Reitman For The Job

The calendar might say it's December of 2019, but we can travel back to celebrate in 1986 with The Real Ghostbusters! Plus we travel to 1843... and 1837? And 1994? Man, ghosts are taking us all over on this holiday retrospective. But yes, we look at "XMas Marks The Spot," written by J. Michael Straczynski and directed by Richard Raynis. Highlights include: -Secrets of Japanese animation studios. -...

Happy Halloween! We're watching a ghost busting, ghost crashing, ghost smashing, Abbott & Costello meeting sort of film that helped inspire Dan Aykroyd. From 1940 it's The Ghost Breakers starring Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard. How spooky is it? Not very. How funny is it? Passable. How racist is it? Considerable at times.   https://www.patreon.com/rossmaywriter

Your mission is to watch Stripes from 1981, arguably Ivan Reitman's most famous movie outside of the two Ghostbusters films. Bill Murray and Harold Ramis enlist. Will the army ever be the same?   https://www.patreon.com/rossmaywriter

One of the news stories that accompanied the 2016 Ghostbusters movie was how it was "banned" from mainland China for depicting the supernatural. But is that what really happened? And what chances does Ghostbusters 2020 have playing there?   https://www.patreon.com/rossmaywriter

Extra! Extra! We look at Steven Spielberg's only comedy, 1941. Dan Aykroyd! John Belushi! John Candy! Warren Oates! Everybody but Ivan Reitman himself!   https://www.patreon.com/rossmaywriter

Summer camp starts right now with Meatballs from 1979! Ivan Reitman hits it big, and Bill Murray grudgingly becomes a movie star.   www.patreon.com/rossmaywriter/

We're on double-secret probation with 1978's Animal House, directed by John Landis and produced by Ivan Reitman and Matty Simmons.

We take a bite out of Ivan Reitman's 1973 film Cannibal Girls. Is it scary and gory? Is it actually a horror comedy? Let's find out together!

Welcome to Reitman For the Job, where we explore the films of Ghostbusters director Ivan Reitman! In our 0 episode, we cover Reitman's biography, his student film Orientation from 1968, and 2018's A Futile And Stupid Gesture.