a distant moon, but they soon realize they are not alone. #prometheus #ridleyscott #noomirapace #michaelfassbender #cha...

An Audio-Only Commentary on the 1978 film HALLOWEEN by John Doe. Starring Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tony Moran, Nancy Kyes, P.J. Soles, Charles Cyphers, Kyle Richards. Directed by John Carpenter. Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again. #commentary #...

An Audio-Only Commentary on the 2002 film HALLOWEEN RESURRECTION by John Doe. Starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Busta Rhymes, Brad Loree, Bianca Kajlich, Sean Patrick Thomas, Daisy McCrackin, Katee Sackhoff. Directed by Rick Rosenthal. Three years after he last terrorized his sister, Michael Myers confronts her again, before traveling to Haddonfield to deal with the cast and crew of a reality show which...

An Audio-Only Commentary on the 2000 film WHAT LIES BENEATH by John Doe. Starring Harrison Ford, Michelle Pfeiffer, Katharine Towne, Miranda Otto, James Remar, Victoria Bidewell, Diana Scarwid. Directed by Robert Zemeckis. The wife of a university research scientist believes that her lakeside Vermont home is haunted by a ghost - or that she is losing her mind. #commentary #whatliesbeneath #harriso...

An Audio-Only Commentary on the 1999 film BLAIR WITCH PROJECT by John Doe. Starring Heather Donahue, Michael C. Williams, Joshua Leonard. Directed by Daniel Myrick & Eduardo Sánchez. Three film students vanish after traveling into a Maryland forest to film a documentary on the local Blair Witch legend, leaving only their footage behind. #commentary #cultclassic #halloween #horror #mystery #bla...

An Audio-Only Commentary on the 1998 film H20 by John Doe. Starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Josh Hartnett, Adam Arkin, Michelle Williams, Adam Hann-Byrd, Jodi Lyn O'Keefe, Janet Leigh. Directed by Steve Miner. Laurie Strode, now the dean of a Northern California private school with an assumed name, must battle the Shape one last time, as the life of her own son hangs in the balance. #halloween #90smovie...

An Audio-Only Commentary on the 1995 film THE CURSE OF MICHAEL MYERS by John Doe. Starring Donald Pleasence, Paul Rudd, Marianne Hagan, Mitchell Ryan, Kim Darby, Bradford English, Keith Bogart. Directed by Joe Chappelle. Six years after Michael Myers last terrorized Haddonfield, he returns there in pursuit of his niece, Jamie Lloyd, who has escaped with her newborn child, for which Michael and a m...

An Audio-Only Commentary on the 1990 film LEGION by John Doe. Starring George C. Scott, Ed Flanders, Brad Dourif, Scott Wilson, Nancy Fish, Peggy Alston, Ryan Paul Amick. Directed by William Peter Blatty. William Peter Blatty's director's cut of "The Exorcist III" which was thought to be lost. Recovered and released in 2016 under its original title, this is the definitive cut of the film based on...

An Audio-Only Commentary on the 1989 film HALLOWEEN 5 by John Doe. Starring Donald Pleasence, Ellie Cornell, Danielle Harris, Jeffrey Landman, Tamara Glynn, Beau Starr, Jonathan Chapin. Directed by Dominique Othenin-Girard. One year after the events of Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988), the Shape returns to Haddonfield once again in an attempt to kill his now-mute niece. #halloween #...

An Audio-Only Commentary on the 1988 film HALLOWEEN 4 by John Doe. Starring Donald Pleasence, Ellie Cornell, Danielle Harris, George P. Wilbur, Michael Pataki, Beau Starr, Kathleen Kinmont. Directed by Dwight H. Little. Ten years after his original massacre, the invalid Michael Myers awakens on Halloween Eve and returns to Haddonfield to kill his seven-year-old niece. Can Dr. Loomis stop him? #hal...

An Audio-Only Commentary on the 1982 film HALLOWEEN III by John Doe. Starring Tom Atkins, Stacey Nelkin, Dan O'Herlihy, Michael Currie, Ralph Strait, Jadeen Barbor, Brad Schacter. Directed by Tommy Lee Wallace. Kids all over America want Silver Shamrock masks for Halloween. Doctor Daniel Challis seeks to uncover a plot by Silver Shamrock owner Conal Cochran. #halloween #johncarpenter #80smovies #c...

An Audio-Only Commentary on the 1977 film EXORCIST II by John Doe. Starring Richard Burton, Linda Blair, Louise Fletcher, Max von Sydow, Kitty Winn, Paul Henreid, James Earl Jones. Directed by John Boorman Rospo Pallenberg. A teenage girl once possessed by a demon finds that it still lurks within her. Meanwhile, a priest investigates the death of the girl's exorcist. #richardburton #lindablair #lo...

An Audio-Only Commentary on the 2022 film HALLOWEEN ENDS by John Doe. Starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Andi Matichak, James Jude Courtney, Rohan Campbell, Will Patton, Jesse C. Boyd, Michael Barbieri. Directed by David Gordon Green. The saga of Michael Myers and Laurie Strode comes to a spine-chilling climax in the final installment of this trilogy. #halloween #johncarpenter #jamieleecurtis #halloweenen...

An Audio-Only Commentary on the 1973 film THE EXORCIST by John Doe. Starring Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Linda Blair, Lee J. Cobb, Kitty Winn, Jack MacGowran, Jason Miller. Directed by William Friedkin. When a young girl is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two priests to save her daughter. #exorcist #williamfriedkin #lindablair #maxvonsydow #possession #1973 #horror...

An Audio-Only Commentary on the 2021 film HALLOWEEN KILLS by John Doe. Starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Judy Greer, Andi Matichak, James Jude Courtney, Nick Castle, Airon Armstrong, Will Patton. Directed by David Gordon Green. Surviving victims of Michael Myers form a vigilante mob and vow to end his reign of terror. #halloween #johncarpenter #jamieleecurtis #halloweenkills #halloweenends #michaelmyers...

An Audio-Only Commentary on the 2018 film HALLOWEEN by John Doe. Starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Judy Greer, Andi Matichak, James Jude Courtney, Nick Castle, Haluk Bilginer, Will Patton. Directed by David Gordon Green. Laurie Strode confronts her long-time foe, Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago. #hallowe...

An Audio-Only Commentary on the 1980 film CHANGELING by John Doe. Starring George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, Melvyn Douglas, Jean Marsh, John Colicos, Barry Morse, Madeleine Sherwood. Directed by Peter Medak. After the death of his wife and daughter in a car crash, a music professor staying at a long-vacant Seattle mansion is dragged into a decades-old mystery by an inexplicable presence in the m...

An Audio-Only Commentary on the 1981 film HALLOWEEN II by John Doe. Starring Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, Charles Cyphers, Jeffrey Kramer, Lance Guest, Pamela Susan Shoop, Dick Warlock. Directed by Rick Rosenthal. While Dr. Loomis hunts for Michael Myers, a traumatized Laurie is rushed to Haddonfield Memorial Hospital, and The Shape is not far behind her. #halloween #johncarpenter #jamielee...

An Audio-Only Commentary on the 2007 film PARANORMAL ACTIVITY by John Doe. Starring Katie Featherston, Micah Sloat, Mark Fredrichs, Amber Armstrong, Ashley Palmer, Crystal Cartwright, Spencer Marks. Directed by Oren Peli. After moving into a suburban home, a couple becomes increasingly disturbed by a nightly demonic presence. #paranormalactivity #2007 #demon #ghost #posessed #foundfootage #horrors...

An Audio-Only Commentary on the 2023 TV Series The Reckoning by John Doe. The story of Savile's life from his working-class roots, to his rise to TV stardom as a BBC presenter, and his later years when he managed to keep his reign of sexual abuse concealed until after his death in 2011. Part 3 & 4. The Audio is slightly lower on Part 3 due to an editing error I made whilst using Audiotonic - P...

An Audio-Only Commentary on the 1994 film INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE by John Doe. Starring Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, Antonio Banderas, Kirsten Dunst, Christian Slater, Thandiwe Newton, Roger Lloyd Pack. Directed by Neil Jordan. A vampire tells his epic life story: love, betrayal, loneliness, and hunger. #bradpitt #tomcruise #antoniobanderas #interviewwiththevampire #kirstendunst #christianslater #vam...