Forgotten Cinema

The Mikes love talking about Mike....Clayton that is! This week Mike Butler and Mike Field are discussing the 2007 Tony Gilroy film, Michael Clayton , starring George Clooney, Tilda Swinton, and Tom Wilkinson. This film is a favorite of the Mikes, nominated for 7 Academy Awards, including a win for Swinton and a Best Picture nod, it's no wonder. From the phenomenal acting of its title character Cl...

Mike Field and Mike Butler are talking about ANOTHER group of friends finding ANOTHER bag filled with a ridiculous amount of money. Man, the 90's just had cash coming out of everywhere. This time it's the UK in Shallow Grave , the first feature film from director Danny Boyle. Starring Ewan "Obi-Wan" McGregor, Christopher "The Doctor" Eccleston, and Kerry Fox, this movie is about 3 terrible friends...

The Mikes are jumping into some unsafe looking homemade planes and flying a gaggle of geese south for the winter as they discuss the 1996 family film Fly Away Home starring Jeff Daniels and Anna Paquin. Butler was sure Field would hate his film, but to his surprise, Field didn't hate it! From the father/daughter relationship of Daniels and Paquin, the cinematography, the true story angle, and of c...

The Mikes are going on holiday "In Bruge" after a podcast gone wrong with guest host Laura Johns from the "Why the Book Wins" podcast. Mike Field, Mike Butler, and Laura will discuss what they like about this 2008 dark dramedy from writer/director Martin McDonagh (of Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri fame) starring Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, and Ralph Fiennes. The themes are ever-prese...

The Mikes are going under cover at a new school, pretending to be men in order to....wait...something isn't right. Maybe sometimes the Mikes are just watching movies; movies like Just One of the Guys from 1985, featuring William Zabka as, you guessed it...a bully! Mike Butler and Mike Field discuss why this film still works today at a time when a film from the 80's with a gender-swapping plot such...

What do you get when you have Mike Field and Mike Butler discuss the 2018 Steven Soderbergh film Unsane on an episode of Forgotten Cinema ? A fight! This Claire Foy vehicle; filmed (almost completely) on an iPhone split the Mikes opinions down the line. Mike Field enjoys the basic premise of the film; that being accidentally self-admitted in a mental institution is frighteningly possible. Mike But...

The game is afoot! The Mikes play some games with deadly consequences with Sirs Michael Caine and Laurence Olivier on this episode of Forgotten Cinema as they discuss the 1972 film, Sleuth ! Join Mike Butler and Mike Field as they talk about this two-man show featuring some of the greatest acting talent the world has ever seen. A mix of comedy, mystery, and drama with themes of revenge, racism, an...

The Mikes are getting mean on this episode of Forgotten Cinema as they take a look at Neil LaBute's The Shape of Things , starring Paul Rudd, Rachel Weisz, Gretchen Mol, and Fredrick Weller. Listen in as Mike Field and Mike Butler discuss how this film is based (as most of LaBute's films are) on one of his successful plays that stars the original cast as well. Butler and Field discuss the very pla...

Join the Mikes as they watch the 54th train and come together as the Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, led by Col. Robert Gould Shaw. Starring Denzel Washington, Morgan Freeman, Andre Braugher, Matthew Broderick, and Cary Elwes. Directed by Edward Zwick with an amazing score by the great James Horner. This is Glory! If you can't tell, both Mike Butler and Mike Field love this film and...

Which Mike would betray whom if they found a sack of money worth millions of dollars? Both of course! Just like the three men in this week's episode of Forgotten Cinema ! Join Mike Field and Mike Butler as they discuss the 1998 film "A Simple Plan," directed by Sam Raimi and starring Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thorton, Brent Briscoe and Bridget Fonda. The Mikes will talk about how the performances of...

Butler and Field are giving up the conveniences of modern life to hide out amongst the Amish as they discuss Witness starring Harrison Ford and Kelly McGillis, directed by Peter Weir. Listen in as Mike Field and Mike Butler talk about the screenplay to Witness that is often considered one of the greatest screenplays ever written. They'll also debate the performance of Lukas Haas as Samuel and whet...

The Mikes are assembling their crew and about to pull of the biggest heist in NASCAR history on this episode of Forgotten Cinema ! This week Mike Butler and Mike Field are discussing the 2017 Steven Soderbergh film, Logan Lucky , starring Channing Tatum, Adam Driver, Daniel Craig, Riley Keough, Seth McFarlane and Katie Holmes. The Mikes love this charming "Ocean's 7/11" from the characters like Jo...

Mike Field and Mike Butler encounter their most 80's title sequence yet as they discuss the 1986 film Ruthless People , starring Danny Devito, Bette Midler, Judge Reinhold, Helen Slater, Anita Morris, and Bill Pullman in his first film role Join the Mikes as they discuss how this film might be the most 80's of 80's films, from design, to cinematography and everything else. Every character is intro...

This time Field picks the troubled picture! You heard that right! In this episode of Forgotten Cinema , Mike Field and Mike Butler are discussing the 1990 Alan Alda directed comedy Betsy's Wedding , starring Molly Ringwald, Joe Pesci, Madeline Kahn, Anthony LaPaglia, Catherine O'Hara, Ally Sheedy, and of course...Alan Alda in a film that Alan Alda had such a bad time making that he never directed...

The Mikes are headed to the "Farm" with Colin Farrell to see if they have what it takes to be a CIA spy...or secret patsy for Al Pacino. Whatever pays better obviously. It's the 2003 spy thriller The Recruit on this episode of Forgotten Cinema . Listen in as Mike Butler and Mike Field discuss this film, directed by Roger Donaldson, that seems to have been made at least partly as a response to the...

The Mikes are getting two large fries, two large Cokes, and two cheeseburgers...wait...just one; Mike Field is a vegetarian, as they sit down to discuss the 2016 film, The Founder , starring Michael Keaton as Ray Kroc, the founder of McDonalds. Join Mike Butler and Mike Field as they talk about Michael Keaton's tremendous performance, playing someone who is equal parts hard and easy to root for. T...

Mike Field and Mike Butler have hit their heads in the library and are now imaging book creatures talking to them. It's the living nightmare of 1994's live action/animated film, The Pagemaster , starring Macaulay Culkin and Christopher Lloyd, with the voice talent of Patrick Stewart and Whoopi Goldberg. Listen in as the Mikes discuss the WGA drama that surrounded this film upon its release as the...

The Mike's are taking a look at what makes Paul Newman such an amazing actor again by taking a look at the 1994 film Nobody's Fool , directed by Robert Benton and also starring Bruce Willis, Jessica Tandy, and Melanie Griffith. Listen in as Mike Butler and Mike Field discuss the ease and understatement of Paul Newman's acting. It's so real and so under the radar that it becomes underrated and unde...

The Mikes are driving recklessly up a snowy mountain with Danny Glover and Jared Leto on this episode of Forgotten Cinema as they discuss the 1997 film Switchback ; also starring Dennis Quaid as the FBI Agent out to stop one of them...but it's so obviously Danny Glover that it's silly. That's right! Mike Butler and Mike Field have thoughts! While they both enjoy this film, it is absolutely riddled...

The Mikes are traveling back to 1992 to watch a film, based on a play about putting on a play. The meta is alive and kicking with this one! It's Noises Off on this episode of Forgotten Cinema . Join Mike Butler and Mike Field as they discuss this hilarious film with a star studded cast; Michael Caine, Carol Burnet, John Ritter, Christopher Reeve and more. Butler who had never heard of this film or...

Red means stop, green means go, yellow means go very, very fast. That's right! The Mikes are talking about the 1984 film, Starman, starring Jeff Bridges and Karen Allen; directed by...John Carpenter?! Mike Field and Mike Butler discuss how the failure of Carpenter's The Thing (yes it was considered a bomb, not THE bomb back then) caused him to believe that he had to direct this sci-fi love story t...

The Mike's are watching Christian Bale get thin. Like I mean...real thin. Gross thin. That's right, Mike Field and Mike Butler are talking about the 2004 film, The Machinist , starring Christian Bale and directed by Brad Anderson; where Bale being super gross thin is probably the only thing you know about this film! The Mikes talk about how marketing the film by showcasing only the ridiculous weig...

It's Jaws , but set in Africa, at the turn of the 20th century, and it's lions and Val Kilmer instead of Sharks and Roy Scheider...and forgotten? That's right it's the 1996 film, The Ghost and the Darkness ! Season 11 premieres with lions and blood and.....Michael Douglas!!! Mike Butler and Mike Field take a look at this film based on a true story where the most unbelievable parts are true!!! The...

Hey guys...you know what would be fun to do for a season finale and finale of the third annual Forgotten Horror? Let's Scare Jessica to Death !!! Get it? Because that's the movie that the Mikes are talking abou.....those boo's better be from ghosts!!! Mike Field and Mike Butler talk about the 1971 film, Let's Scare Jessica to Death , directed by John D. Hancock, who got the directing gig for Jaws...

Read any good books lately? No? The Mike's haven't either because they're too busy with their next Forgotten Horror film, John Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness, starring Sam Neill. Join Mike Butler and Mike Field as they discuss this 1994 horror film; part of Carpenter's self proclaimed Apocalypse trilogy. The Mikes will talk about how the concept for this film is its strongest point. A writer...