Archive 12/12

FP010: “Stick to the Road—Beware of the Moors—Oops.”

Director John Landis first wrote this script in 1969, during the time he was working in the film Kelly’s Heroes. The script got him lots...

FP009: “Laugh-a While You Can, Monkey Boy!”

What do you get when you combine Doc Savage, Thomas Pynchon, Orson Welles, H.G. Wells, Saturday Matinee Serials, Rock ‘N’ Roll, “B”...

FP008: “A Song of Two Humans”

Near the very end of the Silent Era, just a month before Warner Bros. turned the film world upside down with The Jazz Singer, F. W....

FP007: “Have You Ever Had Deja Vu?”

“Have you ever had Deja Vu?” “I’ll check with the kitchen...” answers Bill Murray’s befuddled host as Bill wanders through one of his...

FP006: Technical Jargon

Image from The Man with a Movie Camera by Dziga Vertov On this “very special” episode of Filmically Perfect, the Film Guys sit down with...

FP005: “We’re Both Rotten…”

Who would’ve cast light comic, later to be known as “everyone’s favorite dad,” Fred MacMurray as the lustful, loathsome insurance man...

FP004: Guilty Pleasures No. 1

This little bend in the road allows us to relax and prove that even though these films aren’t “perfect” we still love them! Strangler of...

FP003: “I Don’t Think We’re In Kansas Anymore…”

What can one say about The Wizard of Oz that hasn’t already been said? A Technicolor fantasy from the high-point of “The Golden Age of...

FP002: “That’ll Be the Day!”

The above words are often spoken or rather, snarled, by Ethan Edwards, John Ford’s aging anti-hero, portrayed with amazing depth by John...

FP001: “Klaatu Barada Nikto!”

In 1951, director Robert Wise and Producer Julian Blaustein created one of the ultimate science-fiction classics, whose powerful message...