The Drive-in Speakerbox Podcast
By The Boom Operator & The Gaffer
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Podcast Description
The Drive-In Speakerbox is a weekly radio program with sarcastic and witty reviews of film and TV, film scores and more that airs live Mondays at 8pm CST on KXUA 88.3 FM. Join The Boom Operator & The Gaffer as they play film scores, rip apart Hollywood schlock, and educate you on how to be an awesome film viewer.
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Episode 2 - 20 - 12 | It's the end of February, which means the Oscars are approaching and the time for our annual blaxploitation special is at hand. Ooh, we made it funky, dropped a few beats, put a l'il stank on 'em, and sent them out to sensuously massage the ears of a grateful public. In between seriously groovy musical diversions from 70s heavy-hitters Quincy Jones and Curtis Mayfield, we discussed the controversial history of the genre and the lingering influence it had on the careers of Samuel Jackson and Quintin Tarantino, to name a few. And, blegh, speaking of funky...we also had to review a truly cloacal film, Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance. I don't even know why this was a Ghost Rider film at all, as it bears no resemblance to its s****y precursor, or even the comic franchise as a whole; it just happens that a fireskull monster appears after Nicolas Cage clearly goes off his bipolar medication. And seriously, this contained some of the best Nic Cage-ing since "Not the bees!!!" and it still wasn't watchable. This is unacceptable. We heard music from the following: Across 110th Street, 1972 - J.J. Johnson Supafly, 1972 - Curtis Mayfield Roots, 1977 - Quincy Jones & Gerald Fry Barry Gordy's The Last Dragon, 1985 - Various Cleopatra Jones, 1973 - J.J. Johnson DOWNLOAD THIS PODCAST | 2/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 2 - 13 - 12 | A precipitous snowy day turned into a dreary, drizzling mess before today's show - an appropriate forecast rejoinder to tomorrow's Valentine's Day, that saccharine baby of a holiday America should've aborted before grew up to be the sanctimonious, spoiled attention-w***e we coddle out of guilt and social pressure. Yes, I'm single, why? We did our best to serve you soft-skulled suckers the gooey, love-jaculate you yearn for through music from several (sarcastically) romantic films. Maybe I'm just cynical because the film I saw this week was Asghar Farhadi's A Separation, which I expect to win the meaningless Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film for its sheer emotional brutality. It was a wonderful film, but ye gods, let's just say don't watch it on a weekend that your lithium prescription hasn't been renewed... or you'll be f****d...which is, ironically, what most of us won't be this Valentine's Day. Woe. Tonight we heard music from: Big, 1988 - Howard Shore The Karate Kid, 1984 - Bill Conti Indecent Proposal, 1993 - John Barry Blue Valentine, 2010 - Grizzly Bear American Beauty, 1999 - Thomas Newman DOWNLOAD THIS PODCAST | 2/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 2 - 6 - 12 | We were both grumpy today. And how. The seethe was palpable in the air, and we did our best to harness it for good radio comedy. Up on review this week were the "Stop calling me, Harry Potter" Dan Radcliffe-helmed Woman in Black by Hammer Horror(!) and the young super hero archetypal angstgasm chronicle Chronicle, which started strong and fizzled in the second half due to the prescribed arc the writers were determined the film follow. Shame, but it was a good attempt at tapping into the comic book mythologies we're already so used to. As for Woman in Black, the Boom Operator was marginally-impressed with it as a chiller. I've been a huge fan of the book/stage play/1989 BBC film since I was a wee scared kiddie, so I'll probably catch this before too long. We heard music from the following: 127 Hours - A. R. Rahman 28 Days Later - John Murphy Ladyhawke - The Alan Parsons Project Hawk the Slayer - Harry Robertson Blue Velvet - Angelo Badalamenti DOWNLOAD THIS PODCAST | 2/9/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episod 1 - 30 - 12 | Sour moods abounded on this last show of January, in which we suffered yet another technological meltdown. The day in which I and/or the Boom Operator greet the next software malfunction with a genuine psychotic break and thereafter lay waste to the studio with a rusty piece of rebar is soon approaching. Anyway, we started the show with the delectable (and hard to assemble) soundtrack to Hobo with a Shotgun, a nice bit of postmodern musical patchwork. It was a typically scatterbrained show: topics ranged from the treachery of Netflix to the penile-regurgitation scene in the recent Piranha 3D. We ended with reviews of Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method and the Oscar-fellating Hollywood meta-wank The Artist, which followed Hugo's trend of self-congratulatory cinematic historicism. Le meh. We heard music from: Hobo with a Shotgun - Various Brick - Nathan Johnson with the Cinematic Underground Tokyo Godfathers - Various Big Trouble in Little China - John Carpenter The Artist - Ludovic Bors Terminator - Brad Fiedel DOWNLOAD THIS PODCAST | 2/9/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 1 - 24 - 12 | After a bit of trouble getting started (we forgot the magical hard drive that contains all our scores), we began to cobble together this week's show from old podcast sound clips and scraped-together scores we happened to have on-hand; much like the film Frankenhooker. After seeing a retrospective today over at Cinemassacre.com, I demanded the Boom Operator play the score to Supergirl, the second-dumbest film Peter O-Toole has ever been in. This provoked waves of nostalgia and an incipient boner as I remembered my crush on a young Helen Slater. We got off on a tangent about how film trailers have become more "filmic" than the actual films they precede. How very Baudrillard! We concluded by reviewing the Beckinsale-bootyganza: Underworld VII: The Requickening, and Soderbergh's action-film-as-dowdy-realism Haywire. Both films got a firm, distended thumb in no particular direction. They exist. We heard music from: Supergirl, 1984 - Jerry Goldsmith Electric Dreams, 1984 - Giorgio Moroder The Dark Crystal, 1982 - Trevor Jones Pitch Black, 2000 - Graeme Revell The Informant, 2009 - Marvin Hamlish DOWNLOAD THIS PODCAST | 1/24/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 1 - 9 -12 | The Gaffer and I are going to just post this freaking episode online so you can get it. We're behind on our web post, so for all you podcasters, we're sucky, we know, we'll do better. 2012 has just kept us so busy with action, adventure, groupies, fame, fortune and all that noise...so we have'nt been around computers that much. So anyway, here's last weeks show. Look for this weeks show to be posted soon. -Boom DOWNLOAD THIS PODCAST | 1/24/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 1 - 16 - 12 | Another catch up podcast for January while we acclimate ourselves to 2012. This one is chock full of angsty movie reviews no less. Tune in! We heard music from the following: Risky Business - Tangerine Dream (1983) Bird on a Wire - Hans Zimmer (1990) I Heart Huckabees - Jon Brion (2004) Kundun - Phillip Glass (1997) The Constant Gardener - Alberto Iglesias (2005) DOWNLOAD THIS PODCAST | 1/24/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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1 - 2 - 12 Worst of 2011 podcast | We are so late on this podcast it's not even funny. Our web game has been inexcusably lacking lately. So we're sorry damnit. DOwnload this show, cause it's two hours of non-stop ranting about why 2011 is the beginning of the end of Hollywood. Dig it. DOWNLOAD THIS SHOW | 1/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Christmas Special 2011 | Ho Ho Howdy folks! The Gaffer and I love to bring you some of our favorite holiday traditions and memories each year in a two hour special filled with laughs, joy and rage. This year is no different as we discussed favorite films, things we remember as kids, and things that p**s us off royal at Christmas. We also prepped you guys for a very successful Holiday edition of Tavern Trivia that took place the other day. We hope that you guys have a wonderful holiday, and we'll see you soon with a full report of the worst movies of 2011! We heard music from the following films: Home Alone - John Williams (1990) National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation - Various (1989) Silent Night, Deadly Night - Perry Botkin (1984) Lethal Weapon - Micheal Kamen (1987) Ernest Saves Christmas - Mark Snow (1988) Seasame Street - All I Want for Christmas DOWNLOAD THIS PODCAST | 12/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 11 - 28 - 11 | A bevy of reviews this week! We had our hands full talking about new releases, as well as paying tribute to the late, occasionally great Ken Russell, who passed away early this week after a varied career. We managed to trot out some of the scores to a few of his films, then got down to the business of reviewing Take Shelter, Hugo, The Muppets, and, mournfully, Twilight Colon Breaking Dawn Hyphen Part One Ellipsis the last of which caused the Boom Operator to have a pretty amusing meltdown, for obvious reasons. The worst part about all this Twilight horseshit is that it ISN'T OVER. We still have to endure another year of billion-dollar-earning mediocrity before the chalking off this turgid franchise and moving on. Other than that, the films we saw last week were pretty good. We're both happy to see the Muppets back in action. There's just something about those tactile puppeteering effects that trump CG every time, but that's a rant we've trotted out far too often. Altered States - John Corigliano (1980) Women in Love - Georges Delerue (1969) Gothic - Thomas Dolby (1986) The Lost Boys - Various (1987) The Muppets - Various (2011) DOWNLOAD THIS PODCAST | 12/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 11 - 14 - 11 | Talk of the Hunger Games trailer lead us (somehow) to a space-themed show for this episode, along with discussions of the dystopian gladiator genre ala Battle Royale, Rollerball, Running Man, et al. I've read the Suzanne Collins novels, which have been one of the bigger Young Adult novel crazes of the last couple years, and they're meh-grade, breezy beach novels. But as I've said before, moderate novels often make good cinematic adaptations, so this/these film(s) might be something worth considering. The rest of the show was largely spent heckling the Boom Operator for my making him watch the cinematic trollathon that was Human Centipede II. My, but this film was a gem to behold, the filmic equivalent of "2 Girls 1 Cup" in its existential pointlessness and snickering repugnance. The Boom Operator stomped around and ranted for the entire duration of the film, which included inky blasts of diarrhea, a centipede suppository, and a fetal curb-stomp, among other things. I happen to be one of the few people who thinks that Dutch pervert (is that redundant?) Tom Six is actually a mordant comedian who is absolutely in on this filthy joke, and having a lot of fun telling it. And lest you were wondering, Human Centipede III is in pre-production... Event Horizon - Micheal Kamen & Orbital Solaris - Sound clip from new, Edward Artemiev old Battle Royale - Various 2000 Running Man - Harold Faltermeyer Sunshine - John Murphy DOWNLOAD THIS PODCAST | 11/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 11 - 21 - 11 | Wow, what a Monday this was. Thank the great demon lord this is a short holiday week because the Boom Operator had an audible meltdown due to crankiness-induced aphasia, but other than that we dolled out practiced cynicism with due alacrity, taking down Lars Von Trier's teenager-in-a-black-turtleneck film Melancholia, a decent flick with a decent concept housed in a whingey lugubriosity befitting a high school freshman who just went off his lithium. It was a frustrating film that obviously cribbed from Tarkovsky's Solaris and The Sacrifice, influences I'm impressed that Von Trier has. Personally, I blame Twilight for the overall feeling of gloom pervading our persons and, indeed, the entire nation-state. Thanksgiving break can't come soon enough for us. We gabbed about muppets and upcoming DVD releases including, I s**t you not, a movie called Antfarm Dickhole, which is about, um, well, what it advertises. Again, I blame Twilight. - The Gaffer Berserk - Susumu Hirasawa (1997) Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey - David Newman (1991) Black Belt Jones - Luchi DeJesus (1974) 21 Grams - Gustavo Santaolalla (2003) Broken Flowers - Mulu Astatke (2005) DOWNLOAD THIS PODCAST | 11/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 11 - 7 - 11 | The Boom Operator and I must have been hopped up on goofballs for this podcast, because things got weird. We were fresh from our Halloween break and had a bevy of reviews to catch up on. We caught Real Steel, that Hugh Jackman movie that looked like a hybrid of Over the Top and Robot Jox. I can get behind throwaway entertainment when it involves robot punches, but that smug little kid ruined the movie for me. I spent the last hour of the movie wanting the robots to beat that little bastard into liquid with their giant robot fists. We went on to consider the reasonably spooky Paranormal Activity 3, and then the Boom Operator went solo on In Time and Tower Heist. The lackluster film season doesn't look to be stopping soon, so check out future podcasts for ample vitriol. Die Hard - Michael Kamen (1988) Escape from NY - John Carpenter (1981) Ferris Bueller's Day off - Various (1986) Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure - "In Time" (1989) DOWNLOAD THIS PODCAST | 11/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Halloween Special 2011 | (Sorry this is late, we swore we posted this right after airing it, but I'm an idiot and forgot to click "post") Here it is: the Halloween special that our entire radio year pinnacles toward. We had a surprising lack of guests on the show, with the exception of perennial ghoul Grim Gravesly, who shambled in and chided myself and the Boom Operator for our awful puns (my personal favorite was Die-agra). But, for the most part we focused our 3-hour special on the music, stopping only to discuss some horror movie tropes, like how arbitrary and random it is to kill Boogeymen like Michael Myers, Jason Voorhees, and Freddy Krueger when their survival is inevitable. We also discussed horror genre trends, how we moved from psychological, heterodoxy-driven films to slashers, and the newer trend of voyeuristic "torture-porn". Halloween Tavern Trivia falls this Wednesday, and you don't want to miss that. Trust me. Ed Wood - Howard Shore (1994) Candyman - Phillip Glass (1992) Bone Eater - Chuck Cirino (2007) Tenebre - Goblin (1982) The Frighteners - Danny Elfman (1996) Friday the 13th - Harry Manfredini (1980) Ghostbusters 2 - Various (1989) Scanners - Howard Shore (1981) Return of the Living Dead - Various (1985) The Horror Of Dracula - James Bernard (1958) The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires - James Bernard (1974) Transylvania Twist - Chuck Cirino (1989) DOWNLOAD THIS PODCAST | 11/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 10 - 17 - 11 | This is the last episode before our Halloween special; can you feel the Eldritch particles in the very air we breathe?? I thought so. In this podcast we discussed the "occupy" movement and would-be populist Michael Moore's attempts to capitalize on it. I did a quick review of George Clooney's The Ides of March to cap off this political diversion: meh. Then we delved back into ghosts and ghoulies: the new Hellraiser film is out, straight-to-DVD, and the first not to star Doug Bradley as Pinhead. This is obviously a lamentable attempt to keep the copyright for a still-planned remake; I'm sure it's terrible. The Boom Operator and I watched John Carpenter's gut-churning classic The Thing in preparation for the new prequel/remake (premake?). We expected to be disappointed by the CGI and the basic premise (to ruin some of the ambiguity of the first film) and we were, but not quite to the extent that we hated it. We heard music from the following films: Alien Resurrection - John Frizzel (1997) Predator - Alan Silvestri (1987) The Day the Earth Stood Still - Bernard Herrman (1951) The Thing - John Carpenter / Ennio Morricone (1982) The Thing - Marco Beltrami (2011) DOWNLOAD THIS PODCAST | 10/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 10 - 10 - 11 | Can you feel the ambient horror permeating the sepulchral October air? The Boom Operator and I certainly can: podcasts, parties, and Tavern Trivia are all being primed for the following weeks, and all are going to be immersed in the spooky spirit of the times. We tried to slowly seep into the October horror mien with music from John Carpenter who, his flaws notwithstanding, composes his own eery, electro-minimalist scores. Later I ended up going on a tangent about Jesusween. Goddamn Jesusween is a thing, y'all! Apparently some Christians, who I guess regard Halloween as occultish, Satanic, or otherwise totally awesome, are starting this Halloween alternative where healthy treats and Bibles are handed out instead of candy. I guess they need more reasons for people to laugh at them. Anyway, my favorite part of this show was playing music from the old LucasArts game Grim Fandango, which we both love. Our time-honored Halloween Special will air October 24th, Tavern Trivia is October 12th, and Beat Bachs' Halloween Dance Party is October 28th. This is an exciting time to be alive. We heard music from the following: 28 Days Later - John Murphy (2002) Big Trouble in Little China - John Carpenter (1986) Corpse Bride - Danny Elfman (2005) Grim Fandango - Peter McConnel (1998) Magic - Jerry Goldsmith (1978) DOWNLOAD THIS PODCAST | 10/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 10 - 3 -11 | October has arrived. The month of creepy-crawlies, ghoulies, and gewgaws. Soon, pumpkins will line the streets and high fructose candies will line our stomachs. Needless to say, this is the Boom Operator and I's favorite time of year, and we started off right with a review of campy horror-comedy Tucker and Dale vs. Evil. Our verdict: good, harmless fun. We also disappeared briefly into our faux-intellectual asses to discuss the rise of internet "review culture" and the popularity of sites like Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic, who offer aggregate critic scores and can distinctly impact whether the casual viewer will view/validate a film. I'm a big fan of Metacritic; they often expose me to great limited-release films, but there are drawbacks to only seeking out the "best". Stay tuned for next week's show, particularly if you're interested in the upcoming Tavern Trivia. Don't forget to donate to our cause over at EXTRA-LIFE.ORG This week we heard music from: Judge Dredd - Alan Silvestri (1995) Howard Shore - Spider (2002) What Dreams May Come - Micheal Kamen (1995) To live and Die in LA - Wang Chung (1985) Swamp Thing- Harry Manfredini (1982) DOWNLOAD THIS PODCAST | 10/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 9 - 26 - 11 | So, we've been following the set-reveals and discussion surrounding Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises. Yesterday we got a sneak peek at Anne Hathaway's Catwoman costume...and it pretty much looks exactly like 1960s love-kitten Julie Newmar. What the hell? Given that Nolan has been trying to make his Batman films as "realistic" and gritty as possible, I have no idea how they are going to play this. We'll see. Neither the Boom Operator or I caught any new movies this week, as the prominent releases starred Taylor Lautner and an animated lion from 1994, but I'd like to see Moneyball this week at some point. We heard music from the following: Bachelor Party - Various (1985) Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus - Jeff Dana (2009) Mission to Mars - Ennio Morricone (2000) The Dark Knight - Hans Zimmer (2008) The Fifth Element - Eric Serra (1997) Time Bandits - Audio Clip (1981) DOWNLOAD THIS PODCAST | 9/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 9 - 5 - 11 | This week we had a show all about creepy little tiny things. Mainly because we just saw Don't be Afraid of the Dark. Yeah, yeah, a bit late on the draw we know. However, we gave it a watchin' and the review is in this podcast. We also reviewed Apollo 18 and discussed all manners of tiny little jerks that seem cute until the stab your eyes out. We heard music from the following films: Trilogy of Terror - Bob Cobert (1975) Fantastic Planet - Alan Goreguer (1973) Garbage Pail Kids - Various (1987) Gremlins - Jerry Goldsmith (1985) Arthur and the Invisibles - Eric Serra (2006) DOWNLOAD THIS PODCAST | 9/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 8 - 29 - 11 | This week we had a great time in the studio getting ready for our first Tavern Trivia night at a local watering hole. We also reviewed the films Our Idiot Brother and 30 Minutes or Less. One was surprisingly better than the other. You'll have to listen to find out which. We discussed odd remakes, retiring director rumors and brought back some classic scores from the vaults for all our recent new listeners. Enjoy! We heard music from the following: Oldboy - Hyun-jung Shim (2003) Oceans Twelve - David Holmes (2004) Peter Gun - Henry Mancini (1958) Spaceballs - John Morris (1987) Beverly Hills Cop - Harold Faltermeyer (1984) DOWNLOAD THIS PODCAST | 9/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 8 - 22 - 11 | Boy did we have a lot of ground to cover this week! Reviewing three films in one show as well as touching on a weeks worth of goings on in the world of film. Over the weekend we watched the new Tribe Called Quest documentary as well as the new Conan and Fright Night movies. You'll have to listen to find out which we thought was pretty good and which we thought was a stale t**d. We also had a great discussion about what makes things "nostalgic" and the future for nostalgia in the digital age. This is surely a podcast not to be missed! We heard music from the following films: Ghostbusters 2 - Bobby Brown and New Edition (1989) Beats Rhymes & Life - The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest - (2011) Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - John Williams (2002) Lost in Translation - Various (2003) Lost in Space (TV) - John Williams & others (1965) DOWNLOAD THIS PODCAST | 8/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 8 - 15 - 11 | This week's podcast was all about back to school, having weird days, and addressing remakes. We discussed the new Fright Night and Conan remakes, listend to music from the originals, and gave you more info about our upcoming trivia night! This is a great episode. Enjoy! (Last weeks episode had a problem with the recording, we are hoping to fix this issue, but it may be lost, sorry) Amelie - Yann Tiersen (2001) Field of Dreams - James Horner (1989) Heathers - David Newman (1988) Fright Night - Brad Fiedel (1985) Conan the Barbarian - Basil Poledouris (1982) Ferris Bueller - Various (1985) DOWNLOAD THIS PODCAST | 8/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 7 - 25 - 2011 | Tonight's show was all about patriotic badassery. Granted, neither of us get off waiving flags around and calling crap in our caps macaroni, but we were definitely enjoying playing music from a bunch of films about secret military ops, one man armies, and other general elite squad goings on. All of this of course led up to our review of the new Captain America: The First Avenger film. Rambo 2 - Jerry Goldsmith (1985) Operation Crossbow - Ron Goodwin (1965) Philadelphia Experiment - Ken Wannberg (1984) Rex Steele Nazi Smasher - Ryan Shore (2004) Commando - James Horner (1985) DOWNLOAD THIS PODCAST | 7/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Customer Reviews
these guys have seen a lot of movies
The music is great but the highlight of this show is the commentary.
Deep Cuts from Great Films, with Pleasant Enough Snark and Delight
Able hosts the Gaffer and the Boom Operator have been doing this for years, and it has to be one of the best podcasts for film lovers out there. Fans of Doug Loves Movies will find a lot to love here.
