Sound Cues, No. 1
Apr 13, 2007
FP034: “Hello, Central—give me The Film Guys!”
Our first attempt at a call-in show was wildly successful, at least as far as we were concerned! Thanks so much to all who called,...
The Apostle (1997)
Apr 6, 2007
FP033: “I Call You Jesus, You Call Me Sonny...”
One of the most reverential and human films about the subject of religion, Robert Duvall’s The Apostle has rightfully earned its place on...
Little Big Man (1970)
Mar 30, 2007
FP032: “It’s a Good Day to Die!"
A powerful film from one of the hot new directors of the late 1960’s, Arthur Penn. One of the few films that successfully manages to...
King Kong (1933)
Mar 23, 2007
FP031: “Have You Ever Heard of—KONG?”
What can we say? This is it—the original article. The one and only real, genuine, accept-no-substitutes KING KONG, in glorious, luminous...
Superman: The Movie (1978)
Mar 16, 2007
FP030: “What a Super Man!"
Richard Donner’s magnificent, half-finished epic has become the iconic embodiment of The Man of Steel, regardless of the machinations of...
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
Mar 9, 2007
FP029: “Death is Not an Adventure…"
Lewis Milestone’s ground-breaking sound film epic treats WWI not as an allegory, as many of its predecessors had, but as a painfully...
The Fatal Glass of Beer & The Dentist
Mar 2, 2007
FP028: “It Ain’t a Fit Night Out for Man or Beast!"
It is thought that these shorts were made so that the executives at Paramount could see just how good or bad W.C. Fields was on the...
Shaft (1971)
Feb 23, 2007
FP027: “That Shaft Is One Bad Mother—”
Gordon Parks’ breakthrough detective film resonates with as much or more power than it did when it exploded on the scene back in 1971....