OETA Movie Club Podcast

   This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss Shane (1953). The mysterious gunslinger Shane (Alan Ladd) rides into a small town with hopes of settling down as a farmhand. After taking a job on Joe Starrett's (Van Heflin) farm, Shane is drawn into a battle between the people of the town and cattle baron Rufus Ryker (Emile Meyer). Shane's fondness for Startett's son, Joey (Br...

  This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss Guys and Dolls (1955).  A compulsive New York gambler, Nathan Detroit (Frank Sinatra), needs to stage a high-profile but illegal craps game before the police catch up to him. In the meantime, his criminal pal, the charming Sky Masterson (Marlon Brando), attempts to forge an unlikely romance with straight-laced mission worker Sarah Brown (Jean S...

   This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss The Birdcage (1996). In this remake of the classic French farce "La Cage aux Folles, a gay cabaret owner and his drag queen partner agree to put up a false straight front so that their son can introduce them to his fiancée's right-wing moralistic parents. This comedy classic stars Robin Williams, Gene Hackman, Dianne Wiest in an ense...

  This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss The Addams Family (1991).  A man (Christopher Lloyd) asserting he is Uncle Fester, the missing brother of Gomez Addams (Raul Julia), arrives at the Addams' home, the family is ecstatic. However, Gomez's wife, Morticia (Anjelica Huston) begins to suspect the man is a fake. With the help of crook lawyer Tully Alford (Dan Hedaya), '...

 This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss Sunset Boulevard (1950). An aging silent film actress refuses to accept that her Hollywood stardom has ended. She hires a screenwriter to help set up her comeback. The screenwriter believes he can manipulate her, but he soon finds out he is wrong. Support the show OETA - Home

This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss Z for Zachariah (2015). Ann Burden (Margot Robbie) has been living a secluded life on her family farm, accepting that she may be the only survivor of an apocalyptic event that has been 'God's will.' One day, John Loomis (Chiwetel Ejiofor) stumbles into the valley in his failing anti-radiation suit. As Loomis slowly regains his stre...

 This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss The Brothers Bloom (2008). Twenty-five years of swindling is too much for Bloom (Adrien Brody) and he wants to be done. However, his brother, Stephen (Mark Ruffalo), convinces him to do one final hustle, targeting a heiress named Penelope (Rachel Weisz).  Support the show OETA - Home

 This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss Eye of the Needle (1981). A ruthless German spy, Henry Faber (Donald Sutherland), is on his way back home from England after gathering information about the D-Day invasion for Hitler.  Support the show OETA - Home

 This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)! Henry Holland is a fussy supervisor who oversees gold bullion deliveries to the bank that he works at. In secret, he is planning to steal a load of bullion and retire early, but he can't figure out a way to sneak it out of the country. What could go wrong? Support the show OETA - Home

 This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss TWO films! It's a double feature with The Great Escape (1963) and Birdman of Alcatraz (1962). First, in The Great Escape, imprisoned during World War II in a German POW camp, a group of Allied soldiers are intent on breaking out, not only to escape, but also to draw Nazi forces away from battle to search for fugitives. After, in Birdman of...

 This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss The Magnificent Seven (1960). A Mexican village is at the mercy the leader of a band of outlaws. The townspeople, too afraid to fight for themselves, hire seven American gunslingers to free them from the bandits' raids.  Support the show OETA - Home

 This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss The Great Train Robbery (1978). Edward Pierce (Sean Connery) is a master thief of the Victorian Era and he has yet to find a heist that he couldn't pull off. For his next heist, he plans something that has never been done before: rob a moving train.  Support the show OETA - Home

 This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss Stargate (1994). Professor Daniel Jackson (James Spader) teams up with retired Colonel Jack O'Neil (Kurt Russell) to unlock the code of an interstellar gateway to an ancient Egyptian-esque world. They arrive on a planet ruled by the despotic Ra (Jaye Davidson), who holds the key to the Earth travelers' safe return.  Support the show OE...

 This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss Autumn in New York (2000). Follow the successful restaurateur and womanizer, Will Keane (Richard Gere), who is a master of the no-commitment seduction until he runs into Charlotte Fielding (Winona Ryder). It is a season long encounter that will shatter Will's preconceptions about women, relationships, and responsibility. Support the show OE...

 This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss Eight Men Out (1988). The Chicago White Sox are set to play the in the World Series of 1919, and are at odds with their team's owner, Charles Comiskey (Clifton James), who pays his players terrible wages. A group of professional gamblers offers the Sox's best athletes a fortune to throw the series and the players agree on the deal. Wha...

 This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss The Pink Panther (1963). European thief Sir Charles Lytton (David Niven) plans to steal a diamond, also known as the Pink Panther. However, his nephew, George (Robert Wagner) also plans to make off with the gem, and to frame Charles for the crime. French police inspector Jacques Clouseau (Peter Sellers) intercedes, but finds his career, and his...

 This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss The Red Violin (1998). The intricate history of a beautiful antique violin is traced from its creation in Cremona, Italy, in 1681, where a legendary violin maker (Carlo Cecchi) paints it with his dead wife's blood to keep her memory alive, to an auction house in modern-day Montreal, where it draws the eye of an expert appraiser (Samuel L. J...

 This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss Stanley & Iris (1990). Iris (Jane Fonda) has a rough go of it after the death of her husband. Though still grieving, she lands a job at a bakery. Things start to look up when the kindhearted Stanley (Robert De Niro), a cook in the bakery, comes to her aid after she is mugged.  Support the show OETA - Home

 This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming (1966). When a Soviet submarine gets stuck on a sandbar off the coast of a New England island, its commander (Theodore Bikel) orders his second-in-command, Lieutenant Rozanov (Alan Arkin), to get them moving again before there is an international incident.  Support the show OETA - Home

This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss The Apartment! C.C. Baxter (Jack Lemmon) lends his apartment to company bosses to use for extramarital affairs. When his manager begins using Baxter's apartment in exchange for promoting him, Baxter is disappointed to learn that Sheldrake's mistress is Fran Kubelik (Shirley MacLaine), the elevator girl at work whom Baxter is interested...

This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss In the Heat of the Night (1967), where Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier) is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie (Rod Steiger), the racist police chief of tiny Sparta, Mississippi. After Tibbs proves not only his own innocence but that of another man, he joins forces with Gillespie to track down the real kil...

 This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss A Big Country (1958), where a New England sea captain in the 1880s arrives at his fiancée's sprawling Texas ranch, where he becomes embroiled in a feud between two families over a valuable patch of land. Support the show OETA - Home

 This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss Hoosiers! Failed college coach Norman Dale (Gene Hackman) gets a chance at redemption when he is hired to direct the basketball program at a high school in a tiny Indiana town. Support the show OETA - Home

 This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss Love & Mercy! The life of reclusive Beach Boys songwriter and musician Brian Wilson (John Cusack), from his successes with highly-influential orchestral pop albums to his nervous breakdown and subsequent encounter with controversial therapist Dr. Eugene Landy. Support the show OETA - Home

 This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss Baby Boom (1987)! J.C. Wiatt (Diane Keaton) is a New York City businesswoman who is career-oriented, has a relationship with Steven (Harold Ramis), and is a successful investment broker. J.C.'s life takes a surprising twist when a relative dies and makes her the caretaker of a baby. Soon, the baby's arrival causes J.C. to lose Steven,...