OETA Movie Club Podcast

This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss " Some Like It Hot ". After witnessing a murder, saxophone player Joe (Tony Curtis) and his pal, Jerry (Jack Lemmon), improvise a quick plan to escape from Chicago. After disguising themselves as women, they join a female jazz band and head to Florida. While Joe pretends to be a millionaire to win over the band's singer, Sugar (Mar...

This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss " On the Town ". In this 1949 film, Sailors Gabey (Gene Kelly), Chip (Frank Sinatra) and Ozzie (Jules Munshin) have 24 hours in New York City.  While Chip hooks up with the sassy cab driver Brunhilde (Betty Garrett) and Ozzie swoons for anthropologist Claire (Ann Miller), Gabey falls in love with an actress he sees in an advertisement,...

This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss " National Velvet ". In this 1944 film, Velvet Brown (Elizabeth Taylor), a 12-year-old living in rural Sussex, becomes the owner of a rowdy horse, she decides to train it to race. Aided by former jockey, Mi Taylor (Mickey Rooney), the determined Velvet gets her horse ready for the big race day. However, a last-minute problem arises with...

This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss " The Black Stallion ". In this 1979 film, Alec (Kelly Reno) encounters a magnificent black Arabian horse while traveling aboard a steamship around the coast of North Africa with his father (Hoyt Axton). When a disaster destroys the ship, Alec frees the horse and escapes with it to a nearby island, where they form a close bond. When Ale...

This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss " An American in Paris ". An American in Paris is a 1951 American musical comedy film inspired by the 1928 orchestral composition by George Gershwin. Jerry Mulligan (Gene Kelly) is an American ex-soldier who stays in post-war Paris to become an artist. He then falls for Lise Bouvier (Leslie Caron). However, his art comes to the attentio...

This week's special bonus episode is all about our hosts Favorite Christmas Movies. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts and tune in to the OETA Movie Club every Saturday night at 9 pm on OETA. 🍿📽 Support the show OETA - Home

This week's special bonus episode is all about the 60th Anniversary of James Bond Movies. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts and tune in to the OETA Movie Club every Saturday night at 9 pm on OETA. 🍿📽 Support the show OETA - Home

This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss " The Yearling ". The Yearling is a 1946 American Family Western film directed by Clarence Brown, produced by Sidney Franklin, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). Based on the novel by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, this drama focuses on the family of Civil War veteran Penny Baxter (Gregory Peck), who lives and works on a farm in Flor...

This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss " Doctor Zhivago ". Doctor Zhivago is a 1965 epic historical romance film directed by David Lean with a screenplay by Robert Bolt, based on the 1957 novel by Boris Pasternak. The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during Worl...

This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss " Tucker: The Man & His Dream ". This film is a 1988 American biographical comedy-drama film directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Jeff Bridges. The story of Preston Tucker, the maverick car designer and his ill-fated challenge to the auto industry with his revolutionary car concept. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts...

This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss " Little Man Tate ". This film is a 1991 American family drama film directed by Jodie Foster (in her directorial debut) from a screenplay written by Scott Frank. A single mother raises a child prodigy on her own, struggling to give him every opportunity he needs to express his gift. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts and tune in...

This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss " Arsenic and Old Lace ". is a 1944 American black comedy film directed by Frank Capra and starring Cary Grant.  A Brooklyn writer of books on the futility of marriage risks his reputation when he decides to tie the knot. Things get even more complicated when he learns on his wedding day that his beloved maiden aunts are habitual murder...

This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss " Bringing Up Baby ". Bringing Up Baby is a 1938 American screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks, and starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant. It was released by RKO Radio Pictures. The film tells the story of a paleontologist in a number of predicaments involving a scatterbrained heiress and a leopard named Baby. The screenpl...

This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss " Citizen Kane ". Citizen Kane is a 1941 American drama film produced by, directed by, and starring Orson Welles. He also co-wrote the screenplay with Herman J. Mankiewicz. The picture was Welles' first feature film. Citizen Kane is frequently cited as the greatest film ever made. The film is about a reporter that is assigned to de...

This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss " East of Eden ". This film is a 1955  American period drama film directed by Elia Kazan, and loosely based on the fourth and final part of the 1952 novel of the same name by John Steinbeck. It is about a wayward young man who, while seeking his own identity, vies for the affection of his deeply religious father against his favored brot...

This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss " Giant ". This film is a 1956 American epic Western drama film, directed by George Stevens from a screenplay adapted by Fred Guiol and Ivan Moffat from Edna Ferber's 1952 novel and stars Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson and James Dean. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts and tune in to "Giant" on Saturday, September 2...

This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss " Rebel Without a Cause ". This film is a 1955 American coming-of-age drama film about emotionally confused suburban, middle-class teenagers. Filmed in the then recently introduced CinemaScope format and directed by Nicholas Ray, it offered both social commentary and an alternative to previous films depicting delinquents in urban slum e...

This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss " A Mighty Wind ". This film is a 2003 American mockumentary comedy film about a folk music reunion concert in which three folk bands reunite for a television performance for the first time in decades. The film was co-written, directed, and composed by Christopher Guest and stars Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Michael McKean, Harry...

This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss " After the Thin Man ", the 1936 murder mystery comedy film directed by W. S. Van Dyke and starring William Powell, Myrna Loy, and James Stewart. The movie is about private detective Nick Charles and his wealthy wife Nora are back home at last and hoping for a quiet New Year when there is a murder. The obvious suspect is his wife, Nora&...

This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we have a double-feature! Join our hosts as they discuss " The Third Man ", the 1949 film noir directed by Carol Reed, written by Graham Greene and starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, and Trevor Howard. The movie is about Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysteriou...

This week's special bonus episode is all about the American Film Institute's Top 10 Movie Scores of All Time . Listen now wherever you get your podcasts and tune in to the OETA Movie Club every Saturday night at 9 pm on OETA. 🍿📽 Support the show OETA - Home

This week's special bonus episode is all about IMDB's top 10 most watched films of all time. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts and tune in to the OETA Movie Club every Saturday night at 9 pm on OETA. 🍿📽 Support the show OETA - Home

This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss " All the President´s Men ", the 1976 drama film directed by Alan J. Pakula, and starring  Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford. The movie is about "The Washington Post" reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncovering the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Richard Nixon's resignation. Listen now wh...

This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss " Akeelah and the Bee ", the 2006 drama film directed by Doug Atchison, and starring Laurence Fishburne; Angela Bassett; Keke Palmer; Curtis Armstrong. The movie is about a young girl from South Los Angeles trying to make it to the National Spelling Bee. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts and tune in to Akeelah and the Bee on Sat...

This week on the OETA Movie Club Podcast we discuss " Christmas in Connecticut ", the 1945 romance and comedy film directed by Peter Godfrey, and starring Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, and Sydney Greenstreet. The movie is about a food writer who has lied about being the perfect housewife. She must try to cover her deception when her boss and a returning war hero invite themselves to h...