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Dec 25, 2019

On this special holiday episode, Macaulay Culkin is an eight-year-old who is accidentally left behind when his family goes on a Christmas trip to Paris and must defend himself and the house from burglars played by Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern in HOME ALONE. Chris Columbus directed and John Hughes wrote this 1990...


Dec 25, 2019

Robert De Niro looks back on a life working for the mob in Martin Scorsese’s decades-spanning crime drama THE IRISHMAN. Joe Pesci and Al Pacino also star in a film that reflects on the actors’ and director’s representations of gangsters in their work.

Also, Mark Pfeiffer and Paul Markoff discuss Scorsese’s...


Dec 24, 2019

Eddie Murphy stars as the comedian Rudy Ray Moore, who polishes the filthy jokes the neighborhood derelicts tell into an act as a kung-fu fighting pimp character he wants to bring to the movies in director Craig Brewer’s DOLEMITE IS MY NAME 

In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer makes a special selection. Paul Markoff...


Dec 17, 2019

The unemployed Kims scheme for every family member to get lucrative jobs in the home of the wealthy Parks, but holding onto their cushy positions is tougher than expected in director/co-writer Bong Joon-Ho’s PARASITE (GISAENGCHUNG).

Also, Mark Pfeiffer and Paul Markoff discuss the idea of filmmakers using actors’...


Dec 16, 2019

Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson occupy a lonely island in 1890s New England where they must keep the lantern lit for the ships at sea while wrestling to maintain their sanity in director and co-writer Robert Eggers’ THE LIGHTHOUSE.

In recommendations, Mark Pfeiffer picks SOUND & FURY, the short anime film...