Episode 190: Maid For Each Other

Everyone knows that the biggest threat to the music industry is when your cassette tapes are boxed up and sent to Japan. We didn’t understand the plot of Maid For Each Other, but we were happy to reminisce on its delights.   Listen here: https://badgaymovies.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/episode-190-maid-for-each-other.mp3   Donate Email:…

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Episode 188: Jinxed! with the hosts of Fish Jelly

Jinxed! with the hosts of Fish Jelly

Betteheads will want to hear us give the Divine Miss M her due for surviving one of the biggest disasters of the eighties, Jinxed! Bil had the pleasure of sitting down with the hosts of the Fish Jelly podcast, Joseph Robinson and Nicholas Bell, to get their reactions to finally seeing the film directed by the great Don Siegel.   Listen…

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Episode 186: Saltburn with Ryan G. Hinds and Gregory Rosebrugh

Episode 186: Saltburn with Ryan G. Hinds and Gregory Rosebrugh

You all love it when Ryan G. Hinds appears on the podcast, but do you think he’ll ever do it again after Bil screams at him about Saltburn? Join Bil, Michael, Ryan and Gregory Rosebrugh as they talk about Emerald Fennell’s eyebrow-raising sophomore effort.   Listen here: https://badgaymovies.files.wordpress.com/2024/02/episode-186-saltburn.mp3   Donate Email:…

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Alfred Hitchcock

August 13, 1899-April 29, 1980   2014   Memory Of The Camps   1976   Family Plot   1972   Frenzy   1969   Topaz   1966   Torn Curtain   1964   Marnie   1963   The Birds   1962   TV episodes:  The Alfred Hitchcock Hour   1961   TV episodes:  Alfred Hitchcock Presents   1960   Psycho   TV episodes:  Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Startime   1959   North By Northwest   TV episodes:  Alfred Hitchcock…

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Woody Allen

Born:  November 30, 1935   2023   Coup De Chance   2020   Rifkin’s Festival BB  (Woody Allen, Spain/USA/Italy)   A neurotic, hypochondriac writer is visiting San Sebastian with his press agent wife while she is promoting the career of a wunderkind auteur with whom he suspects she is brewing a romance, becoming himself entranced with a beautiful doctor with whom he enjoys a chaste friendship.  The…

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Stanley Tucci

Born: November 11, 1960   2023   TV episodes: Citadel, Moley   2022   I Wanna Dance With Somebody TV episodes: Moley, Central Park, Inside Man   2021   The King’s Man Jolt TV episodes: Moley, Central Park, La Fortuna, What If…   2020   The Witches BBB  (Robert Zemeckis, USA/Mexico/United Kingdom)  An orphaned boy and his affectionate grandmother go on a trip to a fancy hotel where, unbeknownst to…

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Samuel L. Jackson

Born:  December 21, 1948   2023   The Marvels BBB.5  (Nia DaCosta, USA)  Captain Marvel’s powers are entangled with both an excitable, gifted teenager and a family member from her painful past as they do battle with a sorceress avenging the destruction of her home planet.  It has all the plot and science logic of a Saturday morning cartoon but it also has all the colourful, imaginative fun of one…

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Scarlett Johansson

Born:  November 22, 1984   2023   Asteroid City BB (Wes Anderson, USA)  A disparate group of characters gather for a stargazing convention in the middle of the American Southwestern desert that is highlighted by a visit from an alien.  Anderson spreads his vague concept of life’s mysteries too thin over his obsessively beautiful production design, adding an extra layer of meta-reality with his…

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Films Of 2009

BIL’S TOP TEN OF THE YEAR   The White Ribbon Die Weisse Band – Eine Deutsche Kindergeschichte BBBBB  (Michael Haneke, Austria/Germany/France/Italy)  A German village just before the first World War is disturbed when a series of violent events occur, possibly being enacted by children rebelling against their brutally strict, sometimes grossly abusive elders, but no one is sure.  Haneke finds an…

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Clint Eastwood

Born:  May 31, 1930   2021   Cry Macho BBB  (Clint Eastwood, USA)   An aged rodeo cowboy is asked by his boss to retrieve his estranged son from his neglectful, alcoholic ex-wife in Mexico.  While we his fans hope he lives forever, Eastwood is looking very frail and just the premise of sending a man who looks like he could be knocked down with a poke in the shoulder on a lengthy cross-border…

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Films Of 2023

CANNES FILM FESTIVAL   Anatomy Of A Fall Anatomie d’une chute BBBBB  (Justine Triet, France)  A German writer living in the French Alps is investigated for murder when her husband falls from their balcony under circumstances that the authorities deem suspicious.  Triet goes in search of justice and cannot find it in this captivating, cynical masterpiece, as having one’s life examined in intimate…

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Episode 185: Birthday Cake with Mike Justice

It’s always such a thrill when someone who worked on a BGM agrees to talk about it on BGM!! This week, the very gracious author and filmmaker Mike Justice joined Bil to talk about Birthday Cake, on which he was an editor, to discuss the film as well as his own incredible career.   Listen here: https://badgaymovies.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/episode-185-birthday-cake.mp3   Donate Email:…

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Films Of 2010

BIL’S TOP TEN OF THE YEAR   The Fighter BBBBB  (David O. Russell, USA)  Battling it in the ring for years with the help of his domineering mother as manager and his once-successful, now has-been junkie brother training him, a boxer decides to veer in the direction of a more devoted trainer thanks to the advice of his new girlfriend. The tension between all these characters, what they want from…

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Episode 183: In From The Side with Gregory Rosebrugh

New episode! There are few guests we love having on more than Gregory Rosebrugh, and since he spends his free time playing rugby we figured he would be the expert witness to help Bil understand Matt Carter’s In From The Side.   Listen here: https://badgaymovies.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/episode-183-in-from-the-side.mp3   Donate Email:…

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Adam Driver

Born: November 19, 1983   2023   65 BB.5  (Scott Beck, Bryan Woods, USA/Canada)  A damaged spaceship lands on a dinosaur-infested planet called Earth, with two survivors having to make their way across dangerous territory to their escape vehicle before a giant asteroid hits them.  The conceit is fun and clever, and the brief running time helps resurrect the feeling of junk sci-fi of the fifties,…

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Best Picture Winners

2022   Everything Everywhere All At Once BBB.5  (Dan Kwan, Daniel Scheinert, USA) The owner of a laundromat is on the verge of divorce from her husband and estrangement from her daugher is close to losing her business to a relentless tax when she learns that she is one of many versions of herself in a multiverse that needs her as its saviour.   A well-intentioned allegory meant to help us all…

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Episode 182: The Broken Hearts Club with Brian Francis

New episode! Missed Connections, Natural Order and the Canada Reads selection Fruit author Brian Francis joins Bil and Daniel to revisit a movie we all remember loving twenty years ago, The Broken Hearts Club by Greg Berlanti. Do we still love it? Listen and find out!   Listen here: https://badgaymovies.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/episode-182-the-broken-hearts-club.mp3   Donate Email:…

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