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Alicia visits the home of the Maltins, to talk with film critic Leonard Maltin and his daughter Jessie Maltin… about being in the family business of loving movies, and why they wanted to start their own film festival: Maltin Fest.

Jill and Wade return from the 10th Annual TCM Classic Film Festival with tales from the field. As newly-minted TCM Ambassadors, they have hot takes on the fest’s good, bad and ugly, and interview some of their fest friends:  writer Jeremy Carr, Author Karen Burroughs Hannsberry, Jaxbra from Twittersphere, Angela Pettys of The Hollywood Revue...

On this week’s show, Brian discusses four recent releases from the wonderful Indicator label – BREAKOUT (1975), R.P.M. (1970), GARDENS OF STONE (1987) and A DANDY IN ASPIC (1968). For more information on Indicator and their releases, go to: https://www.powerhousefilms.co.uk/ Follow the Show on Twitter here for Episode previews and new Blu-ray News! twitter.com/justthediscspod We’re also...

Aaron is joined by David Blakeslee from Criterion Reflections and Jon Laubinger from Film Baby Film. We dig into the Criterion July 2019 slate, tackle some rumors about OOP discs that could potentially come back to Criterion or to another label. Finally we check in with the Criterion Channel and cover a series or title...

The second episode of the Movies Silently podcast with host Fritzi Kramer and special guest Kelley Smoot, who has spearheaded the republication of The Fourth Musketeer by Letitia Fairbanks. A huge thanks to Eduardo and Julie for their help with the pronunciation of Brazilian Portuguese and Dutch! Patreon backers get early podcast access and other exclusive...

Stephanie Crawford is back to talk Blaxploitation this round as we dive deep on CLEOPATRA JONES (and it’s sequel, which is NOT yet on Blu-ray) as well as the original SUPER FLY — both Blu-rays from Warner Archive. Follow the Show on Twitter here for Episode previews and new Blu-ray News! twitter.com/justthediscspod We’re also on Instagram! instagram.com/justthediscspod/

I first encountered David Jones’ adaptation of Harold Pinter’s play about his extramarital affair, Betrayal (1983), when I was thirteen years old. Those were the heady days of the early cable television boom and my afternoon ritual was to walk to Head’s Grocery, get a Dr Pepper and some Hot Tamales, and then walk to...

Mark and Aaron bring back Criterion Close-Up is back, this time with Jill Blake and Wade Sheeler from Drinking While Talking to dive into one of Hitchcock’s masterpieces. We look at the history with Selznick and how that helped develop Hitchcock’s later style. We also discuss Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman in detail, including their...

On this listener recommended episode, Jamie and Doug try and figure out why Lilly Tomlin plays roughly 45 roles in this film, who thought it would be a good idea to include a man in a gorilla suit, and why the movie refuses to send any sort of message. Seriously, give us anything!   Support...

Alicia talks with actress turned director Roxann Dawson, about her feature directorial debut “Breakthrough”, getting busted skipping work for an audition, working on “Star Trek: Voyager” and the power of faith (in whatever form you believe in)

The great and delightful Brendon Small is back and he’s brought his synthesizer and it is awesome. This time we take a long look at THE MANINTOU (1978) via the new Scream Factory Blu-ray. If you haven’t seen THE MANITOU, it is just one of those movies that is made for the WTF canon and...

Alicia goes backstage at the Noir City film festival to chat with its founder, the Czar of Noir, TCM host, Eddie Muller. They talk about his noir-esque father, how the film festival started and the possibly illegal things he’s done to save a movie from being destroyed.

The launch of the Criterion Channel called for an emergency podcast. Josh, Matt and Michael joined to talk about our first impressions, and Josh announces a new cast that’s in development.

Blu-ray YouTuber Aaron Pynn returns to talk Vinegar Syndrome once again as he and Brian dive into their Blu-rays for THERE’S NOTHING OUT THERE (1991), WACKO (1982) and SPLATTER UNIVERSITY (1984). Check out Aaron’s YouTube Channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC86Rb_aoMKA3IKKZwJBhLVQ Follow the Show on Twitter here for Episode previews and new Blu-ray News! twitter.com/justthediscspod We’re also on Instagram! instagram.com/justthediscspod/

Shoplifters (Kore-eda, 2018) was a revelatory filmgoing experience. So much so that as we were walking out of the theatre, I proclaimed that I would cover it in an episode as quickly as possible. I can’t think of another film in recent memory that I knew immediately was my new favorite as I was watching...

Aaron is joined by Dave Eves and Matt Schlee. We begin the show by paying tribute to a master, the great Agnès Varda, who we lived a long life yet it still feels like we lost her too soon. We also talk about all of the titles that were announced as part of the Kino...

Matt and Travis welcome Matt Schlee from Cineccentric to discuss the fifth feature in Kieślowski’s filmography, Short Working Day. In 1981, Kieślowski made two films that would be immediately shelved and go unreleased for years: the theatrical feature Blind Chance (which was also censored even its eventually released version) and the made-for-Television feature Short Working...

Doug and Jamie work their way through Paul Schrader’s baffling remake of Jacques Tourneur‘s 1942 classic, replacing all of the tension and mystery with T&A! Was it surprisingly great or is it little more than the clumps of cat litter at the bottom of the garbage bag that is bad 80s remakes? Watch the film,...

Alicia visits the production office of producer Fred Berger, who talks about the type of obsession and passion it takes to shepherd an original film from concept to cinema, without sacrificing the vision of the director. And… what a producer actually does!

In a special bonus episode, we discuss the upcoming 10th Annual TCM Classic Film Festival in Hollywood from April 11 – 14. We have some tips on how to negotiate the Hollywood Blvd “creatures of the night,” as well as what films and events we plan on hitting each time slot. As usual, our liquid...