Off Screen Death

We double down on Oscars week just like that hack Coppola did for the Academy in 1974. Or something like that. We struggle to say anything unkind about Sofia Coppola's father in his repeat performance for THE GODFATHER saga (that can wait for Part 3) but we do our best to separate this film from the rest in the series as it is now the first film representing 1974 in our series on The Greatest Year...

March Madness of cinema starts with Cagney and Bogart! Start a journey of OUR (and HISTORY's!) top ten lists from The Greatest Years in Film as we will spend the rest of 2024 on the 85th, 50th, 30th and 25th anniversaries of the films of 1939, 1974, 1994 and 1999. For the first month we will be discussing THE GODFATHER: PART TWO, HOOP DREAMS and 10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU (yes really.) But for now...

A Podcast Directed By... The Reunion. Getting the band back together... or at least the old band name (The One-ders?) as we present a NEW Sofia Coppola episode as thankfully she kept making movies after getting the career push she needed on our old podcast A PODCAST DIRECTED BY. We talk mainly ON THE ROCKS and a little bit about the icky-ness of PRISCILLA before one host attacks Martin Scorsese an...

To create... one must syndicate. At our advanced age (when we are not falling asleep or contemplating our own mortality) we can look back with reverence (bitterness) at our misspent youth. What that means for you, dear listener, is a plan of action that requires a couple of months of inaction. Episodes looking back at the films of Sofia Coppola... which also is a look back at our previous podcast...

To create one must syndicate. At our advanced age (when we are not falling asleep or contemplating our own mortality) we can look back with reverence (bitterness) at our misspent youth. What that means for you, dear listener, is a plan of action that requires a couple of months of inaction. Episodes looking back at the films of Sofia Coppola... which also is a look back at our previous podcast A P...

To create... one must syndicate. At our advanced age (when we are not falling asleep or contemplating our own mortality) we can look back with reverence (bitterness) at our misspent youth. What that means for you, dear listener, is a plan of action that requires a couple of months of inaction. Episodes looking back at the films of Sofia Coppola... which also is a look back at our previous podcast...

To create... one must syndicate. At our advanced age (when we are not falling asleep or contemplating our own mortality) we can look back with reverence (bitterness) at our misspent youth. What that means for you, dear listener, is a plan of action that requires a couple of months of inaction. Episodes looking back at the films of Sofia Coppola... which also is a look back at our previous podcast...

To create... one must syndicate. At our advanced age (when we are not falling asleep or contemplating our own mortality) we can look back with reverence (bitterness) at our misspent youth. What that means for you, dear listener, is a plan of action that requires a couple of months of inaction. Episodes looking back at the films of Sofia Coppola... which also is a look back at our previous podcast...

To create... one must syndicate. At our advanced age (when we are not falling asleep or contemplating our own mortality) we can look back with reverence (bitterness) at our misspent youth. What that means for you, dear listener, is a plan of action that requires a couple of months of inaction. Episodes looking back at the films of Sofia Coppola... which also is a look back at our previous podcast...

The quest for another SUPERBAD continues but we are all just old now. At least that's what we tell ourselves. But not YOU, dear listener. You are young. You are hip. On the cutting edge of podcast listening. For you are listening to OFF SCREEN DEATH and our episode on the latest "hit" comedy BOTTOMS. We liked it! We just don't like the state of theatrical comedy. It's sad. As are we. But...

One host is schooled by the charms of Tom Hanks butt shots. The other was already well educated in the greatness in LARRY CROWNE but if you missed it in 2011 OR even if you didn't and are pining for that definitive commentary track... here's a podcast on the Julia Roberts and Pam Grier buddy comedy. The few (and I do mean few) ideas we have for improvement on Mr. Hanks second time in the director'...

If you can't remove all memories of your children and take the death leap into late stage capitalism when would be the appropriate time? He's not the real David Puddy and there are no little Elaine kicks but there is an AWFUL LOT of information about sassafras candy canes... as well as a candy store heist as a romantic grand gesture but it's mostly deceit and horniness in our second episode of CHR...

Not enough people watched Dracula 2023... ...and so now everyone (including your favorite podcast hosts) will suffer with a future episode on DRACULA 2000. But until that cursed day we talk around the spoilers for what most will watch soon on video on demand platforms (or not!) and then we debate if one can spoil a film based on one chapter in the middle of Bram Stoker's Dracula? Apparently in int...

Two nights and three watches with the charming Miles Teller. And perhaps the more generally accepted charms of a dancing Lio Tipton in the little discussed (except for in one host's mind) TWO NIGHT STAND from the lineage that brought you THE GRADUATE and WOLF. When are we going to do an episode on Jack Nicholson urinating on James Spader by the way? Perhaps October??? Anyway ON THIS EPISODE we dis...

A case of the old impotence. When you are Warren Beatty even the charms of Faye Dunaway are not enough and while us MERE MORTALS may not be able to understand his plight.... we have Gene Hackman to represent us everymen in the classic BONNIE AND CLYDE. Forever looking forty and forever in our hearts. Never impotent! Support what we do on Patreon with early access and bonus episodes covering the co...

The infinite Christmas Countdown begins here with a cupcake to your face. One can't let July go by without a little Christmas which involves running out for ice for an Ugly Christmas Sweater party and DYING and later haunting your fiancee (but not really) over text as she watches another man smash his face with a Christmas cupcake. That's what July is all about. This is Xmas Kills Us: Part One of...

Release the Snyder Cut jokes. That is one of many of the charming qualities of Greta Gerwig's BARBIE along with other universal treasures. Such as! Ryan Gosling going full CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE. As much of the color pink as your eyeballs can take (and take those IMAX screens back from that grump, Nolan.) At one point there is a merman. (Maybe that's just one of the show note author's universal treas...

We didn't get TENET 2 but we got bald Iron Man. And now with yet another rousing success from the Nolanverse expect 28 YEARS LATER as the franchise victory lap. Which could also be improved with another pairing with Florence Pugh, Mr. Peaky Blinders. But what wouldn't? What can not be improved (if you listen to the critics and not this podcast, shameful) is OPPENHEIMER. Although one host tries his...

Billy Wilder is compared to the comic stylings of Ace Ventura. Which is just the start of our apology tour from your hosts as they get back to the greatest comedic director of all time. And one that introduces a good bit of sex into his now classic comedies. No Sean Young. Which in some respects is better. And in others... much worse. STILL there's Marilyn Monroe who bring her iconic imagery to li...

Will PAST LIVES make the Sight & Sound 2032 list? Who knows?! For one host is hoping he will be dead by then and the other tries to talk him out of such dark thoughts by quoting the wisdom of Ethan Hawke. That and plenty more references to the BEFORE trilogy in a PAST LIVES discussion dominated by the what-ifs of film festival darlings such as something starring Anton Yelchin and a Star Wars E...

Happy Fourth of July! To celebrate all that is America we present to you: George Clooney (a Kentuckian at that!) Big asses (no matter that state they are great!) And a picnic (between people who want to kill each other!) Also with the numbers dwindling on this podcast we threaten our remaining listeners by switching from the Sight and Sound list of the greatest films ever made to... every hobbit m...

A wine maker compared to a beer pitchman from THE SIMPSONS... ...we think Francis Ford Coppola would be okay (ONLY in that context) of being paired with Troy Duffy of THE BOONDOCK SAINTS fame. In this episode both director's have a bout of madness with the promise of all of the toys in the sandbox being at their disposal. In HEARTS OF DARKNESS we see how the classic APOCALYPSE NOW came to be... th...

One host gets married and decides to travel the globe like Keanu. Maybe not exactly like Mr. Reeves does in the new release JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 4 but mostly the same. (In his mind.) We play a little would you rather starting with Charles Bronson leading into Arnold in his COMMANDO days and debating on if we should chuck our format and just watch more Keanu in SPEED next week. The correct answer is...

This is not a happy story, it's probably Dave's fault. Actually, it’s because of Sight and Sound and their ridiculous list. We had no choice, except not to do a podcast, and good luck getting that to happen. We take a look at a movie that one of us owns (nerd) but neither of us have seen. This one gets a little serious when talking about representation and streaming, but we manage to still keep it...

A month when Kentucky beat Kang and Drax... ...but not MAGIC MIKE. Which is an understandable L to take. Especially with Steven Soderbergh and Salma Hayek along for the LAST DANCE. But before we get to that spectacle we make fun of Marvel's visual effects, defend M. Night Shyamalan's THE VILLAGE and think that Californians should pick up a book. To hear all of these charming complaints give us a b...