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Cinema Smorgasbord – George Kennedy is My Copilot – Dirty Dingus Magee (1970) (and Murder on High – Part 1) Audio Player

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!

The Carnage Report Episode 104: Pitfall

On this episode of the podcast, Julie and Nick take a look at director James Kondelik’s backwoods slasher, Pitfall. Plus, the pair discuss trailers galore for The Ice Tower, Find Your Friends, Victorian Psycho, and more (all of which you can check out in the show notes) and recommend some more creepy walks in the woods. All this and Julie and Nick share their “let’s go on a camping trip” deal breakers.

Cinema Smorgasbord – Cinema Smorgasbord Sells Out – Blue Heron (2025)

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!

Cinema Smorgasbord – Wild in the Streets – The Big Racket (1976)

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!

The Carnage Report Episode 103: Hokum

On this episode of the podcast, Julie and Nick take a look at director Damian McCarthy’s latest, the haunted hotel movie, Hokum. Plus, the pair discuss trailers galore for Monkey’s Magic Merry Go Round, The Boroughs, Pitfall, and more (all of which you can check out in the show notes) and recommend some more writerly haunted flicks. All this and Julie and Nick muse on meeting their heroes (but really, it’s their childhood crushes).

Cinema Smorgasbord – We Do Our Own Stunts – Police Story (1985)

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.