The Wages of Cinema

For some strange reason, Jack listens to other podcasts sometimes, and when he does he tries to find movies he hasn't heard of before for a little series now in its penultimate outing: What the Devil is That? In this case, the excellent 80's All Over (check your local listings via Scott Weinberg and Drew McWeeny on Twitter and so on) mentioned it in their September of 82 episode... and Jack conven...

We're back after a Christmas where we got very big on food, so how do we get small again? On Christmas Day an unlikely blockbuster film- from the director of Citizen Ruth and Nebraska- featuring Matt Damon as a man who shrinks down to 5 inches tall was released and somehow this was the one that caught Jack and Andrew's attention. Korey came along out of tiny curiosity (ho ho, get ready, there are...

Now, we didn't quite intend to do an entire episode, let alone one going past an hour long, about the new Luca Guadagagno film "Call Me By Your Name" (there are still many other films Jack has seen that could/will be talked about from 2017 that haven't yet). But Jack didn't see this with Andrew, Jack saw this his wife Korey, and... well, if you want to know more about her thoughts on the movie, ju...

Well... what is there to say except a new Star Wars movie is out, we talk about it, and spoilers are at 45 minutes into this... Listen.... just listen.... what do you hear? Jack... Andrew... a little Korey (at the start)... Matt of the https://mattthecatania.wordpress.com blog.... It's so much more! PS: PORG! Send all your email to wagesofcinema@gmail.com

Hope you're ready for the return of a series we haven't done in a while; you may recall Wages of Cinema has in the past reached out to local (to the NYC area) filmmakers, actors, artists, playwrights, etc, and had conversations with them on mic about their lives, careers, the projects they're working on and have worked on and the process as they see it. We now return to this for a conversation tha...

"Shall we?" It's finally here! How many of you were so aching to see Justice League? Did Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice whet your appetite (or as our usual/special guest star Matthew Catania of the https://mattthecatania.wordpress.com blog says phonetically, Beavis Dodge, maybe our next Scotus)? How about Cyborg? Or Steppenwolf? Or... no, no wake up, we're still podcasting here! Jack and Andre...

Take some Flash Gordon, throw in several grams of Douglas Adams, a good teaspoon of 80's synth, and of course in the package that original comes from Jack "King" Kirby (from his work on Thor but also, more importantly, the Fourth World series for Marvel's rival DC), and you got yourself a recipe for RAGNAROK, friends. This is not your usual Marvel motion picture! ... Okay, it kind of is, but the d...

Did we mention we hit 100 episodes? Well... WE DID! To celebrate, the hosts look back at their favorite episodes (actually, one episode a piece, with a few honorable mentions sprinkled about). Fyi, these may feature our special Guest Star Matthew Catania, who you can find at https://mattthecatania.wordpress.com and on Facebook and Twitter. What is YOUR favorite episode? Let us know at wagesofcinem...

And now we go into that most terrifying and horrifying genre of all: HORROR COMEDIES! Nah, just kidding, but this is one neither Jack nor Andrew heard before (which is strange considering Jack's deep-dive into the works of Roger Corman over the summer, an act Andrew found absurd, but no matter). This is a movie "from the producer of Little Shop of Horrors" as it says on the poster, which may be (i...

Hey... WE MADE IT! 100 friggin' episodes! This is wonderful news, and more importantly we couldn't have come this far without the support and plays from all of YOU out there in the Wages-World. Thank you, and we are pleased to bring you a giant 3-Part episode 100 for your listening pleasure. In this first segment, Jack and Andrew read a listener posting on social media (don't forget you can always...

You're goddamn right two grown men in their 30's saw the newly released MY LITTLE PONY movie via Hasbro's production company ALLSPARK! You have no idea how much Jack was chomping at the bit to go see this and fall in love all over again with... oh, wait, sorry, read the notes wrong, that's Andrew, yes, Andrew was the one going for this one, and... Well, how is it? You'll just have to listen to two...

up front - SPOILERS at 39:04 in. So, now we have this little movie that no one's paid attention to and has got little fanfare and has absolutely no previous cult status appeal or a rabid fanbase that has... oh wait, wait, I just got the cable in from the telefax and it tells me that this is a... long awaited follow-up to a rather popular "Classic" film, and we don't throw that word around lightly....

Take Tom Waits, put him into an average/oddball crime drama, and... well, there's Tom Waits at least, and he waits for no man! We watched the obscure British crime film BEARSKIN: AN URBAN FAIRYTALE, and... well, there's more to talk about than just Waits!

This episode Jack and Andrew travel the world, from America to Vietnam to Germany to Japan and back to America again. There are certainly a fair share of enemies of the US in history, but that doesn't mean we can't look back at the history and see what is there to... well, be seen and experience! The large part of this episode, for about the first 40 minutes (after an initial discussion of Happy M...

So, a movie from 1990 by the Batman Forever/Batman & Robin guy (but before he was known for that! this was post-Lost Boys, pre Falling Down Joel Schumacher, prime Schum!), and a movie from... this year by the Dragon Tattoo guy (no, not Fincher, the other Dragon Tattoo from Sweden, the one people pretend they saw but actually didn't because subtitles). How can they face off against each other? What...

This just in, people who follow things happening in movies: the seventh feature film by director Darren "Black Swan Requiem for a Dream Pi Wrestler Fountain Noah" Aronofsky featuring a perplexed Jennifer Lawrence just got an 'F' on Cinemascore. First question is: what the hell is Cinemascore, and second one is, who cares? What matter is what the Wages of Cinema thought about this movie that is get...

Who can pinpoint the exact reason - that uncanny clown scare that happened last year with clowns randomly appearing in people's towns (no really, look it up); the StephenKingaissance (or ReckonKing?) as many of his works are getting adapted this very year (including one which we touch upon in this review, THE DARK TOWER and that didn't do too well); uh... politics (re: that meme of Trump in the se...

Don't you just love long-as-hell titles? Things like The Cook, The Thief His Wife and Her Lover, or Me and You and Everyone We Know or Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice (in the Hood)? It takes some chutzpah to put a title for something that will take a deep breath to get out at once. But so we have another case here (which, unbeknownst to us while recording, Jack only fo...

We start of with Dali, of course, because he is DALI! This leads Jack to remember LITTLE ASHES, which brings to another detour to talk about LITTLE BUDDHA, and somehow we wrap back around to GOOD TIME which stars Pattinson (he plays Dali in Ashes); Andrew brings up how tired he is of STAR WARS in popular culture and how it may be *dangerous* after all this time (ROGUE ONE comes up again especially...

So, what's on the menu for the month of July (posting a little late, yes, we know, sorry)? How's about a.... rock N roll musical with Christian AND hippie/flower-power overtones (riding off the coat-tails of Jesus Christ Superstar) that stars Richie Havens as... Othello(!?!) What? How have we not heard of this before? And why is it's aka "Santa Fe Satan"? Tune in, drop out, and get something groov...

Welcome back! After a somewhat-long hiatus (we explain why, sort of), we get right into it and talk about some things that have happened and movies Jack and Andrew have seen since the last FULL recording (as in, before episodes 90 and 91 on Spider-Man and Dunkirk, which we hope you've heard and enjoyed by now. 1st - Jack brings up some people who have passed on since last recording, and while Mart...

What is bravery, or courage, or heroism? What happens when, well, there's no hope in sight and you may find yourself on a beach off the North coast of France - where England is a good stone's throw away for the typical superhero - and... no one is coming to get you and the enemy (who, conveniently due to the director's bravura sense of spacial cinematic sense, you don't get to really see like in o...

Here comes you're friendly, neighborhood Hollywood world-wide billion-dollar franchise! Now that we're on to the... 249th Marvel Studios movie, what else is there to say about them? That they make entertaining product for the masses to masticate on marvelously? (We need a lot of 'M' words, don't we?) Or that they may be getting stale and have the same formula down pat? We aren't going to say eithe...

Imhotep. Karras. Your mama. Whatever you want to call him or it or 'what', you don't want to #&%@ with the Mummy. And yet, strange as it may seem, the Mummy is a bit of an underrated, or at least underestimated, character in the scope of horror cinema. Everyone can dig on Dracula with his Hungarian accent and eyes, or Frankenstein's monster with that head and arms, or even the Invisible Man becaus...

Most filmmakers when given a screenplay that starts with a scene involving a floating, talking, demon (or is it an alien?) head (excuse me, a "Daruma", got that right, thanks internet) in a high school classroom making the tykes heads literally explode one by one as blood (and bloody marbles?) go flying everywhere would probably throw it across the room and go, "Kill it, KILL IT!" For Takashi Miik...