Greatest Movie Of All-Time

Dana and Tom welcome special guest, SA Bradley (Host of the Hellbent for Horror podcast and author of "Screaming for Pleasure: How Horror Makes You Happy and Healthy”) to revisit the Steven Spielberg classic, Jaws: starring Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss, and Robert Shaw. Plot Summary: In the beach town of Amity on Long Island, a series of sharks attacks pit the town leaders against one another be...

Dana and Tom celebrate their 75th episode with an American classic as well as the most viewed movie of all-time: The Wizard of Oz starring Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley, and Bert Lehr. Plot Summary: In Kansas, Dorothy Gale (Judy Garland) lives with her dog, Toto, on a farm belonging to her Aunt Em and Uncle Henry. After the spiteful Miss Almira Gulch (Margaret Hamilton) takes away Toto for...

Dana and Tom do their first revisit episode this week with Back to the Future (1985 - starring Michael J. Fox, Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover, and Christopher Lloyd) by Dana's request. Plot Summary: In 1985, Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) is a teenager living with his meek father, George (Crispin Glover) and his depressed strict mother, Lorraine (Lea Thompson). He is friends and the working assistant...

Dana and Tom welcome new guest, Roman LC Martinez (Filmmaker and Founder of Film Reframed ( filmreframed.com )) to the show to discuss one of Roman's favorite films that holds a large piece of nostalgia for kids of the 90s, Jurassic Park: directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Sam Neill, Laura Dern, and Jeff Goldblum. Plot Summary: John Hammond (Richard Attenborough) is the owner of Jurassic Park,...

Dana and Tom welcome new guest, David Feinberg (Stand-Up and Improv Comedian, Instagram: @davidfeinbergonline), to discuss David's favorite "hate-watch": Wedding Crashers, starring Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn, Rachel McAdams, and Isla Fisher. Plot Summary: John Beckwith (Owen Wilson) and Jeremy Gray (Vince Vaughn) are Washington, D.C., are divorce mediators who crash weddings to meet and seduce wome...

Dana and Tom explore their first Bollywood film with the help of a new guest, Saloni Nahar (find her on Instagram and TikTok @suhhhloni), 3 Idiots starring Aamir Khan, R. Madhavan, and Sharman Joshi. Plot Summary: Two friends are contacted by an old classmate regarding the whereabout of a long lost friend, Ranchoddas “Rancho” Shyamaldas Chanchad (Aamir Khan). They soon embark on a quest to locate...

Dana and Tom are joined by first-time guest, Daryl Smith (Host of the Daryl Smith Podcast: Our Voices, Our Views, and Our Generation - Available on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts) to discuss the 1980s action-comedy, Beverly Hills Cop (1984) starring Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, John Ashton, Ronny Cox, and Lisa Eilbacher. Plot Summary: Young and reckless Detroit Police Department detect...

Dana and Tom welcome back Sarah Duncan for a record-tying 4th time to discuss one of her favorite movie stars, Charlie Chaplin, who wrote, directed, produced, and starred in two roles for The Great Dictator. Plot Summary: After dedicated service in the Great War, a Jewish barber (Charles Chaplin) spends years in an army hospital recovering from his wounds, unaware of the simultaneous rise of fasci...

Dana and Tom welcome Joseph Burke (screenwriter and co-host of the Clapperboard Climax podcast) to the show to discuss one of the most guest requested movies to date, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, starring Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Tom Wilkinson, Mark Ruffalo, Elijah Wood, and Kirsten Dunst. Find Joseph Burke and the Clapperboard Climax on Spotify , Apple , or wherever you get your podcas...

Dad and Tom are back to round out military month in honor of Memorial Day with the movie that won Denzel Washington his first Oscar for Best Supporting Actor, Glory also starring Matthew Broderick, Cary Elwes, Morgan Freeman, and Andre Braugher. Plot Summary: Captain Robert Shaw (Matthew Broderick), a Union Officer in the Civil War, accepts a promotion to command the 54th Massachusetts, one of the...

This week, we had an unexpected emergency, and Dana and I had to take a quick break. We will be back to our regular schedule next week, but this is the episode I recorded as a birthday favor for my little sister, Sarah, last year in August during the middle of the pandemic yet. It's a bit of a blast from the past as this was done before we really started to develop a lot of the newer production an...

Dana and Tom tackle one of Dana's favorite genres this month, war movies, in honor of Memorial Day, and start with one of Dana's favorites growing up, A Bridge Too Far, directed by David Attenborough; starring Sean Connery, Anthony Hopkins, Michael Caine, Elliott Gould, Gene Hackman, Robert Redford, and Laurence Olivier. Plot Summary: In 1944 as the Western Front is bogged down by supply shortages...

Dana and Tom follow up last week's Seven Samurai discussion with the American adaptation that is the second-most often show TV movie just behind on the Wizard of Oz, the Magnificent Seven (1960): directed by John Sturges and with a Star-Studded cast of Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, and Eli Wallach, get to know the original team-up movie. Plot Summary: A gang of bandits led by Calver...

Dana and Tom take on one of their most ambitious projects yet with arguably the most influential international film of all-time, Seven Samurai: directed by Akira Kirosawa, starring Takashi Shimura and Toshiro Mifune. Plot Summary: Bandits threaten a mountain village by stealing their crops and leaving them to starve. The village elder suggests hiring a samurai to protect them. They soon hire Kambe...

Dana and Tom welcome back returning favorite guest, Christine Duncan, to review the most requested movie for the show yet, Pretty Woman: directed by Garry Marshall; starring Richard Gere, Julia Roberts, Jason Alexander, and Hector Elizondo. Plot Summary: In this modern update on Cinderella, a prostitute and a wealthy businessman fall hard for one another, forming an unlikely pair. While on a busin...

Dana and Tom give you their picks for what will and what should win at the 94th Oscars ceremony on Sunday, April 25, 2021. See what they have for all the biggest prizes, and track their picks as the night wears on. You can now follow us on Instagram, Twitter, or TikTok (@gmoatpodcast) or find our Facebook page at Greatest Movie of All-Time Podcast . For more on the episode, go to: https://www.ronn...

Dana and Tom review one of their collective family favorites that holds special fond memories for both of them with Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story starring Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Christine Taylor, Rip Torn, Stephen Root, Justin Long, and many celebrity cameos. Plot Summary: A lackadaisical gym owner (Vince Vaughn) is surrounded by a former star (Rip Torn) and a cast of misfits seeking to sav...

Dana and Tom discuss one of the most-celebrated comedies of the 21st Century, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2003): directed by Adam McKay; starring Will Ferrell, Christina Applegate, Paul Rudd, David Koechner, and Steve Carrell. Plot Summary: In the testosterone filled world of 1970s TV news anchorships, Ron Burgundy (Will Ferrell) is thrust into love and conflict with his beautiful repor...

Dana and Tom discuss one of the most referenced sports films of all-time that is a comedy-cult classic, Caddyshack (1980): written and directed by Harold Ramis, co-written by Douglas Kenney, Brian Doyle-Murray, starring Rodney Dangerfield, Chevy Chase, Bill Murray, and Ted Knight. Plot Summary: Danny Noonan (Michael O'Keefe), a Caddy, seeks a college scholarship at the Country Club in which h...

Dana and Tom discuss a movie that has been referenced more often in the last few years and is adept at poking at humanity just in time for April Fool's Day, Idiocracy (2006): written and directed by Mike Judge, co-written by Etan Cohen, starring Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, and Dax Shepard. Plot Summary: An army experiment goes awry and Joe Bauers (Luke Wilson) awakes five-hundred years into the fut...

Dana and Tom discuss the movie that won John Ford his record 4th Best Director Oscar starring John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara, the Quiet Man (1952): written by Maurice Walsh. Plot Summary: Sean Thornton (John Wayne) has returned from America to reclaim his homestead and escape his past. Soon his eye is caught by Mary Kate Danaher, a beautiful, fiery red-head who is the younger sister of an ill-tempe...

Dana and Tom warmly re-welcome, friend of the show, Robb Conlon (Host of the Recruiting Hell podcast and producer at Westport Studios) back to the show to follow-up his original visit on Alien with its sequel Aliens (1986): written and directed by James Cameron, starring Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn, and Bill Paxton. Plot Summary: A 1986 Science-Fiction, Action, Horror Film Directed by James Ca...

Dana and Tom discuss Wes Anderson's classic film, The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014): written and directed by Wes Anderson, starring Adrien Brody, Tilda Swinton, Fisher Stevens, and F. Murray Abraham, Bill Murray, Jude Law, Jeff Goldblum, Edward Norton, Owen Wilson, Harvey Keitel, Bob Balaban, Tom Wilkinson, Willem Dafoe, Ralph Fiennes, Lucas Hedges, and Saoirse Ronan. Plot Summary: In the 1930s, the...

Dana and Tom welcome back, friend of the show, owner of All About Authenticity, and Professional Speaker, Roger Wolkoff to talk about their first animated movie on the show, Wall-E (2008): written and directed by Andrew Stanton, co-written by Pete Docter and Jim Reardon, starring Jeff Garlin and John Ratzenberger. Plot Summary: A robot lives an isolated existence doing the same thing day after day...

Dana and Tom discuss one of Dana's favorite comedies that isn't one of Tom's: Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975): directed by Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam, starring Eric Idle, John Cleese and Michael Palin. Plot Summary: Coconut-wielding Brits fight absurdity and silliness in the quest for the Holy Grail. You can now follow us on Instagram, Twitter, or TikTok (@gmoatpodcast) or find our Faceb...