A Return to the Commercial: Tomorrow's Podcast – Wolverine and State of Play
After a month of shows and posts about the Full Frame Documentary Festival in Durham and the Nashville Film Fest: The Film Talk on Film Festivals Gareth and I are taking a quick break from the world of independent film and will talk about the current state of commerical ‘Hollywood’ cinema. Join us tomorrow on [...]
Full Frame Documentary Festival Wrapup Podcast
Our Full Frame Documentary Festival ‘podcast wrapup’ is now live: The Film Talk – Part 59 – Full Frame Documentary Festival – Wrapup
Today's Podcast – A Day at Full Frame
Today’s podcast is our quick re-cap of our first day at the Full Frame Documentary Festival in Durham: The Film Talk – Part 56 – Full Frame Documentary Festival – Day 1 – – – (Photo above – Full Frame Ticket Area before doors open)
This Week's Podcast – The Films of Stanley Kubrick
Just uploaded – Dr. Higgins and I pick our favorite scene from each of Stanley Kubrick’s pictures: The Film Talk – Part 53 – The Films of Stanley Kubrick
'Watchmen' Re-visited
Regular listeners will already know that my genial co-host and I didn’t much care for ‘Watchmen’. Jett, as a long term fan of costumed avengers felt it missed the point, to say the least; I wasn’t sure. I saw it again the other night in the hope that my thoughts might clarify themselves. So, for [...]
Why Kung Fu Panda is Not Better than Wall-E
A few weeks ago my genial co-host Mr Jett Loe acclaimed Dreamworks’ gorgeous, fun and sassy animated astonishment ‘Kung Fu Panda’ in the wake of its upset victory over ‘Wall-E’ at the Annie Awards. He included some rather delightful screen caps to bolster his case. I got around to watching last week, delayed by other [...]
Tomorrow's Podcast – A Stanley Kubrick Retrospective
TFT 53 – The Films of Stanley Kubrick Podcast TFT 33 – Eyes Wide Shut Appreciation Podcast TFT 80 – My Year With Stanley Kubrick – 2001′s Dan Richter – A Podcast Interview – – – Hey there Dear Listener – FYI: Tomorrow’s podcast will be a Stanley Kubrick retrospective, marking 10 years since his [...]
This Man Used to Be Funny – TFT 50 Preview – All the Pink Panther Movies
Remember this guy? He used to be funny. We investigate what happened on TFT 50 coming later this week: our review of all ALL the Pink Panther films including the little seen ‘Inspector Clouseau’ starring Alan Arkin as the eponymous detective. If there’s any Pink Panther business you’d like Gareth and I to investigate on [...]
Is 'Revolutionary Road' Totally Unrepresentative, Disingenuous and Easy for Them to Say?
Jett and I discuss ‘Revolutionary Road’ on the next episode of TFT – and it perhaps should go without saying that we have responded differently. The film’s getting a lot of coverage for what some see as its piercing evaluation of US suburban life in the immediate post-war period; the suggestion being that conformity is [...]
This Week on the Show: 'Revolutionary Road' and 'The Wrestler'
This week on the Show we’ll be reviewing Academy Award Nominated films ‘Revolutionary Road’ and ‘The Wrestler’. Now, I haven’t seen ‘Revolutionary Road’ yet; I’m watching it later today. But I did receive an emergency phone call from Dr. Higgins two days ago in which he wanted to be ‘talked down’ after seeing the film. [...]
The Real Star of the Dirty Harry Films – Albert Popwell
The real star of the Dirty Harry films, Albert Popwell. As discussed in detail in Part 48 of the Show, coming later today.
TFT 48 Preview – Gran Torino and Our Favorite Clint Eastwood Directed Films
Our show this week is a Clint Eastwood Special. Gareth and I are reviewing Gran Torino and each of us will also discuss in depth our favorite ‘Clint directed’ films. As the frame-grab above demonstrates, my fav is ‘Play Misty for Me’. Check out the brother’s hat, (also he only talks in jive). I don’t [...]
TFT – Now Every Week!
Hey there Dear Listener – Professor Doctor Gareth Higgins and I have enough shows now ‘in the can’ to do the show on a weekly basis – so ya can look forward to our review of ‘Indiana Jones and Kingdom of the Crystal Skull’ this coming Friday, (U.S. Time), followed by ‘Iron Man’ the week [...]
More thoughts on Pirates of the Caribbean
The more I think about the film the more one thing occurs to me – this film, this mess, this thing…resembles to me more than anything else a ‘Works Program’ – some sort of subsided project that employs people – like building a dam…no, not a dam – something more along the lines of those [...]
