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Dan Domingues & Vicky Aguero
Your hosts Dan and Vicky take you on a hot date through movie history. They'll choose a random month, day and year and pick a favorite movie released on or near that date. It could be a love fest, it could get heated or it could turn into a threesome! Take a wild and funny ride in Dan and Vicky's movie time machine. You're invited on their Hot Date!
Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass is a collaboration by David Wain and Ken Marino, the comedy duo responsible for The State and Wet Hot American Summer. In the ribald comedy, Zoey Deutch plays Gail Daughtry, a wronged woman on a journey through Hollywood with the mission to have sex with Mad Men star Jon Hamm! Along with Hamm, the cast includes Marino himself, Jo LoTruglio, John Slattery, Ben Wang, Miles Gutierrez-Riley, Sabrina Impacciatore and a gaggle of celebrity cameos.
Along with the recently released film Dan and Vicky pay tribute to actor Sam Neill, talk about Dan's newest project the Vex Voom podcast and discuss lots of recently seen like Evil Dead Burn, Psycho Killer, Her Private Hell, Dead of Winter and Haunted Heist.
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Merle Oberon, star of 1938's The Divorce of Lady X, had been involved in a car accident before shooting that left her face scarred. The comedy with co-star Laurence Olivier was partially filmed in color to cover up and mask the recent plastic surgery she'd undergone. The film was also a bit of a departure for Oberon who was known mostly for dramatic roles (The Dark Angel, The Private Life of Henry VIII and Wuthering Heights). The Divorce of Lady X also has scene stealing turns from Ralph Richardson, Binnie Barnes and Morton Selten.
Dan and Vicky discuss the classic British comedy along with a lot of recently seen like Leviticus, Disclosure Day, Moana, Queens of the Dead, Supergirl and The Invite.
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1992's Universal Soldier marked the first collaboration between stars Jean Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren. The action titans play Vietnam soldiers resurrected 20 years after the war as bio-engineered killing machines with very different agendas. It was also the first big Hollywood movie helmed but Roland Emmerich, who, based on the commercial success of this film would go on to make some the most successful movies (Independence Day, Stargate, The Patriot) in history.
Dan and Vicky discuss the sc-fi action hybrid along with lots of recently seen items like Scary Movie 2026, Toy Story 5, The Furious, and the Death of Robin Hood.
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2006's Crank was the directorial debut of co-directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Tayloer and their approach was incredibly hands on. One of the first film to shoot completely on digital cameras, the directors themselves manned the cameras and achieved the film's frenetic style by shooting on roller blades. Star Jason Statham got into the spirit as well by doing all his own stunts.
Dan and Vicky discuss the cult fave action flick and alot of recently seen films like Backrooms, I Love Boosters, Power Ballad, and Passenger as well TV shows Widow's Bay and The Pitt.
You can also catch Dan guesting on the ScreamQueenz Podiverse discussing gay horror drama Saint Drogo with host Patrick Walsh. Saint Drogo - ScreamQueenz
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1962's State Fair marked the third screen adapatation of the novel by Phil Stong. As in 1945, this one was a musical but a big, colorful, expansive musical that Hollywood was so good at in the 1960's. Starring heartthrobs Pat Boone, Bobby Darin and Ann-Margret, it's the story of the Frake family and their ambitions to win big at the State Fair of Texas in Dallas. Rodgers and Hammerstein wrote new music for the film, one of the few musicals written expressly for the big screen, and several plot elements were added or changed to make this version more contemporary. Tom Ewell, Alice Faye (coming out of retirement) and Pamela Tiffin round out the Frake family.
Dan and Vicky discuss the film as well as some recently seen movies like Obsession, Apex, Tuner, Is God Is, and Remarkably Bright Creatures.
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Irish film director Damian McCarthy had only made two features before 2026's Hokum but has already proven to have a distinctive style and tone. McCarthy also wrote the screenplay which tells the story of an American writer (Adam Scott) visiting an isolated Irish Inn with a spooky past. Shot on location in County Cork, Ireland, the film's supporting mostly Irish cast includes Peter Coonan, David Wilmot, Florence Ordesh, Michael Patric, Will O'Connell, Brendan Conroy, and Austin Aumelio.
Dan and Vicky discuss the film, out in theatres now, and lots of recently seen films like Deep Water, Normal, The Sheep Detectives, Over Your Dead Body, and Lorne, the documentary about Lorne Michaels.
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1980's In God We Trust was the second film of a three film agreement between actor/director Marty Feldman and Universal Pictures. Following the success of Feldman's The Last Remake of Beau Geste, In God We Trust was his attempt to call out the excesses and hypocrisy of commercialized religion. But the film didn't connect with audiences and Universal cancelled Feldman's deal. His co-stars in the film include a cavalcade of 70's comic geniuses - Peter Boyle, Louise Lasser, Andy Kaufman and Richard Pryor.
Dan and Vicky discuss the little seen film and lots of recently seen like Lee Cronin's The Mummy, Mother Mary, Exit 8, Hamnet, Thrash, The Housemaid, and the Netflix Dan Levy series Big Mistakes.
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1945's The Wicked Lady directed by Leslie Arliss was an enormous hit for Gainsborough Studios and is still considered one of the most popular and successful British films of all time. The story of an unrepentant social climber, played by Margaret Lockwood, who turns to a life of crime pushed the boundaries or propriety with plentiful veiled references to sex and enough heaving bosoms to make American censors uncomfortable. In fact, the production had to go back and reshoot scenes deemed too revealing to play for American audiences. The film co-stars James Mason, Patricia Roc, Griffith Jones, and Felix Aylmer.
Dan and Vicky discuss the UK classic along with alot of recently seen like Faces of Death (2026), Hunting Matthew Nichols, Peaky Blinders, Alpha, Pretty Lethal and the series Agatha Christie's Seven Dials. You'll also learn about the sex ed film that became 1945's biggest movie and hear both Dan and Vicky have senior moments!
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Dan and Vicky head back to the movies! This time it's the recent hit sci-fi comedy drama Project Hail Mary starring Ryan Gosling and Sandra Huller directed by Phil Lord and Chris Miller and based on the book by Andy Weir. Lord and Miller insisted that the special effects be all created practically - the most impressive of which is the character of Rocky. The rock creature was puppeted by James Ortiz and his team with Ortiz providing it's voice. Initially Ortiz's voice was meant as a marker until the directors cast another voice actor but they liked Ortiz's take so much, they kept his voice.
Along with that currently playing film, your hosts talk about their recently seen including They Will Kill You, The Bride!, Undertone, Ready or Not 2 and I Swear.
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Dan and Vicky are back with a Top Ten episode! This time your Hot Daters discuss their favorite films made for under a million dollars that went on to make a killing at the box office. Horror, drama, and romance all get the low budget treatment and in many cases change the landscape of film.
Dan and Vicky also discuss some recently seen including the films Scream 7 and Stop Motion and lots of TV like Young Sherlock, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, Shudder's 1000 Women of Horror, and Peaky Blinders.
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The Driver from 1978 was written and directed by Walter Hill (Hard Times, 48 Hours, The Warriors) as a response to what he saw as coventional genre fare. Hill was after making a film pure in intent and story without the typical Hollywood trappings. Audiences in 1978 were not impressed but the film has since been championed by contemporary filmmakers like Quentin Tarantino and Edgar Wright as an example of adrenaline fueled style over needless substance. The film stars Ryan O'Neal, Isabelle Adjani, Bruce Dern and Ronee Blakley.
Along with this car chase classic, Dan and Vicky discuss recently seen items like Sirat, The Retreat, Solo Mio, K-Pops!, Hoppers and Netlix documentary Reality Check: Inside America's Next Top Model.
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The novel on which 1950's film Kind Hearts and Coronets is based treated the story of an entitled royal reject who goes to murdeous lengths to secure his place in the lineage deadly serious. The film, however, written and directed by Robert Hamer, turns it into a pitch black comedy, perhaps the first of it's kind made in England. The Ealing Studios release stars Dennis Price, Valerie Hobson, Joan Greenwood, and in a tour-de-force, Alec Guinness playing eight characters.
Dan and Vicky discuss the film, ranked as one of the best British films ever made, along with lots of recently seen including If I Had Legs I'd Kick You, Send Help, 28 Years Later: Bone Temple, Luc Besson's Dracula, Good Luck Have Fun Don't Die, Train Dreams, and Wuthering Heights.
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The final film in director Roger Corman's Edgar Allan Poe cycle, The Tomb of Ligeia marked the second collaboration for Corman and screenwriter Robert Towne. Towne would go on to be one of the hardest working and respected writers and script doctors in Hollywood (The Last Detail, Shampoo, Mission: Impossible, The Firm, Personal Best and Tequila Sunrise) and collect an Academy Award for writing Chinatown. Towne is quoted, however, as saying that his adaptation for The Tomb of Ligeia was the hardest he'd ever worked on.
Dan and Vicky discuss the horror film along with plenty of recently seen like films Marty Supreme, Rosemead, Dead Man's Wife, The Lost Bus, Griffin in Summer, Twinless, Is This Thing On?, and TV series Heated Rivalry and Kaos.
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The late 2000's were chock-a-block with Winnie-the-Pooh projects. In addition to this week's Hot Date 2017 film Goodbye Christopher Robin starring Domhnall Gleason, Margot Robbie and Kelly Macdonald, there was another biopic with Ewan McGregor, several animated features and numerous documentaries.
Dan and Vicky discuss the Simon Curtis directed biopic on writer A. A Milne's creation of the Winnie-the-Pooh stories and the toll it took on his family along with some recently seen items like Primate, The Plague, The Secret Agent, and Harlan Coben's Run Away on Netflix.
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1995's Little Odessa is a look inside a Russian American family and their ties to the mob in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. Shot over two months in the brutal cold of a 1994 New York winter, Little Odessa stars two Oscar winners, Vanesaa Redgrave and Maximilian Schell, one nominee, Tim Roth, and fresh from his success in Terminator 2, Edward Furlong.
Dan and Vicky discuss the feature film debut of director James Gray as well as lots of recently seen including 2025's meta sequel Anaconda, Paul Feig's The Housemaid, Marty Supreme, The Testament of Ann Lee with Amanda Seyfried, No Other Choice, Coyotes, We Bury the Dead, and Netflix series The Beast in Me and Stranger Things Season 5.
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For her directorial debut, comedienne and writer Elaine May chose to adapt the short story The Green Heart by Jack Ritchie into A New Leaf - the story of a rich playboy who loses all his money and schemes to marry and murder a rich woman. Walter Matthau plays the entitled Henry Graham and May herself plays the ditzy but lovable Henrietta Lowell. The film went over budget and time, necessitating a couple extra million dollars and 40 extra shooting days. Paramount took the final edit away from May, winnowing her original 3 hour cut into the existing 90 minute theatrical cut. The films boasts a bevy of comedic character stars including Jack Weston, Doris Roberts, Renne Taylor and James Coco.
Dan and Vicky discuss the oddball romantic dark comedy along with alot of recently seen including 2025's Silent Night Deadly Night, Hamnet, Fackham Hall, Nouvelle Vague, Jay Kelly, The Running Man and Equalizer 2.
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Four times a year, Hot Date goes to the actual movies to bring you a film playing right now! Vicky could not let the release of Wicked: For Good go by without discussing it so we bring you the continuing saga of Elphaba Thropp and Galinda Upland, Glinda the Good and The Wicked Witch of the West respectfully, of the Land of Oz. Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande Butero star along with Jonathan Bailey, Michelle Yeoh, and Jeff Goldblum.
Also catch up on your hosts recently seen like Rental Family, Wake Up Dead Man: Knives Out, Zootopia 2, Caddo Lake, I Don't Understand You, Netflix series Adolescence, and NBC's DMV.
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Leslie Goodwins, director of 1943's Ladies' Day, a farcical comedy set in the world of baseball, needed a lead actress that woluld believably cause players to throw games and lose focus. Stunning Mexican beauty Lupe Velez was just that actress; and luckily, Goodwins and Velez had a good working relationship. She was the star of his Mexican Spitfire films, a series with Velez as the recurring lead. This would be their last collaboration as Velez would tragically end her own life only a year later.
Dan and Vicky discuss the forgotten comedy along with lots of recently seen including Del Toro's Frankenstein, Oz Perkins' Keeper, Edgar Wright's The Running Man, Predator Badlands and Bugonia.
You'll also hear about Vicky's trip to Disney, Dan's own stay in Florida and an AI machine who's feelings get hurt?
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Based on the story of his own mother's fight with cancer, director/writer Josh Mond made the lead character of 2015's James White a caregiver with his own addiction and commitment issues. He enlisted up and comer Christoper Abbott to play the lead and Sex and the City's Cynthia Nixon as his mother. Set and shot in New York City, Mond scored the film with music from Kid Cudi and gave the singer a supporting role.
Dan and Vicky discuss the indie drama along with lots of recently seen like Shelby Oaks, Tron:Ares, Black Phone 2, Richard Linklater's Blue Moon, and Luca Guadagnino's After the Hunt.
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We've reached another Top Ten episode and this time Dan and Vicky discuss their hottest top ten actor comebacks. Every actor has a lull in their career, either intentional or not, and Dan and Vicky are paying tribute to actors who stuck it out and came back bigger and better. Dan takes the theme in his own direction so you'll be excited to hear how your hosts have added their own spin it.
You'll also get thoughts on plenty of recently seen movies and TV like Bone Lake, Challengers, Him, One Battle After Another, Anemone, Kiss of the Spider Woman and Alien: Earth.
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1999's The Corruptor was the second attempt by an American film studio to make an international star out of Chow Yun Fat. The Replacement Killers a year before with Mira Sorvino failed to thrill audiences and The Corruptor, about a New York Chinatown war between two rival gangs, didn't exactly make waves. Ironically, it took a Tiawanese filmmaker, Ang Lee, to bring Fat world recognition a year later with hit Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
Dan and Vicky discuss the Mark Wahlberg co-starring buddy cop actioner along with some political talk and lots of recently seen including The Conjuring: Last Rites, The Long Walk, A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale, and the plays Gene and Gilda and Blood Orange.
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1967's The Jungle Book was Disney's attempt to adapt the series of Rudyard Kipling's books into a children's animated film. Initial attempts to create a screenplay were nixed by Walt Disney for being too bleak and violent. The final version of the script by Larry Clemmons, Ralph Wright, Ken Anderson, and Vance Gerry was chock a block with songs, talking animal characters, and toned down threats. The film became the second highest grossing Disney movie at the time and spawned several sequels and live action remakes.
Dan and Vicky discuss their very first animated film on Hot Date along with lots of recently seen films like The Roses, Nobody 1 and 2, Splitsville, Caught Stealing, and series Alien: Earth and Dexter: Resurrection.
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Highest 2 Lowest, out today on Apple TV +, is the latest joint from Spike Lee. The film is the latest adaptation of Ed McBain's King's Ransom and follows in the direct foorsteps of Akira Kurosawa's version, High and Low. Shot on the streets of New York City by frequent Lee collaborator Matthew Libatique, the film also fuses several different musical cues and genres to create the story of a kidnapping gone wrong and the moral dilemma it presents for the music mogul now tasked with paying the ransom. The film stars Denzel Washington, Jeffrey Wright, Ilfenesh Hadera, A$AP Rocky, John Douglas Thompson, Dean Winters, LaChanze, Princess Nokia, and Ice Spice.
Dan and Vicky break with Hot Date format once again to choose a film currently playing in cinemas. They also discuss their recently seen including Netflix's Wednesday, 2025's Naked Gun, Freakier Friday, Weapons, Fantastic Four: First Steps and Went Up The Hill.
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Originally envisioned as a vampire dominatrix with a dungeon to torture and feed on men, 1936's Dracula's Daughter underwent a radical reinvention to accommodate a more sensitive Production Code. Gloria Holden's daughter is a more thoughtful, melancholy blood sucker, trying in vain to turn her back on her vampiric roots. The only character from the original to make it into the sequel is Van Helsing (Von Helsing in this version). Bela Lugosi was meant to reprise his role but moved on after the film's production was delayed several times.
Dan and Vicky discuss the sequel, it's place in the Universal horror pantheon and it's much talked about lesbian themes. They also cover alot of recently seen movies and TV including Eddington, The Home, Together, 2025's I Know What You Did Last Summer, and Warner's Batwoman (the Ruby Rose year).
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1981's Tattoo, the lone feature effort of commercial director/co-writer Bob Brooks, was fraught with pre and post production problems. The film, about a tatto artist (Bruce Dern) unnaturally obsessed with a fashion model (Maud Adams), had it's release date pushed back after Brooks protested the edit producer Joseph Levine created without his input or approval. Transit authorities in NY took down pre-release posters for the film in response to complaints about the images presented - a woman's bare bound legs covered in tattoos. And Dern insinuated on the press tour that he and Adams had had actual sex in the film - a claim Adams disputed. But the publicity didn't seem to help the film find an audience. It pretty much came and went in theaters and is currently out of print.
Dan and Vicky discuss the controversial erotic thriller along with lots of recently seen including the new Superman, Jurrasic World: Rebirth, Oh Hi, Disney+'s Behind the Attraction documentary, Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story and And Just Like That.
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1959's It Happened To Jane was the rare Doris Day film that didn't hit with audiences at the box office. Columbia attempted a re-release in 1961 under a new title, Twinkle and Shine, with similar results. In the film, Day plays a Maine lobster farm owner pitted against a large railroad company when they damage her reputation and livelihood. The comedy co-stars Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs, and Steve Forrest and was shot on location in towns throughout Connecticut.
Dan and Vicky discuss the film along with some recently seen like Elio, Bride Hard, Megan 2.0, 28 Years Later, Unitl Dawn, Sorry Baby, and The Woman in the Yard.
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A Quiet Place to Kill (aka Paranoia) was the third collaboration between Golden Globe winning American actress Caroll Baker and Italian horror and thriller filmmaker Umberto Lenzi. Baker, disillusioned by the American studio system, moved to Europe in the late 60's with her family and formed a working relationship with Lenzi that spanned four films. In this one she plays Helen, a race car driver reunited with her ex-husband and his new wife -- marital intrugue and a murder plot ensue. Starring with Baker in the Italian/Spanish co-production are Jean Sorel, Anna Proclemer, and Marina Coffa.
Dan and Vicky get a little political at the top of the podcast but then turn quickly to some recently seen - The Life of Chuck, The Materialists, Al Pacino starring possession film The Ritual, Hitchcock's 1939 film Jamaica Inn, 1982's Vice Squad, and the Aussie film Dangerous Animals.
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Hot Date is shaking things up again by choosing a recent date and a movie hot from theaters to discuss. Dipping into the John Wick universe, Dan and Vicky discuss Ballerina, the next film in the Keanu Reeves lead action franchise. Wick takes a back seat to Eve Macarro, played by Knives Out and Blonde star Ana de Armas. Eve is on a mission to avenge the murder of her father - a journey that takes her from the Continental Hotel to snowy Austria. Her co-stars include Gabriel Byrne, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Anjelica Huston, Lance Riddick, Norman Reedus, Ian McShane and Keanu Reeves.
Your hosts also discuss their recently seen including Mission Impossible: Final Reckoning, Karate Kid Legends, Bring Her Back, Conclave, Final Destination: Bloodlines, and the Hell House series!
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1947's Crossfire, directed by Edward Dmytryk, is based on the novel The Brick Foxhole by Richard Brooks. In Brooks' novel, a gay man is murdered by a soldier on leave but the film had to adhere to a Hays Code which didn't allow for depictions of homosexuality so anti-Jewish sentiment became the reason for the killing. Ironically, it was the film's theme of anti-semitism that put it's makers in the crosshairs of Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-communist HUAC hearings. It's director and writer John Paxton ended in prison for their views. The film stars the Robert dream team of Robert Ryan, Robert Young and Robert Mitchum.
Dan and Vicky discuss the noir thriller and lots of recently seen including Babygirl, The Damned, Thunderbolts, Nonnas, Lilo and Stitch, horror classics (!) Nekromantick and Nekromantick 2 and comedian Mateo Lane.
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Hot Date has reached it's next Top Ten episode and for this episode, Dan and Vicky pick their most favorite movie adaptations - films that started as books, plays, musicals, songs, even Twitter feeds!
Your hosts also talk about what they've seen recently including Sinners, Drop, the new season of Black Mirror, Kevin Bacon starring horror show The Bondsman, The Lincoln Lawyer, and the Broadway musical Real Women Have Curves.
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2000's Born Romantic is a little seen British comedy about dating in the Y2k era. Chock a block with UK stars including Craig Ferguson, Catherine McCormack, Jimi Mistry, Adrian Lester, Olivia Williams, David Morrissey and Jane Horrocks, the film follows a group of lonely hearts finding love and laughter with a London salsa club as the center of their romantic universe.
Dan and Vicky discuss the rarely seen film and how we find love and romance in the modern world. They also talk about some recently seen items like The Rule of Jenny Penn, Freaky Tales, Hell of a Summer, The Amateur and MAX's medical drama The Pitt.
Listen for their thoughts on finding community at the movies, remembering 9/11, and King Lear in Delaware!
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Based on the Stephen King short story, Oz Perkins The Monkey tells the story of a wind up toy monkey that haunts the lives of twin brothers Hal and Bill. Christian Convery plays the twins as teen boys and Theo James plays them as adults. Produced by James Wan, the film also stars Tatiana Maslany, Sarah Levy, Adam Scott, Elijah Wood and Perkins himself in the role of the boys' eccentric uncle.
Usually dipping back in time to find films, Dan and Vicky choose a Hot Date from 2025 to offer a look at a recent release. They also discuss lots of recently seen like The Penguin Lessons, Snow White, Death of a Unicorn, Opus, Peacock series The Americas, the TCM series The Power of Film, and Dan's poignant reaction to Ru Paul's Drag Race.
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The Rickshaw Man, Hiroshi Inagaki's 1958 film about a gruff rickshaw driver who becomes the surrogate father to a boy who loses his father unexpectedly, is a remake of his own 1943 black and white film of the same name. The 1958 version won Inagaki the Golden Lion award at the Venice Film Festival and was one of 20 films the director made with his favored actor Toshiro Mifune.
Dan and Vicky discuss the film along with lots of recently seen items like A Complete Unknown, Oscar winner Flow, Mickey 17, Black Bag, 1997's Tower of Terror, and streaming shows like Daredevil: Born Again, Delhi Boys and The Americas.
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Originally titled Shelter and produced independently in 2010 with Swedish filmmakers Måns Mårlind and Björn Stein co-directing, the Julianne Moore starring Six Souls, written by Identity's Michael Cooney, was eventually purchased by the Weinstein Company under their Radius banner. But the Weinsteins were in the midst of serious financial woes in 2010 after the failure of Nine and many of their acquisitions ended up in distribution turnaround. Six Souls would eventually come out in 2013 as a day and date VOD and theatrical release. It got very little attention and seemed a strange detour on Moore's otherwise stellar career path.
Dan and Vicky discuss the forgotten supernatural thriller along with some recently seen gems like Heart Eyes, My Dead Friend Zoe, Love Hurts, Anora, Emilia Perez, Love Me, and Peacock's Traitors. Also hear about Vicky's apartment woes and Dan's road trip to Florida!
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Struggling to find a role that would break her from beautiful girlfriend, adoring wife parts, 1992's My New Gun gave Diane Lane her first starring vehicle. It was a role that got her noticed and some of the best reviews of her career. Supporting her were Stephen Collins, James LeGros, Maddie Corman, Tess Harper, and Phillip Seymour Hoffman in the tale of a handgun that sets off a chain of distressing events in the life of Lane's unfulfilled New Jersey housewife.
Dan and Vicky discuss the indie darling along with plenty of recently seen like Babygirl, Presence, NIghtbitch, Companion, 1972's Fright, Red Rooms, It Ends With Us, Wolfman, Shudder's Horrors Greatest and lots of SNL 50 programming.
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1973's Slither was the directorial debut of Howard Zieff (Private Benjamin, My Girl) and the screenwriting debut for W.D. Richter (Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Big Trouble In Little China). In the freewheeling comedic thriller, James Caan goes on the road looking for a stash of embezzled money with Peter Boyle, Louise Lasser and Sally Kellerman in tow. Famously, Caan was quoted saying he took the role for the money and had little understanding of the story.
Dan and Vicky discuss the film along with lots of recently seen including Nosferatu, The Front Room, Shudder's doc series Horror's Greatest, Better Man, Leigh Wannell's Wolfman, Trim Season and The Brutalist.
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Of his time working with then burgeoning film actress Marilyn Monroe, Fritz Lang recalls a 26 year old who struggled with self esteem issues, set tardiness, and lack of preparation. On 1952's Clash By Night, adapted from the Clifford Odets play, Monroe drove the director to distraction but was surprisingly embraced by leading lady Barbara Stanwyck. Stanwyck, recognizing an overwhelmed and emotionally vulnerable fellow actress, was patient, helpful, and caring with the young actress according to Lang. What resulted was a pretty assured above the title debut for Monroe and Stanwyck's usual strong lead performance. The drama also boasts the talents of Paul Douglas, Robert Ryan and Keith Andes (returning from the Broadway play, albeit in a different role).
Your hosts Dan and Vicky discuss the film along with a list of recently seen like Luca Guadagnino's Queer, La La Land, Emilia Perez, September 5, and The Fire Inside.
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The couples paired up in Martin Ritt's 1961 musical drama Paris Blues were more than just smart casting. Real life married paramours Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward play Ram and Lillian, a jazz musician and the woman he falls in love with him. And Sidney Poitier and Diahann Carroll, real life lovers at the time, play Eddie and Connie. Carroll and Poitier had carried on an extramarital affair on their previous film Porgy and Bess and continued during the making of Paris Blues. Both eventually stayed married and ended the affair after Paris Blues was completed.
Dan and Vicky discuss the jazz heavy film along with lots of recently seen including Moana 2, The Coffee Table, Twisters, Blink Twice, They/Them, Kyle Mooney's Y2K and NBC series St. Denis.
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Dan and Vicky discuss the found footage horror thriller Megan is Missing. The film, starring many first time actors and shot for under a week on a $35,000 budget, was the brain child of cinematographer Michael Goi. Goi was eager to make a cautionary tale on the dangers of online predators and so impressed Anchor Bay Films they gave the movie, shot in 2008, a small theatrical release in 2011. Starring Amber Perkins and Rachel Quinn, Megan is Missing has divided critics - some applauding it's unflinching look at the dangers of being a teen in the internet age and others calling it exploitative.
Dan and Vicky share their very strong responses to the film as well as catching us up on some recently seen like Heretic, The Exorcism, Red One, All Hallow's Eve and It's What's Inside.
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Our 200th Episode!
200 episodes of Hot Dates and Hot Takes on some of the weirdest, most beautiful and just plain bad movies. We've covered Oscar Winners and Razzie Winners, blockbusters and indie films, classics and guilty pleasures.
To celebrate this milestone, we've invited Alexandra Kopko from the Film Bros Podcast to discuss our favorite directorial debuts. Dan and Vicky and Alex offer their top tens and a fun list of alternates. From the Gerwigs to the Raimis to the Lumets, hear the films that paved the way for some of the greatest careers in film - and some that were one and done! It's an epic chat, out longest show EVER!
Dan and Vicky also discuss their usual recently seen - a bevy of great TV and film offerings.
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The 2002 film Home Room imagines the unlikely friendship between two survivors of a school shooting - women from very different backgrounds united in tragedy. Busy Philipps and Erika Christensen play Alicia and Deanna respectively and Victor Garber is the police investigator hoping the two will help answer questions about the deceased shooter. With Columbine fresh in the world's memory, director/writer Paul F. Ryan attempts to examine the effect a mass shooting can have on the community and the people in it.
Dan and Vicky discuss the little seen Home Room along with lots of recently seen like Salem's Lot 2024, The Wild Robot, Rosemary's Baby prequel Apartment 7A, Joker: Folie a Deux, Exhibiting Forgiveness, Civil War and The Substance.
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The 1990 Australian film Blood Oath (aka Prisoners of the Sun) is the harrowing true to life story of the military tribunal put together on the Indonesian island of Ambon to investigate the mass killings of Australian soldiers in a Japanese POW camp. Leading the charge is Captain Cooper, played by stalwart Aussie actor Bryan Brown (FX, Cocktail, Anyone But You) and a whole battalion of great supporting turns from Deborah Unger, Terry O' Quinn, Russell Crowe, Toshi Shioya, Tetsu Watanabe, George Takei and John Polson.
Dan and Vicky look at the film along with a bevy of recently seen items like Max's Penguin, AMC's Breaking Bad, Strange Darling, My Old Ass, Humane, The Deliverance, 2024's Speak No Evil and Blumhouse's Afraid.
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Joan Bennett and James Mason, in only his third US film, play blackmailee and blackmailer respectively in director Max Ophuls' The Reckless Moment - his tale of a harried housewife whose life is turned upside down when her daughter accidentally kills a cad boyfriend and Bennett tries to cover it up. After directing only five American films, German born Ophuls returned to France, where he was a citizen, and continued to direct until his untimely death at age 54. Despite a relatively small output, Ophuls is nonetheless considered a true auteur.
Dan and Vicky discuss the film along with lots of recently seen including the new Crow, Caitlin Cronenberg's Humane, Alien: Romulus, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, The Killer and Shudder series Horror's Greatest.
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Shot on location in New Orleans, blaxploitation horror film J.D.'s Revenge was the introduction of two of the hardest working and respected Black actors in the business - Glynn Turman and Louis Gossett. Already established presences in lots of TV and film projects, J.D.'s Revenge gave them the opportunity to play leading roles. With able support from Joan Pringle and Fred Pinkard, the movie, about a law student possessed by the spirit of a violent gangster, has become a cult favorite.
Dan and Vicky discuss the film, along with lots of recently seen like Nicole Holofcener's You Hurt My Feelings, Cuckoo, Trap, I.S.S., Disney films The Emperor's New Groove, Elemental, Wish and 2017's Beauty and the Beast.
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Shot on location in foggy San Francisco, Blake Edwards' Experiment in Terror was his follow up to Breakfast at Tiffany's - again engaging a young sophisticated city girl with a handsome leading man but this time in a very different context. Lee Remick plays Emily Sherwood, a bank teller menaced by a blackmailer and serial killer and Glenn Ford is the FBI agent assigned to protect her and capture the villain. Ross Martin, known mostly for playing nice guys, is bad guy Red Lynch and was nominated for a best supporting actor Golden Globe.
Dan and Vicky discuss the stylish noir thriller along with plenty of recently seen: Deadpool and Wolverine, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, Night Watch: Demons are Forever, Love Lies Bleeding, and Maxxxine.
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Hot Date is shaking things up for our latest episode. Instead of reaching back in history for a random date, Dan & Vicky stay in the present and discuss the serial killer thriller and recent release Longlegs, directed by Osgood Perkins and starring Maika Monroe, Nic Cage, Blair Underwood and Alicia Witt.
Along with Longlegs, your hosts chat about some recently seen including Sing Sing, Kneecap, Under Paris, the documentary Faye, and horror film Monolith.
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After Italian producers balked at director Enzo Castellari's idea to remake The Dirty Dozen, he raised the money himself and hired American B-movie titans Bo Svenson and Fred Williamson to lead a group of military prisoners across Nazi German territory (really the backlots of Cinecitta and surrounding areas) on a trek to freedom into Switzerland. In 1978's The Inglorious Bastards, Castellari uses all the staples of Italian 70's schlock cinema (boobs, blood and bad dubbing) to great effect in this rousing and silly war film.
Dan and Vicky discuss the film that so inspired Quentin Tarantino he bought the rights to the title to use for his own 2009 Nazi war film. Along the way, you'll get conversations on saving movie theatres, Sip and Paint and 80's actress Lisa Eilbacher as well as find out what a Disney bitch is (hint: Vicky is one). You'll also hear talk of some recently seen like Beverly HIlls Cop: Axel F, The Seven Samurai in 4K, A Quiet Place: Day One, Will and Grace reruns and Fly Me To The Moon.
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Michael Sarnoski, director of the recent summer horror hit A Quiet Place: Day One, made his feature directorial debut with 2021's Pig starring Nicolas Cage and Alex Wolff. Pig is the story of a withdrawn farmer living in the Oregon woods with his trusted and lucrative truffle pig. When the pig is kidnapped, Cage's character embarks on a journey to find it and also maybe himself. The producers didn't have the money to hire a trainer for their porcine star for more than three days so they started shooting and hoped for the best - the pig ended up biting star Cage several times!
Dan and Vicky discuss the indie critical hit along with lots of recently seen like Tuesday, Inside Out 2, The Exorcism, The Watchers, The Blackening, Daddio, and Hacks season 3.
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After winning the Oscar in 1948 for best actress in Johnny Belinda, Jane Wyman had her pick of projects and leading men. She chose the winning comedy Three Guys Named Mike in 1951 because of it's potential box office appeal and the chance to try her skills in a different genre. Her supporting cast of Mikes included Van Johnson, Howard Keel and Barry Sullivan.
Dan and Vicky discuss the film where Wyman plays a flight attendant at the center of a romantic triangle. They also give us their thoughts on some recently seen including IF, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, Godzilla Minus One, The Strangers Chapter 1, shows in The Walking Dead franchise, and a deep dive look at new arthouse slasher In A Violent Nature.
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Hot Date has reached another tenth episode and that means a Top Ten extravaganza of movie memories and memorable moments. This time Dan and Vicky discuss their favorite Moms and Dads from film across the ages. The mission was accepted differently by your co-hosts so you're getting an eclectic list of perfect and imperfect parents. Dan, of course, found his choices mostly from the horror genre and included couples while Vicky broke her list into her five favorites of each gender.
This episode is a freewheeling discussion covering everything from Vicky's shopping obsession to your hosts opinions on embattled Kevin Spacey's life and careeer. There's also some recently seen including Netlfix's Baby Reindeer, Pamela Adlon's Babes, Celine Song's Past Lives, 90's horror gems Mute Witness and Ghost Watch, and the doc Misery Loves Comedy.
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A star studded cast joins Guy Ritchie regular Jason Statham in Revolver, the British auteur's violent meditation on the Ego and revenge. Ray Liotta, Andre Benjamin, Mark Strong, Vincent Pastore and Francesca Annis are all members of warring crime syndicates with Statham as the ex-con caught in the center. Ritchie was ultimately unhappy with the theatrical version and reinstated and rearranged many scenes to make his 110 minute version.
Dan and Vicky discuss the director's cut of the film, the AMC A-list, and couponing in a wide ranging discussion that also includes plenty of recently seen like Shudder's Infested, Abigail, Challengers, Last Voyage of the Demeter, I Saw The TV Glow, Blumhouse's Night Swim, and Netflix series Dead Boy Detectives.
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In 1944's Christmas Holiday, Deanna Durbin and Gene Kelly, both known for their achievements in musical comedies, were cast against type as a lounge singer with a sordid past and her abusive husband respectively. Audiences seemed to be ready for the change as Christmas Holiday, directed by stylist Robert Siodmak and based on a W. Somerset Maugham story, quickly became one of Universal's most successful films of 1944.
Dan and Vicky discuss the offbeat and melancholy Christmas movie along with their feelings on some recently seen movies and TV including The First Omen, Monkey Man, Zone of Interest, Beau is Afraid and Netflix's Dick Wolf docu-series Homicide New York.
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Alan Alda plays George Plimpton in Paper Lion, the 1968 film based on Plimpton's book of the same title. The book and film chronicle his attempt at joining the Detroit Lions during pre-season training for a story in Sports Illustrated. Several real life football players appear as themselves in the film inlcuding Alex Karras (who starred two more times on film with Alda in Springtime and MASH), Frank Gifford, Joe Schmidt, and Lem Barney.
In the shortest Hot Date to date and after many technical snafus, Dan and Vicky discuss the film along with some recently seen. New horror Immaculate and Late Night with the Devil get the spotlight but also look for reviews for the new Ghostbusters, Godzilla x Kong, and the reality franchise Traitors on Peacock.
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When Francis Ford Coppola hired German auteur Wim Wenders to direct his first American film, little did he suspect the difficulty that film would have getting to screens. The movie was Hammett, a fictionalized account of the mystery writer Dasheill Hammett's second career as a private investigator. In real life, Hammett stuck to penning noirs but in Wenders' film he's enlisted to solve the disappearance of a San Francisco woman. The film was entirely reshot on sound stages after Orion Pictures expressed dissatisfaction with Wenders expansive shot-on-location first edit. It stars Frederic Forrest, Peter Boyle, Marilu Henner, Lydia Lei and Elisha Cook Jr.
Dan and Vicky discuss the much maligned film along with plenty of recently seen including El Conde, Madam Web, The Color Purple, Nyad, Rustin, The Zone of Interest, Imaginary, and the Dune films.
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1952's Stolen Face was an early Hammer Films production. The British studio, which would later become synonymous with thrillers and horror films, also churned out it's fair share of melodramas and comedies. This film, about a heartbroken plastic surgeon who physically transforms a prisoner into the woman who jilted him, stars Lizabeth Scott, Paul Henreid, Andre Morell and Mary Mackenzie and set the stage for films like Vertigo, Eyes Without a Face and The Skin I Live In.
Dan and Vicky discuss their thoughts on Stolen Face along with some recently seen: Tina Fey and Amy Poehler's Restless Leg Tour, Feud: Capote and the Swans, Lisa Frankenstein, and several more films on the Sight & Sound best films ever list.
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Actor Ray Liotta was coming off crtitical acclaim for his star making turn in Martin Scorcese's Goodfellas and was looking for a vehicle that would turn him into a bonafide movie star. For others that path was paved by action movies so Liotta signed on to 1994's No Escape hoping it would catapult him to international acclaim. As the stoic, brooding J. T. Robbins, Liotta was able to not only show brawn, but also brains as he attempts to escape the island penal colony of Absolom and it's violent de facto leader Marek played by Stuart Wilson. The film also boasts Ernie Hudson, Kevin Dillon, Kevin J. O'Connor and Lance Henriksen.
Dan and Vicky discuss the actioner along with some recently seen movie and TV shows like Killers of the Flower Moon, Poor Things, Beyonce's Renaissance, The Holdovers and Hulu's The Bear.
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1974's The Tamarind Seed was considered a departure for star Julie Andrews. After a break to raise her family, Andrews was looking for a role that would reintroduce her to audiences in a new light. As the 70's were rife with political and paranoid thrillers, she jumped at the chance to play Judith Farrow - a woman reeling from personal tragedy who gets embroiled in a Cold War bait and switch. It helped that Andrews was being directed by husband Blake Edwards (who also adapted the script from Evelyn Anthony's novel) and her love interest was Omar Sharif.
Dan and Vicky discuss the forgotten thriller alolng with lots of recently seen including Max doc Chowchilla, Netflix's The Brothers Sun, 2024's Mean Girls, Jason Statham actioner The Beekeeper, concert doc Queen Rock Montreal, and Anatomy of a Fall. Also hear about how Vicky spent her birthday and Dan's time at Virginia Stage Company doing Dial M for Murder.
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1939's horror comedy The Gorilla was meant to be another 20th Century Fox showcase for the talents of The Ritz Brothers - three Newark born and Brooklyn raised brothers snatched from vaudeville by the studio in hopes they would bring Marx Brothers or Three Stooges size audiences. The film, however, was plagued with false starts, lawsuits and bad blood. It's failure effectively ended the trio's time at 20th and after one more film at Universal, they returned to the stage and nightclub circuit. The film also stars Bela Lugosi, Patsy Kelly and Lionel Atwill.
Dan and Vicky discuss their first film of 2024 along with plenty of recently seen like Birth/Rebirth, May December, Leave the World Behind, Poor Things, Maestro and the Broadway shows The Shark is Broken and Spamalot.
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A very special episode of the Hot Date Podcast with Dan & Vicky. There's drama, there's tears, there's nausea inducing popcorn. And, oh yeah, a movie to discuss.
This time it's 2000's Cornwall shot Saving Grace starring Brenda Blethyn and Craig Ferguson in the charming tale of a woman on the verge of bankruptcy with a plan to save her home by growing weed.
But truth be told, the movie isn't really the main feature this time - that would be our two hosts who maybe show a side of themselves you haven't heard before.
There's the usual banter about recently seen, including Eli Roth's Thanksgiving, The Wounded Fawn, Satanic Hispanics, Jane Seymour's return to TV in Harry Wild and rom com I Want You Back.
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We've reached another tenth podcast which means Dan and Vicky give you their Top Ten!
This time, your hosts are counting down to their favorite top ten creepy performances!
Man, woman and children are eligible. Try and guess which actor appears on both lists, which actor has two performances highlighted. What made-for-TV film makes the list!? Have a listen and see if you agree. Send us some of your favorite unsettling performances
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Italian horror director Lucio Fulci's 1988 Aenigma seems to have been inspired by films as varied as Carrie and Patrick, with a dash of Argento madness and 80's slasher thrown in for good measure. Shot in Serbia standing in for Boston, the film features make up effects by Guiseppe Ferrante, cinematography from Luigi Ciccarese and a score by Carlo Maria Cordio.
Dan and Vicky discuss the film along with some recently seen like Exorcist: Believer, Meg 2: The Trench, Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour, and Disney + series Loki.
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Take a trip on decommissioned Streetcar 133 in Luis Bunuel's surreal and sweet 1954 film Illusion Travels By Streetcar (La Ilusión Vaja en Tranvía). When two mechanics learn their favorite streetcar is being taken off the line for good, they take it for one last drunken joyride that turns into an existential examination of life in a big city. The film stars Carlos Navarro and Fernando Soto as the hapless mechanics and Lilia Prado as their female foil and potential love interest.
Along with the film, Dan and Vicky discuss recently seen films like Hulu home invasion thriller No One Will Save You, 2021's The Father with Anthony Hopkins, Expend4bles, and Showtime doc The 12th Victim about Caril Ann Fugate.
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1954's Sleep, My Love was an early directorial effort from German born emigre Douglas Sirk. Sirk would later become recognized as an auteur - by, of course, the French - for his work with melodramas (Magnificent Obsession, All That Heaven Allows). Sleep, My Love, starring Claudette Colbert, Robert Cummings, Don Ameche and Hazel Brooks, was his attempt at a domestic thriller.
Dan and Vicky discuss the gaslighting noir along with alot of recently seen including A Haunting in Venice, Talk to Me, The Wrath of Becky, Mafia Mama, My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3, 1995's Castle Freak, and Psycho: The Lost Tapes of Ed Gein.
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Actors Griffin Dunne, Mark Metcalf, and Amy Robinson were looking for film projects for their fledgling production company and all agreed that Ann Beattie's novel Chilly Scenes of Winter was ripe for adaptation. Indie director Joan Micklin Silver came on board with John Heard and Mary Beth Hurt leading the cast. The film struggled at the box office in 1979 under the new United Artists imposed title Head Over Heels. When it was re-released in 1982 as Chilly Scenes of Winter, the film fared better and has since become a cult title.
Dan and Vicky discuss the romantic "comedy" along with their thoughts on the end of Netflix's DVD service, the women of Sex and the City sequel And Just Like That, and Dan's planned trip to Spain. Recently seen inlcudes The Equalizer 3, Blue Beetle, Bottoms, The Last Voyage of the Demeter, No Hard Feelings, Oppenheimer and The Pope's Exorcist.
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Mike White's (White Lotus, Enlightened, Chuck and Buck) directorial debut Year of the Dog tells the story of Peggy Spade, a mild mannered people pleaser who's life is upended when she loses her dog Pencil in a poisoning accident. Or was it an accident? Molly Shannon plays Peggy with a strong supporting cast that includes Peter Saarsgard, John C. Reilly, Regina King, Laura Dern, Josh Pais and Tom McCarthy.
Apropos to the film, Vicky discusses her love affair with dogs while Dan talks of hanging in The Hamptons with Steve Guttenberg. And of course your hosts give you some of their favorite recently enjoyed pop culture items including Bones and All, The Meg 2, the new Haunted Mansion, Marcel the Shell With Shoes On, Prime's Dead Ringers series and the Shudder doc Sharksploitation.
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Dan and Vicky head back to the old west for a Gunfight at the OK Corral. The 1957 film directed by John Sturges and starring Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas tells the oft told tale of the legendary, albeit short, gun battle between the Earps and the Clantons and the violence, greed and passions that lead up to it.
In a wide ranging conversation, your hosts talk about the recent actors strike, Dan's show at the Bay Street Theater and lots of recently seen including Insidious: The Red Door, Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One, Wake in Fright, the Rock Hudson doc All That Heaven Allowed, and the phenomenon that is Barbie and Oppenhemier.
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1985's Crimewave was the sophmore effort for Evil Dead director Sam Raimi, actor and producer Bruce Campbell and producer Bob Tapert. The film started as the script The XYZ Murders by Joel and Ethan Coen. Raimi and genre friendly production company Avco-Embassy agreed the script was a winner and started shooting on a 2.5 million dollar budget. And that's when the problems started. With really young and relatively inexperienced fillmmakers at the helm, the budget balllooned, actors started getting hurt and animosity grew.
Dan and Vicky, coming to you from NY and Nantucket, discuss the mostly reviled comedy thriller along with alot of recently seen, including the new Indiana Jones, Netflix's We Have a Ghost, Past Lives, King Richard, Black Mirror season 6, 1970 Nicholas Roeg film Performance, and the genius of Sean Hayes in the Broadway show Good Night Oscar.
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1963's Shock Corridor was director/writer/provocateur Sam Fuller's depiction of the search for truth in a hostile society bent on obfuscating and distorting it. Set in a mental institution, Fuller's story of a Boston Globe journalist who gets himself committed to solve a murder gets at the hypocrisy and violence that can occur when that search butts up against racism, sexism and preservation of the status quo. It stars Peter Breck, Conctance Towers, James Best, Gene Evans and Hari Rhodes.
Dan and Vicky discuss the indie classic along with alot of recently seen including The Flash, The Blackening, The Boogeyman, Renfield, Peacock's Based on a True Story, Feud: Joan and Bette, and You Hurt My Feelings.
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At a time when there was considerable United States naivete and even support around Hitler's domination of Europe, Warner Bros. took the calculated risk of releasing the fervently antifascist 1943 film adaptation of Lillian Helman's Tony award winning play Watch on the Rhine. Aiding them in delivering the important message was outspoken liberal Bette Davis, Hungarian born leading man Paul Lukas (who ended up winning the Oscar for Best Actor), Dashiell Hammett (taking over writing duties from partner Hellman), and producer Hal Wallis.
Dan and Vicky randomly chose the classic anti-war film to highlight on this newest episode of Hot Date but you know they'll also talk about a lot of recently seen movies and TV like Fast X, The Little Mermaid (2023), Broadway horror The Grey House, Gossip Girl, Terrifier 2, Sebastian Maniscalco's About My Father and docs about the Amityville Horror house, Donna Summer and Mary Tyle Moore.
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We're back with another Top Ten! Every tenth show we try to pick a fun and engaging topic that'll yield a list of our favorite top tens.
This time it's Top Ten remakes. Vicky's criteria was films that are better or just as good as the original. Dan didn't really stick to that criteria as you'll hear but the lists are eclectic, cover several genres and span the globe!
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Dan and Vicky discuss the 1998 Canadian psychological thriller Pin from writer/director Sandor Stern starring David Hewlett, Cynthia Preston, Terry O'Quinn and the voice of Breaking Bad actor Jonathan Banks. Stern is most famous for penning The Amityville Horror from 1979.
Your hosts discuss the cult favorite along with plenty of recently seen including the horror docuseries In Search of Darkness, 1965's Red Beard, the Michael Jordan biopic Air, Shudder's The Apology, and several classics like The Secret Garden, Celine and Julie Go Boating, The Hucksters and Ida Lupino's The Hitch-Hiker.
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On Hot Date episode 168, Dan and Vicky discuss the French-Polish film The Double Life of Veronique starring Irene Jacob, Philippe Volter, Sandrine Dumas and Claude Duneton. This was the breakthrough film of Polish auteur KRZYSZTOF KIESLOWSKI, who went on to make the acclaimed Color Trilogy and the Dekalog series.
Your hosts also discuss dog sitting, Steve Guttenberg and give a shout out to a Hot Date Facebook fan! Some films and TV covered in the recently seen section include Scream VI, 1959's Ben-Hur, Hulu's Boston Strangler, Dungeons & Dragons, and the Nan Goldin doc All The Beauty and the Bloodshed.
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Dan and Vicky discuss the randomly chosen 1950 melodrama Paid In Full starring Lizabeth Scott, Diana Lynn, Robert Cummings and Eve Arden.
Your hosts also discuss some recently seen including Cocaine Bear, All Quiet on the Western Front, Top Gun: Maverick, and the series Fleischman is in Trouble and History of the World Part II.
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Although stuntmen did most of the underwater work, Elvis Presley, cast as Navy frogman Ted Jackson, whose job it was to diffuse sunken mines, still had alot of scenes in and around water in 1967's Easy Come, Easy Go. This necessitated being clothed head to toe in scuba gear and getting wet occasionally - two things Elvis was not a fan of. Also appearing in this film, one of the last of Elvis' movie career, were an off shore treasure subplot, a yoga class musical number, hippies in full body paint and One Day at a Time star Pat Harrington as the owner of a seaside shanty.
Dan and Vicky discuss the musical adventure directed by John Rich along with lots of recently seen. Take notes! There's alot here! Shyamalan's Knock at the Cabin, Shudder's Deadtectives, Significant Other on Paramount +, Netflix's You People, Peacock's Poker Face, Magic Mike's Last Dance, Luther: The Fallen Sun and SO much more.
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Based on the true kidnapping story of wealthy Hong Kong businessman Teddy Wang, 1993's (although shot in 1993, it wasn't released in the US until 1996) Crime Story was an attempt by Jackie Chan to expand his dramatic acting range. Audiences, and Chan himself, were not completely happy with the results. The film didn't make much of a box office impression and Chan resented director Kirk Wong for pushing the film to be darker.
Your Hot Date hosts discuss the Asian actioner along with alot of recently seen. Vicky talks about Velma, The Last of Us, The Mandalorian and Missing. Dan discusses seeing the new Avatar in IMAX 3D and White Lotus season 2. And both give their very STRONG opinions on Brandon Cronenberg's Infinity Pool. They also check in on the return of MoviePass and Vicky's various birthday celebrations!
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Although produced in Spain, 1973's The Corruption of Chris Miller, has all the earmarks of a traditional Italian giallo - sexual tension in an isolated country house, bad dubbing and, most importantly, a black clad killer. The film is directed by J.A..Bardem, uncle of Oscar winner Javier Bardem. The lush cinematography is by Juan Gelpi and the grand score is from Waldo de los Rios. Jean Seberg stars as Ruth, living with her estranged stepdaughter Chris in that country home. Into their strained relationship enters Barney, a British drifter played by Barry Stokes who may also be the killer murdering locals for their money.
Yout Hot Date hosts discuss the film along with a ton of recently seen. At the movies, there's MEG3HAN, A Man Called Otto, and Bill Nighy in Living. Streaming and video DVD finds include The Pale Blue Eye, RRR, Peacock's Sick, The Menu, and 1959's Complusion.
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A starry cast brings 1949's The Bribe to life. Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner, Charles Laughton, Vincent Price and John Hodiak are all on a fictitious Caribbean island together falling in love and scheming to steal leftover ammunition parts. This somewhat forgotten noir was written by Marguerite Roberts, whose career was put on hold when she was blacklisted in 1951 for refusing to testify in front of the House Unamerican Activities Committee. It was nine years before she would resurface and write several award nominated screenplays, including the one that would win John Wayne his only Oscar, True Grit.
Dan and Vicky discuss the off beat noir along with plenty of recently seen including The Sadness, Sissy, Tar, The Fablemans, and more films off of the Sight and Sound best films of all time list.
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The Burning Plain was the directorial debut of screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga, who took cues from his screenplays for Amores Perros, 21 Grams and Babel to weave the intergenerational story of two families, one white and one Mexican, colliding and seeking redemption. The film stars Charlize Theron, Kim Basinger, Jennifer Lawrence, and Joaquim de Almeida.
Dan and Vicky discuss the little seen drama from 2009 along with lots of recently seen films, including Vicky's attempt to watch all the films she hasn't seen off of Sight and Sound's recent list of the best films of all time.
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When it came time make the film of Arthur Laurents successful play The Time of the Cuckoo, the natural casting choice was Shirley Booth, who won a Tony for the Broadway production and had an Oscar for the 1952 film Come Back Little Sheba. But producers felt she was too old and not enough of a box office draw. Director David Lean was determined to get Katherine Hepburn and the star needed little convincing. As her love interest, he cast Italian Rossano Brazzi. Future Night Stalker star and suffering Dad in A Christmas Story Darren McGavin made his film debut in the small role of a philandering artist.
Dan and Vicky discuss the classic romance along with a lot of recently seen, including Idris Elba in Beast, Glass Onion, She Said, 1996's Eye for an Eye, and American Horror Story: NY.
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We've reached our next Top Ten episode (something we do here at Hot Date when we reach every tenth show) and this time we're picking our favorite mysteries and whodunnits. From Poirot to Parker, giallo to slasher, we're choosing the films that kept us guessing, made us gasp and even gave us some chuckles.
Along with our main topic, you'll hear about plenty of recently seen including new takes on Hellraiser, Halloween, Fletch and Black Panther and plenty of TV and live theater. You'll hear about Dan's new off-Broadway show, A Sherlock Carol, and get five favorite whodunnits from a very special guest!
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Dan and Vicky offer a special Halloween episode of Hot Date covering the 1982 Canadian slasher Humongous. It was Vicky's idea to find a horror film from the 80's that she hadn't seen and Dan had. They were almost successful - after all Vicky's seen ALOT of movies.
Humongous, directed by Prom Night's Paul Lynch and written by The Changeling's William Gray, has been a mostly forgotten slasher only recently finding an audience after being cleaned up for DVD and blu ray.
Along with the main feature, your hosts cover plenty of recently seen, including Netflix's The Midnight Club, Criterion Channel's 80's horror lineup, Blonde, Hocus Pocus 2, Triangle of Sadness, and Broadway's Cost of Living.
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Director Stuart Gordon, known for creating the body horror classics Reanimator and From Beyond, reunited with writer David Mamet to direct the film adaptation of the controversial playwright's one act play Edmond. Gordon and Mamet were colleagues in the Chicago theater scene and first collaborated on the original staging of the writer's Sexual Perversity in Chicago. In Edmond, William H. Macy plays the title character, a misanthropic bigot being put through a dark night of the soul on his way to elightenment. The cast includes Julia Stiles, Joe Mantegna, Rebecca Pidgeon, Denise Richards, and Bokeem Woodbine.
Dan and Vicky discuss the film along with lots of recently seen including Barbarian, Don't Worry Darling, Bros, 1973's The Last of Sheila, See How They Run, the Goodnight Mommy remake and Hulu's Reboot.
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1951's Three Husbands and 1949's A Letter To Three Wives share screenwriter Vera Caspary but also similar storylines. In Three Husbands, the title characters receive letters about their wives' possible infidelity and in Three Wives the ladies recieve missives from a woman announcing she is running away with one of their husbands. Caspary specilaized in stories about strong women, having also penned Laura, The Blue Gardenia (a Hot Date pick at Episode 118), and I Can Get it For You Wholesale.
Dan and Vicky discuss the film and their love of stars Eve Arden and Ruth Warrick. Also on deck is plenty of recently seen including Watcher, Three Thousand Years of Longing, Marvel's She Hulk, Orphan: First Kill, Hulu's Prey, The Good Boss, and 1949's A Holiday Affair.
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1951's Three Husbands and 1949's A Letter To Three Wives share screenwriter Vera Caspary but also similar storylines. In Three Husbands, the title characters receive letters about their wives' possible infidelity and in Three Wives the ladies recieve missives from a woman announcing she is running away with one of their husbands. Caspary specilaized in stories about strong women, having also penned Laura, The Blue Gardenia (a Hot Date pick at Episode 118), and I Can Get it For You Wholesale.
Dan and Vicky discuss the film and their love of stars Eve Arden and Ruth Warrick. Also on deck is plenty of recently seen including Watcher, Three Thousand Years of Longing, Marvel's She Hulk, Orphan: First Kill, Hulu's Prey, The Good Boss, and 1949's A Holiday Affair.
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With Shakespeare's King Lear as it's source material, both the book by Jane Smiley and the film adaptation directed by Jocelyn Moorehouse of A Thousand Acres sets the action on an Iowa farm. In the 1997 film, Jason Robards plays the raging patrirach of the Cook family, whose bequest of his land to his three daughters, played by Jessica Lange, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Jennifer Jason Leigh, raises tensions and unearths long hidden family secrets.
Dan and Vicky discuss the star studded melodrama along with lots of recently seen including Bullet Train, BJ Novak's Vengeance, Jordan Peele's Nope, modern slaher They/Them, and the Netlix series Uncoupled.
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With Shakespeare's King Lear as it's source material, both the book by Jane Smiley and the film adaptation directed by Jocelyn Moorehouse of A Thousand Acres sets the action on an Iowa farm. In the 1997 film, Jason Robards plays the raging patrirach of the Cook family, whose bequest of his land to his three daughters, played by Jessica Lange, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Jennifer Jason Leigh, raises tensions and unearths long hidden family secrets.
Dan and Vicky discuss the star studded melodrama along with lots of recently seen including Bullet Train, BJ Novak's Vengeance, Jordan Peele's Nope, modern slaher They/Them, and the Netlix series Uncoupled.
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Tigon British Film Productions, founded in 1966 as counter programming to the more well known Hammer Studios, nonetheless took a page from the Hammer playbook by making horror and exploitation films. Tigon films, however, are often marked by a low budget mean streak and grittiness. Successes for the company included 1967's The Sorcerers, 1968's The Witchfinder General, and 1971's Blood on Satan's Claw. 1969's The Blood Beast Terror stars Peter Cushing, Robert Flemyng, Wanda Ventham, and Vanessa Howard.
Dan and Vicky have a "moth"-ful to say about the strange and quirky film along with lots of recently seen including 1972's The Flesh and Blood Show, HBO Max's Tokyo Vice and DMZ, Lelsey Manville in Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris, and 1964's Viva Las Vegas.
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Director/screenwriter Bill Condon has since become an Oscar winning filmmaker with credits ranging from writing 2002's Chicago to directing two films in the Twilight series. But his directorial debut came with 1987's Sister, Sister, a Gothic thriller set in Louisiana and starring Judith Ivey, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Eric Stoltz.
Dan and Vicky discuss the film, which mixes horror and the supernatural into it's arguably over-cooked mix. They also talk about some recently seen, including Ms. Marvel on Disney+, Joel Kim Booster's Netflix standup special, Stranger Things Season 4, Cindy Sherman's slasher Office Killer, Baz Luhrmann's Elvis, Black Phone and The Northman.
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In response to the success Univeral was having with it's monster series, 20th Century Fox endeavored to bring their own monster movies to the big screen. Taking cues from the mix of horror and comedy Universal had begun to explore, The Undying Monster has a scary castle, a family curse, a pair of funny Scotland investigators and visual style to spare. It's directed by John Brahm and stars Heather Angel, John Ellison, John Howard and Heather Thatcher.
Dan and Vicky discuss the light horror mystery along with recently seen items like Official Competition, Paramount + series The Offer, Shudder's Off Season, 1970's Trog, and some films from the Dario Argento retrospective at Film at Lincoln Center including the US premiere of his new giallo Dark Glasses.
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Robert Altman's Chicago set A Wedding from 1978 tells the story of two families and the lavish and chaotic day they marry off young Dino (Desi Arnaz Jr.) and Muffin (Amy Stryker). An all star cast of 70's luminaries, including Carol Burnett, Paul Dooley, Mia Farrow, Lillian Gish, Dina Merrill, Vittorio Gassman and Geraldine Chaplin, is joined by some background players who would later become stars in their own right. Look closely for Windy City actors Laurie Metcalf, John Malkovich, Jeff Perry, Gary Sinise, Joan Allen, George Wendt and Dennis Franz!
Dan and Vicky discuss this comedy with it's ensemble of 48 speaking parts and Altman's trademark improv sensibilities. Also on deck is some recently seen including Alex Garland's Men, 1955's Bad Day at Black Rock, Girl Interrupted, Icelandic fable Lamb, Hulu's Candy, and Prime's The Boys season 3.
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The Patricia Highsmith novel The Talented Mr. Ripley has been adapted twice for the screen - most recently in 1995 in a star studded version by director Anthony Minghella. But the novel's first filmed version came in 1960 from two time Oscar winning director Rene Clement. Called Purple Noon in an ode to the vibrant Italian sky over Sicily where the story was set and shot, Clement's version casts Alain Delon as the sinister Tom Ripley and Maurice Renot as rich playboy Dickie (called Philippe in this film).
Dan and Vicky discuss the moody French classic as well as lots of recently seen including the new Dr. Strange, the return of the The Kids in the Hall, 1945's The Seventh Veil, Spielberg's West Side Story, the new Firestarter and the Fangoria Chainsaw Awards in Shudder TV.
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For our milestone 150th show, we offer our Top Ten lists of our favorite Best Picture Winners of all time. From ribald comedies to dark thrillers to ripped from the headlines dramas, Dan and Vicky honor those honored with the most prestigious film award in the world.
But our hosts don't stop there! They talk about some recently seen including Nic Cage's The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, Finnish horror movie Hatching, Amazon's sci-fi show Outer Range, Netflix's The Guilty and some NY theater picks.
You'll also hear in real time what happened to Hot Date's guest host for this episode -- yes, we were supposed to have a guest but...well, just listen!
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Off of the critical success of his 2010 film Buried (which trapped star Ryan Reynolds inside a coffin for 90 minutes) director Rodrigo Cortes had the clout to attract Sigourney Weaver, Robert DeNiro, Cillian Murphy, Toby Jones and Elizabeth Olsen to his next project. 2012's Red Lights is the story of a duo of supernatural debunkers who meet their match in a celebrity psychic with a dangerous past. Dan and Vicky discuss the Spanish/Canadian thriller along with some recently seen. Hear what Vicky had to say about Russian Doll season 2, Killing Eve season 4, the Fathom Screening of Singin' In The Rain and the Ti West horrors The Roost and Sacrament. Dan talks about his recent surgery and the films Last Night in Soho, 1986's Eyes of Fire, Spider Man: No Way Home, and Everything Everywhere All At Once.
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Filmmaker Frank Agrama, mostly known today as the producer of family friendly fare like the Robotech TV and video game series and a Heidi miniseries, got his start with more adult material like the 1981 horror film Dawn of the Mummy. Taking over direction from fired original director, Armand Weston, Agrama shot the grisly feature in his home country of Egypt with mostly American actors and an Italian crew. Dan and Vicky discuss the mummy/zombie hybrid thriller along with lots of recently seen like Marvel properties Moon Knight and Morbius, Ti West's X, 1983 lost Canadian thriller Siege, Netflix's Murderville and Disney's Better Nate than Ever.
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1956's Picnic, adapted from the Pulitzer and Tony award winning stage play by William Inge, gave director Joshua Logan the chance to realize the grand picnic of the title on actual locations in Kansas. But the filming was not without it's headaches. With two insecure lead actors, tornadoes that threatened to shut production down, and thousands of extras to corrall, Picnic could have been mess. But it went on to be a box office success and win two Academy Awards. Dan and Vicky discuss the classic drama along with some recently seen selections including Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2022, The Batman, 1960's Flesh and the Fiends, Hulu horror Fresh, Ti West's X, and Dexter: The New Blood.
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With the powerhouse producing team of Guillermo Del Toro and Alfonso Cuaron behind it, 2004's Ecuadorean drama Cronicas had an easy time being chosen as that country's submission for the Best Foreign Language film at the Academy Awards. It didn't get that honor but still had the star power to guide it to international acclaim. John Leguizamo, performing fully in Spanish for the first time in his career, leads a stellar cast that includes Leonor Watling, Damian Alcazar, Jose Maria Yazpik and Alfred Molina.
Dan and Vicky visit this indie gem as well as catching us up with some recently seen including the Affleck/Damon epic The Last Duel, 2022 horror film The Cursed, Spielberg comedy romp 1941, 1959's The Young Philadelpians, Bo Burnham Inside and 2019 Dutch road rage thriller Tailgate.
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1965's Who Killed Teddy Bear mixes spasmodic dance sequences, lewd phone calls, predatory lesbians, incest, and Sal Mineo in short shorts to create one of the strangest films to come out of the swingin' sixties. It's directed by Joseph Cates and stars Mineo, Juliet Prowse, Jan Murray, and Elaine Stritch.
Dan and Vicky discuss this odd film along with lots of recently seen like 2022's Death on the Nile, Marry Me, 1983's The Keep, Spielberg's Bridge of Spies from 2015 and the Showtime doc We Need to Talk About Cosby.
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The unique 1946 film noir So Dark The Night gave actor Steven Geray his first and only chance to play the lead in a film. Up until then, and for years after, he was a reliable and memorable supporting player in films like Spellbound, Gilda and All About Eve. Geray had fled his homeland of Hungary after his pointed impersonations of Hitler and Mussolini on the European theatre circuit drew the threatening attention of the Italian and German governments!
Your hosts Dan and Vicky discuss the Jospeh H. Lewis directed psychological drama along with some recently seen. They break down the latest Scream film as well as 2021's Werewolves Within, 1977's Looking for Mr. Goodbar, Visconti's Death in Venice, Omen ripoff Holocaust 2000 and recent stand up from Aziz Ansari.
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In the early 70's Hammer Studios, Britain's premier production house for horror and fantasy films, was at a crossroads. The Hammer name connoted class, style and a certain elegance but the new wave of horror was grittier and more explicit. Playing against The Exorcist and Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Hammer films could almost appear quaint. So Hammer pivoted and started making films like 1972's Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde in response. Still using trained British talent and adapting classic texts, this new period for Hammer saw a push towards more nudity (mostly female) and more visceral violence. Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde was advertised as giving viewers "the sexual transformation of a man into a woman...before your very eyes!" A bold claim - not entirely true - but part of Hammer's attempt to draw in more exploitation hungry crowds. Dan and Vicky discuss the film - their first stab at a Hammer film - along with lots of recently seen including 355, The Red Shoes, Jakob's Wife, Rock and Roll High School, The Humans and Wes Craven's Vampire in Brooklyn. Check out Hot Date 143, leave us some feedback or a star rating and visit our website at hotdatepod.com.
1991's The Commitments was a departure for filmmaker Alan Parker. Traditionally an explorer of the darker reaches of human interaction (Angel Heart, Mississippi Burning), the film was instead a serio-comic look at the making of a band in working class Dublin. Based on the novel by Roddy Doyle, Parker and his casting team scoured Ireland for actors who could convince as musicians or musicians who could carry the dramatic demands of the script. He came up with a motley crew of actual singers (Maria Doyle, Glen Hansard) and exciting novices (Andrew Strong, Angeline Ball).
Dan, Vicky and special guest/Commitments mega fan/Hot Date listener Theresa Sullivan discuss the crowd pleaser along with a bunch of recently seen. Hear what your hosts thought of Spiderman: No Way Home, Don't Look Up, 2021's Nightmare Alley, horror films Censor and Boys From County Hell, the new King's Man film, Spielberg's War Horse, and Denzel Washington/Frances McDormand starrer Macbeth.
Hot Date 142: The Commitments with special guest and long time friend Theresa Sullivan will have you singing! Leave us feedback or a star rating and visit hotdatepod.com
For our final Hot Date of 2021, we chose Putney Swope, written and directed by Robert Downey Sr. As an indictment of corporate greed, the advertising business and race, the film was Downey's reaction to working for years in a production company whose main client was a powerful ad agency. There were no takers for the movie from the major studios so Downey turned to independent producer and distributor Don Rugoff, who placed the film in his art houses across the country and turned it into a major underground hit.
Dan and Vicky discuss the film, along with lots of recently seen including Sex and the City follow up And Just Like That, NBC's Annie Live, Disney's Encanto, House of Gucci, Being the Ricardos, 1992's Glengarry Glen Ross, 1974's Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Spielberg's West Side Story, and a bunch of Hammer horror.
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We're back again with another of our famous Top Ten List episodes. This time we're looking at our favorite movie villains. Those despicable, pathetic, misguided, attractive movie characters - some based on real people - we love to hate from films spanning the last century.
Dan and Vicky also check in on some recently seen like The Eternals, Nobody, The Deep House, Antlers, tick...tick...Boom, and Red Notice.
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A negative pickup for Universal Pictures to cash in on the 3D trend partially initiated by the company's own Jaws 3, low budget sci fi epic Metalstorm failed to spark at the box office. Of the many quirky elements of the film, it's bombastic orchestral score sticks out as belonging to a different movie. Composed by Band's brother Richard, the music gives the film a gravitas that the chintzy special effects, languid pace and bad acting don't. The film stars soap star Jeffrey Byron, Australian Mike Preston, the late Kelly Preston, genre fave Tim Thomerson and Night Court's Richard Moll.
Dan and Vicky give their thoughts on Metalstorm as well as recently seen items including Halloween Kills, The French Dispatch, Spielberg's The Sugarland Express, black Western The Harder They Fall and 1980 slasher Prom Night.
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1948's Brighton Rock, based on the novel by Graham Greene, was a controversial hit in England where critics felt it reached new levels of depravity and on screen violence. It also met the ire of novelist Greene himself, who was denied the opportunity to adapt his own book - that task fell to playwright Terrence Rattigan - and given zero influence in casting decisions. Greene was vocal about his dislike of Richard Attenborough in the lead role of Pinkie Brown and Hermione Baddeley as crusader Ida Arnold. After seeing the completed film, however, he relented and agreed both actors were well cast.
Dan and Vicky take a look at this classic, much heralded British crime noir along with recently seen films and tv shows including Mike Flanagan's Midnight Mass, Venom: Let There Be Carnage, The Green Knight, No Time to Die, and Hulu comedy series Pen15.
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A star studded cast highlights the crime drama Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead, director Gary Fleder and screenwriter Scott Rosenberg's entry in the 1990's spate of talky neo noir thrillers. This is has Andy Garcia, Treat Williams, Christopher Walken, Fairuza Balk, Christopher Lloyd, Bill Nunn, William Forsythe, Josh Charles, Jack Warden, Steve Buscemi, and Gabrielle Anwar.
Dan and Vicky discuss the film and it's unfair reputation as a Pulp Fiction clone. They also talk the Tony Awards, Dan's new play A Sherlock Carol (https://asherlockcarol.com/), and lots of recently seen including Everybody's Talking About Jamie, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, A Classic Horror Story, The Chair, and Y The Last Man.
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1958's Blood of the Vampire had all the earmarks of a Hammer film without actually being one. Hammer regular Jimmy Sangster was brought in to write the script. The film very much echoed the style and flair of a Hammer film. And Hammer actress Barbara Shelley (Dracula, Prince of Darkness, Rasputin, Quatermass and the Pit) plays the female lead. It didn't fool British movie goers however where the film was less successful but found a healthy audience in the US where it ran for years on double bills with other B movies.
Dan and Vicky sink their teeth into Blood of the Vampire as well as a ton of recently seen including Candyman 2021, Malignant, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, 1939's Goodbye Mr. Chips, 1971's Sunday Bloody Sunday, and Hulu's Only Murders in the Building.
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Dan and Vicky chose the random Hot Date of August 21, 1965 and decided on the film Darling starring Julie Christie, in her Oscar winning lead performance, and Dirk Bogarde and Laurence Harvey as the two men vying for her attention. Directed by John Schlesinger (Midnight Cowboy, Sunday, Bloody Sunday), it's a first time watch for our hosts.
Along with the main feature, Dan and Vicky talk about some recently seen including The Night House, Don't Breathe 2, 1990's Wild at Heart, Free Guy, Protege, and 1986's Spanish horror film Anguish.
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A passion project for star Christopher Reeve, 1987's Street Smart became instead the auspicious introduction of film audiences to Morgan Freeman and Kathy Baker. Freeman, mostly known for his four years on PBS's Electric Company and a successful theater career, stepped into the spotlight and received an Oscar nomination for his work as vicious pimp Fast Black. Baker, also a renowned theater actress, gained notice in the film The Right Stuff before breaking out as Street Smart's sympathetic hooker Punchy.
Dan and Vicky take a look at the New York set drama, along with lots of recently seen like the Red Riding: Year of Our Lord film series, doc Helter Skelter: An American Myth, Pink Flamingos, Jungle Cruise, The Suicide Squad, The Boy Behind the Door, Vivo and The Vigil.
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Two years after having the biggest blockbuster to date with Jaws and three years after the successful disaster pick Earthquake, Universal Studios pulled out all the stops with Rollercoaster,hoping to duplicate the earlier films' box office. They doubled down on Sensurround, the innovative sound system that immersed audiences in every creak, rumble and woosh of the titular ride and hired 70's everyman George Segal as the lead. The movie, however, did not connect with audiences, and was easily trounced at cinemas by George Lucas's first Star Wars film (or his fourth, depending on who you ask).
Dan and Vicky return to their favorite film era, the 70's, for a dose of disaster and disco. They also catch us up on some recently seen including the Fear Street films on Netflix, the 1981 neo noir classic Body Heat, Gunpowder Milkshake, Zola, the new GI Joe universe film Snake Eyes, and some fun animal attack schlock.
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Director Josef von Sternberg was lured back to Eastern Europe from Hollywood in 1930 by producer Erich Pommer to direct a film about mad Russian monk and con man Rasputin. Sternberg set his sights instead on an adaptation of the novel Professor Unrath by Heinrich Mann. He cast Oscar winner Emil Jannings in the title role and discovered his leading lady, Marlene Dietrich, singing in a local Berlin club, was instantly taken by her and offered her the role.
Dan and Vicky discuss this classic of early German sound cinema along with alot of recently seen film and TV including Mare of Easttown, Spectrum's The Bite, Werewolves Within, Marvel's Black Widow, Wrong Turn 2020, and Iran's A Separation. In a special segment, our hosts also wax nostalgic about the cinemas they frequented as young movie fans.
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Producer Samuel Goldwyn wanted to populate his film of Elmer Rice's play Street Scene with a mix of actors from the hit Broadway production and Hollywood. To play the lead Rose, Goldwyn had Nancy Carroll in mind. Signed to Paramount, the studio's managing director Bud Schulberg, would not give Carroll up for the film, instead suggesting Sylvia Sidney for the part. Sidney, also Schulberg's mistress, nonetheless turned out to be inspired casting for the role and anchors the ensemble with her mix of innocence and grit.
Along with this 1931 gem, Dan and Vicky delve into some recently seen, including In The Heights, Unhinged, Summer of Soul, Army of the Dead, In Fabric and Memories of Murder.
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Murder, kidnapping, revenge, sex and love gone wrong. All the subjects, and more, of some of the greatest films based on true crime events. And all getting a Spotlight, wink, on Hot Date's latest Top Ten episode. We cover some of our favorite films based on and inspired by true events. You'll hear about some classic titles but also ones that you may be new to you. So check the alarm system, get your mace, and hide the jewels cuz these films will steal more than your heart.
Along with their Top Ten and alternate lists, Dan and Vicky discuss some recently seen including A Quiet Place, Part II, 2001's Fat Girl, Disney's Cruella, and 1946's The Best Years of Our Lives.
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Oscar winning actress Regina King directs One Night in Miami, a fictionalized account of the meeting in 1964, post the Clay/Liston fight, between Cassius Clay, Jim Brown, Sam Cooke and Malcolm X. It is adapted by Kemp Power from his own play of the same name. Kemp made history himself as the first African-American to co-write and direct a Disney animated feature with 2018's Soul.
Dan and Vicky cover their first film released during the pandemic with One Night in Miami. They also discuss some recently seen including 1959's Anatomy of a Murder, Polanski's 1966 thriller Cul-de-Sac, Inherit the Wind, 1937's Pepe le Moko, the 1981 slasher Madhouse, and Truffaut's The Man Who Loved Women.
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1994 was a very busy time for 25 year old future Oscar winner Renee Zellweger. She found work in six films that year - everything from a Texas Chainsaw Massacre sequel to grunge classics Reality Bites and Dazed and Confused. But it was Love And A .45 that gave her the opportunity to play her first lead role. The lovers on the lam film also boasted the varied talents of Ally McBeal heartthrob Gil Bellows, Peter Fonda, ReAnimator's Jeffrey Combs, Rory Cochrane and David Lynch regular Jack Nance.
Dan and Vicky discuss the comedy thriller along with lots of recently seen including Bill and Ted Face the Music, 2020's The Witches, Woody Allen's Interiors, Michelle Pfeiffer starrer French Exit, 1976's original Rocky and Godzilla vs. Kong.
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The 1951 noir No Questions Asked was a rarity for MGM. The studio, mainly know for epics and musicals, steered clear of edgier material. But when producer Dore Schary became head of production he had a clear goal of reproducing the success he had at RKO and rushed several noirs into production, the first being the New York set No Questions Asked. The film stars Barry Sullivan, Arlene Dahl, Jean Hagen and George Murphy.
Dan and Vicky discuss the forgotten thriller along with some recently seen including The Empty Man, Thunder Force, Plague of the Zombies, Born Yesterday, early DePalma film Murder a la Mod, and Shoplifters of the World.
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Juzo Itami's 1985 film Tampopo, about one woman's search for the perfect ramen recipe, has become so popular over the years that the restaurant industry around the world adopted it's name for many of it's own ramen and Japanese establishments. The film teams the director with his real life wife Nobuko Miyamoto, along with Kurosawa regular Tsutomu Yamazaki and Ken Watanabe, who would go on to be one of the most bankable Japanese actors around the world.
Dan and Vicky discuss the culinary comedy along with several recently seen items like Zach Snyder's Justice League, Tenet, Hunter, Hunter, What's New Pussycat?, The Irregulars, and the Obama/Springsteen podcast Renegades.
We also give a shout out to listener Edward Karam and discuss Dan's dip into the world of FunikiJam.
Hot Date 126: Tampopo. Have a listen, leave us feedback, visit our social media sites and drop by our website hotdatepod.com
Based on the popular folk song of the same name by Mississippi born singer Bobbie Gentry, Ode to Billy Joe was a huge hit when released in the summer of 1976. The film was the brainchild of Max Baer Jr., best known for playing Jethro Bodine in the popular 60's sitcom The Beverly Hillbillies. When acting jobs became scarce after the cancellation of the show Baer put his focus on film production and made and starred in what was thought to be the most successful independent film of all time, 1974's Macon County Line, until The Blair Witch Project surpassed it in 1999.
Dan and Vicky discuss the Southern teen drama on this week's episode along with plenty of recently seen like The Dark and the Wicked, Allen vs Farrow, A Promising Young Woman, Raya and the Last Dragon and Falcon and the Winter Soldier.
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The obscure 1962 film What A Carve Up!, retitled No Place Like Homicide! for it's American release, brings British comedians Sidney James and Kenneth Connor together in a comedy thriller with touches of vaudeville revue and murder mystery. James was UK comedy royalty having been the star of the successful Carry On series of films while Connor first found success in radio and later joined James in the Carry On franchise. Here they're bumbling buddies hoping to claim an inheritance while not getting murdered in the process.
Dan and Vicky chat about the film, their feelings about cinemas reopening in New York City, trips to McDonalds as kids and so much more! If you're looking for viewing recommendations, they discuss more Almodovar, Ken Russell's The Devils, WandaVision, and the baboon on the loose thriller Shakma among others.
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Renowned French director Claire Denis was shooting her dour thriller High Life while nursing her dying mother. She credits the real life tragedy in her life for the somber, sometimes oppressive feeling that pervades the film. It stars Robert Pattinson and an international cast including Juliette Binoche (a Denis regular), Mia Goth, Andre (3000) Benjamin, and Lars Eidinger and was Denis's first English language film and her second true attempt at genre after 2001's vampire drama Trouble Every Day.
Dan and Vicky discuss the outer space weirdness of the film and it's obsession with bodily fluids! Also on deck is plenty of recently seen including Saint Maud, Hounds of Love, Bava's Planet of the Vampires, Malle's Au Revoir Les Enfants and Vicky's deep and long dive into the films of Spanish auteur Pedro Almodovar! Don't miss it.
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Shot in 6 days for the super stingy price tag of $69,000, Kurt Neumann's Secret of the Blue Room, a remake itself of a German film, was enough of a success for Universal Pictures that they remade it twice in the span of eleven years. Once in 1938 as a semi-comedy called The Missing Guest and again in 1944 as a musical called Murder in the Blue Room.
Dan and Vicky discuss this often forgotten thriller in Universal's 1930's spate of horror and suspense output. They also talk about recently seen movies including Wonder Woman 1984, The Heiress, When A Stranger Calls, #Alive, Mortuary Collection, On The Waterfront and The King of Staten Island.
And in a special segment they pay tribute to late director Omid Nooshin of episode 121's The Last Passenger and remember the passing of Cicely Tyson, Cloris Leachman, Christopher Plummer and Hal Holbrook.
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2014's The Last Passenger was the feature directorial debut of British filmmaker Omid Nooshin and tragically his last. After a long battle with depression, the ambitious and talented director, who was rumored to have snuck his way onto the sets of Eyes Wide Shut and Star Wars: Phantom Menace to observe filming, committed suicide in early 2018, leaving a wife and young child. National Suicide Prevention Hotline : 800-273-8255. https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/
Dan and Vicky discuss the tightly directed The Last Passenger as well as a plethora of recently seen including films Possessor, Death on the Nile, Charade, 1963's The Incident, The Wolf of Snow Hollow and Spontaneous.
There's vaccine talk and Biden/Harris praise along the way too! Have a listen to Hot Date 121 and leave us some feedback. Check out our website at hotdatepod.com
Hot Date has reached another Top Ten episode - just what we do here every tenth podcast - and this time Dan and Vicky discuss their favorite all time male comedic film performances. Spanning movies from the 20's to the 2000's, we hope you'll have a chuckle recalling these very funny men. No names revealed here. You'll have to listen to Hot Date 120!
Your hosts will also get into lots of recently seen including some early Hitchcock, some screamers from Shudder, classic noirs and a few TV oddities.
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Here we are at the end of 2020 taking stock of the strange and intense year that was. There's lots of introspection, reflection, and depression happening. So does Hot Date have the movie for you! 1973's Under Milk Wood, starring Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole, Elizabeth Taylor, Glynis Johns, and a bevy of wonderful British character actors, is a film adaptation of Welsh writer Dylan Thomas's tone poem.
Dan and Vicky ring in the New Year with a discussion of this forgotten and unique experimental film from director Andrew Sinclair. Also on deck is alot of recently seen including Netflix's The Prom, HBO's The Flight Attendant, several Hitchcock classics and recent horror films Relic and Becky.
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By all accounts a job for hire, The Blue Gardenia nonetheless benefited from having German director Fritz Lang at the helm. On a tight 21 day shooting schedule, Lang and cinematographer Nicholas Musuraca came up with shooting techniques that would save time while also contributing a sense of suffocating paranoia and intensity. They are aided enormously by an able cast led by Anne Baxter, Richard Conte, Ann Sothern and Raymond Burr and classed up musically be the appearance of Nat King Cole on the soundtrack and in a key scene.
Dan and Vicky discuss the film along with a bunch of recently seen including films Come Play, Antebellum, Hitchcock's Family Plot, HBO's Superintelligence, the heist films of Michael Caine and TV shows like The Vow, The Undoing, and Masterpiece: 50 Fabulous Years.
Also hear from Dan about his recent Covid scare and what your hosts think about the news that Warner Bros. is releasing their entire film slate on HBOMAX!
Check out Hot Date 118 and leave us some feedback on Apple podcasts and our social media channels. Our website is www.hotdatepod.com.
Before Norwegian filmmaker Andre Øvredal found acclaim with his festival fave The Autopsy of Jane Doe and box office clout with 2019's teen horror hit Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, he wrote and directed 2011's Trollhunter which won him acclaim both at home and around the world. The found footage fantasy follows a group of college journalists getting to the bottom of Norway's best kept secret - the government sanctioned hunting of real live trolls!
Dan and Vicky discuss the quirky film along with plenty of recently seen like Night of the Lepus, The Pack, Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on the Exorcist, 1964's The Yellow Rolls Royce, 1936's Devil Doll, and Dan's visit back to theaters for the first time since March to see Blumhouse's Freaky.
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Originally a screenplay titled Nightline, 1980's Don't Answer The Phone was shot under the title The Hollywood Strangler - perhaps a nod to director Robert Hammer's stated purpose to make a film exploring the proliferation of serial killers in the 1970's. The eventual title was a bid to get the audiences that had made 1979's phone themed thriller When A Stranger Calls a success.
Dan and Vicky discuss this notorious early eighties cheapie along with a bunch of recently seen including The Omen trilogy, Netflix's The Haunting of Bly Manor, this year's drive in success story The Wretched, Hitchcock's Topaz, 1973 oddity Fleshpot on 42nd Street and The Wicker Man.
BUT you must listen to hear the EXACT moment Dan and Vicky discover who won the 2020 presidential election! It's right there, on the podcast, captured in the moment. Biden/Harris 2020!!
Hot Date 116: Don't Answer The Phone brings the exploitation and the nomination! Leave is feedback and visit our website www.hotdatepod.com.
Released in 1932, Jewel Robbery flaunted the sexual chemistry between it's two leads, introduced marijuana as a comedic motif and had it's debonair criminal escape police capture at the end -- all things that wouldn't have been allowed only a few years later under the restrictive Hayes code. The film stars William Powell and Kay Francis - their sixth film appearance together -- and is ably directed by William Dieterle (The Life of Emile Zola).
Dan and Vicky discuss the film and lots of recently seen including 2019's Cats, 1957's Vincent Price vehicle The Story of Mankind, influential documentary Titicut Follies, and 1968's Corruption with Peter Cushing.
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At 73, Boris Karloff was looking for material that would finally give him the chance to show his range as a performer. He knew he couldn't escape his reputation as a reliable box office horror star but he hoped for a role that would allow him to play more than the sympathetic monster. 1958's The Haunted Strangler, written for the actor by friend Jan Read, gave him that opportunity -- partly.
Dan and Vicky pay tribute to Karloff and this film, one many consider to be his best. They also give us some of their recently seen including the films Swallow, Red Sun, Vivarium, Mark of the Vampire, Boys in the Band, Enola Holmes and the series Death Comes to Pemberly and Monsterland.
The Haunted Strangler is your Hot Date Halloween treat. Enjoy the show and leave us some feedback. Check out our website at www.hotdatepod.com
Courtesy of TriCoast Entertainment, Dan and Vicky review By Night's End from director Walker Whited. The home invasion thriller, co-written by Whited and Sean McCane, stars Michelle Rose and Kurt Yue as a couple in trauma facing financial ruin and deep personal loss. A violent intruder unknowingly offers them a way out but they must first fend off the intruder's cronies and survive the night.
By Night's End hits on demand services (Amazon, iTunes, DirecTV, FlixFling, Google Play, Vudu and AT&T) on Tuesday, October 6th. For more information visit the film's website at bynightsend.com.
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Your Hot Date hosts travel back in time to 1561 and the tumultuous return of Mary Queen of Scots from France to stake her claim to the English crown from her cousin Queen Elizabeth. It's a story of sex, religious intolerance, and female empowerment told by two of the world's rising stars in Margot Robbie and Saoirse Ronin, fledgling film director with a background in British theater Josie Rourke and House of Cards creator Beau Willimon.
Along with the Oscar nominated 2018 film Mary Queen of Scots, Dan and Vicky discuss lots of recently seen including Dave Franco's directorial debut The Rental, HBO' Coastal Elites, 1937's The Hunchback of Notre Dame, 1949 Bobby Driscoll thriller The Window, and the 1970 Sammy Davis/Peter Lawford film directed by Jerry Lewis (!) One More Time among others. We also read some viewer mail responding to our 1980's themed Hot Date episode 110.
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At just under an hour, the 1934 murder mystery The Crime of Helen Stanley hardly overstays it's welcome. It was the fourth film in the Inspector Steve Trent series with Ralph Bellamy playing the always able and ready gumshoe. This time he's investigating the murder of a famous, and infamous, movie actress who leaves a trail of suspects in her wake.
Fitting that the shortest movie they've every discussed yields Hot Date's shortest podcast. But it's still jam packed with lots of recently seen including 1969's Sweet Charity, giallo The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh, and recent horror films 1BR and They Should Have Left. Dan also sounds off on the New York Sports Club's customer service and Vicky tells us about her jaunt through Central Park and a very pampered kitty.
Hot Date 112: The Crime of Helen Stanley. Listen, give us some feedback, and visit our website at www.hotdatepod.com.
SOUND QUALITY ALERT: THERE WAS AN UNFORTUNATE HUMAN ERROR IN THE RECORDING OF EPISODE 111. WE'D FIRE THE SOUND TECHNICIAN BUT HE'S ALSO YOUR CO-HOST. SINCEREST APOLOGIES. HOPE THE SOUND ISSUE DOESN'T DETRACT TOO MUCH FROM YOUR ENJOYMENT OF HOT DATE 111. Dan
2013's indie comedy Dealin' With Idiots was a passion project for actor Jeff Garlin (Curb Your Enthusiasm). Directed, co-written and produced by Garlin, the film employs the talents of comedic all-stars Fed Willard, Bob Odenkirk, Jami Gertz and Kerri Kenney among others to tell the mostly improvised story of a successful comic Dad trying to relate to the eccentric parents at his son's little league games.
Dan and Vicky discuss the film along with lots of recently seen including TNT's Snowpiercer and The Alienist and movies like 1968's Boston Strangler, 1957's Pal Joey, Hulu's recent Palm Springs, the teen horror film Countdown and epic Shudder doc In Search of Darkness: A Journey Into Iconic 80's Horror.
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The Me First Decade. The Decade of Greed. The Yuppie Decade. There are many names for the 1980's. But the decade also represented an eclectic one for movies. It was the decade that Hollywood really leaned in to the blockbuster after the successes of Jaws and Star Wars in the 70's. It was the decade of bad hair and bad fashion. It was the decade the film tastes of your Hot Date podcast hosts took hold.
So for their next Top Ten episode, Dan and Vicky countdown their lists of their favorite movies of the 1980's. No surprise, Dan's list is horror heavy and Vicky's list is heavy on nostalgia for 80's music, fashion and style.
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For 1972's Baron Blood, director Mario Bava brought together the talents of some of the era's greatest genre stars and designers. German actress Elke Sommer played the female lead and would do so again in Bava's Lisa and the Devil. Future Oscar winner Carlo Rambaldi provided the gory make-up. Bava fave Stelvio Cipriani composed the sometimes jaunty, sometimes dramatic music. And American Joseph Cotten stepped in when Vincent Price turned down the pivotal role of Alfred Becker.
Dan and Vicky discuss the 1972 campy Italian horror film along with lots of recently seen like Hamilton on Disney+; docs I'll Be Gone in the Dark and Scream, Queen; films Eurovision Song Contest, Blow Up, The Yakuza, The Alphabet Murders, Come to Daddy and The Hunt.
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For it's assured visual style and performances from Ray Liotta and Jason Patric, Joe Carnahan's Narc was the talk of the 2002 Sundance Film Festival, winning the Dramatic Grand Jury Prize and putting Carnahan securely on Hollywood's radar. The film, co-produced by Liotta and his wife and snapped up by Tom Cruise and partner Paula Wagner for distribution, was set in Detroit but shot mostly in Toronto.
Dan and Vicky look at the gritty procedural along with an eclectic mix of recently seen including Soylent Green, Lady Sings the Blues, 2019 slasher Haunt, 1937's Topper, Saturn 3, Amicus thriller And Now the Screaming Starts and a whole bunch of early Hitchcock.
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Our original episode 107 was lost to the sound gods so we've kept the Hot Date chosen at the end of that podcast and move forward with the Vanity Fair adaptation Becky Sharp from 1935 starring Miriam Hopkins and directed by Rouben Mamoulian. The film was the very first to employ the three strip Technicolor process which allowed for the full spectrum of color to be represented on film.
Your podcast hosts, recording remotely after weeks of sound issues, check in on each other during the continued pandemic and recent social uprisings. In addition to Becky Sharp, they share their thoughts on things they've been watching including the Young Vic production of Streetcar Named Desire with Gillian Andersen, documentaries on Roger Vadim and Jane Fonda, and films including Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Get In, League of Gentleman, The Crimson Kimono, Tea and Sympathy, and The Lovebirds.
Hot Date 107: Becky Sharp. Have a listen and leave us feedback on our social media. Check out our website at hotdatepod.com.
Please excuse our sound issues during this episode. We hope it doesn't detract from your enjoyment of it.
Not your typical romantic comedy, director Goran Dukic's Wristcutters: A Love Story, based on Etgar Keret's short story "Kneller's Happy Campers," imagines an afterlife reserved for suicide victims trying to find meaning and acceptance. Starring Patrick Fugit, Shea Whigham, Shannyn Sossaman and Tom Waits, the film was the darling of the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and was released nationwide in October of 2007.
Still in social isolation, Dan and Vicky discuss this eccentric film along with plenty of recently seen including Penny Dreadful: City of Angels, The Rise of Skywalker, Sounder, The Mind's Eye, Swingers, Mad Love and The Act of Killing.
Stay home and stay with us. Listen to Hot Date 106: Wristcutters and leave us some feedback. Check out our website at www.hotdatepod.com.
Despite the success of his Daphne Du Maurier adaptation Rebecca, Alfred Hitchcock thought the film too sentimental and romantic and longed to return to the type of sharp thriller that had made his reputation around the world. With 1940's he found that film in Foreign Correspondent, a globe hopping World War II adventure that starts with a horrifying murder on the steps of the Amsterdam Parliament and ends with one of the most visceral plane crashes ever captured on film.
Dan and Vicky get another crack at discussing one of their favorite directors and it's pretty much a love fest. In addition to Foreign Correspondent our socially isolating hosts pick over some of their recently seen including Color Out of Space, Autopsy, Lisa and the Devil, The World, the Flesh and the Devil, Dragged Across Concrete, Solo: A Star Wars Story, Key Largo, The Platform and some Shudder horror exclusives.
You can't go anywhere so travel with us to 1940's Europe with Hot Date 105: Foreign Correspondent. Check out our website at www.hotdatepod.com and leave us some feedback on your favorite podcast feeds.
It's hard to imagine any cast being better than the one director Jean Cocteau eventually assembled for his 1950 loose film adaptation of the Orpheus myth. But there are stories that Cocteau offered the part of the princess, played to icy perfection by Maria Casares, to Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich. Both turned him down. French actor Jean-Pierre Aumont also claimed that Cocteau had him and his wife Maria Montez in mind for the leads, a claim that the director refutes. And there must have been some question how the casting of Jean Marais as Orpheus and Edouard Dermit as Cegeste would work since they were, respectively, Cocteau's once and current lovers!
Dan and Vicky discuss this classic of the French New Wave along with some of their social distance viewing including Star Wars movies on Disney +, Briarpatch on USA, lots of TCM movies like Badlands, Bullitt, All That Heaven Allows and Autumn Sonata and and the plays One Man, Two Govunors and Much Ado About Nothing.
We're locked down for another Hot Date so let Episode 104: Orpheus transport you to the Underworld and beyond. Leave us some feedback and check out our website at www.hotdatepod.com.
NOTE: In trying to accommodate necessary social distancing, this week's podcast was recorded with Vicky calling in via Zoom. We apologize in advance for the sound quality and hope to get better at remote recording! Enjoy and stay safe everyone.
The work of Daphne du Maurier has been adapted many times for the screen, most notably by Alfred Hitchcock in 1940's Rebecca and 1964's The Birds. Lesser known among her stories is My Cousin Rachel, which nonetheless has gotten two films adaptations and several TV productions. Dan and Vicky discuss the 2017 version directed by Roger Michell (Enduring Love, Notting Hill) and starring Rachel Weisz, Sam Claflin, and Iain Glen.
Social distancing has kept our hosts inside so there's lots of recently seen to talk about too including The Hunt, Spenser Confidential, The Invisible Man, Murder By Decree, Images and the timely Marc Maron: End Times Fun.
Stay inside and listen to Hot Date 103: My Cousin Rachel. Leave us some feedback and have fun on our website www.hotdatepod.com.
Please note that Hot Date 102 was recorded BEFORE the Covid-19 pandemic hit crisis levels. Our discussion of it reflects that moment in time. We encourage all our listeners to follow the guidelines set forth by health officials about washing hands thoroughly and often, social distancing and staying home if you feel sick. Safe and healthy listening everyone!
Based on a Japanese comic of the same name, Park Chan-wook's Oldboy is South Korean cinema at it's boldest, most visceral and most emotional. Not for the faint of heart, it will nonetheless wrench it with it's story of vengeance and redemption. Your Hot Date hosts Dan and Vicky discuss this superb film, starring Choi Min-sik, Yoo Ji-tae and Kang Hye-jung, and which Spike Lee remade with Josh Brolin in 2013.
They also get into some recently seen films including Emma, Motherless Brooklyn, 1940's Rebecca, and The House that Jack Built and some fun TV, stand up and Broadway.
Your hosts wanna throw some sunshine on dark times. Listen to Hot Date 102: Oldboy and leave us some feedback. Check out our website at hotdatepod.com. Be well and support each other.
1941's Cottage To Let started life as a play in London's West End. It was a huge hit and film director Anthony Asquith (Browning Version, Pygmalion, The Importance of Being Earnest) did well to cast young actor George Cole and former Scrooge Alistair Sim who had appeared in the play -- they're the two most interesting characters. But the cast is full of British screen and theater pros including Leslie Banks, John Mills, Michael Wilding and Jeanne De Casalis.
Dan and Vicky share their love for this lost gem from the British film tradition as well as some of their recently seen. Recent films include Harley Quinn, The Gentleman, The Turning, The Lodge and Gretel and Hansel. Select TV includes When They See Us, High Fidelity and a slew of real life crime specials from Hulu.
Also, Vicky catches us up on the latest from Funikijam and Dan tells us about his visit to Broadway to catch the new musical Tina, based on the life of Tina Turner.
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Hot Date with Dan and Vicky hits it's 100th episode with a look back at the podcasts that made us. Your hosts choose their ten favorite films discovered (or rediscovered) doing the podcast for the last almost five years! It's a trip down memory lane with some amazing titles from filmmakers like J. Lee Thompson, Akira Kurosawa and Sidney Lumet! Also on hand are two VERY special guests, Hot Date super fans, to tell us their favorite selections from the roughly 99 films we've covered. As an added bonus, try and guess the soundtrack music sprinkled throughout the episode!
As usual, you'll also get a dose of some things Dan and Vicky have been watching lately including lots of Oscar nominated films, classic comedies, and exciting television.
But Hot Date Episode 100 is really all about the randomly chosen films we've chosen over the years that have thrilled us, moved us, and made us laugh. Leave us some feedback on social media and check out all our shows at hotdatepod.com.
French provocateur Francois Ozon's uses the frame work of fairy tale Hansel and Gretel to tell his violent and twisted story of Luc and Alice, a young murderous couple on the run who find more than they bargained for in an isolated cabin in the woods. The homophonically named Natacha Regnier and Jeremy Renier play the doomed lovers.
Dan and Vicky discuss the intense and difficult Criminal Lovers as their final film before episode 100! In the recently seen section of the podcast, they discuss Ford v Ferrari, Bombshell, Cold War, We Have Always Lived in a Castle, Patterson, and TV's Kominsky Method and The Moodys Christmas.
Dan also tells us about his frustrating jury duty service and Vicky recounts the day a snake lead her to beat up her own father! Don't mess with our Vicky.
We say goodbye and Happy Hot-idays to 2019 with Hot Date 99: Criminal Lovers! Stay tuned for our big 100 and please check out our website at hotdatepod.com.
There were so many variables in bringing the nearly two hour Marx Brothers classic A Day At The Races to the screen -- translating tried and tested vaudevillian acts while maintaining a satisfying story arc, shooting on a real racetrack with real horses, keeping the peace between novice comedy director Sam Wood and the cast -- that lawsuits were almost a given. The one that actually went to court was the case of a Marx Brothers fan who suggested in a fan letter that the Brothers should run a hospital in their next film and when that storyline showed up in this film, the fan sued!
Dan and Vicky discuss their history with the Marx Brothers and their reactions to this classic comedy. Along they way you'll also hear about some recently seen including Doctor Sleep, The Lighthouse, Frozen 2, Knives Out, JoJo Rabbit, 1917 and Too Funny to Fail: The Dana Carvey Show.
Horse around with your favorite podcast hosts on Hot Date 98: A Day at the Races. Check out our website at hotdatepod.com and leave us some feedback on our many social media outlets.
Ernst Lubitsch left his native Germany in 1922 as an ambitious 30 year old looking to make his mark in American movies. With the help of Hollywood royalty like Mary Pickford, he was soon embarking on an eclectic career directing everything from musicals to serious dramas. With the comedy To Be Or Not To Be, Lubitsch had a chance to comment on the horrors of Nazism in his homeland while making people laugh. He did both perhaps too well. Audiences had a hard time reconciling their feelings about the film and it was a box office disappointment. Today, with the help of adroit performances from Jack Benny and Carole Lombard, the film's considered a comedy classic.
Your Hot Date hosts discuss the film as well as some of their recently seen including Parasite, The Honeymoon Killers, Terminator: Dark Fate, Harriet, Apple+'s The Morning Show, Godfather of Harlem and Years and Years. They also give us their thoughts on phone etiquette at the movies, horror anthologies and new streaming site Disney+.
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Young actress Royalty Hightower had never acted before being cast in director Anna Rose Holmer's drama The Fits. She was, however, an experienced dancer; a skill she then had to unlearn to play the tomboy Toni who discovers a love of dance in the film. Director Holmer was also taking on a new skill; The Fits was her narrative storytelling debut although her extensive background in documentary film no doubt helped in making the film feel so spontaneous and captured in the moment.
Dan and Vicky heap praise on The Fits and it's young stars. Vicky also catches us up on her trip to Florida, her efforts to tan, and the employee fight she had to break up! Dan tells us about the NY premiere of his web series 5A5B, the release of The Great Immensity Cast album, and the annoyance of losing his wallet!
In the recently seen section, they discuss Zombieland: Double Tap, The Lighthouse, The Current War, Shudder's Creepshow series, Amazon's Modern Love, 2019's Child's Play, doc Scream, Queen: My Nightmare on Elm Street, and Vincenzo Natali's In The Tall Grass among others.
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1951's The Strange Door had the talents of Charles Laughton in the lead but Universal hung their hopes on Boris Karloff to bring audiences in despite Karloff's smaller supporting role. His name and photo appear prominently in all the advertising as does Robert Louis Stevenson, who wrote the short story the film is based on. Stevenson and Karloff had had a previous success in 1945 with the film The Body Snatcher.
Your hosts Dan and Vicky discuss the Joseph Pevney directed horror thriller but also on tap are some recently seen films including Downtown Abbey, Joker, Horror Noire, Blood on Satan's Claw, and Pain and Glory. TV shows include The Unicorn, Eastsiders, and American Horror Story.
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Re-imagined to the American South during the post war era, the film version of Oscar Hammerstein's Broadway musical Carmen Jones was revolutionary to audiences, particularly white audiences, who had never seen a film completely populated by African-American actors. Director Otto Preminger wanted to use this rare opportunity to convey to a racially divided country that the African-American experience was a relatable and important one to display on movie screens. With stars Dorothy Dandridge, Harry Belafonte, Pearl Bailey, Joe Adams and Olga James on board, the film became a hit to the tune of nearly 10 million dollars.
Dan and Vicky discuss this controversial film and their thoughts on it's place in movie history. They also let us in on some recently seen including films It Chapter Two, Belzebuth, Hustlers, Alone With Her and Ginger Snaps and TV shows Picnic at Hanging Rock, Netflix's Criminal and Unbelievable and French thriller Marianne.
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From the fertile imagination of Terry Gilliam comes The Adventures of Baron Munchausen from 1989 but it wasn't without it's share of near catastrophes. A Ballooning budget, dangerous working situations and a regime change at Columbia Pictures nearly scuttled Gilliam's attempt to put the much embellished exploits of German adventurer Hieronymus Karl Friedrich Freiherr von Münchhausen on screen. After completing the film, Columbia released it in Germany first and then dumped it into a few US theaters. It barely made a dent at the box office but was championed by critics, recognized at the Academy Awards and has since enjoyed a strong cult following.
Dan and Vicky discuss the fantasy epic along with some of the things they've been seeing and reading recently. Notably, Ready Or Not, Lawrence of Arabia, John Wick 3, It Stains the Sand Red, Big Little Lies, Euphoria, Aladdin 2019 and Escape Room. Vicky tells us all about her Florida getaway and Dan regales us with tales of herniated discs and backstage shenanigans.
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Robert Bresson, director of this week's Pickpocket and numerous films that helped define the French New Wave, was known to be a task master on set. In his search for absolute separation of art from artifice, he demanded his actors strip away all affectation and just deliver their lines simply and rotely. This often required as many as fifty takes of a single shot or scene!
Dan and Vicky discuss the film that inspired a generation of filmmakers from Schrader to Scorsese to Soderbergh. Our hosts, hint hint, weren't AS inspired. In the recently seen section, there's talk of films Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, 1984's Savage Streets, Hotel Artemis, The Exorcist III, Friday the 13th doc Crystal Lake Memories, and comedy from Sebastian Maniscalco, Tiffany Hadish, and Julio Torres.
Dan tells us why he made his first ER visit, his further adventures with MoviePass and the drama off and on stage in his new play Caesar & Cleopatra while Vicky talks about her late summer vacation plans!
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Director Walter Hill had his hands full on the set of his 1975 directorial debut Hard Times. He had cast Charles Bronson in the lead role of Chaney, a boxer who says little but can knock a man out with one punch, only to find that the actor could be angry and reclusive on set. James Coburn took the part of Speed, Chaney's manager, but resented playing second fiddle to Bronson and showed it on set. And third starring Strother Martin also tested Hill's patience by playing the eccentric doctor Poe comically over the top.
Dan and Vicky discuss what many consider to be one of the best fighting movies ever made with and the definitive Charles Bronson performance. They also talk about their recently seen including Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Midsommar, Hobbs and Shaw, 1939's The Women, After Hours, Crawl, HBO's Chernobyl, Amazon's The Boys and Netflix's Kim's Convenience.
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Hot Date has reached episode 90 and that means hosts Dan and Vicky come up with another Top Ten movie list. This time, the topic is psychological thrillers and it's scary how many great films your hosts dig up. You'll hear about movies from classic thriller directors from Hitchcock to Polanski to Fincher and international white knucklers from France, Mexico and England. Movies guaranteed to send a chill up your spine and get your heartbeat racing.
It's been almost two months since Dan and Vicky recorded last so there's plenty of catching up. Massachusetts is all over episode 90 as Dan tells us about his show on Nantucket and Vicky talks about visiting Boston. And there's two months of recently seen to discuss so stay tuned for thoughts on Fleabag, NOS4A2, Los Espookys, Booksmart, Godzilla, King of the Monsters, Brightburn, 1953's Ugetsu, Ma, and Knife + Heart among many others.
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Even before director George Sidney and stars Judy Garland, John Hodiak and Angela Lansbury finished shooting 1946's The Harvey Girls, it's signature song, On The Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe, was burning up the music charts in the summer and fall of 1945. No fewer than six artists recorded the song, the most successful being the version created by Johnny Mercer and the Pied Pipers. It's no wonder than that the scene in the film that introduces the song is one of the longest and most complex musical numbers in motion picture history.
Dan and Vicky jump on the Harvey Girls train to discuss the delightful musical that cemented Judy Garland as a bona fide musical movie star. In the recently seen section of the podcast your hosts talk about the ABC special Live in Front of a Studio Audience: All in the Family and The Jeffersons, Dario Argento's Dracula, Long Shot, 2018's Mom & Dad, and the Lifetime TV's dud 2014 take on Flowers in the Attic.
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When director Peter Medak (The Changeling, Romeo Is Bleeding) cast twins brothers Martin and Gary Kemp to play the infamous British gangster siblings Ronnie and Reggie Kray he had no idea that the Kemps already had a strong fan base as the musical duo Spandau Ballet, one of the biggest British new wave bands of all time! The real life Krays twins, still alive at the time but serving long prison sentences, got paid 255,000 pounds for the rights to their story and brother Charlie acted as senior consultant during the making of the film. Esteemed British stage actress Billie Whitelaw plays their domineering mother Violet.
Dan and Vicky discuss the minor cult classic and it's relation to the real life events in the twins lives. Also on tap is a discussion of recently seen including CBS's new Twilight Zone, 1975's Salo, Wine Country and The Silence on Netflix, Hitchcock's To Catch a Thief and The Assassination of Gianni Versace.
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After the success of his 1958 film The Defiant Ones, which confronted issues of racial division, director Stanley Kramer continued on a path of making films that were socially relevant and examined the issues of the time. 1959's On The Beach was no exception. Based on the very successful novel by Australian Nevil Shute, which imagined his home country as the only place left on earth not yet suffocated by a cloud of deadly radioactive dust, On The Beach was the very first Hollywood film to shoot completely Down Under. It stars Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Athony Perkins and Fred Astaire.
Dan and Vicky discuss the classic anti-nuke film and the stars that lend it it's authenticity and heart -- albeit not with accurate accents. They also talk about some recently seen including Avengers: End Game, Irish horror film The Hole in the Ground, 2019's Hellboy, Hulu series Into the Dark, Hannah and Her Sisters and Hitchcock's 1931 The Skin Game.
Hear how Dan nearly lost an eye doing The Tempest off-broadway, how Vicky handles bathroom visits and listen to our first listener e-mail in a while extolling the virtues of Norwegian society!
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Director Dick Maas can be arguably credited for putting The Netherlands on the horror map with his 1983 film Der Lift. The film, about a high rise plagued with strange elevator accidents and deaths, was a reportedly difficult low budget shoot with a novice director, cast shakes ups and endless producer interference. But when it premiered at Cannes, it was snapped up quickly by Warner Bros. and had successful runs in cities around the world throughout it's 1984-85 roll out. It even inspired a remake 18 years later, also directed by Maas and filmed almost entirely in the Netherlands with American actors, alternately titled Down and The Shaft!
After last week's Norwegian film Elling, Dan and Vicky return once again to Scandinavia and to horror for Der Lift. They discuss the campy minor classic and it's bigger budgeted remake from 2001. They also discuss plenty of recently seen including Fosse/Verdon, Santa Clarita Diet, the Cary Grant films My Favorite Wife and Penny Serenade, Pet Sematary (2019), Curse of La Llorona, and Channel Zero: Dream Door. Also hear about Vicky's adventures in cat sitting while allergic and Dan's Tempest-uous journey with the Shakespeare classic.
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For episode 85 of Hot Date, Dan and Vicky take us to Scandinavia for the comedy Elling, starring Per Christian Ellefsen as the title character and Sven Nordin as his best frenemy Kjell. Initially wary about their choice, our hosts found a lot to like in this gentle comedy from the performances of the two leads to the portrayal of the Norwegian social welfare system.
Dan and Vicky also discuss the things they've been watching recently including FX's What We Do in the Shadows, Netflix's The Umbrella Academy, Joe Dante's Matinee, Captain Marvel, Shoplifters, Burning and an extensive look at Jordan Peele's new horror film Us.
Dan gives us some insight into the Public Theater's Tempest Mobile Unit tour he's currently on and his visit to TAK Room, the very high end restaurant in NY's Hudson Yards. And Vicky weighs in on her glorious weekend at home and her own visit to the Public to see Jake Gyllenhaal and Jim Sturridge in the play Sea Wall/A Life.
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The plot of 1939's Lady of the Tropics strangely mirrored the life of it's star Hedy Lamarr. In the film Lamarr is a woman of mixed race living in pre-war Saigon trying to flee the advances of an oily, corrupt rubber tycoon. She is half French and yearns to escape to France in search of her father. In real life, the Czech born Lamarr fled her home country for Paris after marrying a domineering Austrian arms merchant with ties to Mussolini and Hitler! From Paris she made her way to London where she was discovered by Louis B. Mayer and placed under contract with MGM.
Dan and Vicky discuss the film and the questionable way it depicts the life of a woman of mixed race. Also on hand is some recently seen including King Lear on Broadway, Hulu's Shrill, HBO's The Case Against Adnan Syed, Halloween 2018, Gasper Noe's Climax, and Greta. Get the latest on Funikijam and hear all about Dan's new foray into Shakespeare off-Broadway.
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1991's Defending Your Life is the fourth film Albert Brooks' wrote, directed and starred in. He would eventually serve in those capacities on a total of seven films, all bearing his distinctive gentle but incisive examination of love, death and relationships. Brooks hoped to challenge the popular and Hollywood version of heaven and the afterlife as a fanciful, peaceful Utopia. He imagines in Defending Your Life a heaven not dissimilar to our corporeal world -- one run much like a business, where the most prepared are rewarded with eternal salvation. He had a strong cast (Meryl Street, Rip Torn, Lee Grant and Buck Henry) and skilled cinematographer (Allen Daviau) to help him.
Dan and Vicky discuss their first Albert Brooks' film along with some recently seen including the Amazon docuseries Lorena, horror doc Horror Noire, Isn't It Romantic, Happy Death Day 2U, The 400 Blows, 10 to Midnight, 1968's Lion in Winter, and a whole trove of Netflix comedy specials.
There's also talk of Dan's recent acting gigs, the legacy of much hated MoviePass, the 2018 Academy Awards and a certain classic campfire song from 1980's Friday the 13th!
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To get an authentic pool hall feel for his second to last feature The Hustler (he would only make 1964's Lilith before passing away in 1966), director Robert Rossen shot in two actual pool halls in New York City. New York also stood in for other parts of the country --everything from a Pittsburgh bar to a Kentucky mansion was shot in the city. And when his lead Paul Newman couldn't master certain pool trick shots, he cut in the hands of pool technical advisor Willie Mosconi. Though Jackie Gleason's character Minnesota Fats was created by Walter Tevis for the novel on which the movie is based, real life hustler Rudolf Wanderone adopted the persona and insisted that the character was based on him.
Your Hot Date hosts discuss the classic 1961 film and it's towering performances from Newman, Gleason, Piper Laurie and George C. Scott. They also give us their thoughts on some recently seen including The Wife, Green Book, Glass, Velvet Buzzsaw, The Prodigy, Cam, BlackkKlansman, Victor Crowley, Russian Doll and the Broadway adaptation of 1976's Network.
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A documentary film gets the Hot Date treatment for the first time in the show's history. And not just any documentary. Dan and Vicky take a look at director Barry Shils' chronicle of the NY drag celebration Wigstock with 1995's Wigstock: The Movie. Culled from footage taken at the 1993 and 1994 gatherings, Shils creates a portrait of the event and the incredible drag performers that bring it to life. They include Lady Bunny (also a founder), Joey Arias, Mistress Formika, Candis Cane, Jackie Beat, Lypsinka, and RuPaul.
Along with the film, your hosts also discuss some recently seen, including Bird Box, Death Wish 2018, Vice, A Star is Born 2018, 1981's Southern Comfort, Black Mirror: Bandersnatch and You Were Never Really Here. Listen for Vicky's takedown of Lady Gaga and her incessant crying, Dan's butchering of politically sensitive gender pronouns and a tribute to the late, great Alexis Arquette.
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Dan and Vicky have reached their 80th Hot Date episode and that means more top tens! This time your hosts discuss their favorite on- screen pairings. Those movie couples you love, love to hate, or hate to love. Films from Peter Bogdonavich, David Cronenberg, Robert Aldrich, Gus Meins, Billy Wilder, Ang Lee and Alan Pakula, to name a few, make the cut. And since ten can never be enough, you'll also hear a wild and sexy list of alternates!
Your Hot Daters also discuss their recent holiday adventures, Vicky's two new streaming purchases and a whole gaggle of recently seen TV and movies including The Favourite, Aquaman, You Might Be the Killer, Anna and the Apocalypse, Ace in the Hole, The Predator, Tully, DePalma, and Won't You Be My Neighbor?
So listen to your two favorite peas in a podcast talk about their favorite on screen peas in a pod! Happy 2019 with Hot Date 80! Please leave us some feedback.
Karel Reisz had never directed a feature before and was committed to capturing the gritty reality of living in working class Nottingham, England. Not only did he shoot the film Saturday Night and Sunday Morning in actual Nottingham locations but he arrived several weeks before shooting with a small film crew to become acquainted with the town and it's denizens. When famed cinematographer Freddie Francis and stars Albert Finney, Rachel Roberts, and Shirley Ann Field added their talents to the film, what emerged was the 14th greatest British film of all time out of 100 according to the British Film Institute.
Dan and Vicky discuss this seminal film in British history, their second starring Albert Finney (Under the Volcano). They also catch us up on holiday plans, Christmas office parties, and the end of Dan's off-Broadway play. Recently seen movies and TV include Bad Moms Christmas, 1959's Terror is a Man, Netflix documentary Gaga: Five Foot Two, Spanish horror film Veronica, 1977's Rolling Thunder and The Lodgers.
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1945's Scarlet Street reunited director Fritz Lang with stars Joan Bennett, Edward G. Robinson, and Dan Duryea and cinematographer Milton Krasner from the previous year's The Woman in the Window. Unlike that film however Scarlet Street ran afoul of censor board's across the country that objected to it's "obscenity," "indecency," "profanity," and "sordidness." Despite that, the film did well at the box office making back nearly three times it's budget.
Dan and Vicky discuss this lesser heralded noir film and it's provocative stars. They also discuss the demise of Filmstruck, Dan's emotional visit to an immigration detention center and Vicky's Thanksgiving staycation. Recently seen includes Latin History for Morons, Bohemian Rhapsody, the Suspiria remake, Overlord, 1968's The Devil Rides Out, Pacific Rim Uprising, and series The Haunting of Hill House among others.
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Coming off the success of 2010's Lionsgate thriller The Last Exorcism, director Daniel Stamm brought his script for 13 Sins, a remake of a Thai film, to the producers at Blumhouse. The 4 million dollar film had the bad fortune, however, to be released by the Weinstein Bros. controlled Radius-TWC, which dumped the film in limited release and only made about $10,000 at the box office. It stars Mark Webber, Rutina Wesley, Devon Graye, and Ron Perlman.
Dan and Vicky discuss the film as well some of their recently seen which include: Big Mouth, The Haunting of Hill House, A Star is Born 2018, Rampage, Bad Times at the El Royale, Halloween 2018, Terrifier and PuppetMaster: The Littlest Reich.
Dan brings us up-to-date on his new off-broadway show Wild Goose Dreams and the cast album he's recording and Vicky talks about her Florida trip for some R&R with Mom and Dad.
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For the first time in Hot Date history, an episode was lost to the computer gods as our original 76th show became a casualty of Dan's misguided efforts to clean off his desktop. That film would have been 2014's indie B-extravaganza The Guest but instead Dan and Vicky cover a B movie from a different era, 1954's Killers From Space starring Peter Graves and directed by W. Lee Wilder, brother of Billy!
In addition to that sci-fi cheapie, your hosts discuss Dan's new show at the Public Theater in NY and Vicky's visit to South Carolina. In the recently seen section, we hear about The Predator, The House with Clocks in its Walls, Star 80, The Towering Inferno, Ghost Stories and Mandy. And as a special bonus, you even get a thumbnail review of The Guest!
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Director Taylor Hackford's (An Officer And A Gentleman, Dolores Clairborne) first cut of his Chicano epic Blood In Blood Out was nearly five hours long but distributor Disney, already skittish about the box office prospects of a hard hitting drama about Mexican gang culture with no stars, forced him to cut it down to three. Disney also insisted on a title change. Blood In Blood Out refers to the Chicano gang motto of death being the only way in and out of a gang. Disney, fearing violence at movie theaters, changed the title to the safer Bound By Honor.
Dan and Vicky discuss Blood In Blood Out, their second film with a primarily Latin cast behind The Mambo Kings from episode 73. Also on deck are lots of recently seen including selections from the Film Society of Lincoln Center's Scary Movie Festival, Crazy Rich Asians, Red Christmas, Maps of the Stars, 1982's The Thing, and Vicky's first viewing of 2001.
And don't miss talk of Vicky's further Funikijam adventures and Dan's first experience with a YouTube Live broadcast.
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After a three month recording hiatus, Dan and Vicky are back to sink their teeth into the Hammer horror entry Scars of Dracula. The 1970 British production was the sixth entry in the studio's Dracula films and noted for being the first R rated movie in the company's history. The movie didn't get a warm reception in the States. Warner Bros., the American studio responsible for bringing most of the early Hammer Dracula films to the US, refused to release Scars and critics savaged the movie as an exploitative retread of the earlier classier entries. But Christopher Lee, who struggled with coming back time and time again to the character, returned for two more Hammer Dracula films.
In addition to covering their first Hammer film, Dan and Vicky tell us what they did with their summer as well as what they've been watching. For Vicky, that included Sponge Bob on Broadway, lots of TV (Pose, American Woman, Absentia, and Tokyo Vampire Hotel) and a fair share of movies (Cargo, Tag, Blindspotting, The Spy Who Dumped Me and Hereditary). Dan took in the docs King Cohen, Wild, Wild Country, Three Identical Strangers, and Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood and the films Mission Impossible: Fallout, Deadpool 2, Upgrade and John Carpenter's 1978 Elvis starring Kurt Russell.
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Essentially an immigrant story set in the 1950's New York music scene, The Mambo Kings is also one of the few mainstream Hollywood films to highlight the Cuban/American experience, albeit without actual Cubans in the cast. Leads Armand Assante and Antonio Banderas are Italian/Irish and Spanish respectively. The female leads, Cathy Moriarity and Maruschka Detmers, are American and Dutch. The only cast members with any Cuban heritage are singer Celia Cruz and Desi Arnaz, Jr. but they each have small supporting roles in the film.
Dan and Vicky discuss the movie, based on the Oscar Hijuelos' 1989 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, and Vicky recalls seeing the film in 1992 after falling in love with the novel. Your hosts also tell us what they've been watching recently including Showtime's Patrick Melrose, Netflix's Travelers, The Book Club, the new Leatherface movie and Hitchcock's forgotten gem I, Confess.
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Director Russ Meyer was a World War II newsreel cameraman and Playboy photographer before writing, producing and directing his own feature films. But his early work directly influenced the way he approached his exploitation film career. He ran his Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! set like a military operation, demanding efficiency and professionalism from all his creative partners. And he drew on his experience at Playboy when it came time to cast the busty and beautiful women that populated the film. Meyer had the good fortune to find Tura Satana, an exotic dancer and martial arts expert, to play his lead. She also demanded residual points on the film and the rights to her own likeness -- the only actor in the film to strike such a deal.
Dan and Vicky revel in this 1965 B movie classic and pay homage to it's gloriously enticing exploitation trappings. Along the way they discuss some of their recently seen (The Disaster Artist, John Wick - Chapter 2, Kurosawa's High and Low, Kevin Smith: Silent But Deadly and the killer elevator movie Down). You'll also hear about the latest Funikijam adventure, famous Jewish strippers and the acting award Dan got!
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Gene Kelly, on loan to Columbia from MGM for 1944's Cover Girl, was finally able to put his talents to full use as the main choreographer for the film. With assist from dancer friend Stanley Donen, Val Raset and Seymour Felix, Kelly was able to stage some thrilling sequences including the famous "Alter Ego" scene for himself and "Make Way For Tomorrow" for himself, Rita Hayworth, and Phil Silver. The film was a huge hit and cemented for MGM and the rest of Hollywood that Kelly was a triple threat to be reckoned with.
Dan and Vicky discuss this classic tuner along with some of their recently seen: Black Panther, Avengers: Infinity War, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, Girl on the Train, Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession, and the Joel McHale Show. Vicky also fills us in on her recent dental issues and Dan reveals where he's traveling next for work after closing a show in New York.
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Hot Date has reached 70 and you know what that means: A Top Ten episode! For this one, we take a shocking trip around the world for our favorite foreign horror films. We'll make stops in France, Japan, Spain and Norway to name a few and play clips that'll make your skin crawl. Get a dose of international zombies, slashers, monsters and ghosts and discover the film that Vicky chose that Dan has never seen!
Your hosts also get into some recently seen including Amy Schumer's I Feel Pretty, Blumhouse's Truth or Dare, I Married A Witch with Veronica Lake, the Polanski doc Wanted and Desired, the original Thomas Crown Affair, and British horrors Voices and Symptoms. Dan will also tell us about his first time seeing Friday the 13th Part 3 in 3-D on the big screen!
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In the late 80's, Pierce Brosnan was approached to assume the mantle of legendary British movie spy James Bond from Roger Moore. But his contract with NBC and the TV show Remington Steele prohibited him from doing so. When the part came available again in 1994, Brosnan was Eon Productions' and producer Albert Broccoli's first choice. His run would be four films over seven years and Tomorrow Never Dies, his second film, would hold it's own against James Cameron's Titanic to become the second highest grossing film of the 1997 holiday season.
Dan and Vicky almost didn't get to cover their first official James Bond movie -- listen for the long and twisted journey to finding a Tomorrow Never Dies DVD! On the recently watched front, they talk about films The Endless, A Quiet Place, Icarus, Molly's Game, Justice League, and Mrs. Miniver among others and TV shows Killing Eve and CBS' Elton John Tribute.
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Star Warwick Davis was only eighteen when he was cast as the lead in the Ron Howard directed, George Lucas produced fantasy epic Willow. He gamely and charismatically carries the film, often stealing the heroic spotlight from his more classically handsome costar, Hollywood It boy Val Kilmer. Davis also met the woman who would become his wife on the set of Willow -- she was an extra in the Nelwyn community scenes at the beginning of the film. Initially a modest hit, the film went on to gain a cult following and springboard Davis into a varied and successful career.
Dan and Vicky enter the world of Willow for the first time and give their thoughts on it's effectiveness as a fantasy adventure film for kids with a dark undercurrent. They also recap some of their recently seen including the horror films Veronica, Burnt Offerings, Unsane and Giallo, and the TV offerings Instinct on CBS and Zen Diaries of Gary Shandling on HBO.
We also hear about the Hot Date our hosts had on Broadway seeing the Glenda Jackson/Laurie Metcalf starring Three Tall Woman, Dan's new off-Broadway play The Enclave and, most exciting of all, the creation of Hot Date's new website, hotdatepod.com, where you can enjoy and stay current with all things Hot Date!
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The 1977 infection-on-a-train movie The Cassandra Crossing was an international affair fraught with potential pitfalls. Funded with British, Italian, and West German money, the movie shot in Italy, France and Switzerland and managed to avoid attempts to shut it down by vandals and the Italian government. Also in the mix was that producer Carlo Ponti was married to the film's leading lady Sophia Loren and star Richard Harris was married to then pregnant co-star Ann Turkel. Despite a cast that also included Ava Gardner, Burt Lancaster, Martin Sheen, OJ Simpson, Alida Valli and Lee Strasberg, The Cassandra Crossing would ultimately be brought down by bad reviews and even worse US box office receipts.
Dan and Vicky bask in this lovable, wacky disaster film from the 70's and it's equally bonkers cast with a raucous discussion punctuated by audio clips from the film and one truly bad Ann Turkel croaked theme song! In between the laughs, they give their thoughts on some recently seen including 1981's Dead and Buried, Marjorie Prime, Happy Death Day, Strangers: Prey at Night, The Skinny, The Red Shoes, and I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore.
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Inspired by the theatrical Noh dramas he loved so much, Akira Kurosawa's The Hidden Fortress became a cultural and financial touchstone in 1958. Despite being dismissed in Japan as a lesser Kurosawa effort, it nonetheless became a top moneymaker and made a successful transition to US shores in late 1960. It stars the incomparable Kurosawa regular Toshiro Mufine and a great supporting cast including Minoru Chiaki, Kamatari Fujiwara, and Misa Uehara.
Listen to your Hot Date hosts Dan and Vicky trip over themselves -- and butcher a few Japanese names along the way -- in praising this stunning film. They also talk about lots of recently seen in NY theatre, the movies Good Time, Creep 1 & 2, The Florida Project, Annihilation, Topaz and The Ritual, and the TV events 2 Dope Queens, The Characters, and Sebastian Maniscalco: Aren't You Embarrassed?
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The Velocity of Gary was only director Dan Ireland's second directing assignment. He was primarily a film producer before that, co-founding the Seattle International Film Festival and producing movies for John Huston, Ken Russell and Bernard Rose, many through his role as head of acquisitions at 80's indie house Vestron Pictures. The film marked his second collaboration with star and producer Vincent D'Onofrio after 1996's biopic The Whole Wide World. D'Onofrio enlisted famous friends Ethan Hawke and Salma Hayek to co-star and hired realtime newcomer Thomas Jane to play the title role.
Dan and Vicky have very strong opinions about The Velocity of Gary and it's attempt to be a provocative rendering of gay New York life in the 80's? 90's? No one's really sure, least of all the film. But they have kinder things to say about some recently seen including SyFy horror series Channel Zero and the original Twin Peaks, stand up from Chris Rock and Fred Armisen, and films Lights Out, Tangerine, Tightrope, Killing of a Sacred Deer and The Boys in the Band.
You'll also get a glimpse into what it's like when Vicky's cable box goes on the fritz and NOBODY can fix it!
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Director Danny Boyle (Steve Jobs, Slumdog Millionaire) has said his inspiration for Millions, the only PG rated film in the filmmaker's oeuvre, was to take a complete left turn from his previous film, the violent infection thriller 28 Days Later, and challenge himself to paint with a different tonal brush. Essentially a fantasy for children with real adult themes at the center, Millions stars the impressive kid actors Alex Etel and Lewis Owen McGibbon as brothers Damien and Anthony and James Nesbitt and Daisy Donovan as the adults in their lives.
Besides the heart tugging feature, Dan and Vicky catch us up on their recent viewing. For Vicky that included a trip to NY's finest museums, the films Ladybird, Landline, The Shape of Water, and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, and TV shows The Alienist, Black Lightning, and Mosaic. Dan has thoughts on Phantom Thread, The Commuter, 1942's Sullivan's Travels, 47 Meters Down, and his favorite recent find, 1971's The Night Visitor.
And hear about the strange reason one of Dan's shows was canceled and how Vicky spent her birthday!
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Hitchcock's second to final British film before he returned to the UK in 1972 to make Frenzy, The Lady Vanishes broke UK box office records to become the highest grossing British film to date. It was also the first and last time Hitchcock worked with leading man Michael Redgrave. As this was Redgrave's first feature, the renowned theater actor insisted on rehearsing scenes while Hitchcock preferred to only rehearse camera moves and keep the acting more spontaneous. Despite the conflict, Redgrave and the entire cast, including leading lady Margaret Lockwood, Dame May Whitty, Paul Lukas, Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne, deliver whip smart and engaging performances.
Dan and Vicky shower the film, their third Hitchcock Hot Date, and it's players with love. They also catch us up on their respective creative endeavors -- Dan's new Off-Broadway show The Undertaking and Vicky's production duties on friend Brian Barrentine's Funikijam. And there's lots of recently seen including new films I, Tonya, The Florida Project, Beatriz at Dinner, Insidious: The Last Key, and Brawl in Cellblock 99, TV shows Black Mirror season 4, Slasher season 2 and Will & Grace, and older films like Bava's Five Dolls For An August Moon, Cruising and 1927's The Lodger.
All aboard the Hitchcock train with Hot Date 63: The Lady Vanishes! Leave us an iTunes star rating or some feedback.
In 1954, Japanese film production company Toho was looking to cash in on the monster movie mania inspired by the American film Beast from 20,000 Fathoms. They conceived of Godzilla, named Gojira locally, as a way to announce the power and independence of the Japanese film industry post World War II but also as a metaphor for the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by American weapons of war. The film was a huge hit and American producers were eagerly looking for a way to translate Godzilla to a stateside audience. Their answer was to cut 16 minutes from the Japanese version, shoot new scenes with actor Raymond Burr and add the King of the Monsters subtitle for a 1956 release. It was a "monster" hit!
Dan and Vicky gush over the monster movie masterpiece and the nostalgia it inspires in both it's 1954 and 1956 versions. In addition to the film your hosts tell us what they did over the holidays and what they were watching during their time off. Vicky checks in with Stranger Things season 2, She's Gotta Have It season 1 and the movies Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Bright and Mayhem. Dan has thoughts on Call Me By Your Name, The Post, Personal Shopper, Downsizing, Colossal, and Hammer classic Island of Terror.
Hot Date 62: Godzilla is stomping into 2018! Take a listen and leave us some feedback.
Elia Kazan had meant to direct Tennessee Williams' original screenplay, Loss of a Teardrop Diamond, with Julie Harris as his leading lady back in 1957. But Kazan dropped the project and it wouldn't become a film until character actress Jodie Markell secured the rights and directed the film in 2007 with Bryce Dallas Howard, Chris Evans, Ann-Margret and Ellen Burstyn starring.
Dan and Vicky discuss their first Tennessee Williams film and if it was worth the wait. They also talk about their recently seen movies Baby Driver, Patti Cakes, A Ghost Story and The Poughkeepsie Tapes; TV events like SyFy's Happy! and Carol Burnett's 50th Anniversary special and documentaries Fonda on Fonda and By Sidney Lumet. And they can't help giving their passionate thoughts on the recent Walking Dead fall finale (Beware Spoilers!).
On a personal note, Dan tells us about his recent trip to Abu Dhabi and Vicky gets some Christmas cheer from FunikiJam: Holiday Beat.
Ring in the New Year with Hot Date 61: Loss of a Teardrop Diamond. Make sure to leave us some iTunes feedback and thanks for listening.
Hot Date 60 will be music to your ears -- movie music that is. Dan and Vicky offer their top ten lists for favorite movie soundtracks and scores. A misunderstanding about the topic yielded some fascinating results -- Dan did mostly movie scores and Vicky mainly stuck to movie soundtracks. There are even some movie musicals thrown in for good measure. No titles revealed in this synopsis so it's all a surprise just waiting for you to listen!
In addition to their top tens, hear what Vicky and Dan watched over the Thanksgiving holiday. Vicky was on a classics kick with Night and the City, Bullitt, Westworld, The Man Who Knew Too Much and Casablanca and some newer titles like I Am Not Your Negro, Coco and Netflix's The Punisher. Dan talks about new films The Beguiled, Lady Bird, Mudbound, and Halle Berry's Kidnap and classics like Polanski's Tess and Leone's Once Upon a Time in America.
Give Hot Date 60 a listen and tell us what your favorite movie music is!
Censored and banned around the world for it's frank depiction of the anonymous sexual relationship between a middle age hotel owner and a 19 year old actress, Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango In Paris nonetheless went on to gross nearly 100 million dollars and return tarnished star Marlon Brando to the top of the list of the world's greatest actors. His co-star Maria Schneider however was not as lucky. She continued to act but dealt with years of addiction and depression and passed away from breast cancer in 2011.
Dan and Vicky take on the sexy classic and discuss it's recent controversial return to the limelight. They also give their thoughts on the recent sexual harassment scandals plaguing the industry. On a lighter note, their recently seen includes thoughts on the films of Herschell Gordon Lewis, the 1980 slasher Eyes of a Stranger, Peter Lorre's M, the new Orient Express, 70's anthology film Asylum, and Netflix's The Babysitter.
Hot Date 59 invites you to dance a sultry Tango in Paris. Take a spin and then leave us some feedback.
Emily Watson had never acted for the camera before her career making and Oscar nominated turn in Lars von Trier's Breaking the Waves. The 1996 film was the first film von Trier made after founding the film movement Dogma 95 which set down specific rules for any film created under the banner - namely, no filming on built sets, no use of post-dubbed music and no CGI. With Breaking the Waves, von Trier adhered to none of those rules and in turn created what many feel to be his most successful and accessible film.
After a busy summer, Dan and Vicky are back at 330 Studios covering their first Lars von Trier film, Breaking the Wave. They catch us up on their lives and the many things they've watched recently. Vicky expounds on TV shows like Santa Clarita Diet, Top of the Lake, The Exorcist, American Vandal and the George Michael documentary Freedom while Dan checks in with Big Little Lies and Channel Zero. And they both gives us their thoughts on the movies Blade Runner 2049, The Snowman, The Bad Seed, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Fifty Shades Darker, Gerald's Game, Nocturnal Animals, and Happy Death Day among others.
Take a listen to Hot Date 58: Breaking the Waves and make sure to leave us some feedback.
An all star cast populates the tiny fictional island of Gloucester Island, MA in 1966's The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming. Alan Arkin, Carl Reiner, Eve Marie Saint, Jonathan Winters, Brian Keith, Theodore Bikel and John Phillip Law appear in the Cold War comedy, actually shot in Northern California.
Along with a discussion of this madcap caper, Dan and Vicky, coming to you from Washington, DC, talk about what they've been watching recently. Vicky brings up TV shows The Defenders, Twin Peaks: The Return, Playing House, Broadchurch and The Sinner and movies including Rogue One, Colossal, Passing Strange and T2: Trainspotting. Dan covers three film with Elizabeth Taylor and recent films The Girl With All The Gifts, mother! and monster hit IT.
You'll also hear about the best way to see the Washington monuments, the proper way to pronounce Sidney Lumet and what it's like to record the podcast in a fishbowl.
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Snapped up by Roadside Attractions at the Sundance Film Festival for 3 million dollars in 2006, director/writer Chris Gorak's first film and passion project Right At Your Door only managed to make it into 20 venues it's opening weekend. It would eventually deliver more than 2 million dollars in sales worldwide, enough to get him hired on the bigger budget science fiction/horror movie The Darkest Hour from Summit Entertainment.
After two months away from the podcast, Dan and Vicky discuss this forgotten, intense gem from 2007 starring Rory Cochrane and Mary McCormack as a couple dealing with the fallout from a dirty bomb attack on Los Angeles. There's also LOTS of recently seen to talk about like the summer blockbusters Atomic Blonde, The Mummy, Wonder Woman and War for the Planet of the Apes, TV shows like True Detective, The Keepers, and Orphan Black and documentaries about Whitney Houston and Nora Ephron.
Vicky talks about the thrill of getting her first NY Library card, seeing Oscar Isaac play Hamlet on stage, fearing for her life at the Quad Cinema and loving Erykah Badu. Dan tells us all about his time at Minneapolis's Guthrie Theater, his trip to Provincetown and his love of free streaming service Kanopy.
Hot Date 56 is Right At Your Door. Will you answer? We hope you do and leave us some feedback once you have.
Since the publication of Malcolm Lowry's novel Under The Volcano in 1947, Hollywood had tried in vain to adapt it for the big screen. Artists as varied as Joseph Losey, Luis Bunuel and Ken Russell attempted to corral the novel's stream of consciousness structure and penchant for flashbacks and monologues into an accessible narrative thread. When the property landed on John Huston's desk, his career and health were both on a downward slide. The 78 year old director suffered from emphysema and lung disease and was coming off a string of well made but impersonal films like Victory, Phobia and Annie. Under the Volcano, with great performances from Albert Finney and Jacqueline Bisset, turned his creative fortunes around. Nominated for several big awards and critically lauded, the film began a winning streak for Huston that would end with his swan song, 1987's The Dead.
Dan and Vicky discuss the film and their love for Finney and Bisset. In the recently seen segment, they talk about new films It Comes At Night, Deepwater Horizon and Passengers and older gems like The Witches of Eastwick, Phantasm and Adam Green's Frozen.
Dan also tells us about his upcoming play at the Guthrie in Minneapolis and his recent awe-inspiring trip to Google headquarters in NY. Our hosts bring up their love for old Siskel and Ebert episodes, their hate of drunk neighbors and their disdain for serial killer Richard Ramirez.
Join us for Hot Date 55: Under the Volcano. You'll lava it! Leave us some feedback.
Prolific Polish American director Rudolph Mate found early success in Hollywood as an acclaimed cinematographer. For five consecutive years, from 1940-44, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography. Starting in 1950, he directed 26 films before his death in 1966, including well regarded films like D.O.A., When Worlds Collide, The Far Horizons, The 300 Spartans and this podcast's The Violent Men.
Dan and Vicky tackle their first official Western on the podcast this week, giving some love to stars Barbara Stanwyck, Edgar G. Robinson and Brian Keith and the impressive on location shooting. They also talk about Dan's latest film appearance in Future '38 and Vicky's sexy new haircut. On the docket for recently seen are the new Wonder Woman, 1971's The Beguiled, JK Rowlings' Fantastic Beasts, and the classic Night of the Living Dead. Recent TV includes Australian prison drama Wentworth and Hulu's Difficult People, for which Vicky has a bone to pick with star Julie Klausner.
Saddle up and join Dan and Vicky for Hot Date 54: The Violent Men. Leave us some feedback or give us a star rating.
By the time the script for Soldier landed with star Kurt Russell it had been kicking around Hollywood for almost 15 years. Russell, testing his status as a reliable and likable lead actor, asked for a reported 20 million dollars and a year to get in shape for the role. He was granted both. By all accounts, Russell earned his salary -- he spent 3 to 4 hours a day in the gym, completed most of his own stunts, and even acted through a nasty broken ankle for most of the shoot. The film, however, didn't prove equally as hardy. It sank quickly at the box office, despite a great cast including Jason Isaacs, Gary Busey, Connie Nielsen, Jason Scott Lee, and Sean Pertwee and successful action director Paul W.S. Anderson.
Dan and Vicky wrestle with this mostly forgotten action film, extolling the talents of Kurt Russell but less enthusiastic about the movie surrounding him. They also discuss recently seen movies including Alien: Covenant, Baywatch, Hardcore Henry, Neon Demon and Bonnie and Clyde and select TV like The Keepers, Twin Peaks, and American Gods.
They give the Starz network some love, remember the life and death of Matthew Shepard, and talk about Dan's work on the web series West 40s.
Enlist for Hot Date 53: Soldier. Leave us some feedback -- and that's an order!
Movie producer Charles K. Feldman (A Streetcar Named Desire, What's New Pussycat?) was in a bind with the rights to the first James Bond novel, Ian Fleming's Casino Royale. Albert Broccoli, Howard Saltzman and Eon Productions had beat him to the punch, releasing four successful Bond films with star Sean Connery, and using many of Casino Royale's best set pieces. Feldman felt the only feasible way to approach the story was in a psychedelic, satiric direction, hiring five directors and a who's who of sixties movie stars to blow up and blow out the James Bond story to epically wacky proportions. David Niven, Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress, Deborah Kerr, Woody Allen, Orson Welles, Joanna Petit, John Huston and Barbara Bouchet star.
Dan and Vicky have fun trying to make sense of this very odd addition to the James Bond legacy. They also talk about a car accident and FaceTime affecting their Mother's Day plans, Dan getting cast in the new web series "West 40s" and Dan's surprise phone conversation with a Casino Royale star!
Recently seen includes discussions of older films like Scorsese's King of Comedy and After Hours, Woody Allen's Manhattan, 1942's Mrs. Miniver, and George Romero's Martin and newer films like Paul Verhoeven's Elle, Snatched, and Guardians of the Galaxy 2. TV talk includes Master of None, Kimmy Schmidt and Great News.
Hot Date 52 gives you that Look of Love with 1967's Casino Royale. Take a listen and give us some feedback.
Humphrey Bogart, on loan from his home studio of Warner Brothers, would often show up to the set of Columbia's 1943's war film Sahara hung over and ready for battle -- both on and off camera. He was known to mix it up with Hungarian director Zoltan Korda, continually fighting over his character's dialogue. Bruce Bennett, who played Waco in the film, later told Korda that Bogart was using the conflicts as an opportunity to memorize his lines! The stellar supporting cast includes Dan Duryea, Rex Ingram, Kurt Krueger, Oscar nominee J. Carol Naish and a tank named Lulubelle.
With Sahara, Dan and Vicky discuss their first war movie and their first movie starring Humphrey Bogart. Their recently seen includes 1943's Heaven Can Wait, Lady in Cement, Three Days of the Condor, slasher film Lighthouse, the Keanu Reeves' starring 47 Ronin and Aussie shark thriller Bait. Vicky's also catches us up on her TV viewing -- some Handmaid's Tale and lots and lots of Mystery Science Theatre 3000.
Hot Date 51 also touches on the musical Oklahoma, some World War II history and a young Vicky being scared away from the 1977 horror film The Sentinel.
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What do a killer whale, Lucy Lui, rampaging trucks and crystal skulls have in common? They all appear in the films on our Hot Date top ten lists. For our milestone 50th episode we're giving some love to movies that were box office flops, hated by critics, had troubled production histories or suffered from all of the above. A lot of people think these movies are stinkers but we're bringing them out of the shadows and wrapping them in a warm Hot Date embrace.
You'll hear about big budget no-nos and low-fi freak shows. From the reaches of outer space to mysterious fog shrouded islands, here are 20 plus movies to scream, laugh and jeer at, often in the same movie! And as a fun extra get treated to random clips from the films!
Dan and Vicky also give us a host of recently seen including the movies Ghost in the Shell, Nocturnal Animals, Eyes of My Mother, The Blackcoat's Daughter and Hitchcock's The Wrong Man. For TV, Doctor Who, Chewing Gum, Trevor Noah and Ash Vs. Evil Dead are discussed.
It's out 50th Hot Daters and we're celebrating the only way we know how -- by being bad, real bad. Leave us some feedback.
Australian director Russell Mulcahy had only one previous narrative film credit on his resume, 1985's Razorback, when he landed the gig directing future cult classic Highlander. Razorback's atmosphere and muscularity and Mulcahy's experience with vivid short form filmmaking directing scores of music videos for the likes of Duran Duran, Elton John, Def Leppard and Human League, both played into him landing the gig. A flop on it's initial release, the film gave birth to a mini cottage industry after a huge HBO and VHS following spawned five sequels and two TV versions, not to mention books and graphic novels.
Having never seen the film, Dan and Vicky look at the Highlander mystique with fresh eyes and ears (Queen did the songs and Michael Kamen provided the bombastic score) and they have strong thoughts on stars Christopher Lambert, Clancy Brown and Sean Connery and the directing style of Mulcahy. There's also lots of recently seen including the comedy of Dave Chappelle, Dave Cross and Patton Oswalt, the new films Belko Experiment and Life, a double dose of Black Christmas, Rob Zombie's 31, and Almodovar's Julieta. Vicky also sounds off on the Tommy Wiseau classic The Room and announces our arrival on Stitcher! And Dan does his own time-traveling when a listener's letter takes him back to high school.
Go back to 1986 with us -- with some Heart, John Mellencamp and Atlantic Starr thrown in for good measure - for a dash of sword play and Immortal love with Hot Date 49: Highlander. Leave us some feedback or a star rating.
John Frankenheimer took over directing duties from William Friedkin for the sequel to the Oscar-winning 1971 film The French Connection. He got a reluctant Gene Hackman to return to star as New York City police officer Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle as well as Spanish actor Fernando Rey, the French connection himself. Shooting took place entirely in Marseilles, France.
Dan and Vicky cover this prestige sequel from the seventies, comparing it to the original and discussing how the location switch from New York to France hurts and helps the film. They also discuss Dan's side project of going back into the vault and cleaning up older Hot Date podcasts as well as lots of recently seen. Vicky gives her thoughts on The Lego Batman Movie, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Edge of Seventeen and the TV shows The Fall and Iron Fist. Dan checks in with The Last of Sheila, The Wicker Tree, Deathgasm, and the new films Raw and Kong: Skull Island. And there's some harsh words from both our hosts for Amy Schumer's Leather Special on Netflix.
With some groovy seventies music on the soundtrack and lots of heroin talk, you'll get addicted to Hot Date 48: French Connection 2. Leave us some feedback or a star rating.
Alfred Hitchcock ushered in the advent of film sound with 1929's Blackmail, which became England's first talkie. British producers, concerned they were lagging behind the Americans, who were already experimenting with sound in their films, convinced Hitchcock to film silent and talkie versions of Blackmail.
Blackmail is the second Hitchcock film discussed on Hot Date after 1948's Rope and our first from the silent era. In addition to this classic suspenser, Dan catches us up on his newest play, his love for the late Bill Paxton and the Beatles films A Hard Day's Night and Help!, the cult classic Ninja III: The Domination, and the recent indie horror pic I Am Not a Serial Killer. Vicky gives us her thoughts on big screen releases Logan and Get Out, classics The Naked City and The Killers, horror film Neon Demon and TV's Big Little Lies and Miranda.
Listen for 1929 music hits Tiptoe Through the Tulips and Wedding of the Painted Doll and an actual sound test starring the master of suspense himself.
Hitch yourself to Hot Date 47 and leave us feedback after you listen and enjoy.
It was an arms race at the 1964 box office between Fail Safe and the similarly themed Dr. Strangelove. Stanley Kubrick pressured Columbia Pictures, the studio that owned both films, to release his film first. As a result, Fail Safe, while critically lauded, suffered under the indifference of a paying audience who thought they had already seen the definitive Cold War movie with Strangelove. Little did they know how very different the two films were. The sweaty, sobering, scary Fail Safe stars Henry Fonda, Walter Matthau, Dan O'Herlihy, Frank Overton and Larry Hagman.
Dan and Vicky gush over the film, their third Sidney Lumet feature. They discuss the film's relevance in it's own time and how it plays just as relevant in a Trump USA. As always, they catch us up on their recently watched. Movies include John Wick 2, Hell and High Water, Florence Foster Jenkins, Krampus, 1980's semi-slasher Windows and the 1969 Russ Meyer classic Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. There's lots of comedy too from the likes of Neal Brennan, Bill Burr, Jim Gaffigan and Jen Kirkman.
With some great sixties music and a classic film on hand, Hot Date 46 is the BOMB. Please leave us some feedback.
Michael Almereyda's Cymbeline from 2015 was his second Shakespeare adaptation and his second time working with actor Ethan Hawke. Hawke played the melancholy Dane in Almereyda's Hamlet from 2000. Here he plays the scheming sexual predator Iachimo and joins Ed Harris, Milla Jovovich, Dakota Johnson, John Leguizamo, Delroy Lindo and Anton Yelchin in the star-studded cast.
Dan and Vicky take on their first movie based on a Shakespeare play and Dan compares his experience doing Cymbeline in 2008 with this film's take on the material. You'll also hear how Vicky spent her very wet birthday and about her visit to the Shake Shack with a hot friend.
Recently seen and discussed includes the new M. Night Shyamalan film Split, the Oscar contenders Moonlight and Jackie, Korean horror Train to Busan, and William Friedkin's lost classic Sorcerer. And Vicky tuned into HBO's The Young Pope and FX's Taboo and has some very juicy thoughts about both.
Listen to Hot Date 45: Cymbeline and leave us a star rating or some feedback.