Broken VCR
Two middle-aged cinephiles discuss one film a week.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 96 minutes
- Episodes
- 203
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
#123 Phantom Thread (2017)
Paul Thomas Anderson's 2017 beautifully twisted London romance, PHANTOM THREAD, is our feature presentation this week! We'll talk the film's surprising twist, if it's a great dark comedy or not, what…
01:42:12 |
Tue 21 May 2024
#122 Everybody Wants Some (2016)
Richard Linklater's 2016 college baseball hangout comedy, EVERYBODY WANTS SOME, is our feature presentation this week! We'll talk it's spiritual sequel connection to Dazed & Confused, the virtues of …
01:37:24 |
Tue 14 May 2024
#121 Green Room (2015)
Jeremy Saulnier's brutal 2015 neo-nazi punk rock thriller, GREEN ROOM, is our feature presentation this week. We discuss the vicious violence, the skinhead punk rock subculture, Patrick Stewart playi…
01:43:42 |
Tue 07 May 2024
BONUS #120 Civil War (2024)
Alex Garland's 2024 dystopian America action film, CIVIL WAR, is our bonus feature presentation this week. We discuss the screenplay, Jesse Plemmons memorable cameo, Journalists as heroes, if the mys…
01:30:59 |
Fri 03 May 2024
#119 Nightcrawler (2014)
Dan Gilroy's 2014 Los Angeles ambulance chasing thriller, NIGHTCRAWLER, is our feature presentation this week. We discuss the 1930s origin, Jake Gyllenhaal's transformation, the mid-2000s depiction o…
01:49:51 |
Tue 30 Apr 2024
#118 Out of the Furnace (2013)
Scott Cooper's 2013 rust belt revenge drama, OUT OF THE FURNACE, is our feature presentation this week. We discuss if the film is too full of despair, the Pennsylvania setting, Woody Harrelson as a …
01:39:48 |
Tue 23 Apr 2024
#117 The Place Beyond the Pines (2012)
Derek Cianfrance's 2012 generational crime drama, THE PLACE BEYOND THE PINES, is our feature presentation this week. We discuss the original DP departing the film due to a grim dream, Cianfrance & G…
01:52:39 |
Tue 16 Apr 2024
#116 Kill Bill Vol. 2 (2004)
The second installment of Quentin Tarantino's 2004 exploitation extravaganza, KILL BILL VOL. 2, is our feature presentation this week. We discuss the the comparisons between the two volumes, the clas…
01:49:44 |
Tue 09 Apr 2024
#115 Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003)
The first installment of Quentin Tarantino's 2003 exploitation extravaganza, KILL BILL VOL. 1, is our feature presentation this week. We discuss the origins of the idea, that Brian De Palma sequence,…
01:50:26 |
Tue 02 Apr 2024
BONUS #114 Sisu (2022)
Jalmari Helander's 2022 WWII exploitation bloodbath, SISU, is our feature presentation this week. We discuss the stripped down no-nonsense script, the over-the-top carnage, the beautiful Finnish Lapl…
01:18:17 |
Fri 29 Mar 2024
#113 Split Image (1982)
Ted Kotcheff's 1982 cult rescue melodrama, SPLIT IMAGE, is our feature presentation this week. We discuss Kotcheff's big 1982 with two feature film releases, the deprogramming scenes, Karen Allen, th…
01:37:50 |
Tue 26 Mar 2024
#112 Payday (1973)
Daryl Duke's 1973 day in the life of a country music mad man, PAYDAY, is our feature presentation this week. We discuss if the film went too far or not far enough, Rip Torn's bad boy reputation, his …
01:41:38 |
Tue 19 Mar 2024
#111 Gone With The Pope (1975)
Duke Mitchell's 1975 forgotten gangster exploitation film, GONE WITH THE POPE, is our feature presentation this week. We discuss the un-released 70s film being discovered in a parking garage & releas…
01:44:12 |
Tue 12 Mar 2024
#110 Pretty Maids All In A Row (1971)
Roger Vadim's 1971 murder mystery sexploitation film, PRETTY MAIDS ALL IN A ROW, is our feature presentation this week. We discuss Rock Hudson's iconic role as "Tiger", if sexualized films have a pla…
01:39:16 |
Tue 05 Mar 2024
#109 The Far Country (1954)
Anthony Mann's 1954 Klondike Gold Rush Western, THE FAR COUNTRY, is our feature presentation this week. We discuss director Anthony Mann's partnership with James Stewart, the "Northern" genre, Stewar…
01:49:06 |
Tue 27 Feb 2024
#108 Better Off Dead (1985)
Savage Steve Holland's 1985 silly breakup ski comedy, BETTER OFF DEAD, is our feature presentation this week. We discuss the autobiographical beginnings of the story, John Cusack's disdain for the fi…
01:30:50 |
Tue 20 Feb 2024
#107 Eastern Promises (2007)
David Cronenberg's 2007 Russian Mafia Crime Film, EASTERN PROMISES, is our feature presentation this week. We discuss the culture of tattoos in the Russian criminal world, the usage of knives over gu…
01:53:25 |
Tue 13 Feb 2024
#106 Hot Tub Time Machine (2010)
Steve Pink's 2010 throwback to sleazy 1980s ski comedies, HOT TUB TIME MACHINE, is our feature presentation this week. We discuss how a misunderstanding birthed the title and script, John Cusack's ne…
01:38:39 |
Tue 06 Feb 2024
#105 Zardoz (1974)
John Boorman's 1974 big weird Sci-Fi freak out, ZARDOZ, is our feature presentation this week. We discuss Sean Connery's ridiculous wardrobe, that badass flying stone head, the muddled message behind…
01:31:54 |
Tue 30 Jan 2024
#104 Ravenous (1999)
Antonia Bird's 1999 High Sierra Cannibal Calvary thriller, RAVENOUS, is our feature presentation this week. We discuss the film's troubled shoot ending up in two directors being fired, the film's mix…
01:29:50 |
Tue 23 Jan 2024
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