Hot Date with Dan and Vicky

1951's Three Husbands and 1949's A Letter To Three Wives share screenwriter Vera Caspary but also similar storylines.  In Three Husbands, the title characters receive letters about their wives' possi…

With Shakespeare's King Lear as it's source material, both the book by Jane Smiley and the film adaptation directed by Jocelyn Moorehouse of A Thousand Acres sets the action on an Iowa farm.  In the …

Tigon British Film Productions, founded in 1966 as counter programming to the more well known Hammer Studios, nonetheless took a page from the Hammer playbook by making horror and exploitation films.…

Director/screenwriter Bill Condon has since become an Oscar winning filmmaker with credits ranging from writing 2002's Chicago to directing two films in the Twilight series.  But his directorial debu…

In response to the success Univeral was having with it's monster series, 20th Century Fox endeavored to bring their own monster movies to the big screen. Taking cues from the mix of horror and comedy…

Robert Altman's Chicago set A Wedding from 1978 tells the story of two families and the lavish and chaotic day they marry off young Dino (Desi Arnaz Jr.) and Muffin (Amy Stryker).  An all star cast o…

The Patricia Highsmith novel The Talented Mr. Ripley has been adapted twice for the screen - most recently in 1995 in a star studded version by director Anthony Minghella.  But the novel's first film…

For our milestone 150th show, we offer our Top Ten lists of our favorite Best Picture Winners of all time.  From ribald comedies to dark thrillers to ripped from the headlines dramas, Dan and Vicky h…

With the powerhouse producing team of Guillermo Del Toro and Alfonso Cuaron behind it, 2004's Ecuadorean drama Cronicas had an easy time being chosen as that country's submission for the Best Foreign…

1965's Who Killed Teddy Bear mixes spasmodic dance sequences, lewd phone calls, predatory lesbians, incest, and Sal Mineo in short shorts to create one of the strangest films to come out of the swing…

The unique 1946 film noir So Dark The Night gave actor Steven Geray his first and only chance to play the lead in a film.  Up until then, and for years after, he was a reliable and memorable supporti…

1991's The Commitments was a departure for filmmaker Alan Parker.  Traditionally an explorer of the darker reaches of human interaction (Angel Heart, Mississippi Burning), the film was instead a seri…

For our final Hot Date of 2021, we chose Putney Swope, written and directed by Robert Downey Sr.  As an indictment of corporate greed, the advertising business and race, the film was Downey's reactio…

We're back again with another of our famous Top Ten List episodes.  This time we're looking at our favorite movie villains.  Those despicable, pathetic, misguided, attractive movie characters - some …

A negative pickup for Universal Pictures to cash in on the 3D trend partially initiated by the company's own Jaws 3, low budget sci fi epic Metalstorm failed to spark at the box office.  Of the many …

1948's Brighton Rock, based on the novel by Graham Greene, was a controversial hit in England where critics felt it reached new levels of depravity and on screen violence.  It also met the ire of nov…