Episode 180 – HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2 / PROJECT NIM / TABLOID / Special Guest: Jordan Bayne
Episode 180 – Incredibly we get Gareth to see another Harry Potter film – listen in for the thrilling result. No seriously, listen in. It is thrilling. Eight films worth of thrilling.
Episode 161: UNKNOWN / Glenn Kenny on SHUTTER ISLAND
Here it is – we investigate TAKEN 2, aka UNKNOWN, and special guest film critic Glenn Kenny talks about a film that had a profoundly personal effect on him: SHUTTER ISLAND.
Episode 160 – John Barry Remembered / SOMEWHERE / THE GREY ZONE
Here it is – our tribute to the great John Barry as well as an investigation of the new Sofia Coppola film SOMEWHERE and a look back at Tim Blake Nelson’s THE GREY ZONE.
This Week in TFT: SOMEWHERE / THE GREY ZONE / INSIDE JOB / ANOTHER YEAR
That cinema train just keeps on rolling Dear Listener! This week it’s Brandon Nowalk’s review of ANOTHER YEAR and Tony Youngblood’s thoughts on INSIDE JOB. And as a bonus, if you’ve been good, on The Show Gareth and I go SOMEWHERE and end up in THE GREY ZONE.
Episode 158 – THE GREEN HORNET / SEASON OF THE WITCH / FOUR LIONS
Gareth and I discover the DR. STRANGELOVE of our generation: Chris Morris’ FOUR LIONS. Also SEASON OF THE WITCH and THE GREEN HORNET are mentioned for some reason. Other items of interest: The Big Bear Horro-Fi Festival and 6 Months that Changed a Year.
Episode 152 – HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS / 127 HOURS
On this week’s podcast reviews Gareth and I disagree in the extreme about HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS, not so much about 127 HOURS.
Episode 151 – UNSTOPPABLE / FOR COLORED GIRLS / MORNING GLORY / HOWL / Goodbye to Dino De Laurentiis
On this week’s podcast Gareth and I speculate in some detail about which automated script software was used to write UNSTOPPABLE, realize how white we are while watching FOR COLORED GIRLS, mourn the passing of the legendary producer Dino De Laurentiis and spend barely anytime at all talking about HOWL and MORNING GLORY.
Episode 150 – MILLENIUM TRILOGY / WASTE LAND / MEGAMIND
On this week’s podcast Gareth and I vehemently disagree about THE MILLENIUM TRILOGY, discuss in some detail the new documentary WASTE LAND and we get a brief report on animated comedy MEGAMIND
Happy Halloween!
Here a little Halloween movie for you – recorded on the way to the 2010 Big Bear Horror Film Festival,
Episode 149 – HEREAFTER / WALL STREET: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS / An Interview with ENTER THE VOID’s Nathaniel Brown
On this week’s podcast Gareth and I talk about the beautiful and heartfelt new film by Clint Eastwood HEREAFTER, the overlooked satire WALL STREET: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS, and our guest is Nathaniel Brown, star of the extraordinary ENTER THE VOID
Bowie Knife
The first scene of Nagisa Oshima’s ‘Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence’ (new on DVD and Blu-Ray from Criterion) is occupied with the horror of a soldier being forced to cut his intestines open as a punishment for being in love with another man. The last image of the film is the smiling face of a soldier [...]
THE SOCIAL NETWORK or How Facebook Caught My Girlfriend Cheating
In 2005, my college-aged friends introduced me to Myspace and Facebook. I quickly fell under Myspace’s spell, creating a personal and band page, taking way too many vanity self-portraits, and attempting to ‘friend’ as many quirky, cute girls that I could find in a 45 mile vicinity. I would have done the same with Facebook, [...]
Episode 147 – SWANSONG: STORY OF OCCI BYRNE / Conor McDermottroe Interviewed at the 2010 LA Irish Film Festival
TFT 147 running time: 21 minutes 53 Seconds – 10.6mb mp3 SWANSONG: STORY OF OCCI BYRNE / THE 2010 LA IRISH FILM FESTIVAL – – – Subscribe to the Podcast – Become a TFT Member Follow TFT on Twitter – Follow TFT on Facebook – – – HELP JETT FIND WORK IN LA – CLICK HERE FOR HIS [...]
This Week in TFT
[The Aero Theatre in Santa Monica] This week on TFT the joy of that old-fashioned form of entertainment: Cinema, continues: Brandon Nowalk will be investigating that controversial, (? is it, I’m not sure actually – how to tell between the manufactured and the real these days?), new film CATFISH – but be warned there will [...]
2010 LA Irish Film Festival – Part 3
Hello Dear Reader – hope you’re having as lovely a time wherever you are as I’m having in Los Angeles. Another night at the 2010 LA Irish Film Festival for yours truly – cracking films in MY BROTHERS and SWANSONG: STORY OF OCCI BYRNE. You’ll hear myself and Prof. Dr. Gareth Higgins talk about OCCI [...]
Episode 146 – PERRIER’S BOUNTY / THE 2010 LA IRISH FILM FESTIVAL
Play TFT Episode 146 – PERRIER’S BOUNTY Running time: 24 minutes 3 Seconds – 11.6mb mp3 PERRIER’S BOUNTY / THE 2010 LA IRISH FILM FESTIVAL – – – Subscribe to the Podcast – Become a TFT Member Follow TFT on Twitter – Follow TFT on Facebook – – – HELP JETT FIND WORK IN LA – CLICK [...]
Ticket for One – A Night at the Movies – By Yourself
If you’re like me, you often find yourself alone at the cinema ticket line. Try as you might, you just couldn’t sell your partner or your friends on the Jacques Tati retrospective or the 6 hour Hungarian black and white epic. Of course, your friends blamed a lack of cash, prior commitments, or a head [...]
Episode 145 – NEVER LET ME GO / THE THIN RED LINE
TFT 145 running time: 50 minutes – 24.1mb mp3 – – – Subscribe to the Podcast – Become a TFT Member Follow TFT on Twitter – Follow TFT on Facebook – – – HELP JETT FIND WORK IN LA – CLICK HERE FOR HIS RESUME
This Week on TFT
[Actress Alexandra Swarens and director Edgar Bravo on the set of MOTHER'S RED DRESS] This week on TFT much action my friends: Tony Youngblood will be writing on that wonderful pastime: Going to the Movies. By yourself. Brandon Nowalk will be reporting back from the experience that was WALL STREET 2: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS. God [...]
I'm Still Here – A Brave, Miscalculated Mess
The problem with talking about I’m Still Here is that we have to discuss something you by all rights shouldn’t know when entering the theater. But every review you come across will pontificate on it. Odds are you already know what I’m talking about. If you don’t, stop here, and go watch the movie. Spoilers [...]
TFT 144 – THE TOWN / I'M STILL HERE
TFT 144 running time: 38 minutes 10 seconds – 17.4mb mp3 THE TOWN starts at 2 minutes 30 seconds I’M STILL HERE starts at 21 minutes seconds – – – Subscribe to the Podcast – Become a TFT Member Follow TFT on Twitter – Follow TFT on Facebook – – – HELP JETT FIND WORK IN [...]
This Week on TFT
Joaquin in/on LA Hey there TFT Fans – here’s what we’ve got coming up in another action packed week o’ The Film Talk: Gareth and I will be doing our ‘all-Affleck’ special with in-depth examinations of THE TOWN and one my favorite films of the year I’M STILL HERE Our Member’s Bonus episode discussing the [...]
Leave Her to Heaven: Hollywood Chauvinism or Feminist Masterpiece?
To discuss John M. Stahl’s 40s Technicolor noir Leave Her to Heaven in any great detail would be to give too much away, and I don’t want to rob you of the film’s many pleasures. I’ll tell you this much: Fiction writer Richard Harland (Cornel Wilde) meets the beautiful and mysterious Ellen Berent (Gene Tierney) [...]
TFT 143 – THE AMERICAN / ZARDOZ
TFT 143 running time: 49 minutes 55 seconds – 24mb mp3 THE AMERICAN starts at 1 minute 57 seconds ZARDOZ starts at 22 minutes 27 seconds – – – Subscribe to the Podcast – Become a TFT Member Follow TFT on Twitter – Follow TFT on Facebook – – – HELP JETT FIND WORK IN LA [...]
