Films at First Sight

We're celebrating the start of summer with friends and intimate stories from the South Jersey Shore. Rachel and Tillie join Joe to discuss AGFA's recent release of Carol Weaks Cassidy and Ruth Leitman's documentary Wildwood, NJ, a wild and captivating look at the lives of various women in Wildwood, New Jersey in 1994. So, grab a seat and soak in the Super 8 vibes with us as we dive into our own childhood seaside experiences while marveling at the authentic snapshot of Americana that was captured over a sizzling New Jersey summer!

We are at our penultimate episode where we invite people to be interviewed after watching/experiencing Craig Denney's The Astrologer. Ariel from the More Deadly Podcast had a feeling she was in for something weird, but certainly didn't anticipate so much random murder. Will the film leave a lasting impression or will it be just another Tuesday afternoon for her? Tune in to find out!

"The art of our necessities is strange. That can make vile things precious." The end of our weird and awesome dive into Craig Denney's The Astrologer is nigh, so who better to turn to than the well-behaved Norse God, Thor? Actually, he is really the host of the podcast Thor's Hour of Thunder. Will lightning strike with this outrageous epic or will the rise and fall of an everyday conman just be too much? Tune in to find out!

Our globetrotting adventures continue thanks to Craig Denney's The Astrologer. And much like our hero/villain, we circle back around and find ourselves on the California coast to check in with Whitney Lynn, creator of the Oh My Horror Movie Challenge. Will the cosmic mirror bring her the fortune she seeks or she find a new philosophy of nihilism and proclaim that God is Dead, Shit on Life, Hell is Earth? Tune in to find out!

The carnival lights are still bright but our dreams are even brighter. And yet, our guest's hair outshines them all. Rachel Shatto from the More Deadly Podcast as well as Bloody Good Horror, joins us to be asked a series of questions inspired by Craig Denney's The Astrologer. Will she wistfully sail the high seas or will she get stuck in a questionable bit of quicksand? Tune in to find out!

Masterpiece to some, disasterpiece to others. Lots of others. Move over Taylor Swift, it's Craig Denney's The Astrologer Era. To celebrate, we are inviting 8 guests back to the show to watch the lost voyage of a man who wanted a sign too much and learned(?) that Jesters do oft prove prophets. First up, is Casey from the Bloody Good Horror podcast. Will he see all the riches that lay ahead or will he have sorrow around his eyes? Tune in to find out!

Our recap of the West Chester Film Festival marches on with Day Two starting with a handful of documentaries, including one about a giant, both real and imaginary in "N.C. Wyeth: The Giant", another about the coalition and community that made Pride possible in Phoenixville, PA in "See Me - LGBT Equality Alliance", and a rereading of a document most Americans THINK they know in "Dare to Declare". And of course the shorts continued with an Irish examination of grief through produce in "Cabbage", a tense and heartbreaking prison break in "Run Rabbit", a beautiful and heart-wrenching tale of greed and exploitation in "The Girl Who Cried Pearls", a rapper and his zombie Grandma just trying to survive the apocalypse the only way they know how in "Z-Mile", a humorous look at a woman making her way through the contemporary job market in "Excuse Me", an animated tale involving an adorably drawn community and its relationship to natural resources in "Varken (Pig)", summer love in "The Variety Club", and a poetic reflection on loss, love, and grief, in "Pour Concrete in my Wound". And there is more to come from the delectable short film buffet that is the West Chester Film Festival. Stay tuned for Day Three!!

We're winding down our monthe of "Cream of the Crop" films with Hal Ashby's comedic gem, Being There, a film about cinema's first TV casualty played by the idelible Peter Sellers. Join us as we touch on his career, as well as Hal Ashby's filmography, while on a cinematic journey to discover if the white man really does have a God complex.

This week we are looking at a film about the filmmaking process with the help of Ariel and Rachel from the More Deadly podcast as we discuss Olivier Assayas' Irma Vep from 1996. That's right, it's French cinema, Maggie Cheung, and a whole lotta questions! Will this meta-flick about a remake of Les Vampires be a success or will the gang feel like they've been robbed of their most precious commodity, time? Tune in to find out!!

We're kicking off a month of "cream of the crop" films with an arthouse flick that continues to be studied and criticized. Levi from the Well-Adjusted Horror Podcast joins us as our Ingmar Bergman expert as we chat about Persona from 1966. Will the enigmatic dive into the self click for the fellas or will they be left unable or unwilling to put the pieces together? Does any of it matter when things look so beautiful? Tune in to find out!

Welp, Joe is trapped in a creepy Polish cinema and there is a masked killer lurking about. Luckily, he is not alone and it is just a movie. Jody and Mando from the Dads From the Crypt podcast join him to chat about Dawid Torrone's new horror film, Dead by Dawn. Will the fellas become another unwilling victim to the multieyed maniac or will they live to watch this slasher flick another day? Tune in to find out!

We are back with another killer episode, or at least another episode about a killer. And a disarmingly beautiful at that! Alain Delon brings an otherworldly amount of cool to Jean-Pierre Melville' s Le Samouraï, a film that set the template for action thrillers to come. And a film that Joe can say he finally saw! Did the fellas fall for Jef's cold charm, or will they just be another mark for a legendary letdown? Tune in to find out!

Join us as we take a look at Alex Cox's latest (and final?) film thanks to the fine folks at San Francisco IndieFest, Dead Souls, a Westerm adaptation of Nikolay Gogol's satire of the same name. Will the reinvention of the tale of greed, corruption, and classism strike a chord with the fellas or will it just be another cinematic obituary? Tune in to find out!