Film Streak

The streak goes deep on James Cameron’s The Abyss (1989) and the recent theatrical release of the 1992 special edition. Plus a recent selection of comedies that got me thinking about generational gaps, fathers and sons, and just how much time changes things in No Hard Feelings (2023), About My Father (2023), The Machine (2023) and BlackBerry (2023). Thanks for listening to Film Streak! Subscribe f...

Tough guys on the run, surviving the impossible and candidates for best self-surgery scenes? The streak tags along with the lone badasses in Kandahar (2023) and Sisu (2022). Thanks for listening to Film Streak! Subscribe for free to receive new episodes. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit filmstreak.substack.com/sub...

The streak treads carefully to determine which is better between the original or the remake. This episode: Suspiria (1977) and Suspiria (2018). Thanks for listening to Film Streak! Subscribe for free to receive new episodes. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit filmstreak.substack.com/subscribe

Celebrating a personal favorite musician, performer and artist, the legendary David Bowie, with a look at the recent documentaries Moonage Daydream (2022) and Bowie: The Last Five Years (2017). Thanks for listening to Film Streak! Subscribe for free to receive new episodes. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit filmstr...

The streak falls in with stories tackling the range of experiences in the armed forces, from the unending boredom of Jarhead (2005) to a haunting double feature of the documentary The Kill Team (2013) and the feature film The Kill Team (2019) and the bonds of heroism in Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant (2023). Thanks for listening to Film Streak! Subscribe for free to receive new episodes. This is a pub...

The streak turns on the heat with the run of erotic thrillers from the 1990s, including Presumed Innocent (1990), Basic Instinct (1992), Jade (1995), Showgirls (1995) and more. Then we catch up with the genre today in the recent release Sanctuary (2022). Thanks for listening to Film Streak! Subscribe for free to receive new episodes. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with oth...

The streak plunges into the horrors of the deep, with a ranking of shark attack movies, including Jaws (1975), Deep Blue Sea (1999) and others. Then we catch up with more recent outings The Meg (2018), Meg 2: The Trench (2023) and The Black Demon (2023). Thanks for listening to Film Streak! Subscribe for free to receive new episodes. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with oth...

The streak goes behind the scenes of the 1990 ABC mini-series “IT” with Pennywise: The Story of IT (2021). Then it’s a double-feature of laughs in Meet the Blacks (2016), The House Next Door: Meet the Blacks 2 (2021), followed by the less-amusing No One Will Save You (2023) and Pet Sematary: Bloodlines (2023). Thanks for listening to Film Streak! Subscribe for free to receive new episodes. This is...

Can film help us understand such a complex and fiercely debated conflict as the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian fight for a homeland? The streak digs into documentaries 1948: Creation & Catastrophe (2017), Golda (2019), In Search of Peace (2001), Gaza (2019) and The Green Prince (2014). Thanks for listening to Film Streak! Subscribe for free to receive new episodes. This is a public episode. If you'd...

Revisiting The Shining (1980) on the big screen and the sequel Doctor Sleep (2019), going back to the 1980s for some of my overlooked classics from genre masters John Carpenter and David Cronenberg: The Fog (1980), Prince of Darkness (1987), Scanners (1981) and Videodrome (1983). Thanks for listening to Film Streak! Subscribe for free to receive new episodes. This is a public episode. If you'd lik...

The streak looks at the cinematic master’s gritty early work Killer's Kiss (1955) and Paths of Glory (1957), then braves the fanciful wigs and dueling forces of Barry Lyndon (1975). Thanks for listening to Film Streak! Subscribe for free to receive new episodes. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit filmstreak.substack...

We’re back on the road with more from the Criterion Channel’s “70s Car Movies” collection in The Last Run (1971), The Seven-Ups (1973) and The Last American Hero (1973) Check it out at Criterion Channel Thanks for listening to Film Streak! Subscribe for free to receive new episodes. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visi...

I aimed my gulliver at a freshened arrangement of 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) at Alamo Drafthouse, dialed up A Clockwork Orange (1971) and Eyes Wide Shut (1999) on the telly, and boy what a nice, warm vibraty feeling I had all through me guttiwuts. After that, I viddied two recent documentaries A Forbidden Orange (2021) and Kubrick by Kubruck (2020) and found them as delightful as a bit of the ol...

Revisiting Convoy (1978), catching classic movies on the big screen like American Graffiti (1973) and Stanley Kubrick at Alamo Drafthouse, and the streak fires up the Criterion Channel’s ’70s Cars Movies collection with Le Mans (1971) and Dirty Mary Crazy Larry (1974). Leave a comment or send email to comments@filmstreak.com. Thanks for listening! Thanks for listening to Film Streak! Subscribe for...

Hollywood writers and actors on strike, the changing theatrical landscape, creating quality work versus selling a product, Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning, Part One (2023), Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023) and Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (2023) Leave a comment or send email to comments@filmstreak.com. Thanks for listening! Thanks for listening to Film Streak! Subscribe for fr...

Looking at the magnificently horrifying display of power and its consequences in Oppenheimer (2023) and The Day After Trinity (1981). Leave a comment or send email to comments@filmstreak.com. Thanks for listening! Thanks for listening to Film Streak! Subscribe for free to receive new episodes. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus epi...

A look at cinema’s most famous blonde Marilyn Monroe and her starring roles in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), Niagara (1953), The Seven-Year Itch (1955), Some Like It Hot (1959) and The Misfits (1961). Leave a comment or send email to comments@filmstreak.com. Thanks for listening! Thanks for listening to Film Streak! Subscribe for free to receive new episodes. This is a public episode. If you'd...

The streak catches the small-time crews take down scores and of course all the things that go wrong in The Killing (1956), Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974), Blue Collar (1978), The Manhattan Project (1986), The Lookout (2007) and No Sudden Move (2021). Leave a comment or send email to comments@filmstreak.com. Thanks for listening! Thanks for listening to Film Streak! Subscribe for free to receive...

Houston Latino Film Festival co-founder and program director Pedro Rivas joins the streak to check out recent releases Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022), Aftersun (2022) and Talk To Me (2022). Leave a comment or send email to comments@filmstreak.com. Thanks for listening! Thanks for listening to Film Streak! Subscribe for free to receive new episodes. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss t...

The streak looks into the facts behind true stories in Breaking (2022), Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend (2022), Jerry and Marge Go Large (2022), Flamin' Hot (2023) and Reality (2023). Leave a comment or send email to comments@filmstreak.com. Thanks for listening! Thanks for listening to Film Streak! Subscribe for free to receive new episodes. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discu...

Peeking in on the deepest and darkest desires on full display in The Voyeurs (2022), Deep Water (2022) and Infinity Pool (2023). Leave a comment or send email to comments@filmstreak.com. Thanks for listening! Thanks for listening to Film Streak! Subscribe for free to receive new episodes. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes...

The streak celebrates America’s birthday with the national pastime and Kevin Costner in Bull Durham (1988), Field Of Dreams (1989) and For Love of the Game (1999). Leave a comment or send email to comments@filmstreak.com. Thanks for listening! Thanks for listening to Film Streak! Subscribe for free to receive new episodes. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscrib...

The streak catches up with the adventures (and misadventures) of cinema's current superheroes in Black Adam (2022), Shazam: Fury of the Gods (2023), The Flash (2023) and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-verse (2023). Leave a comment or send email to comments@filmstreak.com. Thanks for listening! Thanks for listening to Film Streak! Subscribe for free to receive new episodes. This is a public episode....

Celebrating the dads and their girls trying just trying to find each other in Don't Make Me Go (2022), The Whale (2022), Prospect (2018), Searching (2018) and Missing (2023). Leave a comment or send email to comments@filmstreak.com. Thanks for listening! Thanks for listening to Film Streak! Subscribe for free to receive new episodes. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with oth...

The streak gets into a monosyllabic mood with recent releases Sick (2022), Men (2022), Fresh (2022), Clean (2021), Air (2023) and Plane (2023). Leave a comment or send email to comments@filmstreak.com. Thanks for listening! Thanks for listening to Film Streak! Subscribe for free to receive new episodes. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to...