The Sundae Presents

Ciara Moloney and Conor Hogan host Friday Film Showcased (FFS), a podcast about films seasons they have programmed. From the archives, a bite-sized edition looking at Brian De Palma's American giallo Dressed to Kill . Or is it a giallo? Yes. Is it transphobic? Probably. Is it a great film? Definitely. What's Brian De Palma's deal? I guess we'll never know. Whether you're a FFS...

Friday Film Showcased (FFS) returns with part one of a two part special on adaptations of Kenneth Fearing's novel The Big Clock. We are doing this as a tribute to the late Gene Hackman, who is not in the movie discussed in this episode, but was alive when it came out. But was he a child? Listen and find out! Ciara Moloney and Conor Hogan discuss topics including: Ray Milland (man), ray-milland...

Hey hey, we’re Friday Film Showcased, and people say we showcase around, but we’re too busy editing to load any podcasts up…  From the archives, a bite-sized edition looking at Bob Rafelson’s almost-forgotten existential Monkees movie,  Head  (1968), written by Jack Nicholson! Whether you’re a FFS connoisseur revisiting the hits, or a new listener who finds our full episodes too daunting, this one...

For the ninth day of Christmas, Friday Film Showcased gave to me: a podcast episode about The Last Boy Scout , written by Mr. Christmas himself, Shane Black! Ciara and Conor talk about Ten-Camera Tony Scott, Hot Shot Jimmy "Cardigan" Carter, and the rise of sports gambling. Listen below or on your favourite podcast platform, and remember, Satan Claus is out there and only growing stronge...

Ciara and Dean take a Christmas journey to St. Louis, Missouri with Judy Garland. They talk about wonderfully horrible children, the history of world’s fairs and whether John Truett is a neurodivergent king. Visit The Sundae: https://thesundae.net/ Follow us on Twitter: https://x.com/sundaeblog Follow us on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/thesundae.bsky.social Our Die Hard episode: https://thesu...

Ciara and Dean are joined by legendary friend of the show, Conor Hogan, co-host of Friday Film Showcased. They talk about video van men, set up and payoff, and Robert Downey Jr being a vaudeville kid unstuck in time. Visit The Sundae: https://thesundae.net/ Follow us on Twitter: https://x.com/sundaeblog Follow us on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/thesundae.bsky.socialWhy don't movies look l...

Following a hiatus, we at Spotify* are delighted to welcome Ciara and Conor back for season 2 of Friday Film Showcased. In this excellent episode, they set out their plans for the upcoming season. Is this the first episode of the season they discuss? Is this the trailer/preview for said season? Though shorter than usual, we at Spotify* lean towards the former. Highly recommended. Five Stars. Song...

David Lynch is dead, and the world is a darker place. Ciara and Dean pay tribute to one of their favourite directors by watching and discussing The Straight Story. They talk about mortality, its lack of resolution, and what it means to be "Lynchian". Visit The Sundae: https://thesundae.net/ Follow us on Twitter: https://x.com/sundaeblog David Lynch Theater Presents: Do You Have a Questio...

A minosode! Again! The Sundae Presents returns to our primordial ooze to talk about great performances that are only one scene long. This time: David Bowie as Pontius Pilate in one scene in The Last Temptation of Christ (1988). The scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXGsio9H1xs The Sundae: https://thesundae.net/ Follow us on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/thesundae.bsky.social Follow us on...

NOTE : We received a message from Spotify for Creators stating that it had identified copyrighted third-party content in our podcast. This is incorrect. The theme music for our podcast is Antonin Vivaldi Violin Concerto in G Minor, RV315 ‘Summer’. The particular recording used was downloaded from Musopen.com, a non-profit which produces and disseminates public domain music via recordings, sheet mu...

For Christmas, Dean made Ciara watch a recent film he hopes will become a new seasonal classic: Adult Swim Yule Log. They talk about traumatic guilt, Americana and the death of television. Visit The Sundae: https://thesundae.net/ Follow us on Twitter: https://x.com/sundaeblog Too Many Cooks: https://youtu.be/QrGrOK8oZG8

NOTE : We received a message from Spotify for Creators stating that it had identified copyrighted third-party content in our podcast. This is incorrect. The theme music for our podcast is Antonin Vivaldi Violin Concerto in G Minor, RV315 ‘Summer’. The particular recording used was downloaded from Musopen.com, a non-profit which produces and disseminates public domain music via recordings, sheet mu...

A minosode. With the body of a man from Crete and the head of an episode. The Sundae Presents returns to our primordial ooze to talk about great performances that are only one scene long. First up: Dinah Manoff as Karen in one scene in Ordinary People (1980). The scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fwghr20pDYM The Sundae: https://thesundae.net/ Follow us on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/the...

For the season three finale, it's assassin versus assassin as Ciara brings John Woo's The Killer and Dean brings David Fincher's The Killer. They talk about the homoeroticism of The Killer, the bleak emptiness of The Killer and, of course, the music of The Killer. Visit The Sundae: ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://thesundae.net/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Follow us on Twitter: ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/sundaeb...

NOTE : We received a message from Spotify for Creators stating that it had identified copyrighted third-party content in our podcast. This is incorrect. The theme music for our podcast is Antonin Vivaldi Violin Concerto in G Minor, RV315 ‘Summer’. The particular recording used was downloaded from Musopen.com, a non-profit which produces and disseminates public domain music via recordings, sheet mu...

NOTE : We received a message from Spotify for Creators stating that it had identified copyrighted third-party content in our podcast. This is incorrect. The theme music for our podcast is Antonin Vivaldi Violin Concerto in G Minor, RV315 ‘Summer’. The particular recording used was downloaded from Musopen.com, a non-profit which produces and disseminates public domain music via recordings, sheet mu...

Dean closes out this season's regular episodes by showing Ciara his favourite Spike Lee film, Summer of Sam. They talk about punk vs disco, the madonna-whore complex and its relationship with Do the Right Thing. Visit The Sundae: ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://thesundae.net/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Follow us on Twitter: ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/sundaeblog/⁠ Spike Lee on his film heroes for GQ: https://www.youtube.c...

Ciara makes Dean finally watch Winter Brothers, the debut film of their favourite Icelandic director, Hlynur Pálmason. They talk about its desolate landscapes, haunting ambiguities and floppy dicks. Visit The Sundae: ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://thesundae.net/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Follow us on Twitter: ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/sundaeblog/⁠ Jessica Kiang's review of Winter Brothers: https://variety.com/2017/film/r...

Dean makes Ciara watch a fourth film shot in his hometown, an Arthurian epic by Exorcist II director John Boorman: Excalibur, which features zero locust POV and tons of before-they-were-famous casting. They talk about Cahir Castle, Gabriel Byrne's soap opera career, and what are movies even supposed to be like, anyway? Visit The Sundae: ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://thesundae.net/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Follow us on Twitt...

For the first episode of the year, Ciara chose John Ford's late career masterpiece The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance as Dean's third encounter with both Ford and John Wayne. They talk about its unusually unscenic take on the frontier, the role of violence in politics and how it reflects on the western's place in American culture. Visit The Sundae: ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://thesundae.net/⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Fo...

2024 is gonna be jerkin'. Keep your eyes peeled. Or your ears, I guess.

In our Christmas special, Ciara makes Dean fulfil his only goal before turning 30: finally watching Die Hard. They talk about masculinity, Christmas movies, and who was offered the role before Bruce Willis. Visit The Sundae: ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://thesundae.net/⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Follow us on Twitter: ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/sundaeblog/⁠

Dean fulfils a long-held ambition to introduce Ciara to his boys, director Joseph Losey and actor Dirk Bogarde, with their 1963 film The Servant. They talk about its homoeroticism, the class anxieties of 60s London and whether Dean hates James Fox. Visit The Sundae: ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠https://thesundae.net/⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Follow us on Twitter: ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/sundaeblog/⁠ Josephine Botting on The Servant for...

Ciara gets to show Dean a film for the first time in months, and it's a big one: John Schlesinger's multi-Oscar-winning Midnight Cowboy. They talk about disability, poverty and sexuality, its satire of Andy Warhol's Factory and how dumb Joe Buck is. Visit The Sundae: ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠https://thesundae.net/⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Follow us on Twitter: ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠https://twitter.com/sundaeblog/⁠ Roger Ebert on Midnight Cow...

For our third Halloween Spooktacular, Dean shows Ciara one of the most iconic horror films of their adolescence: Saw. They talk about how it riffs on and/or rips off Se7en, the strange politics of John Kramer, and the shadow of the real torture of the Bush administration. Visit The Sundae: ⁠⁠ ⁠https://thesundae.net/⁠ ⁠⁠ Follow us on Twitter: ⁠⁠ ⁠https://twitter.com/sundaeblog/⁠ "Hollywood, th...