Film Fury

Alan speaks with filmmaker Saul Sudin about why he was touched by the film and thought it was the best of the 10 nominated for an Oscar. Saul gives an interesting interpretation about family and brings up something most viewers didn't catch about the beginning and the ending. Saul shows he really knows his stuff. Alan questions if Pual Giamatti's role was difficult enough and they also discuss the...

Did Jimmy Kimmel go too far with a joke about Robert Downey Jr? Will his jokes about former President Trump come back to haunt him? Some of his jokes were on target and the Oscars had some great moments and some strange ones. Did John Cena want to have that "costume?" Alan goes over how he was right on all of his predictions but one and how it was a good idea to have past winners say something nic...

Alan raises hell and is mystified at how the New York Times could correctly call the film a failure, yet the movie received numerous nominations. He mentions that he has interviewed numerous Holocaust survivors, and one said the film was boring and had no educational value. He also rasies the question: "How has the film been nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay when the script throws out the majo...

Alan speaks with Heather Robinson, a contributor for the New York Post and JNS about different ways "Poor Things" is being perceived with Emma Stone as Bell Baxter, who for a time in the film becomes a prostitute. They discuss the controversy about several scenes of the film and the impressive nature of Emma Stone's acting in a role that was quite difficult. Alan says he thinks Willem Dafoe should...

The Native Americans were often treated badly. But the Osage found oil under their land and by 1907, in Oklahoma, they were raking in the big bucks. How did a guy named William Hale orchestrate a diabolical plot to murder between 9 and 30 people and have white men marry Osage women only to have them killed? Shootings, explosions and other unexplained deaths left the Osage reeling and furious and o...

Projected to win numerous awards, Christopher Nolan's film stars Irish actor Cillian Murphy as J.Robert Oppenheimer as a man tasked with fathering the nuclear bomb. We go over the performances of Murphy and his unreal eyes, Robert Downey Jr. as Lewis Strauss, whose admiration for Oppenheimer turns to jealousy and anger and we talk about how this film had one notable flaw but was both memorable and...

Alan speaks to Nava Silton, developmental psychologist and professor at Manhattan Marymount College about her impressions on "Barbie" and why it was such a success. Are there similarities between hatred toward Barbie and if there is hatred toward Barbie and Taylor Swift. She also talks about the power of having multiple Kens and Barbies and why she felt the film was powerful. They discuss if Margo...

Welcome to the Film Fury podcast. It's time to analyze movies and get mad or get glad. I'm Alan Zeitlin, an entertainment writer and film critic for more than two decades, and I'm going to take you on a deep dive into the sea of movies. What actors rose to the occasion and who fell flat? From Oppenheimer to Barbie, what film should win Oscar Gold and which should be left in the cold? Who got loved...