Hot Date with Dan and Vicky

Part of then 31 year old Ethan Hawke's audition for Training Day was a series of casting sessions with star Denzel Washington.  It was after one of those reads that Hawke left fuming, upset that Wash…

Is it a 2010 or a 2009 release?  Things get confusing on Dan and Vicky's 17th Hot Date. They chose a random date in January of 2010, usually a deadly month for movies, and came up with the fairly cla…

Director Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan, Requiem for a Dream) came up with a unique strategy for funding and staffing his debut feature Pi.  He approached family, friends and everyone in between with t…

Steve McQueen, David Soul and Sam Elliott were all attached to the car chase classic Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry when it was to be a direct adaptation of the novel The Chase and had no female protagonist…

It seems incongruous that producers would have originally wanted Vanessa Redgrave for the title role in 1966's Georgy Girl because sister Lynn seemed an absolute perfect fit and, indeed, ended up mak…

It took three William Faulkner stories to make the sultry, southern classic film The Long, Hot Summer and one difficult movie icon to almost unmake it. Although Orson Welles was director Martin Ritt'…

2008's Zack and Miri Make A Porno was Kevin Smith's most expensive, most high profile film at the time so a lot was riding on it's success.  Could Seth Rogen prove his star turn in the prior year's K…

Melissa Sue Anderson was eager to break out of the house that Michael Landon built when she signed on for 1981's slasher Happy Birthday to Me.  She was still screaming and crying but this time it was…

Hot Date is in celebration mode!  Dan and Vicky have reached episode ten and want to shake things up and do something special for our loyal listeners.  Instead of bantering about one film, our hosts …

After the success of the The Thin Man in 1934, MGM was eager to get stars William Powell and Myrna Loy back in front of the cameras for a sequel.  It took two years and, if film lore is to be believe…

Before he became the official film adapter of all things J.R.R Tolkein, Peter Jackson was a young monster movie enthusiast and animator creating kitschy, violent, over the top gore-fests in his home …

Impact:  The force with which two lives come together.  Sometimes for good, sometimes for evil.

Dan and Vicky come together and it's ALL for the good as they look at the little remembered B-movie fro…

Barbra Streisand is a force to be reckoned with.  Two time Oscar winner, multi Grammy, Golden Globe and Emmy winner.  The woman even has several Peabodys!   

So when she decided to tackle her grittie…

Producer Robert Evans resisted the efforts of horror schlockmeister William Castle to direct the film adaptation of Ira Levin's novel, Rosemary's Baby, and the film world is all the better for it.

Po…

Heads you win, Tails you die!  

When late director Tony Scott read the story of Domino Harvey in an article in The Daily Mail, he was eager to translate her life to film.  Working with her and screen…

French director Roger Vadim made his US filmmaking debut in 1971 with Pretty Maids All In A Row, based on the scandalously prurient novel of the same title.  It was an inauspicious and largely forgot…

Based on Peter Schaffer's hit play, the movie version of Amadeus won eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Actor and Director.  Dan and Vicky watched the Director's  Cut, which has about 30 m…

On the premiere episode, Dan and Vicky choose July 27, 1972 as their Hot Date.  

The classic survival thriller "Deliverance" was released on July 30th and went on to become one of the highest grossin…