The Wages of Cinema

We at the Wages of Cinema try to get the largest swath of film history. So right here, right now, you get a full buffet of film history just under an hour! From somber costume drama to deadpan studio comedy to documentaries on rock & roll nightmares & the creepy rich to English Opera - and lest not forget that gun-toting wildman John Milius - we got em all! Also a tribute to the late documentarian...

Jack and Andrew ponder movies once more, but not until they do some imitations of Bruce Springsteen and snap their fingers... And what a crop, at least for this first segment: 1) Run All Night 2) The Lazarus Effect 3) Chappie 4) Lovelace (clips from all films used, under fair use)

In part 2 of our conversation with filmmaker Gabe Rodriguez, we go from the features to the... shorts? How does that work? With a great degree of imagination into the realms of comedy, tragedy, time travel and situations not unlike the cartoon 'Duck Amuck'. Gabe is the director of shorts SUSIE IN THE AFTERLIFE, Q TO THE 6 TRAIN, HAVANA IN BUSHWICK and GODDESS OF TIME - all of which are discussed h...

And now for a new segment of the Wages of Cinema - Local Vocal! This is a new series that we are trying where Jack will be interviewing local filmmakers, actors, artists and even musicians about their life and work up to this point - in short, shining a light on some people working in the creative world who you should know about. First up is Gabe Rodriguez, a New York filmmaker with shorts, featur...

This week on our continuing tracking of films on our respective New Year's lists of things to see in 2015, Andrew gets deep into the world of 'Film-Black' (scuse me, noir for the French), and Jack finally watches a 90's Disney blockbuster that's been somewhat (unjustly) forgotten over time. 1) Edgar Ullmer's DETOUR 2) Joe Johnston's THE ROCKETEER (25 mins in) (Correction, obviously, it's *Edgar* n...

Once again, we are nothing if not eclectic. So here, a talk on Compulsion starring Orson Welles and Dean Stockwell features an imitation of Dennis Hopper in Blue Velvet, a discussion on voice acting amid the 2010 blockbuster MEGAMIND, Donald Duck almost kills himself in a segment on WW2 shorts he starred in, and James McAvoy in Filth gives way to an anecdote about Deviant Art.... Come to think of...

Welcome back! We take you into (briefly) some almost-shelved comedy-horror hijinks, a best picture Oscar winner which Jack loves (mostly), and an HBO movie about Jack Kevorkian starring Al Pacino. 1) Knights of Badassdom 2) The Best Years of Our Lives (7 mins in) 3) You Don't Know Jack (24 mins in)

Let's get dirty.... In a frank and hopefully insightful discourse on sexual relations in the cinematic landscape. Or something. Jack and Andrew now finally look at 50 Shades of Grey, which... neither of us have seen yet, but we've read and heard a lot about it, so maybe that's something. But we look at that film - which is currently topping box-offices worldwide and has an R-rating in the USA - an...

What's this? Moonstruck? AGAIN!? We did that on the first episode, you say. Well, Jack didn't see it and it was on 'The List', the movies that Jack and Andrew are watching from beginning to year's end that the other has seen and the one reviewing hasn't. So Jack watches it, there's talk of Nicolas Cage and John Patrick Shanley, and the Andrew waxes not-too-poetic about Mr. Smith. Oh, and a movie c...

And because we're all about redundancy (if that's the word), here is a LIGHTNING ROUND of films that Jack saw that were up for the 87th Academy awards; none of them won what they were nominated for, but they also screened last year at the Cannes Film Festival, where they all picked up various prizes. 1) Mr. Turner 2) Timbuktu 3) The Salt of the Earth Song at the end: The Rolling Stones - Salt of t...

This may seem like quite the combination, but here at the Wages of Cinema we like putting our movies together like a warped smoothie - in this case it's full of machismo, gay rights, and that classic screwball couple from the 1930's your mom (and Jack) loves) So here we have a block of more Myrna Loy & William Powell movies, Andrew watches The Dirty Dozen, Jack gets hooked up with another Vaughn/M...

Bet you never heard this combination walk into a bar at once, eh? This week we have more movies of both new(ish) and classic varieties. We also start off the show addressing something we forgot to mention in our talk on the Lopez underground classic The Boy Next Door, and then get into the following: 1) Jupiter Ascending (6:00) 2) Snowpiercer (20:35) 3) Point Blank (1967) (38:40) 4) All About Eve...

"GET ME A MIC!" (Featuring clips from the trailer for CITIZEN KANE, THE CRITIC, ORSON WELLES OUTTAKES, MILTON BRADLEY COMMERCIAL, and THE TRIAL)

Jack and Andrew talk about their next couple of films from their respective lists (of movies to see over the year) and dig into classic 1930's Hollywood: for Andrew it's Lloyd Bacon and Busby Berkeley's 42nd Street and for Jack it's the Dashiell Hammett adaptation, The Thin Man.

Oh, and we also make a crack at Stephen King's expense. For.. reasons.

More movies! Featuring: Cinderella: 00:00 - 11:51 The Boy Next Door: 11:52 Alice in Wonderland 2010/Oz the Great & Powerful: 18:42 Safe/Still Alice: 39:00 (Song at end is the opening track from 'Safe')

In part 2 of this epic-length episode 6 of the podcast, Jack and Andrew talk about the new films from Michael Mann (Blackhat) and JC Chandor (A Most Violent Year), as well as the cult classic Repo Man

Welcome back! Something a little different this time around - we had such a long podcast that we'll be splitting up the discussion into more easily digestible bite-sized portions. Here we have the start, and a talk about two movies seen by both of our intrepid hosts: the German/British exploitation pic 'Penetration Angst (2003)' and Kevin Smith's latest foray into Grindhouse territory with 'Tusk'.

A look in our 'Required Reading' segment at the recently released Patton Oswalt memoir 'Silver Screen Fiend'.

New Year, New Movies. Not all 'New' exactly. One of them even goes back a whopping 95 years. But we got some Oscar nominees as well, though we didn't know that at the time exactly. 1) Life Itself (5:00) 2) The Imitation Game (15:30) 3) Scott Pilgrim vs the World (30:00) 4) Unrboken (35:00) 5) Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (50:00) 6) Inherent Vice (again) (57:01) 7) Interstellar (1:05:00)...

In our first new episode of 2015 (though recorded as the last of 2014, we talk about the films we've seen in the past few weeks in the end of the year. Breakdown: 03:30 - The Hobbit 15:30 - Big Eyes 29:40 - Three Colors: Blue 36:36 - Wild 45:09 - Inherent Vice 51:19 - Tales from the Gimli Hospital 55:00 - Boyhood 1:09:20 - It's a Wonderful Life

In our belatedly posted part 2 in our second episode, we look at those we sadly lost in 2014, actors and filmmakers alike, and then talk about the book 'My Year at the Movies' by MST3K alumni Kevin Murphy, do our pitches (including one for a book involving stuffed animals) and what-to-watch for next week. Send any questions to jackgattanella@yahoo.com

The title says it all. We talk about what went down with the hacking, the movie, the cancellation, that man with the funny haircut, and what could be (no, IS) one of the most serious terrorist attacks in our nation's history.

The Room. Bad Movies. And our pitches for original flicks.

Welcome back to the Wages of Cinema! Once again the podcast is SO BIG we had to put it in two parts - PLEASE tune in this upcoming Thursday for part TWO of the podcast! This first one up, Jack and Andrew talk about movies they've seen the past week - and some other things, like who would be the ideal director for a Katamari Damacy movie - and they're a varied bunch of new films, documentaries, and...