The Film Thugs Movie Show

The Criterion Collection, the last vestige of truly collectible DVD and Blu-Ray movies in existence. These are well produced, fancy pants editions of important and interesting films for the discerning film lover. We continue our journey through Jim's collection of movies with... Week 15: Gimme Shelter Spine Number: 99 Director: Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin Genre: Documentary It ca...

The Criterion Collection, the last vestige of truly collectible DVD and Blu-Ray movies in existence. These are well produced, fancy pants editions of important and interesting films for the discerning film lover. We continue our journey through Jim's collection of movies with... Week 14: Sanjuro Spine Number: 53 Director: Akira Kurosawa Genre: Samurai Good sequels are hard to come by. The act of m...

The Criterion Collection, the last vestige of truly collectible DVD and Blu-Ray movies in existence. These are well produced, fancy pants editions of important and interesting films for the discerning film lover. We continue our journey through Jim's collection of movies with... Week 13: Yojimbo Spine Number: 52 Director: Akira Kurosawa Genre: Samurai Master. That's it. Master. There is no other w...

The Criterion Collection, the last vestige of truly collectible DVD and Blu-Ray movies in existence. These are well produced, fancy pants editions of important and interesting films for the discerning film lover. We continue our journey through Jim's collection of movies with... Week 12: Chasing Amy Spine Number: 75 Director: Kevin Smith Genre: Comedy The 90's were a revolutionary time for movies....

The Criterion Collection, the last vestige of truly collectible DVD and Blu-Ray movies in existence. These are well produced, fancy pants editions of important and interesting films for the discerning film lover. We continue our journey through Jim's collection of movies with... Week 11: Rushmore Spine Number: 65 Director: Wes Anderson Genre: Comedy Few directors come out as fully formed as Wes An...

The Criterion Collection, the last vestige of truly collectible DVD and Blu-Ray movies in existence. These are well produced, fancy pants editions of important and interesting films for the discerning film lover. We continue our journey through Jim's collection of movies with... Week 10: Charade Spine Number: 57 Director: Stanley Donen Genre: Comedy/Romance/Suspense/Thriller We really don't have m...

The Criterion Collection, the last vestige of truly collectible DVD and Blu-Ray movies in existence. These are well produced, fancy pants editions of important and interesting films for the discerning film lover. We continue our journey through Jim's collection of movies with... Week 9: Armageddon Spine Number: 40 Director: Michael Bay Genre: Disaster Michael Bay is some kind of wizard. This is a...

The Criterion Collection, the last vestige of truly collectible DVD and Blu-Ray movies in existence. These are well produced, fancy pants editions of important and interesting films for the discerning film lover. We continue our journey through Jim's collection of movies with... Week 8: The Long Good Friday Spine Number: 26 Director: John MacKenzie Genre: British Gangster Gangster movies are as ol...

The Criterion Collection, the last vestige of truly collectible DVD and Blu-Ray movies in existence. These are well produced, fancy pants editions of important and interesting films for the discerning film lover. We continue our journey through Jim's collection of movies with... Week 7: The Silence of the Lambs Spine Number: 13 Director: Jonathan Demme Genre: Psychological Thriller/Serial Killer M...

The Criterion Collection, the last vestige of truly collectible DVD and Blu-Ray movies in existence. These are well produced, fancy pants editions of important and interesting films for the discerning film lover. We continue our journey through Jim's collection of movies with... Week 6: Hard Boiled Spine Number: 9 Director: John Woo Genre: Hong Kong Action John Woo defined Hong Kong cinema in the...

The Criterion Collection, the last vestige of truly collectible DVD and Blu-Ray movies in existence. These are well produced, fancy pants editions of important and interesting films for the discerning film lover. We continue our journey through Jim's collection of movies with... Week 5: The Killer Spine Number: 8 Director: John Woo Genre: Hong Kong Action There was a time when I thought America kn...

The Criterion Collection, the last vestige of truly collectible DVD and Blu-Ray movies in existence. These are well produced, fancy pants editions of important and interesting films for the discerning film lover. We continue our journey through Jim's collection of movies with... Week 4: The 400 Blows Spine Number: 5 Director: Francois Truffaut Genre: French New Wave Some movies change the world. A...

The Criterion Collection, the last vestige of truly collectable DVD and Blu-Ray movies in existence. These are well produced, fancy pants editions of important and interesting films for the discerning film lover. We continue our journey through Jim's collection of movies with... Week 3: The Lady Vanishes Spine Number: 3 Director: Alfred Hitchcock Genre: It's Alfred Goddamned Hitchcock! The Master...

The Criterion Collection is one of the few remaining reasons people have for buying actual, physical copies of movies. Personally, I would rather drop a few dollars to buy a digital copy of something on Amazon and be able to access it anywhere, at any time and never have to worry about a disk getting lost, stolen, or damaged. I have too many memories of the several hundred VHS tapes that became us...

The Criterion Collection is dedicated to gathering the greatest films from around the world and publishing them in editions of the highest technical quality, with supplemental features that enhance the appreciation of the art of film. That is how the Criterion Collection defines itself. Among film fans it's simply known as the top tier of video releases. Along with curating a collection of importa...

This week we finally decided to get down to business and talk about what we said we were going to talk about last week. In retrospect it only seems appropriate considering the topic. Normally, filmmakers jump on the sequel train right away. If a movie performs it is always best to strike while the iron is hot, right? Well, not always. This week we discuss the sequels that took their sweet time. So...

Heard you missed us, we're back! After going dark for a week, something we have only done a handful of times in 5 years, we are back and truly make a valiant attempt to discuss movie sequels that took over a decade to come out. We tried. However, for reasons that are obvious right off the bat, we didn't so much succeed. What we did instead was just talk about what's happened in the past two weeks....

Improvisation is a wildly misunderstood art form. For most people it's about quickly coming up with something funny and going for the laugh. The thing is, most people aren't trained in improv and have little understanding of the subtleties of really good improvisational comedy. Going for the laugh is part of it, however... it's about building a character, creating a scene, and having a sense of tr...

Clarkson is still indisposed with matters of greater import, so Jim decided to go full on nerd out by inviting former student, turned independent filmmaker Joseph Stellitano  come on and discuss the Criterion collection. They discuss their top ten as well as some other notable films and, in general, why the Criterion Collection is important.

Clarkson has been out of town dealing with some issues that are a bit more important than a podcast for the past two weeks. So, in order to keep our fans happy we decided to invite a guest host in and put out a special episode with a unique perspective. Jim's friend Ryan is a former US Marine, and Jim thought it would be interesting to get his take on the portrayal of the US Military, and war in g...