A Weekly Podcast Where We Discuss . . . Movies
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Mike and Dave are two Gen X Dads who grew up watching movies because there was nothing else to do. Tooky is a Millennial dad-in-training who grew up with the internet, and thus never needed to watch ROAD HOUSE on cable. Mike (a standup comedian) and Dave (an improviser and occasional academic) will present Tooky (comedian, social critic and dad-in-training) with a new (old) movie every week and answer the important questions: Are white people ok? When did Nic Cage become a whole thing?Are th ...
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Podcast by Mike Fraser
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Mike Smith and Mike DeCriscio are two guys who love movies - so much so they had the completely original idea of doing a whole podcast about it! The two have been podcasting for years, and now this revamped version of their show will have reviews of the latest movies, retrospectives on their favorite media, discussions about a bunch of random topics, and jokes! Lots of jokes!
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Sometimes - maybe most of the time? - we don't fully appreciate our Dads until we've had a chance to reflect on them. Their tiny brilliances, their hidden diamond facets behind their seemingly-workaday veneer...these can sometimes go unremarked upon until one day you look up and realize OH SHIT MY DAD IS THE BEST COMEDY OF THE 80S. Am I conflating …
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Episode 297 – Frankenstein Unbound (1990)
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We’ve done it! We’ve come to the end of our series “Be Like the Cor-Man”! They all laughed at us, laughed at us, I tell you! They said we were mad! Mad!! Well, now who’s mad?! Ahahahahahaha! We’ve made it through Roger Corman’s final directorial opus “Frankenstein Unbound”! They told us only lunatics would even attempt such an abomination! Fools! C…
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True story: My Dad purchased a bunch of tvs from an electronics store. He was informed that he would receive a discount if he signed up for their in-house credit card. So he (of course) proceeded to do so under a fake name because everyone knows that LAWS DO NOT APPLY TO DADS. When asked for his name for the card he said: "Bond. Fenimore Bond." I t…
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Episode 296 – The Trip (1967)
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Log entry, nighttime, July something or other. So, we’re coming to the end of our series “Be Like the Cor-Man” and in preparation for our discussion of “The Trip,” an exploration of the effects of an LSD experience, I’ve decided to really commit to the message of the film, so I’ve eaten half a sheet of blotter acid in preparation. I’m pretty sure t…
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Episode 295 – The Raven (1963)
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Once upon a weekend dreary, while I pondered, drunk and bleary, Over many a scratched and stainéd film, inducing quite a snore – On the toilet I sat crapping, while the weekend I was mapping In my head, my brain foot-tapping, hoping not to be a bore. Surely there is something more! Ah, distinctly I remember! It was May, no, wait, December! Or maybe…
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How rare is it for a movie to serve as a primer on how to both BE and NOT BE a Dad? This film is the "Scared Straight" of Dad movies. Also Ted Kramer is a lousy person who is capable of great things. Or a great person who does a lot of lousy things. Is it any wonder that Dustin Hoffman won an Oscar? Meryl Streep, Jane Alexander, and Justin Henry al…
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THE KING OF KONG: A FISTFUL OF QUARTERS
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Perhaps we don't touch on the dark side of Dads often enough. But ask anyone who's even been, had, or known a Dad and they'll tell you it's there. The obsessiveness, the pettiness, the gatekeeping... it's all there. Perhaps (as this podcast occasionally posits) the real merit of a Dad comes from our ability to recognize and (hopefully) evolve into …
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Episode 294 – A Bucket of Blood (1959)
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Hey, all you Daddy-os and cool chicks! Get hip to this new scene, man! We got some groovin’ behoovin’ all in the name of that heppest of hepcats Rog Corman and man, is this guy a real gone cat! We’re diggin’ the scene in our scenario-series “Be Like the Cor-man”, man, and brother, have we got a blast this week with “A Bucket of Blood”. Man, we’re n…
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Forget the podcast, Ricky. Give 'em the heater. Lotsa Dad types in this one: Corbin Bernsen's asshole Dad, Chelcie Ross' Christian Dad (with a hidden stash of Hustlers), Tom Berenger's seemingly- cool-but-oh-wait-actually-kind-of-sad Dad, and James Gammon's tough love Dad. Plus you got a Sheen (Dads LOVE Sheens!) AND a Haysbert (the voice of Allsta…
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Episode 293 – Battle Beyond the Stars (1980)
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In 1977, a little indie film called “Star Wars” was released, ushering in a new era for science-fiction films. Its budget? Eleven million dollars. To which Roger “Be Like the Cor-Man” Corman replied “hold my beer” and a mere three years later presented the world with the sci-fi epic “Battle Beyond the Stars” for a much more reasonable two million d…
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SUPERMAN II (THE RICHARD DONNER CUT)
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Happy Upcoming Father's Day! In honor of the holiday, and in the (very Dad) spirit of making amends for mistakes made years prior, we present this VERY Dad-centric original vision of the 1980 sequel to SUPERMAN: THE MOTION PICTURE. For reasons (see: capitalism), the original theatrical release was credited to Richard Lester after Richard Donner (or…
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There’s a new superhero in town, the man they call “X”! He has the power to see through things! Clothing! Human skin! Manila file folders! And how does he use this power to fight crime, you ask? Uh . . . well, I guess he could see criminals naked and mock them about any body image problems they might have until they surrendered out of sheer embarra…
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Dads love two things: MacGuffins and culturally irrelevant impressions. This film gives our Dads the chance to enjoy the ur-MacGuffin while dusting off our best Bogey (or even our Peter Lorre!) for the eyerolled "amusement" of our progeny. Also, it's one of the greatest movies ever mad yada yada yada. This week: John Huston's 1941 hard-boiled noir-…
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Tremble before the rise of the Cor-man! We’re in “Be Like the Cor-man” now, up to our necks! For all his chintzy budgets, churned-out scripts, and lilliputian shooting schedules, Roger Corman hardly ever lost money on any of his pictures. Some of those pictures . . . one finds oneself asking “how?” as is the case of the 1960 now-cult-classic “Littl…
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Every Dad knows: you gotta take out the trash. What every Dad comes to learn: done correctly, taking out the trash is a vacation. A brief respite from the demands of family interaction, a chance to ever-so-briefly immerse oneself in a larger world. Trash has value: spiritual and emotional value. BLOODSPORT is trash. It is eminently disposable and p…
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Spit fire and save matches, we’ve got us a new series! And it’s a doozy, recognizing one of the greatest most talented highly influential directors of the last hundred years. Who you may ask? Ron Howard? Sure, “Apollo 13” is decent and “A Beautiful Mind” won some minor awards like an Oscar but did he bring us “Dinoshark”? No, he did not! Martin Sco…
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Discussion of this magnificent film inspired Dad Mike to say: "I'm going full Harrison Butker on The Girthmaster." I can't think of a stronger endorsement to listen to a deep Porn Dad discussion of Paul Thomas Anderson's 1997 masterpiece BOOGIE NIGHTS.
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Episode 289 – The Great Dictator (1940)
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Halloyouall! Hier is de ende auf “Hat Nicht Gewonen. Hat Nicht Gewonen. Hat Nicht Gewonen” und der Max und der Mike ist vatchen das moviefilmen von Herr Charles Chaplin “Der Zehr Biggen Leadermensch”. Das ist ein moviefilmen vot nicht winnen das Oskar fur “Müst Gooden Movenpicturspassemachen” und das ist zehr unhappimachen. Or ist das? Maybeezo ist…
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This may no longer be your Dad's favorite movie, but it's definitely your Dad's favorite Simpsons joke. Take a peek up Charlton Heston's loincloth with us as we explore the whos, wheres, whys, and WHA?s of Franklin Schaffner's 1968 monkeypocalypse PLANET OF THE APES.Door Mike Dorval, Tooky Kavanagh, David Rabinow
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Perhaps the most Dad-spirational movie of all time, this movie features beautiful people doing cool stuff in a fantasy city. Every Dad sees himself in a cool suit talking the racket, or tugging on our bucket hats at the track, ready for one big score. But the truth is: most of us are Julia Roberts: blissfully unaware of the danger at the edges of o…
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Episode 288 – Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
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Um, ok, this is a bit embarrassing but while we were hoping to discuss “Singin’ in the Rain” as this week’s entry in our “Didn’t Win. Didn’t Win. Didn’t Win” series, we, well I’ll just say it, we couldn’t afford the licensing fees (it’s very complicated; it would take an economist to explain it) BUT don’t despair, because we’ve got something even b…
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Well, I believe in the small of a woman's back... The hanging curveball... high fiber... good scotch. I believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. I believe there ought to be a Constitutional amendment outlawing Astroturf and the designated hitter. I believe in the sweet spot, soft core pornography, opening your presents Christmas morning rather than C…
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Episode 287 – 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
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Ok, this week’s entry in the “Didn’t Win. Didn’t Win. Didn’t Win” series is a bit troubling. I mean, it’s “2001: A Space Odyssey,” right? Well, I don’t know about you but I remember 2001; I remember getting over the Y2K panic; I remember George W. Bush being president. You know what I DON’T remember? Finding a mysterious black monolith on the moon!…
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THE NAKED GUN: FROM THE FILES OF POLICE SQUAD
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Leslie Neilsen is your dad's favorite actor, and probably his second favorite actor as well. Leslie Neilsen carried a handheld fart sound machine wherever he went. Leslie Neilsen's gravestone reads "Let 'er rip". Leslie Neilsen is the Chuck Norris of Dad humor, except he actually did all the stuff that we celebrate him for. THE NAKED GUN: FROM THE …
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Episode 286 – Do The Right Thing (1989)
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Please check out this week’s episode of “Didn’t Win. Didn’t Win. Didn’t Win.” Please do. Please baby, please, baby baby baby please! From that ham-handed reference, you can guess that we’re taking on a Spike Lee movie, specifically “Do The Right Thing”, a movie that didn’t win Best Picture, wasn’t even nominated for Best Picture, but a LOT of peopl…
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Mistress America (2015) / The Pelican Brief (1993)
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It's time for another Mike Makes Mike Watch! This week, Mike D comes to terms with the work of Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach with MISTRESS AMERICA, while Smith catches up with an early 90s movie star vehicle, THE PELICAN BRIEF!
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This movie needs a Dad! But I guess if it had one, it wouldn't really be a Batman, would it? Aren't most Tim Burton movies about missing grown ups in one way or another? He's got some stuff to work through, but then again, don't we all? Bruce Wayne certainly does; so does his counterpart Jack Napier/Joker in this astoundingly awkward mash-up of ide…
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Episode 285 – Juno (2007)
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Imagine my disappointment when I discovered that this week’s entry in “Didn’t Win. Didn’t Win. Didn’t Win” was NOT a thrilling docu-drama about the founding and development about the capital of Alaska. I mean, what a missed opportunity! I was hoping to see the on-screen portrayals of the prospectors Richard Harris and Joe Juneau as they struggle to…
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Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods
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In the wake of Akira Toriyama's death, Mike and Mike received another Ko-fi donation to talk about another Dragon Ball movie - this time around, we're talking DRAGON BALL Z: BATTLE OF GODS, the 2013 film which became the basis for the first season of Dragon Ball Super!
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Look! Up in the sky! It's our childhood! If you read comics as a kid, you read some Superman. And, love him or hate him, you knew who Superman was, and, secretly, you probably wished the people around you could be a little more like him. Granted, it's easier to have an unbendable moral code if you don't need to eat and nothing can ever hurt you, bu…
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Episode 284 – Citizen Kane (1941)
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Welcome to Max Foster Levine and No One Else; Movies. I, and I alone, have come up with our new series “Didn’t Win. Didn’t Win. Didn’t Win.” and don’t you forget it! Yes, yes, I may have had some partner or other at some point but I sent him packing when he showed his vast lack of vision at my brilliant choice of “Citizen Kane” as an example of the…
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Star Trek: First Contact
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April 5th, 2063 is the day that humankind first made contact with the Vulcans... which means it's the perfect time for Mike & Mike to dive deep on STAR TREK: FIRST CONTACT! Thanks to a Ko-Fi donation, we're digging into the 8th STAR TREK film, and talking its place in the series as a whole!
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When you're a dad/ And you want to watch/ A film/ GHOSTBUSTERS! As the Ghostbuniversters expands, we visit Ivan Reitman's ur-text, the 1984 classic that started the whole michegas.Door Mike Dorval, Tooky Kavanagh, David Rabinow
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Episode 283 – The Wizard of Oz (1939)
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Somewheeeerre, off in the podcast Movies play And my buddy and me chat About them throughout the day. Somewhere, off in the podcast, We’ll talk flicks. And we’ll just keep on talking ’cause we’re a pair of . . . Um, ok, that’s enough singing for now! Yes, believe it or not, the classic “The Wizard of Oz” was nominated for but did not win Best Pictu…
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Off Mike - Love Lies Bleeding, Hundreds of Beavers, Orphan, and more!
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It's time for an Off Mike Discussions episode! This week, Mike D catches up with the ORPHAN series and watches some recent Oscar nominees like ANATOMY OF A FALL and THE ZONE OF INTEREST. Meanwhile, Smith wants to spread the good word about his new favorite movie, HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS, plus LOVE LIES BLEEDING, GIRLS5EVA, and the original ROAD HOUSE!…
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Kermit the Frog and Fozzie Bear are the yin/yang of Dad Energy. Kermit: Moral. Respected. The clear leader. Perhaps a tad dorky, but effective. If you saw Kermit wearing cargo pants, you would not be surprised. A collaborator, but with a vision. He is what all Dads aspire to be. Fozzie: Relentlessly mocked, justifiably so. His laughs come from pity…
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Swiss Army Man (2016) / Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022)
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This week, it's time for a Mike Makes Mike Watch! Because Mike D is such a big fan of EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE, Smith is making him watch the Daniels' debut feature, SWISS ARMY MAN! Meanwhile, Mike D is making Smith catch up with one of the better animated movies in the last few years, PUSS IN BOOTS: THE LAST WISH!…
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Dads love cartoons. But you know what Dads really love? Horny cartoons that reference CHINATOWN. Also if you can get every classic Warner Brothers and Disney cartoon character in there as well...Dads eat that s*** up. That's why we're chowing down this week on (IMO) Robert Zemeckis' greatest achievement, 1988's WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT.…
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Episode 282 – Brokeback Mountain (2005)
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We’ve got us a brand-new series! How often does that happen? Well, pretty often, but that’s part of the magic! This week, we’re kicking off our series “Didn’t Win. Didn’t Win. Didn’t Win” where we discuss movies that seemed like a lock for the Best Picture Oscar but instead were cruelly and viciously stomped upon by some other film that took their …
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This week, Mike and Mike are breaking down everything that happened at this year's Academy Awards! Plus, we throw in a few extra discussions about films like PERFECT DAYS, STEAMBOAT BILL JR., THE SILENT PARTNER, and more!
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CATCH ME IF YOU CAN
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We talk a lot of Spielberg here at TDM, because Steven makes a lot of movies both for and about Dads. BRIDGE OF SPIES might be the ultimate "only Dads will watch this movie" movie. Every Dad remembers showing their kid RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK for the first time, probably a few years too soon because WATCH THIS PART WITH THE WHIP! JURASSIC PARK - in…
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Episode 281 – Forty Guns (1957)
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We’re closing out “Because Patton Said So” with one last entry from Patton Oswalt’s choices from the Criterion Collection. And as we mosey into the sunset, on our cayuse (which I think is a small Yugoslavian car, don’t quote me on that), we’re taking a gander at a Sam Fuller Western, 1957’s “Forty Guns.” The central premise of this movie is: do you…
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Dune: Part Two (Guest: Producer Collin)
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This week, Producer Collin joins the Mikes on their journey to the planet Arrakis to break down Denis Villeneuve's highly-anticipated sequel, DUNE: PART TWO! Plus, Nick Wermuth reviews the less-highly-anticipated DUNE Popcorn Bucket!
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We probably shouldn't ask more from our President than competence. Make some laws, keep the trains running on time, and be generally moral. I might be giving away too much, but I generally like the current guy. But you put him next to President Indiana Jones, and yeah, the achievements look a little thin. But to be fair, President Indiana Jones (I …
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Episode 280 – Female Trouble (1974)
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Heeewack, campers! We’ve got another choice selection from the list of Filmaster Oswalt! He’s brought us obscure, powerful noir films, languid, elegant Japanese films, so what tasteful, understated lyrical selection has he made for us . . . oh. Oh. OHHH!!!! OH GOD MY EYES MY EYES WHAT’S HAPPENING WHAT THE HELL IS THIS OHGODOHGODOHGODOHGOD . . . Umm…
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Off Mike - Dune (2021), Starship Troopers, Drive-Away Dolls, and more!
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This week, the Mikes are getting prepped for Dune: Part Two by rewatching the first one! Plus, we're talking Drive-Away Dolls, Lisa Frankenstein, Starship Troopers, Helldivers II, and more!
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Been thinking a lot this week about MADAME WEB, which (spoiler alert!) isn't a good movie, but seems to double-suffer from the background radiation of institutional misogyny. MADAME WEB isn't your enemy, fellow nerds - it's the (male-dominated) studio that serves it to us, undercooked and leaking on the plate. You know what I didn't understand in 1…
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Episode 279 – The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice (1952)
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Once again, we are pleased to bring you a film selection suggested by one Mr. Patton Oswalt (and there is only one of him, at least until I perfect my cloning-and-memory-imprint-transfer device, which should be any day now; I just need to find one more set of old skee-ball machine gears . . .): Yasujirō Ozu’s 1952 work “The Flavor of Green Tea Over…
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The Train (1964) / Non-Stop (2014)
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It's a vehicular action double feature! This week for Mike Makes Mike Watch, Mike D is making Smith catch up with John Frankenheimer's THE TRAIN! Meanwhile, Smith is making Mike D brush up on his Liam Neeson with Jaume Collet-Sera's NON-STOP!
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When your number's up, your number's up. Seems like a real Dad thing to say. But deep in our Dad Hearts, we fear the void. We fear the loss of control, the powerlessness, the inability to care for those we love. Sam Wheat - while not a Dad - is EveryDad. Cue the Righteous Brothers: it's time for Jerry Zucker's 1990 megahit GHOST.…
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