Bundle up tight because Further Reeding is heading deep into the unforgiving 19th-century Canadian wilderness with Oliver Reed at his absolute gruffest (and most outrageously accented) as Jean La Bête, a wild fur trapper who rolls into town and casually purchases a mute orphan girl, played by Rita Tushingham, to be his wilderness wife in 1966’s THE TRAP. Can the pair survive the wilderness and each other? ONLY ONE WAY TO FIND OUT!
This week on Wild in the Streets, Doug and Liam are familiarizing themselves with Er Monnezza (aka Garbage Can), Tomas Milian’s foul mouthed criminal with a heart of.. uh.. gold who teams up with Claudio Cassinelli’s hard-nosed cop to track down a kidnapped little girl being held hostage by the evil Henry Silva in 1976’s FREE HAND FOR A TOUGH COP (aka TOUGH COP). Grab some J&B and grab a brick because on this episode we’re out for BLOOD!
SERPENT’S PATH: THE FILMS OF KIYOSHI KUROSAWA returns, and we dive into the third and fourth entries of Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s crime-comedy V-cinema series: Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself: The Loot (1996) (Katte ni shiyagare!! Ôgon keikaku) and Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself: The Gamble (1996) (Katte ni shiyagare!! Gyakuten keikaku). Once again we follow low-level criminals Yûji (Sho Aikawa) and Kôsaku (Kôyô Maeda) as they find a treasure map(!), win big at the track, get in trouble with yakuza (of course) and maybe, just maybe, learn a little about themselves. Or not! We look at how Kurosawa’s style is developing, where he’s moving to in his career, and look forward to some VERY interesting developments. CHECK IT OUT!
On a returning HOW DO YOU DO, FELLOW KIDS? we are stepping back behind the camera to look at a film directed by the man himself: 2005’s LONESOME JIM. Written by Jim Strouse and starring Casey Affleck as a depressed, failed novelist who returns to his Indiana hometown and connects with a local nurse (played by Liv Tyler), LONESOME JIM got a bit lost in the cavalcade of sad-sack dude movies in the mid 2000s, but is it worthy of discovery? Let’s find out.
Our chronological journey through the filmography of Carol Kane enters the 1990s! On this episode of PRAISING KANE (the world’s finest chronological Carol Kane-themed podcast) we’re diving into Franco Amurri’s buddy-comedy/action-thriller crossover Flashback (1990). Starring Kiefer Sutherland as a buttoned-down, straight-laced FBI agent tasked with escorting a legendary, Abbie Hoffmanesque hippie played by Dennis Hopper. Featuring a great supporting cast including Paul Dooley, Michael McKean, Cliff DeYoung, and — of course — our beloved Carol Kane. How does this odd-couple road trip hold up, and how much does Carol steal the show? LISTEN and FIND OUT!
We’re BACK! And better than ever! On this PACKED episode of GEORGE KENNEDY IS MY COPILOT we’re doubling up once again, starting with a look at the first half of George Kennedy’s second mystery novel MURDER ON HIGH where once again George has to help his buddy Mike Corby solve a mystery.. but this time it’s while they are on a freakin’ AIRPLANE! Exciting stuff! Then we check out the 1970 revisionist western DIRTY DINGUS MAGEE featuring Frank Sinatra as the titular antihero outlaw. It’s certainly something. And of course George Kennedy plays the hapless sheriff on Magee’s tail. Check it ALL out right now!
OH CANADA! On this episode of Cinema Smorgasbord Sells Out, our hosts have a chat about Canadian cinema having a moment, what the country can do to become a bigger player internationally (and at home) and some of our favorite Canadian films before taking a look at Sophy Romvari’s tremendous semi-autobiographical drama BLUE HERON from 2025. It’s a quietly experimental film about a family becoming increasingly fractured by a child’s erratic behavior, and it’s worth going out of your way to see. And hear us talk about!
On a pulse pounding returning WILD IN THE STREETS Fabio Testi is trying to take down the protection racket in Rome but is up to his elbows in red tape, but after one incident too many he’s fired and has to assemble a crack squad of cons to take down the baddies in Enzo G. Castellari’s action packed THE BIG RACKET from 1976. Full of wild set pieces and some particularly nasty moments, it’s an over-the-top romp with a final bloody action sequence inspired by The Wild Bunch! But how do our oh-too-sensitive hosts deal with all this? Let’s find out!
It doesn’t get much better than this. On a long-awaited WE DO OUR OWN STUNTS Jackie Chan fulfills his long-term goal (devised partially as a response to his experience with James Glickenhaus’ The Protector) to make a different kind of Hong Kong martial arts movie and pulls it off in spectacular fashion with 1985’s POLICE STORY. Containing some of his most celebrated fights (the glass-filled mall spectacular) and stunts (the shantytown car chase, the umbrella assisted bus stunts and – of course – his dangerous pole slide), it changed the game for martial arts films, and launched Chan’s career into the stratosphere. BUT DOES IT LIVE UP TO THE HYPE?! On this episode of WE DO OUR OWN STUNTS we look at the stories and history behind the film, and where it exists in Jackie’s career.
In Delicious in Dungeon an adventuring group tries to track down and kill a dragon that ate one of their members, but can only survive by killing and eating the monsters they find along the way. Sounds simple, right? Well, this comedy-adventure series is anything but, with loads of often odd humor, detailed cooking sequences and some impressive world building.. BUT WILL DOUG LIKE IT? That’s the question on this episode of DO YOU OTAKU? where Liam once again introduces Doug to a full season of a popular anime series and tries to convince him that it’s worthwhile. LISTEN AND SEE HOW IT WORKS!
