We’re looking at Tim Burton’s Batman Returns. Special guests include screenwriters Sam Hamm and Daniel Waters along with writer Mark Reinhart (The Batman Filmography).
TPB: The Ice Harvest
In The Ice Harvest, Charlie (John Cusack) is a mob lawyer in Wichita, Kansas who decides to rip off his boss (Randy Quaid) of just over $2 million. Charlie decides to bring in his pal, Vic (Billy Bob Thorton) to help on this Christmas Eve caper.
TPB: Death to Smoochy
In Death to Smoochy, Sheldon Mopes (Edward Norton) AKA Smoochy the singing rhino, finds himself embroiled in the shady underworld of children’s television.
TPB: Idiocracy
Mike Judge’s 2006 de-evolution satire Idiocracy finds Private Joe Bauers (Luke Wilson), the “average American”, 500 years in the future as the smartest man alive!
TPB: Hamburger The Motion Picture
Join us as we talk about one of the smartest sex comedies of the 1980s Hamburger: The Motion Picture. We talk to Hamburger director, Mike Marvin, and we’re joined by Steve Sajdak of We Hate Movies.
TPB: The Burglar
Noir November concludes with a discussion of Paul Wendkos’s 1957 The Burglar and the 1971 adaptation of the same David Goodis novel, Le Casse.
TPB: In a Lonely Place
Noir November continues with Nicholas Ray’s In a Lonely Place. Based loosely on a novel by Dorothy B. Hughes, the film stars Humphrey Bogart as a screenwriter on the edge of madness and Gloria Grahame as the woman who tries to love him.
TPB: Detour
Noir November continues with a discussion of Edgar G Ulmer’s Detour. Tom Neal stars as a down-on-his-luck musician who picks up the wrong hitchhiker (Ann Savage) in a tale of fickle fate, phones, and flashbacks.
TPB: The Big Heat
We start off Noir November with a bang! It’s Fritz Lang’s 1953 flick The Big Heat, starring Glenn Ford as a straight-arrow cop who takes on corruption in Philadelphia.
TPB: The Rocky Horror Picture Show
We would like, if we may, to talk to you about The Rocky Horror Picture Show. We’re looking at the film and the fan phenomenon.