Random Acts of Cinema

On this week's episode, [needle drop: classic Motown song about hanging out with friends] your hosts settle in with couple of old college friends (Shelley and Max of The Spirit Guides Podcast) in a b…

Imagine a time in history where a film about a man losing his job - a job that defines him, giving him pride and respect in his community - explores the desperation and humiliation of demotion but it…

The Hawk is on the loose!  Michael Lehmann’s heist-oriented comic action movie is a widely panned example of true 1990s Hollywood excess.  But, what if the hosts of a podcast based on the sophisticat…

We hope that you’re hungry for this week’s episode because we’re watching Juzo Itami’s great cinematic love letter to ramen.  Even more than that, this fantastical narrative jumps between a dizzying …

It goes without saying that this is a big one for us.  Akira Kurosawa’s classic tale of peasants-seek-samurai/samurai-get-crew-together/samurai-kill-bandits is both a highly influential titan in 20th…

This year, Mike has selected Lawerence Kasdan’s star-studded, rollicking western update as his “gift” for the birthday boy Charlie.  Why?  That’s still a little unclear, but your hosts are still deli…

We’ve come stumbling out of the desert to share a pretty big episode this week - well, at least its a big one for your two hosts - as we dive back into the landscapes of Wim Wenders in one of his man…

Delmer Daves‘ all-time classic follows a struggling rancher (Van Heflin) who is recruited to transport a dangerous prisoner (Glenn Ford) to a train station, while being tracked by a violent gang of b…

Take a deep breath and get ready for the break-neck paced day in the life of ace reporter Hildy Johnson (Rosalind Russell) and her conniving editor/ex-husband Walter Burns (Cary Grant) as love, life,…

This movie has a very accurate title. Director Irvin Yeaworth deserves some credit for this.

If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Howard Hawks’ His G…

We return to the films of Nagisa Ōshima with a surprising erotic/crime thriller/ghost story set in… 19th-century Japan?  Sounds pretty awesome, right?  Well, guess what? (It is.)

If you’d like to wat…

What happens when the high-art/low-art contemporary artist Takashi Murakami tackles the high-art/low-art film genre of…outcast kid moves to a new town but then find a magical creature who he fights a…

Following last week's randomly-selected film, we are surprised that Randy has chosen for us another French absurdist comedy addressing the arbitrary and hypocritical nature of social standards of for…

We're heading back into the biting, social satire of Luis Buñuel with this absurdist comedy Phantom of Liberty.  One scene blends into the next in this near-stream-of-consciousness dream-state that c…

Are you ready for a tight, psychosexual thriller?  Well instead, how about a movie that everyone claims to be one of those while it's really mostly a swinging 60s freak-out set in London?  Really tho…

Want to listen to two straight guys stumble their way through a reading of Pedro Almodóvar’s classic film about a group of strong-willed Spanish women dealing with heartbreak, repression, insanity, a…

It turns out that well-regarded film preservationist and historian Martin Scorsese also makes movies!  And you know what? Some of them are surprisingly good.  And he made this one with Robert De Niro…

Hee haw!  It’s time to cash in with a guaranteed shot at commercial appeal with a Christmas classic!  But can Frank Capra and James Stewart’s heartstring-tugging piece of nostalgia-driven  Americana …

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