The Reel DMC Movie Podcast

Devastated by personal loss, and drowning in debt (a full “TWO DOLLARS!”) a young man contemplates ending his own life. Close friends, foreign exchange students, dancing hamburgers, and the entire state of Northern California must pull together to help him realize his life is worth living.

For each Year in Review, we give ourselves a homework assignment to watch a movie we're all interested in but missed. For our 1981 Year in Review we decided to watch Lawrence Kasdan's Body Heat.

The Reel DMC podcast takes a look back at 1981 — the year of a swashbuckling archaeologist, New York is a prison state, Bill Murray joins the army, and werewolves, lots of werewolves.

The third in an ongoing series of film conversations where I track my daughter’s reaction after she’s been introduced to one of my favorite movies. What’s the movie about? Frustrated with municipal bureaucracy, the police chief of a small island community charters a boat for a brief sport fishing adventure.  Hilarity ensues. Why did I […]

The second in an ongoing series of film conversations where I track my daughter’s reaction after she’s been introduced to one of my favorite movies. **Spoiler alert** – I’ll tread lightly because the surprises are worth it, but If you don’t want to know what happens in the film, you should probably stop reading this […]

The first in an ongoing series of film conversations where I track my daughter’s reaction after she’s been introduced to one of my favorite movies. What’s the movie about? It’s a slow-burn contemplation on the risks/rewards of choosing to isolate oneself away from broader society….and then some giant worm creatures show up and start eating […]

Our inaugural episode talking about films from 1980.